ICE Announcements 11.11.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Conversation: CREATE Athens with Erin Barger (11/15)
2. UGA Spotlight on the Arts (until 11/17)
3. Lecture: Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely (11/12)
4. 4'33" Spotlight on Arts Scholarship Competition (11/12)
5. Mark Menjivar Events (11/14-15)
6. Spotlight on the Arts: Student Spotlight (11/14)
7. Performance: By Our Hands (11/16-17)
8. Foodshed UGA Fall Forum (rsvp 11/13)
9. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/11)
10. Opportunity: Cynosure Magazine (deadline 11/15)
11. MAP Fund Grants (deadline 11/25)
12. Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/2)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: CREATE Athens with Erin Barger
Friday, November 15 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
What is the role of the arts in Athens community development? Join Erin Barger, Project Manager of Envision Athens to learn more about the CREATE Athens action group. CREATE Athens recently produced a report about the impact of arts and culture in Athens in three key areas: economic development, education, and civic engagement.
Erin Barger entered the role of Project Manager for Envision Athens after serving as a citizen representative on the Steering Committee for this movement in 2017. Erin brings to this role nearly two decades of community development work, ranging from work in disability supports and advocacy, refugee resettlement, service as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in China, and then nearly a decade of addressing poverty in the beloved community of Athens, Georgia. For more information visit:
https://envisionathens.com
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2. UGA Spotlight on the Arts Events
November 6 - 17
https://www.arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/
The University of Georgia's annual Spotlight on the Arts festival returns for its eighth year with dozens of exhibitions and performances in the visual, literary and performing arts from Nov. 6 - 17.
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3. Lecture: Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Tuesday, November 12 at 5 PM
Park Hall 265
"Literature, Culture, and Activism in the African American Freedom Struggle"
Peggy Preacely participated in the historic 1960s Freedom Rides with Georgia activists Julian Bond and Rep. John Lewis. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, Maryland, and other southern states, she registered voters in rural communities as a member of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). In the North, she worked to desegregate schools in Boston. She is the great great granddaughter of William and Ellen Craft, fugitive slaves and transatlantic activists from Macon, Georgia; a descendant of the Sally Hemings family; and a great niece to William Monroe Trotter, the founder of Boston's Guardian, an important early black newspaper of the Civil Rights Movement. She has published original poetry about her civil rights experiences, and is composing a collection of short stories about her formative years in Harlem. Her talk focuses on the intersection of literature with her own and others' civil rights and social justice activism.
Sponsored by the English Department's Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series, the Institute for African American Studies, and Cindy Hahamovitch, R. Phinizy Spalding Professor of Southern History at the University of Georgia.
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4. 4'33" Spotlight on Arts Scholarship Competition
Tuesday, November 12 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
This competition highlights scholarly research by UGA students about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theater, dance, film, literature, media arts or performance art. Focusing on historical, theoretical and critical research in the arts, the competition provides an opportunity for students to present their research to the university community.
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5. Mark Menjivar Events
ATHICA, 675 Pulaski St. Suite 1200
Thursday, November 14 at 6 PM
Panel discussion with visiting artist Mark Menjivar and faculty from the UGA Latin America and Caribbean Studies Institute on the intersection of violence in Central America and American policies.
Friday, November 15 at 12:30 PM
Activation/Performance/Talk by visiting artist Mark Menjivar, related to the exhibited work "DLP." This ongoing project examines the full contents of convicted murderer David Lee Powell's cell at the time of his execution in 2010, which ended his 32-years on death row.
Mark Menjivar is a San Antonio-based artist and Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. His work explores diverse subjects through photography, archives, oral history and objects. He holds a BA in Social Work from Baylor University and an MFA in Social Practice from Portland State University. Menjivar has engaged in projects at venues including the Rothko Chapel, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Houston Center for Photography, The San Antonio Museum of Art, The Puerto Rican Museum of Art and Culture, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum. Mark's work has been featured by Artforum, TED, NPR, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Gastronomica, National Geographic, Orion Magazine, GUP Magazine, and more.
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6. Spotlight on the Arts: Student Spotlight
Thursday, November 14 from 10 AM - 4 PM
Tate Student Center, Tate Plaza
An all-day event featuring performances from student organizations and individuals displaying their talents in music, theater, dance and creative writing.
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7. [The GA Incarceration Performance Project] Presents: By Our Hands
Fine Arts Theatre
Saturday, November 16, 2019 - 8:00pm
Sunday, November 17, 2019 - 2:30pm
A first-of-its-kind endeavor, By Our Hands is a cross-institutional theatrical experience between Spelman College, the University of Georgia, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners. The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate our relationship with incarceration, race, and the impact of forced labor through dance, media, and dramatic performance. This unique experience will be limited to four shows only.
This production is available free to the public due to the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Willson Center for the Humanities & Arts, the Ferman Fund, the McCay Fund, and the Franklin Excellence Fund.
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8. Foodshed UGA Fall Forum
Wednesday, November 13 from 3 - 5 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foodshed-community-forum-tickets-78401935299/
Foodshed UGA is working with the ACC Recycling Division and other partners to host a Fall Forum that will highlight some of the great work being done in this community. The Foodshed Fall Forum will include three panels of community leaders who are dedicated to working in the fields of food production, food access and food waste. Free and open to the public. Foodshed UGA is a new initiative that aims to address problems with food production, access and waste by connecting sustainable food practices to the collaborative efforts of UGA affiliates and community partners. For more information visit:
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/foodshed/
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9. Campus Sustainability Grants
Applications due November 11, 2019 at 9 AM
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/sustainability-grants/
Ideas for Creative Exploration and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a UGA Campus Sustainability Grant. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts.
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.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit sustainability.uga.edu.
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10. Call for Submissions: Cynosure Magazine
Deadline: November 15
Cynosure Magazine is an annual thematic publication based at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. We are looking for visual art, design, creative writing, or research that addresses this year's theme, See You//See Me. We are asking the following questions: How do you illuminate the unknown? Make the invisible visible? Give space to the marginalized? Give voice to the unheard? Shine a light on what's in the dark?
Submission Requirements:
Visual Art/Design/Writing/Research
5 Images maximum at 300 DPI in .JPEG or .PNG format
10 pages maximum in .PDF or .DOC format
Send submissions to: [log in to unmask]
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11. MAP Fund Grants
Deadline: November 25
https://mapfundblog.org
MAP invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining -- and ultimately co-creating -- a more equitable and vibrant society. MAP awards $1 million annually, to up to 45 projects in the range of $10,000-$45,000 per grant.
The grant supports original live performance projects that embody a spirit of deep inquiry, particularly works created by artists who question, disrupt, complicate, and challenge inherited notions of social and cultural hierarchy across the United States.
Funded projects address these concerns through the processes of creating and distributing live performance to the public, and/or through the content and themes of the work itself. MAP is committed to intersectional anti-racism, and does not support cultural appropriation or oppressive project language, structures, or content.
The program pursues its mission by annually welcoming applications for new live performance projects. Each year, MAP hires a different cohort of peer reviewers who recommend the projects they believe most align with MAP's goals through a rigorous, facilitated review process.
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12. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 2 at 5 PM
http://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
UGA Libraries is hosting the 2019 Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $3,000 in prizes.
Guidelines: Explain a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top three undergraduate and graduate submissions each receive prizes of $1,000, $350, and $150.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
Contest Criteria:
Clarity of expression
Creativity
Appeal to a broad audience
Formats: Any and all formats and genres are encouraged! Examples include: essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, music, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction, and exhibits. See last years' winners and submissions for more examples. Sponsored by: UGA Libraries & The Office of Research
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