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The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College will present the solo exhibition Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, as well as a selection of six of Mehretu's paintings and drawings from the collection of alumna Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn...

Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, as well as a selection of six of Mehretu's paintings and drawings from the collection of alumna Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn '89 and her husband Nicolas Rohatyn, on view from April 13 to June 17, 2012. Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn will deliver a lecture during the exhibition opening events on April 13. Julie Mehretu is one of the most prominent artists working today. This retrospective exhibition, organized by Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis (MN), showcases Mehretu's engagement with printmaking, which stands at the heart of her art. It is the first retrospective exhibition of her prints. The viewer will see the evolution of her personal language of lines and marks in 20 prints made since 2000 with publishers in the United States and Europe. Best known for large-scale abstract paintings, Mehretu has experimented with prints since graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she was enrolled in the painting and printmaking program in the mid-1990s. Today, printmaking is a vital part of her creative process. She has completed collaborative projects at professional printmaking studios across America, among them Highpoint Editions in Minneapolis, Crown Point Press in San Francisco, and Derriere L'Etoile Studios and Burnet Editions in New York City. Siri Engberg, curator at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and guest curator of the exhibition, noted in her essay for the show's catalogue: "The printshop has become a space for examining her body of work and excavating it to create new layers of visual and conceptual meaning." Mehretu's exploration of printmaking began with etching, a hands-on process that goes back to decorating armor, and that saw its greatest exponent in Rembrandt in 17th-century Holland. The thoughtful approach that etching demanded changed Mehretu's way of working and proved a breakthrough for her. When making etchings for the first time at RISD, she noted recently that with this process "you were working slower," that "you worked with a needle and a smaller scale." It was a far more deliberative process than drawing and painting. After making these early etchings, she said that she then changed course with her other work and "approached drawing like etching." From then on until today, this more deliberate way of working has governed the development of her dynamic abstract language. Etching at RISD provided another breakthrough moment during a RISD winter session in etching in Mexico, when she made her first aerial drawing. Aerial space is a profoundly essential element in all of Mehretu's work. Bird's-eye views of charged atmospheric spaces define the prints on view, along with layers of sweeping lines and marks. The effect suggests bursts of energy and activity seen from high in the air, almost like a passenger watching from the window of a jet. Mehretu is interested in the emotional effects of these allegorical collisions of networks, lines, and marks on the viewer. In those small, distinctive marks she senses the individual's role or story within the larger community. This is an important notion for her, for her dense aerial layers signify the multiple systems we all experience every day--home, community, society, nature, weather, and the world at large, and our place within all of this order and chaos. While etching is the most frequent process seen in the works in the exhibition, other techniques are represented, including aquatint, drypoint, engraving, pochoir, lithography, and screenprinting. The accompanying catalogue features documentation and color plates of the prints and an introductory essay by Siri Engberg. An adjacent display will present selected paintings and drawings by Mehretu, generously loaned from the collection of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Vassar class of 1989) and Nicolas Rohatyn. About the Artist Born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Julie Mehretu (pronounced MoRETu) divides her time between New York and Berlin. She came to the United States at the age of seven, growing up in East Lansing, Michigan, and attended Kalamazoo College sixty miles away, graduating with a B.A. in 1992. She received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. In 2005 she won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and in 2007 she was awarded an American Academy in Berlin Fellowship. Since graduate school her work has appeared nationally and internationally in one-person and group exhibitions. She is represented in numerous collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2010 she completed a major painting commission for Goldman Sachs Bank in Lower Manhattan. About the Highpoint Center for Printmaking Established in 2001, Highpoint Center for Printmaking is a non-profit art center dedicated to advancing the appreciation and understanding of the printmaking arts. Highpoint offers educational programs for children and adults, a studio cooperative, professional publishing opportunities, and a street-level gallery featuring contemporary prints. No other printmaking center in the Upper Midwest provides such a wide range of public access and programs. Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu originated at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis, MN) and was guest-curated by Siri Engberg, from the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). The exhibition has also been on view at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) and Wesleyan's Davison Art Center (Middletown, CT). Exhibition Events Friday, April 13 5:30pm Opening lecture and reception Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn '89 Taylor Hall, Room 203 6:30pm Reception Art Center Atrium Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is a gallerist, art advisor, independent curator, collector, and tastemaker. She served as a judge during season one of Bravo TV's "Work of Art." Greenberg Rohatyn studied art history at Vassar College, and continued her graduate studies at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. She worked for the Brooklyn Museum as the assistant curator of contemporary art and for the Royal Academy in London as the curatorial assistant to Norman Rosenthal. In the early 1990s, Greenberg Rohatyn became director of Jeffrey Deitch, Inc, while producing a number of innovative satellite projects and performances that would later become her signature. In 1996, Peter Halley Drawings 1991-1995, an exhibition she organized, was presented at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.  She founded Salon 94 in 2002, an experimental project space in New York City for emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, such as Marilyn Minter, Lorna Simpson, Betty Woodman, and Takeshi Murata. She has continued to expand her vision and opened satellite galleries: Salon 94 Freemans on the Lower East Side and Salon 94 Bowery. Greenberg Rohatyn resides in New York City's Upper East Side with her husband, Nicolas. About the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. The current 36,400-square-foot facility, designed by Cesar Pelli and named in honor of the new building's primary donor, opened in 1993. The Art Center's collections chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college's inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American 20th- century painters. Vassar was the first U.S. college founded with a permanent art collection and gallery, and at any given time, the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Art Center feature approximately 350 works from Vassar's extensive collections. Admission to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free. The Art Center is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm; Thursday, 10:00am-9:00pm; and Sunday, 1:00-5:00pm. Located at the entrance to the historic Vassar College campus, the Art Center can be reached within minutes from other Mid-Hudson cultural attractions, such as Dia:Beacon, the Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites and homes, and the Vanderbilt mansion. The Art Center is wheelchair accessible. For additional information, the public may call (845) 437-5632 or visit fllac.vassar.edu. Directions to the Vassar campus are available at www.vassar.edu/directions . Emily Darrow Associate Director of Media Relations, Vassar College, (845) 437-7690 emdarrow@vassar.edu ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1141 2011-11-02T05:28:22Z 2011-11-02T05:30:13Z

