Kagan

Exhibition in New York

December 8, 2011Cultura21Aron, Ben Cohen, Berlin Germany, C Johnson, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Daniella, Fieldnotes, Gowanus, Hoke, Howard Hannah, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Leyva, Louis Cohen, Mare Liberum, Mexico City, November 2, Oleg, Paris France, Paschke, Research Exhibition, Sacha, Sayler, Simonetta, Volinsky

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New YorkÂ -Â November 2 to December 15, 2011

FIELDNOTES FROM THE GOWANUS is a visual research exhibition led by The Canary Project commissioned by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. It takes place from November 2 to December 15, 2011 and features the work of Aron Louis Cohen,Â Daniella Garcia Rosales, Mare Liberum (Ben Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, Stephan von Muehlen), Curtis Hamilton, BlandÂ Hoke,Â Christine Sandoval Howard,Â Hannah Kramm, Camilo Leyva, Simonetta Moro,Â Sayler / Morris (The Canary Project) with Evan Paschke, Rebecca Volinsky and Louis Wright.

Part of the public programs in conjunction with the exhibition U-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change.

High Arctic Film Weekend

December 1, 2011Cultura21Arctic Exhibition, Arctic Expeditions, Berlin Germany, Canadian High Commission, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cultu, Documentaries, Film Experts, Films, Francesca, Frozen Planet, Inuit Communities, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, London, Mexico City, National Archive, National Maritime, National Maritime Museum, Oleg, Paris France, Planet Series, Preview Screening, Rana, Rare Archival Footage, Rare Footage, Royal Anthropological Institute, Sacha, Vitality

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LondonÂ -Â December 3/4, 2011
On December the 3rd and 4th, the National Maritime Museum in London hosts the High Arctic Film Weekend. In parallel, the High Arctic exhibition is shown at the National Maritime Museum until the 13th of January 2012, too.
The weekend of Arctic films complements it by featuring a range of documentaries, Inuit features and rare archival footage. The purpose is to expose different representations of the Arctic over the past century.

Why are we so fascinated by the Arctic? Which impact has the climate change for the Arctic? Which problems are Inuit communities confronted with? Among others, these questions will be discussed in-between the screenings.

A special preview screening of the BBC Frozen Planet series programme 7 â€“ On Thin Ice as well asÂ rare footage of early Arctic expeditions from the BFI National Archive will be shown and film experts, scientists and artists will be there to answer questions and discuss with the audience.

The event is organised in association with the BFI National Archive, Royal Anthropological Institute and Canadian High Commission.
In order to view the full prgramme see http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/high-arctic-film-weekend

Heavy Water â€“ Peter Greenaway

November 22, 2011Cultura2122 October, Artist Peter, Artistic Fields, Berlin Germany, British Filmmaker, Classic Paintings, Contemporary World, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cult Classics, Dramatic Mix, Exhibit Halls, Heavy Water, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Last Decade, Melting Ice Caps, Mexico City, Multimedia Project, Nuclear Proliferation, Oleg, Paris France, Peter Greenaway, Philosophical Debates, Rana, Sacha, Solo Exhibitions, Sound Painting, Spectacular Project, Thin Veneer, Venice Biennale

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Tel Aviv

22 October â€“ 3 December 2011

The famous British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway presents a new, spectacular project Heavy Water, a multimedia project by Change Performing Arts, which was especially planned for Chelouche Galleryâ€™s unique exhibit halls in Israel.
After showing projects such as the 9 Classic Paintings Revisited and Leonardoâ€™s last supper in solo exhibitions as well as famous international art events like the Venice Biennale and Expo Shanghai, Greenaway now celebrate World PremiÃ¨re in Israel.

He is known for his unique avant-garde approach andÂ his cinematic work has been praised by the critics. Many of his films have become cult classics. Greenaway explores and experiments in new artistic fields: He likes to probe the boundaries of different media types, challenge his audience and he spursÂ philosophical debates regarding the role of art in the contemporary world and in our lives in general.
Greenawayâ€™s new project Heavy Water is a theatrical and dramatic mix of sound, painting, drawing and video, accompanied by the publication of an art book. It elicits apocalyptic thoughts and contains an ostensibly prophetic warning concerning nuclear proliferation and the future of our planet.

