Save the dates: the 2008 festival takes place September 11 - 14 throughout New York City.
To submit a proposal to participate in the festival: http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/submissions/
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2008.
The Dancers’ Resource will offer seminars specifically designed for dancers, serve as a “support system” and will offer groups for dancers dealing with injuries or other health concerns. The Dancers’ Resource will have an online component to link dancers’ to additional resources and to create an online community for dancers. The program will also address mental health issues including eating disorders, substance abuse, depression and other clinical areas.
The Dancers’ Resource program was founded by Actors Fund Trustee Bebe Neuwirth. “Now there is somewhere dancers can go to safely and confidentially address their unique and complicated challenges,” said Neuwirth.
The initiative grew out of Neuwirth’s personal experience as a dancer. “Last year I had hip replacement surgery,” said Neuwirth. “It came after several years of physical therapy, arthroscopic surgery, and excruciating pain. Add to that the emotional stress of not being able to dance and not wanting people to know about my condition - and I think you understand what that prison is like. After the replacement I recognized how extremely lucky I was to have a great doctor and great support from the few people with whom I shared my secret. And so I’d like to create a support system for other dancers.”
Dancers’ Resource social worker Alice Vienneau, who spent 25 years on stage as a musical theatre performer before getting her social work degree, understands the unique challenges faced by performers. “My job is to pay attention to the specific needs of dancers,” she said. “The Dancers’ Resource will focus specifically on the needs of dancers and offer a gateway into The Fund.”
The Dancers’ Resource is just one of dozens of lifesaving programs provided by The Actors Fund. From the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, AIDS services and the Health Insurance Resource Center to employment training, healthcare and housing, The Actors Fund is meeting the very real needs of the performing arts and entertainment community.
For more information about The Dancers’ Resource and other programs offered by The Fund, call 212.221.7300 or visit www.actorsfund.org
Healing
the
Dancer
An Annual Seminar
Please join us for the second annual Healing the Dancer seminar hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, founder of The Dancers’ Resource program of The Actors Fund, and featuring David Parsons of Parsons Dance Company as key-note speaker. A panel of experts will address the unique needs of the dance community, offering information and resources for obtaining health insurance and health care, nutrition, injury prevention, financial wellness, and more.
When: Thursday, May 15th Time: 3 -7 pm
Where: The New 42nd Street Studios, 229 West 42nd Street
Contact: Alice Vienneau, 212.221.7301 ext. 261 or avienneau@actorsfund.org
Presenters:
NUTRITION AND INJURY PREVENTION
Sandra Foschi, Nutritionist and physical therapist
Daniel White, DC, Chiropractor and former dancer
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING/MENTAL HEALTH
Donna Fish, LCSW, Psychotherapist and former dancer
Bradley Jones, LCSW, Psychotherapist and former dancer
FINANCIAL WELLNESS
Amanda Clayman, LMSW, Social Worker for Financial Wellness Program at The Actors Fund
Annette Lieberman, Psychotherapist and Author of The Money Mirror.
To register, please email avienneau@actorsfund.org, or call 212.221.7300 ext. 261.
This seminar is FREE and open to professional dancers and those who serve them.
Sponsored by The Actors Fund, AGMA, Career Transition For Dancers, Dance Magazine, Dancers Responding to AIDS, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Field, The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, New York Foundation for the Arts for the Arts, AGMA and Dancers Responding to AIDS.
LoVid performance/screening: Wire-Full
Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 7pm
MoMA Theater 2 (11 West 53 Street in Manhattan)
$10 for adults (other rates, discounts on museum admission etc. available)
For further information and/or listing of the featured fingerprinters contact lovidlovid@gmail.
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Curated by Nina Winthrop and Taimi Strehlow
Proposal Deadline: Friday June 13, 2008
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2008/09 season of Dance Conversations @ The Flea, a free monthly series at The Flea Theater, curated by Nina Winthrop and Taimi Strehlow. Dance Conversations @ the Flea features works in progress by emerging and mid-career choreographers, followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience, moderated by choreographer Nina Winthrop and special guests. Each evening, four choreographers will have the opportunity to share 10-15 minutes of work.
Choreographers and companies who have participated in recent years include Rebecca Lazier, Daniela Hoff, Andrea Miller and Claire Porter. Moderators have included John Jasperse, Amanda Loulaki, Christopher Williams, Melinda Ring and Levi Gonzalez. Now entering its sixth season, Dance Conversations @ the Flea was created so that artists working in the field of dance could have their work seen in a professional and informal setting by other established and emerging choreographers as well as fellow dancers and enthusiastic audience members. Dance Conversations @ the Flea encourages the development of innovative work and ideas and promotes provocative and intimate dialogue between artists and audiences.
