Center for International Art in Community (CIAC)

OBAMA FUNDRAISER AT ARTBREAK OCT 25

2008-10-03T04:59:00.001-07:00

HEALTH INSURANCE: WHAT ARTISTS NEED TO KNOW

2008-08-31T02:51:00.000-07:00

HEALTH INSURANCE: WHAT ARTISTS NEED TO KNOW

Tuesday, September 2, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Brooklyn Public Library Business Library Branch
280 Cadman Plaza West at Tillary Street

In this seminar, industry professionals will discuss the importance of health insurance for artists and freelancers and the various options available for finding affordable health care in New York City. Learn the differences between low cost public plans, private insurance and discount plans and leave this seminar with a clear understanding of the type of health insurance that is right for you.

Please RSVP for seminars at www.brooklynartscouncil.org

The BAC/Independence Professional Development Seminars for the Arts series is generously sponsored by the Independence Community Foundation.

LGBT activist groups, ASWAT and GALZ International Fundraising Tour - New York Tentative Schedule

2008-08-31T02:19:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends

Here is our tentative schedule for the New York tour:

Tues 09/09: Definate event: UNDP Lunch discussion 1:00 - 2:00 or 2:30?
Wed 10/09: Tentative in process: NYU Discussion
Thur 11/09: Definate event: Human Rights Watch Lunch discussion 1:00 - 3:00
Frid 12/09: Definate event: Astraea Funders Meeting 1:00 - 2:00 or 2:30?
Sat 13/09: Tentative in process: Gay and Lesbian Centre
Mon 1 5/09: Definate event: Astraea Community event 1:00 - 2:00
Definate event: Audre Lourde Project event 7:00 - 9:300

We hope to see you all

Best Wishes

Fadzai Muparutsa
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe

Deliver petitions to Fox headquarters w/ Color of Change & MoveOn.org (July 23)

2008-07-22T09:34:00.000-07:00

Dear New York Area ColorOfChange.org member,
More than half a million people have joined the effort to call on Fox to end their race-baiting and fear-mongering! It's an amazing response. We're taking the campaign to the next step: at Fox News Headquarters in Manhattan, hip hop artist Nas--who has a new track calling out Fox's racism and fear-mongering--will join ColorOfChange.org members and our allies to deliver the petitions and our message in front of news cameras. Click here to RSVP:
http://colorofchange.org/foxdelivery/?id=1842-66047
Where: News Corp. Building (home of Fox News), 1211 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave), @48th St in Manhattan
When: Wednesday, July 23rd at 2pm, gathering at 1:45pm
Who: Nas with ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org members deliver over 620,000 signed petitions to FOX
More Info: We'll gather in the plaza on 48th St., just north of the Fox building, a couple hundred feet west of 6th Ave.
You can help make history. Never before has Fox or any other media organization been confronted by this many Black voices and allies. Participating is easy. Just make your way to 48th St and 6th Ave.
This won't be the end of our campaign. If other media outlets cover us delivering over half-a-million petition signatures, FOX's advertisers will get the hint that it's not a good idea to associate their products with Fox's hate-speech. But we need a crowd to make this event as powerful as possible.
We hope you can join us. To RSVP, click here:
http://colorofchange.org/foxdelivery/?id=1842-66047
Thanks and Peace,
-- James, Gabriel, Clarissa, Andre, Kai and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
July 22nd, 2008

3rd Annual Gender Equality Festival (July 19)

2008-07-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

Friends of Girls for Gender Equity -

Summer is upon us! Let’s celebrate our work for equality with a festival in the park!

Join us for the Third Annual New York City Gender Equality Festival, a celebration of arts and activism, taking place Saturday July 19th in Von King Park , Central Brooklyn . This is a free public event open to New Yorkers of all ages and genders. Over 100 community artists, organizations, and local politicians will participate, offering inspirational performances and important information on every day activism, ending police violence, reproductive justice, and more. Come participate in education, community interaction, resource sharing, and the arts!

3rd Annual Gender Equality Festival
Saturday July 19, 2008
10 am - 3pm, FREE!

Von King Park ( Tompkins Park ), Bedstuy, Brooklyn
Between Tompkins + Marcy at Lafayette
Subway: G to Bedford-Nostrand, A/C to Nostrand
Bus: B43 to Lafayette + Tompkins, B44 to Lafayette , B53 to Tompkins Ave.

Bring your family and friends to celebrate a day of Singers, Dancers, Poets, Community, Raffles, and more! Then join us afterwards…

For an After Party Fundraiser!
Get Down 2 Get Up, feat. DJ Ingie Pop & Tikka Masala
Doors at 9pm, Sliding scale
Donation: $10 - $5, 21&up with ID

At Sputnik Bar, 262 Taaffe Place , Brooklyn
G train to Classon Ave.

Our celebration will stretch into the night with the sounds of DJ’s Ingie Pop & Tikka Masala, at Sputnik, as we celebrate movement building through music.

http://www.ggenyc.org/co-events.php

For more information on these events, or to sponsor or volunteer, contact - Meghan Huppuch at 718-857-1393 or sisters@ggenyc.org .

Asia Catalyst presents 'HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in China' A Panel Discussion @ the LGBT Center in NYC

2008-07-16T11:41:00.000-07:00

Thursday July 17th, 7:30pm-9pm

In the last few weeks before the launch of the Beijing Olympics and the XVII International AIDS Conference, hear from two Chinese AIDS activists about the successes and continuing challenges people with AIDS -- and the activists who advocate for their rights -- face on the front lines of the epidemic in China.

Li Dan won the 2006 Reebok Human Rights Award and, with Asia Catalyst's support, has opened the first legal aid center for people with AIDS in China. Gao Qi is the director of China AIDS Information Network and a leading expert on treatment access in China. Joe Amon is the director of HRW's HIV/AIDS Program, and Prof. Jerome Cohen is the leading expert in the US on Chinese law. Join us for a lively discussion.

Speakers:
Li Dan, Co-Founder and Head of China Orchid AIDS Projects and Korekata AIDS Law Center
Gao Qi, Ph.D., Director, China AIDS Information Network
Joseph Amon, HIV/AIDS Program, Human Rights Watch

Moderator: Professor Jerome A. Cohen, NYU School of Law

Locale: The LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St (between 6th and 7th Aves), Room 310
Admission: Free

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UNDERGROUND a collaborative exhibition @ ArtBreak Gallery - Opens SAT 7 June

2008-06-04T12:32:00.000-07:00

Rally in New Brunswick to End Detention Abuse in Middlesex County (Thursday, May 15)

2008-05-14T03:23:00.001-07:00

END DETENTION ABUSE IN MIDDLESEX

CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL!

RALLY Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm at the Middlesex County Freeholder
Meeting

Innocent immigrants are suffering in jails all across America! In
2007,
311,213 were illegally detained. Immigrant detainees do not have
access to
basic human rights—like due process, a jury trial or even adequate
medical
care. No mandatory standards exist.

Right here in Middlesex County, where over 150 immigrant detainees are
held,
the county is making over $6 million a year off of their suffering.
On March
2nd a Cuban detainee held in detention at Middlesex County Jail died
from
medical neglect. Over 90 detainees wrote a petition to protest his
death and a
week later detainees signed a 2nd petition protesting conditions
inside
Middlesex County Jail. Don't let their brave actions be go
unnoticed!

Take a stand for civil rights for all!
SAY NO TO ABU GHRAIB AND GUANTANAMO IN OUR BACKYARD!

Join NJCRDC to demand the
Middlesex County Freeholders
stop profiting from the suffering of innocent people.

Terminate the Contract NOW!

Meet on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm
Middlesex County Freeholders meeting
Administration Bldg, 75 Bayard St, New Brunswick

For more information on New Jersey Civil Rights Defense
Committee,
including how our actions led to the termination of the detention
contract at
Passaic County Jail go to http://www.nj-civilrights.org

Please help by distributing the flyers you can download on our
website.

May 1 NYC - MASS RALLY for IMMIGRANT & WORKER RIGHTS

2008-04-23T19:21:00.000-07:00

Thursday May 1st
12 p.m. Gather at Union Square
14th Street and Broadway
4 p.m. Rally & March

May Day 2008 is critically important. Will the optimism and hope expressed around the Presidential elections translate into an end of immigrant raids & deportations? Will it bring an end to the foreclosures of homes, the lowering of gas and food prices, or an end to lay-offs?

Whatever the outcome in November, the May 1st Coalition for Immigrant and Worker Rights will be marching once again on May Day, International Workers Day, to say no to all the attacks against workers here and around the world.

We call on the progressive community, the anti-war movement, the women's & lgbt movement, and especially on the labor movement, to come out for May Day 2008. March for solidarity, because an injury to one is an injury to all!

We say:
Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, Arab, White—In Unity there is strength.
ICE raids are racist, anti-union, and violate immigrant & US workers civil rights & divide families.
Jobs & homes, not lay-offs & foreclosures. Stop demolition of public housing in New Orleans & everywhere.
No war in Iraq, bring the troops home now.
Political asylum for Victor Toro, No deportation of Flor Crisóstomo.
Money for levees in New Orleans, not for militarizing the US/Mexico border.
Repeal NAFTA. US trade agreements force migration & lay-offs.

Rally called by
May 1st Coalition for Immigrant & Worker Rights
www.may1.info 641.715.3900 Ext. 97869#

NYC: Gandhi, King and the Power of Nonviolence: Alternatives to Force in the 21st Century (Apr 21)

2008-04-15T13:58:00.000-07:00

THE NATION INSTITUTE

PRESENTS

Gandhi, King and the Power of Nonviolence: Alternatives to Force in the 21st Century

When: Monday, April 21, 7 pm (doors open at 6:30)

Where: The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West, New York City

Join bestselling author Jonathan Schell, author of The Seventh Decade, and Pulitzer prize-winner Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters, as they discuss Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the enduring power of nonviolence in our contemporary world.

This evening is part of a series that has been organized by The Nation Institute in collaboration with the Satya Graha Forum to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera's performance of Philip Glass' opera about Mahatma Gandhi and Satyagraha, his movement of social change through nonviolence.

Suzannah Lessard will moderate the evening.

Following the discussion there will be audience questions, and a book-signing.

This event is free of charge (suggested donation $10).

For more information go to www.satya-graha.org or www.nysec.org

Flux Factory in collaboration with openhousenewyork: OPEN CALL FOR LIVING ROOM

2008-04-10T10:33:00.000-07:00

Living Room
Flux Factory in collaboration with openhousenewyork
October 4-5, 2008

“Living Room” is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in the urban experience, in New York history, and in the overlap between private and public space. Being a live/work collective, we are fascinated by what it means to inhabit a space, to make it one’s own. We want to invite artists to play with the notion of belonging to a home, and claiming a space as one’s own. So we're going to give artists the opportunity to go into someone else's home and make it their own, aesthetically. The project will, literally, bring artists into domestic locations in New York City to create site specific works. Aside from satisfying a mild desire for voyeurism common to us all, this project will be an opportunity for the public to peek into private sites normally off limits; either eccentric private living rooms or other variations of private space.

The locations will range from volunteers’ living rooms to private, historical sites, which we will help facilitate access to along with openhousenewyork (OHNY), a non-profit organization celebrating New York City’s architecture, culminating in America’s largest architecture and design event, the Annual OHNY Weekend. A guidebook of their locations, along with an inset for “Living Room,” will be printed and distributed throughout the city. Last year, OHNY printed 370 000 guides and had 150 000 visitors throughout their 193 sites.

Installations will address the historical, personal and social particularities of the sites with which they engage. Artists will have carte-blanche and may incorporate both formal visual amendments to the space (e.g. filling it with colored balls) and conceptual ones (e.g. re-organizing a library according to subjective categories). We encourage artists to find an appropriate private place within the five boroughs. We will help artists secure access to these sites. We will also be inviting select people to open their homes (or offices) for the event. Artists may chose locations from ones included in OHNY’s roster. A list of the 2007 OHNY venues can be found at:
http://www.ohny.org/weekend/listings.cfm

Works will be on view during OHNY Weekend on October 4-5, 2008. Depending on the site, they may be open throughout the weekend, or during business hours. A materials and artist fee of $500 will be provided to each artist. To apply, please send the following:

A 250-word proposal indicating your proposed site (especially if they are a new sites not previously included by OHNY) with a clear description of what you propose to do.
Your contact information (email and phone number)
Bio or CV
Any supporting images you would like to include

Proposals should be sent to Chen Tamir by email at dearcheny@gmail.com. The deadline for is May 10th, 2008.

Drawn Apart: An Evening of Animated Short Films by Immigrant Artists

2008-03-31T14:16:00.000-07:00

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Celebrates New York’s Immigrant Animators at April 17 Film Festival

Part of New York City’s Immigrant Heritage Week

New York, NY (March 31, 2008) – Free and open to the public, this event features animated short films by award-winning immigrant animators living and working in New York. The filmmakers represent countries such as Russia, Korea, Thailand, Latvia, Mexico and Serbia, and all will be on hand to answer questions and discuss their work. The event, presented and hosted by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is part of New York’s Immigrant Heritage Week, an initiative of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs which celebrates the many contributions to the City by immigrants.

WHEN:
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

WHERE:
New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Ave. of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10013

RSVP:
Free, but seating is limited.
To attend, please rsvp to Andreia Davies, adavies@nyfa.org.

WHO:
The lineup of short films was curated by 2005 NYFA Fellow and animated filmmaker Signe Baumane, a Latvia native. It includes films by several acclaimed animators, each of whom works in New York. They include: Felipe Galindo, whose work appears on Nickelodeon and in The New Yorker; Youngwoong Jang, who does animation work for a unit of FOX entertainment; Alex Bodovsky, whose animation work includes music videos, commercials and educational shorts for children; and Ms. Baumane, whose “Teat Beat of Sex” was the "most watched film" of the 2007 Cannes Online Film. She is one of the founders of Square Footage Films, a group of New York independent animators.

New York Foundation for the Arts is the nation’s largest provider of funding, information and services to artists in the United States– annually awarding nearly $6 million to hundreds of artists throughout New York State and the U.S.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Signe Baumane (Latvia)
Title: Dentist (2005). 10 min.
An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient and a strange picture on the wall...

Alex Bodovsky (Russia)
Title: Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002). 3min 15sec.
Based on Stephen Coates’ composition of the same title, this film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all citizens to move inside cuckoo clocks.

Ronnarit Lueangwattanakij (Thailand)
Title: LALALAND
The story, about the pursuit of happiness and how that pursuit affects us, it takes place in a village called LALALAND, which includes citizens who have much too much happiness to cherish, and a little devil who chases after it in the wrong way.

Felipe Galindo (Feggo), (Mexico)
Title: The Manhatitlan Chronicles (2000). 16mm. 7min.
A word coined by the artist, The Manhatitlan Chronicles is a merger of two words: Manhattan (New York City) and Tenochtitlán (Mexico City's Aztec name), and symbolizes for him the merger of the Mexican and American cultures in New York.

Biljana Labovic (Serbia)
Title: Eye Spy. 3min 30sec.
A girl's inner world is filled with dreams and memories. She peeks into her own heart to find the forgotten feelings. She's her own personal spy.

Youngwoong Jang (Korea)
Title: Mirage (2006). 8min 25sec.
A robot boy's obsessively searches for water, without realizing he has already ready been in it.

A History of the Zapatista Movement w/ Gloria Munoz Ramirez (March 27)

2008-03-26T00:07:00.000-07:00

THE FIRE AND THE WORD: A HISTORY OF THE ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT

BY
GLORIA MUñOZ RAMIREZ

thursday,
MARCH 27TH,
7-9PM; room c198
Cuny graduate
center
365 5th avE.

SPONSORED BY
The center for the
study of place,
culture, and politics
and aella (Latino &
Latin-American
Students
Association/CUNY)

Gloria Munoz Ramirez was a reporter
for the Mexican newspaper La
Jornada. She spent seven years in
Chiapas doing interviews and research
for the Fire and the Word and has
spoken around the world about the
Zapatistas. She will be talking about
her book and presenting video footage
of key events during the Zapatista
movement. Books, DVDs, and a CD
will be for sale.

