Contents for April 04, 2022
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1. Naimah Hassan, FF Alumn, at The Creative Center, online, April 22
2. Francheska Alcántara, Maya Ciarrocchi, FF ALumns, at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, The Bronx, thru May 27
3. Gloria Holwerda, FF Alumn, at The Black Archives, Amsterdam-East, The Netherlands, thru Dec. 23
4. Sung Jae Lee, FF Alumn, Call for participants
5. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox East Village, Manhattan, thru May 4
6. Jonathan Berger, John Cage, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jane Dickson, David Hammons, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Adam Pendleton, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
7. Robbie McCauley, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
8. Sarah van Ouwerkerk, FF Member, at Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, thru May 8
9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, now online at RememberTheTriangleFire.org
10. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at Comics & Cartoon Festival, Manhattan, Apr 2-3
11. Stewart Wilson, FF Member, at Personaland, Torrington, CT, April 9 and more
12. Magie Dominic, FF Alumn, now online in Canadian Writers Abroad
13. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, in new publication
14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, MA, April 27-May 25
15. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, at CUE Art Foundation, opening April 9
16. Jibz Cameron, FF ALumn, at Leslie Lohman Museum, Manhattan, April 21
17. Richard Tuttle, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
18. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Duke University, Durham, NC
19. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Norogachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, April 11-16
20. Georgia Lale, Jamie Martinez, FF Alumns, at Border Project Space, Brooklyn, April 16-23
21. Galinsky, FF Alumn, April Newsletter
22. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, live online with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, June 2
23. Verónica Peña, GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumns, live online at 2022 Mellon Symposium, Haverford College, PA, April 4 – 8.
24. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, online and at Chicago Art Department, IL, April 8-30
25. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, online and live at CUNY & City Lore, Manhattan, May 20 and more
26. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, career fair at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, April 9
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1. Naimah Hassan, FF Alumn, at The Creative Center, online, April 22
The Creative Center and Franklin Furnace Present
WUSH RADIO HOUR
This event is free, open to all, and happening on Zoom
Friday April 22, 5:00-6:30pm
Click link to register for this webinar style event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YRkLJlrLRUmOXiRfc_9nPg
This event is the culminating presentation of our two-month partnership class with workshop artist Naimah Hassan, a member of historic artist collective Franklin Furnace. Join Creative Center participants to experience mystery, comedy, and riotous insight into the lives of older adults all contained in the format of old time radio theater, commercials, and talk shows! Post show talk back moderated by Harley Spiller, Ken Dewey Director of Franklin Furnace.
NAIMAH HASSAN is a licensed theater teacher, artist, director, improv and audition prep coach and has taught in the NYC school system. She is a trained mindfulness and meditation teacher. Naimah and her husband Steve Epstein are performing together as a married comedy team Epstein and Hassan aka “theblackandthejew.” She was nominated through Franklin Furnace for a Tony Award for Teaching Artist this year.
FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE, INC. is grateful to the 2022 sponsors of its SEQuential ART programming: The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs / Materials for the Arts; New York City Council District 35 and Majority Leader Laurie A. Cumbo; the Art Shop Fund, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and our loyal members and friends.
Questions? Contact info@thecreativecenter.org
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2. Francheska Alcántara, Maya Ciarrocchi, FF ALumns, at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, The Bronx, thru May 27
The Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos is extending its stay in BCA headquarters for our next exhibition, Geographies of the Self. Bringing together artworks by mostly Bronx-based multidisciplinary artists, this diverse exhibition explores how visualizations of the body are connected to the vast landscapes of one’s family and community. GUEST CURATOR Deborah Yasinsky PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Aiki | Francheska Alcántara | Samantha Box | Patricia Cazorla | Maya Ciarrocchi | Camille Eskell | Dauris Martinez | Katherine Miranda | Tijay Moha
Longwood Art Gallery at Bronx Council on the Arts HQ
2700 E Tremont Ave. Bronx, NY, 10461
March 25 – May 27, 2022
Viewing Hours
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturdays from 12:00pm-4:00pm
Opening Reception: March 30, 2022, 6-8pm
Closing Reception, May 27, 2022, 6-8pm
https://issuu.com/longwoodgallery/docs/gos_booklet_official_
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3. Gloria Holwerda, FF Alumn, at The Black Archives, Amsterdam-East, The Netherlands, thru Dec. 23
EXHIBITION
‘Facing Blackness: Visual Representations of Black People and Their History of Resistance’
2021 marked the 10-year anniversary of the “Zwarte Piet Is Racisme” campaign that launched a broad social movement and put the fight against institutional and anti-black racism on the social and political agenda. However, there has been a long suppressed history of colonial imagery of Black people and resistance against it in the Netherlands.