The dates of Dance Conversations @ the Flea 2008/2009 are:
Tuesday, October 7 @ 7pm
Tuesday, November 11 @ 7pm
Tuesday, December 9 @ 7pm
Tuesday, January 6 @ 7pm
Tuesday, February 3 @ 7pm
Tuesday, March 3 @ 7pm
Tuesday, April 7 @ 7pm
Tuesday, May 5 @ 7pm
Dance Conversations will take place in the main theater space of The Flea or a nearby space. The stage dimensions are approximately 24' X 24', but this may vary month to month. Please note that the series cannot support work that includes video, and in general, technical requirements must be kept to a minimum. Only one proposal per choreographer will be accepted.
The application form is available at: http://www.theflea.org/dance/index.htm
Completed application and requested materials must be received at The Flea Theater no later than Friday June 13 at 5:00 PM.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Taimi Strehlow, Co-Curator, Dance Conversations @ the Flea
(212) 645-6462, tstrehlow@NinaWinthropandDancers.org
Please note that all applicants will be notified by late July.
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La Sala Narañja
solo project
featuring videos Horror Make-up and The Screaming
Valencia, Spain
Apr 11 - 26, '08
http://lasalanaranja.com/agendas.htm
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ThreeWalls
solo show Jillian Mcdonald, Horror Stories
featuring new videos and interactive installation
119 Peoria Street, Chicago, IL
April 4 - May 10, '08
http://www.three-walls.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=14
Images from the show are here: http://jillianmcdonald.net/blog/2008/04/10/threewalls-show/
For more information, please visit: www.watermillcenter.org/programs
The Abrons Arts Center’s goal is to “provide cultural opportunities that reflect the ethnic diversity and artistic wealth of the Lower East Side.” The Workspace Program supports this goal through a range of opportunities for artists-in-residence.
Among the artists selected for the A.I.R program are painters, printmakers, sculptors, or installation artists, who work in a shared workspace. In addition, a clay artist works in a separate shared space adjacent to the Center's ceramics workshop.
The Workspace program hosts a year-end open studio exhibition of work created during the year; facilitates studio visits from arts world professionals; provides a range of career development opportunities; and offers opportunities to become involved with other Henry Street and Arts Center programs.
For more info, application guidelines and materials, please visit the Henry Street Settlement website.
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About Susan
My name is Susan Lee. I have prepared taxes for freelancers and artists for over twenty years. I am a Certified Financial Planner™ as well as a Registered Investment Advisor.
My intention with this website is to give freelancers and artists basic information that will allow you to take advantage of your self-employed status and to meet the challenges inherent in freelancing.
I have written these articles for, as well as spoken to, freelancers and artist organizations including Graphic Artists Guild, National Writers Union, Editorial Freelancers Association, Music Cares, Artists in the Market Place, among others.
RBPMW Fellowships provide artists an opportunity for immersion in the
medium of printmaking, supported by a stipend, materials, and access to a
fully equipped and staffed professional and cooperative printmaking
workspace. These fellowships allow for progress through creative
experimentation, realizing individual conceptual goals, and cultivating
valuable connections in the New York fine art printmaking community.
The application deadline is April 4th.
Visit the website for more info.
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Time: 2:00–5:00 PM
SOAPBOX (n): a post upon which people stand and give their opinions on a topic, sometimes in quite emphatic terms.
Soapbox Event is a participatory performance created by Pia Lindman. Participants are given one soapbox each, which entitles them to one minute of free speech. They may form coalitions and stack their boxes together to obtain greater spatial presence and talk time. The spokesperson of a coalition may speak for as many minutes as there are stacked boxes. As the event evolves, boxes begin to express changing rhetorical configurations in sculptural forms.
In Soapbox Event, Lindman pares down the structure of democracy to the elemental forms of free speech: human bodies, live voices, and space. This performance investigates the construction and breakdown of collective structures, and how they influence individual expression in democratic decision-making. The event highlights the relationship of embodied speech to the bare life of an individual, in the context of increasingly mediated communication.
The site — formerly New York City Hall and Customs House, currently Federal Hall National Memorial — epitomizes freedom of speech in America. In this place, newspaperman John Peter Zenger was tried for seditious libel against the Royal Governor; with his 1735 acquittal winning a major victory for the free press in America; George Washington delivered his inaugural presidential speech from the balcony in 1790; and Yayoi Kusama held her Naked Event on the steps in 1969. We are pleased to present Soapbox Event amid this splendid tradition of speech acts.
