ICE Announcements 1.20.18
http://ice.uga.edu
*Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference at UGA (deadline 4/6)*
1. ICE Conversation: Failure (2/21)
2. ICE Conversation: Viva Arte Viva (2/28)
3. Reading: Kevin Barry (2/20)
4. Reading: Christopher P. Collins (2/20)
5. Performance: Detroit (2/20-25)
6. UGA French Film Festival (2/20)
7. Performance: CORE Concert Dance Company (2/22-24)
8. Lecture: Jessica Silbey (2/22)
9. Global Georgia Initiative: Journalism and the Contemporary South (2/22)
10. Lecture: Joe Fusaro (2/22)
11. Lecture: Shirley Brice Heath (2/22)
12. Willson Center Cinema Roundtable (2/23)
13. Surround: an Immersive Experience (3/3)
14. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis competition (info 2/26)
15. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline: 2/28)
16. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships (deadline 3/16)
17. Opportunity: Appalachia Now! (deadline 3/31)
18. Course Opportunity: Poetry for Interdisciplinary Understanding
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*Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference*
"Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability"
November 1-3, 2018
Hosted by the University of Georgia
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
Deadline: Friday, April 6
The 2018 theme, "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability," is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the intersections, synergies, and interfaces between arts, environments, and their influence on design, resilience, and sustainability. Presentations vary in length and number of participants. We accept panel, paper, performance, and working group proposals. a2ru encourages proposals featuring panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, and ages. The ideal panel discussion will consist of participants who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences, and represent more than one institution.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is a partnership of institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve.
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1. ICE Conversation: Failure
Wednesday, February 21 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Failure is an inherent part of every artistic practice, but how can it be used in a productive manner? Join Matthew Flores, MFA Candidate in Photography and ICE Graduate Research Assistant for a conversation on failure, mistakes, accidents, and defeats, and how these can turn from research problems into aesthetic solutions.
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2. ICE Conversation: Viva Arte Viva
Wednesday, February 28 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
John English, UGA professor Emeritus, artist, and veteran freelance journalist will share a presentation of his coverage of one of the biggest art shows in the world: the 2017 Venice Biennale, "Viva Arte Viva."
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3. Reading: Kevin Barry
Tuesday, February 20 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave
Kevin Barry is the author of the novels City of Bohane (2011) and Beatlebone (a New York Times Notable Book of 2015), as well as two story collections, There are Little Kingdoms (2007) and Dark Lies the Island (2012). He won the Goldsmiths Prize for Beatlebone, the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for City of Bohane and the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for There Are Little Kingdoms. In 2016, he received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Fiction. Barry has also won the European Union Prize for Literature and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. He lives in County Sligo, Ireland.
The Irish Examiner called There are Little Kingdoms "some of the most beautiful and lyrical writing ever composed by an Irish writer." The New Yorker described City of Bohane as "virtuosic - A grizzled piece of futuristic Irish noir with strong ties to the classic gang epics of yore." And of Beatlebone, the Washington Post wrote, "Barry is largely able to carry it off by force of imagination and by a super-charged prose style that borrows heavily from James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, J.P. Donleavy and other past masters of extravagant Irish lyricism at its high-modernist peak."
Barry's reading is presented in partnership with Avid Bookshop. A public reception with light refreshments and book sales will begin at 6 PM prior to the reading at 6:30.
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4. Reading: Christopher P. Collins
Tuesday, February 20 at 7 PM
The Globe Upstairs, 199 N. Lumpkin St.
The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to present a reading by poet Christopher P. Collins. Collins is the recipient of the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize chosen by David Bottoms. Christopher P. Collins is a former military officer and a twelve-year veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, having completed three overseas combat deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the 2015 winner of Farmingdale's Paumanok Poetry Award and has published one poetry chapbook, Gathering Leaves for War.
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5. Performance: Detroit
February 20-24 at 8 PM
February 25 at 2:30 PM
Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre
https://www.ugatheatre.com/detroit
This new play turns an all-American backyard barbecue into a menacing affair when mysterious new neighbors move into a common suburb and upend the lives of an average couple. By Lisa D'Amour. Director: George Contini. Tickets: $16, $12 for students.
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6. UGA French Film Festival
Tuesdays at 8 PM
Tate Theater
The University of Georgia French Film Festival returns to campus every Tuesday during the month of February. Screenings will be held at 8 p.m. in Tate Theater beginning Feb. 6 and every subsequent Tuesday through Feb. 27. Screenings will be free for all UGA students and $3 for non-students. The four films to be shown during the festival emphasize strong female roles both on screen and behind the camera in a range of genres with starring performances by familiar names such as Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Huppert. Each screening will begin with a short introduction and will be followed by an optional discussion with UGA's own student-run film organization Cine-club. The French Film Festival is funded in part by the Romance languages department's French fund and co-sponsored by the theatre and film studies department and Cinematic Arts.
