Ideas for Creative Exploration
4.18.22
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/19-21)
2. Athens Hip Hop Harmonic (4/20)
3. Natasha Trethewey Events (4/21-22)
4. Port Futures and Social Logistics (4/22)
5. Autonomy Is Light (4/23)
6. MAP Fund Grants (deadline 5/27)
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1. Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 19-21
https://whova.com/web/tfoi_202204/
The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free annual online educational and cultural event where renowned experts from across disciplines present their innovative ideas to the general public. The 2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas showcases unique perspectives on a range of topics including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, aesthetics, flow, imagination, emotions, motivation, AI, digital art, music, literature, wellbeing, community health, mental health, sociocultural engagement, childhood, aging, equality, identity, political resistance, and social change.
Caroline Woolard Talk
Wednesday, April 20 at 2 PM
The Cultural Economy We Want ---> or ---> You Don't Have to Be a Starving Artist or a Sellout
In this interview, Caroline Woolard of Art.coop will present ways that artists are working together to build communities and economies that resist exploitation and foster collective action. Did you know work can be joyful and pay the bills, with culture at the center of economic innovation? When artists organize together (across issue-areas), we can win and co-create tailored tools of support, including paid training programs, solidarity financial vehicles like non-extractive loans, and policy platforms in what is known as the Solidarity Economy movement.
Interview Panel:
Meredith Emery
Annie Simpson
Mark Callahan
Caroline Woolard is the Director of Research and Programs at Open Collective Foundation, an Assistant Professor at Pratt, and co-organizer of art.coop with Nati Linares and Marina Lopez. Since the financial crisis of 2007-8, Woolard has catalyzed barter communities, minted local currencies, founded an arts-policy think tank, and created sculptural interventions in office spaces. Woolard is the co-author of three books: Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020) a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Woolard's work has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. For more visit carolinewoolard.com/
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2. Athens Hip Hop Harmonic
Wednesday, April 20 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Join the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic in their spring collab, "Coming Together," featuring R&B artist Convict Julie, Hip Hop artist Linqua Franqa, emcee Montu Miller, and the UGA Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Free and open to the public.
You'll be the first audience to hear Convict Julie's most recent songs, co-created with UGA lecturer of music Brandon Quarles and the musicians in the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Linqua Franqa joins us as the dynamic narrator of "Coming Together," a work written by Frederic Rzewski in response to the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in NY. Also on the show is Julius Eastman's "Stay on It," a minimalist, structured improvisation work that draws on repetitions of a short theme to create an infectious groove.
Launched last August, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic is a multi-year collaboration between local Hip Hop artists and the Hodgson School of Music, supported by UGA's Arts Lab. It is produced by saxophone professor Connie Frigo, who developed it in collaboration with Mariah Parker (aka Linqua Franqa) and Hip Hop impresario Montu Miller. The first musical pairings last fall featured Hip Hop artists Caufield and Kxng Blanco, co-creating new works with UGA faculty composers Emily Koh and Peter Lane.
See the videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXqmhqyTE8G2ke9d4-glZw
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3. Natasha Trethewey Events
Reading and Public Reception
Thursday, April 21 at 4 PM
UGA Chapel
Public Conversation
Friday, April 22, at 6 PM
Morton Theatre, downtown Athens
Reservations required: https://www.mortontheatre.com
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts welcomes American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey as the annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Trethewey, who is Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, will visit Athens for a slate of public events and informal conversations with students. Trethewey, who is a UGA alumna, was appointed United States poet laureate in 2012 and again in 2013, and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. The program is presented in partnership with the Institute for African American Studies, the department of English, and the Creative Writing Program.
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4. Port Futures and Social Logistics
Friday, April 22 from noon - 2 PM
https://zoom.us/s/92938263361
The UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art and College of Environment + Design will host Port Futures and Social Logistics: A virtual research summit and online exhibition of works curated by artist and scholar Jan Derk Diekema (HAVIK, NL), UGA faculty Stephen Ramos, James Enos, and UGA MFA candidate Annie Simpson. The summit and exhibition will explore the port city as a platform for furthering global cultural dialog through art and urbanism. The event focuses on environments, histories, and materials of production, extraction, and circulation in the age of energy transition. The objective is to bring together artists, urbanists, researchers, and practitioners to campus, and invite guests from national and international initiatives to help launch a broader research collaborative to address the cultural meanings of ports and port cities in times of global climate change.
For more information visit:
https://www.social-logistics.org
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5. Autonomy Is Light
Saturday, April 23 6-8 PM
236 Clayton St.
Temporary collaborative public art exhibition curated by Mickey Boyd and Rachel Lea Seburn. Featuring Martin Chamberlin, Zahria Cook, Meredith Emery, Katie Ford, Ethan Snow, and a reading by Nate Dixon at 7 PM.
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6. MAP Fund Grants
Deadline: May 27
https://mapfund.org/grants/
The MAP Fund invests in performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. MAP is the longest running private funding source for new performance works in the United States and its territories. Since 1989, MAP has championed cultural equity and formal innovation in performance practices with an investment of more than $34 million. Over three decades, thousands of artists have received grants and strategic support for groundbreaking projects that interrogate presumptive cultural norms, challenge entrenched ideologies, and remind us over and over again of our shared humanity.
This year, MAP will make a significant $2.6M+ dollar investment in the performance sector. 85 grantees will receive a $25,000 grant for the creation and development of new, live performance projects and a $5,000 unrestricted general operating grant. MAP aims to make the application process as supported as possible. See frequently asked questions and application tips, reach out to MAP staff via email or phone call, or request project description assistance.
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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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