Thursday Night

Green Choreographers-in-Residence

January 20, 2013newsAmara, Artists, Choreographer, Choreographers, Collaborator, Eco City, Edmonston Md, Facebook, Food Practices, Jill Sigman, Nbsp, New York City, Permaculture, Potluck Dinner, Reflections, Sherwood, Sustainable Food, Tabor, Thursday Night, Trash

In December, Dance Exchange hosted Amara Tabor-Smith, our first Green Choreographer-in-Residence. Amara and her collaborator Sherwood Chen spent a week with Dance Exchange artists exploring sustainable food practices and food justice. Amara’s residency, which took place in our studios, as well as at sites like Eco City Farms in Edmonston, MD, culminated in a Thursday night HOME event featuring a potluck dinner and reflections on food and family. Visit Dance Exchange’s Facebook page to view more pictures from the residency.

Jill Sigman, of New York City, is our second Green Choreographer-in-Residence and will be in residence from January 28-February 1, 2013. Sigman will explore principles of permaculture and engage in hands-on work with small living systems, and this research will inform the development of movement scores and improvisational systems for use in her work The Hut Project, a series of site-specific structures built from trash. Sigman will share her methods and research in her HOME event on Thursday, January 30th from 7:00-9:00pm, and teach FRIDAY CLASS on Friday, February 1st from 9:30-11:15am.

Toby Smith Exhibition | theprintspace blog

September 6, 2010newsEnergy Structures, Engineering Marvels, Harsh Winter, Initial Phase, Moon And Stars, Night Images, Ongoing Project, Panoramas, Renewable Energy Industry, Scenery, Scottish Highlands, Spent Three, Striking Landscapes, Sustainable Energy, Three Months, Thursday Night, Time Smith, Toby Smith, Turbine, Underground Tunnels

During the harsh winter of 2010 Toby Smith spent three months in the Scottish Highlands beginning an ongoing project to document the renewable energy industry.

Above ground Smith captured dramatic panoramas, vast arctic-like scenery and alluring night images lit by the moon and stars. Below ground he explored hidden underground tunnels, engineering marvels and colossal turbine halls.

Now, for the first time, Smith exhibits a selection of his images from the initial phase of â€˜The Renewables Projectâ€™ which celebrates the union of striking landscapes and sustainable energy structures.

Exhibition Opening Thursday Night! | theprintspace blog.

High Tide, Art and Aviva at Poulsen #COP15

December 18, 2009COP15, newsActivist, Activist Art, Apos, Art Check, Aviva, Bella Center, Copenhagen, Darryl Hannah, Demographics, Fifteen Minutes, Good Cop, Hans Christian Andersen, High Art, High Tide, Jewell, Messiness, Mp3, Performance Space, Police Violence, Press Conferences, Project Art, Rahmani, Real News, Thursday Night, Wards, Yes Men

Acting as the officialÂ High Tide COP15Â envoy, distinguished ecological artistÂ Aviva Rahmani has been writing on her daily blog about her experiences in Copenhagen during COP15. Friday was her last day here, and she finally got the change to go about town and see some art. Check out the entries from December 18th to see what she was up to.

Below are some excerpts from her entires about her time about town. Not only do some fantastic artists connect, but The Yes Men were able to give back though Good COP 15, what the tensions of COP15 took away!

Modeling the Survival Ball at the Poulsen Gallery in Copenhagen on my last day

We walked thru the beautiful, old part of the city and I got a lesson in Copenhagen’s demographics while snapping pictures of the city, which now looks like the home of Hans Christian Andersen rather than the shocking site of police violence it was Wednesday.

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Aviva’s COP15 Press Conference became a GOOD COP15 Press Conference.

Larkon took me into their performance space and started a press conference for me in “the Good COP,” set up to look like the Bella Center. They’ve done about 100 press conferences so far, including with Darryl Hannah, of what people would want to say (not just your fifteen minutes of fame but a whole press conference) at Bella. Larkon just had a little hand held, but then a REAL news crew came in: Wendy Jewell, producer and Sister Jewell-Kemker, filmmmaker, reporter and activist for, “An Inconvenient Youth; kids fighting for their future,” with serious camera. We did it all over, inc a Q&A, and all happily exchanged cards after wards.

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So finally, I had my press conference in the “Good COP) with the Yes Men. And maybe, in the end, that was where it was supposed to happen.

I had the chance to sit down and talk with Aviva at the Klima Forum on thursday night. It was a great conversation, so look for a transcript to appear here soon!

A tale of two bankers

March 5, 2009news, RSA Arts & Ecology1000s, Ashden Awards, Assumptions, Bangladesh, Banks, Beggars, Deliverer, Ecology, Economic Realities, Fred Goodwin, Grameen Bank, Mohammad, Mohammed Yunus, Money, Robert Butler, Sir Fred, Tens, Thursday Night

At the Ashden Directory blog Robert Butler writes about Mohammed Yunus, founder of Bangladeshâ€™s Gameen Bank, and deliverer of Thursday nightâ€™s Ashden Awards lecture:

Impossible not to compare two bankers – Sir Fred Goodwin and Mohammad Yunus – two world views: one that works, one that doesnâ€™t.

Thereâ€™s something almost Wildean about Yunusâ€™s stories. He overturns the assumptions by which a society operates. The Grameen Bank has loaned money to tens of 1000s of beggars and his bank still flourishes. Other banks that only lend to the rich (because of â€˜economic realitiesâ€™) have crashed.

Go to RSA Arts & Ecology Blog