OFF THE WALL: Celebrating Arts and Human Rights

2008-03-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

freeDimensional at Casa Frela Gallery presents

OFF THE WALL
Celebrating Arts and Human Rights
March 17 - April 12, 2008

ART - FILMS - READINGS - MUSIC
BK Factory
Asia Catalyst
Global Hood
Ledig House/Art Omi
Katherine Dolgy Ludwig
Ismael Kamara
Doa Aly
Issa Nyaphaga

EVENTS
March 17-April 12 Open House: Meet freeDimensional (M-F, noon-5pm)
March 21: freeDimensional; Opening Reception with Artists (5-8pm)
March 22: BK Factory; roundtable discussion & music performance (5-8pm)
April 4: Asia Catalyst; film screening and talk (5-8pm)
April 5: Global Hood; presentation/fundraiser (5-8pm)
April 12: freeDimensional Closing Party (5-8pm)

Casa Frela Gallery
47 West 119th Street, New York, NY 10026
http://www.casafrela.com

The time to engage in defending human rights and free expression has
never been as important as it is today. With so many issues of
censorship facing individuals and communities around the world the
question becomes how we can learn and share from each other to make
information more accessible. One opportunity has come in the form of a
partnership between freeDimensional, a nonprofit organization, and
Casa Frela Gallery. With so many avenues of communication available to
us today we sometimes get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of
information at our fingertips. For this reason, freeDimensional, an
international nonprofit organization based in NYC, has teamed up with
Casa Frela Gallery to make learning about and connecting to the world
of human rights, free expression and the arts a more accessible
exercise. We invite you to learn how nonprofits such as ours and
others, which work in the field of human rights and the arts, navigate
the local and global terrain.

During freeDimensional's time at Casa Frela Gallery we will hold
offices hours Monday - Friday from 12noon - 5pm. We will
also host a number of events in the evening time, ranging from a
screening of a Chinese dissident's daring film of the police who guard
his home, to an opening reception featuring artists and musicians (see
schedule below). From 12 to 5 on weekdays, we throw open the doors to
visitors and a free-flowing exchange of ideas.

More info:
Stefan Barbic
Stefan-at-freedimensional.org

NYC Event: The Crisis in Burma: In Search of a Unified International Response - March 25, 2008

2008-03-13T08:53:00.000-07:00

Six months have passed since the Burmese military government’s violent crackdown on thousands of monks who took to the streets of Rangoon in peaceful, pro-democracy demonstrations. While the brutality of the assault, subsequent mass arrests and heightened repression received an immediate burst of attention and media coverage around the world, the focus on Burma has waned steadily in recent months. After making a few initial concessions to the international community, such as allowing in a UN human rights investigator and permitting a government meeting with pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese junta continues to stand firm and political activists continue to be imprisoned.

Join us as the Asia Society and Open Society Institute convene a panel discussion to revisit the situation in Burma in light of the military government’s recently announced “roadmap to democracy,” including its intention to conduct a national referendum to approve a new constitution in May, followed by a multiparty general election in 2010. How credible is this development given that the new constitution would effectively bar independent political leaders from participating in the process? The panel will also assess recent efforts at the international and regional levels to advance national reconciliation in Burma . What role can and should international actors such as the United Nations and the United States play together with ASEAN and Burma ’s influential neighbors?

Speakers:
Scot Marciel, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Charles Petrie, Former UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar ( Burma )
Thaung Htun, Representative for UN Affairs, National Coalition Government of the Union

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

6:00 – 6:30 pm: Registration
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Panel Discussion / Q & A
8:00 – 8:30 pm: Reception

Asia Society
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street , New York City

Please join us at Asia Society’s New York Headquarters or online via live Webcast, to discuss these and other pertinent issues. Internet listeners will be able to ask questions and offer comments via email during the webcast. Please send your questions to moderator@asiasociety.org
Purchase Tickets:
$5 Members, Seniors, Students w/ID NGOs, $7 Nonmembers
Online: http://tickets.asiasociety.org
By Phone (M-F 10am to 5pm) 212-517-ASIA (2742)

Romanian Cultural Institute NYC: Nina Cassian talks about poetry and exile

2008-03-12T03:56:00.000-07:00

RCINY produced in 2007 for the Romanian National Television a series of dialogues that traces the personal story and professional journey of its guests and provokes them in sharing their opinion on a large number of issues and topics high on both Romanian and American agendas. We have invited renowned Romanian poet Nina Cassian to meet Iuliana Ciugulea and Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, the series producer and host, respectively, in a live continuation of the televised dialogue on poetry and exile.

FREE ADMISSION. RSVP at contacts below.

CIAC artist, Ariel Fernandez produces First Fridays! @ The Bronx Museum

2008-03-06T02:20:00.000-08:00

Women in the Black Freedom Struggle: A Symposium Series - Brooklyn College

2008-02-29T11:42:00.000-08:00

The Women's Studies Program
and
Jeanne Theoharis, Second Endowed Women's Studies Chair at Brooklyn College

cordially invite you to our springtime activities- a series of symposia in collaboration with:
The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Department of Africana Studies, the Political Science Department, the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, the Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance, and Diversity,
Omega Phi Beta, and the Black History Month Committee,

Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
A Symposium Series

1968 was a pivotal year of change in American and global politics. While Americans are fascinated with the history of the 1960s and the civil rights and Black Power movements in particular, the popular image of black radicalism remains largely male. More recently, scholars have turned their attention to the roles women played in these movements.

Forty years later, the Women's Studies Program at Brooklyn College is hosting a series of events this spring exploring "Women in the Black Freedom Struggle." Scholars from around the country--along with former activists--will come together at Brooklyn College to examine the roles women played as theorists, organizers, and leaders of movements for racial justice in postwar United States, looking at groups such as SNCC, the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Party, and the American left.

Join Scholars
Melissa Harris Lacewell
Cynthia Young
Chana Kai Lee
Joy James
Former Activists
Ericka Huggins
Judy Richardson
Iris Morales
Denise Oliver
and many more...
from

Wednesday, March 5 through Thursday, May 1, 2008

at
Brooklyn College
Women in the Black Revolt Conference

March 5 - 6 at Brooklyn College
(co-sponsored with Sarah Lawrence College's 10th Annual Women's History Conference on Black Power/Black Feminism)

Wednesday, March 5 from 4:45-6:15 p.m.
Women and Black Power
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Sherie Randolph (Hofstra)
James Smethurst (U-Mass, Amherst)
Robyn Spencer (Lehman)
Diane Fujino (UC-Santa Barbara)

Thursday, March 6 from 12:15-1:30 p.m.
Women in the Black Panther Party
Jefferson-Williams, SUBO
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest (independent scholar)
Ericka Huggins (former BPP member)
Joy James (Williams College)

Thursday, March 6 from 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Women and Black Radicalism
Bedford Lounge, SUBO
Erik McDuffie (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Dayo Gore (U-Mass, Amherst)
Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College)
Premilla Nadasen (Queens College)
Chana Kai Lee (University of Georgia)

Talks and Roundtables
Thursday March 27 from 12:15-1:30 p.m., Bedford Lounge, SUBO
Melissa Harris Lacewell (Princeton University)
"Wounded Warriors: Investigating the Politics of the Strong Black Woman"

Monday March 31 from 4:55-6:15 p.m., Bedford Lounge, SUBO
Michelle Stephens (Colgate University)
"Crossing Lines: Reading Race and Sexuality in Paul Robeson's Films"

Wednesday, April 9 from 4:55-6:00 p.m., Woody Tanger Auditorium
Cynthia Young (Boston College)
author of
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left

Thursday April 17 from 3:30-4:45 p.m., Bedford Lounge, SUBO
Women in SNCC
with Emilye Crosby (SUNY-Geneseo) and Judy Richardson (former SNCC organizer)

Thursday May 1 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Jefferson-Williams, SUBO
Women in the Young Lords Party
with Johanna Fernandez (Baruch College), Denise Oliver and Iris Morales (former members of the Young Lords)

For more information please call Irva Adams at (718) 951-5476

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The Carlton Arms Hotel opens a gallery, inaugural group show

2008-02-29T01:08:00.001-08:00

http://www.artbreakgallery.com/

CIAC Artist-in-Community, Issa Nyaphaga's Mixed Medias @ The Roger Smith Hotel

2008-02-27T08:26:00.000-08:00

The Roger Smith Hotel Gallery
Presents:

Mixed Medias
( February 26th to 29th 2008)
Performance Painting with Live Music
Every day from 6: PM to 7: PM

@ the Lab Gallery
501 Lexington Avenue , New York ,
New York 10017 Direct 212.755.1400
By
Issa Nyaphaga.

Work in progress during the day:

Large Mural of Political Cartoon.

Program:

Tuesday 26th # Anthony Booth - (Guitar/Voice)

Wednesday 27th Una Karina(Opera singer)

Thursday 28th # Kristina Skovby (Dancer)

Friday 29th # Surabhi and J. Medly (Voice/ Guitar)!

From March 1st to 7th, Exhibition.

Welcome to the event.

501 Lexington Avenue, New York , New York 10017
Direct 212.755.1400 | Toll Free 800.445.

Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference

2008-02-26T03:01:00.000-08:00

The Conference is hosting an amazing line-up of activists, scholars,
media makers, community organizers, musicians, filmmakers, artists,
journalists and many more, of all ages!

Check out www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org for all the info and updates!!!!

It's all happening THIS WEEKEND!
The Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Speaking Truth to Power: Media Justice in Our Communities
Sunday March 2nd, 2008 9am-6pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College CUNY

Admission: **
$20 advance; $30 day of
$15 students/seniors; $25 day of
$5 youth discount (18 & under) Youth admittance includes pizza lunch.
For group rates please email mo@nycgrassrootsmedia.org

Registration includes general admission to the Conference, access to
all workshops and panels, film screenings, exhibition hall and
networking after party.

EARLY REGISTRATION SAVES YOU $10

Join us as we seek to define what the term Media Justice means, as a
community and explore how we can begin to make this ideal a reality
for New York City.

Conference location:
Hunter College North Building, 68th Street and Lexington Ave.
ENTRANCE IS THROUGH WEST BUILDING: Southwest Corner, enter from street or
directly from 6 train

DON'T DELAY - REGISTER TODAY!

For more information call (917) 523 -1045 or email
info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org

Design, Social Change and Social Science: Catalyzing Interactions (Feb 25)

2008-02-20T02:53:00.000-08:00

Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 W. 13th Street
February 25, 10am-Noon & 4.30pm-7.00pm

How can we create more robust interfaces between the critical
reflections of contemporary social sciences and the desires for social
change on the part of activists, designers and social theorists?

This day-long seminar will investigate the role of media design in
catalyzing public engagement; the role of contemporary social science
reflections in expanding understandings of community and ideas of the
public as components of the development and design processes; and the
increasing burden placed on design professionals to respond to highly
speculative and contingent conditions under which the planning of urban
futures now takes place.

Join designers, architects, social theorists and activists from Mumbai,
NYC and points-in-between as we consider the present and future of
design and social practice in the interest of contemporary urbanism and
action.

Panels:
10.30am â€“ 12noon : Speculative Designs: Urban Games and Social
Transformation
Participants: Neera Adarkar, Meena Menon, Colleen Macklin, Jane Pirone,
Vyjayanthi Rao + Design and Technology Students from the Mobile Media
Collab Studio, Fall 2006.

Noon - 4.30: Lunch (provided) + Break

4.30 â€“ 6.30pm: Architecture and Activism: Lessons from Mumbai
Participants: Neera Adarkar, Pankaj Joshi, Laura Kurgan, Arjun
Appadurai, Carol Breckenridge & Vyjayanthi Rao.

Boston: Unexpected legal turn for performance artist Milan Kohout -- "pretrial conference hearing" Feb. 22 at 9 am

2008-02-18T23:41:00.000-08:00

performance artist on trial
for his
“Nooses On Sale ”

February 22, 2008
“pretrial conference hearing” at 9 am

McCormack Building
Room 403
One Ashburton Place
Boston

( Boston , MA ) Political performance artist Milan Kohout, a member of the Mobius Artists Group, is embroiled in a legal incident that is the unintended consequence of a 6 minute performance that took place in November, 2007, in downtown Boston .

Kohout's performance, entitled “Nooses On Sale,” took place outside of Bank of America's Boston headquarters. The performance was Kohout’s response to the mortgage bank industry’s orchestration of the falling stock market, mortgage fraud, and foreclosures. Kohout stood in front of the bank with a collection of nooses and the sign “Nooses On Sale.”

Within minutes of taking his position in front of the bank, police arrived and cited him for not having a peddler's license. Two months later Kohout received a summons to appear in court and he is now facing criminal charges for his actions.

The result of Kohout’s “Nooses On Sale” has taken an unexpected legal turn due to a trivial (and antiquated) law, Transient Vendor Unlicensed c101 : 008, that could indeed be enforced. What initially was a peaceful commentary on the nation’s mortgage crisis has now become a freedom of speech casualty of the judicial system.

Over the course of two hearings, Kohout has been unfairly treated in court by police officers and by the two presiding judges who have continued the case for reasons far beyond the merits of the charge of Transient Vendor Unlicensed c101 : 008. It appears that the judges are using their own personal bias in order to stretch the truth far beyond the facts of the case.

A “pretrial conference hearing” will occur this coming Friday, February 22nd, at 9 am. It will be held in the McCormack Building , Room 403, One Ashburton Place , Boston .

For further information, please contact Milan Kohout : milan@vzavenue.net, 617-439-8643, 617-319-7246 (cell). His website, http://mobius.org/mobius_artists.php?id=milan, gives a detailed accounting of the incident and its snowballing aftermath.

This announcement is by no means a performance art joke. Reporters to the courtroom are welcome.

Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival - Local Arab Music Legends and Legacies (Mar'08)

2008-02-15T00:41:00.000-08:00

The performance schedule for BAC's Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival, the first-of-its-kind month-long music festival celebrating Brooklyn’s diverse Arab music scene in concerts, symposia, and workshops, from March 2-30 has been finalized! Nearly 100 local musicians and groups representing music traditions from Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Morocco, Israel, Syria, Tunisia, and Lebanon will perform at a range of venues including nightclubs, theaters, and coffeehouses.

Don't miss your chance to experience the sounds of the popular Moroccan and Tunisian music traditions sha'abi and rai while dancing until dawn, sip an Arabic coffee with Cardamom at a local Arab restaurant in Bay Ridge, "jam" with a Middle Eastern percussion ensemble at a workshop, discuss the history and relevance of Brooklyn's evolving Arab music traditions with scholars in the field, and more!

The festival features Arab music legends such as Simon Shaheen and Fahim Dandan as well as emerging artists in a range of pan-Arab music styles from traditional and classic to fusion and jazz-infused.

Creative Response to Conflict: A Dialogue In Diversity Issues (Mar 13)

2008-02-11T23:51:00.000-08:00

Coming Together To
Build Peaceful Communities

The beauty of our picture perfect towns and communities lie in their diverse
makeup. Nevertheless, look deeper and we see people of different colors, backgrounds, religions and sexual orientation visibly staying within their own area of town and generally mingling within their own groups.

Creative Response to Conflict believes if we take a moment, pause and consider the struggles many people experience, we can begin to understand why different groups become distant and separate themselves. We can also use our empathy to find creative ways of becoming allies to people from all walks of life and backgrounds.

If you are invested in building a stronger, happier and more peaceful community, we invite you to join us in:

A Dialogue In Diversity Issues
Thursday, March 13th
6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
521 North Broadway Nyack, New York 10960
Suggested donation - $50. More if you can, less if you canâ€™t.
Pre-registration necessary by Monday, March 3

NYC: Augusto Boal Presents Master Workshops (May 12-17) @ Brecht Forum

2008-02-11T22:55:00.000-08:00

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
toplab@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, founded in 1990

presents

Two Master Workshops in the Theater of the Oppressed

facilitated by Augusto Boal, Julian Boal and members of the Theater of the
Oppressed Laboratory

Monday, May 12 through Saturday, May 17, 2008

at the Brecht Forum
451 West Street
New York City

========================================================================
TOPLAB is pleased to announce that Augusto Boal has been nominated for a
Nobel Peace Prize!

