Thank-you Judith and Lynn for arranging these amazing invitations to community artists. I find each of the presentations have been inspiring and profound. I wonder about the next one and the next one...delightful anticipation!
Here are several links that follow-up on the discussion from our class last night. I was incorrect about the name of the cemetery in Boston - so, here is the link to the artist and the cemetery for the piece I mentioned on ee cummings (I described it differently - I was inspired by the storytelling at the time and some of the details slipped away - honouring blogs that archive - yeah!):
I believe that the community artist at Mountain View Cemetery is Paula Jardine - here are links to her site and All Souls:
I also include a link to the work of Naomi Steinberg that was mentioned as well:
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Belonging Action
Hey everyone,
This is about a community mural painting project I am currently working on . I am a youth facilitator, and I have already learned so much about creative facilitation! Above is an outline of what the mural may look like.
I am putting this here for two specific reasons:
1) I want to know if any of you would like to be a part of this process, by coming to one of the weekend workshops.
And EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY:
2) Can you forward this information along to any youth that you know who might be interested or would benefit a lot from this process? The mural is about migration and belonging.
Due to a long process that involves a lot of the challenges we have discussed in class, this project was delayed twice and now we are really behind in recruiting youth to participate. All of your help would be so appreciated.
The mural will be put up on the big parking lot wall on Homer and Cordova (a few blocks from our class), so tell your youth that they will get to see their mural up in the downtown!
Here is the pamphlet info:
WE ARE MAKING A GIANT MURAL,
AND YOU ARE INVITED
TBA (The Belonging Action)
is a youth-led project inviting youth and adults
to produce a giant mural that speaks about
the migration of peoples and cultures to this land
Chrystal, Josh, Elaine, Rosa, and Matt, will facilitate free 2day workshops to groups of youth and adults. Through games, storytelling, sketching, and painting, we will together translate through visuals stories of belonging and migration. In this mural, we don’t want to soley represent times in history, but we want to trigger questioning of our histories and lost histories of peoples and cultures coming to this land since time immemorial.
24' X 32' mural will be installed on the exterior wall facing east of PARKADE @ 422 WEST CORDOVA
The painting process is happening inside the top floor of the parkade (P6) Stall 480+
Sign-Up for any of these three weekends
Workshop#1. Saturday, Oct. 8th, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 9th, 4-8pm (Indigenous focus)
or
Workshop#2. Saturday, Oct. 15th, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 16th, 4-8pm
or
Workshop#3. Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 2-6pm & Sunday, Oct. 23rd, 4-8pm (Migrant/Refugee focus).
* We provide snacks and bus tickets
* No Painting Experience Required!!!
* Bring your creative self and clothes that you can wreck with paint
* Come in the Parkade using door on Richards and Cordova. Use elevator to P5, then up the stairs one more floor, and find us on P6 stall 480+. Follow signs.
RSVP with Melanie at lolaschambach@gmail.com or 604.338.2927
Meet Facilitators at TheBelongingAction.com
Monday, October 3, 2011
INCLUSION Art Show
I just found out about this event today and thought it might be of interest to you:
INCLUSION
posAbilities is pleased to present its 7th Annual Art Show:
This event celebrates the unique gifts and talent of artists with developmental disabilities.
October 27th, 2011
October 27th, 2011
For more information, click here.
Some definitions of arts for social change
Here is the document I read from at our last class. I hope it is helpful!
1. Art for social change has two major forms:Art that is made by professional artists in which social commentary lies in the content of the art « product » itself.
2. Art that is made by "non-professionals" and facilitated by specialized artist/facilitators working with community members. A form of cultural democracy that operates by:
- Working toward equity and justice
- Raising consciousness and awareness
- Fostering individual empowerment and participation
- Bringing people together and building relationships among individuals and groups
- Giving voice and telling stories
- Creating new visions and opening new imaginations for what the world could be
- Creating imaginative empath
- Creating dialogue
- Creating engagement, democratic inclusion, building community capacity
These activities can
• Create new forums for expression, discussion and for collaborative inquiry
• Provide space for alternative visions
• Provide tools and settings for both personal and public expression, and participation
• Assert the value of diversity and promote dialogue
• Unearth, preserve and extend cultural heritage
• Build understanding and imaginative empathy to resolve conflict
• Build community solidarity and engagement
• Create enlightened public policy (e.g. in community development, health promotion, sustainability agendas)
• Create networks (e.g. enable cross-sectoral social innovation)
• Build social capital
In many of these forms, the process of art creation is often more important than the product.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Questions for Something Collective
Here are three questions for Something Collective. With a few more if time permits.
- How does Something Collective plan to engage with the community and what approach are you taking in developing community cultural projects? In other words, how are you determining what to work on or what needs to be worked on?
- What are the issues and concerns of Sunset Community that you plan to tackle?
- What challenges are you encountering as a new collective, how are you organized, how do you make decisions, what is your process?
- What is the most useful lesson you took away from this course? or something that you picked up here and find yourself using in the field?
- What is expected of you from the Moberley Arts Centre? e.g reports, deliverables, etc.