Sentient Publications is proud to announce the new book Our Secret Territory: The Essence of Storytelling, by Laura Simms, distributed by National Book Network, with a foreword by Deena Metzger. Laura Simms, called "a major force in the revival of...

www.laurasimms.com. More information at: Sentient Publications www.sentientpublications.com cshaw@sentientpublications.com ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1138 2011-10-24T07:27:44Z 2011-10-24T07:30:09Z

An Irish playwright has announced a competition open to French language theatre companies to stage his play Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre. Declan Dunne ("dd") is putting up 2,000 euros (£1,700) in prize money and has advertised the competition...

Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre. Declan Dunne ("dd") is putting up 2,000 euros (£1,700) in prize money and has advertised the competition on a website - www.palaisroyalbrume.com. "Theatre companies are, like everyone else, finding it difficult to make ends meet in this recession, " Dunne said. "Staging a play by an unknown playwright is a risky business in boom times and a potentially door-closing scenario when theatre audiences are feeling the pinch." He said he got the idea from watching a BBC documentary on Terence Rattigan (The Story of Terence Rattigan - A very Modern Playwright) who put up some of his own money to stage First Episode. "I just hope that I can repeat Rattigan's successful idea and, indeed, that it will also be followed by French without tears." Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre concerns a mysterious Mr. Brume who invades the lives of several customers who frequent a café in Paris. The website includes details of how to enter the competition and has links to the Facebook page of each character. Closing date is 31 January, 2012. ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1113 2011-09-27T06:59:58Z 2011-10-04T05:45:33Z

Actors Reading Writers presents Selected Writings of Milan Oklopdzic, Monday, October 3, 2011, 7:30pm. This is your first chance to hear the expatriate writings of Milan Oklopdzic (1948-2007), the earliest Yugoslavian modernist. His urban, Beat-inspired writings rocked his nation in...

Selected Writings of Milan Oklopdzic, Monday, October 3, 2011, 7:30pm. This is your first chance to hear the expatriate writings of Milan Oklopdzic (1948-2007), the earliest Yugoslavian modernist. His urban, Beat-inspired writings rocked his nation in the 1980s and retain their cult status today. Fleeing the tragic Balkan War (1991-2001), Oklopdzic and his family came to San Francisco, receiving political asylum in 1993. By turns chilling and charming, his U.S. writings offer the story of that wrenching journey and his surreal commentary on Bay Area life: a moving legacy. Stories read by Lissa Tyler Renaud (director) and Jerry McDaniel, produced by Rica Anderson. Musical Performance-- Come at 7pm to hear pianist Paul Bregman play Ellington and other music from the Great American Songbook. Ambush Review table-- Oklopdzic's first U.S. publishers will be on hand with issues of their new Bay Area literary journal Book Exchange-- Bring a book or take a book! Monday, Oct. 3, 7:30pm Drawing Room Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue (between Dana & Ellsworth) Admission: FREE (Donations welcome!) Actors Reading Writers 510 778-8959 rica.anderson@comcast.net]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1105 2011-09-03T16:47:30Z 2011-09-03T16:55:19Z

'The starting point can be an image or a very strong notion of something that will run through the works. I think of it as laying a jigsaw puzzle where each piece is vital and the meaning disclosed at the end.' Anna Bjerger,...

