ICE Announcements 1.31.12
http://ice.uga.edu
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*ICE-Sponsored*
1. The Food Project: Fireside Salon Dinner (2/2)
2. UGA Nourish International & ICE-Vision: God Grew Tired of Us (2/2)
*Events and Opportunities*
1. 6X6 Media Arts Event (1/31)
2. Performance: The Meeting (2/1)
3. Reading by Poet Todd Boss (2/1)
4. Reception: Welcome Nicholas Allen (2/2 rescheduled from 1/25)
5. Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century British Literature (2/2)
6. Film: Black Dynamite (2/2)
7. Lecture: Alexis Boylan (2/2)
8. ATHICA:The Grit-Off & Keep Hope Alive (2/3)
9. Performance: Joe Goode Performance Group (2/5)
10. Opportunity: NEA Art Education: Art Works (deadlines 3/8, 8/9)
11. Opportunity: FLUX 2012 Call for Proposals (deadline 4/30)
12. Opportunity: Creative Capital (deadline 3/1)
13. Cine Screenings and Events
For more listings visit http://iceannouncements.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration
Twitter: http://twitter.com/iceuga
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*ICE-Sponsored*
1. The Food Project: Fireside Salon Dinner
Thursday, February 2 at 7 PM
Cine, downtown Athens
We have thoroughly enjoyed meeting everybody and sparking ideas off each other and gathering
your stories, memories and thoughts. As we've mentioned, we would love to gather us all (and
other guests you may wish to invite) for a Fireside 'salon' dinner (minus the ponceyness...
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poncey?q=poncy) Thursday, 2nd January at 7pm at Cine
on 234 West Hancock Avenue (http://athenscine.com/location.php).
The evening will be informal and relaxed with occasional bursts of challenge for our dear brains.
You will get an opportunity to have a drink and a catch-up, exchange stories with different people
and engage in group discussions. You may also suggest a topic of conversation, present an idea or
talk about a project you've been working on. And all along, you will be guzzling liquor and gorging
yourself on food (or tenderly sipping and gently nibbling if you're a stickler for table manners or
madly intoxicating yourself and insatiably devouring everything if food is a rather more decadent
experience for you)! To serve this scope, we kindly ask you to bring a dish or your choosing, a dish
that may mean something special to you, may spark a memory, may be your favorite dish to cook,
or may just be the easiest thing to pick up in the grocery store. (Drinks will be available to buy at
the Cine bar).
All in all, we'd like to bring together all the people who have helped us shape the first stages of our
Food Project and share with you the ideas and artistic endeavors that have started to emerge,
poking their heads out of the darkness of confusion into the sunshine like little radish leaves in
spring (see what I did there?...particularly when you consider that their Greek name, Raphanus,
means "quickly appearing").
Let's all eat food, talk about food and drink and have a merry good time!
Please RSVP by noon on Wednesday, [log in to unmask] Thank you!
For more information visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Food-
Project/327026567338013
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2. UGA Nourish International & ICE-Vision: God Grew Tired of Us (Christopher Quinn, 2006)
Thursday, February 2 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE's informal weekly series, selecting a variety of
world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.
"Three Sudanese men struggle to adjust to life in the United States -- from their perspective, a
very strange place -- in this affecting and well-made culture-shock documentary. The central
figures are members of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, tens of thousands of young men separated from
their families, who oftentimes were murdered, during that nation's horrific civil war." -San
Francisco Chronicle
"So much history and geography is covered in "God Grew Tired of Us," and the human story it
conveys is so moving and so charged with ambiguous moral lessons, that it seems almost
irresponsible to complain about it on formal or historical grounds. Let's put it this way: This is an
important film. It's amazing that it exists, and the events it recounts are still more amazing.
Everybody should see it." -Salon
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*Events and Opportunities*
1. 6X6 Media Arts Event
Tuesday, January 31 at 7 PM
Cine, downtown Athens
Get ready for the first 6X6 Media Arts Event of 2012, featuring the innovative musical
collaborationist Kai Riedl. He will be sharing music from his latest collaborative project with
Electrophoria and the premiere of his new generative audiovisual work. Additional video
projections will feature the work of Nick Gould, Ken Henslee, Lauren Fancher, and Lisbon artist Jan
Van Bruggen. Riedl will also be giving away downloads to free music.
Kai Riedl is a musical collaborationist who seeks new approaches to cultural diplomacy through art,
embracing geographic and creative constraints while connecting audiences and performers
through electronic media.
6X6 creates collaborative media arts events featuring short video, film, performance, sound, or
other time-based combination works. Be a part of it! Submit! All details at:
http://hexadic.blogspot.com
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2. Performance: The Meeting
Wednesday, February 1 at 6 PM
Chapel
A play that dramatizes a conversation between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., two
influential Civil Rights icons.