Artist Studio Share in Brooklyn (2-3 days/week, no live-in)

2008-02-07T01:29:00.000-08:00

Artist Studio Share (2-3 days/week, no live-in)
Grattan St. at Bogart St.
Location: Bushwick

Sunny 500 sq feet studio in wonderful arts building and safe neighborhood (2 blocks from the L-Morgan Ave Stop), steps from "The Archive" coffee house, "Brooklyn Natural" market and great neighborhood bar. Wood floors (painted) and large windows with ample natural light. The space is appropriate for someone who is either a movement artist or a visual artist who works in such a way that they do not need a lot of floor space taken by objects (costume design, video work, other digital media, drawing, etc.). The space is available 2-3 days per week. On the days when someone rents they have it 24 hrs. This is essentially a time share; whoever is there at the time has the space to themselves. Schedule is negotiable, but will be consistent from week to week. Share with performance artist Jill Sigman (www.thinkdance.org).

-Starting March 1st and at least through October.
-Available for 2-3 days per week with schedule subject to discussion.
-$300 per month for 2 days/$430 for 3 days.
-Utilities not included (additional $5-20/month).
-1 month Security deposit required.
-Must be able to provide references.

For more details and to see the space, call:
Alicia Marvan (347) 528-0566

Exhibition: "Les Dollo de Dini" photographs by Philiippe Dollo from Mali 2002 & 2005 (Feb 1)

2008-01-28T00:00:00.000-08:00

Friday, February 1

6-9pm

Philippe DOLLO

"Les Dollo de Dini"
photographs from Mali 2002 & 2005

20% of all proceeds from the sale of these photographs goes directly to the Dollo of Dini.

Wine tasting:

Morocco
2005 Les Trois Domaines, Guerroune Rouge
2005 Amazir, Beni M'Tir

South Africa
2006 Raats, Original Chenin Blanc
2007 Seven Sisters 'Odelia' Bukketraube
2006 Seven Sisters 'Dawn' Pinotage/Shiraz
2005 Brampton Cabernet Sauvignon
2007 Seven Sisters 'Twena' Sweet Rose

GNARLY VINES
350 Myrtle Avenue
(between Carlton & Adelphi)
APPELLATION BROOKLYN CONTROLEE
718-797-3183
www.gnarlyvines.com

THE ENVIRONMENT - The Politics of 2008 (Jan 30)

2008-01-27T00:31:00.000-08:00

The Environment: The Politics of â€˜08
January 30, 2008
Lang Center / 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
6:30pm
Admission: $8
The conservation movement of the early 20th century morphed into the
environmental movement of the last forty years. A major boost to the
movement has been Al Goreâ€™s Academy Award winning documentary AN
INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which has dramatically extended the debate about
climate change and global warming. Is there an obligation on the part
of government to protect the environment? Which branch of government
is
responsible for environmental issues? Is there still a trend, which
started in the â€œ90â€™s, toward â€œdevolvingâ€ certain issues
perceived to be national, back to the states? Do citizens have a right
to a safe environment? Do citizens have a right to demand
environmental
impact statements from their respective government? Where is the
environmental movement today, and what role will it play in the
presidential election of 2008? We have invited a group of individuals
who have struggled with these issues to bring us up-to-date on where
the
environmental movement is now and what impact it will have on the
election of 2008. Moderated by Anthony Pereira, President of AltPower,
speakers include: Steve Fleischli, President of Waterkeeper Alliance;
Rev. Patricia Ackerman, special projects and media liaison for the
Fellowship of Reconciliation, member of the steering committee of Code
Pink, and on the advisory board of the Occupation Watch Center in Iraq;
and Richard Perez, Senior Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center, SUNY-Albany. Sponsored by The Wolfson Center for
National Affairs.

"Esto a Veces Tiene nombre" Latino Art Collectives in a Post Movement Milennium

2008-01-26T23:15:00.000-08:00

NYU-- Latino Studies Program- EXHIBITION
"Esto a Veces Tiene nombre" Latino Art Collectives in a Post Movement Milennium
(OPENING RECEPTION) February 1st, 2008 from 7-9pm Performance by Spanic Attack.
(Closing Reception) February 29th from 6-8pm and Artist Panel.

Latino Studies Program, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis,
41 east 11 street, 7 FLOOR, New York.

Art Collectives:
Curator Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D. arts Fellow, Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Mi Sala
Jose "Mr. Bless", Wanda Reimundi-Ortiz.
Spanic Attack -
Ivelisse Jimenez. Joulien Jourdes, Stephania gainbaroff, Chriss Kralik, Renzo Ortega, Alejandro Epifanio Torres, audio: Edwin Torres curated by Libertad O. Guerra.
O.P.Art
Luis Carle, Reyes Melendez, Miguel Trelles.
Sala Diaz
Alejandro Diaz.

Indigenous Peoples-Promoting Peace, Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation (@ ICTE on Feb. 7th, 6 to 8)

2008-01-26T21:55:00.000-08:00

Low-income supportive housing for Artists in Brooklyn

2008-01-19T08:20:00.001-08:00

*APPLICATION WORKSHOPS*

*Low Income Supportive Housing, expected opening May 2008*

Question and Answer workshops with a review of the application form and
documentation required. Applications will be available at the workshop.

Monday, January 14 3:30 to 5 pm

Wednesday, January 16 5:30 to 7 pm

Wednesday, January 23 3:30 to 5 pm

Where: The Actors Fund, 729 Seventh Avenue, between 48th and 49th
Street,10th Floor

RSVP: 212.221.7300 ext. 264 with date you will be attending

Who Is Eligible?

Applicants' gross income from all sources (employment, benefits, asset
interest) cannot exceed $29,760 and not be less than $18,500. Monthly
rents
start at $635.

160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn NY (between Smith & Hoyt Street)

________________________________

Mission: The Actors Fund is a nationwide human services organization
that
helps all professionals in performing arts & entertainment. The Fund is
a
safety net, providing programs and services for those who are in need,
crisis or transition.

For more information, please visit

*www.actorsfund.org *

729 Seventh Avenue, 10th Floor | New York, NY 10019

212.221.7300 t | 800.212.7303 t | 212.764.0238 f

Crafting Protest -- The Vera List Center for Art and Politics

2008-01-18T01:46:00.000-08:00

Panel Discussion & Craft Reception

â€œCrafting Protestâ€

Saturday, January 26, 2008, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
Suggested admission: $8, free for all students as well as New School
faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Moderator:
Julia Bryan-Wilson, art historian and critic, University of California
at Irvine

Panelists:
Liz Collins, artist/designer
Sabrina Gschwandtner, artist
Cat Mazza, artist/activist
Allison Smith, artist

Many contemporary artists are using craft as a largely unregulated
place of protest where diverse and timely political statements are
being
made. This panel is presented as part of a series of talks on
â€œAgencyâ€ and proposes that crafting, because it is so often
social and communal, plays a vital role in the public sphere. The
speakers examine the role of craft in forming national identities,
especially in times of political turmoil or war; notions of patriotism;
feminism and the domestic sphere; and economic models that circumvent
conventional market models. The five artists will present projects and
discuss their work under the broad rubric of â€œCrafting Protest.â€ By
linking the actual act of production and handmaking in the public realm
to political expression, participants will ask: how can art foster
political agency?

This program is presented concurrently with the release of the February
issue of Modern Painters, which features a roundtable discussion by the
panelists. The speakers have also collaborated on a large-scale knit
banner to be unveiled at the event. Following the panel discussion,
audience members are invited to an informal craft reception in which
panelists will present tactile examples of the materials, machinery,
and
processes they use in their work.

* * *

The event is presented on occasion of the Vera List Centerâ€™s program
cycle on â€œAgency,â€ and is co-sponsored by Modern Painters. Allison
Smith is a 2007 Artistsâ€™ Fellowship recipient of the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by
Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA. Special thanks
to Liz Collins and RISD Texiles for the use of their industrial
knitting
machine.

Health Care & Human Rights Seminar (Feb 2nd)

2008-01-18T01:27:00.000-08:00

Health Care & Human Rights: A World in Need

The seminar marks the start of the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Co-sponsored by Weill Cornell Medical College and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, this event will take place at the church, 7 West 55th Street, on Saturday, February 2.

Complete information is available on the website: http://www.med.cornell.edu/world-in-need.

Admission is free, but registration is advised. To register or for additional information, please contact me at 212-746-0194 or pat2004@med.cornell.edu.

The seminar speakers are physician leaders in clinical care, research, education, public health, and advocacy in some of the world's most troubled regions, with an emphasis on the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. Their work includes collaborating with local partners to develop sustainable models of care.

The program also features Sandeep Kishore, an MD-PhD student and highly effective global health activist. Sandeep will speak about student involvement in global health on the local, national, and internationa levels.

ApexArt: Unsolicited Proposal Program

2008-01-18T00:14:00.000-08:00

Artists, Curators, Writers and Interested Others:

Each season, apexart accepts proposals for two exhibitions. This program is designed to give people with interesting curatorial concepts an opportunity to have them considered and possibly presented in a professional, recognized venue based on the quality of idea rather than past experience.

We are currently accepting one-page, idea-based proposals for evaluation by an international panel of apexart associates (curators, artists, writers, philosophers). Submissions are reviewed independently, anonymously and without visual support material, evaluated solely on the strength of the idea.

The two proposals with the highest ratings will be presented at apexart in the 2008/09 season (September 2008 to August 2009).

Applications are welcomed and encouraged from around the world. Visit the site for more info, guidelines and to apply:

http://www.apexart.org/unsolicited.htm

Proposals accepted online until February 29.

Fat is Contagious:' Political Fat Queer Visibility and Action in the Era of the 'Obesity Epidemic.'

2008-01-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

The New York City radical fat political group "Fat and Queer" [FAQ] is organizing a one day conference in February entitled " 'Fat is Contagious:' Political Fat Queer Visibility and Action in the Era of the 'Obesity Epidemic.' "

The event will occur in Manhattan on Saturday February 23, 2008 at the University Settlement House, a wheel-chair accessible space in the
Lower East Side at Bowery/Houston.

The keynote address will be given by Marilyn Wann, author of "Fat!So?:Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size."

Following that, we will have two sessions of workshops, with three workshops in each session. In the evening we hope to have a cabaret
performance and dance party and are still negotiating space for that event.

We are currently issuing a call for proposals for workshops on the topic of political fat queer visibility and action in the era of the
'obesity epidemic.'

We specifically seek workshop proposals which are action-oriented and are on the following themes, however all submissions will be considered:

* Building Fat Social/Activist networks
* Fat studies/fat theory
* Weight loss and fat activism
* Health at any size
* Trans and fat
* Fat and sexuality
* Allies
* Fat and disability
* History of fat activism
* Challenging healthist discourse within and outside of the fat activist movement
* Fat activism within social justice movements and creating solidarity with other social justice movements
* Guerrilla art/action
* Childhood obesity
* Medical self advocacy

If you are interested in submitting, please send your workshop proposal to: NYC.FAQ@gmail. com by January 25, 2008.

If you would like to be kept up to date on FAQ events, join our listserve http://groups. google.com/ group /FandQ

More details about the specifics of the conference will be forthcoming.

Please repost and help spread the word!

xoxo,
FAQ

"Agents & Assets" w/ a combined cast from NYC & LA (NYC/Jan 31)

2008-01-15T21:32:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Poverty Department and St. Mary's Episcopal Church Present:

A THEATRICAL PRODUCTION BASED ON A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S "WAR ON DRUGS" (WHO BROUGHT THE DRUGS TO THE U.S?)

"Agents & Assets" will be performed by a combined cast from New York and Los Angeles on Thursday, January 31 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary's Episcopal Church: 521 W. 126 St., tel. 212 864 4013

The performance will be followed by a panel in discussion with the audience.
On the panel: Deborah Small, Executive Director of 'Break the Chains, communities of color and the war on drugs' and Nellie Hester Bailey, co-founder and director of the Harlem tenants Council.

ADMISSION IS FREE FOR EVERYONE

DESCRIPTION:
In Agents & Assets, LAPD addresses the U.S. government's escalating "war on drugs."
Agents & Assets dramatizes a 1998 Congressional Hearing about allegations of CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking to fund the Nicaraguan Contras at a time when such activities had been expressly forbidden by Congress. The entire script is taken from the hearing transcript. Congressmen and women and the CIA Inspector General are played by on-the-ground veterans of the "war on drugs".

"As the name clearly states, the "war on drugs" imposes a military solution on a public health and social problem. It turns our own citizens into 'the enemy' and victimizes them and their communities." — John Malpede, founder of LAPD

HISTORY:
Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 by John Malpede. LAPD creates performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. LAPD is committed to creating high-quality, challenging performances that express the realities, hopes, and dreams of people who live and work in Los Angeles' Skid Row, and is dedicated to building community and to the artistic and personal development of its members. "Agents & Assets " is a national theater project that has been performed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadephia, Baltimore and Utrecht in The Netherlands.

For more information visit http://www.lapovertydept.org or call: 718-687 7942

LAPD's National Project AGENTS & ASSETS is made possible through support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation

Freedom Train Productions accepting applications: Residency for Black Playwrights

2008-01-11T03:13:00.000-08:00

Freedom Train Productions is now accepting applications for their residency for black playwrights. Founded by the awarding of a Social Justice Fellowship from NYU Wagner and Open Society Institute to Artistic Director Andre Lancaster, Freedom Train seeks playwrights whose work responds to the political realities of our times. To this end, the playwright will be commissioned to write a new play that centers a black LGBT character in a story that tackles provocative themes around – for example – war, police brutality and state violence, women's rights, religious tolerance, capitalism, disease, the prison industrial complex, democracy, freedom, hip hop and culture, family, and love etc. Please visit Freedom Train Productions for more information.
DEADLINE: January 18th.

http://www.freedomtrainproductions.org/html/artist2.html

Indo-American Arts Council seeks submissions for their 8th Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival

2008-01-11T03:11:00.000-08:00

The Indo-American Arts Council seeks submissions for their 8th Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival. Films may be submitted in either of the following two sections: Diaspora Films: Films made by filmmakers of South Asian origin living in the Diaspora; or Projects by non-South Asians with South Asian content, cast or crew OR Independent Films: Projects from the Indian Subcontinent with a unique voice/message and that are considered Independent by the industry. Please visit The Indo-American Arts Council for more information.
DEADLINE: ONGOING.

http://www.iaac.us/MIAAC2008/index.htm

Flux Factory PANEL: The City from Below, Above, and Sideway

2008-01-05T22:39:00.000-08:00

Featuring: Julia Solis, Steve Duncan, Katherine McMahon, Douglas Paulson and Marie Lorenz. Moderated by Chen Tamir.

Please join us for a panel discussion and presentations by acclaimed urban historians and artists with slightly unusual views of New York City.

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public.

Steve Duncan
Steve Duncan is an urban explorer who has been climbing and crawling around NYC's hidden spaces for the past decade.Steve will show images from and discuss his two parallel projects: climbing to the tops of NYC bridges over the city's major waterways and spelunking in the tunnels that hold the city's lost and forgotten underground rivers.

Katherine McMahon
Katherine McMahon will discuss the amazing history of the New York City panorama at the Queens Museum.

Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz
Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz discuss their adventures exploring the lost, forgotten, and submerged islands at the northern edge of New York City.

Julia Solis
Julia Solis organizes scavenger hunts and exhibitions in abandoned spaces. She is the founder of Ars Subterranea, an artists’ group dedicated to the creative exploration of ruins, and the author of “New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City.”

New York, New York, New York
So nice we named it thrice.
Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original concept by Jean Barberis.

New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in urban landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses’ scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art. Members of the Flux Factory art collective will work in collaboration with over 100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world to re-imagine the public and private spaces of New York.

