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Superhero Clubhouse and Matchboxarts in association with Chez Bushwick present MARS (a play about mining)

February 10, 2013newsActors Equity Association, Adam Miller, Appalachian Coal, Assistant Direction, Childhood Fantasies, Coal Mining, Dramaturgy, Featuring Live Music, Graphic Novel, Keisuke, Management Assistant, Mars Face, Matsuno, New Frontiers, New Mines, Performance Research, Ray Jones, Stage Management, Weinert, Williamsburg Brooklyn

March 7-9, 7:30pm

Center for Performance Research (CPR)

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Displaced Appalachians resettled on Mars face a familiar dilemma when their leader initiates a questionable mining operation. The sixth in our Planet Play series, MARS is a dance-theater event featuring live music, graphic art and an original story inspired by the history of Appalachian coal mining.

MARS (a play about mining)
adapted from the graphic novel MARS! by Â Tom Coiner
Choreography byÂ Adam H. Weinert
Music byÂ Adam Miller
Graphic Art byÂ Kristy CaldwellÂ with assistance from Clay Rodery and Ray Jones
Stage & Costume Design byÂ R.B. Schlather
Stage Management/Assistant Direction byÂ Alessandra Calabi
Dramaturgy byÂ Megan McClain

Directed byÂ Jeremy Pickard

Created & Performed by

Javier Baca
Nathaniel Bausch-Gould
Rosie Dupont
Aba Kiser
Logan Kruger
Dan Lawrence*
Keisuke Matsuno
Adam Miller
Manelich Minniefee
Jeremy Pickard
Davon Rainey
J.P. Schlegel
Adam H. Weinert

*appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

Must human progress always end in destruction?Â What are the risks we will take to restore our home?Â Contemporary politics and childhood fantasies come crashing together in this unique event inspired the history of Appalachian coal mining.Â Led by choreographer Adam H. Weinert, director Jeremy Pickard and composer Adam Miller, MARS features original dance, live music, graphic art and a strong ensemble of cross-disciplinary performers.Â Our technology is opening new frontiers… and new mines.Â We can go to Mars, hold the internet in our palm… and blow the tops off America’s oldest mountains.Â The controversies and paradoxes of mining have never been more relevant.Â In MARS, we explore these topics in our own unique way, and invite you to join in the adventure and the conversation.

Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference

October 17, 2012Cultura21, Open Calls1000 Words, Barad, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Continuities And Discontinuities, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Epistemological Questions, Feburary 14, Feminism, Feminist Perspectives, Feminist Theory, Graduate Center, Kagan, Kajsa, Keynote Speaker, Koefoed, Marxism, Materialism, Mexico City, New Frontiers, Oleg, Organizing A Conference, Paper Presentations, Paris France, Phenomenology, Rana, Sacha, Science Studies, Women In Society

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TheÂ Center for the Study of Women in SocietyÂ and theÂ Committee on Interdisciplinary Science StudiesÂ at the Graduate Center are organizing a conference onÂ Feminism, Science & Materialism, taking place at theÂ Graduate Center, City University of New York, from Feburary 14-15, 2013.

The conference will focus on looking with feminist perspectives on the onto-epistemological questions raised by the materialist turn. Keynote speaker will be Karen Barad.

Papers from varying disciplines are invited, addressing a wide range of issues. Some possible examples to focus on might be:

The intellectual and scientific context of the new turn toward materialism

The relation of matter â€” including the biological body â€” to the social.

The relation between new materialism and previous materialisms (such as Marxism and phenomenology) and particularly their feminist elaborations. What are the continuities and discontinuities between feminist materialisms from the 1970s through the current moment?

The insights, knowledge and methodologies offered by the new materialist studies of science. What new frontiers have they opened? What can the new sciences offer for feminist theory?

Space for paper presentations is limited. To apply, please send an extended abstract of 1000 words and a short bio toÂ feminism [dot] science [at] gmail [dot] comÂ byNovember 1, 2012.

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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Calling international graduates of the visual arts working with recycled and re-used materials to enter the Creative Graduate Prize 2010!