Feb. 20: Gabrielle (2013), the tale of a 21-year-old woman with Williams Syndrome who seeks to live her life despite her affliction.
Feb. 27: Things to Come (L'avenir, 2016), starring actress Isabelle Huppert in a role written specifically for her.
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7. Performance: CORE Concert Dance Company
Thursday, February 22 - Saturday, February 24 at 8 PM
New Dance Theatre, Dance Building, 325 Sanford Dr.
https://www.corecontemporaryandaerialdance.com
CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance
WITHOUT (within) BORDERS
This nonstop show explores themes about internal and external boundaries -- personal, cultural, political and spatial -- and perceptions about both concrete and invisible walls that are created and destroyed. The performance is enhanced through a visual landscape incorporating projection mapping, animation and film. The company will perform on aerial silks, slings, lyra and bungee. CORE alumni will perform "In the Spirit" a section from "Blessed" choreographed by the renowned Bebe Miller and originally performed by the CORE Concert Dance Company in 1998.
Tickets are $16 for general admission, $12 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets, please visit the Tate Student Center ticket office, order online at pac.uga.edu or phone at 706-542-4400. Tickets are also available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 p.m. each evening of the concert. Student groups who can make a one-time purchase of eight or more student tickets will receive a group rate of $5.00 per ticket. Advanced ticket purchase to all shows is highly recommended.
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8. Lecture: Jessica Silbey
Thursday, February 22 at 4 PM
Hirsch Hall (UGA School of Law) Classroom B (Room 122)
Jessica Silbey, professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, is a leading scholar and nationally recognized expert on intellectual property and the use of film to communicate about law. Silbey has altered the national conversation about creativity and invention with her recent book, "The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property" (Stanford University Press). Based on a set of 50 interviews with authors, artists, inventors and lawyers, Silbey's work challenges the traditional notion of intellectual property as merely creating financial incentives necessary to spur innovation. Drawing on her interdisciplinary background and qualitative empirical training, Silbey's research sheds new light onto the roles intellectual property law play to sustain and frustrate the creative and innovative communities in the work they seek to accomplish.
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9. Global Georgia Initiative: Journalism and the Contemporary South
Thursday, February 22 at 4 PM
UGA Chapel
Join us for a conversation on journalism in the contemporary South with six panelists with national experience in the modern media and the challenges they face in telling the stories that speak to a tumultuous time.
Eliza Borne, editor, Oxford American
Valerie Boyd, professor, UGA Grady College of Journalism
Richard Fausset, Atlanta bureau chief, The New York Times
Alysia Nicole Harris, managing editor, Scalawag
Pete McCommons, editor & publisher, Flagpole
Chuck Reece, editor in chief, The Bitter Southerner
Dean Charles Davis of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will moderate the discussion.
The event is presented in partnership with the Grady College, The Bitter Southerner, Flagpole, Oxford American, and Scalawag.
The Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
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10. Lecture: Joe Fusaro
Thursday, February 22 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Joe Fusaro serves as the Senior Education Advisor for Art21 and is responsible for facilitating Art21's education initiatives. This includes the widely popular Art21 Educators program as well as writing Art21's education resources. He received his Masters Degree in Education from the City University of New York and his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Hofstra University. He is an exhibiting artist, educator, and the Visual Arts Chair for the Nyack Public Schools in New York since 2003. Prior to Fusaro's work in Nyack, he was a teacher and staff developer in the New York City school system for 13 years. Fusaro is currently an adjunct instructor for New York University's Graduate Program in Art and Arts Professions, certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and has led staff development workshops in contemporary art education for museums and cultural institutions across the United States, including the National Art Education Association, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Guggenheim Museum and others. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at 287 Spring Gallery and the Garnerville Arts Center in New York, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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11. Lecture: Shirley Brice Heath
Thursday, February 22 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
Dr. Heath holds the Marjorie Bailey Professorship in English and Dramatic Literature and is a professor of linguistics, emerita, at Stanford University. She is also the director of research for the Public Theater in New York City. Her work focuses on the ways in which long-term engagement with art can drive the linguistic and cognitive development of adolescents. Her talk, titled "The Arts as Brick and Mortar of Community Building," will draw from national and international contexts in which the arts are building community togetherness, communication and, sometimes, solace and comfort. This program is made possible by the Aralee Strange Fund for Art and Poetry.
