Art & Cultural Events List

Hi Crafters!

The Somerville Arts Council is helping support two upcoming festivals that include craft fairs and a need for vendors!

Ignite! A Fire and Street Food Festival After Dark
Saturday, August 9th, 6pm-10pm (Rain date: Sunday, August 10th)
This fair is looking for anyone who wants to sell items at night and feels like a street vendor. Filled with fire-throwers, belly dancers, and over a dozen food vendors we're looking for people who sell anything unique!

The Big Tiny House Festival
Saturday, September 20th, 3pm-7pm (Rain date: TBA)
If you know what Tiny Houses are you already have an idea of what we're looking for! But if you do not look at Tumbleweeds website to get an idea. This festival is 100% Do-It-Yourself! Craft vendors of all types are welcome.

Attached are the official applications and instructions. Please send all entries to megart04@gmail.com

Thank you,
Meagan O'Brien
ArtsUnion Coordinator
Somerville Arts Council

This Sunday, June 29, 2014 (SPECIAL DAY)

The Center for Arts at the Armory (SPECIAL LOCATION)
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

Bar opens at 5:30 pm (Come early and celebrate with us)

Music at 7pm

FREE admission
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As our season finale, we are planning a 100 person version of John Cages Variations III. We will set up shop in the large and beautiful space in the Somerville Armory. Filling every corner of the hall and the mezzanine, we will create pathways and multiple sitting areas among the performers. The audience will be invited to walk among the performers and to stop and observe for a while at different vantage points. The act of moving from place to place will create different mixes depending on proximity to the performer.

Tim Feeney, Opensound’s founder, will return to co-curate with Lou Bunk. This performance is dedicated to our loved and missed friend Lou Cohen, who co-directed Opensound for many years and always ended the season with a performance of Variations III.

Read an article on the concert in WBUR's "The Artery" by Amelia Mason
http://artery.wbur.org/2014/06/26/opensound-john-cage
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Opensound is a Greater Boston concert series featuring improvisers and interpreters of avant-garde, experimental, acoustic, and electro- acoustic music. We program monthly concerts featuring local and touring musicians, sound artists, and the un-categorize-able. Hailing from disparate backgrounds, styles, and genres, our musicians, dancers, video and performance artists, form a vibrant community that presents unique events in Somerville, Massachusetts.

About: Somerville Community Access TV in partnership with Arlington Community Media, Inc. (ACMI) presents:
ROUGH CUT MEDIA SOCIAL. It is an event open to all media makers who have a video work-in-progress. This means a TV show, documentary, experimental film, music videos, etc. It is held at a very cool multi-use space for artists called The Uniun.

Details: You will screen 3-5 minutes of your media, followed by the crowd's suggested feedback. There will be a select group of filmmakers guiding the feedback dialogue throughout the event. One special movie critic is Mike Oliver from the Medford Arts Council. Feel welcome to come watch the film screenings, no film submission is required. Free Snacks will be provided!

Date: Sunday, June 29th, from 3-5pm
Location Details: The event is held at The Uniun, 3 Sanborn Court, Union Square (across from Stone Place Park).
Contact: Erica Jones, programming@scatvsomerville.org or at 617. 628. 8826. / www.scatvsomerville.org
Technical Specs: Bring your video on a thumbdrive or DVD

Hope to see you there!

Best,
Erica Jones
Programming & Outreach Coordinator
Somerville Community Access Television
90 Union Sq.
Somerville, MA 02143
617 - 628 - 8826
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The Nave Gallery and Nave Gallery Annex have an exciting and full schedule for the upcoming year. We are looking for gallery sitters to help at either location.

Gallery sitting is a great way to spend some time with art and help support your local art spaces and artists. We only ask for two hours a month.

If you are interested in gallery sitting, please email me at tori.costa@gmail.com.

Additionally, we are also in need of volunteers interested in:
marketing
fundraising
web management
event planning
and lots more
If you have any interest in becoming involved with the Nave, let us know. We've got lots of great opportunities available.

Tori
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Tori Costa
Marketing Professional
617-259-8386

http://www.linkedin.com/in/toricosta
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
www.navegallery.org
http://www.meetup.com/Knit-Sip-Crochet-Soirees/

JUNE PROGRAMS offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation and the Cambridge Water Department

Saturday, June 28 – What's in the Butterfly Meadow? – led by Tom Murray

Sunday, June 29 – Nesting Bird Walk – led by Nancy Guppy

Complete descriptions with registration and meeting place information are posted on the Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation website at http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org/upcomingprograms.htm

If you wish to attend a program, please sign up using the registration information included in the description for that program.

You can scroll down the webpage for links to other information:
· Grow Native Massachusetts’ “Evening with Experts” lectures at the Cambridge Public Library
· Cambridge Recycling Webpage
· Cambridge Water Department volunteer opportunities and other 2014 programs.