'The starting point can be an image or a very strong notion of something that will run through the works. I think of it as laying a jigsaw puzzle where each piece is vital and the meaning disclosed at the end.' Anna Bjerger, 2011  GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT is proud to announce Every Time I Close My Eyes, Swedish painter Anna Bjerger's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Bjerger's images -- varied scenes executed in loose, vivid gestures -- pose puzzles for the viewer. Painted from photographs rather than from life, their subjects are derived from out-of-date reference books, instruction manuals, gardening books and magazines, possessing little overtly in common with one another. Their feeling is both familiar and anonymous, intimate yet curiously disconnected. Unmoored from their original contexts and unsettling each other's narratives, the images' meanings become slippery and ambiguous. Bjerger's pictures call attention to the physicality of their medium. Paint is applied wet on wet in broad brushstrokes, building to areas of thick impasto, to drips that slide down unchecked and to painterly surfaces detached from their images' contents. The speed with which the works have been painted seem to strive after the instantaneous quality of photography yet all the while assert the transformative nature of painting.  Every Time I Close My Eyes represents an entirely new body of work. Its motifs are those that have appeared in painting through the ages -- still lifes, landscapes, portraits and nudes -- and recall the works of particular artists. A full length depiction of a contemporarily dressed woman whose skirt is made out of swirls of blue paint summons the decorative portraits of Gustav Klimt, for instance, whilst the girl in Edvard Munch's Puberty is recast as a tan-marked woman bearing a blithe expression on her face. Bjerger has described the subject of her paintings as the 'tool' with which to engage with the works, selecting images that exude 'a boundless quality as well as compositional strength.' Similarly, the size of her pictures (several in this exhibition are far larger than ever before) impact on the reading of them: they demand to be looked at both from afar and up close, and from different positions within the space, inviting a physical involvement from the viewer as the exhibition is experienced as a whole. Through all of the means available to painting -- the handling of medium, composition and scale -- Bjerger personalises her imagery, compounding familiarity with further familiarity until it becomes strange. Anna Bjerger was born in 1973 in Skallsjo, Sweden. Her work is currently on display at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, she will exhibit at the Earlsfort Terrace in the Dublin Contemporary 2011 in September, and she also took part in Vad vi är (a duo exhibition with Jenny Källman) at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico. Bjerger studied fine art at St. Martins and painting at the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include A Perfect Throw, Paradise Row, London (2010), Strange Talents, ALP/Peter Bergman, Stockholm (2010), Invisibles, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam (2009) and The Snail's Trail, David Risely Gallery, London (2008). Bjerger's work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Glaspaleis Heerlen, Gävle Landsting, Sweden, Larsen Collection, Stockholm, Zabludowicz Collection, London, alongside many private collections.  GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT Elandsgracht 34 1016 TW  Amsterdam T:  +31 (0) 20 78 55 146 M: +31 (0) 6 41385833                      http://www.gabrielrolt.com gabriel@gabrielrolt.com Open: Wed -- Sat | 12 -- 18 hrs -- Current show: SUMMERSHOW Marijn Akkermans, Anna Bjerger, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jodie Carey, Nik Christensen, Shezad Dawood, Bas Geerts, Noa Giniger, Aisling Hedgecock, Thomas Lerooy, Abner Preis, Eva Räder, Davina Semo, Conrad Shawcross, Peter Schuyff, Anoek Steketee, Coen Vunderink, Douglas White, Masao Yamamoto 12 August -- 3 September 2011 -- Next show: EVERY TIME I CLOSE MY EYES ANNA BJERGER 10 September -- 15 October 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday 10 September 2011, 17.00 -- 20.00 hrs. ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1027 2011-07-06T04:43:09Z 2011-08-08T12:13:40Z

Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America Performs at "Dancing on the Grass", Nazareth College Dance Festival Monday, July 11, 2011. The Daystar Company was founded by Daystar/Rosalie Jones in 1980, becoming the first modern dance company in the USA with...

