Ian Garrett

Mammut #2 Release Party

May 4, 2009newsAshwani Vasishth, Bauch, Biannual Magazine, Brym, Camilo, Creative Production, David Snyder, Garrett, Hess, Jaster, Mammut, Maya, Merkel, Nature Landscape, Ontiveros, Pdf Version, Redcat, Teira, Urban Nature, Yank

MAMMUT MAGAZINE :: ISSUE #2 :: LIVING WITH THE CITY

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RELEASE PARTY

The Lounge at REDCAT

Sunday, May 17, 3-6 pm,

Parking: Free street parking on Sundays!

Please join us as we celebrate the release of Mammut #2 at The Lounge at REDCAT. We’ll have copies of the magazine for you to look at and buy, drink specials and a chance to discuss the magazine with the editors and contributors.

MAMMUT #2 has a special focus on on urban nature and features contributions by Nicholas Bauch, Maya Brym, Ian Garrett, Charlie Grosso, Teira Johnson, Gerard Olson, Camilo Ontiveros, Nick Romaniak, David Snyder, Ashwani Vasishth, Sue Yank, and an interview with Ari Kletzsky.

Mammut is edited by Matthias Merkel Hess and Roman Jaster, and designed by Roman Jaster.

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Mammut is a biannual magazine dedicated to all forms of creative production that have a relationship with nature, landscape and environmentalism. To order a print copy or download a free PDF version, please visit http://www.mammutmagazine.org/

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Douglas McLennan: The Ticket Buyer Or The Donor?

May 3, 2009newsArts Organization, Dollar Donation, Douglas Mclennan, Money, Ticket Buyer, Ticket Revenue

Give an arts organization $1000 and they’ll put your name in the program. Buy $1000 worth of tickets and they’ll tell you that the cost of your ticket only covered 55 percent (or 40 percent or 30 percent) of the cost of you being there. Then a few months later, long after the performance, they try to hit you up for more money. Gee thanks.

Maybe this is backwards. Who’s the more valuable member of your community? The person who gives you money but otherwise doesn’t have much to do with you, or the person who buys tickets and shows up for every performance? A thousand dollar donation is the same as $1000 of ticket revenue in the bank. Except it isn’t.

via More Valuable – The Ticket Buyer Or The Donor? – diacritical .

Theatre of the Oppressed Founder Augusto Boal Dies at 78: Theater News on TheaterMania.com – 05/02/2009

May 3, 2009newsAugusto Boal, Health Condition, Long Term Health, May 1, New York City, Theater News

By: Dan BacalzoÂ Â·Â May 2, 2009 Â Â·Â New York

Legendary political theater practitioner, director, and teacher Augusto Boal died on May 1, from complications arising from a long-term health condition, according to the The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory in New York City. He was 78.

via Theatre of the Oppressed Founder Augusto Boal Dies at 78: Theater News on TheaterMania.com – 05/02/2009.

Mammut Magazine // Exploring the intersection of art and nature

May 3, 2009AnnouncementsAri, Ashwani Vasishth, Bauch, Brym, Camilo, CSPA, David Snyder, Earth Matters, Garrett, Intersection, Mammut, Maya, Nature Issue, Ontiveros, Perspectives, Teira, Urban Centers, Urban Life, Worlds Population, Yank

ISSUE #2 SPRING 2009: LIVING WITH THE CITY

As the worlds population is increasingly concentrated in urban centers, how we choose to interact, develop and live in these cities will only become more important. With a variety of perspectives but by no means comprehensive, we hope this issue offers new ideas, directions and ways of understanding urban life.

Featuring contributions by Nicholas Bauch, Maya Brym, Ian Garrett, Charlie Grosso, Teira Johnson, Ari Kletzsky, Gerard Olson, Camilo Ontiveros, David Snyder, Ashwani Vasishth, and Sue Yank. Cover design by Teira Johnson.

Mammut Magazine // Exploring the intersection of art and nature.

Mammut is one of our Partners and we’ll be promoting the magazine at Earth Matters on Stage and other future conferences.Â Please check out the introduction to the CSPA included in the issue. Plans are in the works for the CSPA to guest edit a future issue.

Mammut Magazine // Exploring the intersection of art and nature

May 2, 2009newsCity Population, Interact, Intersection, Nature 2, Nature Issue, New Directions, Perspectives, Urban Centers, Urban Life, Variety, World Population, World S Population

ISSUE #2 SPRING 2009: LIVING WITH THE CITY

As the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban centers, how we choose to interact, develop and live in these cities will only become more important. With a variety of perspectives but by no means comprehensive, we hope this issue offers new ideas, directions and ways of understanding urban life.