If you no longer wish to receive these announcements, please send us a return e-mail with the message UNSUBSCRIBE

friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com

Elizabeth and Elizabeth

The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Cynthia Woods, Music Director, invites you to attend its annual free concert:

Cambridge Symphony’s Pops on the Lawn 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM
FREE
Sennott Park (Broadway at Norfolk St.), Cambridge, MA.
Rain location: Area IV Youth Center (243 Harvard Street, adjacent to the Park)
Bring a blanket or lawn chairs if outdoors!

Come support your Somerville neighbors and friends! Nine musicians (on violin, viola, bass, and bassoon) who live in Somerville will be performing in this concert.

This year’s program features a variety of pops favorites, including patriotic songs, Broadway tunes (Wicked, Chicago, Oklahoma, Grease) and family-friendly classical. The concert is supported by a Volunteer Ventures award from MetLife Foundation.

In case of inclement weather, please consult the CSO website: www.cambridgesymphony.org.

About the CSO: Established in 1975, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Inc. is a nonprofit community music organization that provides a welcoming environment for players and audiences through outstanding concerts, events and social action. Over 70 CSO musicians hail from Cambridge, Somerville, and numerous surrounding communities, as do our audiences. Its season includes three reasonably-priced classical concerts, an annual Family Concert, a free outdoor Pops-style concert, and free orchestra outreach concerts for audiences with limited access to live orchestral music. The CSO also presents free chamber music in non-traditional venues, such as public libraries, and in dedicated outreach concerts for audiences who might not otherwise enjoy live music. www.cambridgesymphony.org.

Applications are now being accepted for vendors at the 2014 What the Fluff? Festival.

This year’s theme is “Steamfluff” and we’re looking for ways to mashup steampunk and steampunk culture with the magic of fluff and the What The Fluff Festival’s celebration of invention and ingenuity.

The Fluff Festival takes place 3-7PM on Saturday, September 27 (raindate Sunday, September 28) and we are expecting 10,000+ attendees. Table fee for craft vendors is $75, food vendor fee is $175. (Accepted food vendors will also need to obtain Somerville Temporary Health Permit. We’ll walk accepted vendors through that process .)

More info about the event is here:

https://unionsquaremain.org/fluff-festival/

Vendor application here:

https://unionsquaremain.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/FluffVendorcall14.doc.pdf

Hello Somerville. We’ve got six reasons for you and the family to stay in town and enjoy the next four days.

Friday, June 20 6:00 PM
Puppet performer Bonnie Duncan presents Squirrel Stole My Underpants
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/puppet/2014/squirrel
Connexion
149 Broadway

Friday, June 20 8:30 PM
Stefanie Weber/Creatures of Habitat
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/dancefest/weber
Veterans Memorial Rink alley
570 Somerville Ave

Saturday, June 21 12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Joe's Jazz and Blues Fest 2014
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/jazzblues

Powderhouse Park


Saturday, June 21 8:30 PM
Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/dancefest/gilchrist2014
Foss Park

Sunday, June 22 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Trash Bash: Somerville’s 2nd Recycled Art Competition

http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/artsunion/2014/trash

The Uniun
3 Sanborn Court

Monday, June 23 8:30 PM
Andary Dance and Friends
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/dancefest/andary

City Hall Concourse
89 Highland Ave.

Hope to see you out and enjoy.

Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
City of Somerville
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone

What the Fluff? is a unique Somerville festival dedicated to food, invention and art that celebrates Archibald Query, Somerville resident and inventor of Marshmallow Fluff. Each year the residents of Somerville collaborate on a huge festival that features activities, music, food and fun for Fluff fans of all ages.

This is a great opportunity for a local graphic designer to add to their portfolio by designing a poster, t-shirt and related materials for a wildly popular, highly attended event, now in its 9th year.

FluffCardFrontforprinterThis year’s theme is “Steam-Fluff” and the Festival will be steampunk-inspired. The graphic designer will be asked to create a fun, eye-catching full color digitally printed 11 x 17 poster that reflects this theme as well as the all-ages, fun, Marshmallow Fluff nature of the event. Elements of the poster design or a related design will be used on a screen-printed t-shirt that will be sold at the event. The designer will also be asked to create a postcard and social media icon.

Adobe Photoshop PDFDeadlines for ideas and final designs are throughout the summer, with most final deadlines in mid-August. There is a small stipend available for this project.

For more information about the festival visit What the Fluff? Annual Marshmallow Fluff Festival in Somerville, MA | Union Square Main Streets

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What the Fluff? Annual Marshmallow Fluff Festival ...
A madcap festival held the last Saturday of September in Union Square, Somerville MA honoring Archibald Query and his invention: Marshmallow Fluff.
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Please send letters of interest, portfolio links and any questions to dina@unionsquaremain.org

Hi all,

Given all of the energy and ideas that came out of the 6/5 "How we get by" discussion, we're having a follow-up meeting on 6/25 to explore whether we need a new creative worker network to address economic issues. Hope you can make it! And hope you decide to help spread the word!

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A New Network for Boston Area Creative Workers?
630pm-9pm
Lesley University - Brattle Campus
Sherrill Library
Third Floor
Room 350
89 Brattle St.
Harvard Square
contact: tdevin@yahoo.com
FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1433263693601957

Boston area creative workers - visual artists, designers, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers, videographers, audio specialists, architects, makers, and every conceivable hybrid of same - are cordially invited to an important meeting.

