ICE Announcements 2.12.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Ad-Verse Fest (3/1-3/2)
2. Call for Participation: Trash Music
3. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
4. Global Georgia Initiative: Jeff VanderMeer (2/14)
5. Cinema Roundtable: RBG (2/15)
6. Performance: In the Blood (begins 2/15)
7. Citizen Rankine Events (begins 2/20)
8. Reading: Rosa Lane (2/20)
9. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
10. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/15)
11. Opportunity: Art of STEM (deadline 2/17)
12. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships (deadline 2/18)
13. Opportunity: 3MT Info Session (2/25)
14. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline 2/28)
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1. Ad-Verse Fest
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7 PM
Downtown Athens, GA
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts. Audience members will see electronic artists, quasi-pop stars, hip hop artists, drag performers, DJs and experimental composers.
Featured performers: Jennifer Vanilla, Superbody, Ripparachie, Diaspoura, Karen Meat, Taylor ALXNDR, RaFiA, and GRLwood.
Venues: Caledonia Lounge, Flicker Theatre & Bar, and Go Bar
Advanced tickets now available online $12 for both days
Day of show tickets $15 for both days or $10 for single day
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration, Athens Area Arts Council, Flagpole Magazine, and Scorpion Beach.
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2. Call for Participation: Trash Music
How can we make music from trash?
The "Trash Music" project was recently awarded a UGA Office of Sustainability Campus Sustainability Grant to explore the intersections of music, creativity, environmentalism, and sustainability. Musical instruments are often made from new materials and nonrenewable resources. The first phase of this project will consist of building prototype instruments from reused materials. We are seeking participation in the following areas: instrument designers / builders, website design, and collaborators interested in creating related initiatives and projects. If you are interested, please contact Ciyadh Wells:
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3. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
Explore the Oculus Rift VR system with Ideas for Creative Exploration. Possible areas of exploration could include but are not limited to audience interaction, data visualization and research productivity. Lab times are available by appointment for the following days:
Mondays 8-11 AM, 7-10 PM
Wednesdays 8-10 AM, 7-10 PM
Fridays 8-10 AM, 2-5 PM
Located in the Lamar Dodd building room S160. To schedule, please contact [log in to unmask]
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4. Global Georgia Initiative: Jeff VanderMeer - "An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer"
Thursday, February 14 at 7 PM
Seney-Stovall Chapel
https://willson.uga.edu/event/global-georgia-initiative-jeff-vandermeer-an-evening-with-jeff-vandermeer/
Jeff VanderMeer has been called a "master of the literary head trip" (by Kirkus Reviews), "Poe-like" (by The New York Times), and, perhaps most intriguingly, "the weird Thoreau" (by The New Yorker). The enormously successful author of the Southern Reach trilogy and Borne will give a reading and talk as the first visiting speaker in the Willson Center's 2019 Global Georgia Initiative.
The first book of the Southern Reach trilogy, Annihilation, was adapted by the writer-director Alex Garland for a 2018 film of the same name starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason-Leigh. The other two books of the trilogy, Authority and Acceptance, have also been licensed for film productions, as has Borne.
In addition to these recent works VanderMeer has published a handful of novels and short story collections including City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris (2001) and Finch (2009). His essays and literally criticism have been extensively published, including by The Washington Post and The Guardian. He has also edited a number of short-fiction anthologies, usually with his wife, Ann VanderMeer. His most recent book is the 2017 novella The Strange Bird: A Borne Story.
VanderMeer will appear at Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Ave., for a signing event at 5 p.m. Feb. 14, prior to his event at the Seney-Stovall Chapel. His visit is presented in partnership with the department of English, the Creative Writing Program, the Sustainability Certificate Program, and Avid Bookshop.
The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society, and the environment, 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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5. Cinema Roundtable: RBG: The Cultural Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Friday, February 15 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 400
The award-winning documentary RBG, by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, details the rise of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from law school to her ground-breaking legal cases on gender rights to her rare "cult status" as a Justice on the Supreme Court. This roundtable will discuss the RBG movie, assess Ginsburg's significance for constitutional law and gender, and evaluates the media frenzy around her today. Panelists include visiting Federal Judge James D. Peterson (PhD in Film Studies), Matthew Bernstein (Chair of Film and Media Studies at Emory University), and Kate Fortmueller (Entertainment and Media Studies). Richard Neupert (Theatre and Film Studies) will moderate.