Facing Blackness
Facing Blackness is a multimedia exhibition that takes the public through the underexposed history of Dutch visual representations of Black people from the colonial period to contemporary society. Using unique archive material from the heritage collection of The Black Archives (TBA), other institutions, private collections and visual arts, The Black Archives shows how colonial portrayals of Black people became part of the Dutch ‘cultural archive’ and our everyday ideas and traditions. On the other hand, the exhibition shows how there has always been resistance to different forms of racism and how Black people themselves have given and continue to give meaning to their culture and identity.
Artists Gloria Holwerda, Jaasir Linger, Lydienne Albertoe and Sherida Kuffour spent several months researching and creatively reflecting on the theme of the exhibition. Albertoe, for example, has researched the visual representations of Black people in comic books and converted the research into an installation. Her research was supported by Het Zuidelijk Toneel (HZT) which has several projects highlighting the African diaspora and related themes this year.
The Black Archives spent a year conducting oral history and archival research in various public and private collections by researchers Isabelle Britto, Alexine Gabriela and Mitchell Esajas. More stories and objects will be collected during the exhibition. The exhibition concept was developed by Jessica de Abreu, Raul Balai and Mitchell Esajas. The campaign was designed by Serana Angelista.
From one exhibition to two
The exhibition is located on the ground floor of the Hugo Olijfveldhuis, the building of Vereniging Ons Suriname (VOS). With this, The Black Archives is expanding from one to two current exhibitions and is taking the next step towards becoming an established cultural and knowledge institute in the Netherlands. VOS aims to open the Suriname Museum in 2023 in this building. The entrance to the new space is at Zeeburgerdijk 21. The exhibition ‘Surinamese People in the Netherlands: 100 years of Emancipation and Struggle’ can be visited on the first floor of the building.
From April 2 to December 23, 2022, the exhibition ‘’Facing Blackness: Visual Representations of Black People and a History of Resistance” can be viewed at The Black Archives on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. On request, group tours can be organized for schools, organizations and groups of visitors.
Please donate a children’s book, object, or visual image to the archive
Visitors are invited to donate (children’s) books and objects that contain stereotypical racist images. Stories and visual images about resistance against this visual imagery are also welcome. These will be added to the exhibition and collection of The Black Archives to keep the archive, but also possibly to the future exhibition “alive”.
The Black Archives / Vereniging Ons Suriname, Zeeburgerdijk 21 (Amsterdam-East, Netherlands) Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
more information: https://www.theblackarchives.nl/facingblackness.html
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4. Sung Jae Lee, FF Alumn, Call for participants
< Looking For Hairy, White Participants>
Hello,
I’m SJ, a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Chicago.
I’m looking for 18 white participants with chest hair for the new iteration of my project “Temporal Chest Hair,” which will be showcased in NYC in the 2nd half of 2022.
Initiated in 2018, “Temporal Chest Hair” is my ongoing practice examining the relationship between fetish, race, and gender. Focusing more on race, the upcoming iteration will record the interactions between myself and 26 different white participants, whose first names begin with each letter of the alphabet, one by one. I have already filmed with people from A, B, C, J, L, N, T, and Z groups so people outside of those groups are welcomed.
An hour-long session is composed of two activities; I will shave the participant’s chest and abdomen for 30-40 minutes, and then the participant will glue their harvested hair onto my chest for the rest of the session. The time for each service depends on the amount of hair. You can get a glimpse of the session through this video.
Filming date and site will be negotiated. Ideally, I plan to finish filming before June at various sites (i.e. studio or residential spaces). Participants will be compensated for their time and resource. $40 per session!
Thanks so much for your interest in my project! Feel free to spread the word!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me: thony0806@gmail.com
If you want to see my other works, here is my website: https://sung-jae-lee.com/
If you’re interested in participating but living outside of Chicago, let’s discuss how to make it happen!
