Art & Cultural Events List

SOMERVILLE BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY OPENING - Feb 2 - Mar 3, 2012

2012-01-31T22:52:00.000-08:00

New Exhibition in the Brickbottom Gallery! Familiar Faces: Family and Self Portraits, February 2 - March 3, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 5, 5-7pm, Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12-5

Artists: Sandra Allik, Sherry Autor, Bill Chisholm, Michael Crockett, Lois Fiore (curator), Cynthia Frost, Lou Gippetti, Cynthia Maurice, Susan Schmidt, and David Sholl.

Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville, MA 02143, 617-776-3410

www.brickbottom.com, brickbottomartist@rcn.com

SOMERVILLE SUPER-8 FILMMAKING COURSE - February 4, 2012

2012-01-30T09:37:00.000-08:00

CLASS MEETS AT Somerville Community Access TV, 90 Union Square in Somerville
CALL 617-628-8826 or email membership@access-scat.org to register

This fun course will be co-taught by Tara and Gordon Nelson. Tara Nelson recently received her MFA in Film from MassArt and has been busy getting her films into festivals, including the prestigious Views of the Avant Garde at the Lincoln Center in NYC. Gordon Nelson is an old-school film artist who has been teaching super-8 classes since 1998. This is a rare opportunity to experiment with a non-intimidating all-analog moving picture medium where users gain precise control of the image.

Course Description: No video format can replicate the unique “look” of film and this course will cover the basics of working with this special format. Using a Super-8 camera, students will shoot their own rolls of film and edit their movies using either traditional splicing or digital techniques. We will also cover some "direct animation" styles, such as hand-painting, tinting, and scratching the film. At the end of the course, we will hold a screening in SCATV's studio. In addition to the tuition fee, students should plan to spend $50 for film and processing costs.

Instructors: Tara and Gordon Nelson
Meets 4 Saturdays
February 4, 11, 25, March 3, Noon-2:30pm
Cost: $60 members, $100 non-members

MIT MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES - February 13, 2012 through April 23, 2012

2012-01-27T19:37:00.000-08:00

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2012 Monday Nights Lecture Series
Experiments in Thinking, Action and Form

Mark your calendars!
Mondays, 7–9 PM
ACT Cube, Wiesner Building (E15-001)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

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February 13
What Do Artists Know?
Contemporary Responses to the Deskilling of Art
Michael Corris, Professor/Chair of Studio Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

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March 5
Re-representations and Simulations
Bruce Yonemoto, Professor of Studio Art in Video, Experimental Media, and Film Theory, University of California, Irvine

In conversation with Stephen Prina, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University

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March 12
Archipelago Logic: Towards Sustainable Futures
Taru Elfving, Artistic Director, Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA), Finland

In conversation with:
Renée Green, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Nomeda Urbonas, ACT Fellow, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

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April 2
Playback: Broadcast Experiments 1970 and Now
Gloria Sutton, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston

Respondent: João Ribas, Curator, MIT List Visual Art Center

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April 9
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology
Muntadas, Professor of the Practice, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology

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April 23
Sound and Semiocapitalism:
Affective Labor and the Metaphysics of the Real
Michael Eng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
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On View
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Disobedience Archive
Exhibition extended through April 15, 2012.
http://disobedience.mit.edu/
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Faculty News
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Azra Aksamija in Cube or Dome. Mosques – New Ways of Building, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Stuttgart
Azra Aksamija in Heimatkunde: Eine kosmopolitische Inventur (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home), Jewish Museum Berlin
Andrea Frank Exhibit Systems, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
Renée Green Book Launch in NY, Participant INC
Muntadas Exhibit Information>>Space>>Control, Bronx Museum
• Critics Pick in Art Forum: http://alturl.com/kspyg
Muntadas Exhibit Entre/Between, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
• Reviewed in Wall Street Journal: http://alturl.com/42dkb
Muntadas Lecture at Parsons New School of Design, March 7
Angel Nevarez in Shifters, City University of New York
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For further information, contact ACT Public Programs Coordinator Laura Anca Chichisan at clauraa@mit.edu or 617-253-4415. Calendar can be viewed and downloaded at http://bit.ly/act-spring-lectures-cal.
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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E15-212
Cambridge MA 02139-4307

act.mit.edu
617-253-5229

FEBRUARY PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION

2012-01-22T10:03:00.000-08:00

These events are free and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. You will receive directions and information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com.

ANIMAL TRACKS AND SIGNS
Saturday, February 4
1 to 3 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Many wild animals that we think of as living only in remote wilderness have, in recent years, filtered into urban settings and are using parks like Fresh Pond as hunting grounds and refuges. Although these animals, hiding in the night or in foliage, are seldom seen directly, their presence can be detected by the tracks and signs they leave behind. Tracker David Brown leads a program using slides and plaster casts to familiarize you with some of this evidence so that you can go out and look for yourself. If the conditions are good, we will also go outside to look for prints, so please dress accordingly. You must register for this program.

A VIRTUAL FRESH POND WALKABOUT
Monday February 6
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Cambridge Watershed Manager Chip Norton will lead us on a virtual tour of the Reservation’s new and future restoration projects. In the comfort of the Water Department conference room, he will use photos, maps, and illustrations to describe the challenges and goals of these efforts to keep our drinking water pure and to create healthy natural habitats for plants and the animals that live among them. Bring your questions! You must register for this program. Snow date is Monday, February 13.

LICHENS ARE EVERYWHERE!
Saturday, February 11
1 to 3 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Elizabeth Kneiper, a naturalist with a special interest in lichens, will introduce us to the characteristics and biology of the plant worlds' most interesting composite organisms – lichens. Most people hardly notice these plants that grow on most moist surfaces and give character to rocks and old trees. Using photos and specimens, we will study a variety of common local species. This program will be held indoors.

BATS: NOT RATS, NOT BLIND, NOT RABID
Sunday, February 26
2 to 4 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Some people are afraid of them, but bats provide us with a huge benefit, each one eating thousands of insects every night. Nathan Fuller, an expert on bats, will help us get better acquainted with these small flying mammals: their diversity, their lifestyles, and the 21st century dangers they face from disease and climate change.

*** This winter and spring Grow Native Massachusetts is offering a series of free nature-related lectures at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. The details are at www.grownativemass.org.

Somerville Theater Event

2012-01-20T22:50:00.000-08:00

Calling all kids, parents, and fairy tale lovers!!

Looking to warm up your imaginations and beat the winter blues? Join us for this brand new, fiercely fun show presented by The CoLab Theatre Company!

Double, double toil and bubbles,

Archie's parents turned into apples - and now he's got troubles!

Will he be able to turn them back before time runs out? Find out as Archie, and his friend, Little Red Riding Hood, embark on this mixed up tale of magic, courage, and a whole lot of apple strudel!

"Don't Eat the Apples"

by

Erika Geller, Burt Hill and Lily Borg

Jan 28th @ 11am

Feb 11th @ 11am & 2pm

Performed downstairs at:

Unity Somerville

6 William St.

Somerville, MA 02144

Tickets available at the door and online at www.colabtheatre.org!

or http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219457

Parent and Child - $12

Each additional child - $2

Adults - $7

This show is suitable for children ages three and up. Please email Erika at colabtheatre@gmail.com with any questions. Mark your calendars for adventure - we'll see you at the theatre!

The CoLab, a budding fringe theatre company in the Greater Boston Area, is devoted not only to producing new theatre, but building new audiences, starting at the local level. This season, we thought about what that really means and we decided we would start 2012 by appealing to perhaps our most important audience, its children. The future of The Arts in America and in Boston lies with our youngest viewers, who will become the audiences of tomorrow. While we think BIG theatre is great, many people believe that they have to spend lots of money on a big budget musical on Broadway every time they want to experience the theatre. By bringing Don't Eat The Apples to Somerville, we're hoping to show both parents and children that theatre can be enjoyable, affordable, and in their own backyard.

Playwright Erika Geller spent most of her summer nannying in Somerville where she attended many sing-a-longs and story hours, but no plays. By talking with other nannies, moms, and dads, she realized how many families were looking to expose their children to the arts, and how few affordable opportunities there were to do it. When it came to a venue for the show, the Somerville area was the first to come to her mind as it already has such a huge arts community for adults - why shouldn't there more opportunity for its smallest citizens to experience the theatre? As the cold weather hits, Don't Eat The Apples provides the perfect opportunity to make a happy memory with your family at the theatre, without leaving the neighborhood or breaking the bank!

The cast also features three Somerville Resident Actors: Alyce Householter, Bob Mussett and Tim Hoover

LYNN ARTS WINTER SCHEDULE

2012-01-18T08:56:00.000-08:00

Contact: Susan Halter
781-598-5244
www.lynnarts.org

LynnArts Announces Winter Programming Schedule

Lynn, MA – Winter programming begins this week at LynnArts with a Call for
Work for the February gallery show, ON AND OF PAPER. The show will be
juried by Stacy Thomas-Vikory. Ms. Thomas-Vikory received her BFA in
Printmaking from Montserrat College of Art and her MFA in Printmaking and
Drawing from SUNY at Buffalo. Her selected juried exhibitions include 30th
Anniversary Show and 25 Years, 25 Artists, Montserrat College of Art; Mondo
Tera Firma and Small in a Big Big World, The Cloister Gallery, Marblehead,
MA; The Landscape Reconsidered: Collage, Assemblage & Montage, the Gibbs
Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA (Fall, 2002). Her
work is included in numerous private collections and in The New American
Paintings Catalog, February 1998. She currently teaches Book Arts, Painting
and Drawing, and Printmaking at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.

Artists interested in submitting their work can download guidelines from the
LynnArts website, www.lynnarts.org
Winter Workshops

This winter LynnArts will offer a series of art workshops open to anyone
interested in expanding their creative horizons. No prior experience is
required for any workshop and all materials will be supplied. You can
register for workshops on-line (fees apply) or in person at 25 Exchange St.
during regular business hours. Workshops are $20 for members, $25 for
non-members.

February 9
6-8 PM
BE MY VALENTINE CARD MAKING PARTY
Instructor: Linda Germain

Come create fund cards for your valentine, best friend, grandmother or
anyone you want to tell you care! Participants will use a variety of
printmaking techniques, stencils, relief blocks stamps, collage and more to
make unique cards for loved ones.

February 11
11 AM – 2 PM
MANDALA
Instructor: Dottie Doucette

Mandala means circle. It represents wholeness and is seen as a structure of
self. Awareness of the Mandala may have the potential of how we see
ourselves and even our own purpose. This creative workshop will include the
history of Mandala and a short meditation period. You will then create a
fantastic visual using geometric shapes and acrylics. (Feel free to bring a
pillow/cushion for the meditation). “…This group Mandala class is a unifying
experience in which people can express themselves individually within their
beliefs and visions”. –Instructor, Dottie Doucette.

March 3
2 – 4 PM
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Instructor: Paula Beaulieu, Med

Businesses today are looking for people who can think playfully or
creatively, “out-of-the-box,” as they say. Workers need to spend
unstructured time in acts of imagination in order to tap into their playful
side where they can create, invent, stretch, and dream of what could be.
Through this guided hands-on art workshop, participants will be lead in a
series of exercises designed to help them tap into that source of innate
creativity where their playful side exists so they can be more open to new
ideas and possibilities as the New Year unfolds.

March 10
11 AM – 2 PM
CREATING THE STORY OF US
Child/Parent workshop
Instructor: Dana DiNatale

Creating the Story of Us is a workshop inspired by the new magazine Create
with Me. Families will create a 3D mixed media artwork/sculpture telling the
story of your familiy, a representation of your life, history and family. A
family tree of sorts, that is open to interpretation. Using different
materials such as collage, paint, recyclables, embellishments and the like
artists will explore techniques and the art process while experiencing
working together. Participants should feel free to bring in photographs
and/or found objects to include in the project.

Art Explorers Vacation Week Programming for Youth

FEBRUARY PROGRAM
SHAPE SHIFTING WITH PEM! ages 6 to 12
Tue., February, 21 to Fri., February 24.
9:00AM - 3:00 PM $150.00, extended day and scholarships available
Fee includes registration and materials.

Students will start their week at the Peabody Essex Museum where they’ll
enjoy artist’s demos, art projects and a tour of the Museum, then continue
the theme at LA with arts programming in the morning and theater in the
afternoon. REGISTER BY FEBRUARY 10th! Registration forms available at
www.lynnarts.org. Register now for the whole summer.

In the Neal Rantoul Black Box Theater

January 19-28
Arts After Hours presents
I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE

Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro, Music by Jimmy Roberts a romantic musical
voyage from the single years to the senior years... LynnArts, 25 Exchange
Street Tickets now on sale at www.artsafterhours.com
or by calling 781-205-4010. Tickets $20-$25, all matinees $20.

ALLOY ORCHESTRA AT SOMERVILLE THEATRE - February 4, 2012

2011-12-10T00:51:00.000-08:00

Date: Saturday, February 4, 8pm

Name: ALLOY ORCHESTRA / WILD AND WEIRD

Location: Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville, 02238

Description: Wild and Weird, Alloy Orchestra's newest collection of short silent movies, collects some of the oddest examples of early filmmaking you're likely to see. Included are Wadislaw Starewicz's 1912 The Cameraman's Revenge, a soap opera of animated insects; Hans Richter's 1926 Dadaist masterpiece Filmstudie; Edwin S. Porter's 1906 Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, which explores a the hallucinations brought on to a man who has eaten too much rich food, and Princess Nicotine or the Smoke Fairy, about an impish sprite living in a gentleman's pipe. Tremendously entertaining, fast paced, truly wild and weird, these films will dispel any preconceptions you might have about silent films. And, of course, Alloy's audacious scores make these mini masterpieces all the more fun.

Tickets: $25

Website: http://www.worldmusic.org/alloy-orchestra-0-903

SOMERVILLE GEOCACHING ADVENTURE - February 24, 2012

2011-12-06T08:41:00.000-08:00

All nine shrines of the "Geocaching Urban Shrines" project are now hidden all over Somerville. Get off the couch and have fun while exploring parts of the city that you might not have known about. You may win a prize!

For more information, see www.paulinelim.net/GeocachingUrbanShrines

To read the "Somerville Journal" article about this project, see:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/features/x729317129/Somerville-artist-launches-hide-and-seek-Urban-Shrines-Project#axzz1ekHYmWyj

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Pauline Lim
Brickbottom Artists Building
One Fitchburg St. C414
Somerville, MA 02143-2128
(617) 623-8842

Check out my art and music website: www.paulinelim.net

SOMERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING - December 15, 2011

2011-12-04T16:44:00.000-08:00

Mass 1978: a FREE COMMUNITY SCREENING of two 1978 documentaries about cities in transition, both filmed in Massachusetts:

When: Thursday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m.

Where: Somerville Public Library, 79 Highland Ave

Coordinated by Nellie Kluz as part of a community benefit for a Somerville Arts Council LCC fellowship grant.

MISSION HILL AND THE MIRACLE OF BOSTON
by Richard Broadman (60 min)

"The story of what happened to Mission Hill is the story of many of America's older ethnic neighborhoods. Seventy years ago, Mission Hill was an Irish neighborhood of homes and small stores in which people lived near their schools, their church, and their shopping area. But between 1940 and 1980 it changed: thousands of units of public housing were built and decayed there. Nearby hospitals expanded, displacing people from their homes. Developers and speculators bought and sold property and built twenty-story apartment houses. A new, poor population and an affluent professional population arrived to compete for parts of the old neighborhood."

http://www.der.org/films/mission-hill.html

IF IT FITS
by John Marshall (58 minutes)

"The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a ghost town where you expect to see tumbleweeds come rolling down Main Street." This film examines a dying industrial town and its politicians' search for votes over such issues as municipal spending, rising taxes, the revitalization of depressed areas, and attracting new industry. The film's central event is the 1976 Mayoral election."

http://www.der.org/films/if-it-fits.html

Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org

SOMERVILLE BLOC 11 CAFE EXHIBITION OPENING - November 15 - January 2, 2012

2011-12-02T08:09:00.000-08:00

Please join Rifrákt tomorrow, Saturday December 3rd for our opening reception at Bloc 11 Cafe in Union Square!

From 5-7 pm view artwork on display and available to purchase by Rifrákt Artist Collective. Complimentary hors d'oeuvre from Bloc 11! A special performance by local musician Heather Smist will start at 6pm.

See you there!

On display November 15 - January 2nd 2012

Work by:
Leah Cunningham
Sarah Gay
Stephanie Goode
Carolyn Hulbert
Nick Kent
Aaron Morris
Chris O'Neill

Saturday December 3rd : 5-7pm
Bloc 11 Cafe
11 Bow Street
Somerville, MA

www.rifrakt.com
www.rifrakt.tumblr.com
www.bloc11.com

Facebook Invite!
http://www.facebook.com/events/266951486685820

CALL FOR BOSTON AREA ARTISTS - December 31, 2011

2011-11-30T21:11:00.001-08:00

Illuminations is a rotating art exhibit housed in the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, designed to enhance our environment of care. We feature the work of several local artists, representing various media, for four months at a time. Works are chosen that shed light on the human experience and inspire viewers to expand their vision of life. The exhibit is intended to offer enlightenment and encouragement to patients, families, staff and friends of the Cancer Center as they receive care, provide care, or accompany loved ones.

Details:

http://www.massgeneral.org/cancer/illuminations/illuminations.aspx

SOMERVILLE RECYCLING TOTER PHOTO CONTEST - December 13, 2011

2011-11-30T21:02:00.001-08:00

Let your creativity run wild with ideas for photos of your Zero-Sort toter recycling cart. We’re looking for both serious and silly photos of your toter either in use or, perhaps, out on the town. The winner will receive a $50 gift card to the Somerville Winter Farmers Market and some unusual bragging rights: the Mayor will personally pick up your recycling.

Details:

http://somervilleresistat.blogspot.com/2011/11/somerville-calls-for-best-and-silliest.html

SOMERVILLE ART CENTER SEEKS INSTRUCTORS - December 16, 2011

2011-11-30T17:40:00.000-08:00

We are now assembling a schedule of art classes for young people for our February and April School Vacation Week 2012 pARTicipate! Arts Program. These sessions will run from February 20 through February 24, 2012 and April 16 through April 20, 2012. If you are interested in teaching a class, we would like to invite you to submit a proposal no later than Friday, December 16, 2011 by 5 PM. It is a unique opportunity for you to join the growing community of artists at the Armory that have provided a vast array of arts and cultural programming to-date.

Arts at the Armory staff will be responsible for the registration of your class, acting as a liaison between you and the students. You have the option of offering classes for the entire week period (for each school vacation week) or tailoring your proposal to meet your scheduling and other needs within this time-frame. You can propose single or multiple class sessions either for youth. Enclosed is our application where you can provide additional information.

If you should have any questions regarding the above or the attached application, please contact us at Arts at the Armory 617.718.2191 or send us an e-mail:

afterschool@artsatthearmory.org

Sincerely,

Debra McLaughlin, Executive Director
The Center for Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Avenue Suite 1-A
Somerville MA 02143

617.718.2191

FRESH POND RESERVATION PUBLIC MEETING - December 7, 2011

2011-11-30T08:48:00.000-08:00

Kingsley Park Public Meeting - Inventory & Analysis, Fresh Pond Reservation

Protecting the Cambridge Water Supply Since 1889

Cambridge Water Department
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02138

www.cambridgema.gov/cwd
fpr@cambridgema.gov
(617) 349 - 6489

Wednesday, December 7, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

West Cambridge Youth Center
680 Huron Avenue

Site Improvements

Meeting Agenda

1. Presentation of Site Inventory & Analysis

2. Comments, Discussion & Questions

3. Next Steps

This will be the first in a series of public forums to solicit input from site users throughout the design process.

The goals of the upcoming Kingsley Park Site Improvements Project are to improve drainage, stabilize eroding slopes, restore the landscape, and improve areas for active and passive use.

SOMERVILLE CALL FOR T-SHIRT & POSTER DESIGNS - December 1, 2011

2011-11-29T22:08:00.000-08:00

Groundwork Somerville is getting ready to tap the city's sugar maple's again as part of the 2012 Somerville Maple Syrup Project. We are looking for an amazing design for this year's t-shirts and posters!

We hope you got a chance to see last last year’s year’s wonderful Maple Syrup Project T-Shirts (still available for sale, $12). The fact is, they’ve been the same for too many years in a row. In preparation for the 2012 syurping season, we are asking you, community program participants and fans, to help design a brand new shirt.

Please send 8.5″x11″ white paper with black ink or marker drawings.* Scan at 300 dpi and email to tai@groundworksomerville.org or mail a hard copy to Groundwork Somerville c/o Tai Dinnan; 21 Properzi Way, Suite O; Somerville, MA; 02143.

Entries are Due by November December 1st and winners will be announced at the Maple Syrup Project Brunch on December 3rd! Write your name, email and/or phone number on the back of the paper with pencil. We will select 3-4 of the illustrations that best portray the Somerville Maple Syrup Project and combine them onto next year’s shirt. Trees, tools, buckets, boilers, and kids having fun would all make great images.

(*black on white will ensure high quality scans, ink and T will be colorful again – don’t worry!) In fact, we’re also taking suggestions for fabric and ink suggestions, along with type of apparel (long-sleeve T, hoodie, etc.).

learn more here or email tai@groundworksomerville.org
-Chris Mancini

SOMERVILLE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE - December 4, 2011

2011-11-29T17:22:00.000-08:00

Meet the denizens of Somerville's hotbed of creative businesses - from chocolate makers to letterpress printers and everything in between - at a holiday open house at 561 Windsor Street. Shop local for the holidays and maybe take up fencing while you're at it!

The event is free and open to the public. Free off-street parking is available.

Sunday, December 4 from 12 to 4pm.
561 Windsor Street, Somerville, 02143

For more information about the participating studios please visit our facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/174571415961014

SOMERVILLE HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE - December 3-4, 2011

2011-11-27T21:45:00.000-08:00

2 Days Only!!
Saturday, December 3rd ~ 10am-6pm
Sunday, December 4th ~ 11am-6pm

at Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA

* Global Fair Trade Crafts from India and Africa
* Festive scarves, mirrored fabric lampshades and Indian imports
* Women of India ~ Libana's 2012 Wall Calendar
* Libana CDs and Songbooks
* Art prints of photos from the journey to India
* Food, fun and cameo performances
by Libana throughout the day!

COME SHOP WITH LIBANA!!
The Holiday Marketplace idea was hatched in February while visiting an artist
collective in Gujurat, India. We are excited to introduce some of the
dazzling traditional crafts created by women artisans in India
to friends and fans here in Boston. Your holiday purchase will support women and
the arts worldwide ~ including Libana and the artisans of Barefoot College
(barefootcollege.org) and SEWA/Self-Employed Women's Association (sewa.org)!

Third Life Studio
33 Union Square (Somerville Ave.), Somerville, MA
(Almost at the heart of Union Square, on the segment of
Somerville Ave. coming into Union Square from Porter Square)

For directions and parking:
http://www.thirdlifestudio.com/directions.html
Do not use Mapquest!

Union Square also has wonderful ethnic food markets and restaurants for lunch
or dinner, so come to Somerville and make a fun day of it!
Here are a few of the many choices:
* India Palace
* Sweet Ginger (Thai)
* Machu Picchu (Peruvian)
* Machu Picchu Charcoal Grill (regional cooking style)
* El Potro
* Sherman Cafe
* Bloc 11

Visit libana.com for more info.
See you there!
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
www.youtube.com/user/libanamusic
www.facebook.com/Libanamusic
www.twitter.com/Libanamusic
www.myspace.com/Libanamusic

Read Libana's Blog on our trip to India!
Global Music, Connecting Cultures:
Stories from the Rajasthani Road
http://journals.worldnomads.com/libana/

MASSCREATIVE GOES PUBLIC - November 28, 2011

2011-11-21T08:57:00.000-08:00

MassCreative's mission is to advocate for the nonprofit arts, humanities, and sciences in Massachusetts by seeking state, federal, and local funding for the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund, and Local Cultural Councils. MassCreative works to build and maintain a vital network of nonprofit organizations, businesses, creative entrepreneurs, artists and sector supporters; building strategic alliances in support of the nonprofit cultural sector.

Over the past 20 months a representative group from the field has conducted research, convened stakeholders, surveyed the field and crafted a finely tuned advocacy organization for the 21st century. With support from the Boston Foundation we have created a strong institutional framework for MassCreative comprised of three key elements:

An Action Network - a coalition of advocates representing 12 regions spread across Massachusetts that will serve as our grassroots organizers.
An Advisory Board that will guide the organization through its startup stage as we set our agenda, build membership, and widen our base of support.
Staff, led by an executive director, to serve as MassCreative's chief executive officer.

We believe this structure reflects a powerful foundation and vision for MassCreative and ensures a sustainable advocacy organization that will build upon our sector's strengths and values.

Through the creation of an Action Network our goal is to work side-by-side with the MCC to build and maintain a vital statewide network of arts and cultural organizations as well as businesses and creative entrepreneurs, while building strategic alliances across sectors; and working with public agencies at local, state, and federal levels to increase and expand public and private resources.

Next week we will publicly launch our search for the executive director. Additional information will be released on the roll out of this initiative. We hope you will join this effort and consider supporting MassCreative with your time and/or resources.

Stay tuned for the public announcement, and please contact F. Javier Torres with any questions in the meantime.

Sincerely,

Paul Grogan Anita Walker
President Executive Director
The Boston Foundation Massachusetts Cultural Council

Implementation Team Members:

Irene Buck
Susan Halter
Veronique LeMelle
Greg Liakos
Charlie McDermott
LZ Nunn
Catherine Peterson
Jonathon Rappaport
Troy Siebels
Zakiya Thomas
F. Javier Torres
Jason Weeks
Megan Whilden
Erin Williams

ARTISAN'S ASYLUM OPEN HOUSE IN SOMERVILLE - December 3, 2011

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You are cordially invited to join us for the grand opening of Artisan's Asylum new 25,000 square foot facility at 10 Tyler Street, Somerville MA!

