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« April 2008 | Main | June 2008 » 
May 28, 2008 How to receive RSS feeds by e-mail!Linda Frye Burnham / 10:43 AM Many Web sites offer RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds that you receive through your browser. Now you can set up a system to receive that news by e-mail. It's easy and free: RSS FWD:
A cross-sector gold mine: CFSC Linda Frye Burnham / 09:05 AM We've just been contacted by the Communication for Social Change Consortium, an international nonprofit based in South Orange, N.J., that is working "to build local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication in order to improve their own lives."
May 26, 2008 OJJDP National Youth Gang SymposiumLinda Frye Burnham / 11:33 AM While it doesn't directly address the arts, this symposium looks incredibly interesting for artists and community partners working with troubled kids. Themed "Partnering to Prevent Youth Gang Violence," the event will offer innovative and successful gang-related programs and strategies, as well as provide the latest information on youth gang activities and trends from top national experts. It's sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the National Youth Gang Center. Just a few of the topics: Gangs online, Brown/black gang conflicts, Gangster rap, Gangs in Indian Country, Female gangs, Community-based intervention strategies that work, Gang-focused restorative justice programming, Alternatives to incarceration and a lot more. There are a dozen pre-symposium workshops, including Team-Based Gang Intervention, Outreach to Gang Members and Their Families and Conducting a Comprehensive Gang Assessment. OJJDP National Youth Gang Symposium
News from Sojourn Linda Frye Burnham / 11:18 AM Forwarding an interesting e-mail from Michael Rohd and Sojourn Theatre about the experience of their new piece, "BUILT": Just wanted to share the news that Sojourn is having a super-interesting experience in Chicago right now, that will lead us home to PDX soon. Much of the company has been in residence with me at Northwestern University for a month, and before that, i'd been working for months with community members and students we're now thru 2 nights of a 5 night run, 3 events in evanston and 2 in downtown chicago 20 performers, 60 person audiences, and i think we've successfully moved into an area of connecting experimental performance and civic engagement, that is, at least for us, an interesting development...
May 23, 2008 U.N. to help preserve indigenous cultureLinda Frye Burnham / 01:56 PM Forwarded from AftA's Cultural Policy Listserv: UN to help indigenous communities to preserve cultural heritage
May 20, 2008 More news from CUPLinda Frye Burnham / 01:32 PM Brooklyn's Center for Urban Pedagogy has two interesting events coming up in June: June 3, N.Y.: "Bodega Down Bronx" screening. In the Bronx, says CUP, bodegas are a way of life. But who chooses what the bodegas sell? And where do all those chips come from? This past semester, students from New Settlement's Bronx Helpers and CUP teaching artist Jonathan Bogarín have been investigating bodegas in the Bronx. The group interviewed bodegueros, visited their suppliers, and met with government officials, health professionals and alternative Bronx food establishments. They've made a documentary to pass along what they've learned. The world premiere is at The Point in the Bronx. June 6 and 17, N.Y. and Minn. -- "Who Owns the Internet?" What shape is the Internet? On June 17 in New York City, CUP will screen Part I of its youth Urban Investigation on the physical infrastructure of the Internet. CUP teaching Artist Helki Frantzen and students from City-As-School have been working with The People's Production House and Manhattan Neighborhood Network, scouring the suites and streets of New York City to find out who runs the waves, wires, cables and fibers of our Internet infrastructure. On June 6, members of the project team will also be presenting clips from the video at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis. (Thanks, Caron Atlas.)
Dee Davis on "Why don't those hillbillies like Obama?" Linda Frye Burnham / 11:50 AM Dee Davis, founder and president of the Center for Rural Strategies and possessor a long arts pedigree that includes Appalshop, has an essay on Salon.com called "Why don't those hillbillies like Obama?" In advance of the Kentucky primary today, it's an astute analysis of the attitude toward rural voters that prevails among pundits and other talking heads. "Why don't those hillbillies like Obama?"
May 13, 2008 Art-a-Whirl in the Casket BuildingLinda Frye Burnham / 11:47 AM Art-a-Whirl, "the largest art crawl in the upper Midwest" (40,000 attended last year) invites visitors to the studios in the Casket Arts Building in Minneapolis, Minn., May 16-18. The building is home to over 100 tenants. It served as a casket factory until January of 2005. The Northwestern Casket Company dates back to 1887, making it one of the oldest buildings in the Twin Cities. Casket Arts:
May 12, 2008 Zast Real EstateLinda Frye Burnham / 01:11 PM File this under conceptual public art! Forwarded from Thomas Bratzke in Germany: I am a young german artist from Berlin doing projects that focus on the urban landspace and how it is perceived/used by the citizens for example. I would like to introduce you a project of mine that is called 'ZAST REAL ESTATE'. I am mapping a city from the perspective of a street artist/graff writer etc. o find places which habe the potential for a change. To find empty or unused surfaces and other spaces. Photos of the places and all the informations about measurements, material, daily contacts etc. are collected for a real estate catalogue. I am not asking the owners if I can use their building and include it in the catalogue, this is part of the concept. If you find some time one day please check my website for further details and the development of the project.