CIAC Artist, Issa Nyaphaga featured at Skylight Gallery's "African Complexions"

2008-01-02T21:58:00.000-08:00

Artists Panel Saturday January 5th 2008 - 2:PM @ Skylight Gallery

AN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTISTS
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation presents
the second exhibition in its 40th year anniversary series:
"African Complexions"
- Osaretin Ighile,
- Durhirwe Rushemega,
- Issa Nyaphaga,
- Albert Ojo,
- Omalura Marquis
Curated by Louis E. Mims
1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Nostrand Avenue Station, A or C train.
Phone: (718) 636-6976
Email: jborren@restorationplaza.org

Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival - Local Arab Music Legends and Legacies (Mar'08)

2008-01-02T12:11:00.000-08:00

Throughout March 2008, BAC Folk Arts will present the Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival, a groundbreaking celebration of Arab musical traditions in Brooklyn. In a series of concerts, symposia and workshops throughout the month, Brooklyn Maqam will feature nearly 100 New York-based musicians and groups representing musical traditions from Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon in venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, such as Alwan for the Arts, BAM Cafe, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC), Joe’s Pub, and more.

Maqam is the Arabic word referring to groups and patterns of musical notes (approximates modes in western music) that form the building blocks of traditional Arab music. Programs include popular contemporary arrangements, folk traditions (both well-known and rare) and fusion pieces that integrate styles old and new. Some concerts highlight specific themes such as ceremonial and religious music, women’s traditions, and solo improvisations on the lute-like oud.

www.brooklynartscouncil.org

Micro Museum seeking artists' response to OPPOSITES ATTRACT (Dec 15)

2007-12-14T00:17:00.000-08:00

Micro Museum is offering artists an opportunity to respond to the theme OPPOSITES ATTRACT. Visual Artists can send images directly to executive@micromuseum.com. Please identify artists, name of the work, size and sale price. Micro Museum will publish the exhibit regionally and offer an artist reception. For more information, please visit: Micro Museum.
DEADLINE: December 15th

“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians,” a fund-raiser and print sale benefiting CPJ’s distress fund for journalists

2007-12-07T07:49:00.000-08:00

“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians,” a fund-raiser and print sale benefiting CPJ’s distress fund for journalists, will run from December 3, 2007-February 29, 2008 at Gallery FCB in New York City at 16 West 23rd St., 3rd Floor. The exhibition, curated by Pixel Press, features a selection of photographs by and of Iraqi civilians taken in 2004. There will be an opening reception on December 7, 6-8 PM. November 11 and Friends of Jassim, two organizations working to help local media support workers in Iraq and Afghanistan, are presenting the event.

ICTJ NEW YORK TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE ESSENTIALS COURSE (Feb 25-27)

2007-12-07T06:30:00.001-08:00

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), in partnership with New York University's School of Law, is pleased to announce the New York City-based Essentials Course: a 3-day intensive, non-credit course on transitional justice.

TOPICS

The course covers essential themes, mechanisms, and case studies in the field of transitional justice. It will focus on a range of topics including prosecution mechanisms, truth commissions, reparations programs, vetting mechanisms, and reconciliation initiatives. The course will also explore the intersection between efforts to achieve justice and accountability, and negotiations to ensure sustainable peace.

OBJECTIVE

The course aims to equip busy professionals with the knowledge required to conceive and implement transitional justice policies and programs that are in line with international best practices. The program is primarily targeted at mid-career and senior staff of multilateral agencies, governments, NGOs, foundations, and universities who wish to undertake an intensive course on cutting-edge developments in this important and expanding field.

DATES, LOCATION & COST

This seminar will be held at the Greentree Estate, formally the Whitney family home for nearly one hundred years. The course will be held from February 25-27, 2008.

This course will be taught in English. (An equivalent program is offered in French in Brussels on an ongoing basis).

The cost of the course is $1600 US dollars, payable within 15 business days following admission into the course. Included in the course fee are two nights and three days of full room and board, plus extensive course materials. (Payment arrangements will be described in the acceptance letters.)

INSTRUCTOR

The primary instructor for the course is Paul van Zyl, Executive Vice President at the ICTJ and Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University. Other senior ICTJ staff will also teach part of the course.

MATERIALS

Upon arrival at the course, applicants will receive a resource packet including a CD-ROM of extensive core readings and materials on transitional justice.

TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION

Although the ICTJ does not cover participants' travel, visa, accommodation, or insurance costs, it will provide letters in support of participants' visa applications. All travel and accommodation arrangements must be organized by the participant.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications are due no later than January 14, 2008. Decisions on these applications will be communicated by January 25, 2008. The course will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Due to high demand during previous courses, we now offer an Early Admissions deadline for initial consideration: December 21, 2007. We strongly recommend that all applicants requiring visa support letters use this deadline. Decisions on early applications will be communicated by January 11, 2008.

To apply for the course, please submit a brief cover letter, CV, one reference, and a completed application form http://www.ictj.org/en/workshops/courses/index.html#essentials to the following email address: nyessentials@ictj.org .

Register Now for Arts Advocacy Day 2008

2007-12-06T06:33:00.000-08:00

National Arts Advocacy Day
Capital Hilton Hotel
Washington, DC
March 31–April 1, 2008

Arts Advocacy Training
Congressional Arts Breakfast on Capitol Hill
Meetings with Your Members of Congress

To register, go to:
http://ww2.americansforthearts.org/vango/core/events/eventdetails.aspx?meeting=AAD2008

'REPRESENT BROOKLYN' Call for Entries

2007-12-06T05:52:00.000-08:00

TRA Gallery of Brooklyn, New York is announcing a call to artists for â•˛Represent Brooklyn,â•ˇ an exhibition that is scheduled between April 12th and May 10th 2008. The exhibition is open to painters, photographers, and sculpture artists. Artists must be 18 years or older to apply. In order to be eligible an artist must live in Brooklyn, work in a studio in Brooklyn or be listed as a member of a Brooklyn art association. If the artist does not live or work in Brooklyn, their artwork must be influenced by or have some connection to Brooklyn. Deadline: February 1st, 2008. No entry fee. To download entry form visit www.tragallery.net/Callforentry.html or send SASE to: TRA Gallery, 35 Claver Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Questions? Please contact us at info@therisingartsgallery.com , or 718-498-6082.

Back from Utopia - Human Rights and Cinema in Post-Communist Societies (Dec 6&7)

2007-12-05T06:35:00.000-08:00

An International Conference sponsored by Columbia University's East Central European Center, the University of Bucharest (Faculty of Political Sciences), and RCINY.

The two-day conference brings together academics, activists and filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe who focus in their scientific and artistic endeavor on human rights after the fall of communism.

Political science and political philosophy sometimes fail to grasp the complex human aspects embedded in a society. Film can help compensate that. That is why the event combines theoretical discourse on post-communism with its illustration by means of cinematographic discourse.
(Image: "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu")

Conference program:

Thursday, December 6
12:00 -12:30 Welcome address: John Micgiel, Corina Suteu, Iulia Motoc
Introduction
Professor J. Paul Martin ( Columbia University ): "Human Rights in East Central Europe "
Nick Danziger (photographer, writer, EUIC Venice): "Human Rights and Cinema: a new field of study?’’

12:30 Taxidermia, directed by Gyorgy Palfi, 91 minutes
2:00 Coffee Break

2:15 Solidarnosc, Solidarnosc…, various directors, 113 minutes
4:00 Coffee Break

4:15 Panel Discussion
Chair: Dr. Yuri I. Shevchuk ( Columbia University )
Ewa Turczynska (Independent Motion Pictures): "The Making of Solidarnosc, Solidarnosc..."
Dr. Lauri Malksoo ( Tartu University ): "Soviet Past and Human Rights in Estonian Film"
Professsor Ruth Wedgwood ( John Hopkins University ; UN Human Rights Committee): ’’The transformation of Human Rights in Eastern Europe: a UN Human Rights Committee’s Perspective”
Dr. Ivan Sanders ( Columbia University ): “Gyorgy Palfi and Contemporary Hungarian Cinema"
6:00 Reception

Friday, December 7
2:15 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, directed by Cristi Puiu, 153 minutes

3:45 Panel Discussion
Chair: Paul Kahn ( Yale University )
Alex Leo Serban (‘’Dilema veche’’ journal): "Collecting Stories: Romanian Cinema's New Wave in Cinema"
Dr. Doru Paul ( Weill Cornell University , Respiro Magazine): "An Inconvenient Truth: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Medical Care in Post-Communist Romania "
Dr. Filon Morar: (‘’22’’ journal, diplomat): "Neither angels nor devils: in the pursuit of lost humanity’’

Chair: Corina Suteu (Romanian Cultural Institute New York )
Violeta Krasnic (Witness International): "Human Rights Advocacy and Cinema”’
Dr. Mona Momescu ( Columbia University , Ovidius University ): "The East and the Rest in Post-communist Cinema"
Dr. Maria Zanichelli ( University of Parma ): "Postcommunist cinema: is there a place for a philosophy of human rights?”
5:45 Concluding Remarks, Professor Iulia Motoc ( University of Bucharest , UN Human Rights Committee)
6:15 Reception

Presented films:
Andrzej Wajda & others: "Solidarnosc, Solidarnosc…" ( Poland , 2005)
György Pálfi: "Taxidermia" ( Hungary , 2006)
Cristi Puiu: "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" (Moartea domnului Lazarescu) ( Romania , 2005)

Thursday, December 6, 12-6 pm
Columbia University
Room 1501, International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street , NYC

Friday, December 7, 2-6 pm
RCNY – Auditorium
200 E 38th Street
New York , NY 10016
FREE ADMISSION
For more information contact mmm2120@columbia.edu & icrny@icrny.org

This symposium is presented by Columbia University (South Eastern European Studies Department, Nicolae Iorga Chair for Romanian Studies), University of Bucharest (Faculty of Political Sciences) and Respiro Magazine, in collaboration with RCINY.

The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts - DECEMBER HISPANIC CULTURAL NEWSLETTER

2007-12-04T20:24:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends of The Gabarron Foundation,

We are happy to invite you to our two upcoming photography exhibitions for the month of December, here at The Carriage House. Los Toros- the book presentation and exhibit, is opening tomorrow, December 4th. Our second exhibit, Paco Caparros- Photographic Hierographs will be opening on December 12th and on view through February. In addition, we are pleased to present you with our third edition of our monthly Hispanic Cultural Newsletter. Although the holidays are approaching and winter is finally here, there is still a lot to view and do in New York City this month. Below please find our links to the wonderful happenings that we have selected for your enjoyment and recommend you attend.

All the best,

Cynthia Angel
Operations Manager

The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts
149 East 38th Street New York , NY 11101
Tel. 212-573-6968 Fax. 212-808-9051
www.gabarronfoundation.org info@gabarronfoundation.org

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions in December at The Gabarron Foundation:

LOS TOROS December 4, 2007. The book and Exhibition: Los Toros by photographer Michael Crouser will be presented. The Los Toros book consists of

123 toned silver gelatin images, 18 photos have been selected for the exhibition that will be displayed through December 10th, 2007.

PACO CAPARRóS PHOTOGRAPHIC HIEROGRAPHS, December 12, 2007. Paco Caparros' exhibition is a substantial series of large-format photographs,

a video creation and sound installation formed with writing and light to convey the artist's view of the fascinating city of New York.

The African Holocaust and Colonial Experience: A Dialogue Towards Understanding

2007-12-03T06:46:00.000-08:00

brooklyn--nako symposium:
the african holocaust and colonial experience
=================================

The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations
(NAKO) presents its 19th., Annual Symposium on Culture, Community and Struggle
entitled:

The African Holocaust and Colonial Experience: A Dialogue Towards Understanding.

Invited guest speakers are attorney and professor Howard Jordan, who host's
WBAI (99.5 FM) Jordan Journal. Also poet/essayist Luis Reyes Rivera and host
of WBAI program PERSPECTIVE, and poet, playwright, educator Jesus Papoleto
Melendez. Dr. Marta Vega, President of the Caribbean Cultural Center African
Diaspora Institute, and poet/visual artist Sandra Maria Estevez.

The seminar will discuss the issues of mixed race and national identity,
culture, historical, political, sociological formations and more.

This event will take place on Sunday, December 9, 2007, 3pm to 5pm at
Restoration Plaza; 1368 Fulton St. Restoration Plaza is located in the Bedford
Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York.

Donations are requested.

For directions and all other information, please call (718) 398-1729 or
(718) 523-3312, or email nakoinfogroup@yahoo.com

20th Annual Independent Press Book Fair (Dec 1-2)

2007-11-30T05:43:00.000-08:00

20th-annual Indie & Small Press Book Fair, held at the New York Center for Independent Publishing in midtown Manhattan (20 West 44th St. betw. 5th and 6th Aves).

This year's other programming highlights include Ian MacKaye (from the bands Minor Threat, Fugazi, and The Evens) speaking on independent culture; Tama Janowitz joining Arthur Nersesian in a reading from their iconic 1980s novels ("Slaves of New York" and "The Fuck-Up"); an interview by Ian Svenonius (from the bands Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and Weird War), with underground music photographer Glen E. Friedman, including a slideshow presentation from his recent book "Keep Your Eyes Open"; Amiri Baraka, Hattie Gosset, and Aaron Petrovich reading from their recent work; and much more.

Dozens of great indie publishers will be exhibiting their books and selling them at discounts -- perfect for the holiday season...

Book fair hours: Saturday, December 1st, 10am - 6pm; Sunday, December 2nd, 11am - 5pm. Please visit the NYCIP website ( http://nycip.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/book-fair-program-details/) for a full schedule of weekend programming.

Vigil @ Bergen County Jail for the Rights of Immigration Detainees (Dec 2)

2007-11-29T08:02:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends, please join the Interfaith Coalition for the Rights of
Immigration Detainees and their Families this Sunday Dec.2 in a prayer
vigil in support of immigration detainees held at Bergen County Jail.

LIFTING OUR LAMPS

SUNDAY,

December 2, 2007

Time: 3:00 PM

Meet at Bergen County Jail,

160 River St, (CO. Rd. 503) Hackensack, NJ.

Parking: On-street parking is available west of River St. on E.
Lafayette St., Marion St., and E. Broadway (1 hour only on E. Broadway) ,
between River and Hudson, or in parking lots of commercial buildings on
River Street that are closed on Sundays. DO NOT PARK IN THE JAIL PARKING
LOT on the east side of River St."

FOR VIGIL IN SUPPORT OF IMMIGRANTS DETAINED AT THE BERGEN COUNTY JAIL

* Religious leaders and community members are coming together to
express concerns about detention conditions of immigrants at Bergen
County Jail and in New Jersey County Jails that hold immigrants.

* We will be calling for a "community accountability board" as a
mechanism to provide meaningful oversight that is needed for safe and
humane conditions in New Jersey immigration detention facilities.

For more information call: Rev. Joyce Phipps: 732 748 1111, Juan Carlos
Ruiz: 347 563 3483,

Ed Martone: 609 396 8900 x 22, Clif Arrington: 201 833 8493

(Partial List) Sponsored by the Interfaith Coalition for the Rights of
Immigration Detainees and their Families in partnership with: American
Friends Service Committee, American Civil Liberties Union-New Jersey,
Families For Freedom, New Jersey Association on Correction, Interfaith
Refugee Action Team- Elizabeth, Haiti Solidarity Network of the
Northeast, Jubilee Immigrants' Rights Task Force, Lutheran Office of
Governmental Ministry in New Jersey, Hispanic Development Corporation, New
Jersey Immigration Policy Network, Casa de Esperanza, New Jersey
Association of the United Church of Christ, New Sanctuary Movement, People's
Organization for Progress/Bergen County Branch, Episcopal Diocese of
Newark, Unitarian Society of Ridgewood/Anti-Racism and Peace and Justice
Committees, Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition, Ethical Culture Social
Action Committee ...

Live Colombian Singer LUCIA PULIDO concert benefitting the “SAVE CARLITOS CAMPAIGN” (Nov 29)

2007-11-25T22:07:00.000-08:00

Live CONCERT BENEFITING the “SAVE CARLITOS CAMPAIGN”
9:00 PM @ Carlitos Café y Galeria, 1701 Lexington Avenue, NYC

Sebastián Cruz, guitarra
Sergio Reyes, violin
Lucía Pulido, voz

"BROKEN HEARTED SONGS." Latin American love songs made popular from the thirties to the sixties, by Julio Jaramillo and Cuco Sanchez, among others. The motif of these songs, mainly boleros and waltzes, is the intense pain produced by unrequited love. Lucia breathes new life to this repertoire of grief, pain, deception and heartbreak with a richly nuanced dramaticism that is highly emotionally charged in her performance. The ensemble includes violin, guitar, and bass.