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5. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, FF Alumn, at WhiteBox East Village, Manhattan, thru May 4
Whitebox in its new iteration in the Historic East Village-Alphabet City is proud to present two unique feminist and activist performers, as a part of OFF THE CLOTH, an exhibition forming part of WhiteBox’s ongoing ´EXODUS´ series highlighting the work of émigré and expat artists living and working in New York City.
Curated by Karen Cordero Reiman and Juan Puntes, OFF THE CLOTH inaugurates the new downtown LES home bringing back, devoid of Nostalgia, a fresh, renovating spirit to a multifarious, time tested neighborhood as a community.
Yohanna M. Roa’s installation and performance piece The Big Tortilla of Green Time uses the preparation of a recipe based on native Mexica uses of plants and herbs, and an apron that combines pages of an art history book and embroidered flora, to present a reflection on the ways in which conventional structures of historical time are dislocated and resignified when seen from a perspective of female experience, poverty and non-Western culture.
In G*psies Picnic: The Feast of Those Gone By Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow performs in a gown she created out of Gingham tablecloths typically found in local bargain stores accessorized with a basket of local and exotic fruits intended to be served. In this piece, she reflects on colonial pastimes, tourism, and leisure activities all based around the concept of Spring /Summer gatherings.
WhiteBox East Village is thrilled to inaugurate its new downtown location at 9 Avenue B with Off the Cloth, the first exhibition in a two-year series of Feminist curatorial programs. Curated by Karen Cordero Reiman and Juan Puntes, Off The Cloth runs from March 25—open installation previews—through May 4th, 2022. Reception, public panel discussion and performances on April 1, 5-8 pm. The exhibition forms part of WhiteBox’s ongoing “EXODUS” series highlighting the work of émigré and ex-pat artists living and working in New York City.
The artists included in the exhibition are:
Shiva Lynn Burgos, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Blanka Amezkua, Christine Davis, Isolde Kille, Sandra Eula Lee, Simonetta Moro, Qinza Najm, Aurora Pellizi, Eva Petric, Yohanna M Roa, Amanda Valdez and Lilia Ziamou.
WhiteBox East Village is thrilled to inaugurate its new downtown location at 9 Avenue B with Off the Cloth, the first exhibition in a two-year series of Feminist curatorial programs. Curated by Karen Cordero Reiman and Juan Puntes, Off The Cloth runs from March 25—open installation previews—through May 4th, 2022. Reception, public panel discussion and performances on April 1, 5-8 pm. The exhibition forms part of WhiteBox’s ongoing “EXODUS” series highlighting the work of émigré and ex-pat artists living and working in New York City.
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6. Jonathan Berger, John Cage, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jane Dickson, David Hammons, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Adam Pendleton, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following link:
Thank you.
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7. Robbie McCauley, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following link:
‘Told It Like It Was’: Ntozake Shange’s Tales of Black Womanhood
Thank you.
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8. Sarah van Ouwerkerk, FF Member, at Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY, thru May 8
Epiphanies
DVAA, Alliance Gallery. Narrowsburg, NY 4/2/22-5/08/22
Please visit the following link:
https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition/sarah-van-ouwerkerk-epiphanies/?back=ago
Thank you.
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9. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, now online at RememberTheTriangleFire.org
My brand new song is at 23:13, a poltical anthem, “See You in the Streets,” dedicated to Ruth Sergel & Street Pictures, inspired by her mission tagline call to action: “See You in the Streets” — and also dedicated to all those in ACT-UP whose feet “I feel ya feet go marchin” and whose chants I hear echo inside me for all my life.
Be part of making history right. Donate to www.rememberthetrianglefire.org
Help build the memorial.
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
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10. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns at Comics & Cartoon Festival, Manhattan, Apr 2-3
Hi all,
Kriota and I will be tabling at the MoCCA (Comics and Cartoon) Festival in Manhattan this weekend, April 2 and 3.
We’ll be featuring our new mini-comics, Sappho: Pretty Poet (by me) and Name the Villaine (by Kriota), plus all of our other books.
Metropolitan Pavilion: 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011 Table A126
MoCCA Arts Fest 2022
Please visit the following link:
Thank you.
The MoCCA Arts Fest is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan’s largest independent comics and cartoon festival. With over 500 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, the Fest and our artists exemplify the limitless aesthetic and social power of comics and cartooning.