New Bio Flick Harrison and Laura Barron
Here is the link for the new blog! If anyone is having trouble posting bios to the blog, you can just send me the bio via email I will add it!
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GoFMjkgrYhFOhBWOhW0VKS68x9ffpdn-9bxBifsntaA
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GoFMjkgrYhFOhBWOhW0VKS68x9ffpdn-9bxBifsntaA
BIOS: Flick Harrison & Laura Barron
Flick Harrison
Flick Harrison has been working as an activist & artist in the field for over 10 years. His work includes documentary film, installation, theatre, and education. He started his work as a videographer on the national CBC series Road Movies and went on to work with 536 Arts Collective, Western Theatre Conspiracy, Dancers Dancing, Leaky Heaven Circus, DanceArts Vancouver, Headlines Theatre, and Impudence Cultural Productions. He’s shot videos for: R.E.M., Battlestar Gallactica, Bruce Sweeney, Nettie Wild, Reg Harkema, David Vaisbord, James Dunnison, and many others.
He studied at Z Magazine’s Z Media Institute as part of the Canada-Council funded interactive DVD project Marie Tyrell, based on a 1974 short story by D.M. Fraser, starring Tom Scholte (Live Bait, Dirty) and Susan Box (of punk band July 4th Toilet), and Flick’s smash-and-grab video “President of the Apes” is lurking around the U.K. in a pedal-powered cinema and at Roadance, the Sundance-baiting cube-van outlaw film fest.
Flick’s rabble-rousing websites Stockwell Dork and Clarkson the Terrible have stirred national attention, the former getting thousands of hits a day after CBC TV coverage during Election 2000. Flick’s videos have shown alongside work by Nick Zedd, Negativland, Seth Tobocman, Mike Holboom, Oliver Hockenhull, Lincoln Clarkes, Christine Taylor, Lola Lush, Hugh Phukovsky, Ivan Cyote, and others.
Born in London, Ontario, the son of an air force gynecologist and a psych nurse, the Moose Jaw Times once called Harrison a “modern-day Jack Kerouac.” He teaches digital filmmaking to kids at Arts Umbrella and edited the Film and Video section of Broken Pencil, a zine / indie-culture print mag based in Toronto. As a journalist/ host he’s interviewed Richard Linklater, Guy Maddin, the Royal Art Lodge, Vincenzo Nataly, and many other Canadian and world artists. His writing has been published in: Capsule magazine, Rain, Film Threat, Play, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, and Adbusters. One of his newest projects is planning youth media training programs in places such as: Uganda, Haiti and Rwanda.
Grants and Awards include:
Nov 2004 – Best Narrative Film – Marie Tyrell – Northwest Film and Video Fest
Nov 2004 – Nominee – Borsos Award – Whistler Film Festival – Better off in Bed
Jul 2002 – Canada Council Film and Video – Research and Creation Grant
May 2001 – “Rockaction” Filmmaking Commission from the Blinding Light Cinema
August 2000 – Canada Council – Film and Video – Travel Grant
http://www.flickharrison.com/
Laura Barron
Laura Barron is hailed as “one of the finest flutists of her generation” (Flute Network). She made her solo debut at age 17 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given recitals and taught master classes from New Zealand to the Yukon, premiered over 50 works with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and given several performances at Carnegie Hall. In her early career, she was often a featured soloist with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. Additionally, she served as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota and Vancouver Symphonies. She has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northern Arizona University.
In 2007, she and her husband Geoff Cross spent an illuminating year traveling to five continents. This experience included European recitals, French courses in Morocco, Dalai Lama teachings in India, and volunteer work in the Bolivian jungle. This transformative time continues to inform her artistic work.
Laura has integrated her passion for art and activism through: her work as a band coach at Portland Girls Rock Camp, as a yoga instructor at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, a therapeutic musician at Vancouver’s Cottage Hospice and in a variety of inter-disciplinary collaborations through her non-profit Instruments of Change. She is currently completing her first novel, Mosquito Cronicles.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/index.html
Instruments of Change
“Music elevates, inspires, awakens, and moves us. Art has the transformative power to open hearts and minds. Life touches each of us in personal ways. A certain cause may speak to us so loudly that we are compelled to action. Our organization can answer this call.”
Instruments of Change uses the arts as an educational tool to empower people to become instruments of transformative change in their own lives. Through community-based art projects, which serve: schools, hospices, shelters, community centres and prisons, the organization offers diverse communities the opportunity to make and experience music & art. In turn, Instruments of Change helps people to find their authentic voice.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/instrumentsOfChange.html
Something Collective
Something Collective is comprised of 5 like-minded artists & activists with a shared vision to effect social change through art. This group includes: Flick Harrison (media arts), Natalie Gan (dance), Maggie Winston (puppetry, theatre), Juliana Bedoya (sculpture, performance installation), and Laura Barron (flutist, yogi, writer). They met in 2010, in Judith Marcuse’s SFU course Exploring Arts for Social Change. This shared experience inspired their artistic collaboration. In the past they have addressed issues of homelessness, gentrification, sustainability and consumerism. Something Collective has been chosen for the Incubator Residency (a three-year artist residency at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre that provides free studio space for artists in exchange for community-based arts engagement). Currently, the team is developing a variety of future projects intended to serve Vancouver communities.
http://somethingcollective.ca/
Flick Harrison has been working as an activist & artist in the field for over 10 years. His work includes documentary film, installation, theatre, and education. He started his work as a videographer on the national CBC series Road Movies and went on to work with 536 Arts Collective, Western Theatre Conspiracy, Dancers Dancing, Leaky Heaven Circus, DanceArts Vancouver, Headlines Theatre, and Impudence Cultural Productions. He’s shot videos for: R.E.M., Battlestar Gallactica, Bruce Sweeney, Nettie Wild, Reg Harkema, David Vaisbord, James Dunnison, and many others.
