ICE Announcements 10.18.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP and Info Sessions (deadline 10/26)
2. ICE-Vision: Dogville (10/18)
3. Introductory Community Rights Workshop (10/25)
4. Screening: Aya of Yop City (10/19)
5. Music in the Galleries: Safety Second (10/19)
6. Third Thursday (10/19)
7. Concert on the Lawn (10/20)
8. Conversations on Muses (10/20)
9. A Creative Life: Conversation with James Ponsoldt (10/21)
10. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
11. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
12. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grant (deadline 11/13)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Call for Proposals
Deadline: Thursday, October 26
*Information Sessions*
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Thursday, October 19 at 9:30 AM
Wednesday, October 25 at 3:30 PM
Stop by ICE to find out more about the Idea Lab Mini Grants. Share project ideas, look for collaborators, and ask questions.
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects. Special consideration will be given to projects with themes about, by, or for marginalized populations.
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include title or majors and role in project)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Project outcomes
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be a UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 5 PM.
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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2. ICE-Vision: Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2004)
Wednesday, October 18 at 6:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School Building, Room S150
https://www.facebook.com/events/521964084834845/
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.
The return of ICE-Vision! https://www.facebook.com/groups/icevision/
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3. Introductory Community Rights Workshop
Wednesday, October 25 from 6 - 9 PM
State Botanical Garden of Georgia, The Gardenside Room
Free registration: http://tinyurl.com/cienfuegosworkshop
A workshop led by activist Paul Cienfuegos that introduces to Athens the powerful strategies and history of the Community Rights Movement. Since 1999, the Community Rights Movement has helped hundreds of communities pass locally-enforceable laws that promote rights of nature, such as the right of ecosystems to flourish and evolve, democratic rights, such as the right of local community to self-government, and workers' rights, such as the right to living wages. First introduced to the U.S. by the Community Rights Movement, the "rights of nature" are radical, new laws that grant natural entities, such as rivers, legal personhood, allowing nature for the first time to be represented in court and to effectively fight corporate and governmental threats. Limited spaces are available.
Affiliated with the "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" project funded by an a2ru Student Challenge Grant with additional support from Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts a2ru Research Cluster.
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4. Screening: Aya of Yop City
Thursday, October 19 at 5 PM
Gilbert Hall, Room 118
In colorful animation and accompanied by an eclectic mix of vibrant period music, "Aya of Yop City" tells the stories of a group of adolescents growing up in 1970s Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The film was directed by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie, the co-creators of the popular comic book / graphic novel series on which it is based. Aya will be shown in French with English subtitles. Abouet will take part in a public conversation with French-African filmmaker Alain Gomis at Cine on October 26, which will include a book signing with Avid Bookshop. That event and the Aya screening are co-sponsored by the French Consulate in Atlanta, the Willson Center, and the department of Romance languages.
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5. Music in the Galleries: Safety Second
Thursday, October 19 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd Galleries
Safety Second is a flute and percussion duo dedicated to the performance of new music. They seek to break the mold of traditional performance practice and to engage with their audience. For their first recital, held at the Dodd Galleries, the duo asks the audience to move about the gallery during the performance to view the exhibition "Rosemary Mayer: Beware of All Definitions" and to encourage the experience of new and different sounds.
Alexis Letourneau (flute) is in her fourth year of her music education degree at the University of Georgia, studying under the tutelage of Angela Jones-Reus. Nick Martinez (percussion) is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of Georgia. He is majoring in Music Education and Music Theory at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and is a member of the UGA Percussion Studio.
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6. Third Thursday
Thursday, October 19 from 6 - 9 PM
http://3Thurs.org
Seven of Athens' established venues for visual art hold "Third Thursday," an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Cine, the Classic Center and ATHICA will be open to showcase their visual-arts programming.