After an arduous five months of preparation and thousands of hours of volunteer work, the walls are built, the shops set up, renters moved in and classes are running. We couldn't be more overjoyed with the beautiful new space, and we want to share it with you! Come join us Saturday, December 3: the new facility will be open to the public all afternoon, with tours and exhibits and food and full Asylum services (which you've missed so much these last months) finally available.

What: Artisan's Asylum Public Opening
Where: 10 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA 02143
When: Saturday, December 3, 1-5pm
Cost: FREE and open to the public! Bring friends!

You'll be able to check out our facilities, meet our staff and members, see all the work members are doing, sign up for daily and monthly memberships, register for our next round of classes, and purchase gift certificates and unlimited class passes just in time for the holiday season.

We'll have food, drink, and music, and we hope to see you there!

Thanks,
-Gui Cavalcanti

SOMERVILLE HOLIDAY ART MARKET - December 10, 2011

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SLAM Holiday Artist Market

Spaces are still available for the Dec 3rd and Dec 10th Holiday Artist Markets
at The Burren in Davis square. If you would like to participate send an email to:

marykeane55@hotmail.com

for more information about the market.

SLAM is in its second year and has been offering local artists a place to show and

sell their work as well as an opportunity for the public to find a wide variety of art
and handmade goods including: painting, photography, jewelry, book bindery,
handmade soaps, glass, textiles, ceramics and artisan foods.

Check out the SLAM website: http://www.burren.com/SLAM.html

SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS - November 19-20, 2011

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Brickbottom Artist Building, 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville,

http://www.brickbottom.com

and neighboring Joy Street Studios with close to 100 artists will be opening their doors to the public this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20 from 12-6. Everyone is welcome! Map and artist list is available on website.

SOMERVILLE MA HOLIDAY ARTISTS MARKET - December 10, 2011

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Spaces are still available for the Dec 3rd and Dec 10th Holiday Artist Markets at The Burren in Davis square. If you would like to participate send me an email and I will contact you with more information about the market. SLAM is in its second year and has been offering local artists a place to show and sell their work as well as an opportunity for the public to find a wide variety of art and handmade goods including: painting, photography, jewelry, book bindery, handmade soaps, glass, textiles, ceramics and artisan foods.

Details/questions:

httt://www.burren.com/SLAM.html
marykeane55@hotmail.com

LYNN ART EVENTS SCHEDULE

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LynnArts Fabulous Holiday Show & Sale
November 19-December 30
Opening Reception, Saturday, December 3, 2-4pm

This December, LynnArts, Inc. is once again sponsoring a holiday exhibition and sale featuring fine arts and crafts. The galleries will be filled with a selection of beautiful and affordable paintings, photographs, pottery, sculpture, cards and more, with many pieces priced at under $100.

The exhibition and sale runs from November 19 through December 30. Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10 am-5 pm, Thursday 10 am -8 pm and Saturday 11 am - 4 pm.

The opening reception will take place on Saturday, December 3 from 2-4pm with live music provided by the Erinn Brown Duo. So come enjoy holiday cheer, fine art and friends and pick up a few one-of-a-kind gifts for your family, all while supporting local artists and your local arts agency.

LynnArts, Inc. is located at 25 Exchange Street in Lynn’s Central Square and is easily accessible by public transportation. Wheelchair access is available at the rear lower-level entry with prior notice. For more information on the LynnArts Fabulous Holiday Show & Sale or other LynnArts programs and events, please call LynnArts, Inc. at 781-598-5244.

Holiday Art Studio Open House
November 19, 11-4pm

In conjunction with the opening of the Holiday Sale and the Lydia Pinkham Open Studios, LynnArts will be hosting an Open Studios on Saturday, November 19 from 11-4. Take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to meet the artists, musicians and performers that make LynnArts their home.

The Lynn Mural Project
November 7-Spring 2012

This week the transformation of the side of our building began when artists David Fichter, Yetti Frenkel, and Joshua Winer started painting their mural on the side of our building. A three year project that has engaged the community as co-creators in this 17” mural, the project will be completed in spring 2012 with the installation of a 12 mosaic panels that have been created in the Lynn schools and in a community workshop at LynnArts. You can watch the artists and see the panels which have already been created all this week (November 7-11) at LynnArts.

CALL TO ARTISTS FOR HOLIDAY SALE - November 14, 2011

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“Small Works” – affordably priced original work! at the Riverside Gallery in Cambridge

What:

“Small Works” – a show of affordably priced original work. This show is targeted to holiday sales, and will include a significant number of works sold by auction.

Where:

Riverside Gallery
5 Callender Street
Cambridge 02139
facebook.com/RiversideGallery

When:

Drop off work Nov 13, 14
Opening Sunday Dec 4 or 11
Mid-November 2011 to mid-January 2012

Details:

¨ You must pre-register for this show, and receive confirmation from the Gallery in order to participate. Gallery willrespond usually within one week of receiving your registration.
¨ Staffed drop-off time for art works is Sunday Nov 13, 1-3 PM. You may also bring work on Monday afternoon, Nov 14. Details will be sent to accepted artists.
¨ Artists Reception will be in December, probably 4th or 11th. There is no parking restriction on Sundays.
¨ The show runs until mid-January.
¨ All work must be original - reproductions are not invited.
¨ All work must be for sale.
¨ All work must be 2-D, or able to hang on the wall.
¨ Pieces must be ready to hang; they may be framed and wired, or they may be sealed in clearbags, matted or not, and accompanied by a bulldog-type clip which you provide. The gallery will not be able to do any modifications of your work to make it hangable.
¨ All artists must provide wall labels (details will be sent.)
¨ There is no fee for participation; when work is sold, the Gallery keeps 30% and gives 70% to the artist.
¨ We suggest a range $25-$250 as the most likely to sell, but you may submit works outside of this range.
¨ Artists must help out in two or more ways: helping to hang the show, gallery-sitting, providing refreshments, promotional publicity for the show.
¨ The Gallery expects artists to read instructions thoroughly, and to be courteous and responsible.
¨ The Riverside Gallery is open M-F 9-2, and some Sundays 12-4.
¨ The Riverside Gallery is hosted by the Cambridge Community Center, which serves a broad population, including young children. The Riverside Gallery is very grateful for the venue, and accepts the constraints of not displaying artworks including graphic violence, or graphic erotic works.
¨ Depending on the number of artists accepted, we anticipate artists will be able to display 4-8 small works, or fewer larger works. Work may be replaced when sold.
¨ Preference factors for participant selection include: reading and following instructions, suitability of work for show, behaving courteously and responsibly, living or working in Cambridge.
¨ We encourage artists to offer at least half of their work at auction; minimum bid may be set. This has been a successful way of stimulating sales, and making for an exciting show, and at the same time, getting our art into the hands of appreciative art-lovers.

Details will be sent later.

To Register, submit the following information by email RiversideGallery@fastmail.net *
No phone calls.
DO NOT ATTACH IMAGE FILES, OR YOUR EMAIL WILL BE DISCARDED.
If your Registration is not complete, or cannot be read, the Gallery will not confirm you as a participant.

Required Registration information:
Artist's full name:
Address - street:
Address - city, state, zip:
phone:
email:
medium:
size range of work you would submit:
cost range of work you would submit:

which tasks you can help with: helping to hang the show, gallery-sitting, providing refreshments, promotional publicity for the show, administrative work for the gallery about or under 25-word description of your art work:

Optional information:
your website or urls with images of your work:
Specify yes or no if we may use them for publicity:
other venues where you have shown in the last 5 years:
urls with your artist's statement which we may use for publicity:

* If you do not have email, you may submit your registration, typed or printed, on paper to:
Riverside Gallery @ Cambridge Community Center
5 Callender Street
Cambridge MA 02139

Bare Bones: The Oldest Profession - ONE NIGHT ONLY! - November 17, 2011

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Bare Bones: Staged Readings at Theatre@First presents

The Oldest Profession
a play by Paula Vogel
directed by Lisë Stern

starring Cindy Bell, Susan Fendell, Sandi McDonald, Gilly Rosenthal,
and Dayenne Walters!

Five amazing actors take the stage as a group of elderly prostitutes
discussing their diminishing clientele, increased competition, and
aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to
adjust to changing circumstances.

You won't want to miss this funny, moving and thought-provoking performance!

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Thursday, November 17th at 8pm
Unity Somerville
6 William St @ College Ave

Suggested donation $5
No reservations required

SOMERVILLE NAVE GALLERY CONCERT - November 18, 2011

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The Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music Proudly presents:

Guitarist Garrison Fewell, Forbes Graham trumpet and electronics,Pamela Marshall on French horn, John McLellan drums, Jodi Hitzhusen classical soprano, Melissa Kassell jazz vocalist and Sonic Sandbox with Tom Casale on double bass.

November 18, 8:00, the Nave Gallery in Somerville

The Nave gallery is located at: 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA.

$10 suggested donation, wheel chair accessible.

This concert is made possible by a grant from the Somerville Arts council

SOMERVILLE ART VIA BIKE TOUR - October 15, 2011

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This Saturday, I'll be leading the Somerville Bicycle Committee's annual Tour de Somerville. Our theme this year is "Arts in the 'Ville"; we'll be visiting places throughout the city where art is made, exhibited, or performed. We'll meet at 10 am at Seven Hills Park (behind the MBTA station on Holland Street), leaving promptly at 10:15.

Our stops will include the new Artisan's Asylum (home base to the local art-bike gangSCUL), the new Mudflat pottery studio, Fringe in Olive Square, and the artist studio buildings at Brickbottom, Joy Street, Vernon Street, and Washington Street Art Center.

If you're interested in local art, bicycles, or both, please join us!

A route map is at http://goo.gl/NpP19 , and a ride poster at http://goo.gl/Cgr5R .

We don't expect any rain on Saturday, but if that happens, we'll try again on Sunday, same time and starting location.

CALL FOR CUPCAKES - November 12, 2011

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The Nave Gallery is looking for a few cupcake makers who are willing to take one for the team and make some cupcakes for the Wrap Around Cupcake Reception. Wrap Around is our annual sale of affordable handmade woolen goods to benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition. It will take place November 5th & 6th, and 12th & 13th.

Cupcake Reception
Nave Gallery
November 12th, 1pm- 5pm

Chocolaty, fruity, extra moist, stuffed with THE STUFF, covered in heavenly creaminess…no matter how you make ‘em, cupcakes are mouthfuls of yum. The possibilities are endless, the crowd will love them, and it is for a fantastic cause.

If you’re interested, please email tori.costa@gmail.com, and let us know! We’ll gratefully give our thanks by listing you on our website, www.navegallery.org.

WINTER CRAFT MARKET CALL FOR VENDORS - December 3, 2011

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CALL FOR VENDORS

Union Square Main Streets hosts again its Winter Craft Market on Saturday, December 3, 2011 from 11 am to 4 pm.

Vendors are invited to apply for a space in this annual market that continues the energy of our weekly summer Farmers Market into the holiday shopping season.

The application can be found on-line at:
www.unionsquaremain.org

We welcome vendors of a variety of handmade products including jewelry, pottery, housewares, knitwear, toys, ornaments, perfume and more.

This is a juried market. Application deadline is November 4.

Vendor space at the Union Square Market is available outside on the Union Sq Plaza and inside Precinct Bar. Vendor spaces are designated throughout the space including on the bar and on the high side tables. The unusual setting with indoor and outdoor vendors and brunch served in the front room make for a unique and particularly festive atmosphere.

If you have any questions about the market feel free to contact me.

usms@unionsquaremain.org

Mimi Graney
Executive Director
Union Square Main Streets
P.O. Box One
Somerville, MA 02143

LYNN TIME WARNER GALLERY ART EXHIBITION - Sep 4-Nov 2, 2011

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Small Works
Time Warner Gallery
September 24-November 2
Opening: Saturday, September 24, 2-4pm

Please join us for the opening of Small Works, this Saturday, September 24th from 2-4pm. The show features the work of 28 Greater Boston area artists creating beautiful and complex work from a variety of media. Small Works was juried by Lauren Johnston Winsor, Public Art & Donor Development Coordinator for the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Ms. Winsor has over five years experience coordinating the public art programs at the NEFA in Boston. Working closely with individual artists and non-profit organizations, Winsor develops grant programs and provides technical assistance for public projects locally, regionally, and nationally. Ms. Winsor is active in organizing professional opportunities for the field through a networking and lecture series for artists and the launch of an online forum for public art in New England. She regularly lectures on public art at colleges and universities across Massachusetts and has served as an artist juror for numerous commissions, grants and gallery shows in Attleboro, Boston, and Lowell, MA as well as in Portsmouth, NH.
The Small Works artists include:

Brighton, MA: Ronni Komarow

Cambridge, MA: Laura Carmen Arena

East Boston, MA: Maureen O’Connor

Framingham, MA: Carol Blackwell

Georgetown, MA: Sandra Golbert

Haverhill, MA: Linda Germain

Lexington, MA: Ania Gilmore

Lynn, MA: Pauline Bacon, Rolf Flor, Melenie Melanphy, Nadine Mitchell, Steve Negron, Jean Noyes, Heather Meri Stewart, Barry Ridlon, Joseph White

Malden, MA: C-J Stevens

Marblehead, MA: Holly Chin, Betty Ann Downs, Barbara Rafferty, TANYA, Sandra Winter

Melrose, MA: Kathy Mohan

Middleton, MA: Lisa Bohnwagner

Newburyport, MA: Tricia Jones

Salem, MA: Janet Albert, Sara Ashodian,

Swampscott, MA: Robin Samiljan

SOMERVILLE VERNON STREET OPEN STUDIOS - November 5 & 6, 2011

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Location: 6 & 20 Vernon Street
Somerville, MA 02145
www.vernonstreet.com

On November 5 & 6, Vernon Street Studios will host their fall open studios (which has become a much anticipated annual event). Each year, the artists of 6 & 20 Vernon Street welcome the public into their work spaces, a community well known throughout the area for the quality of their work. During this showcase for the arts, mid-career and emerging artists working across a broad spectrum of fine art styles and craft media – including painting, photography, print-making, sculpture, glass, fiber, jewelry, furniture and ceramics – will exhibit and sell their work ….just in time for the holiday season.

Located in an historic 19th century brick industrial building, Vernon Street was one of the first group of artists in the Greater Boston area to open their studios to the public in 1974. The Open Studios event allows attendees to learn about the creative process, interact with artists in the spaces where they create, purchase original artwork, and discover new talent.

The studios are located in the Rogers Foam facility, which is comprised of two buildings on the corner of Central and Vernon Streets. Parking is available in the large lot behind the buildings.

CALL FOR SMALL WORKS FROM BOSTON AREA ARTISTS - October 15, 2011

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The Arsenal Center for the Arts is seeking the work of artists from the Greater Boston area for a small works exhibition from December 1st, 2011 to February 5th, 2012. The work will be exhibited on the third floor gallery of the Arsenal Center and must be smaller than 12” x 12”. The work can be 2D or 3D but must be priced under $300. Arsenal Center for the Arts will retain 40% on sale of works. All media is accepted. Entry fee.

Contact/details:

Aneleise Ruggles
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal St
Watertown MA 02742

617-923-0100x304
http://www.arsenalarts.org

SOMERVILLE BLUE CLOUD GALLERY EXHIBITION - October 2011

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OCTOBER Featured Artist, Photographer Alice Wellington, at Blue Cloud Gallery: 713 Broadway, Ball SQ. Hours Tues-Sat. 11-7, Sun. 11-5

As a New Englander, Alice Wellington is fond of natural landscapes and gravitates to nature for enjoyment and reflection at all times of year. She watches its changing patterns with fascination and observes or imagines life's moments playing out in the shifting light. She looks for unplanned moments where natural light and circumstance present unusual beauty. At sunrise, late in the day and in turbulent changing weather, she pursues natural light's transitory impression to capture the instant of perfectbeauty before it turns back into the ordinary. Blue Cloud Gallery welcomes you into Alice's richly colorful views of the transcendence of the natural world.

http://www.bluecloudgallery.com

617-776-2700

PLAYING FOR THE PLANET ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERT - November 11, 2011

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Get ready for one of the year’s most exciting and beautiful concerts! The fifth event in the “Playing For the Planet” series of environmental benefit concerts will feature stringed instruments from three of the world’s greatest traditions, coming together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include the Turkish and Ottoman music of Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and the Dünya Ensemble, the South Indian veena virtuoso Durga Krishnan, and the internationally celebrated classical guitarists Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses. The music begins at 7:00 pm, on Friday, November 11, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734 or go to the event website.

“Playing For The Planet” was conceived as a way for these creative musicians to contribute to the urgent struggle against global warming. Because the climate problem recognizes no national boundaries, the artists represent musical styles from three different parts of the globe. While the performers present different melodic and rhythmic concepts, they share key musical values: listening, honesty, creativity, and respect. And, of course, they are all committed to raising awareness of the potentially devastating effects of global warming.

Their choice of beneficiary, 350.org, is focused on building global consensus on reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels — action which climatologists agree is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes. It’ll be an incredible evening of powerful music — from some of the finest musicians in New England and the world.

NOTE: A collection of jpeg images for this event will be sent on request. A version of this press release as a PDF file is also available.

BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER EXHIBITION - September 2011

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Maren Coniglione, Assistant Director
Phone: (617) 5665715
Fax: (617) 7388760
Email: maren@brooklineartscenter.com

Evelyn Berde’s Leaving the River at the Brookline Arts Center:

In Her New Series, a Brookline Artist Explores a Path Toward Healing

(Brookline – September 27, 2011) Wellknown
Brookline artist Evelyn Berde has created a new
and very personal series of monumental paintings
and sculptures that document her childhood
struggles with illness and family loss. In Leaving
the River, which will be on view at the Brookline
Arts Center from October 15 to November 22,
2011, Berde meditates on her family’s pain and her
personal struggle with illness during her childhood
in Boston’s vanished West End.

A selection from Berde’s series will be on view in
the Brookline Arts Center gallery, giving Berde an
opportunity to share these richly evocative and very
personal constructions that evoke family,
neighborhood and childhood.

“These artworks are emblematic and symbolic portraits.
They have the grandeur and monumentality of a church altarpiece,” according to
Brookline Arts Center Executive Director Susan Navarre. “They chronicle Berde’s
transcendence of her childhood illness and pain through religious and artistic growth. They
are full of color and life, but don’t turn away from the suffering that life can bring.”

There will be a free reception with the artist on Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 2:00
to 5:00 p.m.

For many years, Berde worked as a child life therapist at Children’s Hospital Medical

Center of Boston. She has also taught art in the Malden Public Schools and at
Massachusetts College of Art, where she earned a B.S. in Art Education. Her work is
included in the collections of Children’s Hospital, Boston; Oregon Gallery of Art in
Portland, Oregon; Harvard University; and such private collectors as Leonard Nimoy
and Arthur Goldberg. Berde’s work has been featured in oneperson exhibitions at the
West End Museum, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the Perrin Gallery,
in Brookline. More information may be found on her website, http://evelynberde.com/
home.html .

The exhibit will be on view at the Brookline Arts Center, 86 Monmouth Street,
Brookline from 9:00am-4:30pm, Monday – Friday. Admission is free and open to the
public. For more information, call (617) 5665715 or visit www.brooklineartscenter.com.

BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE GALLERY EXHIBITION - October 20, 2011

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Please Be Invited to the Artist’s Reception at the Bunker Hill Community College ART GALLERY

Thursday, October 20th, at 6p.m. for “CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?”

En plein air portraits from the Streets
By
MARC CLAMAGE

with refreshments and live music by YANI BATTEAU & the Styles

For more Information about this exhibit or programs offered by the BHCC Art Gallery CONTACT:

Ms. Laura L. Montgomery, M.F.A.
Director,
BHCC Art Gallery
Adjunct Professor, Visual and Media Arts Department
Bunker Hill Community College
Office of the President
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA 02129
617-228-2093
lmontgomery@bhcc.mass.edu
artgallery@bhcc.mass.edu
Visit our Gallery Web page at: www.bhcc.mass.edu

RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR PROJECT

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'Tis the season for project funding. In addition to LCC grant information, the Somerville Arts Council has compiled a list of additional resources to help individuals and organizations fund their projects.
You may also find the Somervile Art Council Grant Guidelines at

http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/grants/forms.html

Fractured Atlas
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.

Rocket Hub
http://www.rockethub.com/
RocketHub is a community for Creatives and Fuelers. RocketHub offers two distinct services: An innovative way to raise funds and awareness for creative ventures (Crowdfunding) The ability to submit your work to be selected for tangible creative opportunities (LaunchPad Opportunities) We provide the credibility and infrastructure necessary to successfully leverage the financial power of your community, and offer the ability to discover and apply for curated opportunities. If you have a creative project, worthwhile endeavor, or are looking to discover valuable opportunities, RocketHub is here to help. Different from Kickstarter, you will get your money of you do not reach your goal.

Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields.A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project. All or nothing funding. On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. Why? It protects everyone involved. Creators aren't expected to develop their project without necessary funds, and it allows anyone to test concepts without risk.

Associated Grant Makers
http://www.agmconnect.org/
Founded in 1969, Associated Grant Makers, Inc. is the only regional association of grant makers, both foundations and corporations with giving programs, serving in, or making grants in Massachusetts and surrounding areas. We are a leadership organization for philanthropy with more than three decades of service to the philanthropic community.
AGM is a diverse and vibrant member association of highly engaged philanthropic organizations and individuals with interests in Massachusetts and surrounding areas. We connect new and established donors, their trustees and staff to each other, to their communities and to emerging and relevant issues in the field. AGM serves as a bridge between funders and fund applicants for better understanding, efficiency and impact. AGM is a leading and influential voice and advocate for effective philanthropy. We provide the leadership and access to knowledge and cooperative action that enables our members to create extraordinary value for each other, their grantees and to collectively shape the future of a healthy and vibrant region.

First Giving
http://www.firstgiving.com/
FirstGiving is dedicated to one purpose: empowering passionate nonprofit supporters to raise more money than they ever thought possible for the causes they care about.
We partner with nonprofit organizations to allow them to plan, execute, and measure successful online fundraising campaigns and charity fundraising events with our fundraising software. For individual fundraisers, we aim to make it easy, effective, and even fun to raise money online!
Our simple, yet powerful tools, along with the fundraising tips and fundraising ideas on FirstGiving, allow nonprofits and their supporters to meet and exceed their goals of raising money for important causes, building awareness, and expanding the world of giving.

Go Fund Me
http://www.gofundme.com
GoFundMe makes it easy for people to fundraise online for the things that matter to them most. From honeymoons to memorials and everything in between, our users invite family & friends to donate to important life-events, projects & causes.Simply sign up, create your donation website, share your link with friends and collect donations. You automatically receive each donation in real-time. GoFundMe allows you to raise money online for just about any idea, event, project or cause your family, friends & personal contacts might believe in.

Network for Good
http://www1.networkforgood.org/
About Network for Good
Imagine what the world would be like if every time you were inspired to help someone or something, you could -- with just a few clicks of a mouse, anywhere online. That's the mission of Network for Good. We make it as easy to donate and volunteer online as it is to shop online, and we make it simple and affordable for all nonprofits, of any size, to recruit donors and volunteers via the Internet.

SOMERVILLE HALLOWEEN CRAFT FAIR - October 17, 2011

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Call to Artists and craft vendors! Participate in the City of Somerville's second annual HALLOWEEN CRAFT FAIR

Application deadline: Monday, October 17th, 2011

Halloween Craft Fair date: Sunday, October 23rd, 12pm - 4pm.

Location: This fair takes place all the way from Union Square to Porter Square. The Halloween Craft Fair is on the Porter Square side. This year a stage with four live bands will accompany the fair to keep the mood festive and people coming!

Attached: PDF with same information as listed below.

About Somerville Arts Council
Since 1985, the Somerville Arts Council has been producing craft events that help the economic and creative growth of the city. This includes ArtBeat, ArtsUnion, and now working with SomerStreets to provide more opportunities for craft artists. We have successfully built ArtBeat into a festival that includes over 80+ craft vendors and continue to grow the Union Square ArtsUnion market series which includes: Sew What?!?, Boston Handmade, Urban Country Fair and the Rock and Roll Yard Sale.

About SomerStreets
The City of Somerville has implemented a new program called SomerStreets. This program allows residents to explore the City by shutting various streets to promote safe walking, running, biking routes in various locations throughout the City.

About the Halloween Craft Fair
Somerville Avenue will be closed on Sunday, October 23rd to car traffic from 12p.m. to 4p.m. between Union Square to Porter Square and open to everyone for dancing, walking and cycling. The Halloween Craft Fair will be on the Porter Square side (same as last year). The big difference from last year is that there will now be a stage with four bands playing next to the Craft Fair to draw crowds! To be considered as a vendor you must adhere to all listed rules and fill out the vendor application attached.

The Basics
* This is a juried craft market.
* To be considered as a vendor, all your items must be handcrafted or hand-designed. Imported handcrafted items will also be considered.
* Work does not have to be seasonally themed but preference may be given to those who have work fitting the theme.
* For 2011, there is a $25 fee to apply. This year this does NOT include the fee for the table. There is a $10 fee for a 6' table and two chairs if needed.(Vendors must supply tent if desired)
* The Somerville Arts Council reserves the right to amend or add to the applicable rules pertaining to and governing the Market at any time.

Date and Time
* The Halloween Craft Market will take place Sunday, October 23rd at 12pm-4pm. Set-up will start at 10:30am.

Set-Up and Operations (retain this information for reference if you are accepted)
* Table and chair spaces will be assigned to vendors by the Market Coordinator at Check-in (between 10:30am-12pm)
* Set-up is not permitted before 10:30am on Market day and vendors must be ready for operation by 12pm. Booths must be staffed during
operating hours, 12pm-4pm. Vendors are not allowed to disassemble booths before 4pm. Operations of the Market should not be disrupted, nor the safety and convenience of shoppers or vendors be jeopardized.
* Halloween Craft Market will be held Rain or Shine - please be prepared by bringing the necessary rain shelters or awnings.
* Vendors should display a sign identifying the artists/business name. Signage must be securely attached to table and not disturb foot traffic.
* Vendors are responsible for keeping their space attractive during Market hours and for cleaning up their space after the Market closes,
including removal of garbage and sweeping up any scraps. Thank you for your cooperation.

