ICE Announcements 11.16.20
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Spotlight on the Arts Events
2. Shelter Projects
3. Audio Play: The PersephonE P (11/17)
4. Water, Immersion, and Community (11/19)
5. A Social Conversation with Performance (11/19)
6. Third Thursday (11/19)
7. Fred Moten: In Conversation (11/20)
8. Kyna Leski: From Field (12/8)
9. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/16)
10. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/7)
11. Opportunity: Dance Exchange Institute (1/8-10)
12. Opportunity: Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival (deadline 3/1/21)
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1. Spotlight on the Arts 2020
November 4-20
https://arts.uga.edu
The University of Georgia's Spotlight on the Arts festival returns for its ninth year with dozens of virtual events and exhibitions in the visual, literary, and performing arts from Nov. 4-20. Highlights of this year's 17-day festival include performances from Grammy-winning singer Kathy Mattea, multimedia work presented by UGA Theatre, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame keynote address, and several exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art and Lamar Dodd School of Art, among dozens of additional events featuring all aspects of the arts. Virtual exhibitions include the 2020 Shelter Projects created by UGA graduate students and community-based artists that reflect on their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, select units will host in-person performances and exhibitions that maintain social distancing.
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2. Online Exhibition: Shelter Projects
https://willson.uga.edu/public-partners/shelter-projects-online-exhibition/
In the spring of 2020 the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the Graduate School, the UGA Arts Council, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Flagpole magazine, awarded 34 micro-fellowships in a new program called Shelter Projects. The $500 fellowships supported graduate students and community-based artists and practitioners in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the arts and humanities.
The funded projects were selected by a committee of the sponsoring UGA units and Flagpole from among more than 100 proposals representing more than 25 departments, schools, and colleges across the university, as well as the Athens and Georgia communities at large. Selected proposals included projects in music, film/video, theater, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, short stories, publishing, and other media. The projects were completed during the spring and summer, and are now exhibited on the Willson Center's website along with several "Volunteer Projects" generously shared by some of those among the many who submitted proposals that could not be funded.
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3. Audio Play: The PersephonE P
Tuesday, November 17 all day
https://www.ugatheatre.com/persephonep
T Lynn Mikeska performs "The PersephonE P: Live From The Black Tabby Inn." The production is an audio play disguised as an EP album that chronicles the very last music set Persephone played in Hades. After her devil-of-a husband puts the kibosh on her bandmates, Persephone, (formerly of Persephone and the Band of The Damned) is left onstage in front of a hostile crowd with a microphone and nothing to lose. Armed with a keyboard, a ukulele and the truth, she tells her side of the story in one final act - of desperation. Trigger Warning for discussion about sexual assault and expletive language.
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4. Water, Immersion and Community in Sarah Cameron Sunde's "Durational Performance with the Sea"
Thursday, November 19 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_avZsL06kQBKcSQwiLcJ8Rg
Interdisciplinary artist Sarah Cameron Sunde's immersive video works investigate the human relationship with water, connecting her viewers with the natural landscape and with large-scale environmental phenomena. For this program, Sunde will be joined by faculty from UGA and the University of Virginia for a conversation about art, environment and global community. Panelists include: Michael Marshall, associate director of curriculum, director of the social ecology studio and professor of art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA; Stephen Ramos, associate professor at the College of Environment and Design, UGA; Mandy Joye, Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences in the Department of Marine Sciences, UGA; and Matthew Burtner, Eleanor Shea Professor of Music (Composition & Computer Technologies), UVA.
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5. Streaming Musical Event: A Social Conversation with Performance
Thursday, November 19 at 7 PM
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-social-conversation-with-performance-cellist-ismail-akbar-tickets-124499061043
Join ATHICA online for a special event in which music, conversation, and reflection explore our social connections. Music and the arts cannot only be simple entertainment. This event wants to connect music, communication, education, and cultures. The event will begin with an informal dialogue between two professional musicians. While musicians usually silently perform their music, the curator wanted to create an event that shows how important it is to have a dialogue and share more than just music. Serena and Ismail are both faculty at University level and they will talk about art, education, society, cultures, and social change in the south. But this event is not only about conversation. Cellist Ismail Akbar, will perform music for cello solo, and will conclude the event with a short masterclass where he will show how we learn and teach music. Guest student Olivia Duever will perform an excerpt from Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto. Today more than ever, music has to be seen as a way to outreach, change, provide education, and create a better society.
