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June 26, 2008 Exit Art asks: What does Green mean to you?Linda Frye Burnham / 11:03 AM Forwarded from Exit Art in NYC: Exit Art is asking for responses to the question: What does green mean to you? for the exhibition "It’s Not Easy," a show inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. Curated entirely through email submissions, responses will be printed on 8½” x 11” paper and exhibited in Exit Art’s lower level gallery venue, Exit Underground. Submissions for "It's Not Easy" are due July 11; show opens July 24. Read more on the Exit Art Web site
June 25, 2008 Catching up with CalPAMSLinda Frye Burnham / 02:04 PM Just got the June edition of the CalPAMS E-NEWS and, just as I suspected, muralists are busy bees all over California. CalPAMS is the California Public Art & Mural Society, a membership organization based primarily in California's heartland -- 29 Palms, Bishop, Lompoc, Banning. It calls itself "a web based clearinghouse established to assist artists, public art communities and public art aficionados in promoting appreciation and awareness of public art in California." E-NEWS says the 2009 CalPAMS California Mural Symposium will be hosted by the City of Tehachapi. There's plenty of heartland public art gossip, all linked to photos and more on the Web. Hook up with CalPAMS to subscribe to E-NEWS.
My favorite 2008 press release: The winner is....Dell'Arte! Linda Frye Burnham / 12:00 PM The Dell'Arte Company of Blue Lake, Calif., has put out my favorite press release of the year for the new play in its "Korbel" series -- part of their "ongoing exploration of the relationship of theatre and place." Those who have read the Dell'Arte case study in our book "Performing Communities" by CAN co-founders Bob Leonard and Ann Kilkelly (New Village Press) will remember that Korbel is one of Blue Lake's neighboring towns and its real life stories have become the (wildly exaggerated) stuff of Dell'Arte's "Korbel" musical play series. Here, in its entirety, is the press release for "Korbel IV: The Accident" (June 26-July 6, 2008).
June 23, 2008 Reminder: Traces of the Trade on P.O.V. June 24Linda Frye Burnham / 12:59 PM If you only see one documentary this year, make it this one. P.O.V. 21st TV season premieres Tuesday, June 23, with a film we have been watching in development for years, "TRACES OF THE TRADE: A Story from the Deep North" by Katrina Browne. We first experienced the project during the Animating Democracy Initiative, where Brown worked with audiences on the film's topic: the fact that she had discovered that her Rhode Island ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and members of her family talk about that history and travel together to Africa. Web extras: Visit the P.O.V. website to read an excerpt from "Inheriting the Trade," a deeply personal memoir by a family member who went on the journey. Learn more about the ongoing debate surrounding reparations in the U.S. with additional video interviews. Download an audio podcast in which Katrina Browne talks about the making of the film and what she learned from the journey. Share your thoughts on the Web or by e-mail. Access lesson plans and video clips. Applu online to host a screening and discussion of the film.
June 19, 2008 Creatives grow better in South West EnglandSteven Durland / 10:51 AM Behind the scenes tour of of an award-winning creative farm, juicing process and distribution in South West England. The South West produces some of the UK's finest creative work (animation, web design, design, fashion, architecture....) Now you know why....nice conditions, space to breathe and opportunities with some of the best firms around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYwTELj-fs
June 17, 2008 blackoutsabbath! A reminder from Rufus Wainwright and his momLinda Frye Burnham / 11:40 AM Forwarded from artist Rufus Wainwright and his mother, Kate McGarrigle re blackoutsabbath, June 21, when we are all turning off our electronics and electricals: Hey all! This will be the last reminder before the first annual Blackoutsabbath ritual takes place on Saturday, June 21st 2008 from noon to midnight all over the World. I'm assuming you folks out there haven't been bombarded with promo concerning the event: this is precisely my intention! I didn't want to push this project too hard and make it seem like some kind of media fad. Like the low grade fever that grips our planet, we need a low grade answer (not necessarily dramatic, but a CONSTANT reminder) to combat the marathon machinations we are about to experience, not to mention what we are experiencing right now! Don't get me wrong, the bigger the gesture the better. Still, any shift must last and in essence become a solid part of our lives. The other day I saw some guy on TV (wish I could remember his name) talking about how it is the simple organisms that survive on this planet, and that history is laced with examples of species dying out because they failed to cut back when their habitat required them to. On one hand it's frightening, but on the other it's possibly a testament to the greatness of humanity if we act on the fact that we as a species might actually have to de-evolve in a way in order to survive. IT'S REVOLUTIONARY, and has never been done in the whole history of the earth! Still, I would bargain to say that not only the earth but in fact the entire Universe has never witnessed such a thing as "human beings" and that even if they can get a bit screwy, our brains are still our greatest asset. So good luck with your day off, do what you can, but most of all, keep trying.