**Halloween Craft Market Application**
Please cut and paste this application into an email, answer the questions and attach five .jpgs of your work. Then send it by Monday, October 17th to: megart04@gmail.com
You will receive an e-mail within 24 hours letting you know if you have been accepted. Once accepted you must mail a non-refundable check to the Somerville Arts Council to reserve your spot.
If you plan on bringing your own table = $25 check
If you would like us to supply a table and chairs = $35 (additional $10 fee for 6' table & two chairs)

Applicant Name:
Business Name:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Phone: (Day) (Evening)
Email:
Crafts Category (pls circle): jewelry ceramics photos prints fabrics/textiles drawings/paintings other:
Price Range: $ to $
Describe the work you plan to sell at Halloween Craft Market:

Please provide a description of your booth set up:

Money for the Arts: Somerville Arts Council 2012 LCC Grants

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If you have ideas about a project but need feedback, or for more information, please read the guidelines and then attend one of our information sessions.

Final information session this Monday:

Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, 6-7:30pm
Cross Street Senior Center
165 Broadway

Funding is available for individuals, schools, community groups and non-profit organizations in the fields of dance, film/video, literature, theater, music, visual arts, multidisciplinary and cultural heritage. Grants may be used for afterschool and summer programs, school residencies and field trips, artist fellowships, arts events, exhibitions, public concerts and more.

Guidelines & applications now available at the Arts Council office, libraries, and online at www.somervilleartscouncil.org.

Tip: Read the Guidelines and Application PDF, then download the individual Word application forms that you need. All forms and guidelines are here: http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/grants/forms.html

If you are a teacher or school, note that the MCC has changed the name of the PASS program to LCC Field Trip program. The application process is the same. These forms as also on the website.

Application POSTMARK deadline: SAT., Oct. 15, 2011 (or drop off on Friday, Oct. 14th by 4:30; NO drop off on Sat.)

Gregory Jenkins
Executive Director
Somerville Arts Council
617.625.6600 ext. 2985
www.somervilleartscouncil.org

OCTOBER PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION

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These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. You will receive directions and information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

MIGRATORY BIRD WALK
Saturday, October 1
8 to 10 am
Street end of Neville Place driveway
650 Concord Avenue
We will look for migrating songbirds and waterfowl that have stopped to rest and feed at the Reservation on their way south for the winter. We’ll also look for year-round Fresh Pond avian residents. Beginners are welcome! We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

FRESH POND KIDS’ WALK
Fridays in October
9 to 10 am
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Kids! Bring your parents and friends to the next Reservation Ramble! Join us for a leisurely walk to meet plants and animals living in the Reservation. The walk is cancelled if it rains. To get on the email list, contact Deb at 617-349-6489 or fpr@cambridgema.gov.

INSECTS IN THE KINGSLEY PARK BIOSWALE
Saturday, October 15
1 to 3 pm
Kingsley Park parking lot
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join us for a family "bug" walk! The bioswale at the bottom of the Kingsley Park hillside is a rich habitat for wildflowers, the insects that eat them or drink their nectar, and the critters that eat the insects. With naturalist Tom Murray as our guide, we will identify whatever we find, adding them to our inventory of insects at Fresh Pond. Wear old shoes and long pants. Kids are welcome with an adult.

A TOUR OF THE WATER PURIFICATION FACILITY
Monday, October 17
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come learn how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is transported to Cambridge, purified into drinking water, and piped to our homes and businesses. Members of the Cambridge Water Department staff will describe the process, answer your questions, and give a tour of the building.

FASCINATING FUNGI OF FRESH POND
Sunday, October 23
2 to 5 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Mycologist Lawrence Millman has identified 192 mushroom species at Fresh Pond. For the seventh straight year, he will be leading a Fresh Pond mushroom foray that will give you the chance to add to this list as well as learn more about the world of fungi. He'll also be selling (and signing!) copies of his new book Fascinating Fungi of New England, the first guidebook devoted exclusively to New England mushrooms.

A FRESH POND RESERVATION WALKABOUT
Monday, October 24
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Chip Norton, Cambridge Watershed Manager, will give a tour of Fresh Pond Reservation’s conservation and recreation areas. He also will use maps and diagrams to help illustrate the goals for these major restoration projects.

HOME SWEET HOME TO OPEN DOORS FOR THE HOMELESS - October 22, 2011

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Please join me at Home Sweet Home on Oct. 22. You can taste delectable desserts and dessert wine, enjoy a buffet dinner with local ingredients, dance to the amazing LOVE DOGS and HELP THE HOMELESS MOVE FROM SHELTERS TO HOMES. SEE FLYER BELOW:

BUY TICKETS HERE: http://www.chafund.org/pages/tickets.html

Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162264663824227

Watch this short video on Youtube about Jean and her 5 children living in a motel room:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_YS_ZIY3s&feature=channel

More info and dessert photos: http://www.chafund.org/dessert2011.html

Buy tickets: http://chafund.org/pages/tickets.html

Just donate: http://chafund.org/pages/donation.html

About chaf: www.CHAFund.org

Love Dogs sound clips: www.thelovedogs.com

AWESOME AUCTION ITEMS INCLUDE:

- TV Diner guest appearance with Billy Costa (www.BillyCosta.com)
- One week at Provincetown condo
- Tour of Formaggio Kitchen Cheese Cave
- Red Sox tickets
- Bruins tickets
- Ski & Stay packages at Sunday River & Sugarloaf

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology Fall 2011 Lecture Series

2011-09-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis

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Monday, September 26 at 7:00 PM
Tess Thackara
Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History
Bartos Theater at MIT, Wiesner Building (E15), Lower Level
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Keynote: Tess Thackara, Director, Survival International (USA)
Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA)

This lecture explores the work and methodology of human rights group Survival International, with a particular focus on the group’s efforts to generate a groundswell of support for tribal people all over the world. Using Survival films and campaigns as case studies, the lecture will focus on the need to popularize the narrative surrounding indigenous land rights. Tess Thackara directs the USA office of Survival International, whose major campaign successes include the Indian government banning aluminum giant Vedanta Resources from mining the sacred lands of the Dongria Kondh tribe in 2010, and the High Court of Botswana’s affirming the Bushmen’s right to access water on their ancestral lands in 2011. Survival International: www.survivalinternational.org

Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below). Free and open to the public.

For more information:
act.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

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The Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis Fall 2011 lecture series investigates initiatives and modes of intervention in contested spaces, zones of conflict, or areas affected by environmental disasters. The intention is to explore whether artistic interventions can transform, disrupt or subvert current environmental, urban, political, and social conditions in critical ways. A crucial question is how can such interventions propose ideas, while at the same time respecting the local history and culture.

The Fall 2011 lecture series is directed by Ute Meta Bauer and is part of the courses 4.365/4.366 Zones of Emergency: Artistic Intervention – Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis (instructors Ute Meta Bauer/Jegan Vincent de Paul), 4.330/331 Intro to Networked Cultures & Participatory Media (instructor Gediminas Urbonas), and 4.360/4.361 Performance Workshop (instructor Joan Jonas).

The Fall 2011 ACT lecture series is free and open to the public, and is funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.

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LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
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September 26, 2011
Tess Thackara, Director, Survival International (USA)
Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History
Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA)

This lecture explores the work and methodology of human rights group Survival International, with a particular focus on the group’s efforts to generate a groundswell of support for tribal people all over the world. Using Survival films and campaigns as case studies, the lecture will focus on the need to popularize the narrative surrounding indigenous land rights. Tess Thackara directs the USA office of Survival International, whose major campaign successes include the Indian government banning aluminum giant Vedanta Resources from mining the sacred lands of the Dongria Kondh tribe in 2010, and the High Court of Botswana’s affirming the Bushmen’s right to access water on their ancestral lands in 2011.
Survival International: www.survivalinternational.org

October 3, 2011
Jack Persekian, Curator (Jerusalem)
In the Meantime
Respondent: Nitin Sawhney, Assistant Professor, The New School (USA)

In 1992 Jack Persekian founded Anadiel Gallery, the first and only independent gallery for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem. Persekian later founded the Al-Ma’mal Foundation to continue the gallery’s mission and to further promote, instigate, and disseminate the production of art in Palestine. In his talk, Persekian will share his experience – the challenges and the outcomes – of creating a space for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem. Have the methods for working in contested spaces, such as Israel, changed over the years? Does art have the potential to engage a zone of conflict in a different way than politics? Persekian was Head Curator of the Sharjah Biennial (2004–2007), Artistic Director of the Sharjah Biennial (2007–2011), and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation (2009–2011).
Al-Ma’mal Foundation: www.almamalfoundation.org

October 17, 2011
Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab (USA)
Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology
Respondent: Brendan Mcgetrick, Independent Writer & Designer (China)

Moore’s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different “public” to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advances in technology enabled interventions such as low-cost video cameras in the case of WITNESS; blogs (Global Voices); or open hardware and software used to build, distribute, collect and visualize data from geiger counters (Safecast). Ito will discuss how these trends relate to media, citizenship, academics, and conflicts. Joichi Ito was named Director of the MIT Media Lab in April 2011.

October 31, 2011
Lucy Walker, Filmmaker (UK)
99 Is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary
Respondent: Claude Grunitzky, Chairman, True; Sloan Fellow, MIT (USA)

How do we observe or quantify the impact of an artistic intervention or the impact of a documentary film? Lucy Walker will be reflecting on the experience of making and showing the film Waste Land, a documentary about artist Vik Muniz’s collaboration with the self-designated recyclables materials pickers of Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill in the world. The film has won over thirty international awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Lucy Walker has directed four award-winning feature documentaries: Devil’s Playground, Blindsight, Waste Land and Countdown To Zero.

November 07, 2011
Stella McGregor, Director, Urbano Project (USA)
Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency
Respondent: Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Associate Professor, MIT (USA)

How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises through individual and collective art practice? How do we reconcile the arts, activism, and pedagogy? Stella McGregor, Founder and Director of Urbano Project, will share her experience of working with inner city youth and introduce projects such as Violence Transformed, and Pedro Reyes’ Palas por Pistolas. Stella McGregor has been an artist and a cultural worker for over 25 years, working on projects in Boston, New Orleans, Macedonia, and Taiwan.
Urbano Project: http://urbanoproject.org

November 14, 2011
James Wescoat, Aga Khan Professor
& Shun Kanda, Senior Lecturer, MIT (USA)
MIT japan 3/11 initiative
Respondent: Jegan Vincent de Paul, ACT Lecturer, MIT (USA)

In the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year collaborative project focused on disaster-resilient planning, design and reconstruction. Back from the first MIT Japan 3/11 workshop which took place this summer, Shun Kanda and Jim Wescoat will discuss the process and challenges in planning and implementing alternative strategies for disaster-preparedness. Shun Kanda is a Tokyo native and the Director of Architectural Studies for the MIT-Japan Program. James L. Wescoat, Jr. is Aga Khan Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.
MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative: http://web.mit.edu/japan3-11/home.html

November 21, 2011
Amar Kanwar, Filmmaker & Artist (India)
Respondent: Bish Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Development & Planning, MIT (USA)
Indian artist and well-known filmmaker Amar Kanwar creates documentary-based multi-channel installations that deal with the politics of power, violence, sexuality, and justice. In The Torn First Pages, Kanwar unfolds the struggle for democracy in Myanmar. The eight-chanel video piece The Lightning Testimonies reflects upon a history of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through the experiences of sexual violence against women during and after the 1947 partition. Kanwar’s work has been shown in museums across the globe, and he received numerous awards for his works and humanitarian engagement. Kanwar participated in documenta 11, 12, and currently works on a commission for documenta 13.

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FALL 2011 SPECIAL PROGRAMS
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Joan Jonas: My New Theater: Reading Dante III
September 14–October 31, 2011
Exhibition
MIT Medial Lab Complex, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, USA

The Otolith Group in Conversation with TJ Demos
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 7 PM
Panel Discussion
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, USA

Marianne Amacher Tribute
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 5–9 PM
Panel Discussion & Concert
ACT Cube, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, USA

Centerbeam Documentary, 1977
November 10, 2011 at 7:30–9 PM
Screening & Panel Discussion
MIT Medial Lab Complex, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, USA

Márton Orosz: Visual design and camouflage –
Light as creative medium in the art of György Kepes
Tuesday, November 29 at 7 PM
Public talk. Márton Orosz is the first ACT Kepes Fellow and serves as the Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary).
Bartos Theater, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, USA

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Unless otherwise noted, all the events above take place on MIT campus.
Click here for a map of the MIT campus.

The lecture series is held in MIT's Bartos Theater located on the Lower Level of the Wiesner Building (E15) at 20 Ames Street, Building, Cambridge, in close proximity to Kendall Square.

By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.

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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator György Kepes, the founder of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of “art on a civic scale,” ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural discourse.

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E15-212
Cambridge MA 02139-4307

act.mit.edu
617-253-5229

SEEKING ARTISTS & CRAFTERS FOR FALL FESTIVAL - September 16, 2011

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Haines Square Fall Festival Committee is seeking artists and crafters for its Fall Festival October 15th from 10 am – 3 pm. (Rain date is October 16th). The festival will feature acapella groups from Tufts, vendors from Medford Farmers Market, nonprofit organizations, photographers, children's activities, painters, and crafters. Glass blowers from Diablo Glass Blowing school of Jamaica Plain will be demonstrating glass blowing techniques throughout the day. Cost is $25 before September 16th. The festival will run along Salem St from Sheridan Ave to Fellsway West . For more information and an application, contact Mike Oliver at moliver6@verizon.net

CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY ART GRANTS - October 14, 2011

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CAC Grants
Funding for arts projects benefiting the Cambridge community.
Grant Writing Workshop: THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 2011
CAC Grant Deadline: FRIDAY, OCT. 14, 2011 at 12pm*

Gallery 263, a 2011 CAC Grant recipient. Image courtesy of David Pendery

Coming Up!
Grant Writing Workshop
THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 6:00-8:00 pm
Bring a draft of your proposal, and get one-on-one guidance and feedback on your application.
Cambridge Arts Council, City Hall Annex
344 Broadway, 2nd Fl. (Conference Room)
Please RSVP by Tuesday, Sept. 13 to jmadden@cambridgema.gov or
call 617-349-4381.

CAC Grant Guidelines & Applications are available at the Cambridge Arts Council and at: www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/grants

Gallery 263 (pictured above) was a 2011 CAC Grant recipient for their Artist-in-Residency program. This collaborative program provides full access to Gallery 263 as a working studio for a small group of artists. The residencies give the public a unique opportunity to witness work in progress, and gain a peek into the creative process. Each Residency concludes with a group exhibition that features work produced during the period.

See the full list of 2011 CAC Grant recipients to learn more about programs that received funding last year.

*Completed applications must be received by Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:00 Noon. This is not a postmark deadline. Applications received after 12:00 Noon on October 14, 2011 will not be reviewed.

BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY EXHIBITION - September 18, 2011

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Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville, MA 02143
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 12-5
September 15 – October 22

MOROCCO: Sister City Visions: a Tiznit/Somerville Art Exchange
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 18, 4-6pm.

This exhibition is a direct outgrowth of the Somerville-Tiznit Sister Cities relationship that included a trip to Tiznit in December 2009 by a Somerville delegation led by Mayor Joseph Curtatone. While in Tiznit, the delegation met a group of Moroccan artists and art educators and toured their studios. Sister City Visions will include the three Brickbottom Artists who participated in the Moroccan tour; David Colombo http://www.davidcolombo.com, Pauline Lim http://paulinelim.net, and Cynthia Maurice http://cynmaurice.com, as well as Tiznit Artists M'barek Bouhchichi, Ali el Boukhari, Ahellal Hakim and Mahfoud Namouss, and others.

Live Moroccan music will be provided by Mike Rivard, composer, bassist and sintir player during the opening reception.

www.clubdelf.com/

CALL FOR T-SHIRT DESIGNS FROM BOSTON AREA ARTISTS - September 12, 2011

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WMBR is looking for designs to use on fundraising swag.

WMBR is a college/community radio station affiliated with MIT. We are a local, non-commercial station, broadcasting at 88.1fm, and online at http://wmbr.org. We are 100% volunteer, with no paid staff. This is rare - even among other local college and public stations. Our only sources of income are listener donations and a small stipend from MIT.

Each November, we host a week-long fundraising drive to replenish our capital budget and keep the station on air for another year. Typically, we offer various premiums -- wmbr-branded T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. -- to donors as our way of saying thanks and for them to wear in support of the station.

Each year we choose different designs for these premiums, which is where you come in! We are reaching out to the local artist community for logos or other images. This year is special for us, we’re celebrating 50 years on the air! Because of this, we’re especially looking for designs that highlight the 50th anniversary of WMBR.

While we can't provide cash payment, any designers whose images we use will receive publicity via on-air mentions and on our website, as well as ample samples of their work on the actual premiums. In addition, you'll be helping out one of the premiere radio stations in the region.

If you're interested in helping us out, please respond by Monday, Sept. 12. Reply to me at premiums@wmbr.org with a jpeg or link to your proposed design. Rough drafts are welcome if accompanied by examples of other finished work.

You can see examples of previously used artwork here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43949&id=22335947090
(you don't need to have a facebook account to view these)

We had a great response when we reached out to this community last year. Thanks for your consideration and please feel free to pass this along to anyone you feel might be interested!

~Jon Bernhardt

PANOPTICON 40th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION - Sep 8 - Oct 31, 2011

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OPENING THURSDAY, SEPT. 8TH

40th Anniversary Exhibition

September 8 - October 31, 2011

Mark Sandrof, Motorcycle Man, Worcester, MA, 1973.

Keith Johnson, Odense, 2003.

Frank Armstrong, Old Weona, Arkansas, 2004.

Panopticon Gallery is proud to present our 40th Anniversary Exhibition! This exhibition will feature photographs by many of the artists that exhibited in the gallery under the ownership of Tony Decaneas and photographers currently represented in the gallery under the direction of Jason Landry.

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, September 8th from 5:30-8:30pm. Many of the artists will be in attendance. A 36-page full color catalog is being printed to commemorate this exhibition.

HAROLD FEINSTEIN - A RETROSPECTIVE

a Kickstarter project

Harold Feinstein, Beauty Parlor Window, 1964
For the past three years, a team of individuals has been working on reintroducing Harold Feinstein's classic black and white photographs to the public.
Now it’s time to launch our biggest endeavor yet!

We plan to raise the funds to design, edit and publish 1,000 copies of a 200+ page large square hardcover retrospective of Harold Feinstein's classic and historically important black & white photographs through Kickstarter.

Thanks to our current supporters, we have received 12% of our goal.
REMEMBER: This project will not be funded unless we reach or exceed the goal.

At 80 years old, with 60+ years in photography, he has yet to have a monograph printed of his classic black & white photographs. We want Harold’s photographic legacy to be documented and available for everyone to appreciate his contribution to American 20th century photographic history.

We have established a team of designers, writers, and production professionals who will assist with all stages of this production. We are determined to make this happen, and so is Harold. Please join us in us in fulfilling Harold’s dream by donating to this historically and artistically important Kickstarter project.

Please click on the photograph to view Harold's Kickstarter page.

GALLERY NEWS

» Congratulations to Brian Kaplan, Fran Forman, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Stella Johnson, Suzanne Revy, Jennifer Hudson, Fritz Liedtke and Wendy Sacks for being selected as part of the Photo Lucida Critical Mass. These are all artists that are either represented by Panopticon Gallery, or have shown at the gallery during the past year.
» Harold Feinstein to receive the Living Legend Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography FOCUS Awards on October 1st, 2011.
» Neal Rantoul: 30 Years will be on display at Gallery 360 at Northeastern University from October 20 - December 5, 2011. Opening Reception will be held on October 20th from 4-6pm.
» Brian Kaplan to have a solo exhibition of his Blank Billboard series at the St.Botolph Club in February, 2012.
» Congratulations to Bill Franson, Brian Kaplan, Suzanne Revy and Eva Timothy for being to this year's New England Photography Biennial at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA.
» Fran Forman selected to be an exhibiting artist at this year's Lishui Photo Festival in China.
» As we aim to expand our social media presence, we urge you to:
Like Us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
View images from our events on Flickr
Read about our artists on our gallery Blog.
Watch videos on our YouTube channel.

Panopticon Gallery
Inside Hotel Commonwealth
502c Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
617-267-8929
Hours: Tue–Sat 9:30-4:30pm
info@panopticongallery.com

SOMERVILLE PAINTING & SCULPTURE EXHIBITION - August 26, 2011

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Paintings and Sculptures by Paul Arsenault will be on exhibit at The SCATV Gallery from August 1 – August 26, 2011. The SCATV Gallery is located at 90 Union Square, Somerville, MA. This exhibit is open to the public during SCATV hours of operation: Monday –Thursday Noon to 10:00 PM, Friday – Saturday 10: 00 AM – 4:00 PM. SCATV. The Gallery is closed on weekends and Monday holidays.

Paul Arsenault began his artist career as a painter. His paintings tell stories about the little decisions people make like deciding the fate of a spider. Several years ago, Arsenault decided to transform his sketches into 3D sculptures which appear as delicate 2 D pen and ink drawings.

Paul Arsenault's interview with Janet Cormier can be seen on ART AT SCATV on Tuesday evenings at 7 PM on Channel 3 for Somerville residents or on-line
at www.access-scat.org. For more information about Arsenault and to view his
work visit his web site at www.paularsenault.com

Somerville artists who are interested in appearing on ART AT SCATV and exhibiting in The SCATV Gallery should contact Janet Cormier, Host & Curator at tenajol5@yahoo.com.

ANNUAL SOMERVILLE ARTISTS OUTDOOR ART SHOW - September 17, 2011

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The Park at River's Edge in Medford is holding its first annual outdoor Art Show, with the assistance of the Tufts University Crew Teams as a community service, on Saturday, September 17 and cordially invites Somerville artists. Attached is the application. There is no fee this year.

Please email me or call with any questions. We would love to accommodate interested artists!

Thank you.

Penny M. Panoulias
Preotle, Lane & Associates Ltd.
200 River's Edge Drive
Medford, MA 02155

Tel. 646-695-7963

SOUTHEND OPEN STUDIOS - September 17 & 18, 2011

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Mark Your Calendars!
Sept. 17 & 18, 2011

The Open Studios has been a fabric in the life of the South End for 25 years!

During this two-day event, approximately 300 artists from the United South End Artists (USEA) organization
open up their studios and galleries in Boston's chic South End neighborhood.

http://www.useaboston.com/home.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-End-Open-Studios/130283900385548

LYNN ARTS COMMUNITY SERVICES - August 2001

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Classes
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1.
The Arts & Business Council is now accepting applications for our
Artist's Professional Toolbox program,
which is in its 7th year. We have a fabulous line-up of professional development workshops planned. We're looking for 30 visual artists interested in accelerating their career and gaining the knowledge and confidence necessary to attain their own version of success. To that end, I'd be happy to provide an
informational session
about this program to your constituents this month. We could also consider extending the application date to September 15th if the first two weeks of September is more convenient for your member group.

Let us know if you are interested in attending a session at LynnArts. Please e-mail
Susan
by Friday, August 19th

Exhibits & Openings
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1.

Rocky Neck Gallery continues its Summer Artist Series with "Proprietary Chaos," photographs of street life and informal communities of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, taken over the last four years by Laurence Kent Jones. Images include street scenes and over-sized stitched panoramas of informally built hillside neighborhoods and comparison photos of neighborhoods before and after the January 2010 earthquake. The show opens Wednesday, Aug. 17 and continues until Tuesday, Aug. 30. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, Aug. 20, from 6-8 p.m. The artist will give a presentation at 7. The public is invited.

Laurence Kent Jones has been assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for the last four years as part of a stabilization project focused on an economically deprived section of the city. As a result he spent a lot more time at the street level than the average diplomat. "Of course, I always had my camera with me!" With his photographs, Jones presents a moment in time that may be washed away or possibly reveals the seeds of a modern style of infrastructure unique to the needs and conditions of a large and tropical island.

Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, is open June through Columbus Day. Hours are Sunday: 12-6, Monday to Wednesday: 11-6 and Thursday to Saturday: 11- 8. www.rockyneckgallery.com Tel: 978-282-0917 Check our Facebook page and Twitter

2.

Please come
to the GRAND OPENING!
Safari Gallery

AUGUST 13 & 14
2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
3 LEWIS STREET, LYNN
(Located inside the framing shop "I did it myself")

FINE ART AFRICAN WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY
Featuring
Images from Botswana, Kenya, Namibia,
South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Meet the Photographer
Mary Robbins

3.

EVENTS AT THE BRUSH GALLERY & ARTISTS' STUDIOS
DURING THE 2011 LOWELL QUILT FESTIVAL, AUGUST 11 - 13

Gallery Night: Friday, August 12, 5:00 - 8:00 PM. Visit the galleries, get a sneak peak at all our quilt exhibitions and have some light refreshments.

Trunk Show! Friday, August 12, 5:00 - 8:00 and Saturday, August 13 from 11:00 to 5:00. Nancy McDonough from Kyoto Kimono of New York will be at the Brush with a trunk show offering a selection of full kimono garments - robes, jackets, obi sashes - as well as vintage kimono textiles and gift items created from them. Silks, cottons, and blends; shibori, ikat, and brocades; by the bundle, packet or piece, with inspiration in every one. Nancy will be on hand to discuss Japanese textiles and answer questions. Preview the goods on her website, www.kyotokimono.com.

Quilt Candy: Saturday, August 13, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. An outdoor, tented event featuring a full range of needlecrafts, fiber art, knitted, woven and felted items, embroidery, embellishments, and all manner of creative cloth! It will be held in the shaded, brick-lined courtyard located between the National Historical Park Visitor Center, the Brush Art Gallery and Studios and Lowell Telecommunications Corporationin the heart of Lowell's arts district.

