ICE Announcements 4.24.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Arts on the River Celebration (4/29)
2. Peterson Toscano Events (4/24-25)
3. Lecture: Deanna Kreisel (4/24)
4. Performance: Rote Hund Muzik Evening of Fresh Ink (4/24)
5. Sustainable UGA Spring Semester in Review (4/26)
6. Performance: Melissa Joseph: Expunge (4/28)
7. Performance: Listening Machines (4/28 ATL)
8. Exhibition: Spaces in Spaces of Spaces (5/2)
9. Exhibition: Perfect Pantry (6/5 ATL)
10. Opportunity: Arts Writers Grant Program (deadline 5/21)
11. Opportunity: NEA Art Works (deadline 5/31)
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1. Arts on the River Celebration
Sunday, April 29 from Noon - 4 PM
Sandy Creek Park, Lake Chapman Beach
https://www.facebook.com/events/554395851608828/
Join us for a community celebration of visual and performance art to honor the North Oconee River and its right to thrive and be healthy. This event is a one-day art exhibition with dance, spoken word, and music unfolding on the river and its banks. Visitors will kayak in the water and experience the art. Registration for kayaks at 1 PM (limited availability). This project is made possible by the support of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Ideas for Creative Exploration, Watershed UGA, and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. Free and family friendly.
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2. Peterson Toscano Events
April 24-25
Casual Lunch Conversation with Peterson Toscano, a Quirky Queer Quaker
Tuesday, April 24th, 12:30-1:30 PM
The Intersection, Tate II (across from Tate Print and Copy)
After spending 17 years and over $30,000 on three continents attempting to de-gay himself through gay conversion therapy, Peterson Toscano came to his senses and came out a quirky queer Quaker concerned with human rights and comedy. He travels internationally sharing LGBTQ-friendly Bible stories, speaking out about the harm of conversion therapy, and highlighting the important roles LGBTQ people can play on our rapidly changing planet. Join him for a lively discussion over the lunch hour.
Peterson Toscano-Performing Stories: Personal and Political Storytelling
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 5 - 6 PM
Room 352 Fine Arts Building
On stage, in the public sphere, in class, and at work how we tell a story is as important as the stories we tell. Looking at structure, delivery, and style, participants will engage in storytelling techniques reach audiences and move listeners to feel and act.
Peterson Toscano: Everything is Connected-A Collection of Stories: Most Weird, Many True
Wednesday, April 25 at 7 PM
UGA Chapel
Experience the artful, playful, outrageously funny, and deeply moving storytelling craft of Peterson Toscano. Connecting contemporary issues to his own bizarre personal experiences, literature, science, and even the odd Bible story, Peterson takes his audience on an off-beat mental mind trip. A shapeshifter, he transforms right before your eyes into a whole cast of comic characters who explore the serious worlds of gender, sexuality, privilege, religion, and environmental justice. This event is free and open to all.
Peterson has been featured in the New York Times, People Magazine, the Tyra Banks Show, and NPR Morning Edition. He uses comedy and storytelling to explore LGBTQ issues, faith, privilege, justice and climate. For more visit: http://www.petersontoscano.com
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3. Lecture: Deanna Kreisel
Tuesday, April 24 at 4:45 PM
Park Hall, Rm 265
Title: The Future and its Discontents: Eco-Time in Three Victorian Texts. The question of how (or why, or whether) to commingle queer theory and ecocriticism has become an urgent concern for many theorists writing in the wake of Timothy Morton's 2010 PMLA essay "Queer Ecology." While Greg Garrard, for example, thinks that queer theory needs ecocriticism in order to avoid theoretical bankruptcy and irrelevance, Jordy Rosenberg argues exactly the opposite, warning that certain versions of eco-theory are guilty of promulgating "a primitivist fantasy that hinges on the violent erasure of the social: the conjuring of a realm--an 'ancestral realm'--that exists in the present, but in parallax to historical time." This talk will develop Rosenberg's analysis by taking up the question of eco-queer futurity in three emblematic Victorian texts: Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem "Dover Beach," and Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars" (1879). Each of these works embodies an iteration of queerness that simultaneously challenges the hegemony of reproductive futurism described by theorists Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman and disavows the utopianist collectivity of much recent queer studies scholarship.
This talk will aim to demonstrate how eco-queer readings of these works can illuminate the clashing temporal and spatial scales at work in their deep logic, and thereby draw out their conflicted investment in nascent ideologies of economic and environmental stewardship.
Deanna Kreisel (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia) specializes in Victorian literature and culture. Her first book, Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy (Toronto 2012), examines how images of feminized sexuality in the mid-Victorian realist novel reflected widespread contemporary anxieties about the growth of capitalism. Kreisel is co-founder of Vcologies, an international working group of nineteenth-centuryist scholars interested in ecocriticism and environmental studies. She has published articles in PMLA, Victorian Studies, Representations, and ELH, and is currently at work on a new book on the history of the sustainability concept and utopianism in the nineteenth century.
The Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature is supported by the Willson Center and by the English Department's Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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4. Performance: Rote Hund Muzik Evening of Fresh Ink
Tuesday, April 24 at 8 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
Rote Hund Muzik is a graduate student contemporary music ensemble consisting of 5-13 graduate students. Typically, in the fall semester, Dr. Cynthia Johnston Turner coaches and conducts masterworks (Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Steve Reich's Double Sextet, most recently). In the spring semester, the ensemble serves as a lab band for composers, conductors, and performers, which fosters an opportunity to innovate, explore, provoke, and engage with a variety of musics and music-making processes. Rote Hund Muzik is not afraid to explore the unknown, address social (in)justices, and/or cross boundaries.
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5. Sustainable UGA Spring Semester in Review
Thursday, April 26, 11 AM - 1 PM
Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library
https://sustainability.uga.edu/event/sustainable-uga-spring-2018-semester-in-review/
The Spring 2018 Sustainable UGA Semester in Review celebrates people, programs, activities and academic courses that are creating a culture of sustainability at UGA. The program includes brief presentations from Office of Sustainability interns, posters and table displays from UGA classes, recognition of sustainability certificate recipients, light lunch fare, and opportunities for networking. Opening comments will be provided by President Jere W. Morehead.
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6. Performance: Melissa Joseph: Expunge
Saturday, April 28 from 11 AM - 5 PM
Trio Gallery, 766 West Broad St.
https://www.trioathens.com/new-events/2018/4/28/melissa-joseph-expunge
Trio is honored to present "Expunge", a participatory, performative piece by Philadelphia based artist, Melissa Joseph. Joseph has two pieces in our upcoming exhibit, "Media Circus" and much of her work is focused on violence and healing.
Artist Statement:
There has been a marked increase in the frequency and quantity of gun violence in schools in the last 10-15 years. Since the mass shooting at Columbine in April of 1999, there have been 25 fatal elementary and high school shootings and counting. My art practice is dedicated to mending and healing. The goal of the work is to join people in conversation while exploring art's role as mediator, or a locus of external focus required to generate more complex narratives and promote deeper understanding of the other. There is not an intention of changing positions, but rather of allowing new knowledge to illuminate overlaps in personal experiences where trust and empathy might grow.
On April 28th, I invite you to join me in a participatory project at Trio Contemporary Art Gallery called Expunge. For 6 hours I will work, hand washing t-shirts that are screen printed with bullet holes. There are 122 shirts, which is the number of people killed in mass shootings on school campuses in the United States since Columbine. Each shirt symbolizes a victim lost to gun violence.
It is my hope that through this communal public act, opportunities will arise to meditate on the lives of these victims, to share in meaningful conversations and exchanges with one another, and to keep attention focused on the conversation around gun legislation. Please come and wash a shirt with me!
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7. Performance: Listening Machines
Saturday, April 28 at 7 PM
Georgia Tech West Village Room 175
https://gtcmt.gatech.edu/lm
Listening Machines is an annual concert showcasing new music by masters students from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. This year's work focuses on self-made robots and actuators. Featuring a snare drum playing robot painting musical artworks, a synthesizer controlled by a water wheel, a recorder playing robot and many other DIY musical controllers and robots. We invite everyone to come listen and experience the future of music!
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8. Exhibition: Spaces in Spaces of Spaces
Opening Wednesday, May 2 from 5:30 - 7 PM
Exhibition May 2 - June 2
Lamar Dodd Building, C-U-B-E Gallery
Thinking of a collection of possibilities as a "space" implies a geometric and visual way of thinking about that collection, an implicit analogy between that collection of possibilities and the physical space in which we live and move. Our ordinary 3-dimensional space is really the space of possible locations of physical objects, but we can think about spaces of colors, spaces of sounds, even spaces of spaces! This show explores a small sample of such ideas, centered around surfaces inside four-dimensional spaces. Work by Mathematics Outreach Design Lab coordinated by David Gay, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Moon Jang, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, Lamar Dodd School of Art.
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9. Perfect Pantry (it all starts with a seed)
Tuesday, June 5 from 6 - 9 PM
The Bakery
825 Warner St. SW, Atlanta
Perfect Pantry (it all starts with a seed) is a group exhibition consisting of collages, journals, interactive work, and spoken word by those who face food insecurity in metro Atlanta.
The exhibition Perfect Pantry (it all starts with a seed) is an emotional and interactive look into the lives of those experiencing food insecurity in metro Atlanta. In partnership with the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication at the University of Georgia in Athens, the Atlanta Community Food bank and select metro Atlanta food pantries, this project uses small art pieces created by food pantry clients as the the platform for food insecure individuals to share their experiences and critiques of food assistance, in the hopes of bringing change to make Atlanta food assistance models more effective.
Organized by Hillary Jourdan with support from the Atlanta Community Food Bank, selected metro Atlanta food pantries, the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication, and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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10. Opportunity: Arts Writers Grant Program
Deadline: May 21, 2018
https://www.artswriters.org/application/guidelines
The Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is for both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories--articles, blogs, books and short-form writing--these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs. The grant also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
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11. Opportunity: NEA Art Works
Internal Deadline: May 31
Sponsor Deadline: July 12
https://research.uga.edu/research-announcements/limited-submission-art-works-ii/
Art Works is the National Endowment for the Arts' principal grants program. Through project-based funding, we support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation's 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is 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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