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12. Willson Center Cinema Roundtable
Friday, February 23 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre (Room 400)
"Women, Hollywood, and the #METOO Era"
This past year saw many dramatic revelations within the American cinema, from the Harvey Weinstein scandals and the #ME TOO plus #TIMESUP movements, to highly popular movies by women writers, directors, and producers, including Wonder Woman, First They Killed My Father, Mudbound, and Lady Bird, among many others. This panel will address current state of American filmmaking, assessing ongoing hurdles and notable triumphs for women in Hollywood today. Panelists include Antje Ascheid (Film Studies), Maryann Erigha (Sociology), Kate Fortmueller (Entertainment & Media Studies), and Rielle Navitski (Film Studies). Richard Neupert moderates the roundtable, which is free and open to the public. The audience will be invited to join the discussion.
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13. Surround: an Immersive Experience
Performances Saturday, March 3 from 7 - 11 PM
Exhibition March 3 - 11
ATHICA, 160 Tracy St.
http://www.facebook.com/events/361631394246594/
Surround is an immersive exhibition of the magical, fantastical, and imaginative worlds of over 20 Athens artist who blur the lines between genre, venue, and medium specificity. Join us in embracing the unknown, collaboration, and confrontation as it manifests sensually.
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and Athens Institute for Contemporary Art.
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14. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT)
Information Session Monday, February 26 at 11:15 AM
Geography/Geology Building Room 200 B
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in only three minutes. This year's Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) will be held on Tuesday, April 3rd. Preliminary heats to determine the finalists will be held the week of March 19th. 3MT provides an opportunity to hone your communication skills, get feedback on your presentation style, and win cash prizes! All Master's and Doctoral students are welcome.
Students are invited to join us for an information session to learn more about the competition and to get tips from past finalists. Pizza will be provided at the information session! Please register by Feb. 25th to provide an accurate count:
http://bit.ly/UGA3MT2018
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15. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
Applications open through February 28
https://apply.creative-capital.org
Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, and career development services. Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices.
In a shift from previous cycles, artists working in all art forms are now welcome to apply in the same award round. Artists who receive the Creative Capital Award will have access to up to $50,000 in funding to develop their project, plus advisory services valued at $45,000. We are interested in groundbreaking and original projects, as well as artists who are ready to take full advantage of our non-monetary services.
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16. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships
Deadline: March 16
http://www.goelsewhere.org/internships/
Elsewhere's 3-floor museum contains an evolving collection of artworks made of cultural and material surplus that provide an experimental setting for +40 artists to create new work and community partners to enjoy every season.
Internships offer a professional, creative, and hands-on opportunity to work alongside a small team of arts organizers, peer interns, artists, and community partners within a collaborative work environment. Internships begin May 2018.
Each year, interns are selected to live onsite 3-4 months for a Spring, Summer and Fall session. Interns are paired with core departments (Communications, Operations, House, Programs) and work with a supervisor to refine their skill-sets in advancement of emerging leadership and the organization.
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17. Opportunity: Appalachia Now!
Open Call for Entries
Deadline: March 31
https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=5138
Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia will feature emerging and established artists from North Carolina and its bordering states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The exhibition includes artists of all media, such as painting, sculpture, new media, dance and film. Public programs and performances will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. A full color catalogue featuring the selected works will be made available in print and online along with an online registry of all Open Call applicants. The registry will include information provided by the applicants through the Open Call and will be an invaluable resource for both promoting artists of the region and providing the public with a finding tool for information about southern Appalachian artists.
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18. Course Opportunity: Register now for Summer
LLED 8710 Poetry for Interdisciplinary Understanding
Writing bootcamp for the heart & mind
July 3 - July 30
The course will meet face to face for 7-10 class days of mid July. The beginning of the course will be individually designed syllabi; the ending of the month will be individually tailored portfolio development. Why, how, and where to bring poetry into our lives as practitioners, writers, scholars, artists, and activists--these are some of the questions addressed in this course. When we meet face to face we will workshop our new creative writing, have craft talks that we apply to our own creative writing, teaching literature and writing, and doing research across languages, disciplines, and genres.Questions? Wishes? Email: [log in to unmask]
About the instructor: Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor is Professor of TESOL & World Language Education at the University of Georgia and director of National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read -- Athens Programming." 2017 Georgia Poetry Society Keynote speaker and chapbook judge; 2018 Atlanta Writers Club keynote, she is the winner of the 2017 Resplandor award, 2015 Beckman Award for Professors Who Inspire, a 2013-14 Fulbright Award (Oaxaca, Mexico), Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes and a Leeway Poetry Grant. She's published several books: Imperfect Tense - poems (Whitepoint Press, 2016); Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education (Routledge, 2008; 2017). She has published numerous articles, and poetry about language learning, sustainable or fragile states of bilingualism, and teacher education. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Women's Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, Puerto Del Sol, Mom Egg, and many other literary homes. She judges the annual Anthropology & Humanism poetry contest and is the editor of the ethnographic poetry section. Follow her blog at:
http://teachersactup.com
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