Art Quilts Lowell 2011: The Sea Exhibition Dates: August 11 - September 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13, 3 - 5 pm
An annual Brush Gallery exhibition featuring the finest art quilts from Canada and the U.S.

This year's artists:
Betty Busby - NM, Victoria Carr - MA, Gerrie Congdon - OR, Lisa M. Corson - CT, Nancy Crasco - MA, Grace Errea - CA, Diane Franklin - MA, Sandy Gregg - MA, Carol Anne Grotrian - MA, Beverly Hertler - NJ, Rosemary Hoffenberg - MA, Lauren Horowitz - NY, Janice Jones - MA, Deborah Lacativa - GA, Susan Lenz - SC, Ingrid Lincoln - Manitoba, Valerie Maser-Flanagan - MA, Jeanelle McCall - TX, Lorie McCown - VA, Penny Prudden Myles - MA, Suzanne R. Neusner - NY, Gay Ousley - TX, Gladys A. Perkins - MA, Wen Redmond - NH, Susan M. Rouleau - SD, Norma Schlager - CT, Carolyn Spiegel - NY, Pamela A Stanton - MA, Carol Ann Waugh - CO, Diane Wright - CT

4.
Fruitlands Opens Photojournalism Exhibit on 9/11
Witness to Global Conflict: 9/11 and Beyond
Exhibit Opening
Sunday, September 11, 1PM-3PM
Free

Fruitlands Museum is honored to host a new exhibit of photographs by renowned photojournalists Gary Knight, Teun Voeten and Roger Leo. The exhibit opens in the Art Gallery on September 11, 2011 and runs through November 15th. Witness to Global Conflict: 9/11 and Beyond will illustrate the lives of US combat soldiers serving overseas, particularly within the unique landscapes of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Please join us for the opening which will feature a military color guard from the 1st Battalion 25th Marines "New England's Own," and the 110th National Guard honor guard. Speakers include Brendan O'Byrne who will talk about the life of soldiers and the role of conflict journalists who convey their experience to the public. Also presenting is John Gerlaugh, a former Marine who works for the Secretary of Defense on policy in Afghanistan, and Rose Annese the Blue to Gold liaison for the Blue Star Mother's of North Central Massachusetts. After the ceremony guests will be directed to the Art Gallery to view the exhibition.

Jill Pottle Art Demonstration
Saturday, July 23, 1PM-2:30PM
Free with admission
Fruitlands Artist-in-Residence, Jill Pottle, will demonstrate her contemporary approach to creating landscape paintings in oil/acrylic paint.

Calendar
Directions
Visitor Info
5.

DOMINICK A. TAKIS
RECENT COLLAGE PAINTINGS
MARBLEHEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY
VIRGINIA A. CARTEN GALLERY
AUGUST 4, 2011 - AUGUST 26, 2011

6.

Contact: Deborah Greel, Director Marblehead Arts Association
781-631-2608, DeborahG@marbleheadarts.org
8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA

Tibetan Sand Mandala in Marblehead
August 11, 12, 13, 14

Marblehead, MA - The Marblehead Arts Association (MAA) is pleased to announce during four days in August the public is invited to view the creation of a Tibetan Sand Mandala at the King Hooper Mansion, 8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA 01945.

Geshe Gendun Gyatso, a Tibetan Monk and trained Mandala master will construct a sand Mandala on August 11, 12, 13, 14 in the Ballroom Gallery. A Sand Mandala is an intricate sand painting dedicated to world peace. Layers of gem-colored sand are painstakingly placed grain by grain on a 4foot circle, infused with prayers and meditation, to form a breathtakingly
beautiful symbolic design of the universe. Geshe Gendun Gyatso goal in creating mandalas are to inform and enlighten people to the path of achieving happiness and inner peace through the simplicity of existence, how to defeat day to day anxiety, insecurity, anger and discouragement.

Geshe Gendun Gyatso was born in Ladakh, India in 1961. In 1969, at the age of eight, he became a Buddhist Monk at Sera Je Monastic University in southern India. He studied logic and epistemology, the study of nature of knowledge.In 1982, he was fully ordained by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He studied in the Geshe Program for twenty-five years including Tantric Study at Gyumed Tantric College in India.In 1993 he was awarded his doctorate (Geshe) degree in Buddhist Studies as a Doctor of Buddhist Philosophy.After obtaining his doctorate degree Geshe Gyatso went to England to learn and study the English language. He is now fluent in English as well as his native Tibetan language and numerous Indian dialects.

Geshe Gendun Gyatso went on to study comparative religion as a visiting scholar under the Boston University Fellowship Program for Theological Study.During his studies Geshe Gendun became an Affiliated Chaplain at Boston University and Chaplain at Harvard's Dana Faber Cancer Institute.

Between 2002 and 2005 Geshe Gendun Gyatso taught at several dharma centers in Colorado. He founded the Healing Dharma Center in Boston in 2005, and continues teaching there today.
Geshe Gyatso continues to travel extensively around the world providing teaching to the public and private counseling sectors.

MAA artist member, Kathleen Staab, was so inspired by Geshe Gendun Gyatso's Sand Mandala that was created this April in Rockport, MA that she wanted to bring this experience to Marblehead Arts Association during her exhibit here in August titled "Reflect and Reflections". This exhibit of exquisite watercolors explores many of the same themes as the Mandala, the opportunity to use artwork as a way to stop the busyness of everyday life and reflect on the beauty that surrounds us.

Mandala construction is on Thursday, August 11 through Sunday, August 13, from 10am to 5pm. In the late afternoon on Sunday, August 14, the Sand Mandala will be ritually swept-up in an elaborate ceremony and carried in procession to the ocean, where the Mandala will be poured into the Atlantic, dispersing the prayers for peace and compassion throughout the entire world. All are welcome to participate.

We are seeking sponsors for this opportunity to bring Geshe Gendun Gyatso to the Marblehead Arts. Please contact the MAA if you wish to contribute, any amount is welcome.

7.

X: Kingston Gallery Associate Members' Group Exhibition. Please join me at the reception on Friday, August 5 from 6 -- 8 p.m. This is a SOWA first Friday, so you can visit all of the SOWA galleries, while you're there.

Political Action
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1.

Good news about the NEA from the Americans For the Arts

July 29, 2011

Good News! Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives successfully voted down an amendment proposed by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) that would have cut an additional $10.6 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts from the FY 2012 Interior Appropriations bill. Thanks to the efforts of arts advocates like you across the country, more than 35,000 messages were sent in the last month to Capitol Hill in support of NEA funding. It made a difference! The amendment was defeated soundly by a vote of 240 to 181. You can see how your representative voted on the amendment here:

http://capwiz.com/artsusa/vote.xc/?votenum=670&chamber=H&congress=1121&voteid=52336506&state=US

Through our E-Advocacy Center, you can easily write your representative about this vote.

http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=52373536

We've made it easy by automatically matching up a letter of thanks for you to send to those House members who voted against the Walberg Amendment. For those House members who voted for the Walberg Amendment, you can send a letter expressing your disappointment.

What's Next
As Congress continues to debate a debt ceiling resolution, final consideration of the full Interior Appropriations bill has been delayed. The House of Representatives hopes to finish this legislation before they break for the proposed August recess. It is unclear when the Senate will begin work on their version of this appropriations bill and negotiate a final compromise with the House - but it would most likely take place later in the fall.

Everything Else
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1.
old gloucester easel good condition $125.00 another out door easel "ancobilt" is the name on it $ good condition also call Dottie 978-531267

2.

Funding
2011 William H. Johnson Prize
Funding/Deadline: August 15, 2011
Applications and information are available online at www.whjohnsongrant.org

The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that seeks to encourage African American artists early in their careers through its annual award, The William H. Johnson Prize. Early career African American artists who work in painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, installation and/or new genre are eligible to apply.

The William H Johnson Foundation For The Arts
6022 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323 931-3744
323 931-3751 fax
info@whjohnsongrant.org

3.

Studio Share

Approx. 250 square feet in the Distillery Building (
http://distilleryboston.com/
) in South Boston

Available starting August 1st. Seeking one artist to join two painters in a great, recently renovated space. Well-maintained building with freight elevators and loading dock.

Perks: Well attended Open Studios twice a year, Listing on Distillery website, on-site Gallery features building/local artists, Zipcars, Mybike bicycle rentals/repair. Easy T access (red line to Broadway Station, or #9 or #10 bus from Copley Square).

$330/month includes basic electric. First, last, and security deposit required. Please be using nontoxic materials. No spraypaint, pastels, sawdust/particulate production.

Send inquiries to
chantalhardy@mindspring.com

Please share a bit about yourself and your work habits in your email.

Employment Opportunity

Visual Arts Instructor/Must Speak Spanish

Hurley School /Grades K1-8th

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to:
extendedlearning.hurley@gmail.com
; Please put: "Visual Arts" in your subject line.

4.

Studio Available, LynnArts, $150 mos, 24 hour access, directly across from commuter rail, call Jen for more information, 781.598.5244.

AUGUST PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION - August 2011

2011-08-03T11:30:00.000-07:00

These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

NATIVE FERNS OF NEW ENGLAND
Wednesday, August 3
7 to 8:30 pm
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Don Lubin, fern expert, will talk about the life cycle of ferns and their evolutionary history spanning 400 million years. From among New England’s 68 native species, we will examine twenty of those most commonly found. This survey will include detailed photographs, techniques for field identification, and a look at the adaptive niche that each species occupies. Don Lubin has been teaching about ferns for over a decade and he grows 44 species in his small yard in Allston. He has collected more than 50 herbarium specimens and has identified previously unrecorded taxa at several locales in Massachusetts. This program is offered by Grow Native Massachusetts, with support from Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation.

SURVEY OF AQUATIC PLANTS AT BLACK’S NOOK
Tuesday, August 9
6:30 to 8 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Come participate in this yearly survey of the aquatic plants of Black’s Nook! We'll use a variety of nets and buckets to collect the plants, then go indoors to identify them with the help of a dichotomous key. The balance between native and exotic/invasive plants in a pond can be used as an indicator of the health of that environment. Please register.

WILDFLOWER IDENTIFICATION USING NEWCOMB'S WILDFLOWER GUIDE
Thursday, August 11
6:30 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
If you find yourself wishing that you could identify the flowers that you see as you walk around Fresh Pond, this program may be just right for you! We will demonstrate the use of Newcomb’s, a wildflower guide that really works; then we will identify some beautiful specimens in the nearby Water Department planting beds. We have Newcomb’s guides and lenses to lend, or you can bring your own.

TELLING OUR STORY: FRESH POND AND THE CIVIL WAR –
13 DAYS IN JUNE 1861
Saturday, August 13
1 to 3 pm
Location given on registration
Join Chief Ranger Jean Rogers and be a history detective – examine copies of maps, letters, and newspaper articles to better understand the role Fresh Pond played at the start of the Civil War. Participants will then create a poster of their findings to be hung in the Ranger Station for other visitors to explore. This is a participatory, activity-based program, offered in conjunction with Cambridge Discovery Days. Advance registration required by August 7: Contact Ranger Jean Rogers, 617-349-4793 or jrogers@cambridgema.gov.

VISIT THE WOODLAND RESTORATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
Sunday, August 14
2 to 3:30 pm
Follow the signs counterclockwise from the Water Department for about ¼ mile to the Woodland Project entrance.
Fresh Pond’s Woodland Restoration Demonstration Project has been planted primarily with species that are considered to be native to the area that is now Middlesex County. The volunteers who manage this project will give you a tour and tell you about the plants. There is a circular path to walk on and during this program the plants will be labeled. Come learn about native plants that you might want to use in your own garden. No dogs, please!

PLANT IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP
Monday, August 15
6 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join New England Wildflower Society botanists and Fresh Pond Reservation volunteer stewards in learning about the plant communities found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This hands-on workshop will include native and invasive plant identification, training on invasive weed removal, and information on how you can help out at Fresh Pond.

A TOUR OF THE WATER PURIFICATION FACILITY
Monday, August 22
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come learn how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is transported to Cambridge, purified into drinking water, and piped to our homes and businesses. Members of the Cambridge Water Department staff will describe the process, answer your questions, and give a tour of the building.

SPECIMEN TREE INVENTORY AND DATA COLLECTION 
Tuesday, August 23
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility parking lot
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join volunteer stewards and help us to begin to inventory the big and unique trees at Fresh Pond while updating tree data from the Fresh Pond Natural Resources Inventory. We’ll identify the trees and gather information about their location, health, and size, as well as look out for Asian Longhorned Beetles. Tools and training provided. To register, email Deb at fpr@cambridgema.gov or call 617-349-6489.

CAMBRIDGE WATER DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS
Here are links to programs sponsored by the Water Department:

1. Cambridge Black Swallowort Pod Patrol
http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CWD/pod_patrol.cfm or call 617-349-6489.

2. Volunteer Weekend Weedouts (Mugwort on August 7)
http://www2.cambridgema.gov/CityOfCambridge_Content/documents/weekend%20weedouts.pdf or call 617-349-6489

3. Friday Fresh Pond Kids’ Walks
Call Deb at 617-349-6489 or e-mail her at fpr@cambridgema.gov

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. You will receive directions and information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

****** You can sign up for the City of Cambridge’s informative “Recycling and Composting Newsletter” by e-mailing recycle@cambridgema.gov ******

BLACK SWALLOW-WORT ERADICATION IN CAMBRIDGE - Jul/Aug 2011

2011-07-27T22:26:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow and the following three Saturdays July 23 and 30, Aug 6 and 13) the Cambridge Water Dept and the Friends of Fresh Pond are sponsoring a table in the vestibule of the main Cambridge library between 9 and 11. We're trying to raise awareness of black swallow-wort, an extremely invasive and destructive plant that is becoming ever more a problem in the Northeast, and whose center of dissemination seems to be -- yup -- Cambridge, MA. We want people to learn to recognize the plant and its seed pods, so they can begin to monitor their own properties and other neighborhood infestations.

I know that many of you on this list are all too familiar with BS. But some may not yet have encountered it, or perhaps have encountered it but not recognized it.

Either way, if you're interested in this problem, stop by the library. Knowledgeable folks can share their expertise, and newbies will be able to acquire some, to the benefit of everyone's gardens. The more people who know about the Pod Patrol campaign, the better chance we'll have to contain this plant.

PEACE DRUM PROJECT NEWS - SUMMER 2011

2011-07-18T07:01:00.001-07:00

Peace Drum 2011 Awards & Exhibits

It was an exciting awards ceremony this year for Peace Drum teens as we were able to celebrate their accomplishments in our new space at AAMARP Studios. The third floor gallery was alive with creative teens and their families as the proceedings got underway. After a brief introduction, teens read excerpts from the elder's stories sharing their favorite adventures from the lives of Assefa deGiffe, Albert Carter, Bernice Simmons, and Jimmy Wright - all elders from the Amory Street Apartments. There wasn't time to read from all of the stories, but the complete collection is currently available at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library (BPL) along with the exhibit of 2011 drums. The stories and photos of the drums will be posted on CAI's website this summer for all to enjoy.   The awards ceremony was accompanied by three separate exhibits of the teen's work created during the year. Peace Drums were displayed in the third floor gallery, while prints of the teen's paintings (now on exhibit at Northeastern University) were exhibited in the Peace Drum Community Space, also on the third floor of AAMARP. Pop-Up creations made as part of our partnership with the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum's Community Creations Project are on exhibit on the fourth floor at AAMARP Studios through September. All of this visual productivity was complemented by a performance of original poetry and music by teen participant Joseph Ruiz who was accompanied by Joel Perea and Johan Caminiero of Roxbury.   Finally, seventeen awards were presented including two Community All-Star Awards. These were presented to Gloretta Baynes of AAMARP Studios, and Kerith Conron of the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern for their outstanding advocacy and support of the Peace Drum Project during this year. All of the teen participants received awards, with the Special Leadership Awards going to Ivan Richiez, Joseph Ruiz, Jasmine Dozier, Janéa Williams, Jenny Nguyen, Joel Perea, and Livymer Cáceres. Livy also received the Charles M. Holley Memorial Scholarship Award. She will be attending Worcester State College in the fall. Five other teens also graduated from high school this year, and all will be attending college or community college in the fall. They are Ivan Richiez, Denzell Beasley, Jasmine Dozier, Rogenzo Cruickshank, and Tashia Ezell-Cuff.

In This Issue

Peace Drum 2011 Awards 

Special Thanks 

Peace Drum Flashback 

Elder's Stories 
What is the Peace Drum Project?

This project is Cooperative Artists Institute's after-school teen leadership initiative that combines performing and visual Arts in a fun, exciting process that helps teens develop while becoming a greater asset to their own communities. Boston teens learn important life and leadership skills like critical-thinking, problem-solving, listening and communication, creativity, empathy and understanding. This 30-week project brings teens together with Boston elders to help them recall and record their life stories. After interviewing the elders, each teen makes a personalized Peace Drum for each elder that reflects their life story. This sharing of stories builds common ground and connects the two generations with each other in a positive and lasting way. The blending of the Arts with the community service helps the teens develop maturity and build supportive, positive peer relationships.  For more information call 617-524-6378, or check out  http://tribal-rhythms.org/drum_exhibit.html 

Special Thanks

Very special thanks to:  The Janey Fund, Boston Cultural Council, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, and to the many individual contributors who made the project possible this year   Your contribution to support The Peace Drum Project will ensure that we can continue to provide this one-of-a-kind experience to help at-risk youth transform their lives through the arts and their connection with elders in the community. 
 Related Links

JP PATCH Peace Drum Article

http://jamaicaplain.patch.com/articles/jamaica-plains-peace-drum-project-links-teens-and-elders

My Hopes & Dreams Exhibit    

http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2011/05/my-hopes-and-dreams.html

Intergenerational Connections Through the Arts

http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8z84x5cab&t=mbi9segab.0.0.8z84x5cab.0&id=preview&ts=S0646&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hfrp.org%2Fvar%2Fhfrp%2Fstorage%2Foriginal%2Fapplication%2F42f49f09997b4b34a3182c098df7e9a5.pdf    

Over 80 Elder Stories on CAI's Website 

  http://tribal-rhythms.org/elders_stories.html 

 AAMARP @ Northeastern

http://www.northeastern.edu/daas/initiatives/aamarp/
Peace Drum Flashback

This year we've decided to add a feature that lets you hear from some past Peace Drum participants to see how their lives are going. In this newsletter we share some thoughts from Yolaida Martinez Garcia who was one of the early participants in the project. (She was interviewed by Danielle Moran, a graduate intern with the project last year. Danielle just received her Master's Degree from Simmons College.)   
“Yolaida was a parent at age 15 and had a very difficult family life during the time when she was a participant. Yet her strong spirit and love of art gave her a resilience that is inspiring to those who know her. She is now married with two children, is finishing college, and is a Boston EMT. As with many of the young people who take part in the project, she has stayed in touch over the years and shared some of her thoughts with us recently.   "At the Peace Drum, there was a lot of diversity; there were people from different backgrounds. I learned about other communities, about other teen's lives, and we became family. When we came to the program we were listened to. There was always someone to talk to about what you were feeling. There was always someone to ask what your plans were - what you wanted to do with your life. Peace Drum staff members were like second parents, and I never wanted to leave. There was always laughter, always smiles. Even when someone had a bad day, we would all leave smiling. 

My life at home was very difficult, but at the program there was an escape. The staff believed in me and told me I could accomplish things. They gave me the love and encouragement that I wasn't getting at home or in school. They told me not to quit school and that if I kept trying, things would get better, and they did. They helped me feel like a role model, and the other teens looked to me for counseling because I had already experienced a lot. I learned from the elders, too. Their stories helped me to stay grounded. The elders were a positive part of my development." 

The Elder's Stories 

The complete version of all of the elder stories will be posted on our website in August, 2011.,
Excerpted from the story of Priscilla Morris  

(Interviewed by Steven Casiano & Megan O'Neal) 

"We moved quite a few times while I was in school. We lived with friends or had our own place. I lived in Arlington, Wakefield, Melrose and then Medford. There was one adventure that I had in my teenage years; yes - I did have an adventure! My mother and I were living with a family for a time in West Medford, and they had four or five boys all around my age. They were from teens to early 20s, and they were all into roller-skating. So, I used pick up the living room and the dining room and the kitchen for the mother, and she would give the boys a buck so they could take me roller skating. They were delighted to do that, and she persuaded my mother that it was fine - they would take care of me. So it was a real adventure rolling skating with them, because here are all these teenage boys fooling around and skating. To me this was like a wild movie. It was completely different from my usual life, and it was fabulous fun!   

I absolutely loved school. School was the only place where if I did what I was told to do I was praised for it and people respected me for it and liked me. When I transferred to Medford High School, I think I was a junior. I was taking the college course because my mother didn't want me to take a business course. So I took Latin and French and all that great stuff, and it was good because I learned a lot. Seriously, I did!   There was this French Teacher who was about 60 years old then, and I was 16, or 17. Everybody loved her; about 30 people wanted to take her class, and I got in! She taught us Christmas carols in French and we put on plays, funny plays! We did all kinds of interesting things in French class and everybody in school loved the ground she walked on. She was a very excellent teacher. That was the one class I really dearly loved"

Excerpted from the story of Albert Eugene Carter

 (Interviewed by Janéa Williams) 

 

"The most important thing I learned from my family was love. We were poor, but what we really had was love. We cared so much about each other that I guess we really didn't care that we didn't have a whole lot of things. I would have to say that love is what they brought us up with. And, it rubbed off on my own family because you don't have to have a whole lot of money to have love. You have to care for everybody, so we cared for everybody. Through hard times and stuff, my mother always had love to share with her children and everybody.   So we never had any conflict when I was growing up. Even though our family was big - there were twelve of us - we never had an argument because my mother would stop any dispute right off. She would say, 'Uh uh, we don't have any argument here.' So we grew up realizing that there was no reason to argue because she was going to step in between us and stop it by whatever means necessary - even if she had to beat us both! So we took the lesson not to argue, and in my own family we don't argue either - we have a conversation. And if it doesn't work out, we jump to something else, so it cuts down on arguments.    That also helped out in the long run because I'm more of a friend to everyone than an enemy. You can't rub me the wrong way; I don't get upset. I may lose my temper a little bit, but all of a sudden I sit back and it's over. I can't argue, because it doesn't solve anything. I learned this at an early age from my family.”

Cooperative Artists Institute

The Peace Drum Project is an initiative of the Cooperative Artists Institute, which has a 41-year track record of using the arts to create positive change in Boston. In 2010-11, nearly 15,000 children and adults took part in CAI's community-building multicultural art programs, and many others visited our website http://www.tribal-rhythms.org. For more information, or to make a donation, call Susan Porter at (617) 524-6378 or mail to: 311 Forest Hills St, Jamaica Plain MA 02130-3605

SOMERVILLE BLUE CLOUD GALLERY EXHIBITION -

2011-07-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

Blue Cloud Gallery at 713 Broadway, Ball SQ, Somerville is showcasing Medford artist Tamara Major's original framed watercolors of summer gardens, landscapes and sunsets. Tamara has been making art for as long as she can remember. Over the years, she has experimented with many different materials. It is important for her to convey 'states of being' in color & mood in whatever media she chooses to work in. She meditates on a scene or feeling, then conveys her impressions on paper. Much of her art is representative of a reflective, quiet experience as when observing nature; the garden & landscape images at Blue Cloud Gallery are some examples. Blue Cloud Gallery sells her cards and prints of local scenes year round. Summer Hours: Tues. - Sat. 11-7, Sundays 11-5, Closed Mondays.

Contact:

617-776-2700
http://www.bluecloudgallery.com

MASSACHUSETTS ARTISTS, CRAFTERS & TRASHIONiSTAS - August 20, 2011

2011-07-13T07:17:00.001-07:00

The Whole Foods Market in Medford is looking for artists and crafts people working with and creating items from recycled, up-cycled, and repurposed material and hope to have a “trashion” show at their August 20th Green-Up Medford event. They plan to combine art and local green organizations/information about green lifestyle. Tables will be provided at no cost and the artists are free to keep whatever profit they make from their sales. The event will be held outdoors in their parking lot and they hope to make it a fun, festive inspiring and informative time for all ages.

If you’d like to participate, please contact:

tommy.rider@wholefoods.com

ART CONSIGNMENT OPPORTUNITY IN ROSLINDALE - September 1, 2011

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My husband Dan and I just signed the lease on a great retail location in Roslindale Square (20 Birch Street), where we are opening a shop called "Sarida". Sarida is Hebrew for the name "Bunny" – Dan's late grandmother's name. The shop is an "An Artist-run Marketplace for Local Art, Handcrafted Objects and Unique Findings". The lease begins this Saturday (July 16th) and we hope to have a "grand opening" shortly after Labor Day (but will have a soft opening prior to that -- basically as soon as we get enough product).

After participating in craft shows and artisan markets for a while, we've decided to take the indie route and open a year-round marketplace to showcase and sell local and regional art. We may include some interesting and unique retail items as well. Our goal is to provide a community-driven, creative space for artisans, designers and vendors to sell their wares. We will manage the shop, carry the lease, pay the bills and handle all operations – taking as much care and motivation to sell other's work in addition to our own.

The shop will be open a minimum of 4 days per week (more around the winter holidays), including two evenings in the warmer months… as the back door opens onto an adorable patio – which is the outdoor dining space for three popular restaurants! We plan to participate in the Roslindale Open Studios, have in-store artists' events (including but not limited to an "Artists of the Month" program), eventually facilitate art and craft classes and more.

