ICE Announcements 10.24.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP and Info Session (deadline 10/26)
2. Introductory Community Rights Workshop (10/25)
3. Lecture: Marie Svoboda (10/24)
4. Panel: Careers in Publishing (10/25)
5. Film Industry Lunch & Learn (10/26)
6. Conversation and Screening: Marguerite Abouet and Alain Gomis (10/26)
7. Film Night: Through a Lens Darkly (10/26)
8. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
9. Opportunity: MAP Fund (deadline 10/30)
10. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
11. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/13)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Call for Proposals
Deadline: Thursday, October 26
*Information Session*
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
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. 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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3. Lecture: Marie Svoboda
Tuesday, October 24 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
"The APPEAR Collaboration: A Comparative Study of Ancient Romano-Egyptian Mummy Portraits"
Certainly the most vivid painted portraits to survive from antiquity are the more than 1000 painted portraits of men, women, and children that survive from mummy cases from Roman Egypt, commonly known as Fayum portraits. Dating from the first to third century AD and painted in nuanced combinations of wax encaustic and tempera, these portraits reflect the hybrid Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture of Roman Egypt. How and why were these images made? What can new imaging and scientific analysis reveal about the artistic choices and practices of their creation? Marie Svoboda, director of the international Getty-led APPEAR (Ancient Panel Painting: Examination, Analysis, and Research) Project, presents most recent discoveries.
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4. Panel: Careers in Publishing
Wednesday, October 25 at 2:30 PM
Park Hall 265
A panel of publishing professionals will answer questions about breaking into this exciting field. This event is hosted by the Undergraduate English Association, the University of Georgia Press, and the Georgia Review. All are welcome!
Panel participants include: Jenny Gropp, Managing Editor of The Georgia Review; Jason Bennett, UGA Press Publicist and Social Media Manager; Walter Biggins, UGA Press Executive Editor; Laura Solomon, Public Outreach & Digital Projects, The Georgia Review; Rebecca Norton, UGA Press Production Editor.
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5. Film Industry Lunch & Learn
Thursday, October 26 from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Dean Rusk Hall, Larry Walker Room
Featuring Georgia Film Commissioner Craig Dominey. Meet key members of the Georgia Production Partnership and Atlanta's Film Commission. Learn how Athens and surrounding areas can have a piece of the $9.5 billion film industry.
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6. Conversation and Screening: Marguerite Abouet and Alain Gomis
Thursday, October 26 at 5 PM
Cine Lab, 234 West Hancock Ave.
A conversation with the French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Abouet and filmmaker Alain Gomis will include contributions from UGA faculty members and a public reception and book signing with Avid Bookshop. The reception begins at 5 p.m. and the conversation at 5:30. The event will be followed by a free screening of Gomis's film "Felicite" at 7:15. Sponsored by the Willson Center, the department of Romance languages, and the Consulate General of France in Atlanta.
Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Marguerite Abouet moved to Paris, where she currently resides, at the age of 12. She is the author of the graphic novel series Aya of Yop City. As a screenwriter, Abouet has provided the scripts for television and film, including the film adaptation of her graphic novels and the Dakar-based series "C'est la vie" for TV5 Afrique. Additionally, she is the founder "Livres pour tous" ("Books for all"), an organization dedicated to making books more accessible to children across Africa through the creation of neighborhood libraries.
Alain Gomis is a French-Bissau-Guinean-Senegalese filmmaker and director. Born and raised in Paris, he studied art history and cinema at the Sorbonne. He began his career with short films, such as 1999's "Tourbillon." In 2001, his first feature length film, "L'Afrance," which sheds light on the difficulties facing immigrants in France, won the Silver Leopard award at the Locarno film festival. Next came "Andalucia," presented at the 2007 in Venice, followed by "Aujourd'hui" and "Felicite," which both received the Yennenga Golden Stallion at the FESPACO Festival in 2013 and 2017, respectively.
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7. Film Night: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Thursday, October 26 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
Directed by Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" is the first documentary to reveal photography's role in shaping the cultural identity of African Americans from slavery to the present era. The documentary is in part inspired by the work of photo historian Deborah Willis and features the work of distinguished historical photographers such as James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks as well as numerous contemporary photographers including Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Hank Willis Thomas who are also featured in the Georgia Museum of Art's presentation of Mickalene Thomas's "Muse."
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8. 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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9. MAP Fund Call for Proposals
Deadline: October 30
https://mapfundblog.org
The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that exploration drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports original live performance projects that embody a spirit of deep inquiry. In particular, MAP is interested in supporting artists that question, disrupt, complicate, and challenge inherited notions of social and cultural hierarchy across the current American landscape.
As an anti-racist organization that does not support cultural appropriation, or oppressive project language, structures, or content, MAP supports artists who are trying to offer alternative artistic and social paradigms. MAP supports projects that 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.
The program pursues its mission by welcoming applications for aesthetically-diverse, live performance projects that operate in dialogue with the current socio-political climate, and by employing a new group of peer reviewers and panelists each year who are empowered to recommend the projects they believe most align with our goals through a rigorous evaluation process that is moderated by MAP staff.
MAP awards $1 million annually to up to 40 projects in the range of $10,000 - $45,000 per grant. The key features of the program are:
An open submission policy: MAP welcomes applications from artists and organizations across the US. Committed to the fullest expression of inclusivity, we hope to discover the freshest ideas and practices in the field, thus continuously seeding new growth.
Panelists and reviewers who are committed to the Fund's ideals: To review applications, MAP hires artists and arts professionals who have demonstrated their own excellence of craft, leadership, and spirit of generosity to their peers. Their guiding role in MAP award selections allows the program to be responsive to movement in the field, as well as the socio-political moment, rather than to be prescriptive. MAP invests full authority in reviewers and panelists to interpret the program goals according to that knowledge and expertise, within facilitated conversations.
Reviewers and panelists reflect the range of diversities MAP supports in its grantees (aesthetic, racial, ethnic, gender, geographic, career stage, independent artists and those connected to institutions).
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10. 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.
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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11. Campus Sustainability Grants
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 13
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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