Â Mammut Magazine // Exploring the intersection of art and nature.

darkSky at Art Chicago this weekend at ecoviz.org

April 30, 2009newsAlbano, Animation, April 4, Art Chicago, Chicago Event, Darksky, Energy Consumption, Event Merchandise, Interactive Installation, Jean Albano Gallery, Lamps, Mca Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Plasma Screen, Real Time, Tiffany

darkSky 2009 is an interactive installation by Tiffany Holmes which presents a series of salvaged lamps that visitors are encouraged to turn on and off, and the resulting energy consumption is presented in real-time as an animation on a single plasma screen. This exhibit was recently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago, from April 4-26, 2009 and will be shown across from the Jean Albano Gallery Booth 549 during the Art Chicago event this weekend at the Merchandise Mart.

via darkSky at Art Chicago this weekend at ecoviz.org.

Eco Arts: Nail Bench â€“ Recycled Sting For Comfort! – Ecofriend

April 27, 2009newsBench, Eco, Nails, Sting

Trashed nails transformed into a bench

via Eco Arts: Nail Bench â€“ Recycled Sting For Comfort! – Ecofriend.

APInews: Sachaqa Offers Eco-art Studios in Peru

April 27, 2009newsAim, Amazon Jungle, Architect, Art Center, Art Project, Art Studios, Art Village, Ceramic Artists, Creative Community, Eco Dome, English Artist, Heart Of The Amazon, Nader, Natural Environment, Renewable Energy Sources, San Roque, Sculpture, Sculpture Artists, Studio Space, Tarapoto Peru, Trina

Want to take part in an international eco-art project? The Sachaqa Art Center is building an Eco Art Village in the heart of the Amazon jungle, in Tarapoto, Peru. “The main aim is to build a creative community where painting, music,writing, sculpture, ceramic artists can find inspiration from the natural environment and each other,” says English artist and Sachaqa founder Trina Brammah. The Center is currently located in the village of San Roque De Cumbaza, Lamas; studios there cost $200/month, including kitchen, accommodation and shared studio space. Sachaqa is in the process of building a new center near the village, designed to use ecologically friendly materials and renewable energy sources, using an Eco-Dome Plan designed by architect Nader Khalili. They invite participation in the building process as well.

via APInews: Sachaqa Offers Eco-art Studios in Peru .

KadmusArts Podcasts Â» Blog Archive Â» Interview: Michael Johnson-Chase

April 25, 2009newsArts Education, Blog Archive, Chase, City Net, Collar Job, Education Center, Job Training, Lark, Michael Johnson, New York City, Performance Facility, Play Center, Play Development, Podcasts, Program Director, Solar Installer, Stint, Theatre Professor

Michael Johnson-Chase is a former theatre professor, international program director at the Lark Play Development Center, producer and writer. After a stint as a solar installer, he is currently developing Green Collar Job training programs at Solar One, an environmentally focused arts and education center in NYC soon to feature New York Cityâ€™s first net zero carbon classroom and performance facility.

via KadmusArts Podcasts Â» Blog Archive Â» Interview: Michael Johnson-Chase.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project | REDCAT

April 22, 2009AnnouncementsCall And Response, CSPA, Fantauzzi, Hip Hop Generation, Identity Crises, Jeff Chang, Living Word, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Marc Joseph, Mixtape, Multimedia Journey, National Poetry Slam, Personal Costs, Personal Narrative, Rapid Fire, Response Format, Reveries, Washington Post, Word Project, Wordplay

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the Artistic Director of the Living Word Project. We at the CSPA are fans and are going to check out his show on Friday night at REDCAT. Â For those not in the know, the living word project takes the idea that sustainability is about supporting life and that supporting life is the most important thing in the world. Joseph’s Hip-Hop styled green movement is one of the most exciting things we’ve seen to date. The is a link for tickets at the end of this entry.Â

“Thunderous, expansive… Rarely do word and movement mesh so seamlessly and elegantly… [Bamuthi’s] stories put sound and gesture on a single continuum of expression.” The Washington Post

Deftly combining his trademark rapid-fire wordplay and poetic reveries with phenomenal physical movement, Marc Joseph Bamuthi leaves it all on stage in the break/s, his multimedia journey across Planet Hip-Hop. The former National Poetry Slam champion takes inspiration from Jeff Chang’s seminal account in Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and looks to his own personal narrative to play out a living history of the hip-hop generation. At turns self-deprecatingly funny and unsparingly frank, his dynamic, deeply felt stories track the rise of hip-hop from its homegrown local roots to a global cultural force–and the personal costs, chafing identity crises, and exacting racial and cultural expectations that came with this transformation. Directed by Michael John GarcÃ©s, the break/s: a mixtape for stage is performed by the magnetic Bamuthi in a percussive call-and-response format with turntablist DJ Excess and multi-instrumentalist Ajayi Jackson, accompanied by video by Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi.

via Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project | REDCAT.