Metropolitan Pavilion: 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011 Table A126
(Additional programming is at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, located at 133/141 West 21st Street.)
Saturday April 2
11am – 7pm
Sunday April 3
11am – 6pm
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11. Stewart Wilson, FF Member, at Personaland, Torrington, CT, April 9 and more
If you’re in the area, Personaland is exhibiting 14 artists from our online showcase galleries at 17 Water Street, in Torrington CT
For many galleries, you can also see them talk about their art
Please visit this link:
https://personaland.com/hut/artists/
Thank you.
In addition, there will be a performance night
the following Saturday, April 9th, 7-10 PM
If you’re in the neighborhood, come on by!
We plan to offer this exhibit online in the next two weeks.
Also, the “Spring” Art Show launches online on Friday. You can still participate if you submit art by Tuesday https://personaland.com/submit/spring-exhib.php
We will be offering more opportunities to contribute your ideas and art in the near future.
Happy Spring 🌻
Stewart
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12. Magie Dominic, FF Alumn, now online in Canadian Writers Abroad
Magie Dominic interviewed in “Canadian Writers Abroad” – Ecrivains canadiens à l’extérieur du Canada.
“Magie Dominic has kept us up to date with her activities in the worlds of writing and acting in New York.”
Please visit the following link to the interview:
Thank you.
http://magiedominic.blogspot.com/
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13. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, in new publication
FF Alumn Richard H. Alpert’s sculpture appears in the recently published book, “Light on the Walls of Life: a tribute anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti”, published by Jambu Press, 3/24/2022.
“In this tribute anthology, 74 accomplished diverse contributors of poetry, prose, and visual art connect with Ferlinghetti’s vision, full of light for the future. With playfulness, respect for nature, resistance to injustice, and encouragement of a “free poetic life,” the collection offers both an homage to Ferlinghetti and a reaffirmation of the lasting transformative power of the liberated creative spirit.” – Jambu Press
Some of the contributors are: Juan Filipe Herrera (former U.S. Poet Laureate), Jack Hirshman (Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Francisco), Raymond Foye (former Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Gagosian Gallery and currently contributing editor for the Brooklyn Rail), etc.
“Honoring Ferlinghetti’s wishes, proceeds benefit community educational programs in poetry and arts literacy.”
The book is currently available from Small Press Distribution, Orders@spdbooks.org
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14. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, MA, April 27-May 25
The Socially Engaged Art of Provincetown’s Jay Critchley, with Janis Bergman-Carton
Open University of Wellfleet https://www.openuniversityofwellfleet.org/
Wednesday afternoons from 2-3:30 p. m.
April 27, May 18, and 25 on Zoom
May 4, 11 in person at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (W.H.A.T.)
Wellfleet, MA
This class provides a window into “socially engaged art,” visually compelling contemporary art that aims to affect its community and environment in a real (rather than symbolic) way. Provincetown’s Jay Critchley is one such artist. Critchley generates conceptual work with an enduring impact locally (Provincetown Community Compact, Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla) and globally, from Argentina and Colombia to England, Holland, Germany, and Japan.
We will look at Critchley in a larger global context of socially engaged art by such figures as Ai Wei Wei, Tania Bruguera, Theaster Gates, and Olafar Eliuason – four of the most dynamic creative thinkers in the art world today.
Janis Bergman-Carton is a retired art history professor from Southern Methodist University where she taught modern European art and published books and articles about French urban modernity and cultural memory in Postwar Europe. Presently, she resides in Austin, Texas, dividing her time between a research-focused studio practice and teaching for Free Minds, an affiliate of The Clemente Course in the Humanities which offers a free year-long college course in humanities to adults living on limited incomes, seeking a chance to explore their intellectual potential.
Jay Critchley
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15. Zachary Fabri, FF Alumn, at CUE Art Foundation, opening April 9
Please visit the following link:
https://cueartfoundation.org/zachary-fabri-memory-foam?mc_cid=7e170b3b3b&mc_eid=cff4306a70
Thank you.
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16. Jibz Cameron, FF ALumn, at Leslie Lohman Museum, Manhattan, April 21
Dear Fearnds,
This resurrection season I will be going to Jacksonville FL for Sleeping Giant Festival and also to be haunted by Aoileen Wuornos, fingers crossed. Later in the month I will be in NYC doing an artist talk at the GAY Leslie Lohman Museum with KC Crow Maddux hosted by Nirvana Santos-Kuilan! BLAH4BLAH!