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7. Concert on the Lawn
Friday, October 20 at 12:30 PM
UGA North Campus Lawn
A Hugh Hodgson School of Music fall tradition continues with this year's Concert On The Lawn. The concert -- featuring the Hodgson School's premier wind band, the Hodgson Wind Ensemble, with special guests the UGA Jazz Ensemble -- leans into its proximity to Halloween with a theme of "Witches and Wizards." Pieces from "The Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz," "Wicked" and the "Harry Potter" series join Sousa marches and Karl King's "Invictus" on the program. Audience interaction and participation have been hallmarks of the Concert On The Lawn tradition, so attendees can expect to enjoy and be part of the performance.
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8. Conversations on Muses
Friday, October 20 at 12:20 PM
This fall, the Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series will highlight the exhibition, "Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tete-a-tete" through a gallery tour and discussion led by curator Dr. Shawnya Harris in collaboration with the UGA departments of Women's Studies and African-American Studies.
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9. A Creative Life: Conversation with James Ponsoldt
Saturday, October 21 at 5 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
https://willson.uga.edu/event/a-creative-life-conversation-with-james-ponsoldt/
A conversation about a life and career in the arts and humanities with filmmaker James Ponsoldt, who will visit Athens for a day of events at Cine in celebration of the Willson Center's 30th anniversary. Ponsoldt will take part in this public discussion with Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and director of the Willson Center.
A public reception will begin at 5 p.m. in the CineLab, and the conversation will begin at 5:30. Ponsoldt will also introduce screenings of Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 adaptation of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show, at 3 p.m., and his own critically acclaimed 2013 film The Spectacular Now, which was filmed in Athens, at 7:15. All events are free and open to the public.
Books by Tim Tharp, author of the novel on which The Spectacular Now is based, McMurtry, Bogdanovich and more will be available from Avid Bookshop.
James Ponsoldt was raised in Athens, and received his bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as an M.F.A. in directing from Columbia University. His films include The Spectacular Now, The End of the Tour, The Circle, Smashed, and Off the Black. Films that James has written and/or directed have won multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival, been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, and been honored by the National Board of Review. James directed the pilot for the Netflix series "Master of None," co-wrote the graphic novel Refresh, Refresh (selected by Alison Bechdel for Best American Comics), and is developing films with Disney, A24, Fox, and Plan B.
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10. Call for Participation: North Oconee River Project
North Oconee River Project is an interdisciplinary, student-led, grant-funded project that engages community members, artists, and legal experts in an effort to draft local legislation that grants legal personhood to the North Oconee River in Athens, GA. The project draws its inspiration from the Community Rights Movement that, for the past two decades, has worked to prevent corporate and governmental harm on the environment by helping pass locally enforceable "rights of nature" laws that treat natural entities, such as rivers, as having the right to be healthy and to thrive.
North Oconee River Project is seeking participants who are interested in assisting our team with any of the following activities:
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending environmental events on campus and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending community-organizing events in the Athens community and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing the North Oconee River Project by tabling at the West Broad and/or Athens Farmer's Markets. Involves providing people with information about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Distributing flyers on campus and at various businesses and community centers in Athens.
If you are interested in participating, please email Carla Cao: [log in to unmask]
Affiliated with the "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" project funded by an a2ru Student Challenge Grant with additional support from Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts a2ru Research Cluster.
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11. CURO Research Assistantships
Deadline for Spring: November 1
http://curo.uga.edu/
Information Sessions:
From finding a faculty mentor to applying for CURO funding, our information sessions are designed to help you get the most out of your research experience at UGA.
Monday, Oct 23, 1:25-2:15pm
Tuesday, Nov 7, 11-11:50am
The CURO Research Assistantship (CRA) supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Assistantships are one-semester awards for either Fall, Spring, or Summer. Assistantship students are encouraged to register for academic credit regardless of major, GPA, or Honors status. All Assistantship recipients are required to present their research at the spring CURO Symposium. If beneficial for their programs of study, students may conduct research with faculty members outside their department, college or school.
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12. Campus Sustainability Grant
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Pre-Proposal- October 13th
Proposal- November 13th
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
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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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