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« July 2007 | Main | September 2007 » 
August 28, 2007 Katrina: A Message from Curtis MuhammadLinda Frye Burnham / 02:25 PM Forwarding a melancholy message from Curtis Muhammad, a New Orleans community organizer. Muhammad has worked with many artists on community-based projects for social justice. Use the CAN site search engine to find stories mentioning him and his work. A Message from an Organizer to the Left and Progressive Forces inside the USA by With this second anniversary of Katrina upon us, there are a few words
August 27, 2007 Back to the landLinda Frye Burnham / 02:07 PM We've been contacted by a project in Thailand , the land foundation, that is inviting residency applications through September 30. The residency is called "One Year Project 2" and will run from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2008. The land is located some 20 minutes from the provincial capital Chiang Mai. From here on, everything is a bit mysterious, but we do know a little, thanks to the land artists' supreme effort at translating their Web site into English. "Initiated in 1998, the land (more direct translation from Thai to English would be, the rice field) was the merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a place of and for social engagement."
August 21, 2007 Animating Democracy wants your storyLinda Frye Burnham / 12:00 PM Forwarded from the Animating Democracy newsletter, 8/21/07: Animating Democracy is seeking examples of completed or in-progress evaluation efforts focused on measuring and understanding the social or civic impact of arts projects or programs. Arts-based civic engagement projects or programs that engage people through the arts in dialogue, participation, and/or action related to clearly defined social or civic issues in the community are of particular interest. Further, we would like to know about organizations whose past arts-based programs or projects have useful documentation and/or evaluation that allow examination of single project impact and/or the cumulative impact of an organization's project efforts over time. Animating Democracy is especially looking to identify evaluation approaches that apply metrics in order to quantify evidence of social change. This effort relates to a two-year Animating Democracy initiative supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, designed to advance understanding of the social and civic impact of arts-based civic engagement work. The initiative responds to the expressed need for quantifiable, as well as anecdotal, evidence that the arts can have potent social change effects. The ultimate goal is to enable arts practitioners, funders, and public- and private-sector cultural policy makers to better make the case for the arts' value and contribution in civic engagement. http://www.americansforthearts.org/AnimatingDemocracy/
Take time for a beautiful little story Linda Frye Burnham / 11:42 AM Jules Corriere, in CAN's guest blog, tells us "Why I didn't finish Bauen Blog." She was working at Bauen Camp in Wyoming, doing what she does so well, helping people learn how to tell their stories together. She had to leave because her father passed away back home in Tidewater Virginia. Her blog post is so lovely, tying together the threads of her life with her father, a storyteller, a soldier, an archeological digger. Our thoughts are with Jules and her family.
August 20, 2007 Photos from the World Children's FestivalLinda Frye Burnham / 04:22 PM Forwarded from Ashfaq Ishaq, executive director of the International Child Art Foundation: I am pleased to report that the World Children’s Festival [June 22-26, 2007, in D.C.] was a great success. Arts Olympiad finalists and their parents and teachers from 25 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 32 countries participated in the festival, and so did youth performance groups representing 15 countries. Free and open to the public, the three-day festival occupied from 4th to 7th Streets of the National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol, and attracted as many as 10,000 people. Leading U.S. and international experts on subjects ranging from animation and art therapy to peace and sport therapy held sixty-seven workshops. The ICAF arranged special performances by groups from Nicaragua and Serbia at the John F. Kennedy Center on June 25th evening. The Arts Olympiad finalists received Creativity for Peace Awards on June 26th at a banquet at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City. Festival photos can be viewed at
August 13, 2007 National Arts and Humanities MonthLinda Frye Burnham / 04:56 PM Forwarded from Americans for the Arts:
August 02, 2007 The Politics of Youth, the State, and the Child’s BodyLinda Frye Burnham / 04:47 PM Stephani Etheridge Woodson (ASU) is editing a special issue of Youth Theatre Journal themed "The Politics of Youth, the State, and the Child’s Body," Vol. 22, 2008. Among her questions: How do differing performances of “state” and/or “America” intersect with ideological structures of "childhood" including: childhood as idealized learning, childhood as a space of memory, childhood as a space of fear, childhood as a space of discipline, childhood as a space of commodification, childhood as a site for imperial dominance? How do conceptions of "theatre for youth" and “youth culture” traverse hemispheric geographies through mediatized and live forms, and how do these conceptions operate on the bodies and lived experiences of children and youth? How are differences in the articulation of childhood and its derived discourses (childhood rights; sexual consent determinations; citizenship rights, criminal definitions) addressed across localities, regions, nations and through such performance genres and theatre, music and media for young people? Submission deadline for manuscripts: November 10, 2007.
A performance artist for President? Linda Frye Burnham / 10:09 AM San Francisco performance artist Frank Moore is running for President, says NYFA Interactive. "Best known for his performance art (he faced Jesse Helms’ ire in the early ’90s as part of the culture wars debates), Moore’s work truly spans disciplines. Born with cerebral palsy and unable to walk or talk, his career’s work has been to burst through the barriers of social isolation that separate people." Read Moore's essay, linked to his platform, on NYFA.
August 01, 2007 Turning a Public Toilet into a SpaLinda Frye Burnham / 11:42 AM On July 14, 2007, artist Ruben Santiago installed a hydro-massage shower in a public toilet on George Orwell Square (a.k.a. Trip Square) in Barcelona, Spain. Without permission or official authorizationSantiago dismantled the "antivandalic devices" in the toilet and installed the shower (along with bath gel and shampoo and towels) as an act of civil disobedience and infiltration, which, he says, "in spite of its will to improve the public services given to the citizen, has to be generated from illegality." Trip Square is inhabited by three antagonistic groups, says Santiago: antiriot police, the Pirates (homeless people and drug dealers and consumers) and local neighbors and tourists. "The shower structure and mechanism was installed hiding from the police patrols, with the complicity of the residents. Its purpose was to improve the daily life conditions of the Pirates and occasional travelers. ... The shower system was extensively used by the habitual ones of the square during the three days that it stayed operative. During the third night, it was destroyed by a group of drunken tourists, and then removed by the municipal cleaning team. Among the shower users, speculations on the origin of this unexpected equipment are still discussed." http://www.hangar.org/gallery/TURNING-A-PUBLIC-TOILET-INTO-A-SPA |
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