We are currently accepting applications for artists, craftspeople and designers. You can visit our website at: www.shopsarida.com to download the application and membership agreement. We are also on Twitter (shopsarida) and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ShopSarida

Thanks!
Tammy

ARTISAN'S ASYLUM OPEN-HOUSE AND FUNDRAISER - July 9, 2011

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Artisan's Asylum is moving into a 25,000 square foot warehouse in September, where we'll offer bigger and better craft areas (which include woodworking, precision machining, welding, electronics assembly, bicycle repair and fabrication, fabric arts and computerized manufacturing facilities, to name a few), over 100 studio rental spaces for local artists, artisans, and entrepreneurs, and new amenities such as a kitchenette, a craft-focused retail storefront, a computer lab and more. We'd love for you to join us this Saturday, July 9th, from 7-11PM, for a sneak peak at our new space with an open house and fundraiser for our move. We'll have free food and drink, circus performances, installation art and galleries from local artists and craftspeople, music, and presentations about the history of and vision for Artisan's Asylum in the near future. The suggested donation at the door is $25, with funds going towards our move and infrastructural build-out of the new space.

We'll have a ton of information available at the event about our new membership options (several of which are less expensive than our current offerings), how to rent space with us, and how to get involved as a teacher, student, member, renter, or volunteer.

WHAT: Artisan's Asylum Open-House and Fundraiser
WHEN: July 9th, 7-11PM
WHERE: 10 Tyler St, Somerville MA

We hope to see you there!

Thanks,
-Gui Cavalcanti

President of Artisan's Asylum, Inc.
http://www.artisansasylum.com

JULY PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION - July 2011

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These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

SUMMER BIRD WALK
Sunday, July 10
7:30 to 9:30 am
Street end of Neville Place driveway
650 Concord Avenue
During the summer, early morning is the best time to look for birds because they are most active when the air is cool and they are hungry for breakfast. We may find adults feeding babies in the nest and fledglings that are following their parents and chirping for food. As always, beginning birders are welcome. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

CAMBRIDGE BLACK SWALLOWWORT POD PATROL KICKOFF
Sunday, July 10
1 to 4 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Black Swallowwort is one of the most aggressive invasive weeds, and it is spreading at Fresh Pond and throughout Cambridge. You can help limit its further spread by removing the spindle-like pods before they release their wind-borne seeds. Join other volunteers and Water Department staff as we learn more about swallowwort and start removing the pods around the Reservation; then take what you learn into your own neighborhood. During the summer we’ll be tracking our progress block by block throughout Cambridge. The Pod Patrol campaign is co-sponsored with the City of Cambridge, Grow Native Massachusetts, and CentersAndSquares.com. Contact Deb at fpr@cambridgema.gov or 617-349-6489 for more information.

WEEDING IN THE KINGSLEY BIOSWALE
Wednesday evenings: July 13, 20, and 27
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Volunteer trailer in the Water Purification Facility parking lot
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
You can participate in this stewardship project with Friends group naturalists and gardeners who are removing invasive weeds from the beautiful bioswale at the base of the Kingsley Park hillside. We will provide plant ID training, gloves, and tools. If you are new, please let us know you are coming (see below).

FRIENDS OF FRESH POND RESERVATION ANNUAL MEMBERS’ PICNIC
Sunday, July 17
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Neville Place back patio
650 Concord Avenue
Join us for a relaxed evening of conversation and good food at this potluck picnic supper on Neville Place’s garden patio. Newcomers are welcome. Bring a favorite dish and we will provide tables, drinks, and dinnerware. After we eat, we will visit one of the restored natural areas nearby. If it rains we will meet indoors. RSVP at the e-mail or phone number below.

A TOUR OF THE WATER PURIFICATION FACILITY
Monday, July 18
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come learn how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is transported to Cambridge, purified into drinking water, and piped to our homes and businesses. Members of the Cambridge Water Department staff will describe the process, answer your questions, and give a tour of the building.

PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE BIOCONTROL PROJECT:
MEASURING AND MONITORING
Monday, July 18
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility parking lot
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join Fresh Pond volunteer stewards for our 5th annual purple loosestrife biocontrol data collection. Come find out about invasive purple loosestrife, the Galerucella beetle, and what they have to do with each other. We'll be gathering and recording data to help us figure out if the beetles are helping control the loosestrife population at Little Fresh Pond. This event replaces the regularly scheduled Volunteer Stewards meetup. Free flowers for those who register: 617-349-6489 or fpr@cambridgema.gov.

PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE BIOCONTROL PROJECT: BEETLE BRIGADE
Thursday, July 21
10 am to noon
Water Purification Facility parking lot
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join Fresh Pond volunteer stewards for the 5th annual release of Galerucella beetles, whose favorite food is invasive purple loosestrife. We’ll release the beetles in the large patch of loosestrife at Little Fresh Pond. This event replaces our regularly scheduled Volunteer Stewards meetup. Free flowers for those who register: 617-349-6489 or fpr@cambridgema.gov.

PLANT IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP
Monday, July 25
6 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join New England Wildflower Society botanists and Fresh Pond Reservation Volunteer Stewards in learning about the plant communities found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This hands-on workshop will include native and invasive plant identification, training on invasive weed removal, and information on how you can help out at Fresh Pond.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. You will receive directions and information on parking when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

****** You can sign up for the City of Cambridge’s informative “Recycling and Composting Newsletter” by e-mailing recycle@cambridgema.gov ******

MALDEN'S FIRST PUBLIC MURAL NEEDS ARTISTS - June 6-20, 2011

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Help us with details as we complete our 1200 sq foot mural! MALDEN'S FIRST PUBLIC MURAL IS TAKING SHAPE!

LOCATION:
Malden Center MBTA underpass (orange line)
Corner of Rt 60 and Commercial St Malden MA

SIGN UP TODAY!
We are having all the fun without you!

If you or anyone you know is interested- please pass this on to any local artists 14 and older!

Calling all artists to join us on the following dates:
Mon June 6th 3:30-6:30
Wed June 8th 3:30-6:30
Sunday afternoon June 12 (time TBA)
Mon June 13 3:30-6:30
Wed June 15 3:30-6:30
Friday morning June 17 (time TBA)
Mon June 20 3:30-6:30
RSVP: Anyahlee.arts@gmail.com

Our unveiling event will follow the evening of June 22nd.

Visit www.theartconnection.org
"engaging communities" link
To learn more and see the design!

Feel free to call or email me with any questions.

We would be honored to work with you and make this permanent masterpiece yours!

This project is sponsored in part by Malden Cultural Council, the Office of Malden Mayor Richard C. Howard, MBTA, Malden Stadium, Malden Redevelopment Authority, Youth ACT and individuals like you.

Anyahlee
Art Instructor/Creative Union Gallery Manager
Walnut Street Center
29A Union Square
Somerville MA
www.creativeuniongallery.org
www.anyahlee.com
617.605.3696

BOSTON PRIDE ART EXHIBIT - June 7

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Please Be Invited to the Artists’ Reception at the
Bunker Hill Community College ART GALLERY
Tuesday, June 7th, at 6p.m.
for
THAT’S SO GAY
A group exhibition showcasing the diverse art of 20+ Boston-area GLBT artists
whose artwork in various media explores the Gay Liberation Movement, Politics and Identity
with works by
Sparky Alexander, Larry Bowling, Bobby Busnach, Caleb Cole,
Shelby Condray, Jess Dugan, Russell duPont, Daniel Embree, Anh Ðào Kolbe, Loki LaChapelle,
Emily Lombardo, Peter Madden, David Mynott, Steven Muller, Hunter Pavay, Robert Siegelman,
Thomas Stocker, Bud Turner, Lex Thomas, Zoe Perry-Wood, and others

with refreshments and live music by YANI BATTEAU

CALL FOR PUBLIC ART PROPOSALS - June 10, 2011

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VINCE DROSER TRIBUTE AT PEABODY SQUARE/DORCHESTER IN BOSTON, MA. This project is open to artists residing in New England. Trinity Financial invites artists to forward qualifications for a sculptural tribute to Vince A. Droser to be permanently installed in Peabody Square, Dorchester. The work to be commissioned is envisioned to be an "art installation with a surprise". The committee would like to honor Vince's spirit by allowing the project to also function as a location for annual community/culinary celebrations. Budget: $150,000 - $200,000.

Contact/details:

Ricardo D Barreto
UrbanArts
Boston, Massachusetts

617.879-7970
http://www.massart.edu/About_MassArt/Urban_Arts_Institute/Opportunities.html
ricardo.barreto@massart.edu

FRESH POND RESERVATION PROGRAMS - June 2011

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These events are FREE and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult

RESERVATION RAMBLE Fridays
9 – 10 am
Fresh Pond Kids: Bring your parents and friends and join us for a leisurely walk to meet plants and animals living in the reservation. Meet at the Water Dept front door. Bring your own snacks. Rain cancels.
To get on the email list, contact Deb 617.349.6489 fpr@cambridgema.gov

A TOUR OF THE WATER PURIFICATION FACILITY

Monday, June 6, 6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come learn how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is transported to Cambridge, purified into drinking water, and piped to our homes and businesses. Members of the Cambridge Water Department staff will describe the process, answer your questions, and give a tour of the building.

NESTING BIRD WALK

Sunday, June 12, 7:30 to 9:30 am
650 Concord Avenue (street end of Neville Place driveway) Woods, tangled underbrush, open meadows, and easy access to water make Fresh Pond Reservation a desirable place for birds to raise their young. Our best shot for seeing their nests is now, before the leaves are fully open. We may also have the opportunity to see birds building their nests. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them. Beginners are welcome.

A FRESH POND RESERVATION WALKABOUT

Monday, June 13, 6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Chip Norton, Cambridge Watershed Manager, will give a tour of Fresh Pond Reservation’s conservation and recreation areas. He also will use maps and diagrams to help illustrate the goals for these major restoration projects.

CELEBRATE THE SUMMER SOLSTICE

Sunday, June 19, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place 650 Concord Avenue
Boot Boutwell leads a celebration of the summer solstice, the day when the midday sun reaches it’s highest point in the sky. The summer solstice, which occurs this year on June 21st, marks the longest day (and shortest night) of the year. We will celebrate the season with solstice history and lore, poetry, songs, a solstice story, and a short ceremony to welcome in the solstice. We will also take a walk to enjoy the beauty of nature and, weather permitting, to watch the sun set. The program will end with refreshments. Pre-registration is required; limit 25 people.

PLANT IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP

Monday, June 20, 6 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility Front Door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join New England Wildflower Society botanists and Fresh Pond Reservation Volunteer Stewards in learning about the plant communities found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This hands-on workshop will include native and invasive plant identification, training on invasive weed removal, and information on how you can help out at Fresh Pond. Future Monday workshops: July 25 and August 8.

SUMMER SOLSTICE BIRD WALK

Tuesday, June 21, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Street end of Neville Place driveway
650 Concord Avenue
If you can’t bear to get up at dawn to look at birds, this walk is for you. Just as people take advantage of the longest days of the year to continue their outdoor activities, so do birds. They need the extra hours of daylight to forage for food for their hungry babies. Beginning birders are welcome. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

INTRODUCTION TO LICHENS

Saturday, June 25, 1 to 3 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place 650 Concord Avenue Elizabeth Kneiper, a naturalist with a special interest in lichens, will introduce us to the biology and ecology of some of the plant world’s most interesting composite organisms -lichens. After the talk, Elizabeth will guide us on a walk around Fresh Pond to see if we can find, identify, and observe some of the local lichen species.

OUR URBAN ECOSYSTEM

Sundays: June 26, July 24, August 28, 1 to 3 pm
Location given on registration
Join Chief Ranger Jean Rogers for a 3-part series about our local ecology. We’ll use hands-on activities, observation, data collection, and journaling to discover interactions and relationships among living and non-living elements of our urban ecosystem. All that’s required are an open mind, a willingness to go beyond naming and defining things, and a commitment to attend all three sessions. Limited to 15 adults. For more information and to register, contact jrogers@CambridgeMA.GOV. Confirmation and program outline will be available to registrants one week before the start.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. Important information on parking will be given to you when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

For a complete listing of Cambridge Water Department Summer 2011 Programs:
http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org/cwdprograms2011.htm

2. STEWARDSHIP INVITATION

Hi Friends,

This summer, as we have done for the past several years, volunteers will be removing invasive weeds from the Kingsley Park Bioswale, a native plants area at the base of the Kingsley Park hillside that the Friends group 'adopted' in 2008.

We welcome the participation of anyone, member or non-member, who would like to come weed with us. We will provide gloves and tools.

Elizabeth Wylde and Betsy Meyer will lead weeding sessions there from 5:30 to 7:30 pm on Wednesdays, June 15, 29, July 13, 20, 27 until the bioswale is once again free of burdock, mugwort, and a handful of other intruders.

If you would like to participate only in the Kingsley Bioswale weeding, please email Elizabeth by return email at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com

In addition you are invited to participate in the Cambridge Water Department's Fresh Pond Stewardship Program, which conducts weeding sessions in other restored areas of the Reservation. Our help there can have a considerable impact on the onslaught of invasive weeds that threaten to overgrow the native plants for which the city has invested a considerable amount of time, effort, and money. The Volunteer Stewards program meets on Monday nights from 5:30 – 7:30 pm and on Thursday mornings from 10 am – 12 pm. We’ll also lead Weekend Weedouts on Sundays from 1 – 4 pm on the following dates:

June 5: black swallow-wort dig
July 10: black swallow-wort pod pull and Cambridge Pod Patrol campaign kickoff
August 7: mugwort
September 11: oriental bittersweet
October 16: buckthorn
November 6: buckthorn

All volunteer steward programs meet at the volunteer trailer in the Water Department parking lot. Tools and training provided. To join us, email Deb at fpr@CambridgeMA.GOV or call 617.349.6489

The Peace Drum Project End-of-Year Celebration - June 3, 2011

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The Peace Drum Project

Peace Drum Green

Invites you to join us for our
End-of-Year Celebration

Our Reception, Awards Ceremony &

Exhibit Preview

on

Friday June 3, 2011

From 5:00 - 7:00PM

at

AAMARP Studios

76 Atherton Street (3rd floor)

Jamaica Plain, MA

See our drums, hear our stories, &

meet the participants and others who have

made the project possible this year.

Light refreshments will be served

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Community Creations Exhibit

(including work by Peace Drum Teens) will be open from

6-8 PM at AAMARP Studios (4th Floor)

For more information call Cooperative Artists Institute at 617-524-6378

Cooperative Artists Institute

Cooperative Artists Institute

The Peace Drum Project is an initiative of the Cooperative Artists Institute

which has a 40-year track record of using the arts to create positive change in Boston. In 2009, over 15,000 children and adults took part in CAI's community-building multicultural art programs, and many others visited our website.

For more information, or to make a donation, call Susan Porter at

(617) 524-6378 or mail to: 311 Forest Hills St, Jamaica Plain MA 02130-3605.

SOMERVILLE BLUE CLOUD GALLERY EXHIBITION - May 21 through June 18, 2011

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May 21 through June 18: JANICE SCHUPAK will be BLUE CLOUD GALLERY'S FEATURED ARTIST

Working with colored pencil and ink on paper, Janice breaks down nature motifs into blocks of solid color and enhances the forms with black outline, evoking stained glass or patchwork. The beauty she creates from her visual world lies in its patterns and colors. Because of her low vision, many things that she sees start out as abstract images before she identifies them as objects. From the wealth of shapes in the natural world, she chooses an object for its potential as an abstract design. Janice will play with a repeated motif, varying it slightly each time. Trees are a recurring theme. For Janice, it is the feeling of completing a musical phrase, knowing the right balance between color and pattern. Colors, shapes and patterns speak to her and she delights in their voices.

Janice is showing her original artwork at Blue Cloud Gallery, 713 Broadway in Ball Square from May 21 to June 18. We invite you to come take a look! (Her jewel-toned cards are always available for sale.)

SOMERVILLE ARTIST "DRESS CODE" EXHIBITION - May 15 - July 2, 2011

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Somerville Artist, Danielle Festa showing at Voltage Coffee and Art

Voltage Coffee and Art
295 3rd St. Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA

“Dress Code" a solo show by Danielle Festa

OPENING RECEPTION: May 20, 2011, 7-10 PM

ON VIEW: May 15, 2011 — July 2, 2011

CONTACT: for hi-res photos for the press and interviews, please contact Danielle Festa via email at Danielle@DanielleFesta.com. See more work at www.DanielleFesta.com.

See the work of conceptual realist, Danielle Festa showing at Voltage Art & Coffee. Her unique method of integrating fabrics into oil paintings tinker with your perceptions. Based on real moments in the lives of her subjects, she works to call attention to the importance we put on clothing. Experience the independent choices, the religious mandates and the social constructs of what we wear.

Somerville PorchFest, Saturday, May 21, 2011, 12-6pm

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Perhaps you’ve sat on your porch and overheard a neighbor strumming guitar on another porch? Well Porchfest takes this idea and multiplies it by 75. On May 21st, musicians and bands throughout Somerville will celebrate and utilize an underused public venue: The porch. Over 75 acts—ranging from bollywood funk, cosmic americana, killer blues, Moroccan, Balkan, gospel, American space rock and clawhammer banjo—will serenade passersby from porches throughout Somerville.
A big thanks to Nancy Goodman & Chris Mancini for all the coordination and developing the maps.

For schedule and map:

http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/11_porchfest.htm

Rachel Strutt
Program Manager
Somerville Arts Council
50 Evergreen Ave.
Somerville, MA 02145

617/625-6600, x2985
fax: 617/666-4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org

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MAY PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION

These programs are free and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

TOUR OF THE WATER PURIFICATION FACILITY
Monday, May 2
6 to 7:30 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Learn how water that falls as rain in the western suburbs is transported to Cambridge, purified into drinking water, and piped to our local homes and businesses. Members of the Cambridge Water Department will describe the process, answer your questions, and give a tour of the building. This tour is part of the Cambridge Science Festival (April 30-May 8) and National Drinking Water Week (May 2-7).

FRESH POND DAY
Saturday, May 7
10 am to 2 pm
Water Purification Facility
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come celebrate Fresh Pond Day, a great way to learn about all that is special about the largest open space in Cambridge. The day will feature activities around the Reservation for participants of all ages, with games, live music, tours, demonstrations, and information tables. Transportation to the Reservation will be provided from various locations around the city. For more information, check the City of Cambridge website: http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cwd/

FRESH POND DAY GARLIC MUSTARD WEEDOUT
Saturday, May 7
10:30 am to 1:30 pm
Water Purification Facility lawn
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Come help clear the reservation of this invasive weed that spreads rapidly and
degrades the habitat for other plants and animals. Groups will leave from the Friends of Fresh Pond Reservation information table hourly beginning at 10:30.

FRESH POND DAY WOODLAND RESTORATION PROJECT VISIT
Saturday, May 7
10:30 am to 1:30 pm
Directions at FFPR information table
Fresh Pond’s Woodland Restoration Project has been planted primarily with species that historically (when European settlers arrived) were native to what is now Middlesex County. There is a circular path to walk on and, during Fresh Pond Day, the plants will be labeled. This is a good place to learn about native plants that you might want to use in your own garden. No dogs, please!

FRESH POND DAY MINI NATURE WALKS: LET NATURE BE YOUR TEACHER*
Saturday, May 7
10:30 am to 2 pm
Neville Place patio
650 Concord Avenue
Take a thirty minute miniwalk and discover what it is like to look at birds through binoculars, identify trees by their leaves, study life under a log, and take part in other hands-on nature-related activities. Schedules will be posted at the Friends group table at the Water Purification Facility and at Neville Place. *Title thanks to Chet Raymo.

FRESH POND DAY STORYBOOK READING FOR CHILDREN
11 am and 1 pm
Neville Place patio
650 Concord Avenue
Children love a good story and there’s no better subject than the wonders of nature! Kids can hear two books read today: at 11 am it’s "The Stories Trees Tell" by Susan Coolidge (for ages 3 to 8) and at 1 pm it’s "Living Sunlight” by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm (for ages 6 and over).

BIRDING BY EAR
Sunday, May 8
7:30 to 9:30 am
650 Concord Avenue (meet at street end of driveway)
This is the season when birds are at the peak of their singing, both for attracting mates and defending their territories. During this walk we will focus on listening as a way of identifying and locating birds. Birders of all experience levels are welcome. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Monday, May 9
6 to 7:30 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Randi Mail, Cambridge recycling director, will talk with us about ways we can live more sustainably including composting indoors and out, wise recycling, and getting rid of stuff without throwing it away. This should be an enjoyable and informative evening, with time for discussion and questions.

PLANT IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP
Monday, May 16
6 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
250 Fresh Pond Parkway
Join New England Wildflower Society botanists and Fresh Pond Reservation Volunteer Stewards in learning about the plant communities found at Fresh Pond Reservation. This hands-on workshop will include native and invasive plant identification, training on invasive weed removal, and information on how can help out at Fresh Pond. Future Monday workshops: May 16, June 20, July 25, and August 15.

MIGRATORY BIRD WALK
Saturday, May 21
7:30 to 9:30 am
650 Concord Avenue (meet at street end of driveway)
Migratory birds such as Baltimore orioles, yellow warblers and warbling vireos come to Fresh Pond to nest and raise their young. Other species, including waterfowl and many songbirds, use it as a resting place while heading farther north. Now is the time to see them all. Beginners are welcome! If you don’t have binoculars you may borrow a pair from us.

OUR CHANGING CLIMATE
Sunday, May 22
1 to 3 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
“Building a Citizen's Movement to Address the Greatest Challenge of our Time - Our Changing Climate - and in the Process Building Community” is the title of a talk by Ileana Jones, a retired science teacher and a member of The Climate Project and the Citizens Climate Lobby. She will use slides to illustrate her talk and you will have an opportunity to take action on this most vital issue by participating in the Million Letter March. Please bring either your laptop or pen and paper.

AN EVENING WALK IN THE UPPER CAMBRIDGE WATERSHED
Monday, May 23
6 to 8 pm
Water Purification Facility front door
Chip Norton, Cambridge Watershed Manager, will give a tour of Cambridge-owned land in the upper Cambridge watershed. We will car pool from the Purification Facility parking lot, leaving promptly at 6. Long pants and sturdy shoes or boots are recommended. Registration is required! Future Upper Watershed Walk: September 26

Please register for each event that you plan to attend. Important information on parking will be given to you when you register. E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

For a complete listing of Cambridge Water Department Summer 2011 Programs:
http://www.friendsoffreshpond.org/cwdprograms2011.htm

CAMBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL AND ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR - June 5, 2011

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The New School of Music (http://www.newschoolofmusic.org/) is having their annual Family Music Festival at Lowell Park (25 Lowell St, Cambridge, next to the school) on Sunday, June 5, and is seeking SOMERVILLE and Cambridge artists/vendors to sell a variety of arts/crafts at the outdoor event.

It’s FREE to participate (no fee). Each artist/vendor gets 4x4 feet of space, but you need to bring your own table/set up. Event is June 5, 12 noon-3pm (set up starts at 11am). If it rains, the event will be moved indoors to the school.

Space is limited. If you are interested in participating, please email Alyssa Lee director@cambridgemusic.org with description of what you plan on showing/selling and samples/website link (all art/crafts should be family friendly).

A flyer for the event is attached.

Please send inquiries to: Alyssa Lee director@cambridgemusic.org

FAST LIGHT - MIT Light Show/Exhibition on the Charles - May 7-8, 2011

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FAST Light

What happens when some of MIT's boldest, most creative thinkers put their heads together to stage a light show?

May 7 & 8, 2011
7 pm - 10 pm
At MIT along the Charles River | Free and open to the public
Memorial Drive will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 to 11pm on May 7 & 8.

Contemporary pioneers in art, science, and technology have come together at MIT to create one of the most exhilarating and inventive spectacles metro Boston has ever seen. On May 7 & 8, visitors can interact with 20+ art and architectural installations illuminating the campus and the Charles River along Memorial Drive at MIT.

FAST LIGHT kicks off on May 7 at 7pm with the inflation of Otto Piene’s dramatic SKY Event, two massive, brightly lit stars that will rise into the night sky over MIT’s signature dome in Killian Court. The MIT campus adjacent to the Charles River and the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge will light up with dramatic displays of LED lights, architectural pavilions, interactive sculptural installations, and artworks that incorporate energy-efficient lighting solutions and projections on the river itself.

Some of the installations are larger than life—like Piene’s colossal star. Others offer a more intimate, human-scaled experience—like Meejin Yoon’s haunting Light Drift orbs that interact with pedestrians and communicate with corresponding sculptures on the river. Many of the installations demonstrate innovative energy solutions, like architect/professor Sheila Kennedy’s ingenious SOFT Rockers, lounge chairs that offer both ergonomic comfort and alternative-energy charging solutions for portable electronics, like cellphones and iPods.

All the works are by current or emeritus faculty and students in a wide range of disciplines from architecture to computation. Collaboration is the common denominator of invention at MIT, so the creators formed teams to tackle the challenges and technical complexities of the projects. FAST LIGHT highlights MIT’s leadership in energy-efficient technologies, while transforming the physical environment in thought-provoking, often breathtaking ways.

Before the light show begins at 7 pm, visitors are welcome to take a self-guided tour of the 20+ installations during the day on both May 7 and 8.

FAST LIGHT is the grand finale of the FAST FESTIVAL, MIT’s three-month-long celebration of its 150th anniversary—and a tribute to the power of inspired collaborations that span disciplines, media, and all expectations. FAST LIGHT also provides a dramatic close to the Boston CyberArts Festival and the Cambridge Science Festival.

“One of the fundamental goals of the FAST Festival is to explore and develop new concepts, methods, and underlying structures that will keep MIT at the cutting edge of art, science, and technology for generations to come, to the benefit of the Institute and the world.”

Tod Machover
MIT FAST Festival Director

SOMERVILLE TOM WAITS TRIBUTE CONCERT - April 30, 2011

2011-04-24T00:36:00.000-07:00

On the heels of Tom Waits' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, P.A.'s Lounge hosts a Tom Waits Tribute on April 30, 2011 to benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

Participating bands include: Coyote Kolb, Dan Baker, Danielle Miraglia, Dave Aaronoff and The Protagonists, Joe Fletcher, Movers & Shakers, The Resurrectionists, Sleepy Very Sleepy, Tig & Bean, Tim Gearan, and Tony the Bookie.