October 4, 2010newsArts Disciplines, British Photographer, Canadian Photographer, Central Saint Martins, Click Magazine, Creative Graduate, Design Laboratory, Gareth Lloyd, George Dutch, Global Reputation, Installation Artist, International Graduates, Japanese Illustrator, Maybin, New Frontiers, Photographer David, Sustainable Innovation, Trend Spotter, York Photographer, Zalkin

The Creative Graduate Prizeâ„¢ was founded by sustainable innovation think tank and laboratory SocietÃ¡sâ„¢ in 2005, in partnership with online arts platform Medium Magazine. The prize has gained a global reputation for spotting the future stars of the art world, with previous winners from as far and wide as USA, China, Japan, Singapore, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Mozambique and Canada.

This year’s jury is made up of leaders from the international creative industries known for their ability to spot the best emerging talent across the visual arts disciplines, including Yann Mathius – director of talent incubator the Design Laboratory and of online arts platform Jotta.com; Hussain Chalayan and SHOWstudio collaborator, artist and craftmaker Lone Sigurdsson, founder of WasteKnot; trend spotter and champion of female creative talent from around the world, Chauncey Zalkin, founder of What Women Make; acclaimed British artist Tessa Farmer and Creative Graduate Prizeâ„¢ founders publisher of Medium Magazine Laurie Cansfield and founding director of SocietÃ¡sâ„¢ and NEW FRONTIERSâ„¢ Melissa Sterry.

The Creative Graduate Prizeâ„¢ 2010 is supported by media partners including online arts platform Pelime, champion of graduate talent Cut Click magazine, female talent hub What Women Make and online arts platform of Central Saint Martins and the University of Arts Jotta.com. Galleries supporting the prize include amongst others Material and Lazarides.

Past winners and runners-up include amongst others New York based Japanese illustrator Yoko Furusho, British photographer David George, Dutch installation artist Florian de Visser, Polish sculptor Halina Mrozek, Canadian photographer Edith Maybin, New York photographer Carrie Schechter, Singapore digital artist Cai Jia Eng, Chinese illustrator Li Li, Cardiff filmmaker Gareth Lloyd and British artist Alex Bunn.

The theme of this year’s prize is ‘Illusion’ and the deadline has been extended from the 17th to the 31st October 2010.

Entrants should submit a piece of 2D, 3D or Linear work using recycled or reused materials.

Entries should be sent to submissions (at) mediummagazine.net (subject: CGP). Entrants must include their name, nationality, the college or university they attended and the qualification they gained (CGP is open to graduates only), the title of the work and details of the the recycled/reused materials used. The entry should be sent in the following formats: 2D – JPG, min. 72dpi / 1000pix wide; 3D – photos of work, JPG, min. 72dpi / 1000pix wide; Video – MPG, up to 12mb; Audio – MP3, up to 12mb; Text – Email or Word Doc

The Creative Graduateâ„¢ 2010 prize includes: a Key-2 Luxury keyring; a feature in Medium Magazine; a feature in Jotta.com magazine and press coverage across our media partners.

To find out more about the prize drop by the Creative Graduate Prizeâ„¢ pages on Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com/cgprize ), MySpace ( http://www.myspace.com/creativegraduateprize ) and IQONS ( http://www.iqons.com/cgp ). If you’d like to support the prize drop us a line or download the prize media pack on MediumMagazine.net.

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How About Garden Eco-Art For Your Corporate Campus?

July 18, 2009newsCatalysts, Company Organizations, Garden Art, Inspiration, Micro Climates, New Frontiers, Russian River, Sonoma, Stone Gardens, Wines

Looking to green your company/organizations’s grounds? How about something intriguing, restorative and educational? Impossible?? No, just look to Sonoma’s Corner Stone Gardens for inspiration. I was on my way to taste wines in the Russian River, but became enchanted by the Corner Stone Gardens, which featureÂ micro-climates of inspirational and educational faire.Â If you can’t get there, check out “corner stone – new frontiers in modern gardens.” www.cornerstonegardens.com

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