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« August 2008 | Main | October 2008 » 
September 22, 2008 See you in Chicago and L.A.Linda Frye Burnham / 03:20 PM In between reading about The Meltdown! The Bailout! Section 8!, I am getting ready to go to Chicago for "Water the Roots," a field-building measure in the folklife section of our world, and to the Imagining America conference in L.A. I will try to blog from both if the sky has not completely fallen on our heads by then.
September 16, 2008 Sojourn Theatre + Georgetown U. students need help with The Race.Linda Frye Burnham / 02:05 PM Michael Rohd and Sojourn Theatre are working on a Georgetown University project called The Race, about the presidential election. They need your help in exploring "democracy as pluralism, and pluralism as an organizing principle for the theatrical notion of chorus. Voices. From all over. Onstage in a different kind of conversation about contemporary U.S. politics." They are using technology to gather voices for the event, bringing people from around the country live onstage (virtually) as a chorus during the show. They are working with tech departments at Georgetown and setting up Web-based streaming video for connections. WHAT THEY NEED: partners from around the country -- universities, businesses and civic organizations -- that have various levels of capacity for video Web-based conferencing. "We are working to find sites that have more than Skype potential," they say. "Lots of campuses have these [media] rooms or spaces. We are trying to find partners who would like to help us one or two evenings have 1-3 folks at these local sites to be in live video chat with us during performances, and help us create our national chorus." The shows/events are October 30-November 8 (Monday and Tuesday nights off). E-mail: mrohd@aol.com
Critical Language Scholarships available Linda Frye Burnham / 01:17 PM Forwarded from Craig Zelizer, who says: CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTENSIVE SUMMER INSTITUTES https://clscholarship.org/home.php The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program will offer 525 scholarships for intensive summer language institutes overseas in eleven critical need foreign languages for summer 2009. The CLS Program was launched in 2006 to offer intensive overseas study in the critical need foreign languages of Arabic, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish and Urdu. In 2007, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Russian institutes were added along with increased student capacity in the inaugural language institutes. In 2009, Azerbaijani will be offered at the intermediate and advanced levels. The CLS Program provides fully-funded seven to ten week group-based intensive language instruction and extensive cultural enrichment experiences held overseas at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (beginning not offered for Azerbaijani, Chinese, Persian or Russian) for U.S. citizen undergraduate, Master’s and Ph.D. students. The deadline for submitting your on-line application is Friday, November 14, 2008. CLS:
Preservation Bookstore now on the Web Linda Frye Burnham / 12:32 PM Prreservation Bookstore has been launched at PreservationDirectory.com, an online resource for historic and cultural resource preservation, based in Portland, Oregon. The bookstore will collect and present primary titles of importance to restoration professionals, historic homeowners and the general public interested in historic preservation, including books on building restoration; architectural history and design; downtown, Main Street and urban revitalization; historic preservation funding sources, laws and policy; historic real estate; architectural tours and heritage tourism; identifying architectural styles; researching house history; endangered history; museum management; and roadside attractions. Those interested in having publications considered for inclusion (free) should send a copy or sample to PreservationDirectory.com, 7017 N. Alma Ave, Portland, Ore. 97203.
September 11, 2008 Call for papers on youth at riskLinda Frye Burnham / 04:25 PM Forwarded from Sharon Chappell, doctoral candidate, Arizona state U.: Call for papers
September 08, 2008 Deadline today! Social Justice Fund NW Cultural GrantsLinda Frye Burnham / 01:29 PM Forwarded from the Cultural Grants Social Justice Fund NW: Deadline: September 8, 2008- 5pm. Up-to-$7,500 grants for grassroots social change organizations that are involved in cultural work. Our definition of cultural work includes those activities that involve using culture and the arts to organize and build power among oppressed people to take collective action to address injustice and create more equitable power relations. Contact Sarah Studer, Grants Manager, at (206) 624-4081 Social Justice Fund:
September 06, 2008 Judy Shintani's Intergenerational Storytelling ProjectLinda Frye Burnham / 01:59 PM Judy Shintani is an artist in northern California who works with community groups of all kinds along the northern coast. She wrote to us about her Intergenerational Storytelling Project in Half Moon Bay with Coastside Children’s Programs and Coastside Adult Day Health Center. Her site offers her own thoughts on the process of the workshop, along with samples of the stories the children and elders wrote together and a wonderful slide show of their visual work. We really appreciate it when an artist goes to this much trouble to document community-based work on the Web. Once communities know what is possible, this work will spread like wildfire. Thanks, Judy!
CCA Teaching Institute starting up soon Linda Frye Burnham / 01:19 PM The California College of the Arts in Oakland starts its fall Teaching Institute soon. Core courses include "Arts Education and Integration: Developing Socially and Culturally Relevant Curricula" and "Collaborative Curriculum Design." Mini-courses include "Limited Resources & Recycled Materials: How to Include Art in Your Curriculum on a Limited Budget." TI offers an Arts Learning Specialist Certificate, the first of its kind in the United States.
September 05, 2008 Vanessa Whang to S.F.Linda Frye Burnham / 02:57 PM Arts/philanthropy consultant Vanessa Whang has a new job in San Francisco as director of programs at California Council for the Humanities, a truly creative organization. As Vanessa puts it: "The work of the Council in recent years has focused on the tremendous cultural diversity of the people of California and is committed to fostering cross-cultural understanding and community engagement." Vanessa worked with CAN on the recent "Bridge Conversations" series we published with the partnership of Caron Atlas, Lena Richardson and the Arts & Democracy Project of the Center for Civic Participation. Vanessa was previously with the NEA and with Arts Partnerships for Educational Excellence and La Pena Cultural Center, both in the Bay Area.
September 04, 2008 A great job in New Orleans!Linda Frye Burnham / 12:31 PM I just posted this in APInews, but I want to post it here, too, to make sure nobody misses this opportunity: the deadline is October 7. Pass it along. Endowment Campaign Consultant New Orleans artist John O'Neal has established a formal training program and cultural laboratory, the Free Southern Theater Institute. Its mission is "to develop and support artists, organizers, educators and managers who wish to create theater that serves the needs and interests of African Americans in the Black Belt South and others similarly oppressed and exploited the world over who are working to improve the quality of life for themselves and others." To receive the RFP for the Endowmnt Campaign Consultant position, email Theresa Holden: th@holdenarts.org Free Southern Theater Institute (under "programs")
September 03, 2008 Call for papers: Ethics of representing childhoodLinda Frye Burnham / 01:35 PM Forwarded from Stephani Etheridge Woodson: "The Ethics of Representing Childhood: Popular Culture, Performance, and Pedagogy" Key Notes delivered by: Summary: This symposium’s central question is: “Given that adults create, control, and distribute the vast majority of childhood representations, what are the ethical parameters of adult relationships with and responsibilities to children?” This symposium will explore different interpretations of “childhood”, with the aim of investigating how the diverse understandings of this term affect and are generated by governmental policies, educational theories, theatre and performance, the mass media, and social expectations. Rather than understanding childhood in the Americas as static and/or natural state of being, this conference will investigate childhood as a social category. Viewed in this light, the “child” becomes a metaphor—a pattern of meaning—created through culturally specific stories, beliefs, and customs. Given the above understanding, the symposium will unpack and explore the ethics of how adult culture shapes and represents children. In particular, we are interested in how these multiple understandings and shaded meanings influence adult relationships with and responsibilities to actual youth. The symposium will be intimate, with one track, and focused on facilitated discussion. For more information or questions contact Stephani Etheridge Woodson, swoodson@asu.edu. |
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