ICE Announcements 2.17.20
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Ad-Verse Fest (3/6-7)
2. Reading: Neil Hegarty (2/17)
3. Lecture: Mildred Barya (2/20)
4. Reading: Carmen Gimenez Smith and Tiphanie Yanique (2/20)
5. Third Thursday (2/20)
6. Performance: Vanity Fair (begins 2/20)
7. Lecture: Chris Cuomo and Jenna Jambeck (2/21)
8. Conference: Arts + Education for Social Justice (2/22-23)
9. Lecture: Bill Kelley, Jr. (2/22)
10. Reading Room: Dance Your Ph.D
11. Opportunity: Queering Earth Day
12. Opportunity: a2ru Ground Works (deadline 2/28)
13. Opportunity: Scientific Delirium Madness (deadline 3/15)
14. Opportunity: echoverse (deadline 3/20)
1. Ad-Verse Fest
March 6-7
ATHICA and Caledonia Lounge
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a is a two-day festival showcasing a variety of solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts, with an emphasis on the electronic. Headliners for 2020 include Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron), Wizard Apprentice, and LEYA.
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. Reading: Neil Hegarty
Monday, February 17 at 7 PM
Fire Hall No. 2, 489 Prince Ave.
Neil Hegarty was born in Derry in Northern Ireland and now lives in Dublin. He holds a doctoral degree in English from Trinity College Dublin, and has written a number of key works in cultural history, including the bestselling Story of Ireland (BBC Books), which accompanies the BBC television series; and London: The Secret History of our Streets (BBC Books). Hegarty's essays, short fiction, reviews and journalism have been published widely, including in the Daily Telegraph, Irish Times, Dublin Review, Stinging Fly, Warwick Review, BBC History and Huffington Post. His radio play The Story of Peggy Mountain was shortlisted for the PJ O'Connor Award. Hegarty's 2016 novel Inch Levels was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year award in 2017. Of his latest novel, The Jewel, published by Head of Zeus in 2019, the Irish Times wrote: "Hegarty has gifted us a vital book for our time."
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3. Lecture: Mildred Barya
Thursday, February 20 at 1 PM
Memorial Hall, Adinkra Hall / Room 404
Mildred Barya is a Ugandan poet and fiction writer who has authored three poetry books: Give Me Room to Move My Feet (Amalion Publishing, 2009), The Price of Memory After the Tsunami (Mallory International, 2006), and Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say (Femrite Publications, 2002). She teaches creative writing at University of North Carolina, Asheville, and is a board member of African Writers Trust. This event is organized by COMPASS, the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization, in conjunction with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the African Studies Institute, and the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies.
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4. The Georgia Review Presents a Reading with Carmen Gimenez Smith and Tiphanie Yanique
Thursday, February 20 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Carmen Gimenez Smith's most recent book, Be Recorder (Graywolf, 2019), was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. Her previous books include the poetry collections Odalisque in Pieces (University of Arizona Press, 2009) and Goodbye, Flicker (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; as well as the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (University of Arizona Press, 2010). Her 2013 collection Milk and Filth (University of Arizona Press) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead, 2014), which was chosen as a Best Book of 2014 by NPR and winner of the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award; her debut collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010), won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35.
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5. Third Thursday
Thursday, February 20 from 6-9 PM
http://3Thurs.org
Eight of Athens' established venues for visual art hold Third Thursday, an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Cine, the Classic Center, ATHICA and CCBC Gallery at Creature Comforts Brewing Company will be open from 6 until 9 p.m. to showcase their visual-arts programming.
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6. Vanity Fair
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre
Thursday, February 20 at 8 PM
Friday, February 21 at 8 PM
Saturday, February 22 at 8 PM
Tuesday, February 25 at 8 PM
Wednesday, February 26 at 8 PM
Thursday, February 27 at 8 PM
Friday, February 28 at 8 PM
Saturday, February 29 at 8 PM
Sunday, March 1 at 2:30 PM
Playwright Kate Hamill breathes new life into William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel. Vanity Fair follows anti-hero Becky Sharp and her meek friend Amelia. Becky, a penniless woman with limitless ambition, uses her romantic entanglements and risky business deals to climb the social ladder while the privileged Amelia already sits atop it. But in a society that ignores both women because of their femininity, they must work together to achieve their goals, making Vanity Fair as funny as it is relevant to our modern times.