May 08, 2008 Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A ComingLinda Frye Burnham / 04:57 PM There's a lovely story on the Web site of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama, about a mural just painted by artist Tierney Malone, titled "Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A Coming." It incorporates many of the things Malone learned about the area while he spent the year painting. Malone has intentionally left the mural with a blank spot, the final piece belonging to local young people to decide. The Coleman Center will work with students enrolled in their summer Drawing and 2D Design Class to come up with the final element of the York mural. The Coleman Center is showing drawings Malone made during the mural process. Opening festivities will take place on Saturday, May 10th. A celebration of Malone’s mural and a cookout will begin at 4 PM in downtown York. The exhibition opening will continue in the Coleman Center gallery from 6 to 8 PM. Tierney Malone, Southern Sounds: Hear My Train A Coming
May 06, 2008 A great video on a community arts projectLinda Frye Burnham / 11:01 AM This video documents community artist Mari Gardner's work with juvenile offenders on a mosaic for the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. Mari has written for CAN. Go here.
Document your friends Linda Frye Burnham / 10:35 AM Forwarded from artist Harrell Fletcher: I've started a new participatory website. It's called Some People. The idea is that people select other people that they know or would like to know and make a web documentary about them. The documented people need to be alive and willing and really interesting in one way or another (and not already well known). My hope is that eventually the site will become a vast archive of interesting people that you most likely otherwise would never find out about. There are a few documentaries on the site already, but I'm hoping people will start to add more and more--revealing otherwise hidden lives and creating new documentary approaches within the public space of the web. The plan is that eventually there will also be Some People exhibitions, publications, radio pieces, and video screenings selected from the ever growing content on the Some People site. If anyone has interest in organizing a presentation of that sort please let me know. Thanks and take care, harrell
May 05, 2008 Rent Ten CanoesLinda Frye Burnham / 12:59 PM "Ten Canoes" is a must-see Australian movie (you can rent it from Netflix), especially for artists who are devising theater and media projects with communities. From the Vertigo Productions Web site: "The film is unique in that it is the first feature film to be shot entirely in Aboriginal language (predominantly Ganalbingu), and it is set both in the past (centuries ago, before the coming of white people to Australia) and in the Ganalbingu mythical past. "It is a tragi-comedy, a cautionary tale of love, lust and revenge gone wrong that, incidental to its central story line, also explores something of the "old ways". "The film is directed by Rolf de Heer and features the son of David Gulpilil in one of the lead roles: twenty-two year-old Jamie Gulpilil, whose traditional lands fall within the Arafura Swamp area. "The entire cast are people indigenous to the swamp region, mainly Ganalbingu and related clans, who are also responsible for the making of all the traditional artefacts needed for the film, such as the swamp-specific bark canoes, the spears and other weaponry and the dwellings. Indigenous people from the area are involved at most levels of the production, from input into and editorial control of the script to the casting and selection of locations." Both the Vertigo Web site and the film's official Web site offer numerous study-guide and other materials.
May 02, 2008 Lumen Eclipse: dance in Harvard SquareLinda Frye Burnham / 11:49 AM Lumen Eclipse is a beguiling exercise in public art: a pair of large outdoor video screens in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. – the screens incite public interaction with motion-based art by bringing artwork to the street, confronting passers by with artworks from dusk 'til 2 a.m. seven days a week. Lumen Eclipse shows an average of eight works a month, nearly artworks a year (each piece running 2-8 minutes in length). Artworks are shown for one calendar month. In two years, they've shown 250 artists, including emerging, mid-career and well-known artists like Miranda July, Yoko Ono, Isaac Julien and Michel Gondry. They say on their Web site that they are provoking public interaction. You can see the films on the Web and sign up for their mailing list.
May 01, 2008 Robot to conduct Detroit SymphonyLinda Frye Burnham / 02:07 PM Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot will focus attention on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) nationally acclaimed music programs for young people in Detroit by conducting the orchestra as it performs “Impossible Dream” to open a special concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at 8 p.m, Tuesday, May 13. Honda hopes ASIMO’s appearance will draw attention to the DSO’s music education programs, and particularly the DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. |
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