“MUSICA DE DESPECHO”. Ira, descontento, desesperación. Estas canciones exploran un sentido altamente dramático de la voz de Lucía. El repertorio escogido consta de canciones compuestas entre 1930 y 1960 que se dieron a conocer en las voces de Cuco Sánchez y Julio Jaramillo, entre otros. Los temas privilegiados son el duelo del abandono amoroso, la tristeza, el ansia y la imposibilidad del amor no correspondido. Aquí Lucía respeta profundamente el estilo tradicional de las canciones al mismo tiempo que resalta, en ricos y variados matices vocales, el dramatismo de los textos. El ensamble está constituido por violín, guitarra, contrabajo y voz.

CARLITOS CAFÉ Y GALERIA
1701 LEXINGTON AVENUE
Between 106 & 107
NEW YORK, NY 10029
Www.carlitosny.com
212-534-7168

Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of the Artist (Nov 29)

2007-11-13T18:27:00.000-08:00

The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics
http://www.vlc.newschool.edu/

Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of the Artist*
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Action: 300 political asylees languishing in detention 10 miles from the Statue of Liberty

2007-11-11T18:40:00.000-08:00

Not ten miles from the Statue of Liberty there are 300 political asylees languishing in detention.

They have no access to the outside living in a windowless, remodeled warehouse. They are not permitted to have possessions or even their own clothes. One of their only pleasures is corresponding with family and friends. The problem is that the detainees can use only pre-stamped envelopes, which they purchase from the detention center commissary for much more than the 50 cents you can purchase them for at the post office. Many detainees come here with little or no money so it difficult for them to afford the postage.

The detainees look forward to their letters. Says one, 'I frequently read (your) card every single new born day.'

Help us to stamp out their despair.

You can help by donating:

Two-pocket folders (without a buisness logo or clips)
Ruled white paper
Unruled color paper / no construction paper please
Envelopes
Pens (with caps, no springs)
Greeting cards with envelopes
Monetary donations
and most importantly First class national or international postage stamps
Help us meet our goal and collect at least 3000 stamped envelopes so we can send each detainee at least 10! You can purchase the post office pre-stamped envelopes or put a 41 or 90 cent stamp on your own envelope. Send them to First Friends before November 30, 2007 and we will send them to the detainees for the holidays.

This is a great project for your group, class or religious organization!

First Friends: Elizabeth Detention Center Visitors Project

321 South Broad Street

Elizabeth, NJ 07202

Tele: (908) 965-0455

E-Mail: firstfriends2@juno.com

Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday: 9AM to 5PM

Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 10AM to 1 PM

Call to schedule a pick up or a drop off time if needed!

Event @ 16 Beaver - Artificial boundaries: Rethinking communism, looking for revolution, questioning the world around us, being ourselves (Nov 12th)

2007-11-11T14:44:00.000-08:00

NOVEMBER12 at 7PM At 16 Beaver (5 floor) Manhattan, NYC
16 Beaver Group New York, NY 10004 tel/212.480.2093

¡ÈArtificial boundaries or ReBreaking the Wall¡É
Rethinking communism, looking for revolution, questioning the world around us, being ourselves¡É

What: video/performance/installation/presentation/discussion
When: Tuesday, November 12. 7 Pm
Where: 16 Beaver
Who: Free and Open to all

http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/002373.php

YOU ARE MORE THEN WELCOME TO PARTCIPATE!

ô Video installation- performance/talk: Haroutioun Simonian- Video artist and Ignacio Rivera artist, researcher, Sex educator, Sex Therapy, Relationship Coaching
ô ¡ÈConflicts on South Caucasus/ sustainable DEMOCRATIC colonalism¡É presented by Karen Hakobyan, musician, researcher, human rights advocate
ô ¡ÈChechnya: New challenges for human rights: struggles and cases¡É Gistam Sakaeva Human rights advocate from Chechnya

¡ÈThe protest is never local, whatever we do locally to position our protest, we deconstruct the power. We are in network even not being aware about each other, we have solidarity¡Ä we contribute to the WoRld Revolution¡É

We are looking to meet, share and discuss with all those people who are interested in issues of colonization and power, starting from body and space power to the problems of geopolitical colonization and violation in a larger sense. The issues of artificial challenges placed upon individuals and socities all around the world, which result in permanent conflicts and need for liberation of bodies and people.

DIRECTIONS
Trains: 4,5 Bowling Green; N,R Whitehall; 1,2 Wall Street; J,M Broad Street A,C Broadway
16Beaver is east of Bowling Green Park. Between Whitehall &
Broad St . On the corner Beaver & New Street

Ghanaian Filmmaker Socrate Safo at LIU (Nov 15)

2007-11-10T10:50:00.000-08:00

Thursday, November 15, 2007
7 p.m.
Library Learning Center 116

Socrate Safo was one of the pioneers of the West African “video boom” that has revolutionized African film culture. These low-budget feature films from Ghana and Nigeria, shot and sold on video, are sold in many places in Brooklyn, where they have won sizable African-American and Caribbean audiences.

In 1988, at the age of nineteen, without benefit of any formal education as a filmmaker and working with the simplest video equipment and a volunteer cast, Safo made one of the first Ghanaian video films, Unconditional Love. It was a hit, and he has written, directed, and produced some sixty films since, including Ghost Tears, Step Dad, Satan’s Wife, Santo in Concert, Adebrese, Brenya, and Covenant. He is one of the “Big Six” Ghanaian film producers. His films have been shown at festivals and conferences in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Italy, and the US.

His appearance at the Brooklyn Campus is free and open to the public. It is cosponsored by the McGrath Fund, the Department of Media Arts, the Department of English, and the Africana Studies Program. For additional information, contact Jonathan Haynes at jonathan.haynes@liu.edu.

New York's First Contemporary Latin American Art Fair

2007-11-06T13:46:00.001-08:00

PINTA, New York's first contemporary Latin American art fair, will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, November 16-20, 2007.

PINTA will be a unique event exhibiting annually -- for sale through the participating galleries -- the best of Latin American art, coinciding with Christie’s and Sotheby's Latin American art auctions and with important exhibitions in museums and cultural institutions in New York City.

PINTA will be an exclusive fair which will include the participation of only thirty-five select art galleries showing museum-quality works representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art, as well as of other contemporary Latin American art movements.

Participating galleries will feature works in different disciplines by artists such as Waltercio Caldas, José Pedro Costigliolo, Roberto Cortázar, Eduardo Costa, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Danilo Dueñas, León Ferrari, Gego, Arturo Herrera, Carmen Herrera, Juan Iribarren, Alfredo Jaar, Wifredo Lam, Ana María Maiolino, Marco Maggi, Fabián Marcaccio, Ronald Morán, Edgar Negret, Helio Oiticica, José Clemente Orozco, Julio Le Parc, César Paternosto, Rogelio Polesello, Lygia Pape, Liliana Porter, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Omar Rayo, Armando Reverón, Luis Roldán, Mira Schendel, Xul Solar, Jesús Soto, Joaquín Torres García, among others.

Special Programs

PINTA's opening event, a tribute to the Brazilian conceptual artist Waltércio Caldas will take place at The Americas Society on Tuesday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m. Caldas’ lecture and reception
will follow.

The creation of the Pinta Research Fund, a program to fund scholarships for New York University (NYU) advanced students in the field of Latin American Art History will be announced at the Opening Reception. Any donations to contribute with this initiative will be most welcome.

Collector, art patron and philanthropist Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Chairman of the New York City and Caracas - based Fundacion Cisneros is the Honorary Chairperson of PINTA's Host Committee, and Estrellita Brodsky and Gonzalo Parodi are its Co-Chairs.

The Opening Reception, by invitation only, will be held on Thursday, November 15 at 7 p.m., and the fair will open its doors to the public at large on Friday, November 16 at 12 a.m.

The Pinta Museum Acquisitions Program has been created with the aim of incentivating the art market and enhancing museum collections. It will contribute funds to four major museums committed to Latin American art: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Museum Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), El Museo del Barrio (New York) and the Lima Art Museum (MALI).

Principals

PINTA is headed by Diego Costa Peuser, Alejandro Zaia and Mauro Herlitzka. Chairman Alejandro Zaia is also Chair of Conexion PR/ZCM, a public relations firm based in Miami and South America. Diego Costa Peuser, the Fair Director, is currently the publisher of Arte al Día Internacional magazine, and he is also the director of the arteaméricas fair in Miami and of Buenos Aires Photo. Mauro Herlitzka, PINTA's Institutional Director, is the current President of Fundación Espigas.

Dates & Times:
Friday, November 16, noon to 8 pm
Saturday, November 17, noon to 8 pm
Monday, November 19, noon to 8 pm
Tuesday, November 20,noon to 5 pm

Telephone: 305/854-3050

Contacts:

Liana Pérez
Pinta Public Relations Director
liana@pinta-art.com
786/262-1112

Mariangela Capuzzo
Pinta VIP Relations – Americas
mariangela@pinta-art.com
305 527 2046

Dan Schwartz
Media Relations
Susan Grant Lewin Associates
212/947-4557
dan@susangrantlewin.com

For more information visit the PINTA web site – http://www.pinta-art.com

Romanian Cultural Institute - New York: Fresh Romanian Drama + Modernity in Central Europe

2007-11-06T13:01:00.000-08:00

TUE, November 6, 6:30 pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre Center , CUNY Graduate Center
BOOK PARTY: " roMANIA after 2000—Five New Romanian Plays"
" roMANIA after 2000" represents the first anthology of new Romanian drama published in the United States . It introduces American readers to five important emerging playwrights and their plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity, all of whom have already been involved in projects of Romanian-American exchange supported by RCINY:

Stop The Tempo by Gianina Carbunariu
Romania. Kiss Me! by Bogdan Georgescu
Vitamins by Vera Ion
Romania 21 by Peca Stefan
Waxing West by Saviana Stanescu.

Edited by Saviana Stanescu and Daniel Gerould, translation editors: Saviana Stanescu and Ruth Margraff, the anthology is a joint initiative of the Martin E. Segal Theater Centre and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, with support from RCI’s Translation and Publication Program.

The Romanian anthology launch is in good company: BAiT— Buenos Aires in Translation (also published by MESTC) is the result of a collaboration between four of the most important contemporary playwrights from Buenos Aires , pairing them with four cutting-edge US based directors and their ensembles.

A discussion focusing on the translation process will follow the book launch – with Jean Graham-Jones, Daniel Gerould, and Saviana Stanescu.

TUE, November 6, 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309
FREE ADMISSION
Read more about the project here.

WED, November 7, 7 pm | LARK Play Development Center
New Works by Romanian Playwrights of Today
Excerpt readings by Gianina Carbunariu, Peca Stefan and Saviana Stanescu

Building upon their previous visits in the US in the framework of RCINY’s New Drama Support Program (artistic director: Saviana Stanescu), the three Romanian playwrights will also present their most recent work in a reading performance at the LARK Development Play Center.

The readings of Gianina Carbunariu and Peca Stefan are a result of the Artslink Residencies they have been awarded this year, benefiting also from the support of RCINY. The two playwrights work in collaboration with the LARK Play Development Center , and the Long Wharf Theatre, respectively.

A panel discussion will follow the readings: “Play Development in Romania and the U.S. – Deepening the Relationship between Artists and Institutions”, with the participation of Beatrice Basso (Long Wharf Theatre), John Clinton Eisner (LARK Play Development Center), Fritzie Brown (CEC ArtsLink), Oana Radu (Romanian Cultural Institute) & the playwrights.

WED, November 7, 7 pm
LARK Play Development Center
939 Eighth Avenue, Suite 301 (bet 55th and 56th)
New York , NY 10019
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP: www.larktheatre.org, 212-246-2676 x24

November 8-10 | NYPL, South Court Auditorium, Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Meanings of Modernity in Central Europe
An International Symposium

RCINY is a proud partner of this symposium, which addresses the framework for modernism in the region covered by the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and their successor states, from roughly 1890 to 1945.

The symposium is organized is organized by Rose-Carol Washton Long, Steven Mansbach, Matthew S. Witkovsky, and The New York Public Library, Slavic and Baltic Division, on the occasion of the exhibitions:

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 12, 2007–January 13, 2008) &
Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935 (New York Public Library, October 5, 2007–January 27, 2008)

Among the panelists, Carmen Popescu will hold a lecture about 'Building Modernity in the Balkans: Geopolitics and Transculturation in Balkan Architecture 1878-1945' on Saturday, November 10.

See full program at www.icrny.org/modernity.pdf.

THU, Nov 8, 3-5 pm | FRI, Nov 9, 10 am-5:15 pm | SAT, November 10, 10 am-8 pm
The New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium, Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
INSCRIPTION REQUIRED no later than Nov 5 at ecronin@gc.cuny.edu

MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO, MEXICO'S "OTHER CAMPAIGN," AND THE FIGHT AGAINST GENTRIFICATION IN NYC

2007-11-06T12:54:00.000-08:00

Tuesday November 13th, 2007
7-9pm; Room C198
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th ave. (NE corner of 34th st. and 5th Ave)
-event is free but please bring valid photo id for entry

-a presentation featuring members from Movement for Justice in El
Barrio about their participation in the Other Campaign as an
organization fighting against Gentrification and for Dignified Housing
in NYC. The presentation also includes a video of and by MJB members
and a message from Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.

Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB) was founded in 2004 by tenants
working together to defend themselves against abusive landlords. Over
the past three years, MJB has employed media tours, court actions,
protests, and direct actions against landlords, mortgage lenders, and
city institutions to challenge the unjust housing system in El Barrio.
Through this work, MJB has organized 23 building committees and has
350 members. In August of 2005, MJB began studying locally based
social justice movements from around the world in order to better
understand their own struggle in its global and historical context.
The Zapatistas and the Other Campaign were among the movements
studied. Through this process they decided to adhere to the
Zapatistas' Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and, since a
majority of their membership is Mexican, MJB decided to join the Other
Campaign as well. MJB also participated in the first even US Social
Forum in Atlanta this past June. Their session in Atlanta was
attended by over 200 persons from all over the US. Most recently MJB
hosted an Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification last month
that was attended by groups from around the NY region. (See
http://www.narconews.com/Issue47/article2859.html
-event contact person, Mike Menser: morphospace@gmail.com

Sponsored by
The Center for the Study of Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY

Emiko Kasahara @ the Asian Contemporary Art Fair

2007-11-05T07:40:00.001-08:00

First Fridays! @ The Bronx Museum - Celebrating Hip Hop History Month

2007-10-31T11:31:00.000-07:00

BRB: Bronx’s Rap is Back!
Celebrating Hip Hop History Month.
Honoring Bronx’s own Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation

November 2nd, 6:00 pm- 10:00 pm
Free!!! No Cover!!!

Hosted by Jeru The Damaja
www.thedamaja.com

DJ Chela in the 1's and 2's
www.myspace.com/djchela

Patty Dukes and RephStar
www.myspace.com/rephstar
www.myspace.com/pattydukesnyc

Rebel Diaz
www.myspace.com/rodstarz
www.myspace.com/lahtere

LF ( Brazil )
www.myspace.com/eliefi

Meswy ( Spain )
www.myspace.com/meswy

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse @ 165th St. Bronx
D & B Train to 167 St/Grand Concourse
4 Train to Yankee Stadium

www.bronxmuseum.org

First Fridays! are organized by The Bronx Museum of
the Arts in collaboration with Asho Productions, Inc

CAMBA’S REFUGEE, ASYLEE & IMMIGRANT PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM

2007-10-18T05:33:00.001-07:00

Ø What: The Refugee, Asylee and Immigrant Professional Training Program is designed to provide mid-level professionals with the knowledge, skills and resources in order to navigate difficult U.S. systems related to professional and vocational licensure processes.

The training will introduce, train upon and provide individuals a toolkit on the topics of:

1. Evaluation Services
2. U.S. Education Systems
3. Vocational Training Programs
4. Professional Language Programs
5. Certification Processes
6. Alternatives to Certification
7. Other Tools for Professional Development

The program will guide professionals through the steps outlined in the curriculum to save individuals time, money and stress. The training is designed to allow students to meet key figures in the licensure process and connect with other professionals in similar situations.

