Community Arts Dialogue November 5th

I mentioned in class that I have been helping organize this Community Arts Council of Vancouver event that will take place November 5th from 9am to 4:30pm at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

There is going to be 8 community artist from various disciplines presenting their work and talking about their process. We're trying a new format- participants will be seated at tables of about 8-10 people and the artists will rotate from table to table giving mini-presentations of their work. This will allow everyone to ask questions of the artists and to discuss issues around the work.

We are looking for people to moderate the discussions at each table. We are also looking for note-takers. Shifts would be either two hours in the morning or two hours in the afternoon.

If you are interested please email theterritorial {at} hotmail {dot}com.

The event is free but we do request that you register in advance please!

http://artsdialogue.eventbrite.com/

Play Laugh Be! Oct 1

Website!

Sounds like so much fun and I know several people involved! This is gonna be a blast, hope some of you can make it!

http://www.playlaughbe.com/

Terry Hunter

For some reason, you can't add attachments to these posts...or at least I haven't figured it out yet.

I put it on the web though, so you should be able to access it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sXd6Y5GC5jX2__aAAjpCmsago0IZOKi0oo_p5y4D-pE

reading list from Beth Carruthers

Here is an online reading list from Beth.

Thanks to Josh for the Terry Hunter profile.

ONLINE RESOURCES – a few suggestions
Both Beverly Naidus (author of Arts for Change and convener of the Arts and Community
programme at University of Washington) http://faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus/ and
Arlene Goldbard - http://arlenegoldbard.com/ - have super online resources available
from their sites. These are my two favourites, too. JM

I offer just a few of my favourites (in no particular order):
• Wallace Heim interviews Dr. Vandana Shiva for the Ashden Directory:
http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk/featuresView.asp?pageIdentifier=200492_9711
2674
• The Ashden Directory: http://www.ashdendirectory.org.uk
• IO Online Magazine, Special Issue on Environmental Art, 1998 (especially see
Hester Reeve – Kissing the Mess
• www.helsinki.fi/iiaa/io/io1998.pdf
• Tim Collins and Reiko Goto http://collinsandgoto.com
• Three Rivers, Second Nature http://3r2n.collinsandgoto.com/
• Greenhouse Britain http://greenhousebritain.greenmuseum.org/
• The Harrison Studio – Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
http://theharrisonstudio.net
• Common Ground (UK) http://www.commonground.org.uk/
• Fourth Door Research and Review (Oliver Lowenstein)
http://www.fourthdoor.co.uk
• Keepers of the Waters http://keepersofthewaters.org
• Shai Zakai’s Ecoart Centre in Israel – Concrete Creek project http://ecoart.
co.il/theProject.asp?projectID=1&CL=ENG#Q49
• Seen and Unseen (early project from Helix Arts): http://www.seenunseen.
com/flash/
• Occidental Arts and Ecology Centre http://www.oaec.org
• Red Earth – installation and performance: http://www.redearth.co.uk/
• Green Museum http://greenmuseum.org/
PRINT RESOURCES
Ethics & the Environment: special issue on art Volume 8, number 1, Spring, 2003
Gablik, Suzi ,The Re-enchantment of Art. London UK: Thames and Hudson (1991)
Harvey, Graham, Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York: Columbia University
Press (2006)
Ingold, Tim, The Perception of the Environment. London: Routledge (2000)
Irland, Basia, Water Library. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2007)
Kagan, S. and Kirchberg, V. (eds.) Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures.
Frankfurt: VAS (2008)
Spade, Sue (2002) ecovention: Current art to transform ecologies. Co-published by:
Contemporary Arts Centre, Cinncinati, Eco-artspace and greenmuseum
Winterson, Jeanette (1995) Art Objects – Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery. London UK:
Random House

Terry Hunter and Vancouver Moving Theatre

Please find Terry's biography here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXd6Y5GC5jX2__aAAjpCmsago0IZOKi0oo_p5y4D-pE/edit?hl=en_US

research on Terry Hunter and Vancouver Moving Theatre

Hi Everyone,

We did not assign three people to do research on next week's guest, Terry Hunter, and his work with Vancouver Moving Theatre.

Can we have three people sign up - either by getting in touch with me directly (judith@jmprojects.ca) or posting here?

Also...a reminder to please send your postcards to both Lynn and to me.

Have a great weekend!

Judith

Us and Them

Judith mentioned David Diamond a couple of classes ago. David Diamond is the artistic director of Headlines Theatre. He's been working on an interesting project that I thought I'd bring to your attention.  A bit more about him:

He is the originator of Theatre for Living, a merging of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, and a life-long interest in systems theory. Theatre for Living recognizes communities are complexly integrated living organisms and invites them to engage in constructive social change, moving from various forms of violence to respectful engagement.

You might be interested in attending "Us and Them," a play that runs at the Cultch from October 21st to November 12. The Community Workshop page is quite interesting as it takes you through the process of how they created the cast for this performance, here it is briefly:

In Spring 2011 we invited people from various diverse communities across Metro Vancouver to join us in developing an Interactive Physical Theatre Project, looking at issues of "us and them". We received more than 185 applications expressing interest in participating in the Community Workshop and as Cast Members.

I'm planning to attend one of the performances, maybe I'll see you there!

Resources: Systems Theory

Quick tips on how to use

A few quick notes on how this site works:

To the right of these words are a few groups called "Housing/Homelessness" "Isolation Group 1" etc. You can click on any of these and it will take you to a separate page. You can post things specific to your group there, and it will be easy to access for everyone.

There is also a page there called Guest Biographies. We can add all of our Guest Biographies there, and then it will be easy to find them.

On this main page that you are looking at (called "Home") you can post videos, songs, pictures, links, notes, postcards, questions, comments etc that you want everyone to see.

In this website you can also comment on other people's posts. For example, you could comment in this post and say "Thanks! That was really helpful" or, "I am still really confused." Then we can dialogue.

Hope this works for everyone!

This is new for me too!

So, I have seen someone else use this, and I think it is more appropriate for what we are doing in this class. Sorry for the switching around, we are all learning together!

Reasons this site is more effective than a Google Group:
1) We can set up individual pages for each project group;
2) We can post videos and links directly onto the blog;
3) It is much easier to see what is going on, where as Google Groups is very hard to find your way through.