Attendees will decide if an new independent creators network is needed to take action on critical issues relating our individual and collective survival like jobs, grants, housing, healthcare, education, environment, etc. We'll also discuss practical steps to coming up with solutions to these issues.

The meeting will start by taking testimony from creators about our political economic needs. All existing local, state and national creators organizations and institutions are also invited to send representatives and will be encouraged to talk about the scope of their current activities.

At the end of the meeting, attendees will ask ourselves whether we would like to form a new network or not. This will not be a vote, but a simple "stay or go" decision. Those who agree that a new network is needed will indicate their support and commit to further meetings.

Come join us on June 25th so we can start addressing these issues!

Dear Lovers of Circus, Community, Outdoor Fun, and Pancakes,

The OPENAIR Circus is holding a pancake breakfast fundraiser on June 28th from 9-11am at First Church Somerville (89 College Ave).

If you haven't heard of us, we're a Somerville based, non-profit, community circus. We promote an appreciation of arts, community, and promote leadership and self esteem in kids (and adults). Our main program runs for 6 weeks from the end of June through the start of August, culminating in a series of performances where students get to show off the skills they've learned. We keep our registration fees extremely low so students of any economic background can participate. For more details, please visit our website: www.openaircircus.org

Our pancake breakfast is an excellent chance to help us raise the funds to keep our registration fees so low! We'll be serving pancakes (gluten free and regular), eggs, sausage, veggie patties, coffee and O.J. Tickets at the door will be $9/teen or adult (11 years old or older); $5/child (10 years old or younger); $25/family.

For a limited time, tickets can be ordered at a discount rate: $7/teen or adult (11 years old or older); $3/child (10 years old or younger); $20/family. This discount rate is only good until 8pm on Thursday June 26th. Tickets can be purchased at www.openaircircus.org/pancake1.asp.

Registration for our summer program is still open. You can register either online (www.openaircircus.org) or in person at one of our classes (see our schedule at www.openaircircus.org/schedule.asp)

Sincerely,
Peter

Trash Bash 2014
Sunday, June 22
12 N - 6 PM
Uniun Warehouse

Don't miss Trash Bash 2014 - the trashiest event in town this week-end! Come, view and vote for your favorite works of art fashioned out of trash on Sunday, June 22 from 12 N - 6 PM at the Uniun Warehouse, 11 Sanborn Court in Union Square.

We have over 40 adult and youth artists exhibiting their work including creations from last year's Trash Bash winner, William Turville. Additional artists include Melissa Glick, Susan Berstler (SAC's Artist of the Month), Milan Klic, Nason Heywood, Kevin Clancy and more!

A complete list of artists will be available on 3 Graces Productions website at www.3gracesproductions.com.

Tom Champion is our emcee. Music will be provided by the Soulful Souls and 3D and the Greaseballs. Workshops and information tables by Somerville Local First, Next Step Living and Somerville Skillshare will be on hand.

Don't miss our interactive sculpture building activity facilitated by Robert Smith of Minimum Wage Art and fellow artists Nick Wyneken, Brian Morisson, and Kristopher Rout. Harley the Homeless Bison and a new creature will also be making an appearance!

Suggestion donation is $5.00.

This is an ArtsUnion event is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Somerville Arts Council and our amazing Kickstarter supporters!

See you all there!

Seeking artists of various media for its 4th annual Fells Art Month for the month of September, 2014, at the Beebe Estates gallery, 235 West Foster, Melrose, Massachussetts. Opening reception is September 5 from 7-9 pm. Gallery hours are Saturdays from 11-3. This year’s theme is Nature, our most precious resource. We are seeking art that depicts nature under threat, nature being preserved and nature being celebrated. The size limit for hanging art is 20 x 20. Please submit at most 3 samples. No entry fee.

Details/submission

Mike Oliver

781-662-2340
friends@fells.org

I'll Read You Yours, If You Read Me Mine
Wednesday, June 18th
7-9 p.m.
Armory Cafe

Please join nine most innerestin', accomplished and brainy authors, including graphic novelists, music journalists, poets, essayists, video game auteurs, novelists and columnists, for a reading with a twist: they present each other's work rather than their own. The first one was great big fun (ask anyone!), so have a beer or a cupcake (or both) in the intensely chill atmosphere of the Armory Café, and prepare to be vastly entertained.