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6. Performance: In the Blood
University Theatre MainStage
http://www.drama.uga.edu/events/content/2018/blood
Suzan-Lori Parks' contemporary drama offers a modern take on The Scarlet Letter through the lens of a homeless family living in the inner city. Centering around a matriarch of five, named Hester, In the Blood details her struggles to improve both herself and the lives of her children in the face of impossible choices and seemingly insurmountable obstacles.Tickets are $16, $12 for students.
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 8:00pm
Saturday, February 16, 2019 - 8:00pm
Sunday, February 17, 2019 - 2:30pm
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 8:00pm
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 8:00pm
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 8:00pm
Friday, February 22, 2019 - 8:00pm
Saturday, February 23, 2019 - 8:00pm
Sunday, February 24, 2019 - 2:30pm
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7. Citizen Rankine Events
https://coe.uga.edu/events/this-is-not-what-i-expected-difference-and-dignity-through-literature-and-the-arts
This is (Not) What I Expected: Difference and Dignity Through Literature and the Arts
A series of events centered around and inspired by "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine's book "Citizen: An American Lyric," serves as a source of healing, or what UGA College of Education professor Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor refers to as "literary and artistic micro-validation": the ways in which books of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, film, and visual art can provide small, often intended images and words that nurture feelings of inclusion and validation for diverse experiences and perspectives. This series of events includes numerous events that shift expectations of micro-aggression toward validation through deep attention to the past, present, and possible futures at UGA and in our larger Athens community. Claudia Rankine is a poet illuminating the emotional and psychic tensions that mark the experiences of many living in 21st-century America. Watch a video from Claudia Rankine's 2016 MacArthur Fellow award.
FEB 20: Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony
MAR 5: Poetry, Performance, and Indigenous Citizenship Featuring Poet Heid Erdrich
MAR 21: Zong! - Talking Code, Stalking Silence
MAR 22-23: FREE Staged Reading of 'Citizen: An American Lyric'
Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony
Wednesday, February 20 from 4:30 to 7 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 148
Author, speaker, and storyteller Regina E. Mason will present "Gina's Story: The Life of William Grimes as Art and Testimony. Mason is the great-great-great granddaughter of William Grimes, the author of the first published U.S. American slave narrative. Grimes was held in bondage in many states, including Georgia.
Regina E. Mason Mason will discuss her journey as a researcher to recover the story of her ancestor in relation to themes of belonging and citizenship. After an introductory discussion, she will screen her 80-minute documentary, Gina's Journey: The Search for William Grimes (2016), which tells both Grimes' story and the 15-year process she spent to authenticate his extraordinary narrative of flight from bondage to liberty. With the literary critic and expert, Professor William L. Andrews, Mason also co-edited the authoritative 2008 Oxford University Press edition of The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. She has shared her amazing work with national and international campus and university communities, including Mansfield College of Oxford, England. SUNY-Buffalo, Yale University, and the University of California-Berkeley.
This event has been generously supported by funds from the Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series in English and the UGA Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts.
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8. Reading: Rosa Lane
Wednesday, February 20 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Creative Writing Program and the University of Georgia Press present a reading by the Georgia Poetry Prize winner Rosa Lane.
Lane's collection, Chouteau's Chalk, was chosen by English Department and Creative Writing Program professor Magdalena Zurawski. According to Zurawaski, "The lush sounds of the poems in Rosa Lane's Chouteau's Chalk make even the silent reader's ears prick up. Her words wind us feverishly through landscapes of initiation, those early erotic encounters so impressed upon our being that we can only look back and say 'hello, me.' The spaces here are sometimes wounding, 'outlined in neon, a noble gas, atomic, orange,' or 'a blur, a fallen entity / inside the house,' but like all freedom songs, they map the road taken. Here that road is queerly, wildly, sweetly taken, 'zipping us all the way down the beck."
Lane is the author of Tiller North and Roots and Reckonings. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Folio, New South, Nimrod, Ploughshares, RHINO Poetry, the Tishman Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. As a poet and architect, she splits her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her wife.
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9. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
A group of UGA graduate students are piloting an environmental stewardship project at Lake Herrick, a 15-acre body of water that is part of the UGA campus, located within the Oconee Forest Park complex, near the UGA intramural fields. Opened in 1982, the lake quickly became a popular public space for swimming, boating, and fishing. However, in 2002, all water activities were prohibited at the lake due to deteriorating water quality tied to human activities at the lake and the greater watershed. With a decrease in human visitors over the last 16 years, Lake Herrick has become a haven for local wildlife. For example, citizen scientists have identified at least 200 bird species there, making it one of the most diverse sites for birds in Athens-Clarke County! Additionally, the area is home to beavers, water snakes, turtles, and many other animals.
