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Thursday, February 28, 2008

THE BIG BOIL - MAPLE SYRUPING - March & & 8, 2008

THE SOMERVILLE MAPLE SYRUP PROJECT PRESENTS:
THE BIG BOIL
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 7th and 8th
10am-4pm each day

At the Somerville Community Growing Center
22 Vinal Ave., Between Summer St. and Highland Ave., Near Union Sq.

Free and open to the public.

Come watch and learn as sap from local trees is boiled down into pure maple syrup.

The Somerville Maple Syrup Project is a joint project of the Friends of the Community Growing Center, Groundwork Somerville, Somerville Public Schools, and Tufts University - Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service

For information about The Big Boil, contact:

Chris Mancini (chrismancini@gmail.com 617-909-6667)

For syrup production information, contact:

Chris Kantlehner (christiankant@gmail.com 860-395-7677)

Thanks to the following for donations supporting the Big Boil: Cambridge Landscape Co., Somerville Public Schools Food Services, Somerville Public Schools Metal Fabrication Shop, and When Pigs Fly Bakery

SOMERVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL INFORMATION - April 1, 2008

Did you know the Somerville Public Schools sends out an email newsletter once a month? I’m forwarding the February 2008 issue; please take a few moments to scan this. Want to join the mailing list? Please visit this link and sign up.

Have something you want to see featured in the newsletter? Let me know! Share your favorite education quote, or suggest someone for the volunteer spotlight. We also do a student and staff spotlight. What individual or group would you like to see recognized for their efforts to maximize the potential of Somerville students? All other ideas are welcome!


Gretchen Kinder

Coordinator of R&D, Public Information and Grants

Somerville Public Schools

617-625-6600 x6013

gkinder@k12.somerville.ma.us

Have you signed up for the Somerville Public Schools email newsletter? If not, visit http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?&m=1101610528181 to do so now!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER LECTURE - March 3, 2008

Monday, March 3, 2008, 7 - 9 pm

ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Monday Night @ VAP lecture series
Networks, Tactics, Breakdown
Mark Tribe

MIT Visual Arts Program
Location: N51-337, (Joan Jonas Performance Hall)
Video blog: http://zonesofemergency.net

Mark Tribe will present a selection of projects, such as the Port Huron Project, that explore how tactical practices and public interventions use the internet and other networks as a means to instigate political discourse and public collaboration. This work addresses zones of emergency in a broad sense, raising issues related to the psychological condition of being politically oppressed. Mark Tribe will bring his view of participatory networks online and off and the potentials of these techno-cultural arrangements to produce social and political change.

Mark Tribe is an internationally renowned artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. He is the co-author, with Reena Jana, of "New Media Art" (Taschen, 2006). His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, and Gigantic Art Space in New York City. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. As the founder of Rhizome.org (in 1996), an online resource for new media artists, he now chairs the Rhizome.org board of directors. Tribe received his MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 1990, where he currently serves as Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies. The focus of his teaching is on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. He splits his time between Providence and New York City.


Free and open to the public.

Visual Arts Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Bldg N51-337, 3rd floor
Joan Jonas Performance Hall
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Directions
The MIT Visual Arts Program is located above the MIT Museum. Enter through the grey door on Front Street and take the elevator to the third floor. Exit to your left and go down the ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance Hall is located on the right.

By Public Transportation
Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four blocks along Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston and the Charles River, or take the #1 bus to the Front Street stop.

Friday, February 08, 2008

LOVE AND SEX GALLERY EXHIBITION - Feb 6 - Mar 8, 2008

“Love Anatomy“ Exhibition

Boston—January19h—2007 Gallery Anthony Curtis announces its upcoming exhibitions: “Love Anatomy “:

Love and sex: these are fundamentals that drive us, and, in a significant way, define us. Gallery Anthony Curtis is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition: Love Anatomy. This collective show was curated to reflect perceptions of love and sex that are highly individual but also relate to and resonate with contemporary viewers.

The ensemble enlists works by a group of American and Canadian artists, including Johanne Cullen, Martin Douvil, Francois Escalmel, Heejung Kim, Marie-Josee Roy, Jerome Prieur and Douglas Prince. While a single gallery show cannot possibly encompass the full spectrum of the actions of love and sex and its wondrous and disastrous consequences, we have invited artists, who, based on their personal life experiences, dissect one or a few aspects of the love and sex within the context of human condition and identity and re-construct them for broad and even universal visual explorations. We strived to be inclusive by selecting artwork that encompasses both platonic and erotic domains, depicts moments that range from tender to volcanic, and covers themes that are heterosexual as well as homosexual by nature.

The media these artists employed are diverse, ranging from painting, sculpture, photograph to video installation. However, the works are unified under a realistic and hyper-realistic aesthetic which carries real-life emotions that are, sometimes explicit and quick-for-grasp but more often raw and ambiguous.

This exciting exhibition will be on view from February 6th to March 8th at Gallery Anthony Curtis, 186 South Street, Boston, MA 02111. An artists’ reception will be held February 8th from 5 to 8pm.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

BROOKLINE ART EXHIBITION - Apr 4 - May 16, 2008

WHAT: “KYOTO IN ITS SEASON: SELECT IMAGES WITH HAIKU”

(Photographs and haiku poetry exhibit)


WHERE: Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth St.
Brookline, MA 02446

WHEN: Friday, April 4th – Friday, May 16th, 2008

WHO: Robert Castagna, Photographer
Raffael de Gruttola, Haiku Poet
Shokan Tadashi Kondo, Calligrapher


CONTACT: Ms. Susan Navarre, Executive Director
Brookline Arts Center
86 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA 02446
617-566-5715
susan@brooklineartscenter.com
www.brooklineartscenter.com

SOMERVILLE ENTERPRISE SEEKS LOGO DESIGN - February 20, 2008

Somerville Local First, a new organization formed by locally owned Somerville businesses to support and promote locally owned enterprises, is looking for an artist to design a logo that will be used on decals on Somerville business windows, on a widely distributed Somerville Local First business directory, a SLF website, blog, etc. In keeping with our intention to promote local goods and services we would like this call to be answered by Somerville residents. In addition to having your design given credit and exposure, a small stipend will be offered. No entry fee.

Contact:

Patricia Wellenkamp

bluecloud@earthlink.net

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

FRESH POND WHOLE TREE IDENTIFICATION - February 10, 2008

Date: Sunday, February 10
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Meeting Place: Street end of
the Neville Place Driveway
650 Concord Avenue, Cambridge

For this program we will take our annual excursion onto the golf course to identify specimen trees (Trees that illustrate the outstanding characteristics of their species) that are inaccessible to the public during other seasons. In winter, we can observe shapes and branching patterns that are usually hidden by leaves. We will finish inside with refreshments. Wear footwear for walking off-path, maybe in snow.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend: Important information on parking will be given when you register. These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at: friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com OR call: 617-349-4793 and leave your name and phone number.

Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation: http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org

Friday, February 01, 2008

SOMERVILLE MAPLE SYRUP TAPPING TIME - February 2, 2008

Announcing the start of the 2008 season for the Somerville Maple Syrup Project.

Here's our tree tapping and Big Boil dates. Feel free to join in the fun, and spread the word....

TREE TAPPING BEGINS THIS SATURDAY, February 2nd at 2pm
Meet on the Tufts University campus, at the corner of College and Professor's Row.

THE BIG BOIL is set for Friday and Saturday, March 7th and 8th
Stop by the Somerville Community Growing Center and see sap turn to syrup.

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