Doors at 8:30 p.m. 21+. The cover charge is $10.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.aboutonething.com
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191551907542389
http://www.somervillehomelesscoalition.org/

This event was inspired by Tom Waits' recent fundraising for homeless organizations, as well as the release of his first book of poetry—Hard Ground—which pairs his writing with poignant portraits of homelessness by Michael O'Brien.

In this spirit, all proceeds from the tribute will be donated to the Somerville Homeless Coalition. The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide homeless and near homeless individuals and families with individualized supportive services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.

SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS - April 30 & May 1, 2011

2011-04-22T11:03:00.000-07:00

Head for the beach! http://www.janesherrill.com/truro.html

Dear Friends...

Come visit me in my studio during Somerville Open Studios (SOS) Sat. and Sun., April 30 and May 1, noon - 6pm.

I've been building a large body of paintings inspired by the ocean. I'm very excited about this work and I think you will be too. http://www.janesherrill.com/truro.html

My newest paintings "Strange Light" depict those times when water and sky appear the same with almost no demarcation. The ocean is infused with a purplish gray and is mesmerizing. You are engulfed in subtle color. http://www.janesherrill.com/strangelight.html.

My studio is in the Rogers Foam factory at 20 Vernon Street, 6-West. To enter 20 Vernon take the 2nd doorway into the factory from the corner of Vernon & Central. Vernon Street Studios is comprised of 2 buildings -- make sure to visit both. For directions and a preview of some of the art you will see on Vernon Street visit http://vernonstreet.com/

From now through May 13 you can also visit the Somerville Museum to see work by many SOS artists. For museum hours and directions http://somervillemuseum.org/index.htm.

And for all the information you'll need to know about SOS go to http://www.somervilleopenstudios.org/. Be sure to pick up a free map from the fanciful mapstands all around the city.

Hope to see you at SOS April 30 and May 1, 2011!

Jane

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Jane Sherrill
Visual Artist
20 Vernon St., 6-West
Somerville MA 02145
617.800.6435
jane@janesherrill.com
http://www.janesherrill.com

SOMERVILLE DAVIS SQUARE EASTER ARTIST MARKET - April 23, 2011

2011-04-21T00:04:00.000-07:00

Come to the SLAM Easter Local Artist Market! at The Burren this Saturday from 12-4pm You'll find unique gifts for Easter, Including Ukrainian Eggs and a great selection of jewelry, pottery, glass, metal, textiles, sculpture, painting, photography and so much more.

The Saturday Local Artist Market (SLAM), offers local artists a place to show and sell their work as well as an opportunity for the public to find a wide variety of art and handmade goods in one location.

Shop at the market then stay and listen to live local Bluegrass musicians. The Burren will also be offering $5.00 Lunch Specials on market day as well as their full menu of traditional Irish dishes and American favorites.

The Burren is @ The Davis Square T Stop

FRESH POND RESERVATION PROGRAMS - April 2011

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These events are free and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend: Important information on parking will be given to you when you register.
E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at: friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com

MAKE A HOME FOR NATIVE BEES
Sunday, April 17
1:30 to 3 pm
Maynard Ecology Center
Neville Place basement, 650 Concord Avenue
Native mason bees are solitary and non-aggressive. Instead of making hives, they lay their eggs and raise their young in insect holes and other small cavities. Bee enthusiast Gaynor Bigelbach will talk with us about these native bees and show us how to use the stems of Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant, to create mason bee nurseries for the reservation.

ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING WORKSHOP
Sunday, April 24
1 to 3:30 pm
Location given on registration
Celebrate National Arbor Day by choosing and planting a tree. Did you know that each person on Earth needs 7 mature trees to take up the CO2 that’s breathed out? Do you know where your 7 trees are? How are trees selected and planted in Cambridge locations? After a brief talk inside, apply what you've learned by planting a tree on the Reservation. Register with Chief Ranger Jean Rogers at jrogers@cambridgema.gov or 617-349-4793. Rain date is Sunday, May 1.

PRESERVING NATIVE PLANT KNOWLEDGE FOR THE FUTURE
Wednesday, April 27
7 to 8:30 pm
Maynard Ecology Center
Neville Place basement, 650 Concord Avenue
Author and research botanist Arthur Haines says useful knowledge of plants is passing from our culture and that wild food and medicine offer concrete ways to interest people in participating in land conservation. Join him for a look at some interesting examples of wild food and medicine that grow here in New England. He’ll also share stories from the pages of history and show how wild plants can promote healthy living for generations to come.

MIGRATORY BIRD WALK
Saturday, April 30
8 to 10 am
650 Concord Avenue (street end of Neville Place driveway)
Every bird walk is unique and full of surprises! Many songbirds and waterfowl stop to rest at Fresh Pond while heading north toward their summer nesting places. Beginners are welcome. We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

This spring and summer Grow Native Massachusetts will be offering a series of free nature-related lectures at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. The details are at: http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts

2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival - Music and Technology Intersect

2011-04-17T01:15:00.000-07:00

Local and internationally acclaimed artists participate

Boston, MA - Exploring the creative and cultural potential in the convergence of
music, sound and technology, six organizations - Beat Research, Boston Sculptors
Gallery, Brandeis University, CyberartsCentral at Atlantic Wharf, The Get Together
Festival and New England Conservatory - are presenting concerts and events as part
of the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival at venues around Boston from April 22 to May
8.

"One of the distinctive features of the Boston Cyberarts Festival has always been
its inclusiveness," said Festival Founder and Director George Fifield. "From the
beginning we have sought out events and exhibitions in all art forms, including
not just visual art but a variety of performing arts as well." Here's a complete
list of the 2011 music offerings:

The "Get Together"

The premiere daytime event of the Get Together Festival is a six-hour celebration
combining a vinyl record fair, installations and performances by local artists,
a fashion experience, and music software and hardware developers. All together,
the "Get Together" paints a holistic portrait of electronic music culture outside
the club.

Vinyl sellers of old and new school-including Jamaica plain's Tres Gatos and Drum
& Bass overlords Trainspotters-combine with technology tables from Shapemix Software
and M- Work Mastering. Also on view: T-shirt and art vendors Pen Cap Chew, jewelry
designer Yukineko, the Boston Music Coalition and Conscious Minds Ink, and many
more. The fashion component returns bigger and badder with designers Deconize, Lady
Charlie Lamb and Tess Aquarium turning the room into a fashion-forward lively art
party. Musically it ends up with a performance from Boston's premier live/electronic
dance club duo Spf-5000.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, The Pozen Center, 621 Huntington Ave.,
Boston. Sat, April 23, 12- 6pm/all ages/FREE.togetherboston.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H2jEPJjeYTOlEjTwipGucAZ6T2TB6q5Qwu19Dsyc_FJflHgJnM9pHi-Og0nsW1rYllLGnPMlk-4ePGoHQCIrN_QfbNDfAehPZ9zYdXtkkWS9A==]

If All Those Able Minds Could Be Set Free: Demoshow and Chiptune Concert

The demoscene is a diverse computer art subculture focused on demos, or realtime
rendered audiovisual demonstrations of coding, musical and artistic prowess. While
Chiptunes are live performances that include the use of traditional acoustic and
electronic instruments, alongside Gameboys, Commodores, and Amigas, as well as
more modern computational devices like palmtop computers. Featured artists include
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combining the forces of indie-scene alum Lydia Marsala and James Therrien (Fugitive
Kind), Arkbit and the Attic Bat plus Don Miller [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H2y4NThWkQ7YKHmgTc4KzifBirArckwA6x5o45PH6dY_RKhIW-CY25gLDCZsSigL2w1Fp_40NVWpHdnqqYKWct1VwWpgVqa599s_CFG66ElI9kynjStm3q0NbdWdYci7pg=]
(NO CARRIER). Sponsored by @party, BOSTON8BIT and MAGfest.

CyberartsCentral Visitor Center, Atlantic Wharf Multimedia Space, 290 Congress St.,
Boston. Sun, Apr 24, 3-6pm/all ages/FREE.bostoncyberarts.org/festiv [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H2VmqGU0yPc0I3JJENjhLjo9r1Ju7NpzU8wKUKlnkaFa7V3hieQas0Jc_kOrJSVJyHsM9F6anqEnwRiq1YDEiNtuRS6Z2oF_3DLACNxwXBbZUp494TkfIlm8pWl-csqmj7szrMsecCJXw==]al/cyberartcentral
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Cyberarts at Beat Research Part 1

Residents DJ Flack and Wayne and Wax run the free Monday Night "experimental party
music" weekly called Beat Research. This year they have invited multimedia artist
"making the noise" to perform. mtn is an alias of Adam Ribaudo, a Cambridge-based
producer who delivers cerebral electronic music that varies from lush airy sonicscapes
to dirty glitchy beats. Using an assortment of custom or self-made software and
hardware components to keep his music organic and spontaneous, mtn makes laptop
music that doesn't hide behind the laptop. He will also be incorporating real-time
generative visualizations to color his sound programmed in both Jitter & Processing.

Enormous Room, 567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 617.491.5550, Mon, Apr 25, 9pm-1am|
21+| FREE,beatresearch.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H1wqcysGeZ4X6DxrbkJmk6vntWdcwy_wZjqS5QBODhrWmLSdeYRK90M-tk32idARnmjgQanceKbHNWnlGwo_kiQzc30UyQ2axmIM9992I7SUA==]

Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) Music Marathon

The annual BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon showcases the depth and breadth of music
made with electronic and computer sounds and features an international roster of
musicians and composers. Electronic music and mixed/multimedia works are too often
compromised by the quality of the technology through which they are experienced.
The 2011 BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon features a state of the art sound system
installed in the intimate and acoustically excellent Slosberg Recital Hall that
allows audiences to experience the music uncompromised-the way that the composers
intended for it to be heard. See Brandeis website for a full list of composers,
performers and times. The BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon is also part of the Leonard
Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

Brandeis University, Slosberg Hall, 415 South St., Waltham, MA, 781.736.5008, Sat,
Apr 30 | 12pm-12am, FREE, brandeis.edu/departments/music/beams/marathonpages/index.html
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Cyber-Pool

An electronic music performance by local musicians, Cyber-Pool is derived from the
ongoing "The Improvisation Pool" series. Improvisations are in small and large groupings,
featuring a variety of musicians integrating electronic and acoustic instrumentation.
Musicians include Michael Evans, Ernst Karel, Neil Leonard, Andrew Neumann,Arvid
Tomayko-Peters, and Jorrit Dijktsra.

CyberartsCentral, Atlantic Wharf Multimedia Space 2nd Floor, 290 Congress Street,
Boston, Fri, Apr 29 | 8-10pm, FREE, bostoncyberarts [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H2F2rNjnadf6MlRJyzCQbl1LEZ1oJhuJ6DfmS_ME2JLh7E39xqx1u7uTsuru9OU39hXKpsf2q1t-ROS6DqDoisrrkVCznCta7wsmtJKxtyTw8cSueNd7T32TaKe4wN6kBs-isIX4VwPqiJxaR4C1eWX].org/festival/cyberartcentral
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ElectroNEC presents: Electroacoustic Showcase

ElectroNEC presents an afternoon of performances of recent music for digitally processed
instruments and fixed media by New England Conservatory and Massachusetts College
of Art faculty and guests. The program will feature Luigi Nono'sPost-Prae-Ludium,
and work by artists Simon Hanes, Daniel Hawkins, John Holland, John Mallia, Neal
Markowski, Beth McDonald, Marc McNulty, Katarina Miljkovic and Peter Negroponte.

New England Conservatory of Music, Saint Botolph Building, Room G01 241 Saint Botolph
St., Boston, 617.585.1100, Sun, May 1 | 4pm (pre-concert set featuring work by NEC
students at 2 pm) FREE, necmusic.edu/concerts-events [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H1_MW4xiWxbr0bG3XVJn3_hke4SZKx7yQlOAmzE13xjGUr0efcAXRlBvayF6OasdhZTQDRbdmF1zHMpl60Cgcykmt58YwJsEj4WgykW9Kf2GUIEhOeS_mysnCFCbLlKWWU=]

Cyberarts at Beat Research Part 2: Robotkid and Pajaritos

The dynamic duo of Pajaritos (DJ Riobamba aka Sara Skolnick and DJ Malagón aka Ernesto
D. Morales) bring their laptops to Beat Research, filled to the brim with tasty
beats disco/tropical/cumbia/sabor latino etc. Beat Research also welcomes Robotkid
(aka Josh Randall) one of the first artists to combine live video and dance beats
in Boston. From his ground breaking synchcore band Institute of Technology in the
mid 90s to his current role as creative director at Hamonix Music Systems (the video
game studio responsible for "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band",) Josh has always been
exploring the ways that moving images can be manipulated live and used to inspire
and entertain. Using multiple projectors, he will drop fun layered imagery over
Pajaritos beats as well as rocking his own solo audio/visual performance.

Enormous Room, 567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 617.491.5550

Mon, May 5 | 9pm-1am | 21+ | FREE, beatresearch.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H1wqcysGeZ4X6DxrbkJmk6vntWdcwy_wZjqS5QBODhrWmLSdeYRK90M-tk32idARnmjgQanceKbHNWnlGwo_kiQzc30UyQ2axmIM9992I7SUA==]

Andy Zimmermann: "Who Am I?" Live Poetry and Music Performance

Taking place within Andy Zimmermann's Where Am I? exhibit, this performance will
feature poetry by Rosamond Zimmermann and Cammy Thomas, with Froilan Decan on guitar,
John Scales on drums, and Andy Zimmermann on midi-guitar and his own sound and light
synthesizer.

Boston Sculptors Gallery [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H0se8m4h5pLCvZuSn1QPJ867nYW-BjEEDdbtGWOMx_GZki_3EXw6U8ekaAI3NzS1S4S-n7HYe1iLMp9cxXabtxZ3A8wQAooOyHBBtFI3khuHP_GdeHkvjFF],
486 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, 617.482.7781, Sat, May 7 | 8pm, FREE, www.bostonsculptors.com
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The Boston Cyberarts Festival, launched by George Fifield in 1999 with seed funding
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is the only Festival in the world that
features all art forms, including both visual and performing arts, film, video,
electronic literature, public art, and web art. The 2011 Festival takes place April
22-May 8, 2011, at museums, galleries, performing spaces, educational institutions,
and on the web. Complete information, including a searchable database of the more
than 50 events and exhibitions, is available at www.bostoncyberarts.org/festival.

Cyberart encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used
to expand artistic possibilities - that is, where the computer's unique capabilities
are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic
film, musical instruments, and other materials have always been used to express
an artist's vision.

# # #

Further information on the Boston Cyberarts Festival is available by calling 617.524.8495
or emailing info@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:info@bostoncyberarts.org].

# # #

Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions,
including the Massachusetts Cultural Council, IBM, the Boston Cultural Council and
Avid. Boston Cyberarts is proud to be a partner with Boston Properties and Atlantic
Wharf, and the Boston Children's Museum. Dig Boston is the media sponsor.

Press contact: Nina J Berger, 617.543.1595, press@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org].

High and low-resolution DOWNLOADABLE images are available at bostoncyberarts.org/festival/pressimages
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Boston Cyberarts Festival

Administrative Offices: 9 Myrtle Street, Boston, MA 02130

Telephone 617.524.8495
Fax 617.524.9968 www.bostoncyberarts.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1105172637936&s=2873&e=001INq01qFw1H0xfWk-LmnVir_o7hYD4VFBqLC7DntQMld6y6HMuSGbfxmLubUDp1Ca9v7c-0DN5FpsLFLLLVGSBk9nx3t-Fc7Ffv60Z7OJ_m0MLGku8RGbiQ==]
info@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:info@bostoncyberarts.org]
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SOMERVILLE GALLERY EXHIBITION - April 2011

2011-04-13T23:53:00.000-07:00

April SCATV Gallery Update

OUT THE WINDOW: Paintings and Drawings by Cynthia Maurice
on exhibit at the SCATV Gallery from April 1 – April 27, 2011.
OUT THE WINDOW offers the viewer an opportunity to travel along
familiar Somerville streets as well wander through the streets of Tiznit, Morrocco.

The SCATV Gallery is located at SCATV, 90 Union Square, Somerville.
Gallery hours:
Mondays – Thursdays Noon to 10:00PM
Fridays - Saturdays 10: AM to 400 PM
The SCATV Gallery is closed on Sundays and Monday Holidays.

Cynthia Maurice chats about her work and travels with Janet Cormier on ART AT SCATV.
The interview can be viewed on Tuesday evenings on channel 3 at 7:00PM or
on line at www.access-scat.org. Visit ..com to view more of Maurice’s work.

Somerville artists interested in appearing on ART AT SCAT and exhibiting in The SCAT Gallery in 2010 should contact Janet Cormier, program host and gallery curator at tenajol5@yahoo.com.

Somerville: Performers at YUM: A Taste of Immigrant City

2011-04-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

My name is Erica Satin-Hernandez, and I work at the Welcome Project, a non-profit working to increase civic engagement and well-being in Somerville's immigrant population that also runs the YUM Project, which promotes immigrant-run restaurants in Somerville. I've been planning the second-annual YUM: A Taste of Immigrant City Celebration and Fundraising Gala, which will be held on Wednesday, April 27th from 6:30 - 9:30.

We're looking for two performers or performance groups to each perform a set around ten minutes long, and we can repay each up to $125 if needed. One would be going at 745, and the other at 815. Please let me know if you'd be interested in such an opportunity, and we'd greatly appreciate your help!

Thanks so much and hope to hear back from you,

erica.satin-hernandez@tufts.edu

SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY OPENING - April 16, 2011

2011-04-09T22:07:00.001-07:00

Blue Cloud Gallery, located at 713 Broadway, Ball Square Somerville, has undergone a change in ownership. You are invited to attend the opening party where old favorites and new expanded offerings will be waiting for you to admire; there will be delicious Kickass Cupcakes, aromatic coffee and tea from True Grounds Coffee Shop, and mouth-watering wine from Ball Square Wines and Spirits. Come meet the artists and receive a free gift! And that's not all... From 10 AM - 8 PM.

Betsy Lenora: 617-776-2700

SOMERVILLE GARDEN CLUB MEETING - April 13, 2011

2011-04-08T22:40:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, April 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m. 167 Holland St., Somerville, Mass., second floor, wheelchair accessible.

The April meeting of the Somerville Garden Club will feature a presentation by Somerville gardener An Sokolovska, whose garden was a stop on the SGC 2010 Garden Tour. She will discuss the use of cisterns, French drains, gutters, and other methods to store and control water in the garden. Sokolovska credits her understanding of urban land and flood control to her time as a sociologist working with the US Corps of Engineers evaluating the impact of their large civil works in New England. As the owner of a small-scale design/construction business she was able to apply her knowledge to residential construction. Sokolovska believes gardens can solve problems of air pollution, security, flood control and more, while conferring beauty and peacefulness on a community--that is the value of "A Working Garden."

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. Each meeting opens with announcements, followed by a roundtable discussion, a featured lecture or presentation, and concludes with a raffle of donated plants and garden items.

MIT ART/CULTURE/TECHNOLOGY EVENTS - April 2011

2011-04-08T17:43:00.000-07:00

MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology Public Programs / April 2011

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9
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TalkDraw MIT (Graduate Student Event)
Edwina Portocarrero (MIT Media Lab)
David Robert (MIT Media Lab)
David Lakatos (MIT Media Lab)
Elizabeth Watkins (ASAP L.A., SMVisS Graduate Candidate 2012)
ACT Venus Lab, E14-140 / 6–8:30 PM
Organized by Tomashi Jackson (SMVisS Graduate Candidate 2012)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151382224926076

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SUNDAY, APRIL 10
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TalkDraw MIT (Graduate Student Event)
Awesome New Republic (Miami Indie Rock Band, Video Artists)
Yu-Pu Wang (MIT Chemistry Department, YouTube Music Video Artist)
Ben Houge (Sound Artist, Composer)
ACT Venus Lab, E14-140 / 6–8:30 PM
Organized by Tomashi Jackson (SMVisS Graduate Candidate 2012)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151382224926076

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TUESDAY, APRIL 12
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Archive Agendas: Discursive Platforms in Art and Architecture
Panel discussion with:
Sean Dockray (artist and a founding director of Telic Arts Exchange)
Ana Miljacki (Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT)
Antoni Muntadas (Professor of Practice, ACT)
Rogers Building, Room 7-431/ 6:30 PM
Organized by History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT
http://htc.scripts.mit.edu/wordpress/?page_id=1305

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SATURDAY, APRIL 16
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FAST Future Forum on the Arts
Session 1: New Performance/New Media
Introduction with LEILA KINNEY (Director of Arts Initiatives at MIT)

JOAN JONAS (Professor of Visual Arts, Emerita, ACT)
Interviewed by UTE META BAUER (Associate Professor and Head, ACT)
MIT Media Lab Complex, E14, 6th Floor / 10–11 AM

Followed by:
AZRA AKSAMIJA (former CAVS affiliate, PhD candidate, HTC)
OLIVER LUTZ (SMVisS 2006, Lecturer, ACT)
DIETMAR OFFENHUBER (Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Studies and Planning, G)
Moderated by:
REBECCA UCHILL (Ph.D. Candidate, Program in HTC)
MIT Media Lab Complex, E14, 6th Floor / 11–12 AM
Part of the MIT FAST Festival.
For the full program, go to:
http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-future-event/

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MONDAY, APRIL 25
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Francisco Lopez: Artist Talk and Concert
FRANCISCO LOPEZ is a sound artist whose work crosses the boundaries of experimental and industrial sounds.
The Viller's Cube, E15-001 / 8–10 PM
Organized and co-sponsored by Non-Event, ACT, The Sensory Ethnography Lab, and the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Funded in part by a grant from the Council of the Arts at MIT.
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=13576263&date=2011/4/25

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TUESDAY, APRIL 26
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Magazines and Their Role in Architecture
and Artistic Research Practice I
Keynote: BEATRIZ COLOMINA (founding editor of Assemblage and curator of Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X; Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University)
Roundtable:
BEATRIZ COLOMINA
UTE META BAUER (founding editor of Meta, Case and Verkstedt, and Associate Professor and Head, ACT)
DAN GRAHAM (artist)
Moderated by:
Ana Miljacki (Assistant Professor of Architecture, MIT)
Bartos Theater, E15-070 / 9:30–11:30 AM
Organized and co-sponsored by ACT and the Department of Architecture + MIT 150, with additional funding from Siemens Stiftung.
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=13576264&date=2011/4/26

Magazines and Their Role in Architecture
and Artistic Research Practice II
JORGE OTERO-PAILOS (founding editor of Future Anterior Journal; MIT PhD at HTC)
MICHAEL SCHWAB (editor-in-chief of JAR – Journal of Artistic Research)
PELIN TAN (co-founder of Muhtelif, ACT Fellow)
Moderated by:
UTE META BAUER
Bartos Theater, E15-070 / 2:30–4 PM
Organized and co-sponsored by ACT and the Department of Architecture + MIT 150, with additional funding from Siemens Stiftung.
http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=13576266&date=2011/4/26

Pecha Kucha: Architectural Installations as Practice and Genre
ANTON GARCIA (Visiting Scholar, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT) with
NADER TEHRANI (Department Head and Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT)
LIAM O'BRIEN (Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT)
SHEILA KENNEDY (Professor of the Practice, Department of Architecture, MIT)
JOEL LAMERE (Lecturer, Department of Architecture, MIT)
MEEJIN YOON (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT)
GEDIMINAS URBONAS (Associate Professor of Visual Arts, ACT)
NICK GELPI (Lecturer, MIT Department of Architecture)
SKYLAR TIBBITS (Lecturer, Department of Architecture, MIT)
Rogers Building, Room 7-431/ 7–8 PM
Organized and co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture + MIT 150

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28
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RECORD > AGAIN! 40 Years Video Art in Germany, Part 2 (Symposium)
Judith Barry (Director of the MFA Program, AIB)
Ute Meta Bauer (Associate Professor and Head, ACT)
Joe Ketner (The Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence, Emerson College)
Gregory Williams (Adjunct Professor, Chair of the Executive Board,
Boston University British Programmes)
Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston / 5–9 PM
Presentation of videos followed by a panel discussion.
40 Years Video Art in Germany, Part 2 includes numerous discoveries which, for the most part, have no longer been available for viewing for decades. Many of the videos had to undergo elaborate restoration before they could be played at all. The project, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, aims to save, maintain, and mediate the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one the most influential art forms of the twentieth century. Presented in cooperation with the Boston Cyberarts Festival.
www.goethe.de/boston

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EXHIBITIONS
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AR – Artistic Research
MIT Media Lab Complex, E14
November 17, 2010 – May 12, 2011
Monday – Friday, 9 AM –5 PM
AR – Artistic Research is a one-year collaboration between the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and the Munich-based Siemens Stiftung. AR – Artistic Research is co-curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Head of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology; and Thomas D. Trummer, Curator of Visual Arts, Siemens Stiftung.

AR – Artistic Research explores artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, science and technology, and unfolds in multiple formats during the academic year 2010-2011. It includes a series of displays at MIT’s recently inaugurated Media Lab Complex, that feature projects by artists who focus on the intersection of art and science in connection with ongoing research by faculty and fellows of MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT).

AR – Artistic Research juxtaposes documentation of works by Hungarian artist Attila Csörgö and rarely-exhibited photograms and polaroids by MIT Professor György Kepes (1906-2001), who founded the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1967. Jae Rhim Lee’s installation is part of her larger artistic and scientific inquiry Infinity Burial Project. The project by Argentina-based artists Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg researches the cultural impact of the Campo del Cielo meteorites.