â€žIn the last decade, global warming, changing meteorological patterns, melting ice-caps and deepening seas have re-alerted our respectful contemplation of water. Most of the paintings in this catalogue were made in a house in Amsterdam not far from the North Sea, and evidence is gathering that this house will be swept away by floods before the year 2035. The events in this year of 2011 in Japan have disturbed us all and brought vividly to our attention, the thin veneer of our control over water.â€œ Peter Greenaway

For further information see http://www.chelouchegallery.com/exhibitionsCurrent.php

Sociology of the Arts â€“ Artistic Practices

November 20, 2011Cultura21, Open CallsApril 2007, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Artistic Practices, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Commercialisation, Copenhagen Denmark, Core Areas, Cozzolino, European Sociological Association, Film Television, Francesca, Further Development, G Music, Impact Of Technology, Including Art, Kagan, Kajsa, Karlheinz Essl, Koefoed, Members, Mexico City, Music Sociology, Oleg, Paris France, Production Distribution, Rana, Sacha, Schatzki, Scholarly Exchange, Sociologist, Sociologists, Vienna Austria, Vitality

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Vienna

5th to 8th of September 2012

Call for Papers: The 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which is part of the European Sociological Association (ESA), takes place from the 5th to the 8th of September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be organised by the Institute for Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is an event in a biannual rhythm since 2000. The key aim of these conferences is to enable collaboration and scholarly exchange between art sociologists and other scholars of the arts, and to support the presentation of new research projects. Furthermore, inspiration for the further development of the sociology of the arts can be seen as a goal.

The invited four key speakers, Karlheinz Essl (composer), Nathalie Heinich (sociologist), Theodore Schatzki (philosopher) and Laurent ThÃ©venot (sociologist) will focus their speeches on artistic practices. The conference welcomes participants and papers on all core areas of arts sociology.Â (Please find the PDF file of the call for papers at the bottom of this post.)
Experienced as well as young scholars from various disciplines sensitive to social inquiries into the arts are invited to participate in the conference. Their presentations can be related to following fields:

Sociology focused on particular domains in arts including architecture, urban planning, applied arts, arts within the domain of popular culture (e.g. film, television, and popular music) as well as traditional â€˜highâ€™ arts (e.g. music, visual arts, literature, theatre, etc.).
The process of production, distribution, promotion and commercialisation of works of art including the impact of technology, new means of production, forms of collaboration, the formation of art theory, the development of arts markets, process of valuation etc.
The process of presentation and mediation of arts including art criticism and publicity in all domains of the arts, museums, theatres, concerts, audience studies, attitudes towards the audience, educational programs, etc.
Professional development including amateurs and semi-amateurs, vocational education, art schools, professional differentiation, artistic income, artistic reputation, relation to arts management, etc.
Arts organisations (not only houses such as museums, theatres but also festivals and artistsâ€™ unions) â€“ investigation of historical development, power relations, effects, program selection, processes within the organisations such as gate-keeping, leadership, etc.
Arts policy (especially the sociological aspects thereof) including legal issues, public and private funding, public discourse and debates (e.g. classification of art, arts and religious symbols, arts and sexuality, arts and racism), censorship, analysis of the impact of arts, sustainability, lobbying associations, cultural ministries or other government bodies.
Social and cognitive effects of the arts including:Â arts and identity formation, arts and bodies, aesthetic experience, arts and ethics, coding and decoding, gender related practices, ethnographic aspects, art for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as a part of urban culture.
Arts from a macrosociological perspective including: (de-)institutionalisation, economisation, globalisation vs. localism, digitalisation, mediamorphosis, arts and social cohesion, arts and ethics, arts and hegemony and arts and power.
Theoretical development in arts sociology such as the production of culture approach, (post-) structuralism, field theory, system theory, praxeology as well as methodological issues.

The deadline for submission is the 31st of January 2012.
Further information on the conference and about the application details can be found on the conference website.

The call for papers can be downloaded as PDF file here:

Call for Papers, Vienna 5-8 Sept.2012, ESA-RN02

For further details on the conference please contact zembylas [at] mdw [dot] ac [dot] at or tel. +43-1-71155-3617.

