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February 28, 2008 A report on World Community Arts DayLinda Frye Burnham / 01:21 PM Forwarded from Andrew Crummy in Scotland: World Community Arts Day 17/02/08 Art as a catalyst for caring and sharing First of all a big thank you to everyone who took part. World Community Arts Day 2008 has gone really well this year and has more than tripled in size. It is now a Global festival. From Brazil to Slovenia, from Australia to Ireland, from The USA to Singapore, from Kenya to Canada.
Send your images to CFSCC Linda Frye Burnham / 12:40 PM Forwarded from Mazi, the online magazine of the Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSCC): Mazi invites your original images showing communication for social change in action. Whatever your medium—photography, painting, sketches, mosaics, murals, songs or dances—if you have an image showing people working together to give everyone a voice—we will consider publishing it in our online magazine. Unfortunately, we are unable to return your submission. We also reserve the right to crop and/or edit your work for style and content. Each creator will be credited online for his or her submission. Please e-mail your contribution to mazi@communicationforsocialchange.org
February 27, 2008 All about ACT at Otis in L.A.Linda Frye Burnham / 04:37 PM Students at L.A.'s Otis College of Art and Design made a video about their ACT program (Artists, Community and Teaching), and it gives you a quick run-down on what they value about what they're studying. ACT allows fine-arts majors to concentrate in art education for a California art credential and prepares them to work in community projects. ACT: Artists, Community, Teaching (Otis College)
Film casting for W.V. "inbred look" Linda Frye Burnham / 08:45 AM A movie about to be filmed in Pittsburgh is casting Gothic characters -- including an albino-like girl and deformed people -- to depict West Virginia mountain people, says David M. Brown in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2/26/08). "Regular-looking" children need not apply. ... "It's the way it was described in the script," Belajac [the casting staffer] said Monday. "Some of these 'holler' people -- because they are insular and clannish, and they don't leave their area -- there is literally inbreeding, and the people there often have a different kind of look. That's what we're trying to get." ... "From the standpoint of being a lifelong West Virginian, it's upsetting, because there are so many wonderful people to come out of this area," said Jeff Pierson, director of arts for the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. See the story for details.
February 26, 2008 Launching 1000 KitesLinda Frye Burnham / 02:11 PM Forwarded from the Thousand Kites Team in Whitesburg, Kentucky: Kick-Off Meeting: Mar.5, 2008, at 7 p.m. We are excited to announce the start of a Thousand Kites site in Louisville, KY. Kites is a multi-media arts project created to spark a dialogue about the criminal justice system.
February 25, 2008 Jimmy Santiago Baca to keynote Stopmax Campaign ConferenceLinda Frye Burnham / 03:55 PM Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca will be the keynote speaker at the American Friends Service Committee's Stopmax Campaign Conference, May 30-June 1, 2008, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. The conference is meant to raise awareness about "the horrors of solitary confinement and other human-rights violations in U.S. prisons." It will include networking, skills building, panels, films interactive workshops and resource-sharing sessions. Baca is an award-winning writer who spent five years in a maximum-security prison in Arizona. He opens the grassroots organizing event at Eastern State Penitentiary, where solitary confinement was first practiced in the U.S. The opening will include a performance by Aztec dancers "with loved ones in isolation." It's not too late to submit a workshop for the conference; deadline is March 15.
TAJ Spring '08 out now Linda Frye Burnham / 03:04 PM The Spring 2008 issue of Teaching Artist Journal is out now, offering: Susana Halpine on the historical and organic connections between visual art and the sciences; Hermsen on powerful criteria for assessing, critiquing and improving student poetry; Dan Serig on visual metaphor theory and its relevance to teaching artistry; Judith Tannenbaum on the ethos, organization and practice of WritersCorps; and Christa Treichel on going beyond the residency model for teaching artists. Each issue also covers news of the field, discussions of important research and reviews of books, the Web and other resources. "If you are interested in the intersection of the arts and learning," says Chief Editor Nick Jaffe, "if you want to be a part of a national and international dialog among teaching artists and others in the field, I urge you to subscribe to, and write for TAJ."
February 18, 2008 Display APInews Headlines on Your Web SiteSteven Durland / 04:10 PM We've taken advantage of a service called Widgetbox to create a widget that makes it possible for anyone to display recent APInews headlines and text on their personal blog or organizational web site. The display is automatically updated to include the most recent news from CAN. The Widgetbox service provides size and color options so the widget more closely matches your web site. You can view the APInews widget and get the coding to install it on your web site at: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/apinews.