Ø Who: The training is open to all mid-level professionals as an introduction to U.S. systems.

Ø When: A training is scheduled to begin on November 5th. Classes will be held on Monday evenings, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM, for seven weeks.

Ø Where: The classroom training will take place at CAMBA’s offices at 884 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn .

For more information or to schedule an intake interview, please contact
Katherine at 718-282-0108 x273 or katherined@camba.org

Katherine Davison
Refugee Professional Training Program Coordinator
2211 Church Avenue #200
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 282-0108 Ext 273

2008 BKLYN DESIGNS: Call for Exhibitors

2007-10-18T05:30:00.000-07:00

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce that the sixth annual BKLYN DESIGNS™ will be held May 9 - 11, 2008 in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The application to exhibit at the 2008 show is now available for download on www.bklyndesigns.com.

BKYLN DESIGNS is New York's hottest, juried exhibition of contemporary furnishings, lighting, and accessories designed and/or made in Brooklyn. Presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the show was created in 2003 to promote an emergent design and fabrication niche of Brooklyn's creative sector. Today it has become a mainstay on the international design calendar, with the 2007 show drawing over 6,500 attendees over the course of a three-day weekend.

The fifth anniversary 2007 show was our largest to date, featuring 65 exhibitors in three main venues, off-site exhibits throughout the borough's downtown area, and a stellar lineup of keynotes, demonstrations, and designer panels. Speakers included Ralph Pucci, Ralph Pucci International; Annie Block, Interior Design; Susan Szenasy, Metropolis; and Michael Cannell, Dwell.

Plans are already underway for the 2008 show, which will again feature a special focus on sustainable design. Be sure to check www.bklyndesigns.com for updates, and to spread the word about the exhibitor application.

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!

New York Screenings of 'India Untouched'

2007-10-17T05:02:00.000-07:00

18th October: Screening of "India Untouched" at the Hamptons International Film Festival. It will be shown at 13:00 at the United Artists Cinema, 30 Main Street, East Hampton. Please forward this information to those who are interested and they can buy tickets from the box office at East Hampton Historical Society, 101 Main Street (on Route 27, across from the Huntting Inn). www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

10th November: 12:30 Screening of India Untouched at the Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival, AMC Loews, 19th Street & Broadway, NY. www.iaac.us

GRANTS FOR GRASSROOTS GROUPS: The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (info session dates)

2007-10-16T04:46:00.000-07:00

GRANTS FOR GRASSROOTS GROUPS

The Presbyterian Committee on the

Self-Development of People

for groups who:

Are oppressed by racism, poverty or other social systems
Have a project that will address the problems they are facing
Will control this project themselves and benefit directly from it
Have decided that what they are going to do will bring long-term improvements to their lives and communities

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS - 2007

Thursday, November 8 7:00 - 9:00 pm

The Bronx: Soundview Presbyterian Church

760 Soundview Avenue @ Lafayette Avenue

Friday, November 9 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Manhattan: St. Mary's Episcopal Church

521 West 126th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

Saturday, November 10 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Queens: 1st Presbyterian Church of Jamaica

89-60 164th Street (between 89th Avenue and Jamaica Avenue)

Saturday, November 10 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Brooklyn Flatbush Reformed Church/Bethel Presbyterian Reformed Church

890 Flatbush Avenue

The workshop will explain the Self-Development of People program, how it works, what qualifies a group for funding and the application process.

Spread the Word!

RSVP : 212-870-2221 ext. 4249 arawlings@presbynyc.org

Nuyorican Poets Cafe & O.P.Art presents Alfonso Muñoz photography

2007-10-14T16:43:00.000-07:00

Nuyorican Poets Cafe - O.P.Art

presents
Alfonso Muñoz photography

OPENING RECEPTION
wednesday, october 17, 2007
5:30pm - 8:00pm

exhibition fall 2007
curator luis carle op-art.org

nuyorican poets cafe
236 east 3rd. street
between avenues B and C
new york, ny. 10009
tel. 212.505.8183
www.nuyorican.org

Reporting on Immigration and Immigrants - 10.24 - Columbia School of Journalism

2007-10-10T16:08:00.000-07:00

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

presents

POINTS OF ENTRY: Reporting on Immigration and Immigrants

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
5:30 7:00 pm

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer World Room
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY

With debate over immigration roiling America, what stories are
being told - and what stories overlooked? Do immigrant
communities' voices get heard? What special challenges confront
journalists covering the daily lives of immigrants and refugees?

Panelists include:

Nina Bernstein, reporter, The New York Times

Don Bartletti , photojournalist, The Los Angeles Times

Gaiutra Bahadur, Niemen Fellow, former reporter, The Philadelphia
Inquirer

Merta Ojito, Assistant Professor, Columbia Journalism School, and
former reporter at The New York Times , The Miami Herald, and El
Nueva Herald

Moderator: Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for
Journalism and Trauma

Please RSVP to Kate Black at kate.black@dartcenter.org

Funded by the Dart Foundation of Mason, Michigan, the Dart Center
is dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and
tragedy. The Center also addresses the consequences of such
coverage for those working in journalism. The Dart Center develops
educational resources for use in journalism schools and news
organizations, provides training and conducts research about news
coverage of violence.

NYC March for Peace (Oct 27)

2007-10-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 27: Giant NYC Peace March to Stop the War on Iraq and to prevent a new war against Iran

www.brooklynpeace.org

Bed-Stuy Alive Kick-Off Celebration! (Oct 11)

2007-10-09T04:07:00.000-07:00

You are cordially invited to attend the
2007 Kick-Off of our Third Annual BED-STUY ALIVE!
We are honoring
Delores Inniss-Carty, Violet Chandler and Otto Neals
for their outstanding contributions to the cultural heritage
of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 w 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Restoration Plaza â€“ Outdoor Tent
1368 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11216

For more information, please contact Ms. Beryl Nyack,
Community Board No. 3 w Mon-Fri 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
718*622-6601

Invitation from Commissioner Patricia Gatling of the NYC Commission on Human Rights (Oct 30)

2007-10-08T08:01:00.000-07:00

October 4, 2007

Dear Friend:

Please join me for a special program welcoming Dr. Roland G. Fryer, Jr., on Tuesday, October 30, 2007, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Dr. Fryer will discuss his work with us following his address entitled: "Science for Social Change: Understanding the Racial Achievement Gap."

Dr. Fryer is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and jointly serving as Chief Equality Officer for the NYC Department of Education. He is also Associate Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and a former Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has published on a wide range of topics including: causes and consequences of distinctively black names, affirmative action, the impact of the crack cocaine epidemic, racial differences in life expectancy, attending historically black colleges and universities, and 'acting white.' At the NYC Department of Education, Dr. Fryer is reviewing the equitable distribution of resources in the public school system and implementing a program to increase student motivation, learning, and achievement in some of NYC's lowest performing
schools.

The Commission is proud to recognize Dr. Fryer's influential and bold thinking on racial inequality by sponsoring this reception and public forum for community leaders from throughout the city to learn more about his initiatives – from making our schools work for all our students to understanding what it means to be black in America.

Enclosed you will find a few invitation cards to share with friends and colleagues who would be interested in this discussion with Dr. Fryer. Since space is limited, please RSVP to our office by calling 212-306-7560.

I look forward to seeing you on October 30th.

Very truly yours,
Patricia L. Gatling
Commissioner and Chair
NYC Commission on Human Rights
40 Rector Street, 10th
New York, NY 10006

Affordable Art Auction, Open Bar, Mixer for Mexican artists and activists

2007-10-05T14:07:00.001-07:00

Support Art for Change and Buy Tickets TODAY for our annual fundraiser to celebrate art, activism, and social justice. If having an opportunity to network with amazing people is not enough, we will also have an incredible and very affordable art auction, open bar, live music, DJ liberation sound and more . Plus we will have gift bags for everyone! Only $30 if you buy your tickets in advanced. Attached is a picture of one of the pieces that will be auctioned off by artist Dulce Pinzon, who exhibited in our exhibition "Bushboozled: 4 Terrorfying Years of Domestic Policy!"

purchase your tickets for Art Beats 2007 today at: www.nycharities.org by entering Art for Change or call 212-348-7044. Visit our website at: artforchange.org

Friday, October 19, 2007
7:00 PM
The Julia de Burgos Cultural Art Center
1680 Lexington Avenue at 106th street
Advance Purchase $30

The Laundromat Project and artHARLEM present Sarah Kolker (Oct '07)

2007-10-03T14:40:00.000-07:00

Saturday, October 6 (12-6pm)
Pelham Fritz Recreation Center in Marcus Garvey Park
18 Mt. Morris Park West near 122nd St.

Sunday, October 7 (1-6pm)
The Laundry Room
143 116th Street (btwn Lenox and Seventh Ave)

Combining text, tiles, glass, grout, and paint, Sarah will be installing two mosaic projects in Harlem this weekend. Join her. You can help Sarah finish both works-- learning more about the mosaic process firsthand...or just stop by to see public art in action. Light refreshments served. FREE and open to all ages.

Each year The Laundromat Project, Inc. organizes Create Change, a program for artists of color to mount public art projects at their local laundry. Sarah Kolker, a 2007 Create Change artist, is installing two mosaic works in her Harlem neighborhood-- one at The Laundry Room and another at Marcus Garvey Park. As part of the Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, you can see her process in action. Sarah has already begun collaborating with her neighbors to produce both mosaics. Over the summer she enlisted the help of young people from the Association to Benefit Children and Pelham Fritz Rec Center. Together they created a series of tiles documenting what they want to see thirty years from now-- not only for themselves, but also for Harlem as a community.

Sarah Kolker's creative process focuses on healing, self-empowerment and social change. Believing that participatory projects can build community and improve the physical environment Sarah works as a muralist and mosaic artist.

The Laundromat Project is a non-profit arts organization committed to making visual art more accessible to communities of color living on low incomes. To learn more about who we are and what we do, visit www.laundromatproject.org or sign up for our mailing list by sending your name and contact information to info@laundromatproject.org

Create Change is an annual program where artists of color are commissioned to develop public art projects for their local laundromats. Create Change 2007 has been made possible by The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Puffin Foundation, Materials for the Arts, and the generosity of individual donors. Special thanks to Prince Hunt and George Michael at The Laundry Room; Hakeem Omolade and Tuwanda Ruffin at Pelham Fritz; and Rudy Shepherd.

artHARLEM is a community based not-for-profit organization that manages H.O.A.S.T. (Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour) and other curatorial events throughout New York City. Its events showcase the works of the artists of Harlem.

www.laundromatproject.org

WASH CLOTHES :: MAKE ART :: BUILD COMMUNITY

Proteus Gowanus invites you to the yearlong interdisciplinary exhibit "Play"

2007-10-01T22:24:00.000-07:00

Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street @ Nevins Street Gate
Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.proteusgowanus.com
info@proteusgowanus.com
718-243-1572

It is with great excitement that we launch our 2007/2008
interdisciplinary theme “Play” at Proteus Gowanus. This year we
will
explore the versatile meanings of “Play,” investigating its
history
and future as the bedrock of culture; its regenerative power as the
creative basis of every discipline and as the spark that ignites the
child’s imagination; and its darker role in our
entertainment-obsessed
culture. The exhibit will include an array of play-related art,
artifacts, objects, books and events (Check our website
www.proteusgowanus.com for details), and will unfold over the course of

the year generated by suggestions of visitors to the gallery, a growing

number of “PG Correspondents,” and by the rich interdisciplinary
resources of nine collaborating non-profit organizations.

Play Participants include: Rosaire Appel, Gerard Barbot, The Brooklyn
Museum Library, Cabinet Magazine, Ted Chafee, Heather Chaplin, Chris
Cogburn, Donn Davis, Susan Dunkerley, Joanna Ebenstein, The Gowanus
Dredgers Canoe Club, Marty Greenbaum, Melissa Henley, Karen Hewitt, The

Kentler International Drawing Space Satellite Flatfile of Contemporary
Prints, Halona Hilbertz , Pahl Hluchan, Sharon Horvath, Leslie Kerby,

Jenni Knight, Tom La Farge, Jeanne Liotta, Desi Minchillod, David
Moore/Bing and Ruth, Place in History, Shervone Nichols, Debra
Pearlman, Alan Rosner, Lance Rutledge, Sally Sturman, The Institute For

Figuring, Dan Torop, Ugly Duckling Presse, Paulus Van Horne, Vertical
Player Repertory, Wendy Walker, Jane Zweibel, 99 Hooker.

The Artistsbook Library: Eileen Arnow-Levine, Carol Barton, Mindy
Belloff, Doug Beube, Mark Staff Brandl, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Catya

Plate, Libby Clarke, Lucinda Cobley, Beatrice Coron, Maureen Cummins,
Sandra C. Fernandez, Anne Gilman, Geoff Green, Martha Haydn, Bob Heman,

Susan Hensel, Kumi Korf, David Lantow, Andre Lee, Jill Mckeown,
Veronica Morgan, Florence Neal, Heidi Neilson, Susan Newmark, Sarah
Nicholls, Donna Maria Perkins, Amee Pollack Laurie Spitz, Purgatory Pie

Press - Dikko Faust and Esther Smith, Evelyn Eller Rosenbaum, Maddy
Rosenberg, Susan Rotolo, Elsie Sampson, Miriam Schaer, Susan Share,
Shirley Sharoff, Carolyn Shattuck, Robbin Ami Silverberg, Karina
Aguilera Skvirsky, Micki Watanabe Spiller, April Vollmer, Debra Weier.

From Japan (with Love) @ Le Gran Dakar - Opens Oct. 13

2007-10-01T10:27:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 718-622-3432 or 347-515-4044 October 13 – October 30, 2007
Opening reception: October 13, 6pm – 8 pm

DAKAR ARTS presents:

From Japan (with Love)

the first in a series of impressions from travels in Japan

paintings by Fulbright Fellowship Travel Grant recipient

Nikita Hunter

In March 2005, Brooklyn artist, Nikita Hunter, was invited to study the culture and traditions of Japan by the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund. It was a profound experience for Nikita and it has generated several groups of paintings and sketches in a fluid and expressive style that is truly her own. This exhibition will provide an insight into her process of integrating her complex cultural background and interests with her visit to Japan.

Nikita Hunter grew up in Detroit, Michigan but now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She has had formal training at Interlochen Arts Academy, a high school for the arts, and has majored in painting at Syracuse University. Her focus in painting is her identity formed by the sum of diverse cultural experiences. Ms. Hunter’s works and announcements have been published in the Art Review a Syracuse University art magazine and Art in America. Her paintings have been displayed in juried shows at Interlochen Arts Academy, Syracuse University’s Lowe Art Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery in New York, SONYA/Brooklyn Academy of Music Group Show, PhatLiterature (a public access cultural and literary television show), NRG Magazine, and the 2006 SONYA Artists Annual Winter Auction. Most recently, Ms. Hunter’s work was used to advertise Venus by the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Suzan Lori-Parks, for the Cleveland Public Theatre. Ms. Hunter’s works have been shown in various U.S. cities and is featured in a French documentary based on Saartjie Baartman’s life filmed and produced by French filmmaker, Nora Aguerguan.

This exhibition is curated by Alexander Hansson and Anders Knutsson

Location: Grand Dakar, 285 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Hours: noon – midnight (closed Mondays)

Directions: G to Classon - C to Clinton-Washington, B38 to Grand Ave

Iranian journalist and blogger Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, 1st International Journalist in Residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

2007-10-01T08:18:00.000-07:00

Roozbeh Mirebrahimi fled Iran after facing charges that arose from his writings critical of fundamentalists and conservatives in the Iranian regime. He is chief editor of the online magazine, Iran dar Jahan (Iran in the World), and is a contributor to online newspapers that circumvent the censorship and intimidation of reporters in Iran. He has written four books and is writing another about the first prime minister after the Islamic revolution in Iran.

Oct 5: First Fridays! @ The Bronx Museum produced by CIAC Artist-in-Community, Ariel Fernandez

2007-10-01T05:28:00.000-07:00

Join us for our new series on the first Friday of every month featuring film and videos screenings, art performances, music and other special events!