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3. Reading by Poet Todd Boss
Wednesday, February 1 at 7 PM
Cine
The Georgia Review and the Georgia Poetry Circuit present a reading by award-winning poet Todd
Boss, author of the books Yellowrocket (2008) and the forthcoming Pitch (February 2012). Boss'
poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Poetry, The London Times, The New Yorker, and in
the annual Best American Poetry collection.
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4. Willson Center Reception
Thursday, February 2 at 5 PM
Georgia Center, Pecan Tree Galleria
Reception for For Nicholas Allen, new Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Hosted by Jane Willson.
A scholar of Irish literature and culture, Allen has published five books. He is the author of
Modernism, Ireland and Civil War and George Russell and the New Ireland. He is the editor of The
Letters and Papers of Ernie O'Malley, 1924-1957 with Cormac O'Malley; That Island Never Found:
Essays and Poems for Terence Brown with Eve Patten; The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics by
Gerald Dawe; and Cities of Belfast with Aaron Kelly. Allen also has published more than 30 articles
and reviews.
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5. Georgia Colloquium in 18th & 19th Century British Literature: "The Biographical Challenge of the
Early Black Atlantic: The Case of Phillis Wheatley"
Thursday, February 2 at 5 PM
Hargrett Library, Auditorium
Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley, a figure whose origins
and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status. In the course of his research he
discovered the earliest poem attributable to Wheatley. Dr. Carretta addresses in his talk the
challenge of reconstructing the lives of early black authors in general, and Phillis Wheatley in
particular. Assessing Wheatley's entire body of work, he discusses the likely role she played in the
production, marketing, and distribution of her writing. Wheatley developed a remarkable
transatlantic network that transcended racial, class, political, religious, and geographical
boundaries. Dr. Carretta reconstructs that network and sheds new light on her religious and
political identities. He also tells how he solved the mystery of who Wheatley's husband was and
what happened to him following her death. Carretta relocates Wheatley from the margins to the
center of her eighteenth-century transatlantic world, revealing the fascinating life of a woman who
rose from the indignity of enslavement to earn wide recognition, only to die in obscurity a few
years later.
This event is funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund,
the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and UGA Press.
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6. African Diaspora Film Festival
Thursday, February 2 at 7 PM
Zell B. Miller Learning Center, Room 248
"Black Dynamite" (Scott Sanders, 2009), a satire of blaxploitation films tells the story of an African-
American action star of the 1970s who sets out in search of justice when his only brother is killed.
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7. Lecture: Alexis Boylan
Thursday, February 2 at 5 PM
The Two Mrs. Sloans: Problems of Biography and Feminism in Art History
Alexis L. Boylan is Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut in the
departments of Art and Art History and Women's Studies. She received her B.A. in history from Bryn
Mawr College and her Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University. Her research focus is on
American art from the colonial to the contemporary periods, with particular emphasis on race and
gender. Boylan is editor of Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall (Duke University Press, 2011).
She has completed her manuscript, Man on the Street: Masculinity, Urbanism, and Ashcan Art, a
study that examines the Ashcan circle of artists and their visual commentaries on urban
masculinity. Boylan's new book project, The Case of the Two Mrs. Sloans, uses the extraordinary
lives of the two wives of artist John Sloan to critically consider the cultural roles and meanings of
different stages of identity for heterosexual women, namely the positions of wife, mistress, and
widow.
Boylan has published in Rethinking Marxism, Prospects, and has a forthcoming article in Woman's
Art Journal. She has also contributed essays to recent museum exhibition catalogues including
Seeing the City: John Sloan's New York (Yale University Press and the Delaware Art Museum, 2007)
and Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, (University of South Carolina Press and
the Gibbes Museum of Art, 2008).
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8. ATHICA's The Grit-Off & Keep Hope Alive event night
Friday, February 3 at 7 PM
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to invite the public to enjoy the Grit-Off, a grits
competition judged by local foodies. Tasting will occur while we enjoy Keep Hope Alive, a
provocative performance art piece by Ted Kuhn addressing the relationship between the Hope
Scholarship and the Georgia Lottery.
The "Best Grits in Town" Competitors are:
5&10, Donderos Kitchen, Epting Catering, Farm 255, The Grit, Harry's Pig
Shop, Heirloom Cafe and Fresh Market, HomeMade Catering, Last Resort,
Mama's Boy, The National, NoNa, & White Tiger Gourmet
Libations generously
provided by The Beer Growler
This event is affiliated with ATHICA's 44th exhibition, Southern, which features many never-
before- seen works which explore the emotional depth and aesthetic diversity of nine artists -
spanning four generations -- who are interrelated in their "radical contemporaneity." Through
photography, video, and sculpture, they present an aesthetically rich installation that questions
boundaries between art and religion, aesthetic and documentary practice, and folk and fine art.