The plains/woodland Hoop Dance is presented by Sandra Lamouche (Cree) and Lowell Yellowhorn (Blackfoot), from Alberta, Canada. Sandra Lamouche is recognized internationally as one of the best of native women in North American to perform the Hoop Dance (sometimes called the Circles of Life Dance). Each hoop dancer is unique, creating distinct cultural images such as the eagle, basket, ladder, horse and rider, and the world globe. Lowell Yellowhorn sings both Cree and Blackfoot songs and has been active in Big Drum groups throughout Canada. Both Sandra and Lowell are currently Master's degree candidates at Trent University, studying in the areas of Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Environmental Science. WOLF: A TRANSFORMATION "Wolf" is a signature work choreographed by Daystar/Rosalie Jones, being inspired by the Anishinaabe (Ojibway) story of the traditional recognition of the wolf as the first companion of the first man. This solo dance begins with a Plains Intertribal men's traditional dance, in full regalia, but as the story unfolds, the dancer transforms, through the use of masks, into the shaman of youth and the finally into the shaman of age. "Wolf: A Transformation" is performed by Daniel Fetecua Soto, a native of Bogota-Colombia, currently a member of the Jose Limon Company, NYC. Daniel is founder and artistic director of Pajarillo Pinta'o, a modern Colombian Folklore company with a dual residence in NYC and Germany. In 2006 Daniel was honored with a special award from the National University of Colombia for his contribution to the preservation of Colombian traditional dances. He holds a BFA from Folkwang-Hochschule, Germany. Artistic Director Daystar/Rosalie Jones is well-known internationally as a Native American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher and writer. She is of Pembina Chippewa ancestry and holds a Master's Degree in Dance from the University of Utah with postgraduate work at Juilliard School in New York City. Daystar/Rosalie Jones has choreographed over 30 works emerging directly from the cultural material of Indian America, including Legacy of the Dream (Anishinaabe), Gift of the Pipe (Lakota), The Corn Mother (Eastern Cherokee) and No Home But The Heart: An Assembly of Memories (family story and history). As a teacher, Rosalie Jones was responsible for the revitalization of Performing Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the early 1990's when she was Chair of the Department. Since 2006, Daystar has been developing courses for the Indigenous Performance Studies program at Trent University in Ontario. This is the only university-level program of its kind in Canada, and one of only three such programs in the United States. In 2004 she was honored at UC-Riverside as a "pioneer of native modern dance". For complete Festival schedule, go to go.naz.edu/dancefest College address: 4245 east Avenue, Rochester, NY July 8-16, 2011 Box office: 585-389-2170 Events are presented in various locations. "Dancing on the Grass" Events will be performed on the outdoor stage by Golisano Academic Center; rain space will be Callahan Theater on campus. ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.1002 2011-06-11T13:54:19Z 2011-06-11T13:59:48Z

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, is pleased to recognize Charles Busch with the 2011 Innovative Theatre Luminary Award at their benefit CABARETION 2.0! Join them on Monday, June 27, 2011 from 6 -...

www.nyitawards.com/shop. In a special presentation by Julie Halston, the 2011 Innovative Theatre Luminary Award will be presented to Charles Busch. A luminary is someone who is an inspiration to others and has achieved eminence in their field. As an Off-Off-Broadway alumnus, Busch knows the challenges that face artists in this sector. Busch was one of the founders of the legendary OOB company Theatre in Limbo in the 1980's, where he honed his skills on such plays as Sleeping Beauty or Coma and Psycho Beach Party. It was the Theatre in Limbo's production of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom that first propelled Busch into the lime light. While he has reached great success, he continues to be a part of the OOB community. He was the first host for the Innovative Theatre Awards in 2006, celebrating the Off-Off-Broadway community and his roots. His productions of Shanghai Moon (1999) and The Divine Sister (2010) both premiered at the OOB house, Theatre for a New City. His dedication, generosity and numerous talents continue to be an inspiration to his fellow artists.]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.978 2011-03-24T09:01:38Z 2011-03-24T09:04:15Z

The Vassar Haiti Project will once again create an outpost of a Haitian Village with the tenth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction, from Friday, April 8, through Sunday, April 10, in the multi-purpose room on the second floor of...