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7. Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture
Friday, February 21 at 12:20 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 150
"Women at the Forefront of Global Solutions: Plastic, Recycling, and Haiti," Chris Cuomo, women's studies and philosophy; and Jenna Jambeck, engineering.
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8. Arts + Education for Social Justice Conference
February 22-23
https://art4socialjustice.wordpress.com/registration/
We invite scholars, practitioners, artists, and educators -- from the community and the academy -- to join us for the 10th Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium. The goal of this symposium is to include and amplify voices that are often on the margins of academia and to share the methodologies and results of practices that strive to have a direct public impact. The encounter will focus on the guiding question: How are art and education inspiring, affecting, and promoting social change?
This symposium provides an opportunity to gain insight into a range of practices aligned with social justice, and aims to start a conversation across disciplinary areas. This symposium embraces a perspective informed broadly by the notion of cultural pedagogies and looks forward to contributions from both in and outside the field of education.
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9. Lecture: Bill Kelley, Jr.
Saturday, February 22 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151
Bill Kelley, Jr. will be speaking as the keynote in conjunction with the Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium and Visiting Artist Series at UGA. Bill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and a Masters in Art History from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (UNM). His current research focuses on collaborative and collective art practices in the Americas. Bill has written for such journals as Afterall, P.E.A.R., and Log Journal. He served as co-curator of the 2011 Encuentro Internacional de Medellin (MDE11) and was the former Director and Co-Editor of the online bilingual journal LatinArt.com. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino art history at California State University Bakersfield (CSUB). Bill has co-edited an anthology with Grant Kester of collaborative art practices in the Americas entitled: Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010 (Duke University Press, 2017). He is currently Curator and Lead Researcher of Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the Americas, a research, exhibition and publication platform, currently on tour, examining community-based art practices for Otis College of Art as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative. A bilingual, edited volume Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the Americas was published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and distributed by the University of Chicago Press (2017).
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10. Reading Room: Dance Your Ph.D Contest
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/watch-winner-year-s-dance-your-phd-contest
The contest challenges scientists around the world to explain their research through the most jargon-free medium available: interpretive dance. "Antonia Groneberg's choreography, inspired by zebrafish larvae, merged dance and science for an aesthetically stunning and intellectually profound masterwork of art," says Alexa Meade, one of the contest judges and an artist who uses mathematics and illusion in her work.
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11. Queering Earth Day: An Ecoqueer Art Series
Call for Participation
https://athica.org/updates/queering-earth-day-an-ecoqueer-art-series/
The Athens Institute for Contemporary Art invites queer, trans, non-binary, and lgbtqia+ individuals and organizations from the Southeast of the United States to participate in "Queering Earth Day." In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we invite you to join us in creating intersectional, interdisciplinary narratives weaving queerness and ecology, bodies and land; narratives that are specific to our experiences and dreams here in Athens, Georgia and the Southeast.
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12. Call for Submissions: a2ru Ground Works
Priority date for submissions is February 28, 2020
http://groundworks.io
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works.
We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts.
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13. Scientific Delirium Madness (SDM) Residency
Deadline: March 15
https://www.leonardo.info/application-summary-for-sdm
This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Empiricism and intuition are not mutually exclusive. The goal of the project is to explore and expand how the creativity of scientists and artists are connected. Empiricism and intuition are not mutually exclusive. The goal of the SDM program is to explore and expand how the creativity of scientists and artists are connected. SDM is a monthlong residency at Djerassi's 585-acre retreat in the coastal Santa Cruz mountains, south of San Francisco. This is not a product-based residency. Artists and scientists will be free to work on their own projects.
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14. Opportunity: echoverse
Deadline: March 20
http://echoverseanthology.com
echoverse, a digital anthology of writing about environmental change, is seeking submissions for its inaugural 2020 issue. Volume 1 of echoverse, titled "day to day," will consider what it means to think of the environment not only as a sweeping term for the natural system we live in, but also as a place that is entirely tangled up with our individual memories, daily routines, imagination, and wonder. This project aims to step away from the broad and informational and instead look at the particulars of lived experience. echoverse will collect writing that makes change that can often seem far off and abstract more immediate, concrete, encountered, and felt. Submit short creative work in any genre: poems, prose poems, microfictions, microessays, hybrid works, etc.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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