Pia Lindman has performed and exhibited internationally since 1994, including at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture Center, and Performa 2005, all in New York; at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City; Keio University, Tokyo; and Beaconsfield, London. In 2008–2009 Lindman will be artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; currently, she is a lecturer at Yale University School of Art. Her work is in the collections of MoMA and the Queens Museum of Art. She is represented by Luxe Gallery, New York City.
Soapbox Event is curated by Sandra Skurvida and has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of the September 11th Fund.
Please see soapboxevent.blogspot.com for more information, or contact Sandra Skurvida: skurvida@earthlink.net or (917) 250-7251.
If you are an established arts organization in NYC and are contemplating either renting or buying a larger space, this is the right workshop for you. Led by Sarah Eisinger of Denham Wolf Real Estate Services, the workshop covers an overview of current NYC real estate market and realities for arts organizations; key considerations for organizations contemplating a project: renting vs. buying, and nuts and bolts about finding the right real estate.
About Denham Wolf Real Estate Services
Denham Wolf is a real estate consulting and development firm that specializes in representing the not-for-profit sector. Founded in 1998, the company has worked with more than 125 organizations to plan, acquire, and develop in excess of a million square feet of space.
Location:
Harlem Arts Alliance (UMEZ building)
290 Lenox Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
By subway: 125th (2, 3 train)
Attendance is free but RSVP is required:
Send an email with your contact information to artbusinessinitiative@seedco.org or call us at (646) 843-6510. You need to hear back from us to complete the RSVP process.
This workshop is part of the Seedco Financial’s ArtBusiness Initiative and the Harlem Arts Alliance’s workshop series.
Seedco Financial is a nonprofit community development financial institution that offers technical assistance and below market-rate loans to community organizations, nonprofits, and businesses in economically distressed communities. Since February 2005, the ArtBusiness Initiative has disbursed over $4.6 million in loans and worked with more than 450 arts groups in New York City.
FIGMENT is a celebration of creative culture held on Governors Island in New York Harbor on June 27-29, 2008. It is a free, non-profit art project that is open to the public. FIGMENT was launched in July 2007 as a one-day arts event. Even in its first year, it attracted scores of art projects and over 2,800 people. This year, FIGMENT will be three days long and welcome many more projects and participants.
FIGMENT seeks to build community among artists, foster the participatory and public arts in New York City, and to demonstrate a vision for the future of Governors Island as an arts and culture destination.
Anyone can contribute an art installation, performance, activity, or other project to FIGMENT! Opportunities to participate stretch as far as your imagination! Last year, FIGMENT hosted a wide variety of creations including inflatable sculptures, group dance lessons, tree-based art installations, bathtub photo booths, roving samba bands, costumed stilt walkers, medieval swordplay, climbable metal sculptures, and more!
Projects that can be set up outdoors are welcome aboard. It is also possible that indoor space will be available for certain projects. If you have an idea for FIGMENT and have questions about whether it's plausible, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Please note that key projects will be given placement on the island on a rolling basis. If you have a large project, a project that requires specific placement or infrastructure, please submit it as soon as possible so that we can accommodate it. Any projects proposed for Fort Jay, Castle Williams, or the Parade Grounds must be submitted by April 10.
Governors Island's rich history, green lawns, cool island breezes, and breathtaking harbor views make it a spectacular destination for a summer day. Governors Island is New York's birthplace: the Dutch first landed here in 1623. For most of our nation's history, Governors Island has been a military installation, first run by the U.S. Army and then by the Coast Guard. In January 2003, the Federal Government transferred the 172-acre island to the City and State of New York and the
National Park Service. Twenty-two acres of the island are now a National Park, and the remaining 150 acres are managed by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), a City-State partnership. For more information about Governors Island, please see http://www.govisland.org/.
To contribute to FIGMENT, please visit ttp://www.figmentnyc.org/participate/.
FIGMENT is a project of Action Arts League, and is produced by a coalition of volunteers in partnership with The Pure Project.
To check out last year's FIGMENT event, visit http://www.figmentnyc.org. If you have any general questions about the event, please email info@figmentnyc.org.
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See what our 15 artists- and 5 writers-in-residence have been working on since the start of their Workspace residency in September 2007. Whether you are art-fair-hopping or not, join us for a sneak preview of their works-in-progress!
RSVP is required. Click here!
And Save the Date, Open Studio Weekend is right around the corner, April 26-27, 2008.
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