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Artists in Context
Launch Event
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Friday, October
9th 1 pm - 4 pm
Arthur M. Sackler
Museum Lecture Hall, Harvard University,
485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
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Cultural
Agents Initiative proudly invites you to
Artists
in Context and Artists' Prospectus for the
Nation
Launch Event:
New Conversations, Ideas and Projects
The
event is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited; reservations strongly encouraged.
The Artists in Context Launch event is a forum for the presentation
and discussion of the expanded field of contemporary culture and the
evolving nature of art practices in the context of pressing social
issues. Speakers include Claudine Brown, Mel Chin, Ann
Hamilton, Jeremy Liu and Dava Newman. Carrie Beatty-Lambert
will moderate. For further information, see AIC Events on the
website: www.artistsincontext.org
Contact
information: louisa@artistsincontext.org
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Nathan I. Huggins
Lecture Series
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Tuesday, October
6th - Thursday October 8 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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Peter
H. Wood
"Into the Light:
Liberating Winslow Homer's Near Andersonville"
Tuesday, October 6: The Picture in the Attic
Wednesday, October 7: Behind Enemy Lines
Thursday, October 8: The Woman in the Sunlight
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/pwood
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Floretta Boonzaier
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Wednesday, October
7th 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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Floretta
Boonzaier
"'Feminism' as Imperialism? Interrogating the
Theory and Practice of Domestic Violence Intervention in South
Africa"
Fall Colloquium Series
Floretta
Boonzaier is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of
Cape Town. She completed her PhD at the University of Cape Town in
which she explored couples' co-construction of narratives of intimate
partner violence. Her primary research areas include psychological
aspects of gender based violence, the intersections of raced, classed
and gendered subjectivities, and a focus on the social construction
of femininities and masculinities within the post-apartheid South
African context. She has published on gender-based violence, both
nationally and internationally and she is co-editor of the first
South African psychology text on gender, entitled The Gender of
Psychology (2006).
For more information please visit:
http://dubois-online.org/floretta-boonzaier
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Jorge Perednik: Art
Forum Speaker Series
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Thursday, October
8th 3:00 pm
S-250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
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WORKSHOP: Word and Image
Directed by Jose Falconi and Prof. Ernesto Livón-Grosman (In Spanish)
Jorge Santiago Perednik, is one of the most influential poets,
critics and small press editors of Argentina. In the midst of
Argentina's last military dictatorship he began editing XUL signo
viejo y nuevo, one the few poetry journals that successfully linked
experimental poetics and political resistance. A digital edition of
the journal and of the English language XUL Reader can be read on
line at http://www.bc.edu/research/xul/. Since the 1990's his work
has also been in dialogue, through translation and public
presentations, with US Language Poetry and his work has been
published in Mexico and the US. He is also the author of
multiple essays on experimental literature. At the present Perednik
is finishing a book on the history of visual poetry.
The recently created Workshop Series constitutes the Art Forum's
latest and most significant effort to further academic scholarship in
the field of Latin American art history. Upon approval by the Art
Forum Director, each of the three projected workshop projects is
constituted for a minimum of two academic years (four sessions
total). By transforming single talks into a model guided by a
research agenda, the Art Forum Program will not only provide a unique
and continuous opportunity for faculty and students from Harvard
University and surrounding Boston communities to engage in high-level
academic discussions with renowned scholars in the field, but also
establish an urgently needed platform for the promotion of rigorous
research among young scholars, and the growth of our knowledge in the
historically understudied field of Latin American art.
For more information please contact: mvramos@fas.harvard.edu
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Banda Roncati
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Friday October 9th
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Performance stops at Harvard by Dudley House, Old Yard, Science
Center
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Banda Roncati
Italian activist street-level brass band
Banda Roncati is an Italian activist street-level brass band that
uses music as an interactive and dynamic medium to intervene into
social reality. Founded in Bologna in 1992 through the initiative of
a small group of musicians, the band takes its name from its first
performance, the peaceful invasion of a psychiatric hospital, Clinica
Roncati. In recent years, the band has grown intoa group fluctuating
between 20 and 30 pieces that includes woodwinds, brass, percussion,
voices and dance. One of the distinguishing elements of the band
isthe unorthodoxy of roles : there is no director or single composer;
the musical arrangements, as well as the repertoire ranging from
classical music to jazz,popular dances, political songs, and eighties
pop/rock are collectively decided.
Banda Roncati has performed at hundreds of different events:
collective moments of anger, sorrow, and celebration. In street
festivals and international concerts: in Milan for the recent
commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary ofthe Liberation and the
birth of the Italian Republic; or recently in Bologna toprotest the
draconian new legislation of the Berlusconi government to cut public
education. The band, rooted in the political environment of Bologna,
has a rich history of cultural intervention, e.g., protesting
conditions in mental hospitals and anti-immigrant legislation;
supporting workers, immigrants and gay rights. This ensemble of
excellent musicians are a wonderful example of howmusic can be used
as a wedge to educate, how entertainment can be a popularlyshared
experience, and how people usually on the margins of the political
arena can be mobilized.