With the dedicated efforts of the UGA Office of Sustainability and researchers, Lake Herrick reopened on October 17, 2018 to the public for passive recreation. Reopening the lake provides an important space for people to interact with nature, but human recreation often has negative effects for wildlife and environmental health.
Lake Herrick's history tells an important story of ecological restoration, resilience, and coexistence. Balancing recreational impacts with preserving the ecological integrity of this space will require environmental mindfulness of human visitors. We aim approach this with collaborative storytelling and eco-art as a medium: translating scientific research through artistic expression to inspire environmental stewardship of this beautiful space in Athens. To do this, we are organizing an eco-art event for April 2019 to showcase art that is representative of the Lake's natural history, ecological community, and the importance of natural spaces.
Currently, we are searching for interested artists, faculty, and Athens residents to collaborate with us throughout this project. The work will entail being paired with a UGA researcher to collaboratively create artwork that translates key messages from academic research that helps to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world and our place in it. And, planning a community event to showcase work, and engage with the public. With this work, we hope to create lasting partnerships with UGA faculty and local Athens artists to create an annual environmental event for Lake Herrick, and support science communication efforts generally. Are you interested in helping with this event or creating an eco-art pieces? We want to hear your ideas! You can contact us at: [log in to unmask]
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10. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants
Deadline: February 15
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Faculty Research Grants in Humanities and Arts Program supports and encourages the development of strong programs of research or scholarship by faculty in the humanities and arts. Grants are considered "seed money" for research, in that they should lead to the growth and development of continuing research programs. The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring scholars from other institutions to campus.
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11. Opportunity: Art of STEM
Deadline: February 17
https://ose.uga.edu/projects/art-of-stem/
The UGA Office of STEM Education is soliciting submissions for the 'Art of STEM' competition, with the goal of highlighting STEM students' endeavors in an exciting and appealing way. Graduate and Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit photographic or illustrative images that relate to their research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Conceived as an outreach tool, winning entries will resonate with scientists and non-scientists alike. A panel of judges will determine three winners based on aesthetic impact, communication, and innovation. Winners will receive a certificate and will be honored by having their art displayed on the Office of STEM Educationwebsite.
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12. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships
Deadline: Monday, February 18 at 5 PM
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
Each year CURO awards 30 Summer Research Fellowships to support UGA undergraduates interested in pursuing intensive, immersive, faculty-mentored research during the summer. An applicant must be a current 1st through 3rd year student who has completed a minimum of 15 in-residence credit hours at UGA. CURO Summer Fellows are awarded $3,000.
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13. Three Minute Thesis Information Session
Monday, February 25 at 12:15 PM
Geography/Geology Building Room 200 C
RSVP: http://bit.ly/UGA3MT2019
UGA's Three Minute Thesis competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in only three minutes. 3MT provides an opportunity to hone your communication skills, get feedback on your presentation style, and win cash prizes! Pizza will be provided at the information session! Please register by February 22 to provide an accurate count. All Master's and Doctoral students welcome. Students do not have to attend the info session to compete, but it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the competition and to speak with past winners.
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14. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
Deadline: February 28 at 2 PM ET
https://creative-capital.org/2019/02/01/the-creative-capital-award-application-is-open-through-february-28/
Artists working in all disciplines can apply for funding of up to $50,000 for innovative project ideas, plus receive career development and advisory services valued at an additional $50,000, for a total value of $100,000 per award.
Artists who receive the 2020 Creative Capital Award will have access to up to $50,000 in funding to develop their project, plus advisory services valued at $50,000, for a total value of $100,000. We are interested in projects that push the boundaries, as well as artists who are ready to take full advantage of our non-monetary services. Generally, that means that the projects will premiere at least a year and a half after the announcement of the Creative Capital Awards. Read more about the Creative Capital Award.
After the open application period closes at the end of February 2019, we will invite evaluators from all over the country to review the applications we received. We ask evaluators to review projects based on the originality of the proposed idea, the artist's capacity to make the work, the timeliness of the project, and the artist's readiness to make use of Creative Capital's career development services.
In the final stage of the application, we administer an in-person panel review of projects that made it to the third round. We asked some of the panelists that just completed that process for the 2019 Creative Capital Award cycle for some tips about what makes a great application.
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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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