Lecture Series

Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line

October 2, 2012Cultura21Berlin Germany, Bill Mollison, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Fossil Rim Wildlife, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Francesca, Glen Rose Texas, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Lecture Series, Mexico City, Networks Productions, Oleg, Paris France, Permaculture Design Courses, Public Access Television, Rana, Sacha, Time On Line

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â€œNetWorks Productionsâ€ is introducing for the first time on-line a series of lectures that are documents of two Permaculture Design Courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas, in 1994 and 1995.

This series, The Permaculture Show, was aired on public access television in the USA, was sold or given to the various existing permaculture institutes, to libraries and to individuals.

Hereâ€™s the link:
http://www.networkearth.org/perma/culture.html#Permaculture

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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â€œMIT japan 3/11 initiativeâ€

October 28, 2011Cultura21Aftermath, Aga Khan, Architectural Studies, Benjamin Smith, Berlin Germany, Collaborative Project, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Responses, Disaster, Disaster Preparedness, Environmental Disasters, Francesca, Initiative, Interventions, James L Wescoat, James L Wescoat Jr, Japan, Japan Program, Kagan, Kajsa, Kanda, Koefoed, Lecture Series, Local History, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Reconstruction, Sacha, School Of Architecture, Vitality

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By Benjamin Smith

November 14th, 2011
MIT (USA)

â€œIn the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year collaborative project focused on disaster-resilient planning, design and reconstruction. Back from the first MIT Japan 3/11 workshop which took place this summer, Shun Kanda and Jim Wescoat will discuss the process and challenges in planning and implementing alternative strategies for disaster-preparedness. Shun Kanda is a Tokyo native and the Director of Architectural Studies for the MIT-Japan Program. James L. Wescoat, Jr. is Aga Khan Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.â€

MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative:Â Â http://web.mit.edu/japan3-11/home.html

The â€œZones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions â€“ Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisisâ€ Fall 2011 lecture series investigates initiatives and modes of intervention in contested spaces, zones of conflict, or areas affected by environmental disasters. The intention is to explore whether artistic interventions can transform, disrupt or subvert current environmental, urban, political, and social conditions in critical ways. A crucial question is how can such interventions propose ideas, while at the same time respecting the local history and culture.

More information at the Zones of Emergency Blog: http://zonesofemergency.mit.edu/

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Ploughshares from Swords â€“ Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency

October 27, 2011Cultura21Berlin Germany, Collective Art Practice, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Activism, Creative Responses, Crises, Environmental Disasters, Francesca, Inner City Youth, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Lecture Series, Local History, Mcgregor, Mexico City, Oleg, Palas, Paris France, Pedro Reyes, Pistolas, Ploughshares, Rana, Sacha, Social Sculpture, Vitality

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November 07th, 2011Â MIT (USA)

â€œHow does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises through individual and collective art practice? How do we reconcile the arts, activism, and pedagogy? Stella McGregor, Founder and Director of Urbano Project, will share her experience of working with inner city youth and introduce projects such as Violence Transformed, and Pedro Reyesâ€™ Palas por Pistolas. Stella McGregor has been an artist and a cultural worker for over 25 years, working on projects in Boston, New Orleans, Macedonia, and Taiwan.â€

Urbano Project:Â http://urbanoproject.org

More information at the Zones of Emergency Blog: http://zonesofemergency.mit.edu/

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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â€œEnabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technologyâ€

October 13, 2011Cultura21Academics, Advances In Technology, Berlin Germany, Citizenship, Collaboration, Conflicts, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Responses, Environmental Disasters, Express, Expression, Francesca, Geiger Counters, Global Voices, Intention, Interventions, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Law And The Internet, Lecture Series, Local History, Mexico City, Oleg, Open Hardware, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Spite, Video Cameras, Vitality, Voices, Witness

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October 17th, 2011
MIT Media Lab, USA

â€œMooreâ€™s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different â€œpublicâ€ to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advances in technology enabled interventions such as low-cost video cameras in the case of WITNESS; blogs (Global Voices); or open hardware and software used to build, distribute, collect and visualize data from geiger counters (Safecast). Ito will discuss how these trends relate to media, citizenship, academics, and conflicts. Joichi Ito was named Director of the MIT Media Lab in April 2011.â€

More information at the Zones of Emergency Blog: http://zonesofemergency.mit.edu/

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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â€œIn The Meantimeâ€

October 2, 2011Cultura21Amp, April 2007, Art Foundation, Art Talk, Artistic Director, Berlin Germany, Challenges, Conflict, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Creative Responses, Environmental Disasters, Francesca, Head Curator, Initiatives, Intention, International Organizations, Interventions, Israel, Jerusalem, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Lecture Series, Local History, Members, Mexico City, Modes, Oleg, Palestine, Palestinian Artists, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, School Usa, Vitality

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October 3rd, 2011
â€œThe New Schoolâ€ (USA)