Note: event is FREE FREE FREE FREE

READERS INCLUDE:
Chris Braiotta
Will Brierly
Beth Castrodale
Maura Johnston
David Ortega
Hanna Rose Shell
Evan Dalton Smith
Jade Sylvan
Gilmore Tamny

FB invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/281892388651084/?source=1
Armory site: http://www.artsatthearmory.org/Events/EventsCalendar/tabid/80/vw/3/ItemID/1398/d/20140618/Default.aspx

The Nave Gallery and the Somerville Arts Council present the 2nd Somerville Squeezebox Slam!
Saturday, June 14 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Locations: Statue Park 12 to 3 PM
7 hills Park 3 to 6 PM
Davis Square

This is a celebration, of accordions, button boxes and other free standing reed instruments. As with the first festival, accordionists of all skill levels and musical genres are invited to stroll around the neighborhoods of Somerville, sharing their melodious sounds, and like pied pipers from an alternative fairy tale, beckon all to come and follow them as they head to Davis Square for a concert of some of New England’s finest squeezebox players. So dust off your grandfather’s squeezebox that’s been sitting in the attic and join us for an afternoon of pumping the bellows! Accordion themed art/crafts will be for sale. Curated by Michael McLaughlin.

From 12-3pm accordionists will stroll around Somerville, ultimately congregating in Davis Sq. Local accordionists bring your boxes, band together or find your own corner and play. There are no rules! This is accordion anarchy. At 3pm, head to Davis Sq. where Lady Kielbasia will get the concert rolling with a group play along, "The Big Squeeze."

Kielbasia is an Accordion-Playing Drag Lunch Lady. She’s been voted Best Drag Queen with an Accordion in San Francisco, and was named Provincetown’s Family Favorite. After a long and illustrious career in cabaret, burlesque, and shameless private party entertainment in San Francisco, Provincetown, LA, and NYC, she is now semi-retired with her kitty and garden in Somerville.

Date
Time
Location
Performance
June 14
3:15 PM
Seven Hills Park
Tom and Barbara Pixton
June 14
3:45 PM
Seven Hills Park
Paul Monte with Tal Shalom-Kobi
June 14
4:15 PM
Seven Hills Park
Alec Redfearn and the Eyesores
June 14
4:45 PM
Seven Hills Park
Christina Crowder with Charles Casimiro
June 14
5:15 PM
Seven Hills Park
Dallas Vietty's Musette Project

WE ARE YOU PROJECT
Amazing Things Art Center/160 Hollis Street, Framingham, MA
Poetry Reading, Sunday, June 22nd
1:00-4:00PM
Readers: Alan Britt, Mike Foldes, Flavia Cosma, Duda Penteado, Gloria Mindock

This reading is part of the WE ARE YOU PROJECT: NEW ENGLAND EDITION
June 19th-Aug. 3rd
A group exhibition of 36 major contemporary Latino artists celebrating the contributions of US-Latinos within America's history.
Reception: 6/21, 5:00-7:00PM
Poetry Reading: 6/22, 1:00 (readers listed above)
Documentary film: 6/25, 7:00PM

I hope to see many of you at this!

Gloria Mindock

The Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID), in conjunction with the Boston Art Commission, announces that the Request for Qualifications for the Freedom Public Art Project in Dorchester, MA is now on-line and open for applications from artists. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 20. There is an open meeting / Q & A session and site visit at the Field House at Doherty-Gibson Park on May 28 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm.

The link to the on-line application is:
https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=1885&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes

There is no fee to apply – all that’s needed is a resume, an artist’s statement and up to 10 images of past work.

Additional information about the Freedom Public Art Project is available on the Viet-AID website at:
http://www.vietaid.org/?page_id=2714

The Selection Panel will announce three finalists from among the applications by July 18. The finalists will then each receive an honorarium to create a site specific proposal. The proposals will be presented at a public meeting October 20, and remain on view for public comment through October. The winning proposal will be announced in early November.

For more information, please contact JeanMineo@aol.com

IN THE CERVENA BARVA PRESS STUDIO

At The Arts for the Armory
Basement, Room B8
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

CERVENA BARVA PRESS READING SERIES
SATURDAY JUNE 21, 7:00PM

Featuring: Alan Britt | Flavia Cosma

Alan Britt served as judge for the 2013 The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. He read poetry and presented the "Modern Trends in U.S. Poetry" at the VII International Writers' Festival in Val-David, Canada, May, 2013. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem(http://www.loc.gov/poetry/media/avfiles/poet-poem-alan-britt.mp3) aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He read poems at the historic Maysles Cinema in Harlem/NYC, February 2013, and the World Trade Center/Tribute WTC Visitor Center in Manhattan/NYC, April 2012. His latest books are Parabola Dreams (with Silvia Scheibli: 2013), Alone with the Terrible Universe (2011).

Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator. She has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. She has published to date thirty six books of poetry, narrative and children's literature. Her work has been represented in numerous anthologies in various countries and languages. Cosma's poetry book Leaves of a Diary was studied at the University of Toronto E. J. Pratt Canadian Literature during the school year 2007-2008. Flavia Cosma is the director of the International Writers' and Artists' Residency, Val-David, Quebec, Canadawww.flaviacosma.com/Val_David.html, and the President of the Biannual International Festivals at Val-David.

Admission is $3.00. Refreshments served.

Directions:
The Center for the Arts is located between Davis Square and Union Square. Parking is located behind the armory at the rear of the building. Arts at the Armory is approximately a 15 minute walk from Davis Square which is on the MTBA Red Line. You can also find us by using either the MBTA RT 88 and RT 90 bus that can be caught either at Lechmere (Green Line) or Davis Square (Red Line). Get off at the Highland Avenue and Lowell Street stop. You can also get to us from Sullivan Square (Orange Line) by using the MBTA RT 90 bus. Get off at the Highland Avenue and Benton Road stop.

