Eyedrum is accepting proposals for its new Arts Education Initiative until Oct. 17. Please send proposals to education@eyedrum.org
Proposals can range from lectures, seminars, workshops, or multi-week-meeting classes to be held during Jan 12- March 22nd (Session I) or April 1-May24th (Session II). Aligned with the Eyedrum’s mission, the classroom space is designated to support alternative instruction, innovative creation and the Atlanta Arts community. The proposals will be reviewed with this mission in mind.
Proposals should include:
a description of the instruction
desired meeting date(s)
preferred attendance size
suggested tuition/fee.
materials list
suggested age range
Priority will be given classes scheduled during regular gallery hours (see below), however the space is free for instruction for whenever is most appropriate. Class tuition will be split 70/30 between the instructor and Eyedrum.
For more information please contact: Deisha Oliver, Eyedrum Education Coordinator, butcherthecello@gmail.com
The Center for Civil & Human Rights Partnership is soliciting submissions for artwork, which will be on display at Mason Murer Fine Art in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December. All two-dimensional visual arts media are being accepted: painting, drawing, watercolor, weaving, photgraphy, prints, video, film, digital animation, etc. If accepted, the artists will be shown in juried exhibition with the opportunity to have their art displayed on metro Atlanta billboards.
To enter, send a CD of images (and make sure they’re relevant to the theme!) with a resume and artist’s statement by Sept. 26, 2008, to Learn Promote Defend, Center for Civil and Human Rights, 50 Hurt Plaza Suite 110, Atlanta, Ga 30303.
If you want to get on the city’s short list of preferred vendors for major and minor public art commissions, apply to be on its Artist’s Registry before Oct. 31, 2008. Two artist information workshops are being held at Eyedrum this month to provide additional information about the registry and the application process:
Garage Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Castleberry Hill Arts District, has put out a call for one-minute videos they’ll show on Oct. 24. Got something to submit? Details are below:
CALLFOR ONE-MINUTE VIDEOS
Curated by Carolyn Carr and Michael Gibson
Presented @ Garage Projects
We invite submissions of one-minute videos for presentation at Garage Projects during LE FLASH, a one-night art event in Castleberry Hill. Selected videos will be on view for an evening when fantastical installations and creative events will be seen throughout the district. Street corners, galleries, shops, roof tops, vacant lots and empty buildings will be sites for light, video, sound and other unexpected environments, performance art, poetry readings, concerts, music, video projections, a marching band, an iron pour and art happenings of all sorts.
CALL FOR VIDEOS: JULY18, 2008
DEADLINE FOR VIDEOS: SEPTEMBER 1, 2008
Proposals accepted via email or post.
EMAIL
Submit to: LeFlash.Oct24@gmail.com
Paste into body of the email: required info and link to site where jurors can view your quicktime video
POST
Garage Projects
ATTN: One-Minute Video
261 Peters Street, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30313
Include video and text file with info required below.
ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE:
Full Name
Contact information: phone, e-mail, physical
Title and duration of video
*Please note the date and site of any recent presentations of the work. If selected, artists will receive notification and instructions re formatting, as needed.
Got an issue in your life you want to get rid of? Art House Gallery is soliciting entries for its Stuff Your Sorries exhibit. Space is limited to the first 500 people to sign up on the Art House Web site. Participants will be sent canvas sacks to stuff with things you want to get off your chest. An entry fee of $14 includes cost of the canvases, shipping, show inclusion and a $1 donation to The Hopeline, which connects people who are depressed or suicidal to a certified crisis center.
Submissions will not be filtered. All entries will be displayed. If you want to get something off your chest, sign up before Sept. 15.
Local actress Megan Hayes, who many of you may know, is throwing a benefit party for her brother, who is undergoing radiation therapy for a removed brain tumor and the bills for it that come with having no health insurance. Here’s her letter about the event:
Hello all! Hope everyone is doing peachy! Some of you may know that my brother had brain tumor surgery in May. He’s doing well. Started 6 weeks of radiation this week. And started his physical therapy. The doctors are very optimistic about his recovery. It’s been amazing to see how strong and brave he is. I’m going to be having a benefit for him on August 18th. My brother has no health insurance and, well, brain tumors aren’t cheap!
It’s going to be a TV show themed costume ball complete with prizes, performances and a Silent Auction! It should be a blast! I’m sending this email to put out feelers for the Silent Auction. If you or anyone you know has something they can donate that would be AWESOME!Everything but the tax itself is a tax write off.
Lemme know. I really really appreciate it.
Hey Savages: The Alliance Theatre is holding auditions for its gospel choir for Jesus Christ Superstar. Information is below:
NOTICE
OPEN CHOIR AUDITIONS
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR GOSPEL
The ALLIANCE THEATRE is holding open AUDITIONS for the 27 person CHOIR of its upcoming production, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR GOSPEL.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has given special permission for the Alliance Theatre to develop this exciting new gospel interpretation of his work by Louis St. Louis, an experienced Broadway and film composer and music director (credits include Smokey Joe’s Café, Grease, Grease 2, and Mahagonny). Alliance Artistic Director, Susan Booth, will direct.