He studied at Z Magazine’s Z Media Institute as part of the Canada-Council funded interactive DVD project Marie Tyrell, based on a 1974 short story by D.M. Fraser, starring Tom Scholte (Live Bait, Dirty) and Susan Box (of punk band July 4th Toilet), and Flick’s smash-and-grab video “President of the Apes” is lurking around the U.K. in a pedal-powered cinema and at Roadance, the Sundance-baiting cube-van outlaw film fest.
Flick’s rabble-rousing websites Stockwell Dork and Clarkson the Terrible have stirred national attention, the former getting thousands of hits a day after CBC TV coverage during Election 2000. Flick’s videos have shown alongside work by Nick Zedd, Negativland, Seth Tobocman, Mike Holboom, Oliver Hockenhull, Lincoln Clarkes, Christine Taylor, Lola Lush, Hugh Phukovsky, Ivan Cyote, and others.
Born in London, Ontario, the son of an air force gynecologist and a psych nurse, the Moose Jaw Times once called Harrison a “modern-day Jack Kerouac.” He teaches digital filmmaking to kids at Arts Umbrella and edited the Film and Video section of Broken Pencil, a zine / indie-culture print mag based in Toronto. As a journalist/ host he’s interviewed Richard Linklater, Guy Maddin, the Royal Art Lodge, Vincenzo Nataly, and many other Canadian and world artists. His writing has been published in: Capsule magazine, Rain, Film Threat, Play, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, and Adbusters. One of his newest projects is planning youth media training programs in places such as: Uganda, Haiti and Rwanda.
Grants and Awards include:
Nov 2004 – Best Narrative Film – Marie Tyrell – Northwest Film and Video Fest
Nov 2004 – Nominee – Borsos Award – Whistler Film Festival – Better off in Bed
Jul 2002 – Canada Council Film and Video – Research and Creation Grant
May 2001 – “Rockaction” Filmmaking Commission from the Blinding Light Cinema
August 2000 – Canada Council – Film and Video – Travel Grant
http://www.flickharrison.com/
Laura Barron
Laura Barron is hailed as “one of the finest flutists of her generation” (Flute Network). She made her solo debut at age 17 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given recitals and taught master classes from New Zealand to the Yukon, premiered over 50 works with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and given several performances at Carnegie Hall. In her early career, she was often a featured soloist with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. Additionally, she served as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota and Vancouver Symphonies. She has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northern Arizona University.
In 2007, she and her husband Geoff Cross spent an illuminating year traveling to five continents. This experience included European recitals, French courses in Morocco, Dalai Lama teachings in India, and volunteer work in the Bolivian jungle. This transformative time continues to inform her artistic work.
Laura has integrated her passion for art and activism through: her work as a band coach at Portland Girls Rock Camp, as a yoga instructor at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, a therapeutic musician at Vancouver’s Cottage Hospice and in a variety of inter-disciplinary collaborations through her non-profit Instruments of Change. She is currently completing her first novel, Mosquito Cronicles.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/index.html
Instruments of Change
“Music elevates, inspires, awakens, and moves us. Art has the transformative power to open hearts and minds. Life touches each of us in personal ways. A certain cause may speak to us so loudly that we are compelled to action. Our organization can answer this call.”
Instruments of Change uses the arts as an educational tool to empower people to become instruments of transformative change in their own lives. Through community-based art projects, which serve: schools, hospices, shelters, community centres and prisons, the organization offers diverse communities the opportunity to make and experience music & art. In turn, Instruments of Change helps people to find their authentic voice.
http://forbiddenflutes.com/instrumentsOfChange.html
Something Collective
Something Collective is comprised of 5 like-minded artists & activists with a shared vision to effect social change through art. This group includes: Flick Harrison (media arts), Natalie Gan (dance), Maggie Winston (puppetry, theatre), Juliana Bedoya (sculpture, performance installation), and Laura Barron (flutist, yogi, writer). They met in 2010, in Judith Marcuse’s SFU course Exploring Arts for Social Change. This shared experience inspired their artistic collaboration. In the past they have addressed issues of homelessness, gentrification, sustainability and consumerism. Something Collective has been chosen for the Incubator Residency (a three-year artist residency at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre that provides free studio space for artists in exchange for community-based arts engagement). Currently, the team is developing a variety of future projects intended to serve Vancouver communities.
http://somethingcollective.ca/
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