Forwarded from RSA Arts and Ecology Centre in England:

The new RSA Arts and Ecology Centre website goes live this week.

Look for a major essay by Olafur Eliasson, creator of New York City Waterfalls in Manhattan in 2008, and The Weather Project at Tate Modern in 2003, on how his relationship to light has led him to a new understanding. “Today, he writes, “we cannot afford not to think about the environmental consequences of our individual actions, about the relation between the individual and the collective.”

Also, Matthew Taylor asks the question, “Why aren’t artists engaging more urgently with the issues of climate change?” and is answered by the ICA’s Ekow Eshun, Arts and Ecology’s Michaela Crimmin and others.

Over the next 12 months RSA Arts and Ecology Centre online will be running a series of interviews in the run up to COP15 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. This week it features news on Ian McEwan’s new novel tackling climate change, the Nuclear: art and radioactivity debate taking part here at the RSA on 28th November, and on December’s 48o Public.Art.Ecology festival in Delhi.

The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is a major international hub for artists and organisations who are engaging with environmental issues. The website is an essential information source for anyone researching projects and opportunities in the field of arts and ecology.

Come and take a look for yourself; join in; leave a comment. http://www.rsaartsandecology.org.uk/

The RSA combines thought leadership with social innovation to further human progress. Building on our 250 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, we undertake influential and varied research projects and host the UK‚s most ambitious free lecture series. Our work is supported by 27,000 Fellows, an international network of influencers and innovators from every field and background.

RSA Arts & Ecology Web site

November 19, 2008

Linda Frye Burnham / 11:58 AM

Arlene Goldbard (sometimes referred to as the godmother of community arts, or, as she calls it, community cultural development) is leaving Richmond, California, for Kansas City, Mo., where her husband and partner Don Adams has a new post as director of performing arts at Mid-America Arts Alliance. She has posted a lovely farewell to California in her blog.

"Bye-Bye Bear Republic":

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November 18, 2008

IRA Charitable Rollover Restored
Linda Frye Burnham / 02:51 PM

Older Americans are once again able to contribute directly to public charities from their individual retirement accounts, thanks to a provision in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R.1424), signed into law on October 3, 2008 . The IRA Charitable Rollover tax incentive, which is available through 2009, allows individuals aged 70½ and older to donate up to $100,000 from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and Roth IRAs to public charities without having to count the distributions as taxable income.

More info from Independent Sector

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For a good time, go here
Linda Frye Burnham / 12:11 PM

http://www.everydayplaces.com

This is the Web site of artist Nick Tobier, a public performance artist and interventionist. It's delightful. Especially recommended: the list of Links, a portal into an avant garde you may never want to leave.

Everyday Places

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November 14, 2008

Let's go to Dearborn!
Linda Frye Burnham / 09:53 AM

curious about the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich.? Go to their Web site and watch a very nice new video by filmmaker Joan Mandell.

"AANM: Sharing Our Story"

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November 13, 2008

Report on My Vote Performs, Milwaukee
Linda Frye Burnham / 01:25 PM

Forwarded from Pegi Taylor, who, with John Loscuito, produced "My Vote Performs," a series of performance pieces at 11 polling places in Milwaukee on voting Day, November 4, 2008:

The quality and variety of performance art that happened on the 4th was so exciting!
Here is a video of one of the projects that was most site specific:
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/33842044.html
The lead artist used documentation from the Milwaukee Public Library and images of sculptures that are in and in front of the voting area at the library to put together a piece about Wisconsin’s voting history. There was also a singer in period costume outside singing suffragist songs.

Hundreds of people were exposed to performance art. Voting site officials were either cooperative or downright enthusiastic. As far as MVP knows, no one complained that the art was partisan or interfered with people voting. Other cities in the state have started to contact MVP to produce projects for future elections.

[Note: Since only the people who voted at the 11 polling sites experienced the performances, MVP will hold a forum, MY VOTE PERFORMS: ART DURING THE ELECTION. The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), 273 E. Erie Street, is hosting the event in the 4th Floor Gallery on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7:00-9:00 p.m. The forum is sponsored by WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio. My Vote Performs will present a documentary video of all the projects. There will also be displays and live performances.]

To see photos and descriptions of the performances, visit the MVP Web site.