Looking for:
High sopranos with high Bflat
Altos
High tenors (including very high counter tenors with true female register on top)
Baritones
Bass with low D-Dflat-C
Choir members will be compensated for all rehearsals and performances. Rehearsals are Tuesday-Sunday (times TBD) and performances are Tuesday-Friday 8:00pm, Saturdays 2:30pm and 8:00pm, and Sundays 2:30pm and 7:30pm.
Production Dates:
First Rehearsal: 12/9/08
First Preview Performance: 1/14/09
Opening: 1/21/09
Closing: 2/22/09
Audition Information:
When: Thursday, August 7
Where: Rich Auditorium, Woodruff Art Center, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309.
What to Prepare: One vocal selection that is strictly gospel (contemporary gospel also acceptable)
Please bring sheet music, an accompanist will be provided.
How to sign up: Call 404-733-4622. Someone will call you back to schedule an appointment.
If you have any questions please call Jody Feldman at 404-733-4671.
Today, I led an improv workshop for Savage Tree at the Decatur Arts Festival on the old town square. The workshops and performances were set up at the Literary Arts Festival tent. It was 85 degrees outside. But inside the tent, it had to be 100+.
Because it was a literary arts festival and Jerry, the organizer, was interested most in our doing an improv rather than a writer’s workshop, I concentrated on putting together some games that could be done with large or small groups, could work with people who didn’t know each other, and were simple enough to share with a mixed group of adults and children.
We lost a few people, when they realized that they couldn’t just sit in chairs and be passive, but we ended up with a great group of three adult women, one man and two little girls. There were some bystanders, and so I involved them by getting the subject of the stories we would improvise.
Here was our “set list”:
Creative handshakes: To introduce strangers to each other, they shook hands, high-fived and made up unique ways of greeting each other.
Screamers: In a circle, when “heads up” is called, people look up; if they catch each other’s eyes, they point, scream and leave the circle. One little girl was so shy/polite, she had to close her eyes before she felt comfortable screaming. Just a silly game to break the ice.
Tossing the ball: Tossing an imaginary ball to each other, loosening up the imagination, getting the group to agree and communicate nonverbally.
Follow the follower: Basically, this is a mirror exercise — you copycat what you see going on in the group and take turns leading and following.
Sound and movement: Each person had a gesture and a sound and passed it on to someone else, who let it evolve and passed it on … and so on …
Love & hate: Everyone secretly chose a #1 and #2 person. On “go” they tried to get as close as possible to #1 and as far away as possible to #2. It was so hot under the tent, everyone was ready for a more intellectual, less physical activity, so I scrapped the next exercise I was going to do and went right on to group story creation.
Conducted story: We took a suggestion “dog” and I pointed at people to let them know when it was their turn to speak. It was a lovely story about a dog who lived in a castle and dressed up like Cinderella. We did a couple of conducted stories to work on listening and agreement.
Word at a time story: We told a couple of stories one word at a time. There was a family that came in late and so didn’t get to participate (well, was too shy to participate, but stayed to watch) and they suggested “a dog who found a bone somewhere he didn’t expect.” Our group came up with a wonderful story about a dog, a magic kitchen, swaying staircases and ladders.
American Idol: We finished up with a group number; a song they had never rehearsed, but knew perfectly. Each person contributed. Even the shy/polite little girl eventually turned her change purse into a tamborine. Everyone else picked an instrument to “play”, the man sang about the wonderful place called Decatur, and we even had some back-up singers and a near-definable chorus.
All in all, a fun bit of time and an interesting way to spend part of Memorial Day Weekend. I really loved seeing how willing people are to just play when given the opportunity. And how, even when people don’t want to play, they still find it fascinating to watch.
In a matter of four hours, a small band of everyday people created an entire city, populated it with stories, “shot” a documentary film and then sang Ur Town’s national anthem moments before it was spectacularly destroyed by the government’s failure to shoot the spy satellite out of the sky.
No, it wasn’t a virtual Web platform, or a video game, it was a real-life experiment on how to teach, experience and create art of all disciplines in a compact period of time with people who don’t consider themselves artists, aren’t trained to be artists and may not ever want to pursue art as a career. It was an invigorating exercise in seeing what was possible if people come together to play. And, best of all, it was fun.
Over the next week or so, I’ll be posting reactions from other participants, snatches of stories that were created and pictures.
His piece, “Awkward Racial Overtones,” inspired by the contest theme of “scratch” goes inside the heads of several patrons and a hapless employee of a local Bojangles’ fast food restaurant.
What we found most impressive, however, is that CL managed to get a photo of the elusive Bannon. Patrons of his Savage Tree theatrical exploits know that more often than not, he is represented on the call board as a bottle of pills or rabid crowd of fight fans.