Publication: Harvest in Times of Drought

November 16, 2011Cultura21Amazon, Berlin Germany, Brasil, Care Co, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Education, Drought, Francesca, Global Project, Human Performance, Human Spaces, Industrialization, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Linki, Mexico City, New Paradigm, Oleg, Paradises, Paris France, Pedagogies, Political Imagination, Rana, Reflexes, Sacha, Self Confidence, Self Consumption, Self Respect, Social Transformation, Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Community, Virtual Communities, Vitality, Voices, Wisdoms

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Harvest in Times of Drought â€“ cultivating pedagogies of life for sustainable communities

Voices of the country

In the following lines, the book Harvest in Times of Drought is presented and offered for download (please find the download link at the bottom of the post). This publication is about creative education in Brasil that can generate social transformation and sustainability.

Brasil is one of the countries that is hit hard by the consequences of the industrialization in form of sharp inequalities, uprooting communicide and ecological upheaval. It has reached a threshold between a terrifying drought and a reflexive dawn. The task is to create on time a global project capable of cultivating a new paradigm of cooperation and sustainable community instead of competition.

Children and young people are seriously affected, because it is their future that is at stake. They already seek refuge in industrialized foods, virtual communities and paradises of self-consumption. Their parents feel powerless and can not point out alternative, aware that these will not resolve our crisis of civilization. A way must be found in order to create a new human performance of care, co-responsibility and solidarity, not just with others, but with ourselves, and with the future.

Every intervention and learning method must be based on pluricultural respect and transcultural care. Alternative experiences of social beauty and ethical self-respect can be offered and inspired by new as well as ancient pedagogies.

The aim is to create self-confidence to intervene in all human spaces and enable people to read and transform our cultural reflexes and political imagination. In order to avoid the reproduction of the violating past in the future, Harvest in Times of Drought roots the educative and transformative potentials of the artistic languages in the wisdoms of the land, the forest and the rivers of the Amazon to contribute to a proposal adaptable to any neighborhood, school and social organization.

The outcome after a seven years collaboration of Dan Baron (author of Cultural Literacy and co-founder of the World Alliance for Arts Education) and Manoela Souza (co-founder of the Brazilian Network of Arteducators) is thisÂ pedagogic resource and collective artwork. Fifty rural pedagogues and community leaders from the Federal University of ParÃ¡, MarabÃ¡, contributed their share to book in form of life stories, poems, songs and visual as well as pedagogic narratives.
The book is dedicated to Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, eco-pedagogue, popular educator, extractor, grandmother and co-author of this collective book, who was assassinated with her partner, JosÃ© Ribeiro da Silva near their forest settlement in northern Brazil, where they were fighting for the protection of the forest and cultures of the Amazon.

Outline

Part 1 is a collection of poems and short-stories. This collection introduces and contextualizes the bookâ€™s pedagogic proposal.

Part 2 presents this proposal, based on a dialogue between knowledges, accompanied by a photo-narrative, and includes reflections from the participants who tested, refined and developed the proposal.

Part 3 records a dual process of transition. It dramatizes the challenge of sustaining this pedagogic proposal inside a university, in response to the key questions about complicity and resistance to the new. It lays the foundations of an artistic-pedagogic (aesthetic) project.

Part 4 is the pedagogic proposal in action, education as a transformational aesthetic project and it also contains a pedagogic Charter of Principles.

The final Part 5 contains the lyrics of the CD that accompanies this book.

Download the online version of the book (PDF file) for free:

Harvest in Times of Drought â€“ Colheita em Tempos de Seca

ASEF: Publication of the Connect2Culture dossier

November 13, 2011Cultura21Artistic Projects, Arts And Culture, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Approach, Creative Approaches, Development Environment, Discussion Papers, Environment Education, Environmental Sustainability, European Experts, Francesca, Global Challenges, Global Debate, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Melbourne Australia, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Policy Meetings, Rana, Reaffirmation, Regional Dialogue, Role Culture, Sacha, Social Cohesion, Stakeholders, sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Living, United Nations Conference, Vitality, World Summit

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Arts. Environment. Sustainability. How can Culture Make a Difference?

There is a growing awareness that culture and the arts can help dealing with global challenges by means of alternative, creative approaches to pressing problems. Therefore society as well as governmental stakeholders start to see culture as an important value for sustainable development, environment, education, health and social cohesion.