Next LA Weirdo Night is Monday, May 9th, MONDAY!? what can i do i got with the flow.
Hope everyone is doing “well” in “these” “times” during the “current” “state” of the “world”.
ALLA MY LOVE, D-Bo-Baggins
Weirdo Night
Leslie Lohman Museum
Tuesday, April 21th, 6:30 PM
Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either
https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/not-me-not-that-not-nothing-either
Artist talk – Jibz Cameron and KC Crow Maddux in conversation with Nirvana Santos-Kuilan
Leslie Lohman Museum
Participating artists: Math Bass, Diedrick Brackens, A.K. Burns, Jibz Cameron, Theresa Chromati, KC Crow Maddux, Troy Michie, Christina Quarles, Devan Shimoyama, Ceaphas Stubbs, and Jade Yumang.
Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either is curated by Rachel Beaudoin and Nirvana Santos-Kuilan.
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17. Richard Tuttle, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit the following link:
Thank you.
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18. Crystal Z Campbell, FF Alumn, at Duke University, Durham, NC
I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that it is snowing and it is April…but the snow has carried some good news. My video work, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse, is now officially part of Duke University’s Archive of Documentary Arts Collection. So moved that the work will be preserved, shared and may find its way into the curriculum. Thanks to all who had a hand in this, and big congrats to the other three awardees this year
The Archive of Documentary Arts is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 Collection Awards. We will be adding four amazing projects related to environmental (in)justice to the Archive, including one digital video and three photographic portfolios.
Crystal Z. Campbell, A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse, 2020, Digital Video
A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse is a poetic glimpse of how centuries of extraction, racism, pollution, and commoditizing nature has altered our relationship to sacred land and resources. How has nature been historically shaped and imaged for pleasure, status, and control by many hands of invisible labor? Constellated and intersectional histories and source material include testimony from a Water Protector at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, contaminated water in Flint Michigan, original footage of Hierve el Agua near Oaxaca, Mexico revered for its healing properties, archival images of gardens and hands of artists who resided in Tulsa, Oklahoma and children brushing their teeth––a reflection of the innocuous ways which contaminated water and resources shapes the lives of individuals completing banal, daily, routine tasks. @crystalzcampbell @dukelibraries
Reposted from @duke_ada
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19. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at Norogachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, April 11-16
Está abierta la convocatoria del encuentro PERFORMANCEAR O MORIR 2022 que se realizará entre los días 11 al 16 de abril 2022 en Norogachi, Chihuahua, Mexico. Más información al correo: performancear@gmail.com
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20. Georgia Lale, Jamie Martinez, FF Alumns, at Border Project Space, Brooklyn, Apr 16-23
Defense by Georgia Lale, curated by Jamie Martinez, April 16-23, 2022 by appointment
Performances, April 16 and 23, 3-6 pm est.
Theborderprojectspace.com 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn NY 11206 (enter from Grattan St.)
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21. Galinsky, FF Alumn, April news
Great things happening here including an invite to perform at the Whitney Biennial, a TEDxTalk, exclusive prison/jail film screenings and author visits, and so much more.
Coaching & Prison/Jail Updates – TEDxYouth, Program Expanding, and Multiple Screenings
a. The Virtual LIT Galinsky Coaching Zoom Book/Music/Film Clubs – are Growing!
We are now teaching 5 virtual programs and 2 on site programs (back on Rikers Island!) Supported by Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and The Kite Zine, Galinsky Coaching is now bringing love, literacy, and theatre to over 100 students each week.
b. Exclusive Prison Film Screenings – Two Brand New Documentaries!
We have exclusive access to two incredible new documentaries, which I will be screening to our students over the next few months, and I encourage you to see them too! They are: Jeffery Robinson’s “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism In America” a film by Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler (deep gratitude to all three who made this possible) and “100 Years to Mississippi” Directed by Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, Executive Produced by Barry Shabaka Henley (deep gratitude to Tarabu, Shabaka, and Gina Rugolo who made this possible)
c. TEDxYouth – 2 Coaching Clients and Myself hit the Stage in Brooklyn!