Summer is always an exciting time at CAA - as the weather warms up, we kick into high gear of planning for the next exhibition season! And while we plan, we celebrate the talents of our amazing Artist Members through two shows: a new, postcard show - Wish You Were Here - and our annual New Members Show. I hope you will mark your calendar for Friday, July 11, 6-8pm, and celebrate the openings of both shows with us! Both are a great chance to connect with local artists and buy original, local art - for as little as $25!

Tonight, the Association hosts our 69th Annual Meeting, from 6:30-8pm! At this annual gathering of the membership we introduce our newest Board of Directors and celebrate the accomplishments of the Association over the last twelve months. I hope you can join us!

Best regards,

Erin Becker
Norma Jean Calderwood Director

SUPPORT CAA

As we approach our 70th year as an association, and the state works to slash funding for the arts, your support is more crucial than ever!

Please consider making a donation TODAY to support CAA's 70th exhibition year, our Creative Lab outreach program, and so many other event that work to build a community of artists and art supporters.

69th Annual Meeting
Tuesday, June 10, 6:30-8:00pm
at the Lowell School Park (Kathryn Schultz Gallery in event of rain)

Join us for our 69th Annual Meeting, to mix and mingle with CAA members and friends, and vote on the slate of Directors and Officers for our 2014/15 Board of Directors!
Please RSVP to Cory Shea at info@cambridgeart.org

Summer Potluck!
Wednesday, July 16, 6-8pm
Join us for our second summer of informal gatherings! This evening includes a discussion with our special guest, CAA Artist Member Elena Li!
RSVP required; free and open to the public

Figure Drawing
Every Sunday, 10am-1pm
$15 drop-in fee
at Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Final regular session: Sunday, June 15
The informal summer studio has been cancelled.

CURRENT EXHIBITS

13th National Prize Show
Juried by Dr. James Welu
Director Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum
Through June 26, 2014
At the Kathryn Schultz Gallery and University Place Gallery

(Image at right: Best in Show winner "Kaitlyn, BAGLY Prom" by Zoe Perry-Wood)

Roz Sommer
Through June 10, 2014
University Place Management Office
124 Mt. Auburn Street

Susan Johnson
Through September 8, 2014
Eastern Bank, Kendall Square
One Broadway, Cambridge MA

UPCOMING EXHIBITS

New Members Show
July 8 - August 29, 2014
Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 6-8pm
at University Place Gallery


Wish You Were Here (W.Y.W.H.)
July 9 - 31, 2014
Opening reception and Sale: Friday, July 11, 6-8:30pm
at Kathryn Schultz Gallery

A summer postcard show and sale, with proceeds benefiting the CAA.
Interested in participating in WYWH here? Contact us

info@cambridgeart.org

and we'll send you a blank postcard!

John Cage, Variations III
100 musicians, 90 minute performance
In honor of Lou Cohen

Concert curated by Tim Feeney and Lou Bunk

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Sunday, June 29, 2014 (SPECIAL DAY)

The Center for Arts at the Armory (SPECIAL LOCATION)
191 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA

Bar opens at 5:30 pm (Come early and celebrate with us)

Music at 7pm

FREE admission
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As our season finale, we are planning a 100 person version of John Cages Variations III. We will set up shop in the large and beautiful space in the Somerville Armory. Filling every corner of the hall and the mezzanine, we will create pathways and multiple sitting areas among the performers. The audience will be invited to walk among the performers and to stop and observe for a while at different vantage points. The act of moving from place to place will create different mixes depending on proximity to the performer.

Tim Feeney, Opensound’s founder, will return to co-curate with Lou Bunk. This performance is dedicated to our loved and missed friend Lou Cohen, who co-directed Opensound for many years and always ended the season with a performance of Variations III.
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Opensound is a Greater Boston concert series featuring improvisers and interpreters of avant-garde, experimental, acoustic, and electro- acoustic music. We program monthly concerts featuring local and touring musicians, sound artists, and the un-categorize-able. Hailing from disparate backgrounds, styles, and genres, our musicians, dancers, video and performance artists, form a vibrant community that presents unique events in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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More information available on the web: www.opensound.org

Trash Bash 2014 needs your help! With the assistance of artists Robert Smith (Minimum Wage Art) and Nick Wyneken, the public will have the chance to build a sculpture out of these old bamboo chairs and other bamboo structures at Trash Bash in nearby Stone Place Park, weather permitting, on June 22.

Do you have one of these in your garage or apartment that you've always wanted to get rid of? If so, we would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at info@3gracesproductions.com.

Thanks!
__________________________
Debra McLaughlin, Partner
3 Graces Productions
deb@3gracesproductions.com
www.3gracesproductions.com
617.863.6306

The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Woods, Music Director, presents
Cambridge Symphony Chamber Players
performing chamber music by Brahms, Ravel and others.