http://thehaitiproject.org. "This year, through the annual Art Sale and Auction and the other activities, we will continue to celebrate the indomitable Haitian spirit--so vibrant, strong, and free that continually triumphs over disaster and adversity--and which is expressed so powerfully and colorfully in the nation's artwork and music," noted Lila Meade. "The Vassar Haiti Project has gone through a lot of changes and evolved in wonderful ways to meet the needs of Chermatire over the last few years." Said Samin Shehab '11, co-president of the project.  "The strength of VHP is reflected in its capacity to remain thriving while being in a state of constant flux. The tenth annual art sale and auction is a testament not only to the endurance of VHP but also the strength, spirit and resilience of the Hatian people." "This year is very special." added co-president Claudia Sanchez '11.  "This sale represents ten years of working together with our partners in Haiti, ten years of interacting with Haitian art, and ten years of efforts to build better prospects for the children of Chermaitre." About the Vassar Haiti Project Co-founders Lila and Andrew Meade grew up in Haiti and were inspired to found the Vassar Haiti Project nine years ago with the goal to provide some help to the population of a country that even before this current disaster had 98% deforestation, 70% illiteracy, and 50% unemployment.   Today, the Vassar Haiti Project (VHP) has more than 100 members and is an all-volunteer Vassar College organization. VHP maintains its initial commitment to funding primary education, while also pursuing partnership efforts to improve reforestation, education, access to clean water, and healthcare in the village. These initiatives include planting thousands of fruit and coffee trees on the hillsides around the Chermaitre; establishing water collection and purification systems in the Chermaitre, with the cooperation of Poughkeepsie Rotary; and with support from the Trinity Church in Fishkill, establishing the first medical clinic in L'Acul (a neighboring village of Chermaitre).   "Our goal has always been to create sustainability in our adopted Haitian community. In 2010, we brought two groups to visit Haiti, one in March during spring and fall breaks in March and October. The 12 Vassar students and four community members in March brought over 1,000 pounds of school, art, and medical supplies to Chermaitre and staffed a clinic for two days, helping many patients that hadn't received medical attention since the January earthquake. The October trip was focused on the purchasing the paintings for the art sale and auction and also assessing the situation in Port-au-Prince and meeting with several partner galleries, artists, and tent cities  where they met with Jacques Roc and important partner for the project. The Vassar Haiti Project blog, http://blogs.vassar.edu/haitiproject, captures many of these interactions.  "The outpouring of support over these past ten years - and especially last year in wake of the earthquake - show the best of our global village," noted Lila Meade. "We look forward to seeing all of our friends once more this year and sharing in the beauty of Haiti's country and people reflected through its art." For further information about the Vassar Haiti Project and the tenth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction, visit http://thehaitiproject.org.   Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available. Directions to the Vassar campus are available at http://www.vassar.edu/directions.   Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.977 2011-03-24T08:56:23Z 2011-03-24T08:58:26Z

An international group of creatives lead by 3 tutors will be involved into an intensive 2 week working process in September 2011 in South Tyrole, Italy. Challenged by space, time, languages, locality and the other participants, their intuition and creativity...

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EBE Ensemble will present the fourth annual installment of their award-winning festival of one-act plays, Elephants on Parade 2011 featuring new plays by Daniel Welser Carroll, Matthew Hanf, Alexander Motyl, Michael Niederman, Chris Purnell, and Tom Sime. Preview performances begin...

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/155026 or by calling 800-838-3006. Elephants on Parade won the 2009 New York Innovative Theater Award for "Outstanding Short Script" for Nico Vreeland's The Interview. This year's festival features five world premieres and one New York area premiere that expose the fears and horrors underlying modern American life. Daniel Welser Carrol's "The Day the Devil Passed Through Harper County" recounts a pivotal moment in the life of a rural couple that calls into question issues of personal strength, family duties, and Christian charity. Matthew Hanf's "The Sandbox" explores the tragi-comic nature of suburban life, cat poop, and a child's sandbox. Alexander Motyl's "Waiting by Godot" explores the flipside of Beckett's famous play, where we finally discover what the title character was up to. Michael Niederman's "The Fairy Tale of America" transports the classic Red Riding Hood tale into a violent, sexual, and hilarious contemporary America, with Hunter S. Thompson as the heroine's last hope. Chris Purnell's "0800-HELP-U-WRITE" follows a man who hires a young writer to compose his suicide note as both his conscience and his sister get in the way. Finally, Tom Sime's "The Right Reasons" comically flips the stereotype of the faked orgasm on its head as a young woman fights to discover the truth behind her boyfriend's empty condom. The cast features: company members Eric Alba (Elephants on Parade 2010, Shakespeare in the Pagoda 2010), Genevieve Hudson-Price (Elephants on Parade 2009 & 2010; HBO's "The Wire"), and Ryan Willard ("The Not Too Late Show"; Nickelodeon's "Slime Across America"); returning guest artists Nick Reinhardt and Elizabeth Spano (EBE's Shakespeare in the Pagoda 2010); new guest artists Rin Allen, Penny Bittone, and Mary Notari; and the return of founding member Joe Mullen (EBE's Pre-Disposal, Elephants on Parade 2009) This year's production team includes Cory Rodriguez (scenic design), Amanda Jenks (costume design), Lauren Bremen (lighting design), Joshua B. Jenks (sound design), and Lauren Genutis (properties designer). The plays will be directed by Tracy Cameron Francis, Elyzabeth Gorman, Barbara Harrison, Rebecca Lewis-Whitson, Bobbi Masters, and Adrian Wattenmaker. EBE Ensemble is dedicated to developing and presenting new and unique works of theatre. They believe that making theater accessible enhances a community and that, through an ensemble-based approach, they can better present quality theatre that strives for an emotional truth. For more information, visit www.ebeensemble.org. ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.974 2011-03-12T06:50:33Z 2011-03-12T06:52:51Z