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Recycled Reading
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Monday, October
12th - Tuesday, October 13th
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Recycled Reading: Latin American Cartoneras
Monday October 12th
Round-table w/ cartoneras (bilingual Spanish-English)
2:30-4:00 Alexander Library 4th fl., College Ave. Campus
Film screening: Cartoneros, (in Spanish with English subtitles)
7:00 - 9:00 Graduate Student Lounge, College Avenue
Tuesday, October 13
Literary Reading w/ Washington Cucurto and Aldo Medinaceli Lopez
(in Spanish), (lunch will be served)
12:30 - 2:00 Center for Latin American Studies,
106 Nichol Ave., Douglass Campus
Book Making workshop (bilingual Spanish-English)
3:00 - 5:00 Mason Gross School of the Arts, 33 Livingston Ave., rm.
202
The cartonera publishing phenomenon began in Buenos Aires in 2003 and
was spearheaded by writers and artists who were interested in
reconfiguring the conditions in which literary art is produced and
consumed. They came up with a progressive new publishing model that
challenges and contests the neo-liberal political and economic
hegemony. They purchase cardboard from the cartoneros who
collect cardboard in the street, and convert it into bookbinding for
short literary pieces whose authors and agents have donated their
rights to the texts. Each book is decorated with tempera paint
and stencils, creating a one-of-a-kind literary and art object.
These books are sold at moderate prices to the public, but also make
their way into main-stream venues such as art museum shops.
Eloisa Cartonera, the Argentine pioneer cartonera publisher, has
inspired similar collectives in seven other countries such as Peru,
Brazil and Paraguay.
One of the Global Initiatives' "Ecologies in the balance?
Thinking through the crises" events, the Center for Latin
American Studies will host several cartonera groups at Rutgers for a
series of workshops, exhibits, panel discussions, classroom visits
and films. The participants include:
Aldo Ricardo Medinaceli Lopez
from Yerba Mala Cartonera (La Paz, Bolivia)
Tanya Nuñez Grandón and Ximena Ramos Wettling
from Animita Cartonera (Santiago, Chile)
María Gomez and Washington Cucurto
from Eloisa Cartonera (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Maria Lúcia Goncalves Leite Rosa
from Dulcineia Catadora (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
For more information: http://clas.rutgers.edu
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Forum
Facilitator/Joker needed
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Joker/facilitator
needed to create skits and forum it with HIV positive youth at the
annual Connecting For Change Youth Empowerment Conference on October
24th in Marlborough, MA. The youth who are HIV positive at the
Children's Hospital Adolescent HIV Program have been exploring
expressive arts as a way to talk about the issues of stigma and
relationships and HIV.
The commitment includes at least a 4-5 hour-long workshop with the youth
to prepare a skit (you decide the best time/date) and then the day of
the conference: October 24th. There is currently no pay secured, but
there will be some stipend monies for the Facilitator. (something
like $75-100 bucks).
Please contact Chloe Green if interested: chloev.green@gmail.com
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Urbano's Free Teen
Programs
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Apply now for the Teen Curatorial Program
and Artists' Workshops!
Are you a Boston-area public high school student interested in
joining the Teen Visual Art, Film, or Spoken Word Curators? This is
your chance to make your voice heard in the city of Boston, meet new
people from many neighborhoods, and work with professional artists,
designers, performers, and curators to bring teens' artwork, film,
and performance to the public.
The Teen Graphic Design Curators learn to collaboratively research,
design, and produce promotional materials for the Teen Curators'
YouthFusion event series, and other URBANO events. The Design
Curators work as a team to master the basics of a variety of design
and digital imaging programs, and also have opportunities to explore
design in the studio through printmaking, illustration, and mixed
media. The Teen Graphic Design Curators also curate exhibitions of
graphic design work by teen artists, and complete an ambitious group
project at the end of the school year.
For more information please visit:
http://urbanoproject.org/programs.html#
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Orhan Pamuk Public
Lecture:
"Character, Time, Plot"
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Tuesday, October
13th 4:00 pm
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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Norton Lectures by Orhan Pamuk
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature
"The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist"
Tuesday, October 13
"Character, Time, Plot"
Tuesday, October 20
"Pictures and Things"
Monday, October 26
"Museums and Novels"
Tuesday, November 3
"The Center"
Open to the public
No tickets required
Seating is limited
Please direct inquiries to humcentr@fas.harvard.edu
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Save the Date!
Theatre
of the Oppressed:
Forum Theatre Workshop with Julian Boal
(Augusto Boal's son)
October 9-11
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Julian Boal, son of Theatre of the Oppressed creator,
Augusto Boal, is doing his first workshop in Boston, for the Wheelock
Family Theatre. This is a unique opportunity to work with
Julian and to learn more about Theatre of the Oppressed, Image
Theatre, and Forum Theatre.
The workshop will include TO games and exercises, leading to the
creation of Forum Theatre plays, which will be presented to a
participating audience on Sunday at 2:00.
The free performance will take place at:
Wheelock College
200 The Riverway Boston
in the Alumni Room
For more information please visit:
boalboston.wordpress.com
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