One of my formerly incarcerated students did her very first TEDxTalk last week at TEDxYouthHCCS and she performed a poem and a talk that detailed her translating violent impulses into a non-violent expressions of poetry. The video will be posted soon and of course I’ll let you know! Also another incredible client of mine, Gerald Gangaram, did his talk about “Forging Forward” to a really great audience, hungry for more. Lastly, I was fortunate to be asked to speak as well, and I delivered my take on what is “Behind the Facade” of people experiencing homelessness. Big thanks to Aaron Sylvan for producing yet another amazing TEDx.
Poetry Updates – Whitney Biennial Invite!
a. 4/9/22 Whitney Biennial! April 9th – I am honored to have been asked to read my poem “East Village Hip” at the Whitney Biennial, this Saturday, April 9th at 12noon as part of the great Steve Cannon’s “Gathering of the Tribes” exhibition. More info here: https://whitney.org/events/a-gathering-of-the-tribes-marathon-reading-apr-8
b. 4/21/22 Poetry in New York at Book Club Bar – April 21 (and 3rd Thursday of each month)
These shows have been growing and growing and this month we feature Edwin Torres and Sasha Stiles and of course the night ends with musical sets by DJ Forget Your Password. 8-10pm, free admission, all ages welcome at Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street. First poet hits the mic at 8:15pm!
4/16/22 The Galinsky Brothers Unite – Improvisational Comedy at its Very Best
Philip Galinsky, the smarter, funnier, faster, and younger brother joins me on stage (with surprise special guests Katha Cato and Julia Jade Duffy) for a night of furiously funny improv, Saturday April 16th, 8pm sharp, at the East Village Playhouse on 340 East 6th Street in Manhattan. Bring your best suggestions to contribute to the show. Advance tix $10 here http://www.galinskybrothersapril.eventbrite.com or $20 at the door.
Special Thanks:
Thanks for softcover book donations from: Amy Seham, Carmen Devito, the Buddhist Association of the United States, Yu and Me Books, and Sweet Pickle Books. I am constantly taking softcover donations of used books on all subjects and in all genres. If you have 2 books or 200, please reach out and let me know.
Scribbling on Spaghetti, my first book of published poems and short plays is available on Amazon if you aren’t in NYC…. BUT! if you are in NYC, please consider ordering from Book Club Bar and support a terrific small business.
With Love,
Galinsky
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22. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles, FF Alumn, live online with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, June 2
Spring 2022 – Healing through Grief: Alternative, Holistic & Creative Approaches
Dear EKR Friends,
We are delighted to announce the Spring Education series, and we hope you will join us! Tickets will be available on eventbrite starting Monday, April 4th.
Inspired by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ many lectures and articles, as well as her books, Life Lessons (2000), and On Grief and Grieving (2005).
“We need time to move through the pain of loss. We need to step into it, really to get to know it, in order to learn.”
“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.” – Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
When we come to terms with loss as part of our human existence, the natural grief response guides us through a process of making meaning, finding a deeper purpose, and growing through our human experience. Because the impact of loss and our healing through grief is evolutionary and ongoing, it is greatly supportive to have access to a variety of approaches to sustain us through a lifetime of growth and transformation.
With the guidance and inspiration from Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ far-reaching, comprehensive, and thought-provoking legacy, we learn from experts in the fields of grief and end-of-life to acknowledge and connect with innovative perspectives and creative approaches that embrace loss as an integral part of life and support growth and healing through grief.
LANGUAGES: Simultaneous interpretation Spanish/English; English/Spanish
DATES: Thursdays, April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, May 26, June 2, June 9, June 16
TIME: 11AM-12:30PM ET
JUNE 2 – NICOLÁS DUMIT ESTÉVEZ RAFUL ESPEJO OVALLES & GROUP – Free to Love, Free to Grieve: Impermanence and the gift of life
Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art/Temple University; and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. Born in Dominican Republic, he was baptized as a Bronxite in 2011. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing.
Chris Camarata, M.D. is a retired Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He also worked in the Palliative Medicine Division of the Department of Internal Medicine at UNM. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Susanne Fest, Ed.D. As a cancer survivor since 2010, Susanne Fest has experienced firsthand the benefits of integrative models of health care. As a former psychotherapist, educator, volunteer, and Program Manager at Healing Circles Global, she aims to give meaning to her experience by accompanying others on their paths toward healing–whatever healing may mean to them.