â€œIn 1992 Jack Persekian founded Anadiel Gallery, the first and only independent gallery for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem. Persekian later founded the Al-Maâ€™mal Foundation to continue the galleryâ€™s mission and to further promote, instigate, and disseminate the production of art in Palestine. In his talk, Persekian will share his experience â€“ the challenges and the outcomes â€“ of creating a space for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem. Have the methods for working in contested spaces, such as Israel, changed over the years? Does art have the potential to engage a zone of conflict in a different way than politics? Persekian was Head Curator of the Sharjah Biennial (2004â€“2007), Artistic Director of the Sharjah Biennial (2007â€“2011), and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation (2009â€“2011).â€

Al-Maâ€™mal Foundation:Â www.almamalfoundation.org

More information at the Zones of Emergency Blog: http://zonesofemergency.mit.edu/

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Art, Justice & Global Aesthetics: The Equity and Diversity Lecture Series

October 18, 2010newsAssistant Provost, California Book, Chris Abani, Coffeehouse, Copper Canyon Press, Diversity Committee, Fsg, Graceland, Guggenheim, Lecture Series, Legacy Award, Poetry Collections, Prince Claus, Red Hen Press, Renowned Artists, Saqi, Shenoda, University Of California Riverside, University Of London, University Of Southern California, Usa Freedom

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Diversity Committee at CalArts, this lecture series was established to bring renowned artists and speakers to campus to address issues of equity and diversity and their intersections with aesthetics and art making practices.

Chris Abani: Art as Witness

October 20th, 2010, 6pm in the Coffeehouse Theatre

Chris Abani’s prose includes Song For Night (Akashic, 2007), The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007), Becoming AbigailÂ (Akashic, 2006)Â GraceLandÂ (FSG, 2004), and Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985). His poetry collections are Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010),Â Feed Me The Sun: Collected Long Poems (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004), Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He holds a BA in English (Nigeria), an MA in Gender and Culture (Birkbeck College, University of London), an MA in English and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (University of Southern California). He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USAâ€¨Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize & a Guggenheim Award.

For more information, contact:Â Matthew Shenoda, Assistant Provost for Equity and Diversity/Â shenoda@calarts.edu/661.222.2785Â http://calarts.edu/about/diversity/lecture-series

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Farmlab Public Salon: Kim Stringfellow and Chris Carraher

May 18, 2009AnnouncementsBasin Region, California Council For The Humanities, Carraher, Creative Community, Creative Work, Farmlab, Forthcoming Book, Historians, Homestead, Homesteading, Jackrabbit, Joshua Tree National Park, Kim Stringfellow, Landscapes, Lecture Event, Lecture Series, Morongo Basin, Multimedia Presentation, Regional History, Southern California, Statewide California, Valley Artist

LECTURE EVENT: JRHS at FARMLAB Salon
Downtown Los Angeles | Friday, May 22nd, NOON

Join Kim Stringfellow along with Wonder Valley artist, Chris Carraher, for a presentation of and discussion about the JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD audio tour project.

Stringfellow and Carraher will discuss the history and contemporary landscapes of jackrabbit homesteading, specifically how the cabins resulting from the Small Tract Act have helped to foster the thriving creative community located throughout the Morongo Basin region where Joshua Tree National Park is located. Several tracks from the freely downloadable car audio tour available at www.jackrabbithomestead.com will be presented.

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a forthcoming book and web-based multimedia presentation featuring a downloadable car audio tour exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California’s Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices of local residents, historians, and area artistsâ€”many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. Funding for this project was made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council’s statewide California Stories Initiative.

FARMLAB Salon provides free, healthy organic lunch for those who drop by for the weekly lecture series. For more info visit:Â Â http://farmlab.org/2009/05/farmlab-public-salon-kim-stringfellow.html.

Visit & download the Jackrabbit Homestead audio tour at:Â www.jackrabbithomestead.com

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Research in Art, Nature and Environment (RANE) Lectures

March 9, 2009Ashden Directory20 April, Answer Session, Art Nature, Art Series, Contemporary Art, Curator, Environmental Principles, Falmouth, Guardians, Independent Films, Lecture Series, Linda Weintraub, Natural Phenomena, Pedagogy, Popular Books, Question And Answer, Rane, Sound Artist, Spiritual Aspects, University Art

University of Falmouth

TheÂ RANEÂ ‘Comprehending Nature’ Lecture Series for 2009 will include:

Andrej ZdravicÂ
9 March
Slovenian film and sound artist Andrej Zdravic has lived and worked across the US and Europe. Inspired by music and nature, he has created over 30 independent films focusing on the energies and spiritual aspects of natural phenomena. This screening of his film ‘Riverglass’ will be followed by a question and answer session.

Linda WeintraubÂ
20 April
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She is currently writing the fourth book in her eco-art series that is titled Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology. This series is designed to highlight and accelerate the integration of environmental principles throughout university art pedagogy.

Entry to the events is free, but you need to reserve a place.

www.rane-research.org

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