After a four years program investigating the role of arts and culture in society, the Asian Europe Foundation (ASEF) published and presented the Connect2Culture dossier: Arts. Environment. Sustainability. How can Culture Make a Difference? at the ASEF-supported roundtable at the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Melbourne, Australia.

The Connect2Culture programme was initiated in order to answer the question which role culture plays in the global debate on environmental sustainability. In the course of the program, Asian as well as European experts from all fields addressed issues related to art and environmental sustainability through artistic projects, workshops and policy meetings. The program has facilitated bi-regional dialogue and collaboration on the value of culture and the arts.

The resulting dossier is a summary ofÂ ASEFâ€™s work with arts and environment in the last four years and a reflection on the issues raised by the people involved. It constitutes the reaffirmation of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainability and is expected to serve as inspiration for further discussions and cooperation, especially with the imminent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil in June 2012.
The dossier includes discussion papers from two Connect2Culture projects: Arts, Culture and Sustainability: Visions for the Future and The Art of Sustainable Living: A Creative Approach to Global Social and Environmental Crises. Furthermore it contains a collection of visions for the future, an overview of the ASEF projects as well as a directory of cultural professionals and ASEF partners.

Culture has an instrumental part connecting many areas of human development such as education, human rights, economy, sustainable development, health awareness and environment, as well as science and technology. For David Haley and Jaya Iyer, who held the workshop Climate Leaders: Release Your Creative Powers â€“ How can art enhance our ability to think and act differently? in Bangkok in 2009, it is of high importance to include artists in the global debate: â€œA dialogue is not so much about generating new knowledge, as it is about changing the way we think.â€

As a result of the Connect2Culture programme a strong network of almost 100 professionals in arts and culture was established, which is committed to strengthen the voice of arts and culture. These experts share the belief that the arts and culture sector can play an active role to support the identification of, engagement with and positive adaptation to important changes in our societies.
Ada Wong (politician, environmentalist, educationalist and cultural advocate) is one of the experts that took part in the workshop Arts, Culture and Sustainability: Building Synergies between Asia and Europe held in Copenhagen in 2009. She states:
â€žWhile the environmental lobby targets and criticizes governments and vested interests, the arts and cultural sector can work with the people and start,bottom up, from the community. The cultural sector is a natural change agent, instigator and provocateur in paradigm shifts and mindset changes.â€œ

Sacha Kagan (founding coordinator of the international level of Cultura21) points out the challenge that society has to face in dealing with complexity:
â€œThe deep and qualitative complexity of the world does not fit with the clear, coherent, uni-dimensional logic of theories and world views we have learned to design. We have to engage in an unprecedented creative leap towards complexity, which will require giant transdisciplinary advances in all cultural sectors (and especially in arts education and education through art&science) or we will miss the 2050 mark for an â€œecological ageâ€.â€

As Rosina Gomez-Baeza TinturÃ©, director of the LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries (Spain), stated during the 2009 Connect2Culture project, â€œThe mission of artists is to inspire, educate and engage themselves with society. Creativity is the capacity to produce things that are new and of value; it is the capacity to reach new conclusions and come up with original solutions to problems.â€

You are able to download the dossier at:
http://asef.org/index.php/projects/themes/arts-culture/1999-connect2culture-at-the-world-summit-on-arts-and-culture

Further information can also be found here.

Khoj International Residencies and Projects

November 13, 2011Cultura21Active Network, Application Details, Art Creation, Art Installations, Art Projects, Artistic Exchange, Artistic Medium, Artists Association, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Disciplinary Approach, Ecological Issues, Food Food, Francesca, Incubator, Indian Origin, Interactive Events, International Artists, International Exchange, International Residencies, Kagan, Kajsa, Khoj, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Public Spaces, Rana, Sacha, Social Context, South Asia, Thematics, Urban City

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Khoj International Artistsâ€™ Association is an artist led, alternative forum for experimentation and international exchange based in India. It sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialogue in the visual arts. In the last few years it has developed an active network of artists in South Asia.

Applications are invited for an international residency â€˜InÂ Context:public.art.ecology Part IIIâ€™ @ Khoj, forÂ art projects exploring ecological thematics preferablyÂ inÂ public spaces around Delhi. The residency will be for 4- 6 weeks startingÂ inÂ the first week of March to mid April 2012. The deadline for submitting the application to applications [at] khojworkshop [dot] org is the 30th of November.