The chamber music is free and open to the public, on Friday, June 13 at 8:00 PM. Food and drink will be available for purchase. The Arts at the Armory Cafe is located at 191 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA 02143. The venue has limited seating; please arrive early for best seats.

This event is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

www.cambridgesymphony.org

Dear Somerville fans of community, family, unique, outdoor fun,

The OPENAIR Circus is happy to announce online registration has begun for its 29th annual summer program. Membership in the OPENAIR Circus starts as low as $20, which allows a child to sign up for as many as 9 classes for the 6 week program. Classes will begin June 24th and run through July 24th. The last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of July will see students rehearsing for their 4 performances under the big top to be held on August 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Every summer, approximately 200 students come together for this 6 week program, will you be one of them in 2014?

Online registration can be found at www.openaircircus.org/
The schedule for the summer can be found at

www.openaircircus.org/schedule.asp

Please contact us at

peter_jehlen@openaircircus.org

with any questions.

Sincerely,
Peter

JUNE PROGRAMS offered by Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation and the Cambridge Water Department

Monday, June 9 – A Tour of the Water Purification Facility – led by CWD Staff
Monday, June 9 – Community Weed-Out: Meadow Patrol – led by Kirsten Lindquist

Tuesday, June 10 – Edible Wild Plants at Fresh Pond – led by Russ Cohen

Monday, June 16 – Evening Plant Identification Walk – led by Ted Elliman

Saturday, June 21 – Summer Solstice Evening Bird Walk - led by Nancy Guppy

Monday, June 23 – Woodland Habitat Restoration Tour – Led by Habitat Stewards

Saturday, June 28 – What's in the Butterfly Meadow? – led by Tom Murray

Sunday, June 29 – Nesting Bird Walk – led by Nancy Guppy

Complete descriptions with registration and meeting place information are posted on the Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation website at http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org/upcomingprograms.htm

If you wish to attend a program, please sign up using the registration information included in the description for that program.

You can scroll down the webpage for links to other information:
· Grow Native Massachusetts’ “Evening with Experts” lectures at the Cambridge Public Library
· Cambridge Recycling Webpage
· Cambridge Water Department volunteer opportunities and other 2014 programs.

If you no longer wish to receive these announcements, please send us a return e-mail with the message UNSUBSCRIBE

friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com

Elizabeth and Elizabeth

Applicant will work with Arts Council director and Mystic Mural project director to coordinate and lead fieldtrips and explorations focused on the Mystic River and local environs. Applicant will provide an experiential learning environment for teen-age youth participating in the Mural project. Applicant will lead trips and/or coordinator with other local environmental leaders to lead trips. Topics to address are: flora/fauna, environmental justice, invasive species, water quality, and historical commercial and industry uses of the river.

Scope of Service:

· Provide experiential learning for 8 to 12 youth to learn about the Mystic River and its environs.
· Collaborate with Mural Artist to develop environmental theme for the summer program.
· Collaborate and coordinate with other agencies and specialists to enrich the youth muralists’ experience and knowledge through approximately seven fieldtrips.
· Develop a 10-topic questionnaire/evaluation to use as a pre/post assessment for the program.
· Produce a short report detailing trips conducted, themes explored and contact list of non-profit partners.
· Access to transportation

Compensation

Approximately 55 hours for a total compensation $1100

Timeline

Program starts July 7, 2014 and continues for 4 weeks.

How to apply

Please address how your experience can serve our needs.

Send a resume with short email letter to: Gregory Jenkins at gjenkins@somervillema.gov

Open until filled.

Posted 5/9/14

Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
City of Somerville
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone

Join us for the 35th Cambridge Arts River Festival
Saturday, June 7, 2014 12noon-6pm

Cambridge Arts is bringing the River to Central Square this year!

Come see some of your favorite Somerville bands and visual artists including Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, The Blue Ribbons, Project Mum, Meagan O'brien, and many more!

Join us for a day full of performance and interactive art. Gather at 11:30 with noise makers and masks at Jill Brown Rhone Park for a promenade with Revolutionary Snake Ensemble to kick off the Festival. The party continues along Mass Ave and up Sidney Street with 6 stages: including Family & Children Stage; Dance Stage produced by Dance Complex, Green St. Studios & Dance for World Community- Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre; Indie, Rock & Alternative Stage produced by Middle East Nightclub; Theater Stage produced by Central Square Theater; Jazz Stage produced by The Jazz Café from The Multicultural Art Center; and Folk Stage produced by TOAD/Lizard Lounge. You will also find pop up playgrounds. Sidewalk Sam, temporary art by Project MUM, Beer Gardens and much, much more!

See the schedule here: www.cambridgeartscouncil.org

FIGMENT welcomes works in every imaginable medium including sculpture, installation, performance, music, workshops, games, experiences, site-specific pieces, social experiments, and anything else you can dream of. We invite any project that inspires visitors to participate and interact with art. Come share with your FIGMENT friends and the Boston public at the Rose Kennedy Greenway for our 2014 event!