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9. Performance: Joe Goode Performance Group
Sunday, February 5 at 3 PM
Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Theatre
Tickets: http://tickets.perfcenter.uga.edu/single/psDetail.aspx?psn=640
Presented in cooperation with the UGA Department of Dance, Dance Repertory Project.
Based in the San Fransisco area, the Joe Goode Performance Group's innovative form of dance-
theatre is accessible, personal, and explores an unbashed emotional terrain with humor and
honesty. Using text, voice, and high-velocity movement, this dynamic company blurs the line
between theatre and dance to create work that is thoughtful and groundbreaking. Maintaining a
robust touring schedule domestically, the company also performs in Europe, Canada, Africa, and
the Middle East. The Joe Goode Performance Group has received awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Isadoa Duncan Dance Award for both choreography and
performance and the New York Dance and Performance Award for choreography.
These performances are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts. Additional suppport provided by the
New England Foundation for the Arts and the UGA Parents & Families Association.
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10. Funding Opportunity: ARTS EDUCATION: Art Works
Application Deadlines:
Community-Based Projects: Thursday, March 8, 2012
School-Based Projects: Thursday, August 9, 2012
http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/artsed.html
Support is available for projects that provide public engagement with the arts. All areas of the arts
will be considered. Engagement activities may include:
- Exhibitions, performances, concerts, and readings.
- Film screenings.
- Touring and outreach activities.
- Restaging of repertory and master works of historical significance.
- Art fairs and festivals.
- Documentation, preservation, and conservation of art work.
- Public programs that raise awareness of cultural heritage.
- Broadcasts on television or radio; video games; mobile apps; live streaming, audio- and
video-on-demand, podcasts, MP3 files, or other digital applications.
- Design charrettes.
- Publication, production, and promotion of digital, audio, mobile, or online publications; books;
magazines; catalogues; and searchable information databases.
- Services to artists and arts organizations.
- Projects that extend the arts to underserved populations - those whose opportunities to
experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability.
- Projects that employ innovative forms of art and design delivery.
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11. FLUX 2012: Call for Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Notification: Monday, April 30, 2012
http://fluxprojects.org/projects/flux2012
Flux Projects supports artists in creating innovative temporary public art throughout Atlanta. The
highlight of our year is FLUX, a one-night event modeled on other international celebrations such
as Toronto's Nuit Blanche. FLUX fills the streets and empty spaces of the Castleberry Hill Arts
District with large and small-scale projections, performances, dance, music, light and sound
installations, and other forms of multimedia works and public interactions. The event will return to
Castleberry on Saturday, October 6, from 8:00 p.m. until midnight.
In general, we are interested in works that are artistically compelling both aesthetically and
conceptually, creative in their approach to public space and human interaction, and that address a
broad audience. We are also interested in projects that involve community participation or address
social concerns. We have a strong preference for projects that run continuously throughout the
evening, though we will consider shorter projects if they bring something compelling to the event.
We are looking for pivotal works with high impact as well as smaller works that activate the street
atmosphere.
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12. Opportunity: Creative Capital Emerging Fields, Performing Arts and Literature
Deadline: Thursday, March 1
http://http://creative-capital.org/apply
Founded in 1999, Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing
integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five
disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in
long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital's pioneering approach to support combines
funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project's success and foster
sustainable practices for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed nearly $25
million in financial and advisory support to 372 projects representing 463 artists, and has reached
an additional 4,000 artists through its Professional Development Program.Creative Capital is the
only national grantmaking and artist service organization for individual artists with an open
application process. Our selection process includes three steps: inquiry, application and panel
review.
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13. Cine Screenings and Events
http://www.athenscine.com
m o v i e s : : : : : : : : : : :
YOUNG ADULT - JAN 27 - FEB 2
CARNAGE - THRU FEB 2
CINEKIDS FAMILY MATINEES:
THE MUPPETS - THRU FEB 2
CLASSIC FILM NOIR SERIES:
DOUBLE INDEMNITY - WED FEB 1
- w/ GUEST SPEAKER ANTJE ASCHIED
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL - THU FEB 2
- w/ BAND MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE FOR Q&A
e v e n t s : : : : : : : : : : :
PEOPLE FOR A BETTER ATHENS PRESENT:
6X6 MEDIA ARTS EVENT: KAI RIEDL - TUE JAN 31
GEORGIA REVIEW READING: TODD BOSS - WED FEB 1
c o m i n g - s o o n : : : : :
CLASSIC FILM NOIR SERIES - JAN / FEB
SHAME - FEBRUARY 3-10
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - FEB 3-10
OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS - FEB
LE HAVRE - FEB 3-10
INTO THE ABYSS - FEB 17-23
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN - FEB
A DANGEROUS METHOD - TBA
THE DESCENDANTS - TBA
THE ARTIST - TBA
THE ROOM - MONTHLY LATE SHOW
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