Invited are proposals from individual artists and artistsâ€™ collectives, with projectsÂ fokussing urgent ecological issues affecting the urban city. This yearâ€™s special focus is laid on the notion of food. Food can be seen as an artistic medium incorporating performance, art installations or interactive events that re-examine the significance and relevance of foodÂ inÂ the socialÂ context, simplyÂ inÂ its connection with the body or as a primary ritual that fosters engagement, interaction and collaboration.

For application details see this page.

Furthermore applications are invited for theÂ NegotiatingÂ RoutesÂ â€“ Ecologies of the Byways project- Part III,Â fromÂ artists, artists groups or professionals of Indian origin, to propose projects which are site-specific preferably in smaller cities in India. They must haveÂ an inter-disciplinary approach that combines research and art creation by artists and local communities,Â addressing the visible and invisible transformations currently taking place in their immediate environments.
The project must be completed within a maximum of 3 months from the date of commencementÂ within the stipulated time frame of February- June 2012.

For more details take a look at this page.

2012 Residency Application

November 12, 2011Cultura21Activists, Aesthetics, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Process, Development Practices, Disciplines, Farmland, Fieldtrips, Francesca, Group Activities, Guided Walks, Hacienda, Humanities And Social Sciences, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Morning Stretch, Natural Areas, Natural Environment, Natural Sciences, Nearby Towns, Oleg, Oriented Program, Outdoor Space, Paris France, Rana, Residency Application, Residency Dates, Sacha, Spring March, Topic Of Ecology, Vitality

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The GuapamacÃ¡taro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology is a site-based and community-oriented program for artists from different disciplines, scientists, educators and activists, aimed at fostering socially and ecologically-conscious cultural development. The hacienda is set on rural farmland and located in the state of MichocÃ¡n, Mexico.

The topic of ecology plays an important role for the program and is not confined to the common association with the preservation of the natural environment. The facilities include several studios, large common areas and ample outdoor space.

Each year the residency takes place in Spring (March through June) and lasts 3 weeks.

During their stay, participants use the hacienda grounds as a laboratory for the creative process and engaging with the local community in art, ecology and development practices. They are free to work whenever desired in the provided studios and anywhere in the property. Experimentation is encouraged as is discourse and collaboration. Daily group activities such as morning stretch and meditation, and occasional guided walks and fieldtrips to nearby towns and natural areas are often organized, depending on peopleâ€™s interests.

Up to 10 people are selected from a mix of the following disciplines: Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Sculpture and Installation, Design and Architecture, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences.

Application is open to professionals (or students who demonstrate maturity) from all countries, cultural backgrounds and aesthetics. The next residency dates are from the 7th until the 24th of June 2012, you are able to send your application until the 1st of November 2011 to http://www.guapamacataro.org/apply

More information can be found hereÂ http://www.guapamacataro.org

Rio+20: Ideas for culture

November 11, 2011Cultura21Agenda 21, Berlin Germany, Circulars, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, De Janeiro Brazil, Earth Summit, Francesca, Internal Meetings, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Local Governments, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Pillar, Rana, Rio Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro Brazil, Rio Summit, S Committee, Sacha, Secretariat, Stakeholders, Sustainable Development, Uclg, United Nations, United Nations Conference, Vitality, World Organization, Zero Draft

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From the 4th until the 6th of June 2012 the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development or Rio+20 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has been 20 years since the first Earth Summit took place and the international communityâ€™s attention towards the Rio+20 Summit is growing steadily.
In order to influence the documents for the negotiations, activists and stakeholders have the possibility to participate and send proposals to an â€židea boxâ€œ that the Secretariat of the Rio+20 Conference has established. The deadline for these submissions is the 1st of November.
Then the Secretariat will elaborate a compilation of the proposals that will be the basis for the zero draft in the negotiations at the Rio+20 Conference.
UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments), the world organization of cities, is preparing a contributions document, which will include (among other issues) the idea of making culture the fourth pillar of sustainable development. The Committee on Culture has been invited to participate in internal meetings to prepare UCLGâ€™s document. The Agenda 21 for culture (2004) and the Policy Statement of Mexico on â€œCulture: the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Developmentâ€ (2010) build the basis for this process.

