Call for Papers

Ancient Drama in Performance: Theory and Practice will coincide with the 2010 Randolph College Greek Play: Euripides’ Hecuba, an original-practices production. The play and response to it will be the culmination of a day of scholarly and practical exchanging of ideas on ancient theatre. We are inviting proposals from scholars and practitioners of all levels for papers on topics to do with ancient drama in performance, including but not restricted to the staging, texts, design, repertory, personnel, and the social impact of plays in the ancient Greek and Roman world, as well as of plays as re-performed in the modern world. Papers will be delivered in an outdoor Greek theatre (or a round indoor space if it rains), which means that papers that deal with original practices in some way would find a comfortable setting, but all topics concerned with the plays as a practice are welcome. Presenters who would like to demonstrate their performance ideas will be provided with student actors (with or without masks), with whom arrangements can be made prior to the meeting. Papers are limited to 10 minutes (presentation without actors) and to 13 minutes (presentations with student actors).* Presenters should be aware that they will hear the sound of a drum when two minutes remain and will exit pursued by a Fury when time is out.

The conference will feature a keynote address by Kenneth Reckford, and a response to Hecuba by Mary-Kay Gamel.

Please submit a 300 word abstract and a short bio here by 18 June 2010 (please note new deadline).

A longer description of the conference is at http://faculty2.randolphcollege.edu/ancientdrama/about. Another notice will go out when general registration for the event opens.

* Ten minutes is a perfect amount of time to present one idea very well and to tantalize an audience into wanting to know more from you when you meet later.

It’s very exciting how soon the PSi16 Conference, Performing Publics, will be here. The conference schedule was recently published online and the coinciding Luminato Festival line up is particularly impressive. What’s even more exciting is that PerformanceStudies.Org will be covering the conference and part of the festival. Part of my intention is to provide access to the conference to those who cannot attend. To that end, I am currently taking requests to cover particular sessions, shifts or events. So, use the “contact us” button to your left or comment below and let me know what you want to see covered.

Explore how we can use our words — written, spoken or sung — to make community, deepen healing, witness one another, wake ourselves up, and foster empowerment and transformation.

Taking place at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT (organized by the Transformative Language Network, and founded by Goddard College), this conference features experiential workshops, performances, open readings, and celebrations. Make community with others who share your passion.

Keynote presenters for the 2009 conference include: Kayhan Irani, performer of the Theatre of the Oppressed and creator of Artivista, combining art and activism; John Fox, poet, author, poetry therapist, author of Poetic Medicine; Lewis Mehl Medrona, author of Coyote Medicine, Native American physician; Dovie Thomason, award-winning Native American storyteller, recording artist and author; Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate, author of the memoir, The Sky Begins at Your Feet; Sherry Reiter, poetry therapy pioneer and author of Writing Away the Demons.

Conference features a wide range of expressive arts workshops, plus special tracks in Narrative Medicine, Right Livelihood, and Social Change. Beautiful setting, reasonable conference fees, room and board available on campus, work-study positions and scholarships available, including the Roxanne-Florence Scholarship for people of color.

More information at www.TLANetwork.org OR via email

“Twenty-four hours a day for 100 straight days, different people will join kings and generals high atop London’s Trafalgar Square [to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth], becoming, if only for an hour, a living monument … this elevation of everyday life to the position formerly occupied by monumental art allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society.” -Tom LeGro

Master of fine arts students and recent graduates from the University of California, San Diego have organized the Freephone Art Project, an art installation, at the Lui Velazquez Gallery in Tijuana (funded by the UCSD visual arts department)

“the free phone project fits perfectly into what [Dominguez] and other like-minded artists call “artivism,” in this case using “border disturbance technologies” to explore the social issues raised by the barrier between nations. Providing free telephone service, he says, is a way of making a statement that the border should not be about blocking and walls, but about fostering communication.

And what makes the Freephone Art Project art, rather than simply public service? For Cardenas, a longtime border activist, “it’s part of the trajectory that I’ve been involved in — it uses this strategy of building the world we want instead of asking for it, or waiting for the president to do it.”

The work will become part of an international “aesthetico-political event” coordinated by the Sense Lab at Montreal’s Concordia University.”
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Call for participants- Origami Stimulus Package Event -April 26th (Waltham, MA)

A BIG FUN PARTY to turn the Economic Stimulus Package into origami creations

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things presents
Origami Stimulus Package a BIG AFTERNOON PARTY to make origami out of the Economic Stimulus Package!!
Sunday, April 26th, 1-5PM
Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

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Thursday, the 14th of May, 20.30 hrs

New Idealism with the Otolith Group and Marianne van Kerkhoven

Stadsschouwburg, Leidseplein 26, Amsterdam

Bookings via www.ssba.nl.
Tickets € 8, passe partout 4 lectures € 28, passe partout 7 lectures € 42.

The Old Brand New is a lecture series revolving around the concept ‘new’ in the arts, held from January to September 2009 on a monthly basis in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam. The lecture series is an initiative of de Appel arts centre, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Research Group Art Practice and Development at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, LISA, Studium Generale of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, DAI / Master Programme / ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.

On the 14th of May, the theme is New Idealism with presentations by the Otolith Group, represented by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, and Marianne van Kerkhoven.

Upcoming lectures:

New Beauty, 22 June 2009, with Marina Warner and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
What is New?, 15 September 2009, with Dick Hebdige and Keith Sawyer.

Visit www.theoldbrandnew.nl for more information.

In cooperation with the estonian art academy Tallinn, Estonia, Schloss Broellin and the k-salon the Performance Art Studies GRASS ‘N ASPHALT led my BBB Johannes Deimling will take part from the 10. – 18. April with eleven international participants. On the 17th of April 2009, at 7 pm we will present the results, which we have developed during the working week in Broellin at k-salon, Bergmannstrasse 54, 10961 Berlin (U-Suedstern). Beside the final performances we will screen videos from the working period at Schloss Bröllin.

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Performance artist and educator BBB Johannes Deimling will be conducting workshops and providing other creative opportunities this summer in the following locations: Bröllin – Berlin – Dresden – Radom – Montreal – Prague – ’s-Hertogenbosch

From the press release…

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FLUXCONCERT is presenting a two-evening performance of historic Fluxus event scores written by Fluxus pioneer George Brecht.

More info below and at http://www.fluxconcert.org

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