Legendary set and costume designer Tony Walton comes to San Francisco's Museum of Performance & Design for an intimate conversation about his extraordinary career on stage and screen. From A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and...

www.mpdsf.org. This event is presented in association with The Walt Disney Family Museum. The day prior to his appearance at MPD, Tony Walton will participate in a conversation with Brad Rosenstein about his work on Mary Poppins. Fashioning the Family: The Costume Design of Mary Poppins will take place at 3:00 pm on Sunday, March 20 in the Museum Theater at The Walt Disney Family Museum, 104 Montgomery Street in The Presidio of San Francisco. Visit www.waltdisney.org or call 415-345-6800 for tickets and information. TONY WALTON is a world-renowned director and designer, honored with 16 Tony Award nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls all won him Tonys. Among his twenty films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz, and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar and Death of a Salesman the Emmy. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame. About the Museum The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD) is the first international arts institution devoted to the celebration of the performing arts and theatrical design. Located in the Veterans Building in San Francisco's Civic Center, the MPD produces world-class exhibitions that are free and open to the public, presents lectures and presentations by and about leading artists, provides conservation and archival services to performing arts institutions, presents youth and adult education programs, and houses a library that offers free access to an extensive research collection of materials documenting the diverse cultural legacy of the performing arts in California and beyond. MPD's diverse exhibitions, educational programs, and artistic presentations reach more than 200,000 youth and adults every year. Nikki Wutke ]]> tag:www.scene4.com,2011:/quepasa//3.965 2011-02-16T05:29:00Z 2011-02-16T05:30:21Z

The 2011 North Texas Irish Festival (NTIF), promises to be the best ever featuring an amazing array of Irish performers bringing to life this year's theme, "Ireland, I Am Coming Home", March 4-5-6, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Fair Park. ...

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The Museum of Performance & Design (MPD) is a sketch book friendly institution going back to our founding over sixty years ago by designer Russell Hartley. Join us Friday, February 25th from 12:00-5:00 PM for a special day of drawing...

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As part of a campus-wide celebration of Vassar's sesquicentennial anniversary, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center commissioned three photographers to create new work to highlight different aspects of campus life. The resulting photographs in the exhibition 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin focus on the people, environment, and the culture of Vassar today.