Details:

http://boston.figmentproject.org/submit_a_project

I'll Read You Yours, If You Read Me Mine

Please join nine most innerestin', accomplished and brainy authors, including graphic novelists, music journalists, poets, essayists, video game auteurs, novelists and columnists, for a reading with a twist: they present each other's work rather than their own. The first one was great big fun (ask anyone!), so have a beer or a cupcake (or both) in the intensely chill atmosphere of the Armory Café, and prepare to be vastly entertained.

READERS INCLUDE:
Chris Braiotta
Will Brierly
Beth Castrodale
Maura Johnston
David Ortega
Hanna Rose Shell
Evan Dalton Smith
Jade Sylvan
Gilmore Tamny

The FB invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/281892388651084/?fref=ts

The Somerville Arts Council, in conjuntion with East Somerville Main Streets, seeks a muralist for a highly visible public art project: a large outdoor mural at 2-8 Broadway Street. The site sits incredibly close, 1,000 feet, to the Sullivan Square train station. The City’s annual pedestrian counts show that during the evening peak hours, over 400 people walk past this site.The mural will be painted on 6 4’x8’ pannels and attached to the side of the building. Compensation: $2,500 for supplies and labor.

Details:

artscouncil.somerville@gmail.com

Somerville Arts Council presents
Deborah Mason, Youth Dance Company

Saturday, June 7, 7:00 PM
(Rain Date: Sun., June 8th)
Magoun Square/CVS lot
532 Medford St.
Deborah Mason, who recently moved the school of dance to Somerville, will be presenting the History of Tap (HOT), a brief history and interpretation of the evolution of tap dance.

Youth Dance Program is a pre-professional dance company developed and designed for dedicated dance students. The company/YDP has performed for local schools and has toured to John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wash, D.C., Smithsonian Museum Jazz Music Festival, Wash, D.C., and the Duke Ellington Theater, Wash, D.C

Deborah Manson School of Dance relies on support to ensure the enrichment of artistic education and youth development. By joining them, you will be sharing ownership of the issues that concern our whole community, and sharing the road to making the community a better place to live. The road to our community's future, an engaged community, is the only road to significant and lasting change.

The Youth Program provides access to dance by granting financial assistance, engaging in community outreach activities, and acting as an advocate for dance education.

For more information on this event and the full Dancing in the Streets series go to:

http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/dancefest

Hello-

I would like to invite you to view my photography and printing services at First Friday Open Studios, this Friday, June 6th, from 5-9 pm, at 450 Harrison Ave., Studio 227, Boston, MA.

For the next 3 months, I am proud and excited to also host the photography of Stephen Lewontin, longtime photographer and photojournalist. I have worked closely with Steve preparing the photos for this exhibit, beginning with drum scanning his vintage slides and negatives and consulting on photo selection. I edited the images to emphasize and clarify his vision, reviewed the proofs with him, and did the final prints and framing. Those of you who have been in my studio over the last year will have seen proofs of his dramatic photos from Chile and Central America!

The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Woods, Music Director, presents the Cambridge Symphony Chamber Players featuring chamber music by Brahms, Ravel and others.

The concert is free and open to the public, on Sunday, June 8 at 3:00 PM. Somerville Public Library is located at 79 Highland Ave., Somerville, MA 02143. The venue has limited seating; please arrive early to assure best seats.

This event is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by the Friends of the Somerville Public Library.

www.cambridgesymphony.org

It’s that time of year again !

What the Fluff? is a unique Somerville festival dedicated to food, invention and art that celebrates Archibald Query, Somerville resident and inventor of Marshmallow Fluff. Each year the residents of Somerville collaborate on a huge festival that features activities, music, food and fun for Fluff fans of all ages.

This year’s What the Fluff? Festival is steampunk-inspired – yeah, it’s Steam-Fluff ! — and will take place on Saturday, September 27 in Union Square Somerville. (Rain date is Sunday, September 28.) We’re kicking it up yet another notch this year and are scheming for the evening before the festival to host a Fluffernutter Fun Run from Union to Davis and back with appropriate refreshments along the way.

Join us for a session of brainstorming, planning and organizing this Tuesday, June 10 at 7PM in the Design Annex located at 66 Union Square, Suite 103, Somerville. That’s upstairs from Precinct right on the plaza.

We're looking for performers, artists, graphic designers, photographers, costume designers, game-makers, mad-cappers, instigators, play mavens of any and all sorts to join us.

Interested volunteers and collaborators, both new and seasoned, are invited to meet this summer’s staff, hear what we have planned so far, and offer ideas, suggestions, inspiration and help to make this year’s festival the best one ever!

Bring your thoughts and your friends to this fun, casual meeting about one of Somerville’s favorite yearly events!

To learn more about the festival:
https://unionsquaremain.org/fluff-festival/

For more information about this meeting:
mimi@unionsquaremain.org

The Women's Transportation Seminar Boston Charitable Fund, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Request for Qualifications for the Women in Movement public art project in Boston's historic South Station is on-line and open for applications. All that’s needed is a resume, an artist’s statement and up to 10 images of past work. Budget: $150,000. No entry fee.