In order reinforce the message of the UCLGâ€™s Committee on culture, cultural activists, networks and stakeholders on the relation between culture and sustainable development are encouraged to send a message with their ideas to the Secretariat too. The UCLG offers a document that can be used or can give ideas for preparing such a submission. This document can be found here: http://www.agenda21culture.net/docs_circulars/Ideas%20for%20Rio+20%20-%20ENG.pdf
Ideas can be submitted to the Secretariat of the Rio20+ Conference here:
http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?menu=83

For further information see
http://www.bcncultura.com/agenda21cultura/circular/circular54.html or contact the Secretariat of the Committee on culture: agenda21cultura [at] bcn [dot] cat and +34 933 161 009

City of Pieces â€“ an urban festival of creative practices

November 9, 2011Cultura21Anecdotes, Anniversary, Bangalore, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Practice, Creative Practices, Creative Practitioners, Cubbon Park, Dialogues, Different Story, Empty Spaces, Fictional Story, Fragments, Francesca, Grey Concrete, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Performance Poetry, Perspective, Practice Performance, Public Space, Public Spaces, Rana, Rest House, Sacha, Scaffolding, Storytelling, Theatre Workshop, Transformation, Violence, Vitality

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Bangalore

22nd to 30th of October

Maraa, a media and arts collective, invites to City of Pieces, an urban festival of creative practices:
City of pieces is a nine day festival that interrogates the violence of the everyday transformation of the city from the perspective of creative practice. This festival marks the third anniversary of Theatre Jam, a monthly forum to trigger dialogues about art and media in the public space through practice, performance and expression. It travels across different public and semi-public spaces, committed to reclaim dead, found and empty spaces in the city. City of pieces brings artists and creative practitioners to respond to the city we inhabit.
The city transforms and we continue to experience it in fragments, in the debris of what once was and the flash-forwards of its future in fresh grey concrete. And we move through it refracted in fragments with every contact with it. But as this city of pieces forms us it is formed by us in turn- a disjointed tapestry of multiple stories, desires and memories. As the week unfolds, urban pieces and fragments are gathered and re-combined to tell a different story that acknowledges the creative modes of negotiating this city shaped by the violence of transformation. Through storytelling, films, performance, poetry and conversations we hope to make sense of an ever changing Bangalore.

Reposted from: http://maraa.in/arts/city-of-pieces/

Be part of the last two events and register today:

Middle of somewhere | Theatre Workshop 29 Oct | Cubbon Park Band Stand | 10 am-3 pm

Middle of Somewhere was a performance done last year, set between scaffolding in a dilapidated house on Rest House Street. This performance used personal stories that were interwoven with anecdotes of the city with the story of Akeli, a fictional story. The performance is a never ending project. It grows with peopleâ€™s stories and fantasies. We invite you to a theatre workshop to re-narrate fears, aspirations, and memories experienced in your life in the city through short improvisations and street performances around Cubbon Park.

To register mail pallavichander [at] gmail [dot] com or call 98869-28582

Bangalore Talkies | Video Art and Music |30 Oct | Jaaga, Double Road | 6 pm onwards

When you live in a city, your encounters with roads, friends, and strangers are all in pieces of images and sounds. What can you interpret of a city that you experience everyday in pieces? Bangalore Talkies a forum to see Bangalore through different eyes, through different lenses. How do YOU connect to Bangalore -Â bus rides/auto rides, pubs, darshinis, your neighborhood, street dogs, trees, the weather, street food,Â construction and deconstruction â€“ it could be about any creature, thing, space or feeling in the city. Collect your stories on anything that can shoot image and record sound. All videos must play on VLC and should not be longer than 5 mins. Submit your entries on DVD OR mail it, upload it and send us a link on ekta [at] maraa [dot] in by tomorrow latest. Your stories will be screened for the public at the Bangalore Talkies at Jaaga, Double Road, on 30th October, 6:30 pm onwards. Remember itâ€™s about the story, not so much about making a perfect film. This will be followed by a music jam between independent musicians in Bangalore. If you are a musician and want to play, get in touch with us today!

To register mail ekta [at] maraa [dot] in or call 96328-31275 before 29th October