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6. Third Thursday
Thursday, November 19 from 6 - 9 PM
https://3thurs.org
Third Thursday is a monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. Included this month are in-person exhibitions and online events. Free tickets or event registration are required at some venues. It is recommended that you contact a venue in advance to confirm its current status, especially in light of the potential for changing circumstances during COVID-19.
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7. Fred Moten in Conversation: BLUE(S) AS CYMBAL
Friday, November 20 at 2 PM
https://art.uga.edu/events/fred-moten-conversation-blues-cymbal
In lieu of a traditional lecture, Professor Moten has asked that we discuss one of his recent, unpublished essays. The public and all members of the UGA community are welcome! This event is sponsored by the Willson Center in association with the 21st Century Faculty Research Cluster. Fred Moten teaches Black Studies, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetics in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. His latest books are all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017-2018).
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8. Lecture: Kyna Leski
Tuesday, December 8 at 4:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6RMTDey6TOyzVF8my38q0w
Kyna Leski will deliver the 2020 Torrance Lecture. The lecture "From Field" will be delivered online as a Zoom webinar that will simultaneously be livestreamed on YouTube. Webinar places are free but limited, so register as early as possible.
Journalist of dreams; animation artist; author; designer of buildings, bowls and benches; Kyna Leski has dedicated her lifework to the creative process. As a young girl she witnessed her father design projects from his drawings and sketches through to their realization and reception by the public to which they still belong. It was an education in process, the workings of intuition-to design-to building, the difficult relationship of stated intention to experience and the transubjectivity between. These early ponderings underpinned her work as a student at The Cooper Union and Harvard's GSD; her work as a designer and principal (with Chris Bardt) of 3six0 Architecture. It has been fed and nourished by over three decades of teaching design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she is Professor in Architecture. She has served as Department Head and Head of RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. Kyna has given talks from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach California to Pop!tech in Camden Maine. She is the author of "The Storm of Creativity," published by The MIT Press (2015) and translated into five languages.
The annual Torrance Lecture at UGA: The E. Paul Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education annually brings together scholars, professionals and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
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9. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 16
https://sustainability.uga.edu/grants
Funded by the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to implement projects to advance sustainability on campus and in our local community. Special consideration will be given to interdisciplinary projects that advance equity and incorporate the arts.
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10. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 7
https://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
Guidelines: Convey a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top four submissions receive prizes of $1,000, $800, $600, and $400.
Special Prize: An additional $200 will be made available to the entry that engages most successfully with the topic of either COVID-19 or Racial and Ethnic Justice.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are eligible. Multidisciplinary and collaborative group submissions are highly encouraged. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
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11. Organizing with Artists for Change (OAC) Winter Institute
January 8-10
https://www.danceexchange.org/dx-winter-institute
Experience the power and potential of intergenerational artmaking during Dance Exchange's ONLINE 2021 Organizing with Artists for Change (OAC) Winter Institute. Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from communities near and far to explore tools and practices for collaborating and creating across generations. With faculty from across Dance Exchange history and across the globe, this Institute will take place in connection with Dance Exchange's Dance On program which celebrates aging with dance, creativity, and connection.
As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), Dance Exchange Institutes embrace process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers. The 2021 OAC Winter Institute will include live online movement classes (adapted for our home spaces) and workshops that delve into creative tools and practices from Dance Exchange as well as our peers and collaborators. Facilitation of the 2021 OAC Winter Institute will rotate each day to include a range of voices and perspectives including Dance Exchange staff and partnering artists.
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12. Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble (BTE) is organizing a film festival dedicated to showcasing the filmmaking talent of minority students, to be held April 10, 2021. We are specifically looking to highlight diversity with regards to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities (acquired or developmental), and/or religion. While film crews are encouraged to be diverse and center minority experiences and visions, any and all students are welcome to be part of a production in any capacity. BTE will maintain a filmmakers' network to form crews and bring all involved filmmakers access to panels, Q&A and advice sessions with professional filmmakers. The festival is competitive and awards will be given for various categories.
Guidelines:
Films must be a minimum of 2 minutes and maximum 20 minutes long.
Animated and live action films are welcome, and we will accept films made in pre-Covid times.
It is strongly encouraged that the cast and/or crew reflect diversity and inclusion.
The due date to submit films is March 1. Films or Vimeo/youtube links with passwords should be sent to [log in to unmask]
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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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