Details:

508-242-9991
http://www.wtsbostonpublicart.com
JeanMineo@aol.com

Workshop: The Ins & Outs of Holgas and Toy Cameras

June 7, noon-2:00 PM
Nave Gallery

Join Holga Queen Michelle Bates for the inside scoop on
toy cameras.


Artist Talk
Michelle Bates

June 8, 2:00PM-3:00 PM
Nave Gallery

Michelle Bates discusses her personal library of toy
camera photograpy.


Panel Discussion
"One Word: Plastics!"

June 22, 3:00PM-4:30 PM
Brickbottom Art Gallery

Bill Franson, James Rohan, Meg Birnbaum, and Elizabeth Ellenwood talk toy cameras.

A Series of Free Puppet Performances

3 puppet performances in east Somerville

June 10, June 20 & June 26 — FREE!

About the Series

As the summer event season approaches, the Somerville Arts Council is launching yet another city wide event series that will take place throughout Somerville. Events such as PorchFEST, Dancing in the Streets, and Puppet Palooza allows the community to participate, interact, and engage in non-traditional ways while cultivating the idea of Somerville as a cultural arts incubator without walls.


Puppet Palooza is collaboration between the Somerville Arts Council and East Somerville Main Streets as part of the This is East programming--an event series designed to bring the art of puppetry to east Somerville in unexpected places. Join us in East Somerville for a three-part puppetry extravaganza. This June, we’ll hit the streets, courtyards and parks, showcasing local, national, and international performing companies. Great for kids and adults and 100% free.
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/puppet/2014

Dream Tale Puppet Theater presents: “Jack & the Beanstalk”

Tuesday, June 10 at 6:00pm (rain date: 6/12, 6:00pm)

Glen Park at the Capuano School, 150 Glen Street

Jack and the Beanstalk is a joyous, original adaptation of the classic tale about poor Jack who went to sell his cow and came home with three magic beans. Jack’s daring adventure up the huge beanstalk helps him and his mother out of their difficult financial situation, even if his mother is a bit worried about the moral issues surrounding this unusual way to acquire wealth. The show is created in a Story and Puppet Time format where one performer provides narration and gives voices to the characters and a second performer operates hand puppets, figure puppets, and a marionette, and performs in mask.

website info: http://www.dreamtalepuppets.org

Bonnie Duncan presents: “Squirrel Stole My Underpants”

Friday, June 20 at 6:00pm

Connexion, 149 Broadway

Sylvie is sent to the backyard to hang up the laundry. The moment her back is turned, a mischievous squirrel steals her favorite piece of clothing and runs off. When Sylvie gives chase, an entire world emerges from her laundry basket, and curious characters show her the way through mysterious lands. Will our lonely heroine rescue her underpants and discover the magic within herself? Join us on this adventure to find out! Described as “an artful world of silent dreams, mime, and dance”, this pieces brilliantly uses a wonderful seamlessly blends puppetry with other forms of performance--fun for the young and the young at heart.

website info: http://www.bonnie-duncan.com

Tanglewood Marionettes presents: “Fairy Circus”

Thursday, June 26, 6:00pm (rain date: 6/27, 6:00pm)

Chuckie Harris Park, 3-17 Cross Street

Spring is in the air; and some mischievous fairies have awoken from a long winter slumber and want to play. Come in and join the fun. You are invited you to be a spectator at this dazzling display of circus acts performed in an enchanted garden. Featuring over twenty beautifully hand-crafted marionettes, The Fairy Circus is a showcase for turn-of-the-century-style trick puppetry. The puppets will dance, play instruments, juggle, contort, transform, and fly through the air with the greatest of ease, all to the best-loved music of favorite composers.

website info: http://www.tanglewoodmarionettes.com
Heather Balchunas
Office Manager
Somerville Arts Council
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
617.625.6600 ext. 2985

Arlington Community Media, inc is running its second-annual short animation festival on August 8th. We had a great crowd last year and we hope this one is even better! No entry fee.

Submit to:

85 Park Ave
Arlington MA 02476

jessica@acmi.tv

"How we get by" is a group exploration of how artists earn their money for living and creative expenses. While making money from creative work is the ideal, the fact is that most of us earn most of our money in other ways. The fact that we live in a very expensive city only makes things trickier.

A dozen invited artists will share information on their income sources, living costs, and how this affects their creative work. Representatives of artist coops and art organizations will also be on hand to put their two cents in. Members of the audience will be welcome to share their experiences as well, and add to the discussion on how we can all learn to get by better.

Speakers:
Andi Sutton
Dave Ortega
Dirk Adams
Emily Garfield
Greg Cook
Greg Jenkins
Heather Kapplow
Jason Pramas
Melinda Cross
Shea Justice
Tim Devin

This event is put together by Matt Kaliner, Jason Pramas, and Tim Devin.

Wed., June 4, 2014, 7pm
University Commons
University Hall basement (take stairs next to the Lesley University bookstore down)
Lesley University
1815 Mass. Ave.
Porter Square, Cambridge, MA

website: http://www.howwegetby.org/
FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/742991272390054/