fllac.vassar.edu. ]]> About the photographers Tina Barney was born in 1945 to a wealthy family in New York City. Her grandfather introduced her to photography when she was a little girl and at 26 she began collecting photographs, though she did not take up the practice herself until the 1970s. In 1973 she moved to Sun Valley Idaho with her husband and their two sons where she began her artistic training in photography. Although she was located in Idaho, she was drawn to the colors and sensibilities she left on the East Coast. In 1979 she began working in color, later using a large-format view camera to create highly detailed images on a massive scale. Barney began by photographing intimate moments among elite families of the east coast. Among her favorite subjects was her own family, including her sister Jill who appears in many of her works from this period. Barney's style is part candid, part tableau; her subject matter raises in equal measure issues of privilege and the interaction of family members. While striving for the candidness of a snapshot, Barney became one of the first artists working in the 1980s to explore a "directorial" mode of making pictures. Her decision to direct her subjects stems in part from her choice to sacrifice the freedom of a 35 millimeter camera (with which she began her photographic career) for the large format camera's ability to deliver a more detailed rendering of the trappings of wealth so integral to depicting her subjects and their environment. Her direction ranges from careful lighting and posing her subjects to simply asking them to repeat a spontaneous gesture. The effect is an unexpectedly intimate access to her subjects. In the course of a decade, Barney has brought her camera closer and closer to her subjects. Barney's work continues to explore relationships between individuals, focusing on personal connection and disconnection, heritage, and self-presentation. Monographic publications on her work include: Friends and Relations: Photographs by Tina Barney (Smithsonian 1991), Tina Barney Photographs: Theater of Manners (Scalo 1997), Tina Barney: The Europeans (Steidl 2005). Barney's newest book, Players, is due to come out in May 2010. Her work is in such collections as the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in 1969 in Blantyre, Malawi, Tim Davis is an American photographer and poet. Davis graduated from Bard College in 1991 with a bachelor of arts degree and in 2001 he received a master of fine arts degree from Yale University. In his most recent solo exhibition, The New Antiquity at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in 2009, Davis builds upon his work taken during his time at the American Academy in Rome as a Rome Prize Fellow in 2007 to 2008. In his work Davis explores the everyday oddities and details that make up our experience of the world. His photographic work delves into formal aspects of photography (light and abstraction) as well as socially engaged documentary. Davis's publications include The New Antiquity (Damiani 2010), My Life in Politics (Aperture 2006), Permanent Collection (Nazraeli Press 2005) and Lots (Coromandel Design 2002). In addition, he has published several books of his poetry including American Whatever (Aerial/Edgebooks 2004). Davis currently teaches at Bard College while living and working in New York City and Tivoli, New York. Katherine Newbegin explores "empty" spaces in her highly charged visual imagery. Born in 1976 in Portland, Oregon, Newbegin received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with a concentration in Photography from Yale University in 1999 and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Hunter College in 2005. Newbegin is interested in what is behind the façade. Nothing is arranged in her works, nothing is specifically illuminated or staged. In her a 2003 series, she examined our notions of the ideal vacation and how it has shifted over time. She captured the The Sugar Maples Resort, an abandoned vacation getaway in the Catskill region of New York State that still shows vague evidence of the comforts once enjoyed by visitors. The American dream of enjoying the countryside at an unassuming, peaceful resort seems to have crumbled, as families have revised their notions of luxury and perfection. Newbegin captured the overall ruin of the resort in her views of the once majestic but now corroding buildings as well as individual rooms. After years of neglect the formerly extravagant curtains, wallpaper, and bedding are soiled and out of style. One of her most recent exhibitions, No Room Spaces: Behind the Scenes, at Galerie Open in Berlin explores the history of spaces. In her work rooms devoid of a human presence are endowed with meaning as the viewer is called upon to examine the space as it is captured in her photograph. Newbegin currently lives and works in New York and Berlin. About the curator Mary-Kay Lombino was appointed to the position of Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator in 2006 and, in fall 2009, appointed as Assistant Director for Strategic Planning of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. During her time at Vassar, she has curated several notable exhibitions, including Off the Shelf: New Form in Contemporary Artists' Books; Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection; Facebook: Image of People in Photographs from the Permanent Collection; Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection; Faith and Fantasy, and Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall. In 2009, Lombino was named a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL); and in 2005, she received a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship to study work by the late California Symbolist/Surrealist painter Dorr Bothwell. Lombino received a BA in art history from the University of Richmond and an MA in art history and museum studies from the University of Southern California in 1995. She has organized solo shows for numerous artists including Phil Collins, Ken Price, Amy Myers, Gay Outlaw, Euan Macdonald, Alice Könitz, Candida Höfer, and Mungo Thomson. About the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center was founded in 1864 as the Vassar College Art Gallery. The current 36,400-square-foot facility, designed by Cesar Pelli and named in honor of the new building's primary donor, opened in 1993. The Art Center's collections chart the history of art from antiquity to the present and comprise over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares. Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college's inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American 20th- century painters. Vassar was the first U.S. college founded with a permanent art collection and gallery, and at any given time, the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Art Center feature approximately 350 works from Vassar's extensive collections. The Art Center will present four special exhibitions in 2011. From January 28 - March 27, 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, will be on view. Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England, curated by Patricia Phagan, is the first major exhibition in the United States on this artist's work in twenty years and will be on view at the Art Center from April 8 - June 12. From June 24 - September 4, gifts to the Art Center's permanent collection from three Vassar alumnae will be highlighted in A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel, which will also be curated by Phagan. On view September 16 - December 11 at the Art Center, will be the exhibition A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum. Admission to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is free. The Art Center is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm; Thursday, 10:00am-9:00pm; and Sunday, 1:00-5:00pm. Located at the entrance to the historic Vassar College campus, the Art Center can be reached within minutes from other Mid-Hudson cultural attractions, such as Dia:Beacon, the Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt national historic sites and homes, and the Vanderbilt mansion. The Art Center is wheelchair accessible. For additional information, the public may call (845) 437-5632 or visit fllac.vassar.edu. [Please note that the Art Center will reopen in January 2011. It is now temporarily closed for roof repairs.] Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861. tag:www.scene4.com,2010:/quepasa//3.936 2010-10-20T23:36:11Z 2010-10-20T23:37:47Z