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November 12, 2008

Some new arts ed reports
Linda Frye Burnham / 02:25 PM

The newsletter of the New York State Alliance for Arts Education mentions some new reports that look interesting:

"High Quality Arts: A Handbook for Parents" by the Arts Education Collaborative

"Into the Breach: How Creative Philanthropy Can Reverse the Eroding Landscape of Arts Education" by the New Media Consortium

"The Contours of Inclusion: Frameworks and Tools for Evaluating Arts in Education" by VSA Arts

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November 07, 2008

Angels and Accordions in Brooklyn
Linda Frye Burnham / 11:21 AM

See video of "Angels & Accordions" by DanceTheatreEtcetera. More than 1,500 people came to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y., on October 3, 2008, for the fifth installment of this unique site-specific performance and walking tour, presented in conjunction with openhousenewyork.

Angels & Accordions: http://www.dtetc.org/projects.html

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November 04, 2008

Call for papers: Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium
Linda Frye Burnham / 12:00 PM

Call for Papers: Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium
Villanova University, Villanova PA

Conference Theme:
Production Concept and Performance Analysis
January 16 2009

The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is seeking abstracts for papers for our third annual gathering of theatre scholars. This year's PTRS seeks to highlight the work of new scholars in the area of production concept and performance studies. This symposium offers the opportunity to present work in progress and to share ideas with other researchers. We are seeking papers which engage a broad range of topics in theatre and drama studies including, performance analysis, gender, politics, and cultural theory.

We are proud to announce that this year’s symposium will launch an accompanying journal. This journal will provide a publishing opportunity for some of the papers presented. This journal will include established scholars but seeks to create publishing opportunities for new scholars and interesting practioners in the area of theatre and drama.

Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted to Dr. David Cregan at david.cregan@villanova.edu.

The deadline for submission is December 10, 2008.

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November 03, 2008

NYFA Current: Public Art Off the Grid
Linda Frye Burnham / 12:55 PM

Forwarded from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) newsletter, Current:

"In the midst of this global financial crisis, it seemed fitting to focus this special issue of NYFA Current on artists producing unfunded public art projects. Thinking outside of the art market box, without the support of galleries or sponsors and in most cases using little or no monies of their own, the artists in this month’s Current work in both urban and rural environments—whether it be John Fekner, whose spray-painted stencils span New York City's five boroughs; Poster Boy's crafty reconfigurations of NYC subways ads; Karen Brummund's poetic paperings of buildings in upstate New York; or Ann Reichlin's manipulations of a derelict house in Utica. Additionally, activist and art critic Lucy Lippard writes on, among other things, the Land Art field program at University of Texas. All of the works featured here are temporary, and political to varying degrees, for the artists in this issue have dared to seize unregulated spaces to freely and independently make their mark."

NYFA Current (registration required):

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WaPo Reviews Sojourn's The Race
Linda Frye Burnham / 12:32 PM

Peter Marks has reviewed the new, highly interactive Sojourn Theatre piece "The Race," featuring Georgetown University students, at Georgetown in Washington, D.C.: "The niche that the piece seeks to fill now would still put a smile on the faces of good-government types. It's designed to inflame one's desire to improve the political process rather than provoke a laugh at its expense."

Joining 'The Race': New Play Redefines Political Theater, and The Audience's Role

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Call: Creative Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life
Linda Frye Burnham / 10:04 AM

Forwarded from Columbia College Chicago:

International Conference
«Creative Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life»
15 - 18 July, 2009
Chicago, USA

THE EVENT:
The conference is a four-day event hosted by the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department and the Arts Entrepreneurship Center of Columbia College Chicago. The event aims to provide academics and practitioners with an opportunity to learn of what has been done and how in the area of cultural entrepreneurship in the US. Special emphasis will be placed on the practical approaches to teaching cultural entrepreneurship and developing efficient cultural entrepreneurship curricula.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The organizers are seeking presenters and chairs of the working sessions. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

- Entrepreneurship and cultural regeneration
- Creative thinking as a basis for cultural entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial NGO´s
- Cultural entrepreneurship in traditional Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Media Arts curricula: a burden or a must?
- Designing a comprehensive cultural entrepreneurship curriculum
- Effective cultural entrepreneurship teaching: what works and what does not?
- New tools and resources to support students? and young artists? creativity

If you are interested in making a presentation or chairing a session, send your proposals or requests for more information to:

Anna Bernadska
Project Coordinator
Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department
Columbia College Chicago
abernadska@colum.edu
Tel: + 1 (708) 638 3100

Info

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