| China
Town Paper Picker Press |
Boston China Town Neighborhood
Center - BCNC
885 Washington
Street, Boston, MA, 02111
Spacial Arts:
Tuesday, May
6th
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The Cultural
Agents Initiative
and
The
Boston China Town Neighborhood
Center
Proudly
Present:
Paper Picker Press
Workshop
for
Artists and Educators
For more information
Contact:
Marcela
Mahecha,
mahecha@fas.harvard.edu |
Art Forum Speaker Series:
Betsabee Romero
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Wednesday, May 6th 6:00pm -
7:00pm
David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Cambridge 1730, Room
S-050
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 Respondant: Julian
Zugazagoitia (Museo del Barrio,
NYC)* Distinguished by her poignant
sculptures and site specific installations in
which low brow vernacular "Mexican" themes are
appropriated and transformed into high brow
conceptual interventions, Mexican artist
Betsabee Romero will engage in a dialogue with
Julian Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo del
Barrio in New York City, and curator of "Lagimas
Negras", her mid career retrospective, organized
last year at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico.
Departing from her meditation on the creative
process she engaged at the Museo Amparo, in
which she produced a set of new pieces for her
show based on the museum's premier prehispanic
collection, the conversation will center on the
"uses of history" as a privileged subject in the
production of contemporary art within Mexico,
and the way in which, by refreshing the
experience of history, art has become an
important, recognized trigger in the production
of new interpretations of the past. In
collaboration with the Amparo Museum
(México) Marcela V. Ramos Exhibitions
Coordinator and Registrar of the
Collection Art Forum David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies Harvard
University #1730 Cambridge
Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)
496-0558 Fax:(617)
496-2802 www.drclas.harvard.edu www.fas.harvard.edu/artforum |
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED
WORKSHOP
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Saturday, MAY 9TH, 9am-4pm Wheelock
Family Theater, Jamaicaway. Boston
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opportunity to study the elements of Augusto
Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed with instructor
Ellie Friedland No experience necessary
A bunch of us want to create a group of
Theater of the Oppressed Enthusiasts.
First step: Come get a sense for the
amazing techniques Augusto Boal came up
with.
Eventually, we want to get a solid group
going where we can delve in deep and begin
leading these workshops in our own communities.
This takes a lot of learning and sensitivity
that will hopefully be cultivated in these types
of workshops.
If you are even a bit curious, try to make
it out or let us know, so we can keep you on our
list.
Hope to see many of you there!
Frankelface, Chloe Green &
Pampi! |
The Passing of Augusto
Boal
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It
is with much sadness that the Theater of the
Oppressed Laboratory is passing on the news of
the death of Augusto Boal, who died May 1, late
in the evening of complications arising from a
long-term health condition.
Messages of
sympathy can be sent to Augusto's family through
toplab@toplab.org |
| Nyaka AIDS Orphan School
Book Project |
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The
Nyaka School for AIDS Orphans
Kanungu
District, SW Uganda
 The
Nyaka School for AIDS Orphans in SW Uganda,
P3 (grade 3) spent 6 weeks engaging in the
Ugandan Folk Tale "Kasanke and the Little Red
Bird". The story was initially presented in
Rukiga, the local dialect, and then in English.
(P3 is the year assigned by the government
when children start learning and being tested in
English). These children literally have
nothing, so when we had them make puppets, the
only crafts were those we could find outside.
It was neat to see how creative the
children could be with banana fiber and twigs.
We presented the play to the grannies and
guardians who are bringing up these children.
In return, the grannies shared folk tales
with us - which we have written down and are
putting in a book form. It was so
thrilling to see children who had not
participated in the regular classes becoming
animated and excited with the multiple
activities.
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Paper Picker Press Workshop:
The Young
People's Project |
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Friday May 8th, 2009 10:00am -
1:00pm
99 Bishop Allen Drive, Central
Square
Cambridge, MA
02139
please join us
to explore literature as a recyclable
material
Come to experiment with
literature through a variety of arts.
..
We will participate in activities
designed to access higher order thinking in
reading comprehension and language fluency. Lets
engage in re-writing, re-interpreting and
re-discovering literature with the Paper Picker
Press workshop!
Location:
The Algebra
Project
Conference Room
99 Bishop Allen
Drive
Central Square
Cambridge, MA
02139
For more information please
contact:
Marcela
Mahecha
mahecha@fas.harvard.edu |
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