Urbonas Studio:
The Learning Machine
The Wolk Gallery, 7-338
February 19, 2011 – April 8, 2011
Monday – Friday, 9 AM –5 PM
The Learning Machine explores the symbolic relationship between women and the state, taking women’s voices as expressions of the psychological impact of the Cold War on multiple generations

Developed for a post-Soviet context, the project studies the cinematic construction of the feminine ‘victim’ identity, and its inscription onto the lives of individual women and entire nations alike. Drawing on psychiatry, the Learning Machine reveals the particular construction and articulation of women’s voices in popular culture, and develops its own archival strategies in order to narrate experiences and attitudes that differ radically from media portrayals. The Learning Machine ultimately disrupts the familiar symbolic deadlock of victimization, creating new conditions for women’s voices today.

Urbonas Studio’s interdisciplinary research program advocates for the reclamation of public culture in the face of overwhelming privatization. Often beginning with archival research, they develop complex participatory works investigating architecture, the urban environment, and cultural and technological heritage. http://arts.mit.edu/featured-event/urbonas-learning-machine/

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DIRECTIONS
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Unless otherwise noted, all the events above take place on MIT campus.
Click here for a map of the MIT campus.

MIT's Bartos Theater and the Viller's Cube are located on the Lower Level of the Wiesner Building (E15) at 20 Ames Street, Building, Cambridge, in close proximity to Kendall Square.

By Public Transportation
Take the MBTA red line to the Kendall/ MIT stop, follow Main Street west to Ames Street, turn left, walk the distance of about one block to the crosswalk and the Wiesner Building (E15) is on your left.

For additional information, please contact Laura Anca Chichisan Pallone at clauraa@mit.edu or 617–253–4415.

SOMERVILLE MUSICAL/COMEDY EVENT - April 19, 2011

2011-04-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

The Unreliable Narrator Showcase is coming Tuesday, April 19 to Johnny D’s in Davis Square.
An evening of comedy, music and storytelling to benefit Unreliable Narrator’s summer tour of “2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!” which will feature a delightful variety of:

MUSIC!
* Kristen Ford
* Mei Ohara
* Selected songs from “2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!”

COMEDY!
* Jenny Zigrino
* Ryan Darmody
* Perfect Monster
* The Unreliable Narrator Podcast Group

STORYTELLING!
* Brad Smith
* Michael Anderson
* Tina Stoner
4/19/11 at 8 PM, $10.
Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St., Somerville, MA. For reservations call (617) 776-2004.
JOIN US FOR SOME HIDEOUS FUN!

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS WHO LIVE AND/OR WORK IN CAMBRIDGE & SOMERVILLE

2011-04-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

The Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE), in collaboration with the Cambridge Arts Council, the Somerville Arts Council, Cambridge Local First and Somerville Local First, are running a pilot program this fall called Community Supported Art (CSArt).

WHAT IS CSArt?

CSArt is modeled on the highly successful "community supported agriculture" programs that have flourished across the country for the past 20 years. Like community supported agriculture, CSArt is designed to link producers –– in this case, artists who are interested in developing a limited edition of an original work of art –– with consumers who buy shares and receive three deliveries of art this fall.

Rather than vegetables, fish or dairy products, CSArt shareholders will receive a box with 3 original works of art. The works might include a limited run of 50 small sculptures, paintings, stained glass, line drawings, lithographs, photographs that can be produced in a limited edition of 50 and sold at a profit.

Artists who are selected to participate in this pilot CSArt will receive a $1,500 stipend to produce a run of 50 artworks. The challenge will be to design a product that is appealing, well made, and low cost. CSArt will feature unique art, not commercial, mass-produced articles. That is what makes it special. Think about the difference between agribusiness and locally grown cucumbers.

Participation in CSArt also includes:

business counseling from experts who have worked with artists and other creative professionals in areas such as pricing, budgeting, production, marketing, and product design;

a $500 scholarship toward business and/or art classes at CCAE;

an exhibit of your art at CCAE as part of a group show of artists participating in this year’s CSArt (the exhibition will run July 1 to Aug. 31);

the opportunity to establish relationships with other artists who share an interest in developing a business model, other small business owners, local consumers of art.

CSArtists will be required to participate in these additional ways:

provide baseline data on your art sales before and after the program;

attend two community events between May 1st and July 31st where we will promote the program, including but not limited to farmers markets, the Cambridge River Festival, MayFair, ArtBeat;

attend the "harvest" party where your art will be delivered to shareholders;

participate in a panel discussion with other CSArtists this fall at CCAE to share what we learned in the pilot phase.

HOW TO APPLY: Go to www.ccae.org/CSArt2011 and fill out the online form. Think about how your work will fit into a 12" x 18" x 12" box along with 1 or 2 other works. Be sure it is durable or, if not, that your plans include how the work will be wrapped for delivery to ensure that it arrives intact.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAY 2, 2011

QUESTIONS?: Email CSArt@ccae.org

SOMERVILLE THEATRE EVENT - April 8, 2011

2011-04-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Channel Zero And The Bad Poets Society
Proudly Present
"Wesley Willis's Joy Rides" (2008)
Directed by Kim Shively & Chris Bagley

The Wesley Willis story, IS ROCK-N-ROLL!

See the incredible but TRUE story of the homeless man whose lyrics & fearless singing style took the Chicago music scene By Storm!
Composer of such songs as "I Whupped Batman's Ass", "Kris Kringle was a Car Thief" and countless others, Willis was the ultimate Outsider Artist.
"Wesley Willis: Joyrides" is a unique documentary experience about one man's journey out of homelessness and schizophrenia to Rock-n-Roll Redemption.

Friday April 8th at 8pm (sharp!)
Admission 6.50 (Cheap!)
The Somerville Theatre, Screening Room
55 Davis Square.
Somerville Ma 617-625-5700
CHANNEL ZERO, Boston's Cheapest Entertainment Franchise now in it's sixteenth year of genteel video transcendence.

www.channel0.blogspot.com

Peace Drum Project News - Spring 2011

2011-04-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

Peace Drum at AAMARP

Paintings line the hallway, and sculptures sit on pedestals around the gallery. As the teens drift in to their afternoon activities, they are surround by art and artists. This year the Peace Drum Project resides at AAMARP Studios in Jamaica Plain. AAMARP - The African American Master Artists in Residence Program of Northeastern University - is located on Atherton Street. The outside does not hint at all the creative work and mastery that's inside, but the teens in the project are truly privileged to be part of this creative environment. Last year, the teens interviewed three of the AAMARP artists about their lives; and, other AAMARP artists have worked with the teens in recent years, so there are many familiar faces around.

The teens enjoy the "clubhouse" feel of the space, and are most appreciative of the inspiration around every corner. Our space is twice as large as any we've had in past years, and it is easily converted to accommodate both performing and visual arts activities.

Throughout this year, the teens will be visiting artist's studios and having workshops with some of the artists onsite. Also, as they embark on several exciting visual arts projects (see Activities), the teens will benefit from both the expertise and experience of CAI artists like Susan, Curtis, and Wyoma, and the abundant advice and inspiration from the very talented and experienced artists at AAMARP.
Peace Drum News
Teens Meet Elders
In February, the teens met the elders we will be working with this year. Most of them live at the Amory Street Apartments in Roxbury. They all started getting to know each other by adding new photos and information to our 2011 Peace Drum Scrapbook, and by starting to share stories from their lives.

Working together, they learn from each other and gain understanding about how many common threads run through their lives and experiences.Over the next several months, they will continue to meet to conduct interviews, share stories, and create drums together. This exchange offers such an enormous benefit to both the teens and the elders!

There is such delight on the faces of the elders as the teens arrive to meet them, and the teens learn from the elders that even the most difficult struggles can be overcome - and that happiness is possible. We're all looking forward to our next session coming up next week and to new discoveries to be made about the past, present, and future life of our community.

Explorations In The Arts
In addition to working on their journals and making their drums, the teens hve been engaged this year in Dance workshops with Wyoma, a CAI Program Developer and well known African dance performer and teacher. Danielle Moran a graduate intern from Simmons College engaged the teens in Improv and theater workshops to help them develop confidence and an improved awareness of the physical world. Curtis Jones, CAI lead percussion artist, will continue his drumming workshops with the teens throughout the year.

The teens recently took part in the annual Art Journal Challenge - the only competitive activity we do each year in the project. They must complete a one-age collage work in one hour that expresses something important or personal about themselves. Although there were three winners, all of the collages were very expressive and personal this year, and the panel of judges had a very hard time coming to a final decision.
Creative Partnerships
This year, the Peace Drum partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will help the teens develop 'pop ups' that reflect the museum's collection, and in particular, the courtyard. Susan (Porter) will be working with the teens to design and execute their creations. The final works will be on exhibit at AAMARP after the Community Creations Opening in June. The teens took part in a basic pop-ups workshop in February, and their creations were fun and experimental.

Another exciting partnership this year involves the Institute for Urban Health Research at Northeastern University. The IUHR is sponsoring a challenge for the teens to create new works on canvas that express My Hopes and Dreams. The Institute is supplying material support and will host a reception for the exhibition of the paintings at Northeastern in May. Prizes will be given, and the teens will be given the opportunity to have their works on permanent exhibit at IUHR offices
What Is the Peace Drum Project?
This project is Cooperative Artists Institute's after-school teen leadership initiative that combines performing and visual arts in a fun, exciting process that helps teens become a greater asset to their own community. Boston teens learn important life and leadership skills like critical-thinking and problem-solving,communication, listening, creativity, empathy and understanding.

This 30-week project brings teens together with elders in the community to help them recall and record their life stories. After interviewing the elders, the teens make a personalized Peace Drum for each elder reflecting their life story. This sharing of stories builds common ground and connects the two generations with each other in a positive and lasting way. The blending of the Arts with the community service helps the teens develop maturity and build supportive, positive peer relationships.
For more information check out
http://tribal-rhythms.org/drum_exhibit.html
"I do this because it's fun and it keeps me out of trouble. I've made great new friends here too." Joseph Ruiz, Teen participant

End of Year Celebration!

Please join us for our end-of-year
Celebration & Awards Ceremony
See our drums. Hear our stories.

Meet the participants and help us celebrate
their accomplishments on
Friday, June 3
5:00-7:00 PM

at AAMARP Studios,
76 Atherton Street in Jamaica Plain.
For more information or to volunteer to help, contact
Susan Porter at 617-524-6378.

Special Thanks
Very special thanks to: The Janey Fund, Boston Cultural Council, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, and to the many individual contributors who made the project possible this year

Your contribution to support The Peace Drum Project will ensure that we can continue to provide this one-of-a-kind experience to help at-risk youth transform their lives through the arts and their connection with elders in the community.

Donate Now!
Related Links
What is the Peace Drum Project?
Over 80 Elder Stories on CAI's website
Intergenerational Connections Through the Arts
Peace Drum Project Bridges Generations
Cooperative Artists Institute (CAI)

Cooperative Artists Institute

The Peace Drum Project is an initiative of the Cooperative Artists Institute
which has a 40-year track record of using the arts to create positive change in Boston. In 2009, over 15,000 children and adults took part in CAI's community-building multicultural art programs, and many others visited our website.
For more information, or to make a donation, call Susan Porter at
(617) 524-6378 or mail to: 311 Forest Hills St, Jamaica Plain MA 02130-3605.

BOSTON CYBERARTS EVENTS - April 22 - May 8, 2011

2011-03-28T23:19:00.000-07:00

Press Contact: Nina J Berger, 617.543.1595

press@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]

www.bostoncyberarts.org/festival

Boston Cyberarts Festival animates new Atlantic Wharf

with exhibitions, music and dance

April 22 - May 8

BOSTON, Mass. - CyberartsCentral, the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival headquarters
located at Atlantic Wharf, will feature exhibitions, music and dance performances,
as well as augmented and virtual reality experiences from April 22 to May 8, 2011.
An interactive visit with an Egyptian oracle, dynamic digital painting, a bi-coastal
dance performance, and a chiptune concert are just some of the electric art that
will be on tap.

Fronting the Greenway and Boston's waterfront, Atlantic Wharf is located at 290
Congress Street. The CyberartsCentral visitor center, open 10am-6pm, will offer
festival maps, information and merchandise, and will be staffed by docents who can
help visitors plan their festival experience.

Exhibitions

Waterfront Square at Atlantic Wharf will be the site of Fluid Perimeters: an exhibition
of dynamic digital imagery, including dynamic digital painting, digital animation,
and algorithmically generated software that explores digital and artificial life.
Works included by Brian Knep, Robert Arnold, Dennis Miller, Andrew Neumann, Mark
Stock and Dan Hermes.

CyberParts is an exhibition of works by artists who are showing elsewhere in the
Boston Cyberarts Festival. Each work will be accompanied by information detailing
where visitors can see more of that particular artist's work at other Festival venues.

And, based out of CyberartsCentral will be Mark Swarek and Joseph Hocking's Occupation
Forces, an Augmented Reality Experience, via smartphone app, of an alien invasion
of our public space that will take place around Atlantic Wharf and the Boston Children's
Museum. The project mixes alien invasion mythology with contemporary images of
a foreign troops' occupation. Artist Mark Skwarek will personally lead tours starting
from CyberartsCentral (a schedule is forthcoming).

Events

Friday, April 22, 5 to 8pm. Opening reception for CyberParts, Fluid Perimeters,
Occupation Forces and CyberartsCentral. Free.

Sunday, April 24, 2 to 5pm,If All Those Able Minds Could Be Set Free: Demoshow and
Chiptune Concert. The demoscene is a diverse computer art subculture focused on
demos, or real-time rendered audiovisual demonstrations of coding, musical and artistic
prowess. Demos are meant to be technically as well as visually impressive. Chiptunes
are live performances that include the use of traditional acoustic and electronic
instruments, alongside Gameboys, Commodores and Amigas, as well as more modern computational
devices like palmtop computers. Featured artists will beBr1ght Pr1mate, combining
the forces of indie-scene alum Lydia Marsala and James Therrien (Fugitive Kind),
Arkbit and the Attic Bat, and Don Miller (NO CARRIER). Sponsored by @party [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104957899964&s=2873&e=001I4vNtLeG_3WHyC4Sn4FnIMVZ6GpjeJRcpZZ-kmMsa2uoSInGmjkKnaLGRqJl9n6sYyIYy5mAht9FB-BJnjkat_2jtN1_KvgH_ycO3oMUztKDBa-hWMZrfJ-gq-v8WdjO],
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Free.

Friday, April 29, 8pm,Cyber-Pool, Electronic music performance by local musicians.
Cyber-Pool is derived from the ongoing "The Improvisation Pool" series. Improvisations
are in small and large groupings, featuring a variety of musicians integrating electronic
and acoustic instrumentation. Musicians: Jorrit Dijktsra, alto sax, analog electronics;
Michael Evans, drums, percussion and electronics; Ernst Karel, analog electronics;
Neil Leonard, sax, laptop, electronics; Andrew Neumann, laptop, analog electronics;
Arvid Tomayko-Peters,TOOB, laptop, electronics. Free.

Saturday April 30 at 5pm,Seekers: A Bi-coastal Dance Improvisation. Seekers looks
at the human need for intimacy and connection in a world full of technological mediation.
Four performers in a studio in Los Angeles are broadcast live onto monitors in
Atlantic Wharf's Waterfront Square. Linked by an improvisational score, four performers
in Boston stir a real time cross-country movement dialogue. Desire is one of the
key themes explored in a construct where distance is the premise. Conceived and
directed by Alissa Cardone and Alla Kovgan of Kinodance Company featuring dancers
from Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA. Free.

Sunday May 1, 2 to 4pm,Egyptian Oracle is a Virtual Reality interactive narrative
on the Egyptian tradition of the public oracle. Using an important religious event
from the Ptolemaic Period, Jeffrey Jacobson's Egyptian Oracle helps audiences develop
a deeper understanding of Egyptian culture. An expert puppeteer creates a virtual
High Priest avatar and several other participants, while the audience plays the
role of the Egyptian public. The expanded Virtual Reality capabilities permits audiences
to directly interact with -- and participate in the ceremony - to enable greater
understanding and empathy for other cultures. The event is limited to 100 seats
at Atlantic Wharf but will be simulcast at the Boston Children's Museum. Free.

Friday May 6, 6 to 9pm. Boston Cyberarts Gala, Gallery and Waterfront Square.

The Gala celebrates the culmination of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and is also
the award ceremony for the IBM Innovation Awards for best artwork in the festival.
Tickets are $50, info@bostoncyberarts.org.

The 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival takes place April 22 - May 8, 2011, when artists,
dancers, musicians and visionary thinkers come together to bring the best in digitally
inspired creativity to Greater Boston. The Festival, a collaboration of visual and
performing artists, cultural organizations, educators and high-technology professionals,
takes place in and around Boston at museums, galleries, performing spaces, educations
institutions, and on the web.Complete information about the Festival, including
a searchable database of the more than 40 events and exhibitions, is available at
www.bostoncyberarts.org.

Atlantic Wharf is located just two blocks from South Station, and is accessible
via the Red Line, Water Taxi, #4 & 11 buses, and features a 650 car parking garage
directly below the building.

Further information on the Boston Cyberarts Festival is available by calling 617.524.8495
or emailing info@bostoncyberarts.org, or visitingwww.bostoncyberarts.org/festival
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Cyberart encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used
to expand artistic possibilities - that is, where the computer's unique capabilities
are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic
film, musical instruments, and other materials have always been used to express
an artist's vision. The Boston Cyberarts Festival, launched by George Fifield in
1999 with seed funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is the only Festival
in the world that encompasses all art forms, including both visual and performing
arts, film, video, electronic literature, public art, and web art.

Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions,
including the New IBM, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, ArtsBoston, Boston Cultural
Council and Avid. Boston Cyberarts is proud to be a partner with Boston Properties
and Atlantic Wharf, and the Boston Children's Museum. Dig Boston is the media sponsor.

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Press contact: Nina J Berger, 617.543.1595, press@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]

High and low-resolution DOWNLOADABLE images are available at http://bostoncyberarts.org/festival/pressimages/
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Boston Cyberarts Festival

Administrative Offices: 9 Myrtle Street, Boston, MA 02130

Telephone 617.524.8495
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SOMERVILLE CARNIVAL - June 5, 2011

2011-03-28T23:16:00.000-07:00

The City of Somerville and East Somerville Main Streets will present a Carnival at SomerStreets on June 5th from noon-5pm!!

SomerStreets is a series of events to be held throughout the summer months by the City of Somerville and Community Partners that close Somerville streets to cars and open them to people to walk, ride their bikes, run, and enjoy the character of the surrounding neighborhoods. Carnival @ SomerStreets will be a festive day for the community with open streets, a motion parade, music, a drum circle, children's activities, a farmer's market and more!

We would like to invite the East Somerville and Somerville Communities at large to get involved! We are currently seeking local dancers and dance groups, artists to create public installations, people to bring great children's activities, and volunteers of all kinds.

We will be hosting an open meeting for the community on MARCH 28, from 6:30-8pm at MAYA SOL Restaurant 179 Broadway, East Somerville (near McGrath Highway)~ Come and eat delicious pupusas and find out more about this great event!

East Somerville Main Streets is one of the community partner for Carnival @ SomerStreets, to get involved contact East Somerville Main Streets event coordinator: Jenn Bliss - moonshipmail@gmail.com.

Want to get involved in a SomerStreets in your neighborhood? Call event series coordinator and the City of Somerville Director of Community Relations, Carlene Campbell ccampbell@somervillema.gov.

SEEKING SOMERVILLE PATRIOTS DAY COLONIAL FAIR VOLUNTEERS - April 18, 2011

2011-03-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

The Somerville Historic Preservation Department, Historic Somerville, Inc. and the Somerville Museum need 10 volunteers-both men and women - to help run the Patriots Day Colonial Fair to be held at Foss Park, 8-12 AM on Monday, April 18th. If you are a long-time resident or new to the area, this is a very fun way to participate in the annual historical reenactment of Paul Revere's ride through Somerville. Reenactment of Paul Revere's annual ride on horseback has been a longstanding tradition in the communities through which he rode in 1775, however, in order to entertain people in a meaningful way while they wait for Mr. Revere, we have been holding a very well attended and fun Colonial Fair at Foss Park for several years. We've started a "passport" system of having children move from one Colonial era activity to another, receiving a stamp at each station when they complete the activitiy, and ultimately receiving a prize for their efforts. The games will be chosen among favorites such as hop scotch, cat's cradle, ring toss, bean bag throwing, jump rope, knot tying, yoyo, and hoop rolling. Volunteers are needed to oversee the activities. You do need to dress in Colonial era clothing, but we have that for you. You will need to learn one of the games, but we'll teach you if you don't know it already. The time commitment is minimal: You need only attend a general meeting and a fitting for clothing prior to the actual day's events.

Please contact me at admin@historicsomerville.org if you're interested. Many thanks!

Joe’s Jazz and Blues Festival Call For Talent - March 26, 2011

2011-03-16T11:06:00.002-07:00

Kicking off on Sunday, June 19th, the festival will make its way through local hotspots throughout the week, and close with an all-day free concert at Powderhouse Park on June 25th.

We are looking for amazing talent to perform at the city concert on the 25th at Powderhouse Park (raindate, 26th). This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your unique jazz and blues sounds--we want everything from swampy Cajun to Ethiopian Jazz. Preference will be given to bands with a Somerville connection. Please note, if you have played in previous years, we are only considering new applicants.

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Joe’s Jazz & Blues Fest

Call for Talent

Deadline: March 26

How to Apply:

By Email:
If you can share support material (music samples, press clippings) via your website or MySpace, please apply by email. Send an email to somjazzfest@gmail.com with "Joe’s Jazz and Blues Fest Application" as the header. Provide the following info :

1. Name of artist or group

2. Contact info: contact person, e-mail and snail mail, phone, fax and Web site (if applicable)

3. Brief description of performance

4. Technical requirements (beyond typical stage, sound)

5. Number of artists/performers

6.
Fee requested for one 50 minute set

7. Somerville affiliation (if any)

8. Web site or MySpace url.

By mail:
If you don’t have a website or MySpace page, please send information (answer questions 1-8 above) on a single piece of paper and include support material (music samples, press clippings). If you want this material returned to you, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope.

All applications will be reviewed by a jury.
We will contact chosen artists by April 16th.

Email applications to:
somjazzfest@gmail.com

Mail or drop off applications to:
Somerville Arts Council/ Joe’s Jazz and Blues Fest50 Evergreen AveSomerville, MA 02145

Please contact Tori Costa at
somjazzfest@gmail.com with any questions. We hope you will join us in this fantastic celebration of jazz, blues, and Somerville.

SUMMER ART FESTIVAL CALL FOR CRAFT VENDORS - March 28, 2011

2011-03-16T11:06:00.001-07:00

During the heat of summer, artists and festival goers converge on Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts, transforming it into one of the area's largest and most innovative arts festivals. ArtBeat includes music, performance art, craft vendors, dance, theater, food, and a whole lot more. Each year we develop a theme that serves as a launching point for artists and the community to express themselves.

Questions/details:

Heather Balchunas

617-625-6600 x2985
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org
hbalchunas@somervillema.gov

SEEKING CERAMIC TECH SUMMER INTERN - April 15, 2011

2011-03-07T22:54:00.000-08:00

Mudflat Pottery School and Studio in Somerville MA is looking for an individual currently enrolled in a ceramic arts program, with experience working with clay. Interest in learning ceramic technical skills is required; prior experience is helpful but not necessary. Tasks will include all technical aspects of clay studio and school, including studio maintenance, clay recycling, slip and glaze mixing, loading and unloading electric and gas kilns. Electric and gas kiln firing is possible based on experience. All training provided by Mudflat’s technical staff. 20 hours per week, daily schedule to be determined, but should be 4 or 5 days each week for 4-5 hours each day. May/June through August/September – to be determined with intern.

To apply send cover letter and resume to:

Mudflat
149 Broadway
Somerville MA 02145

http://www.mudflatpottery.wordpress.com
lynn@mudflat.org

BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL - March 2011

2011-03-03T11:14:00.001-08:00

Ready to roar in March

This month

MIT Panel Discussion
Sculptural Weaving Workshop
New Connections
Adams Grant
Get Plugged in
Artist Opportunities

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Computers + Visual & Literary Arts: A Panel Discussion @ MIT on March 8

Manfred Mohr, p-300b, 1980

Drawing with Code, the exhibition curated by George Fifield of works from the Anne
and Michael Spalter collection that celebrates a selection of computer-generated
art by the form's earliest and most important practitioners from the 1950s to
today, opened last month at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to much acclaim.
Panel Discussion at MIT
Moderated by John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Tuesday, March 8, 7 pm
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MIT Campus
Join deCordova and MIT for an evening event focused on how the computer has creatively
influenced both the visual and literary arts in this panel discussion. Hear from
Drawing with Code curator George Fifield, exhibiting artist Mark Wilson, and writers
who employ computers in their creative practice as they discuss the history behind
this fascinating intersection between science and art. Held in collaboration with
MIT's Purple Blurb series, this event is co-organized by deCordova and MIT.

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Sculptural Weaving Workshop

Natalie Miebach: Sculptural Weaving

Join Cyberarts Festival artist Nathalie Miebach for a sculptural weaving workshop
at the Fuller Craft Museum on March 8 to March 12.

This course will enable artists to explore and invent various ways of weaving into
three-dimensions. Based on weaving traditions that go back thousands of years, participants
will learn the fundamentals of basic sculptural weaving techniques: twining, plaiting,
coiling and random weave. Through the use of traditional and non-traditional materials,
participants will learn to use these techniques as a springboard to adapt, integrate,
and explore their own sculptural interests and material choices. Techniques for
treating surfaces, such as dying, embellishment, over-weaves and painting will also
be explored.

Hands-on work will be complemented by slide lectures and discussions examining the
adaptations and significance of weaves in contemporary and traditional cultures,
and how these techniques have been used by traditional basket weavers and contemporary
artists across disciplines.

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We're so connected

Take a look at our brand new 2011 Festival website and begin planning your agenda
now. There are dozens of events and exhibitions to take in, so it'll pay off to
prepare well.