CAN and Imagining America need your syllabi! Linda Frye Burnham / 03:22 PM REQUEST FOR SYLLABI Your syllabi will appear on the Community Arts Network in the CANuniversity section under “Syllabi.” Here’s the URL to that section, for examples of what we are looking for. Please be sure to include the address of a related Web page if at all possible. For reference here’s the intro to the Syllabi section on CAN and its URL: “As more and more artists and teachers initiate courses in community-based arts, the field is developing a knowledge base and a wide-ranging catalogue of references for learning. “This is a growing collection of syllabi for some of the courses taught recently in the U.S. and beyond. They reveal the topics, materials and teaching methods being explored by those at the cutting edge of this work. Some of these courses directly address the skills of community-based art. Some of them are on related topics. Many use the essays and other features on CAN as teaching tools. “More than simple lists of materials, these syllabi are glimpses of the thinking going on in the field and the ways educational tools are being used in research and development. We hope this feature opens a few more windows on community-based art and presents more opportunities for creative collaboration among working scholars and practitioners.” (from http://www.communityarts.net/canu/syllabi/index.php) NOTE:
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A refresher course Linda Frye Burnham / 10:19 AM Arlene Goldbard, sometimes called the Godmother of community arts, is offering an interesting workshop in Oakland, Calif. , this spring. Here's her description: "The Refresher Course, a five-part workshop series designed to refresh your vision, values and emotional vigor. I'm offering The Refresher Course every other Tuesday evening from 7-9 pm starting March 25 (subsequent workshops will be April 8, April 22, May 6 and May 20, 2008). They will take place in a comfortable location near Lake Merritt in Oakland. The series fee is $250, payable by check or credit card. Each session focuses on an important aspect of self-understanding and self-development, using guided visualization, journaling and dialogue in a welcoming atmosphere that allows you to participate in exactly the way that’s most comfortable and helpful for you." There's more info on her Web site, where you can also read her intriguing blog. The Refresher Course:
February 17, 2008 HAPPY WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY!Linda Frye Burnham / 01:47 PM February 17 is World Community Arts Day
February 15, 2008 New resource on poverty relief, human rights and peaceLinda Frye Burnham / 12:01 PM Activist Seth Leonard has put together a growing Web site to aid community leaders and nongovernmental organizations (ngos) who are currently working on poverty issues, human rights and peace locally in rural and urban areas in Latin America, Africa and Asia. It offers a list of informaiton and links to resources on everything from composting toilets to theater for social change. Says Leonard: "The idea is that by emailing the site to local NGOs you can enable them to help themselves get aid as they see fit, on their own terms, as they need it. This could make a big difference in parts of the world where AIDS is rampant or people are starving to death. Please feel free to share it, and thank you!" Poverty Relief, Human Rights and Peace
Register now for PTO Conference Linda Frye Burnham / 11:47 AM Registration is open on the Web for the 14th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of Oppressed Conference, Omaha, Nebr., May 22-May 25, 2008. The theme is: "What is Change? What is Substantial Change? And How?" You may also submit conference proposals, apply for scholarships, sign up for e-mail updates and check out the pre- and post-conference Boal workshop schedule. Pedagogy and Theatre of Oppressed Conference
February 13, 2008 Register now for MICA ConveningLinda Frye Burnham / 10:45 AM Registration forms are now available online for the Community Arts Convening & Research Project conference at MICA in Baltimore, March 16-18, 2008. Registration deadline is March 4. Deadline for conference rates at local hotels is February 16! For details visit the project Web site.
February 12, 2008 Rules to blog byLinda Frye Burnham / 12:03 PM Top 10 Rules for Limiting Legal Risk (from Knight Citizen News Network via Utne Reader blog) 1. Check your facts. On the KCNN Web site, each rule is clickable and includes video and exercises.
Haystack making community with Deer Isle Linda Frye Burnham / 11:23 AM Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, on the edge of the Atlantic on Deer Isle, Maine, recently completed a interesting project in its new Center for Community Programs in the heart of Deer Isle village. Artist Sonya Clark conducted two half-day workshops there with 30 Deer Isle residents, helping them make "beaded prayers" inspired by African amulet traditions. The workshops accompanied Clark's traveling exhibition, "Beaded Blessings," comprising 4,000 amulets made by the communities the show has visited. The Deer Isle participants each made two amulets: one to take home and one to join the exhibition. There's a lovely story about this -- and Haystack's ongoing relationship with its community -- in the Bangor Daily News: "New Haystack facility expands year-round offerings"
February 08, 2008 La dulce vidaLinda Frye Burnham / 05:34 PM Here's short story from Aryeh Shell, who wrote "Reclaiming Culture: ¡Que Viva La Posada!" for CAN in January. This is another story about her work with Somos Mayfair (We are Mayfair), a nonprofit organization that is using popular theater and culture to transform the community of east San José, California. It tells about their newest theater performance and workshop, "La Dulce Vida y la Amarga Muerte de Pancho Mojado (The Sweet Life and Bitter Death of Pancho Mojado)"; its topics is the dangers of diabetes. Thanks Aryeh!