Calling all Brooklyn filmmakers! Scene: Brooklyn presented by Brooklyn Arts Council seeks short and feature length narrative films, short and feature length documentaries, animations, and experimental work from Brooklyn based filmmakers and artists. Scene: Brooklyn is an ideal way to...

Calling all Brooklyn filmmakers! Scene: Brooklyn presented by Brooklyn Arts Council seeks short and feature length narrative films, short and feature length documentaries, animations, and experimental work from Brooklyn based filmmakers and artists. Scene: Brooklyn is an ideal way to have your work seen in professional venues by New York audiences in curated film programs, and promoted through extensive marketing and press outreach. Scene: Brooklyn screening venues have included BAMcinématek, UnionDocs, Galapagos Art Space, The Bell House, and these and other sites are being considered for our May 2011 flagship series. Scene: Brooklyn presents prizes for Audience Award winners, as well as panels and parties. In addition to the May 2011 flagship series, Scene: Brooklyn presents screenings throughout the year in partnership with Brooklyn venues, as well as sending film compilations on tour. Early bird discounts available until November 12th so don't wait to submit! Submit your film through our Withoutabox site here - https://www.withoutabox.com/login/1015 For more info go to - www.brooklynartscouncil.org/scenebrooklyn ABOUT: Scene: Brooklyn, an initiative of Brooklyn Arts Council, is dedicated to presenting and supporting the tremendous range of filmmakers and media artists working in Brooklyn. This evolving program includes a flagship week of screenings presented in partnership with venues throughout Brooklyn each May, special screenings and media arts events throughout the year, professional development seminars for film and media artists, and filmmaker meet ups. Brooklyn Arts Council also supports film and media artists and organizations through grants, fiscal sponsorship and its online registry and directory. Scene: Brooklyn serves Brooklyn and the wider New York community by providing quality film and media arts programming that reflects Brooklyn's diversity. It also gives audiences an opportunity to get acquainted with the artists who live in their borough, and a chance to see non-commercial films locally. RULES: Films to be screened in the flagship spring series are to be submitted no later than January 14, 2011. ELIGIBILITY: Please read carefully. Brooklyn Arts Council will only consider films that meet the following qualifications: • Films by film and media artists (director, producer, or screenwriter), who are based in Brooklyn are eligible (all subject areas). • Films shot in or about Brooklyn by non-Brooklyn residents will also be accepted (all subject areas). • To reiterate - Only films by Brooklyn based filmmakers (director, producer or screenwriter) or films shot in Brooklyn or about the borough will be considered. Films shot elsewhere by non-Brooklyn residents will not be considered and no refunds will be given. FOR ALL APPLICANTS Entries must be complete works no longer than 120 minutes in length. They must have been completed on or after June 1, 2009. Industrial or instructional works and those previously submitted to Scene: Brooklyn are not eligible. All films and videos in a language other than English must be subtitled in English for presentation. All entrants must complete the online application form and mail or hand-deliver a DVD for jury screening. There is no limit to the number of entries each applicant may submit. Please submit a separate entry form and a separate DVD for each entry. Do not include multiple films on one DVD. LABELING All tapes must be labeled with the following information: 1. Film Title, total running time, category, and date (narrative; experimental; documentary; animation.) 2. Shipper's name and telephone number. 3. Withoutbox tracking number. Entries may be disqualified if they are not properly labeled. PACKAGING Films and videotapes must be shipped in a padded envelope. RETURN OF ENTRIES Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like us to return your DVD. Be sure to indicate that you would like your preview screener returned; we will not do so unless you indicate for us to do so on your application form. JUDGING AND NOTIFICATION Judging will take place January - March 2011 by a jury of film industry professionals in the New York metropolitan area. Notification will happen no later than March 30, 2011.]]>