October 5, 2007, 6.00 pm-10.00 pm

Free!!! No Cover!!!

Beyond the Caribbean: Unconventional Tropicalisms

Presenting a night of new voices and sounds from a new generation of artists born and raised in the Caribbean Diaspora and transplanted to New York City. A showcase that demonstrates why we need to re-think the Caribbean beyond stereotypes and cultural clichés.

Hosted by DJ Laylo. (Liberation Lounge)
www.myspace.com/djlaylo
www.myspace.com/liberationlounge

Aja-Monet (HBO’s Def Poetry-Spoken Word),
www.myspace.com/madamemonet

Okai (Emcee)
www.myspace.com/okainyc

San Juan Hill Band (Afro-Latin Soul Music)
www.myspace.com/sanjuanhill

'Land Grab' @ Apexart

2007-09-29T09:50:00.000-07:00

PRESS RELEASE

Land Grab
November 7 - December 22, 2007

Opening: Wednesday, November 7, 6-8 pm

Curated by
Sarah Lookofsky and Lillian Fellmann

Participating artists: Leyla Cárdenas, Jens Haaning, John Hawke, Albert Heta, Søren Holm Hvilsby and Pernille Skov, Sejla Kameric, Lasse Lau, Dan Perjovschi, Recetas Urbanas, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Michael Smith and Joshua White, Lars Vilks

What does it mean to occupy a piece of land today? As real estate prices have skyrocketed, it is increasingly difficult to sustain a space. The artworks in Land Grab explicitly concern the claiming and naming of a piece of land. The artists in the exhibition relate to a long history of artistic practices in which the site of placement is intrinsic to the piece itself. However, in opposition—or precisely as a response to—much work of the '60s and '70s, these pieces do not consider unused or abandoned territories as a "blank slate" where the artwork can properly come into its own. Moreover, no work in the show involves an actual real estate acquisition. Instead, every piece acknowledges that no relationship to land is apolitical, thereby paying specific attention to socioeconomic, historical and political contexts that are always bound up with the specificities of topography.

For further information, see our upcoming programming.

Please join us.
All events are open to the public and free.
Gallery hours are Tues - Sat, 11-6.

apexart
291 Church Street, NYC, 10013
t. 212 431 5270
www.apexart.org

By subway: 6, A, C, E, N, R, Q, W, J, M, Z to Canal or 1 to Franklin.

PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, opens on October 27 in New York City

2007-09-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

PERFORMA07, the second biennial of new visual art performance, opens on October 27 in New York City, launching a four-week program of performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposia, and live events including ten major PERFORMA Commissions by Carlos Amorales, Sanford Biggers, Nathalie Djurberg, Japanther, Isaac Julien, Daria Martin, Kelly Nipper, Adam Pendleton, Yvonne Rainer, and Francesco Vezzoli. PERFORMA07 features the work of over ninety international artists at more than fifty leading cultural institutions and venues throughout the city, with the participation of more than thirty curators, and is organized under the artistic direction of its founder, RoseLee Goldberg.

PERFORMA07 will open with a special premiere of a new PERFORMA Commission by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In his first ever live performance, Vezzoli will present a restaging of Cosi' e (se vi pare,) or Right You Are (If You Think You Are), the renowned play by Luigi Pirandello, which implicates the audience in its examination of celebrity while also pointing to the relativity of truth, the necessity of illusion, and the instability of the human persona. The evening will begin with a Gala Dinner, to benefit PERFORMA, hosted by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. Tickets for the dinner can be reserved by calling (212) 366-5700.

ARTISTS:
Vito Acconci / David Adamo / Carlos Amorales / Ei Arakawa & Amy Sillman / Are You Meaning Company / Fia Backström / Ronnie Bass / Jérôme Bel / Tamy Ben-Tor / Sanford Biggers / Ulla von Brandenburg / Pablo Bronstein / Trisha Brown / Tania Bruguera / James Lee Byars / Kabir Carter / Dimitri Chamblas / Boris Charmatz / Cheapcream / Zoila Imaculada de la Concepción / Douglas Coupland / Tom Cole & Lovett/Codagnone / Tony Conrad / Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci / Nick Curris (aka Momus) / Philippe Decouflé / Nathalie Djurberg / Pete Drungel / Nicolás Dumit Estévez / Emilio Fantin / Ryan Gander / Gang Zhao / Rainer Ganahl / Grand Union / Nicolas Guagnini / Deborah Hay / He Yunchang / Karl Holmqvist / Hans Isaksson / International Festival / Christian Jankowski / Joan Jonas / Japanther / Isaac Julien & Russell Maliphant / Allan Kaprow / Alison Knowles / Elke Krystufek / Tove Leffler / Shaun El C. Leonardo / Long March Collective / Daria Martin / Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 01001011101011 01.org) / Dave McKenzie / Meredith Monk / Robert Morris & Stan VanDerBeek / My Barbarian / Bruce Nauman / Maurizio Nannucci / Luigi Negro / Kelly Nipper / Giancarlo Norese / Michael Northam / Darren O’Donnell / Yoko Ono / Serkan Özkaya / Adam Pendleton / Mai-Thu Perret / Cesare Pietroiusti / Michael Portnoy / Emilio Prini / Qiu Zhije / Yvonne Rainer / Robert Rauschenberg / Aïda Ruilova / Jelena Rundqvist / Carolee Schneeman / Second Front / Dexter Sinister / Markus Schinwald & Oleg Soulimenko / Snöfrid / Barbara Sukowa & The X-Patsys / Elaine Summers / Emily Sundblad / Eva Svuje / Min Tanaka / TM Sisters / Tomas Vanek / Francesco Vezzoli / Emily Sundblad / Marianne Vitale & Agathe Snow / Tris Vonna-Michell / Jennifer Walshe / Lawrence Weiner / Michael Williams & Melissa Brown / Ian Wilson / Xu Zhen / + MORE

PERFORMA07 CONSORTIUM:
Anthology Film Archives / Artists Space / Art in General / Art Radio WPS1.org / Aperture Foundation / Baryshnikov Arts Center / The Bronx Museum of the Arts / Brooklyn Academy of Music / China Institute / Creative Time / Dance New Amsterdam / Dance Theater Workshop / DISPATCH / The Drawing Center / Electronic Arts Intermix / Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts / The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Japan Society / The Jewish Museum / The Judson Memorial Church / The Kitchen / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / The Museum of Arts and Design / Museum of Chinese in the Americas / New York University / Participant, Inc. / Performance Space 122 / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / SculptureCenter / The Studio Museum in Harlem / Storefront for Art and Architecture / Swiss Institute--Contemporary Art / WFMU 91.1FM-NYC and http://www.wfmu.org / White Box / White Columns / The Whitney Museum of American Art / WPS1 Art Radio / + MORE

ADDITIONAL VENUES:
590 Madison (The Atrium) / The Box / Columbia University / Dance New Amsterdam / Dexter Sinister / Freemans / The Highline Ballroom / The Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel / Passerby / The New School / Second Life / Stephan Weiss Studio / World Financial Center / The Zipper Theater / + MORE

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES:
Canada / Chambers Fine Art / Deitch Projects / Fruit and Flower Deli / Greene Naftali Gallery / James Cohan Gallery / Metro Pictures / Salon 94 / Smith-Stewart / + MORE

PERFORMA07 BIENNIAL FUNDING & SPONSORS:
PERFORMA Commissions and PERFORMA07 programs are supported by grants from the Toby Devan Lewis Philanthropic Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the David & Elaine Potter Charitable Trust, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Fundación/Colección Jumex, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, IASPIS, Altria Group, Inc., New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation, Dena Foundation, Bloomberg L.P., the Moon and Stars Project, Goethe-Institut New York, Austrian Cultural Forum, the PERFORMA Producer's Circle, the PERFORMA Visionaries, and many generous individuals. Sponsors include: Time Out New York, Grolsch, Millennium Hotels, Christiania, and Fazioli.

A complete program of events and full ticketing information is available at http://www.performa-arts.org

Ribbon Cutting: Myrtle Avenue Apartments feature work of Bara Diokhane and 5 Bedford Academy Students working w/ CIAC

2007-09-27T16:53:00.000-07:00

Myrtle Avenue Apartments
A joint venture of Dunn Development Corp. and
Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corp.
Ribbon-Cutting
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
10 am – 12 noon
854 Myrtle Avenue
between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues
Brooklyn, New York
Refreshments will be served
Please RSVP to Alma Cox at 718-453-9490 or acox@nebhdco.org.

Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents

2007-09-19T18:44:00.000-07:00

September 28 - December 14, 2007
BAC Gallery
111 Front Street, Suite 218
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Directions
F train to York Street

Opening Reception: Friday, September 28th from 6 - 8pm. Free beer will be generously provided by Kelso of Brooklyn. While you're in DUMBO, check out the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival!

Open House: Saturday, September 29, 1-4pm (Sheryl Oring performance I Wish to Say , 1:30-3pm)

Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents explores the notion of site as physical location, cultural debate, and discursive exchange, and includes work by Malin Abrahamsson, Michelle Levante, Ethan Levitas, Greg Lindquist, Sara Macel, Cheryl Molnar, Lucas Monaco, Iviva Olenick, Sheryl Oring and Dhanraj Emanuel, Isaac Paris, Carolina Salguero, Karen Schoellkopf, Smudge Studio, and Michele Valdez. The artwork featured in Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents was culled from BAC’s Online Registry of Brooklyn Artists by curators Lauren Schell Dickens and Julie McKim.

http://brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/677

Food Security & Cooking Demo Event in Bed-Stuy (Oct 6)

2007-09-18T05:05:00.000-07:00

'Les Dollo de Dini' Photographs from Mali by Philippe Dollo @ Dakar Restaurant

2007-09-18T04:31:00.000-07:00

CIAC Artist-in-Community - Ariel Fernandez - Launches First Fridays! @ The Bronx Museum (Sept 14 & 16)

2007-09-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 14, 7pm

Fall Outdoor Screening

PERFORMANCE: Afro-Brazilian Folkloric Dance by GRUPO RIBEIRO
Andrew Freedman Home (1125 Grand Concourse at McClellan Street )

Rain Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2nd Floor

7pm Performance, 8pm Screening

Admission: Free

A series of short films from Africa and Latin America featuring some of the brightest filmmakers who are working today. They explore the themes of love, mystery, revenge and tradition, and open the universal field of life upon the screen.

FILM PROGRAM:
Mare Capoeira.Paola Barreto, Brazil, 2005, 15min.
Mama Put. Seke Somolu, Nigeria, 2006, 30min.
Ousmane (Deweneti). Dyana Gaye, France / Senegal , 2006, 15min.
The Chess of Colors. Marco Schiavon, Brazil , 2004, 23min.

Sunday, September 16, 2007, 2 – 6 pm

Open House for Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside Exhibition

@ The Bronx Museum

Music by DJ David Medina .

Admission: Free

For the first major survey of Quisqueya Henríquez’s work in the United States , The Bronx Museum will present a selection of sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, videos, and light/sound works spanning the last two decades of the artist’s career. The Cuban-Dominican multi-disciplinary artist uses a wide variety of genre and media to engage the viewer in reexamining issues related to the environment and its role in the production of cultural clichés. In works such as Helado de Agua de Mar Caribe (Caribbean Seawater Ice Cream) (2002), she humorously addresses the stereotype of the Caribbean as a “hot-blooded” individual. Through her work, Quisqueya Henríquez invokes the sights, sounds, tastes, and textures of the city—all the sensory experiences that make urban life chaotic and provocative.

SECOND LINE Closing Party This Week With Art From Louisiana! {09.13.2007}

2007-09-14T06:16:00.000-07:00

SECOND LINE Closing Party This Week With Art From Louisiana!

{09.13.2007}

*** Check out the Events Calendar at:
http://adhocart.org/index.php?option=com_eventcal&Itemid=26
for more details and a comprehensive list of the goods.

Peruse Peripheral Media Project's updated & ever-evolving website.
Complete with sitings of Plan D Clothing in the wild on DJ Dedos, Macaulay
Culkin, Marco Benevento, JFJO, STS9 and others. Check them out at
http://www.peripheralmediaprojects.com/sitings/ and send pictures
you're sharing to info@peripheralmediaprojects.com.

1} Fri. Sep 14: Second Line Closing Reception 6pm-11pm
2} Sun. Sep 16: PMP Live At Conflux
3} Fri. Sep 21: This Side Of Light Opening Party 7pm-11pm
4} Future Shows: a} Dennis McNett's "Gimme Metal" in October; b} PMP's
2-year anniversary in November; c} Blockbuster-supremo show in December
with the world's greats and more...
5} AHA & PMP love Interns and/or Volunteers. Contribute materials &
help create something interesting!
6} Directions for transporting yourself to AHA.

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.: And now, THE DETAILS :.

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Second Line Closing Reception
Friday, 09/14/07 06:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Free and open to the public. Donations accepted for Louisiana
charities. In conjunction with the Williamsburg Gallery Association's After
Hours

6:30 PM film screenings
"All on a Mardi Gras Day" by Royce Osborn
"Protecting New Orleans" and by Bongiorno Productions,
"Holdout" by Brent Joseph
"Electric Swamp" by Mr. Quintron & Miss Pussycat
"Takashi Horisaki's Social Dress New Orleans" by Ambarish Manepalli

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CONFLUX FESTIVAL 2007

Dates: Thursday, September 13 - Sunday, September 16, 2007

Find Garrison and Ray of Peripheral Media Projects near The Change You
Want to See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer Street (Brooklyn)

www.confluxfestival.org

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This Side of Light Opening Party
Friday, 09/21/07 07:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Featuring work by:

Daniel Abramovich
www.abramobastik.com
His inimitable style is a product of his hypersensitivity and his
nsatiable curiosity. Today, he plies his craft across numerous media.
Whether digital, acrylic, film, ink or music, the constant for Daniel is a
sort of pleasurable aggression, which is perhaps most apparent in is
painting's severe line work, natural drips and bold colours.

Rahul Alexander
http://ralexander.chroma.org
I work through a process of collection, documentation, and narrative. I
selectively pick out images from a variety of personal photographs,
found patterns, and magazine clippings from the 1940's and 50's. These
facilitate a process of markmaking as they arematerially reduced,
repeated, and recombined on paper using wax, lithography, and oil paint. I'm
interested in the subvert reconstitution of imagery as they are
developed into narrative forms within the scale of personal document.

John Breiner
www.johnbreiner.blogspot.com
I was born in 1980 in Poughkeepsie NY. Growing up I was heavily
influenced by Graffiti and Hip-Hop, as well as Skateboarding and Comics. At 18
I headed south to NYC to attend the School Of Visual Arts. There I
learned a variety of techniques in Painting, Photography and Print making,
All the While keeping the freedom, efficiency and style I had acquired
from graffiti. Today I reside in Brooklyn NY where I work, on
Drawings, Paintings, Books, Murals, clothing, music, as well as curating shows
and an occasional illustration or Album cover. My Work has been shown
in a number of galleries both here and abroad, as well as featured in a
variety of publications and art Collections.

With Guest DJs

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Future Shows :

4a} Dennis McNett returns for an all-METAL-inspired opening October 6th
with GIMME METAL

4b} Peripheral Media Projects celebrates its 2nd Year Anniversary in
November with an art show, a party, and other secret treats to surprise

4c} This show is a must-see if there ever was one. Peripheral Media
Projects, Ad Hoc Art, & The Flower Guy are very pleased to bring you some
of the globe's most amazing artists.

The current confirmed lineup is:

Skewville
Momo
ellis g.
Martha Cooper
Dan Witz
Lister
Jace
Judith Supine
Mark Jenkins
G
eltono
nuria
Flying Fortress
Caleb Neelon
Leon Reid
l'atlas
tofer
ELC
Elbow Toe
Blek le Rat
Obey
Don Fekner & Don Leight
Michael De Feo

More to be come, that's for sure.

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Do you have the desire to help build and support grassroots creativity?

If you like what we're up to and are up for contributing your ideas and
skills, please join us. Ad Hoc Art and Peripheral Media Projects love
working with people that share what they are passionate about as well
as their interests and abilities. Please send correspondence to
{info@adhocart.org or info@peripheralmediaprojects.com } to discuss ways
of working together or visit {
http://adhocart.org/pages/home/interns-and-volunteers.php}

If you are currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program,
we are looking for Fall & Winter interns. Check with your school and us
to make it happen.