February 07, 2008 Sur les paves, la ferme.Linda Frye Burnham / 01:13 PM "Over the pavement, the farm." That's the slogan from the 1968 student riots in Paris that gave two architects the idea to propose creating a farm in the courtyard of the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, for the summer. Dan Wood and Amale Andraos of Work Architecture won this year's Young Architects competition in New York with their plan for an urban farm featuring produce growing out of concrete-pouring cardboard tubes used at construction sites. Read more and see pix in the Art & Design section of today's N.Y. Times. "Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens" by Robin Pogrebin:
February 06, 2008 Josh Greene's Service-Works!Linda Frye Burnham / 04:26 PM To quote the site owner: http://josh-greene.com/serviceworks/
Some Arts Ed opportunities Linda Frye Burnham / 03:13 PM Here are some arts ed opportunities at the Americans for the Arts conference in June: NONPROFIT PROGRAM EVALUATION TRAINING
Arts Writers Grant Program Linda Frye Burnham / 01:19 PM The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is a three-year pilot program designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through project-based grants issued directly to individual authors. The first program of its type, it was founded in recognition of both the financially precarious situation of arts writers and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture. The 2008 grant deadlines will be announced in the spring. Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
February 05, 2008 For Teachers: Facing History and OurselvesLinda Frye Burnham / 03:26 PM Just got back from California, where I was lucky enough to sit in on two teacher trainings by the L.A. Opera's Education and Community Programs office. I want to write more about these experiences, but just now I want to introduce everybody to a great organization I met there: Facing History and Ourselves. Two of their trainers came in to do a session on teaching about the Holocaust using the lost music created by incarcerated Jews in the concentration camp at Terezin. It was definitely one of the best seminars I have ever attended and the group was an inspiring learning community. Since 1976, Facing History has been dedicated to helping teachers lead students in a critical examination of history, with particular focus on genocide and mass violence. They offer in-depth professional-development services; courses in their Online Campus; curricular resources; and ongoing support to educators and students in the areas of history, social studies and language arts. They have remarkably effective books, study guides, DVDs and lesson plans, including a number of resources to accompany the upcoming PBS re-broadcast of "Eyes on the Prize." Two online pro-development courses are coming up soon: "The Holocaust and Human Behavior" (February 1-April 16) and "Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights" (April 7-18.) You can check out Facing History on their Web site and sign up for their listserv.
February 01, 2008 A Virtual Coalition Against CensorshipLinda Frye Burnham / 01:03 PM The Arts Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship is proposing a Virtual Coalition Against Censorship, a conversation online in Second Life. Second Life is an online MMPORG (Massively-Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game). Millions of people worldwide, says NCAC's Svetlana Mintcheva, congregate in these virtual worlds -- complex online environments that replicate features of the real world. "Virtual worlds are becoming a new locus of civic conversation and debate, however they are governed by extremely restrictive speech rules set by the gaming companies. Our project’s goal is to bring free speech advocacy to the virtual world, as well as to open up a discussion within Second Life about who should be regulating free speech in MMPORGs, which are privately owned but function as communally created public spaces, as well as about the reasons game companies are setting speech restrictions and how these restrictions can be relaxed." The inaugural discussion is set for 4 p.m. EST, February 5, at the Virtual Coalition Against Censorship pavilion in Second Life (Commonwealth 3; coordinates: 112, 83, 32). "You will need to download Second Life and create an avatar," says Mintcheva, "all free and quite easy."
Prince Among Slaves Linda Frye Burnham / 11:15 AM PBS is showing an interesting documentary Monday night (February 5): "Prince Among Slaves." It tells the true story of an African Muslim prince who was sold into slavery in the American South in 1788. His name was Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, and he remained enslaved for 40 years before ultimately regaining his freedom and returning to Africa. Winner of Best Documentary at the 2007 American Black Film Festival, the film uses "feature-film styled re-enactments," contemporary artworks, archival letters and diaries and on-camera interviews with a dozen scholars and geneological experts as well as Terry Alford, whose historical biography inspired the film, and Artemus Gaye, a descendant of Abdul Rahman. |
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