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MCC <3 Cyberarts

The Massachusetts Cultural Council loves Cyberarts and we love them. The MCC recently
awarded the Boston Cyberarts Festival a prestigious Adams Arts Program Grant. Is
it because of our focus on technical innovation? Perhaps our involvement of artists
and organizations from across the Commonwealth? Or maybe our diverse offerings of
visual art, dance, theater, film, video, education, demonstrations and lecture programming?
How about the economic impact that new media has on our region? I think it might
be all of the above. We are extremely grateful for the continued support of the
MCC and look forward to seeing the impact of the Adams grant on this year's festival.
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Ready To Get Plugged In?

The next Boston Cyberarts Festival is scheduled for April 22 - May 8, 2011, just
a few months away! We can use all the support you can give!
Volunteer:
We are always looking for community participation. Our small staff relies on its
volunteers to manage important tasks large & small. Volunteering is an opportunity
for close contact with participating artists and organizations.
Get plugged in and help out in the following areas:
-Gallery Sitting
-Guest Writers for our Blog
-Exhibition Installation
-Recruiting Donations
-Selling Merchandise
-Event Documentation
Please contact Autumn Ahn with the subject line "Volunteering" at autumn@bostoncyberarts.org
Make a Donation:
In the current tough economic climate, it's more important than ever to invest
in those organizations that can contribute to the economy, support talented artists,
and improve the quality of life for all of us. Please click here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104681347841&s=2873&e=001IWPNB7I6KQVOYP1UNVLaZm6jSBEsXQMWF1xS90gbnWGSjMuMsgtkPl_H5ev5SSmZBWbOIZW-Q3D5ODvQfBfqqzzOpzkCg5i3V7meXwgDc-Q2cOSzoPw7sPJd_wO9zp9dcm0Z7y7iqEooYb083rk0Fh3xyKHMaHyq]
to make a contribution, or snail-mail a check to:
Boston Cyberarts
9 Myrtle St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Thanks for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at the next Festival!
George Fifield, Director
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Thanks to our Sponsors!

Boston Cyberarts extends a special thanks to our many generous sponsors. We couldn't
do the work we do without you!
Dig Publishing
IBM
Mathworks
Wellington Management
Art New England
...and many other generous institutions and individuals.
Boston Cyberarts is proud to be a partner with Boston Properties and Atlantic Wharf.
We would love to work with your company on upcoming Boston Cyberarts projects!
Please contact George Fifield at 617.524.2109 or email info@bostoncyberarts.org
[mailto:info@bostoncyberarts.org] for information on becoming a sponsor.
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Artist Opportunities

Our friends at Together Boston [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104681347841&s=2873&e=001IWPNB7I6KQVV76nqmfm0c1VmTft5GL5e-_tQRuvMeW5bzKJo9j7zYEJFYD9Cm-DK67I6mtI5wAtRaWqY15w9JYoifhCmE66pQLIwfCYFo-n76cxXwgdIpBCofD6pufga]
are searching for artists for their upcoming festival. Send your proposals their
way! Here are the details:
From April 18-24, Together Boston will conduct a week-long series of concerts, parties,
educational events, panels, technology demonstrations and arts installations. Our
intent is integrate visual artists and their work into Festival events and provide
a means for local artists to publicize and potentially sell their work. We are currently
seeking artists to participate in 2011 Festival events. Together will work with
participating artists and facilitate their installation work with venues and event
planners.
GUIDELINES

* Interested artists must submit the following by no later than Saturday, March
12, 2011 @ 12:00 PM:

* Name, email address & phone number
* Three digital images of the work you wish to display
* Installation requirements
* Each artist must sign a waiver of liability for theft and/or damage. Together
assumes no liability for damage to artwork or installation materials.
* Artwork, if available for sale, should be priced to include sales tax
* Participating artists are fully responsible for the installation and de-installation
of their work.

FEES

There is no fee to participate as a Together Artist. Depending on the scale and
scope of the installation, some stipend funds or logistical support may be available,
but will be handled on a case by case basis and no guarantee.

QUESTIONS

Send email to joe@togetherboston.com and list "Together 2011: Art" in Subject Line.
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Contact us!

If you have cyber-events coming up that you think the Boston Cyberarts family would
be interested in, please send information and an image to press@bostoncyberarts.org
[mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]. We'll happily include your stuff if we get
it in time and if we have space.

For any other business, contact us at info@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:info@bostoncyberarts.org].
Or, visit our website ...

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MARCH PROGRAMS AT FRESH POND RESERVATION

2011-02-19T21:16:00.000-08:00

These events are free and open to the public. Children are welcome in the company of an adult.

TALES OF OUTDOOR ADVENTURE AND MISADVENTURE
WITH STORYTELLER BRUCE MARCUS
Friday, March 4
6:30 to 8 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
From the top of a sheer cliff to the woods at night without a flashlight, Bruce Marcus revels in the great outdoors and loves to tell about it! Bruce will entertain you with his energetic and engaging takes on personal mishaps, outdoor epiphanies, and humorous “made-up stuff.” A firm believer that we all have tales to tell, Bruce will also lead participants in fun, easy exercises where they can share their best wildlife encounters, camping disasters, and other memorable outdoor experiences. Don’t miss what promises to be a lively, worthwhile, and interactive evening of outdoor tales! This family program is appropriate for children ages 8 and older.

NATURE LIVES!
Saturday, March 12
2 to 5 pm
Maynard Ecology Center, basement of Neville Place
650 Concord Avenue
Take a walk with naturalists Larry Millman, Tom Murray, Julie Lisk, and Elizabeth Wylde as we explore the Reservation, searching for fungi, insects, plants, birds, and anything else that shows signs of life in these waning days of winter. There is a lot happening in, on, and above ground! Dress for the weather, with boots for walking off-path in snow.

WELCOME SPRING BIRD WALK
Sunday, March 20
10 am to 12 noon
Neville Place driveway
650 Concord Avenue
Spring is here! The earliest migrating birds are beginning to return from the south, and the Reservation is one of their destinations. These new arrivals and year-round residents will soon be busy building nests and defending territories. We may also see a variety of migrating waterfowl on the ponds. Beginners are welcome! We have binoculars to lend and will show you how to use them.

WILD TREES AT FRESH POND
Sunday, March 27
1 to 3 pm
Meeting place will be given when you register.
We will look at where wild trees grow and the roles that soil, sun, wind, water, and animals play in their growth. Chief Ranger Jean Rogers will show us oaks, beeches, shagbark hickories, black willows, and staghorn sumacs; then we’ll go inside to look at seeds and field guides to see why the trees are where they are. Bring a field notebook, binoculars, and a camera if you have one. Dress for the outside for the first half of the program. Register with Ranger Jean at jrogers@cambridgema.gov or call 617-349-4793.

Please register for each event that you plan to attend:
Important information on parking will be given to you when you register.
E-mail Elizabeth Wylde at friendsoffreshpond@yahoo.com
or call 617-349-6489 and leave your name and phone number.

This spring and summer Grow Native Massachusetts will be offering a series of free nature-related lectures at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. The details are at: http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts

Call for Craft Vendors and Artists for ArtBeat 2011 - March 29, 2011

2011-02-16T05:40:00.000-08:00

During the heat of summer, artists and festival goers converge on Davis Square, transforming it into one of the area's largest and most innovative arts festivals. ArtBeat includes music, performance art, craft vendors, dance, theater, food, and a whole lot more. Each year we develop a theme that serves as a launching point for artists and the community to express themselves. ArtBeat 2011: RED scheduled for July 16, is sure to be huge success.

The wide variety of talent from local artists, musicians, and vendors is what makes ArtBeat a huge success. Attached is 2011 craft vendor application. We look forward to your participation again this year. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding the event.

Sincerely,

Heather Balchunas
Office Manager
Somerville Arts Council
www.somervilleartscouncil.org
617.625.6600 ext. 2985

SOMERVILLE ARTIST AT BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER - Mon-Fri

2011-02-15T21:28:00.000-08:00

Full of light, color and playful designs. Don't miss this stunning show by Somerville ceramicist and sculptor, Marc Mancuso: open Mon - Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Here's more info: http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/events/exhibitions/mancuso.htm

IRVING BERLIN 100TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT - March 18, 2011

2011-02-11T00:51:00.000-08:00

On Friday, March 18, 2011, American Classics will present a special concert and birthday celebration honoring one hundred years of the Irving Berlin classic, Alexander's Ragtime Band. Song duo, music historians and Berlin specialists Benjamin Sears and Bradford Conner, with Somerville 's Mary Ann Lanier, Joei Marshall Perry and Margaret Ulmer, are the featured performers, joined by Valerie Anastasio, Tim Harbold, and leading members of Boston's musical theatre community.

Pre-talk begins at 7pm with concert at 7:30pm at the Pickman Concert Hall of the Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tickets are $25 and $20 students/seniors.

For tickets contact American Classics at 617-254-1125 or ac@amclass.org.

For more information, please visit the website, www.amclass.org.

MULTIMEDIA DANCE AT BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Feb 18-26, 2011

2011-02-10T23:41:00.000-08:00

Nicole Pierce, EgoArt, Inc and the Boston Center for the Arts present

REQUIEM
A multimedia dance installation set to the glorious Requiem of W.A. Mozart

February 18, 19, 25, 26 - 8:00pm (pre-show at 7:00pm)
February 20 - 7:30pm (pre-show at 6:30pm)

Cyclorama at the BCA
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116

Tickets $20 for pre-show and Requiem - https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/31255
Tickets are available at the door (cash or check), however reservations are strongly recommended due to limited seating.

Requiem is a part of CYC SPECIFIC: ALL THINGS TRANSFORMATIVE - a 2-week arts festival in the historic space of BCA's Cyclorama.
Cyc Specific Pre Show: a collaborative performance with live music + dance + sound + sculpture + spoken-word + experimental performance with such illustrious artists as: Neptune, Passion East, Stan Stickland, Liz Roncka, Oliver Besson, Eli Keszler, and more!
If not attending pre-show performance, doors open for REQUIEM 15 minutes before showtime.

BOSTON CYBEARTS FESTIVAL - Apr 22 - May 8, 2011

2011-02-06T20:02:00.000-08:00

Press contact: Nina J Berger, 617.543.1595

press@bostoncyberarts.or [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]g [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]

Art is Electric at 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival

April 22 - May 8

BOSTON, Mass. - Art and technology converge at the highly anticipated seventh Boston
Cyberarts Festival, April 22 - May 8, 2011, when artists, filmmakers, dancers, musicians
and visionary thinkers come together to bring the best in digitally inspired creativity
to Greater Boston.

The Festival, a collaboration of visual and performing artists, cultural organizations,
educators and high-technology professionals, will be headquartered at the newly
opened Atlantic Wharf, and take place at museums, galleries, theaters, artist's
studios, educations institutions and public spaces in and around the Boston area,
and online at www.bostoncyberarts.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4z5Rc_Qx8tAcYZao5CFzTeFzD1d82Y5MzIS9eh1obRmsWKl9fMuxN2Tui4nE_o-E-7pzDytz_gKWAy31ccQB-Fc0Bm9xQXN2UIBGH0RPw_ZSw==].
A complete list of exhibitions, performances and locations will be announced in
the coming months.

The biennial Boston Cyberarts Festival celebrates a long tradition of technological
and artistic innovation throughout Massachusetts. The first Boston Cyberarts Festival
took place twelve years ago in 1999, and since that time the biennial event has
grown to be an integral part of the New England arts landscape.

George Fifield, Director of Boston Cyberarts, noted: "The Boston area has been a
center of art and technology for decades, since the pioneering work done by institutions
like WGBH, Polaroid and the MIT Media Lab. We're proud that we are able to shine
a spotlight on both the rich history of art and technology, and on the visions
for the future."

CyberartsCentral, a visitor center with festival maps, information and docent volunteers,
located at the new Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston, will be the site
of a special exhibition, BEHOLD, Sight in New Media, as well as innovative music
and dance performances.

This year's Festival will take a look back at the history of Cyberart:

· George Fifield curates Drawing with Code [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4xqDEoU7Nkar4q0AdU739hwcSo1kL_FbJ99iizbkdNW4ZdP72t4_ipebAyvjVVFsBwXrMorqRfexIyzoehuqQjJREKEctRgsuL932UYsN9qn8HkEFNUTmhZv2XEHelOQyElzUW5cJei70yCFlHMwPNqAo60NBcjpK5GOZlWqCSF4NRYNIUN75MJrpe-Kfbj1z1fgZcgW-e9ug==]
at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, an exhibition of the earliest computer-generated
art by the form's most important practitioners from the 1950s to today. The Providence-based
collection of Anne and Michael Spalter is one of the largest and most important
of its kind in the U.S. and shines a new light onto a darkened corner of the art
historical record.

· MIT's List Visual Arts Center presents the first United States museum survey
of the work of Chilean-born video artist Juan Downey (1940-1993). Juan Downey: The
Invisible Architect [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4z5sjFxfu2xe_NHakN2tcmmXlmQbE3t-6PFVj6_M8ej_Kh8vTprQ-Gb1b9IIgvklSnPsbOrG80PwPIXzPAhZ8TRATPtGPyXVssdR4Brfbzu8lPRv-bN3teH]
will feature a selection of key works by this under-recognized pioneer of video
art. A key protagonist in the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene, Downey combined
autobiographical content with an anthropological documentary style in his video
works.

· The Goethe Institut's RECORD > AGAIN! - 40yearsvideoart.de - Part 2 concentrates
on early German video art, including several rarely seen, re-discovered works.

And, a rich array of events and exhibitions in many art forms are on tap for the
2011 Festival:

· Visual art has always been a central part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.
Among the 2011 offerings are Jim Campbell at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, Move Me
an exhibition of kinetic sculpture. at Axiom Center of New and Experimental Media,
Andy Zimmerman's Where Am I? at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Nathalie Miebach's Changing
Waters [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4z_RH1j4kdexKYtXgZ07wmDDurjhTDhyf72bX2JJrBm3h8_2vTun3YbRnvjtmaCeY2uOenEgMRlAjs70JxaZtZ5AxS5mcIGBdKmymT7GRFySOy94MNzxv4deIuVI13vUf4=]
at the Fuller Craft Museum, Francis Alÿs: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4xEp8ZUcStvlhenQecKHbjcMd0MiwN-eNGMtVsBSlZV5sJ7CtXiAzsX679-I37YYy654eZDD3_J-_XFA0k8FAl6k3FHMg2S9DvlaVlXCX1blpH6fs4M9rNenIgtJEKTjv1ARI1GzCETmmEPNZhFpn07Z4jgXx0kxc1ddg2wzzAydcF4w51y33CIaS-2Tb_Oit2qwp2o5tanZGw0Ey5U-rf9hSDtUZ0wzo3DLMD_Ja17J4RCoYp16D_lMrC1kYyYiU4gx9uUFZCT3g==]
at the Davis Museum, and exhibitions at 119 Gallery, Mobius, Huret & Spector Gallery,
and more;

· Mark Swarek and Joseph Hocking'sOccupation Forces [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4wsiLpKlNnFHQQ7QM6WQklDfdrmCCGovMMA4gKipZoOf4jqeWTsT25e0PDvurAgYmmwkUPFfNoS4a1aJngxvEQZ_9_RU9Byl2RtVr7YHqCMu9Cmv7J_JwU4],
an augmented reality experience, via iPhone app, of an alien invasion of our public
space, will be based out of CyberartsCentral and take place throughout downtown
Boston and Cambridge. The project mixes alien invasion mythology with contemporary
images of a foreign troops' occupation.

· Dance events curated by Alissa Cardone at CyberartsCentral, and a two-day
series of readings, demonstrations and small-scale performances at MIT Media Lab'sDance
Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0 conference;

· Experimental film featuring the premiere of Clea T. Waite's Moonwalk, specifically
designed for the Museum of Science's new full-dome planetarium. The rough cut of
Moonwalk received the IBM Innovation Prize at the 2007 Cyberarts Festival. Part
of an entire evening celebrating our love affair with the galaxy,When Science Meets
Art: Moonwalk MashUp [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4z1B56ktO5NT0f5cvJsBcjyjjJp3btatohKDNQBPdwezQSm6F27HIF_ZyCiEJHKnIItWCWGLN9YXHGbnZS494c4bhm-rIAncHSLWwnynDF7sEeYGeOukFau8J6H0wrjyMa9cvpEGB_oDwLmE4T4GT3T]
will also include a cosmic story slam, cosmic cocktail reception with space-wear
inspired fashion.

· Electronic music offerings this year include The Brandeis Electro-Music Studio
(BEAMS) Marathon, twelve solid hours of international electronic music, and Dan
Hirsch's programming for CyberartsCentral;

· FAST Light [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4wxdirDIfkYBdUTuOWn2EwCP06jqHEHPSRR0uEIyfe3Dg4mZq388ZT0wiKDK3WxZ3AGwDC2fAZhmq1EyH2ivUWPoCEnrqQLbZCYSX9ttUAHY7cuvsnpd28qUeL807iUk9U=],
an all-evening celebration involving light and kinetic illumination throughout the
MIT campus and along Memorial Drive as the culmination of FAST (MIT's Festival of
Art, Science and Technology). Iconic artist Otto Piene will be holding a Sky Event
in the afternoon with the launch at dusk with more than 15 other installations lit
up on campus and on the Charles.

· Youth programming takes place in collaboration with Urbano Project and Urban
Arts Institute

The closing weekend of the Festival features a gala celebration and awards ceremony
on May 6, at which artists and arts patrons can meet and mingle; and where Boston
Cyberarts presents the IBM Innovation Awards to the top three events or exhibitions
of the year.

"Boston Cyberarts has played a unique and vital role in showcasing cutting-edge
programming at so many of the arts and educational venues across our region," says
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. "In doing so, the Festival also celebrates the long
history of technology and innovation that is one of the hallmarks of the history
of Boston."

The Festival is an important contributor to the region's economy and independent
studies have demonstrated that each of the Festivals, with a budget of less than
$200,000, generated a total economic impact of over $2 million.

For further information, contact the Festival office at 617.524.8495, email info@bostoncyberarts.org,
or visit www.bostoncyberarts.org.

# # #

Cyberart encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used
to expand artistic possibilities - that is, where the computer's unique capabilities
are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic
film, musical instruments, and other materials have always been used to express
an artist's vision. The Boston Cyberarts Festival, launched by George Fifield in
1999 with seed funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is the only Festival
in the world that encompasses all art forms, including both visual and performing
arts, film, video, electronic literature, public art, and web art.

Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions,
including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, New England Foundation for
the Arts, IBM, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, ArtsBoston and the Trust for
Mutual Understanding.

Boston Cyberarts is proud to be a partner with Boston Properties and Atlantic Wharf.

Dig Boston and Art New England are media sponsors.

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Press contact: Nina J Berger, 617.543.1595, press@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:press@bostoncyberarts.org]

# # #

Boston Cyberarts Festival
Administrative Offices: 9 Myrtle Street, Boston, MA 02130

Telephone 617.524.8495
Fax 617.524.9968
www.bostoncyberarts.org [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=4hcz47bab&et=1104397156054&s=2873&e=001cjWJeG2Sz4z5Rc_Qx8tAcYZao5CFzTeFzD1d82Y5MzIS9eh1obRmsWKl9fMuxN2Tui4nE_o-E-7pzDytz_gKWAy31ccQB-Fc0Bm9xQXN2UIBGH0RPw_ZSw==]
info@bostoncyberarts.org [mailto:info@bostoncyberarts.org]
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SOMERVILLE FEBRUARY ART EVENTS

2011-02-03T16:51:00.000-08:00

The Wild Side of Bollywood
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 8pm
Precinct, 70 Union Square

Free! (But donations greatly appreciated!!)

“The Wild Side Of Bollywood” showcases the unique, surreal, often psychedelic dance sequences from South Asian films from the 1950’s to the ‘80’s, a time when western styles of rock and funk mixed with Hindustani music met in sequences known as “item numbers” set in cabarets, bars and discos. We’ll take a special look at the actress/dancer “Helen,” who appeared in over 500 films and is beloved throughout the Indian diaspora. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with event curator Brother Cleve and Mona Kumar, producer of the MFA’s South Asian film festival. And following that, there will be a dance performance, Indian-themed libations and Bollywood beats.

for more information about this event and other artsunion winter events: www.somervilleartscouncil.org

***

We are also doing cross promotion with the India Association of Greater Boston. They also have a wildly fabulous event coming up!

Event:
South Asian Showdown - Bhangra vs Bollywood vs Fusion vs Garba/Raas
Date: Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Time: 6 PM Sharp! Doors open at 5 PM
Venue: John Hancock Hall
Address: 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA
About: Bhangra vs Bollywood vs Fusion vs Garba/Raas teams...which is the best?

...come find out at the South Asian Showdown! We will have the best teams from all over North America competing for the South Asian Showdown crown!! This competition puts 4 of the most popular dance forms from South Asia on one stage to compete against one another for the best dance of the night. We have selected 12 teams from all over North America to represent their respective genres. If you love indian dance, or want to learn more about indian dance, this is a MUST SEE show!

Special performance by the Ridonkulous!

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

This show will sell out, so buy tickets early! Tickets on sale now @ www.southasianshowdown.com!

Delicious snacks and dinner will be sold by Bollywood Grill!

Be sure to also check out the afterparty for this event immediately following the competition!

More information is posted on our website, including individuals you can contact, and how to purchase tickets. Visit us @ www.southasianshowdown.com

Rachel Strutt
Program Manager
Somerville Arts Council
50 Evergreen Ave.
Somerville, MA 02145
617/625-6600, x2985
fax: 617/666-4325
www.somervilleartscouncil.org

SOMERVILLE THIRD LIFE STUDIO EVENTS - January 2011

2011-01-27T10:43:00.000-08:00

SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND AT THIRD LIFE STUDIO:

1) Friday eve. 1/28, 8pm: CD Release Party with Anthology
2) Sunday afternoon 1/30: New Session of Modern Dance Classes with Kelley Donovan
3) Sunday afternoon: Multi-generational African Dance Workshop with Alice Heller

Details for all three below!

Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square (actually Somerville Ave)
Somerville, MA
For directions & parking info: www.thirdlifestudio.com
Do not use Mapquest!

1) CD Release with Anthology!
Allegra Martin, Anney Gillotte, Michelle Vachon, Vicky Reichert

Anthology, a vocal quartet with a wide variety of repertoire, would
like to invite everyone to our first CD release party! We hope you
will all come to celebrate with us (and perhaps pick up a few copies!)
Admission is free, and there will be food and drink and we will perform
some songs from the CD as well. We hope you can join us!
Contact info: allegra.martin@gmail.com

2) New Session of Modern Dance Classes with Kelley Donovan

CREATIVE MODERN DANCE
Technique/Choreography/Performance Workshops
Taught by Kelley Donovan
http://kddcompany.wordpress.com

New 6 week Session: January 30th--March 6th
1:30-2:30 Modern Dance Technique
2:30-3:30 Performance and Repertory Workshop
(students are encouraged to attend the technique class for warm up)
Sign up for one class or both! Pre-registration required
For info: 617-388-3247 or kddcompany@yahoo.com
$90 /per course, 6 week session

The Technique class is for adult dancers with a little or no experience and is a great place to start if you are coming back to dance and incorporates ideas from Limon and Cunningham techniques. The class will move through a warm up that builds strength and clarifies alignment principals followed by fluid phrases. Participants will get a chance to create collaboratively and explore the basic elements of dance.

The Performance Workshop will focus on a collaboratively created work of choreography over the six weeks and is for dancers at all levels who are interested in exploring a variety of methods for creating dances with an emphasis on learning how to craft a complete work from a finite amount of material.

Kelley Donovan’s work has been named in the Top 10 performances of the year by The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and The Boston Phoenix. She has performed work by Rozann Kraus, Liz Lerman and Ann Carlson and has taught dance at BCAE, MIT, Dance Complex and Umass Boston. Her choreography has been produced by World Music, MIT and The Cunningham Studio, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. Kelley studied choreography with Mark Morris and Bessie Schönberg and other artists in Boston. http://kddcompany.wordpress.com

3) MULTI-GENERATIONAL AFRICAN DANCE WORKSHOP with ALICE HELLER

Drumming by Allison Stamiris and other guest

drummers

Sunday, 1/30 3:35-5pm: Open to all--come play!

Cost: $15 adults, $10 kids, Family Discounts Available

Please rsvp! For more information:

aliceheller@comcast.net

617-620-7654

WEEKEND SEMINAR ON REVISING FICTION

2011-01-20T02:11:00.000-08:00

Saturday-Sunday, January 29-30th, 10:00am-5:00pm at Grub Street headquarters. www.grubstreet.org

You have a story or stories (or novel) that's not quite working, or that's very good but not quite good enough, or that keeps getting narrowly rejected. Whatever the case, you've lost perspective on it, but you know it needs revision – macro, micro or both. This weekend, get macro revision tips on Saturday, and then come back on Sunday for tips on line-editing and style. Or just pick one workshop or the other.

Saturday: Revision is a process that many writers find frustrating. Once you have a first or second draft of a story, what happens next? How do you follow through on the ideas your workshop suggested? How do you add depth to characters? How do you make the structure more direct? This workshop will teach a few basic concepts of revision that will help you address these issues, in addition to suggesting concrete techniques you can apply to stories at home. IMPORTANT: Students enrolling in this class will be required to bring a draft of a story in progress. Your story will serve as a frame of reference for the seminar's discussion and exercises.

Sunday: You've got the story down--now, it's time to fine-tune the language. Line editing your own work is one of your most difficult tasks, but it's also one of the most important: even a single word can create mood, reveal character, or signal a shift in understanding. In this one-day workshop, we'll step beyond proofreading to the nitty-gritty of language-level revision. Through published examples and exercises, we'll examine word choice, rhythm, and even paragraph breaks to make language work with your story. We'll also learn to identify--and correct--language "glitches" that wake the reader from your vivid and continuous dream. Towards the end of the workshop, you'll turn your newly critical eye on some of your own work, so please bring a copy of a story or essay you'd like to start polishing. Open to both fiction and nonfiction writers.