ICE Announcements 1.19.10 http://ice.uga.edu --- 1. Chris Pizzino Lecture (1/19) 2. Jim Herbert Lecture (1/19) 3. Civil Rights in Southwest Georgia (1/20) 4. Poetry Reading: Amish Trivedi and Lily Brown (1/20) 5. Glenda Goss Lecture (1/21) 6. Bill Berkson Poetry Reading (1/21) 7. ICE-Vision: Wizards (1/21) 8. Milky-Milk Time (1/24) 9. NEA Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing (3/4) 10. Mail Art Show (call for entries) 11. Call for Submissions: SIGGRAPH 2010 (multiple deadlines) 12. Cine Screenings and Events More listings at: http://iceannouncements.com --- 1. Chris Pizzino Lecture Tuesday, January 19 at 4:30 PM Reception will follow the talk in Park Hall 261 Chris Pizzino, a Lecturer in the English Department, will present a talk entitled "Autoclastic Icons: Cracking the Problem of Legitimacy in Charles Burns's Black Hole." Prof. Pizzino earned his PhD at Rutgers and joined the Department in 2007, teaching science fiction and fantasy writing, graphic novels, as well as surveys of American literature. He has published articles in ELN, Postmodern Culture, and Concordiensis and is finishing a book manuscript titled "Arrested Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature." --- 2. Jim Herbert to Give Artist Lecture on His Present Exhibition, "New York Paintings" Tuesday, January 19th at 5:30pm Gallery 101 Main Art Building 270 River Road Athens, GA 30602 Free and Open to the Public --- 3. Civil Rights in Southwest Georgia: A Panel Discussion Wednesday, January 20, 12:00 PM Russell Library Auditorium Screening of the recent panel discussion with Albany Movement activists, Rutha Harris and Rev. Charles M. Sherrod; Americus Movement activists, Sandra Mansfield and Carol Barner Seay; African & Diaspora film producer, Pamela Kohn; and moderator Prof. Barbara McCaskill. McCaskill will provide some historical and cultural background of Albanys place in the Civil Rights Movement, and English Ph.D. Candidate Lauren Chambers will speak on her experiences with interviewing the activists. This event takes place in the Sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the Institute for African American Studies and the Freedom on Film Project. --- 4. Poetry Reading: Amish Trivedi and Lily Brown Wednesday, January 20 at 7 PM 261 Park Hall Free and open to the public Tarpaulin Sky journal and the UGA English Dept present a Poetry Reading Featuring Amish Trivedi, UGA alumnus and Tarpaulin Sky News Editor & Lily Brown, UGA doctoral student and Tarpaulin Sky author. Amish Trivedi is available for children's parties and your dog's wedding. Poems of his have appeared in the Backwards City Review, La Petite Zine, and his chapbooks are available from Beard of Bees and Cannibal Press, which has just published his latest collection, Museum of Vandals . He lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he is working on his MFA from Brown. Lily Brown's first book, Rust or Go Missing, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Poetry Center . Her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, and Denver Quarterly, among other journals. Her chapbook, Old with You, is available from Kitchen Press. --- 5. Glenda Goss Lecture Thursday, January 21 at 4 PM Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Recital Hall Former UGA student and faculty member and current lecturer at Finland's Sibelius Academy talks about her new book on the Finnish composer. --- 6. Bill Berkson Poetry Reading Thursday, January 21, at 7 PM Cine, downtown Athens Free and open to the public. Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher, and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since the late 1950s. His recent poetry books include Gloria, with etchings by Alex Katz; Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently; Goods and Services;Whats Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985, an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer; Bill, a words- and-images collaboration with Colter Jacobsen; and Ted Berrigan, a collaboration with George Schneeman. Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems just appeared from Coffee House Press. He has written extensively, for journals like Artnews, Artforum, and Art in America, on such artists as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joan Mitchell, Rosemarie Trockel, Joe Brainard, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Piero della Francesca, Vermeer, and Ronald Bladen. Selections of his criticism include The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006. Awarded the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Berkson was Distinguished Paul Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. He lives in San Francisco and New York. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program. --- 7. ICE-Vision: Wizards (Ralph Bakshi, 1977) Thursday, January 21 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. "Fiercely indie animator Ralph Bakshi made more coherent films than Wizards, and he made more whacked-out, phantasmagorical ones. But none have been so wildly, weirdly ambitious as Wizards, which he's described as a personal movie about the formation of Israel and the rise of fascism, but which takes the form of a dark, sloppy fairy tale pitting elves and fairies against Nazi propaganda - an unforgettably original film that's slyly sour and cynical about fantasy tropes. The ending is a classic piece of bitter shock cinema." -AV Club --- 8. Milky-Milk Time: an afternoon of pro-breast-feeding events Children's Activities - Presentations - Music - Nurse-In Sunday, January 24 from 3 -6 PM* *Gallery opens at 1:00 p.m. for exhibit viewing ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art http://www.athica.org Parents and parents-to-be are welcomed to ATHICA to enjoy the "Nurture" exhibit and fascinating presentations on breastfeeding by expert panelists - all while their children have fun with experienced children's dance teacher Lisa Yaconelli in the adjacent Floorspace Creative Movement Center. The gals from Alpha Omicron Pi sorority will be on hand to babysit children 6 mos. and up ($5.00 suggested donation per child). 3 - 3:30: Parents view exhibit/child-care drop off at Floorspace Creative Movement Center for dance/babysitting (Child care runs til 5:00 p.m.) $5.00 suggested donation per child. Presentations & Q&A 3:30: The Importance of Support to Successful Breastfeeding -Pat Nielsen, M.Ed., CLC, LCCE, Director of Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center 3:45: Current Breastfeeding Rates and Barriers To Continuation -Melanie Garland, RN, ICLBC 4:00: Nursing is Normal in Athens - A Photography Project in the Making -Alexa Shea, Doula and Susan Fisher, Certified Nurse Midwife 4:15: Breastfeeding Q&A Panel -With all presenters and Dr. Kristina StClaire, Pediatrician & Breastfeeding Workplace Expert 4:45: Nurse In Begins Parent interaction and child care pick-up 5:00: Tunes for Kiddiewinkles, performed by Charlotte Lee and Mandy Jane Reception with Refreshments --- 9. NEA Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Deadline: March 4, 2010 www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Lit/index.html Fellowships in poetry are available in FY 2011 to published creative writers. Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applicants must have published within the past seven years a volume of 48 or more pages of poetry; or 20 or more different poems or pages of poetry in five or more literary journals, anthologies or publications which regularly include petry as a portion of their format. Applicants may use online publications to establish up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such publications have competitive selection processes and stated editorial policies. Fellowships are $25,000. --- 10. Call for Entries Athens Academy Mail Art Show February 22 - March 31, 2010 Bertelsmann Gallery Before the internet, artists shared their talents in Mail Art Shows. To reprise those events, we are inviting artists to create and submit postcard-size artwork with original ideas, images, photos or comments. Both sides of the card will be displayed. To be part of this historic event, all entries should be mailed to: Lawrence Stueck Athens Academy P.O Box 6548 Athens, Georgia 30604 Submitted artwork will become part of the school's permanent collection. --- 11. Call for Submissions: SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, now in its 37th year, have announced their 2010 call for submissions. There are a number of different opportunities to participate - including Emerging Technologies demos, papers on Games and Gaming, a Computer Animation Festival and more. Be advised: there are separate deadlines for each call. SIGGRAPH 2010 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 25- 29. For more information visit: www.siggraph.org/s2010/ --- 12. 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