P.S. This message was pretty dry in terms of the comedy section, so below I attached [an e-mail] from my mom ... so you guys can chuckle a bit. Also, don't forget to visit the site blackoutsabbath.org to get the specifics. Adios!
June 12, 2008 National Black Women's Town Hall Meeting, July 11Linda Frye Burnham / 10:03 AM Leading black women's organizations, educators, visionaries and activists will convene the First Annual 2008 National Black Women's Town Hall Meeting on Friday, July 11, 2008, at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The building is designated a National Historic Landmark in Washington, D.C., and the only black-owned real estate on Pennsylvania Avenue. The meeting is being called, says NCNW, "at a time when black women hold the winning keys to the most important election of our lifetime." "This initiative reflects the goals of the NCNW in building more relationships while remaining relevant and strategic in the coming election and for years to come," said Dorothy Height, NCNW chairman." The meeting will be hosted by Blanche Williams, National XM Radio talk-show host, and the panel will include Faye Wattleton/Center for the Advancement of Women, Jane Smith/Spelman College, Michelle Bernard/Independent Women's Forum, Eleanor Hinton-Hoytt/Black Women's Health Imperative, Daphne Valerius/filmmaker, Tricia Bent-Goodley/Howard University and Melanie Campbell/National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. Also invited are Michelle Obama, wife of Senator Barack Obama, and Barbara McKinzie/AKA Sorority, recipient of the 2008 Landmark of Greatness Award. More info:
June 11, 2008 NEA gets funding increase in House SubcommitteeLinda Frye Burnham / 04:06 PM Forwarded from Americans for the Arts E-Advocacy Center: This afternoon in Congress, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which sets the initial funding level for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), approved a $15.3 million increase for the NEA in its FY 2009 spending bill. Currently funded at $144.7 million, this increase would bring the agency's budget to $160 million. President Bush requested a cut to $128 million for the NEA for FY09 from the current $144.7 million level. Next Steps: The FY 2009 Interior Appropriations bill will next go to full committee and then to the House floor for final consideration.
June 10, 2008 More tidbits about the Alliance for Cultural DemocracyLinda Frye Burnham / 10:12 AM In 2004, CAN posted the Declaration of Cultural Human Rights by the now defunct Alliance for Cultural Democracy. In the intro to that document, we called for anybody with further info about ACD to contact us. This year we heard from Michael Schwartz and Maryo Ewell, who filled in some holes. We added their communiques to the intro. If you're interested..... Declaration of Cultural Human Rights:
June 09, 2008 Should the next President launch a Digital New Deal?Linda Frye Burnham / 03:12 PM The next U.S. president should harness the digital fluency of the under-30 generation to launch a WPA-inspired Digital New Deal, said Helen De Michiel, national co-director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), in the S.F. Chronicle (4/11/08). She suggests: "This eager, highly knowledgeable, connected and multitasking first generation of digital natives" could be tasked to build "a networked national public commons that bolsters our international competitiveness.
A note from Colorado Linda Frye Burnham / 11:12 AM Today we heard from Joanna Whitney, a community artist in Englewood, Colo. She's been working with seniors and posting the results on the Internet. Her posts are a nice example of getting the work out there where others can see it. She and her students will be posting their work at five bus stops in the Denver Metro area in the fall. Joanna Whitney's community arts site:
June 03, 2008 SLUM-TV on BBCLinda Frye Burnham / 02:10 PM The BBC recently covered SLUM-TV's media activities in Nairobi's Mathare slum during the violence following Kenya's December elections. You can hear SLUM-TV's reporter's Esther Wangiru Waweru and Emily Hughes talk about one of their screenings. But they say the violence they saw was "so powerful I don't think we could show it in a public screening." Hear the program on SLUM-TV's Web site |
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