We have a Wish List together on the www.adhocart.org site. If you have
things that you think might be useful for a graphic design &
silkscreen shop and gallery, please let us know or check out the site to see for
what we're looking.
{ http://adhocart.org/pages/home/wish-list.php }

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Ad Hoc Art is open Wednesday through Sunday, 1PM til 8PM, and by
appointment.

Physical/Mailing Address:
49 Bogart Street
Buzzer 22, Unit 1G
Brooklyn, NY 11206

To get to Ad Hoc Art:

VIA SUBWAY:
Take L train to Morgan Avenue stop (6th stop into Brooklyn).

Mon-Fri you can exit at rear (coming from Manhattan) of train through
Bogart St. exit. Turn Right out of station and walk one block.

Sat-Sun exit front of train, take all Rights out of station, take first
Right
above ground (Grattan Street) and walk back one block to Bogart Street.

The space is painted red located next to The Archive coffee shop and
Brooklyn's Natural.

VIA LAND:
Mapquest the addy or call us, the streets are screwy out in the wild
west.

Online: http://adhocart.org
e-mail: info@adhocart.org

VIA AIR:
Fly over the greater NYC area, preferrably over the East Williamsburg
Industrial Park area {look for cement mixers, waste transfer stations,
wontons factories, and Boarshead trucks}. Pull your shute at 500+ feet,
point your glider, adjust the ailerons and aim for the Boardshead
plant. We're just a block away.

***

Say "NO!" to military recruiters targeting our youth! (Sept 26 & 27, Bklyn)

2007-09-14T05:49:00.000-07:00

Wed Sept 26, 7:30 am; Thurs Sept 27, 2:30 pm
Say "NO!" to military recruiters targeting our youth!
Distribute information on alternatives to the military,
and how to "opt out" of releasing personal information to
military recruiters
Franklin Delano Roosevelt HS
Train: A/C to Utica
E-mail nowar@brooklynpeace.org [8] to let us know you'll be
coming, and for cell-phone numbers of coordinators
Next dates: Wed 10/10 Thurs 10/11 (New Utrecht HS)

"Can I get a Witness?" Opening from Chelsea to Billyburg (Sept 20)

2007-09-14T05:08:00.000-07:00

"Can I get a Witness?"
artwork by Josh MacPhee , Billy Mode, Chris Stain
september 20 - october 20, 2007
opening reception : Thursday, September 20th; 6 -9pm

Coming from varied artistic, social and political backgrounds,
MacPhee, Mode, and Stain have repeatedly reconnected through their
strong background as graffiti and street artists working primarily along the East Coast.
This show offers a clever combination of stenciled, silkscreen, and painted works on various media.
Their bold, graphic imagery is created in response to the reality- as they see it-
of human repression, the working-class struggle, and the challenges that exist within urbanized communities.

While their individual work remains true as a product of their personal experiences and concerns
regarding historically-charged issues, the three share a strong commitment in creating work
which also reflects a desire to exist in a better world. -curated by L2EL ARTS: www. L2ELarts.org

DIRECTIONS:
Sahlman Helwaser Art Gallery
547 west 27th street, 5th floor (between 10th and 11th avenue)
new york, ny 10011
t: 212-594 -7424

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Then, head EAST for live music and post - art opening celebration in Williamsburg!

HIMALAYAS live at Zebulon!
10pm till late
no cover
258 Wythe Street (between n3rd and metropolitan)
www.zebuloncafeconcert.com

People & Buildings Lecture - Concrete Benefits: Design, Persuasion, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (in NYC / Sept 18)

2007-09-13T04:20:00.000-07:00

CUP is pleased to present the next installment of People and
Buildings. Next Tuesday's event deals with the legacy of the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Visionary and monumental, the Tennessee
Valley Authority brought hydroelectric dams, electricity, flood
control, and consumer appliances to the impoverished Tennessee Valley
Region. Adorned with the motto “Built for the People of the United
States,” the TVA’s monumental dams and power stations are regarded
by
many as the greatest achievements of American Modernism. The event
will feature talks by Tim Culvahouse and Jane Wolff, preceded by a
slideshow of photographs by Charles Krutch.

Tim Culvahouse is an architect, educator, author, and editor of The
Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion. Culvahouse served
as Associate Dean for Design and Architectural Studies at the
California College of the Arts, where he is presently an adjunct
professor. He heads the Culvahouse Consulting Group, dedicated to the
communication of design ideas, and is Senior Advisor to Public
Architecture, a non-profit, public interest architecture group.

Jane Wolff is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of
Architecture and Urban Design at Washington University in Saint
Louis. Her work investigates the hybrid landscapes produced by
natural process and cultural intervention. Wolff’s Delta Primer, a
book designed to educate diverse audiences about the contested
landscape of the California Delta, was presented at the Center for
Land Use Interpretation in 2004.

Concrete Benefits: Design, Persuasion, and the Tennessee Valley
Authority
a talk with Tim Culvahouse and Jane Wolff
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street (between Prince and Houston)
R/W to Prince Street, B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker
Street
New York, NY
www.housingworksbookstore.org

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on
a first-come, first-served basis.

People & Buildings is made possible in part by the New York Council
for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for
the Humanities and by public funds from the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs

If you do not wish to receive notifications of People and Buildings
events, please let us know.

--

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
at the Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street #B402B
Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.anothercupdevelopment.org
info@anothercupdevelopment.org

Anti-war activists arrested in upstate New York

2007-09-11T07:29:00.000-07:00

Chris Tate, artist, musician, and activist was arrested for protesting against the war in Iraq- (Finger Lakes - NY- USA)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waveypics/sets/72157601460243215/

Agency and Art in a Hyper-Consumerist Culture: The Agent as Artist, as Consumer and as Citizen (Sept 25) Benjamin Barber lecture at the New School

2007-09-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

* Inaugural Lecture on 'Agency'
Agency and Art in a Hyper-Consumerist Culture:
The Agent as Artist, as Consumer and as Citizen
Benjamin R. Barber
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as New School faculty,
staff and alumni with valid ID

Each year, an inaugural lecture launches the Vera List Center's
annual theme, defining the intellectual territory that will be explored
in public programs throughout the year. The lecturer introduces the
theme in the broadest sense, serving as guide to the range and richness
of the topic at hand, and rooting the concept within The New School's
intellectual tradition.

The inaugural lecture of the Vera List Center's 2007-2008 theme
'Agency' will be delivered by Benjamin R. Barber, Professor of
Civil Society, University of Maryland

Professor Barber will explore the impact of the commercialization and
commodification of art and the subordination of art to utilitarian ends
(such as happiness and wealth) through the lens of agency and freedom.
The term "cultural property" suggests some of the issues to be
addressed. The kind of freedom associated with consumers as citizens
(their private vs. public liberty) and its impact on notions of agency.

* * *

Benjamin R. Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil
Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of
Maryland, as well as president of the international NGO CivWorld, and
distinguished senior fellow at Demos. An internationally renowned
political theorist, Dr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy
and citizenship to issues of politics, culture and education in America
and abroad. He consults regularly with political and civic leaders in
the United States and around the world.
Benjamin Barber's 17 books include the classic Strong Democracy
(1984) reissued in 2004 in a twentieth anniversary edition; the recent
international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld (1995 with a Post 9/11
Edition in 2001, translated into twenty-seven languages) and Consumed:
How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens
Whole, published by W.W. Norton.
Barber's honors include a knighthood (Palmes
Academiques/Chevalier) from the French Government (2001), the Berlin
Prize of the American Academy of Berlin (2001) and the John Dewey Award
(2003). He has also been awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Social
Science Research Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Grinnell
College,
Monmouth University and Connecticut College, and has held the chair of
American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He
writes
frequently for Harper's magazine, The New York Times, The Washington
Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, Le Nouvel
Observateur, Die Zeit, La Repubblica, El Pais, and many other scholarly
and popular publications in America and Europe. He was a founding
editor
and for ten years editor-in-chief of the distinguished international
quarterly Political Theory. Barber holds a certificate from the London
School of Economics and Political Science and an M.A. and Doctorate
from
Harvard University.

* This event is presented as part of the Vera List Center's program
cycle on 'Agency' and is co-sponsored by the Wolfson Center
National Affairs.

SALT AND OIL, 17 Emerging Artist from Spain's Mediterranean (September 18, 2007)

2007-09-04T17:26:00.000-07:00

ekuqibeleni sizo soloko singaBantu - a Visual Arts Presentation @ Sankaranka Gallery (Sept 7)

2007-09-04T16:50:00.000-07:00

Clinton Hill Blog celebrates one-year anniversary @ RePop (Sept 7)

2007-09-04T05:23:00.000-07:00

Support Kahlil Gibran International Academy

2007-09-02T17:53:00.000-07:00

Support Kahlil Gibran International Academy
Tuesday Sept 4, Silent Vigil
8:00 am (gather 7:30 am, welcome table for breakfast)
All welcome who suppot the statement and guidelines below:
Location: 345 Dean Street, near 3rd Avenue, Boerum Hill,
Brooklyn

GUIDELINES:
1. We are quiet. No amplified sound.
2. We have a statement to hand out, but don't otherwise speak
to the media except through one designated speaker.
3. We have one sign, but no banners or signs from
organizations.
4. No political statements of any kind.

STATEMENT:

We are Brooklynites who stand in silence today to support the
opening of the Kahlil Giban International academy, its staff,
teachers, parents and children. We hope that it will grow and
thrive.

We are Brooklynites of different races, many ethnic and national
backgrounds, and several religious affiliations who believe that
there is room in our public schools system for a school that
teaches Arabic language and culture along with math, English and
social studies and that it can remain fully public while doing
so.

We believe there is a need in our complex world for students of
all backgrounds to prepare to live in and lead their
communities, states and our country, and that languages such as
Chinese, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic will be crucial to that
preparation. As there are schools and programs that include the
teaching of Chinese and Hispanic language and culture, so now
there is one that teaches Arabic language and culture.

This is in keeping with the most admiable feature of Brooklyn
cultural life: its genuine celebration of diversity that serves
as a model for the worldwide human family. It is important
that, beginning with our children, we teach and remind each
other that we are all sisters and brothers, that we can teach
and learn from each other, that each culture and faith tradition
has its own integral beauty.

We are saddened that the complex and often violent world in
which we live has intruded on the development of this school in
a way that has created tensions rather than healing them.
Brooklyn has always been a place of many cultures living side by
side in relative calm. Sometimes the calm is shattered. We
hope in this case it can be healed quickly so that the children
for whom this school has been created, and their parents, can go
about the business of learning, their and our primary concern.

We are deeply distressed at the way certain media have distorted
the story of this school's development and have relentlessly
attacked its director to the point of resignation. Because we
believe certain media are incapable of reporting on this school
fairly, we stand in silence, offering this statement only.

(Statement drafted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Carol Horwitz, and
Rev. Tom Martinez, organizers affiliated with Brooklyn's annual
Children of Abraham Peace Walk, and approved by other members of
the walk's planning team. Call 718-915-2600, 718-624-5921, or
e-mail outreach@brooklynpeace.org [0])

For more information on how you can support the Kahlil Gibran
International Academy,
visit www.awaam.org [1] (Arab Women Active in the Arts and
Media)

Peace Brigades International (PBI) National Speaking Tour in NYC (Sept 17-22)

2007-09-02T11:15:00.000-07:00

For more information see www.peacebrigades.org

A 'Garden to Plate' cooking demonstration/workshop at Hattie Carthan Garden (Sept 15)

2007-09-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

The Hattie Carthan Community garden
invites you to attend
A Garden to plate cooking demonstration/workshop
facilitated by
City farms trainer, community food educator
Yonnette Fleming

Date: September 15, 2007 11:00 am
Place: Hattie Carthan Garden
Lafayette & Marcy Avenues
G- Bedford/Nostrand
B38 to Lafayette /Marcy

It’s summer and the garden is overflowing with the
bounty of the Earth. Please join us as we harvest and
cook foods grown in our garden. We will also discuss
the benefits of eating locally grown food and consider
the links between food and health.
All food stories are welcome!
Questions contact Yonnette@ 718-638-3566
or email hattiecarthangarden@yahoo.com

Herbal beverage and healthy foods will be available.

This workshop is made possible by the Ben and Jerry’s
foundation & Green Guerrillas as part of the garden’s
2007 food security workshop series:- “Growing our
community from the ground up”

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) Fall 2007 daytime workshops

2007-08-31T19:52:00.000-07:00

MFTA offers a full range of workshops during the day!
Dear Materials for the Arts Recipient:

The Fall workshop schedule has been solidified and there are some great options! We scheduled these workshops during the day so they won't conflict with your programs. To register for any of these classes please visit the website at www.mfta.org. Send staff and teaching artists to learn new techniques and fresh ways to incorporate the arts into your programs. All workshops are held at the MFTA warehouse. Please consult the website for parking information and directions.

The cost is only $10 for each workshop that you wish to attend. Payment can be made by check, cash or credit card and is due at the beginning of each class. Checks must be made out to: Friends of Materials for the Arts. To pay by credit card click on the orange "Support MFTA" button on the front page of the website. Fill out your credit card information and in the Comments box indicate which classes you are paying for. The Amount field should include the total for all classes you are taking.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Art of Reuse

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, Games and Game Boards

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30pm Bookmaking, envelope and accordion books

Thursday, October 4, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Flag books and Pop ups

Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:00-2:30 pm Fabric Crocheting

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Mask Making

Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Hat Making

Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:00-2:30 pm Fabric Beads

Thursday, November 1, 2007 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Puppet Making

Tuesday, November 8, 2007 12:00-2:30 pm Fabric Journals

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:30-1:30 pm Holiday Gifts

Haiti's Struggle for Reforestation: Photo Exhibit Closing & Reception (Aug 30)

2007-08-31T05:48:00.000-07:00

Photo Exhibit Closing & Reception
Thursday, August 30, 7:30 - 9:00 pm

Haiti's Struggle for Reforestation
Photographs by Eric Anderson

451 West Street [btwn. Bank & Bethune, facing the West Side Highway &
Hudson River Park]
New York, NY 10014
(212) 242-4201
www.brechtforum.org

*This series of photographs reveals the severe deforestation in Haiti
and the efforts of many farming cooperatives working towards
reforestation.

Farm Aid Food Policy Forum: Fresh Ideas on Farms and Food (Sept 5th) @ The New School

2007-08-31T04:34:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, September 5th, from 4:30 to 8:00p.m., Farm Aid, The New
School, and Food Systems Network NYC are co-sponsoring A New York Food
Policy Forum: Fresh Ideas on Farms and Food. The goal of this forum is
to engage in a dynamic dialogue among diverse stakeholders including
those seeking positive change and those in a strong position to
advance it.

The program will address 3 main topics:
--local farm production
--marketing for farmers
--access to healthful, local food for all city residents.

Event Details:
A New York Food Policy Forum: Fresh Ideas on Farms and Food
Wednesday, September 5th, 4:30-8pm
Theresa Lang Center at The New School
55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10011
Due to limited space, please RSVP by email to Jane Shuput at
Jane@foodsystemsnyc .org by tomorrow, Friday, August 24th.

The policy forum, to be held at The New School, involves a range of
high level experts and advocates from the grassroots, city, state and
national levels, seeking to improve the nutritional health of our
city's residents and the economic health of our region's farms, by
connecting residents to fresh, locally-grown food.

There has been a great deal of positive change in our food system over
the past decade. There are now more than 85 farmers' markets and 50
community supported agriculture programs throughout NYC. There are
new efforts to make sure that people on limited incomes have access to
healthful, fresh, local food. But there is still much more to be
done. We hope you will be a part of our efforts on September 5th.

Mexico Now Festival in NYC

2007-08-29T19:02:00.000-07:00

Celebrate México Now is a citywide festival showcasing the vanguard of contemporary Mexican art and culture. Encompassing cuisine, dance, film, literature, music, theatre, and visual art, the festival provides New York City with a glimpse of the most intriguing artists and ideas pouring out of Mexico today.

www.mexiconowfestival.org