Robin Fried, M.A., is a volunteer with Healing Circles Global. Following her healing journey from breast cancer in 2005, she earned her Certificate as an Advanced Integrative Energy Healing Practitioner and trained as a hospice volunteer. An eternal seeker and student, Robin’s professional life has been grounded in life-long learning with extensive experience creating and managing innovative educational programs in the academic, public, private, and volunteer sectors.
Diana Lindsay, M.A. is co-founder and co-director of Healing Circles Langley and Healing Circles Global. She is the author of Something More Than Hope: Surviving Despite the Odds, Thriving Because of Them.
PLEASE NOTE: Presentations are subject to change depending on circumstances.
Wilka Roig, MTP, MFA, PLC
Deputy Director of Education
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23. Verónica Peña, GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumns, live online at 2022 Mellon Symposium, Haverford College, PA, April 4 – 8.
ON DURATION
2022 Mellon Symposium
With Marilyn Arsem, Sarah Cameron Sunde, GOODW.Y.N, Natasha Jozi, Verónica Peña and Raegan Truax
April 4 – 8
https://www.haverford.edu/center-arts-and-humanities/news/on-duration
http://kasinihouse.com/art-meets-history/nicole-goodwin/
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One footstep. A tug of hair. Chains Rattling. Smoke. Water Body. A body of water.
At this critical moment of rediscovering the “live” ON DURATION brings together six durational performance artists for a week of creative research and public praxis.
Investigating process and the caesural possibilities opened by not knowing what will happen in advance of the event – the artists will time travel, bend time, critically waste time, forget time, suspend time, find time, make and unmake time.
The public is invited to witness the participants in process as they work collectively and individually throughout the symposium to explore different relationships to duration, live performance, site, environment, and the body — converging around tempos and rhythms, tidal times, questions about proximity, points of contact, and ways of responding and relating across multiple temporalities and embodied knowledges.
Curated by durational performance artist and scholar Raegan Truax, ON DURATION stalls between corporeal senses of time, environmental times, and the ways bodies perform time in everyday life. Placing value on performance as an evolving axis of political, aesthetic, and creative possibility, the symposium stages the precise skill sets of variegated durational practitioners in order to investigate how rearranging relationships to time, space, and body can unmake oppressive systems and structures.
Sponsored by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Distinguished Visitors Program, Haverford College.
SCHEDULE: https://www.haverford.edu/center-arts-and-humanities/news/on-duration
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24. Elly Clarke, FF Alumn, online and at Chicago Art Department, IL, April 8-30
Chicago Art Department https://chicagoartdepartment.org presents
Proxy Bodies 2.0 8th – 30th April 2022
Opening reception: Friday April 8th, 6-10pm.
Artists in Conversation in person and online will be held on Saturday, April 30th, at 12:00 noon.
Link to image: https://flic.kr/p/2nbGwPz
Proxy Bodies is an ongoing collaborative exhibition initiated by UK-based artist and performer Elly Clarke in 2021. Through photography, performance, embroidery, drawing, painting, video and QR codes, Proxy Bodies explores ideas and lived realities of having and keeping a body going in an uber-connected, politically & ecologically unstable world. Since the first iteration of this exhibition in Felixstowe, UK last September, the notion – and reality – of proxy bodies has shifted yet again, due to the Ukraine war and ongoing ecological & humanitarian crises in Europe and beyond…
In Clareese Hill’s photo series Conjuring from the Rhizome, ancestral and critical diasporic knowledges are activated through a ceremony to create spaces of rest, in what Hill calls a ‘post identity portal’. In these ceremonies, the artist conjures up The GUIDE, who is a triadic collaboration of Black knowledges, autoethnographic mining and ambivalence of participation within the academic conventions of research.
Traces of a Performance by Elly Clarke is a screenshot (with accompanying video extract) from a rediscovered recording of a rehearsal for a VJ performance Clarke did as her drag alter ego #Sergina in a former Nunnery in France in 2019. Printed on Habotai silk, the digital screenshot becomes a banner and/or a portable virtual (/real) background for Zoom calls. Meanwhile Airdrop (I want your data) is a seductive call for data for a wellbeing questionnaire, accessed via a QR code. www.ellyclarke.com
Galina Shevchenko’s Proxy Bodies/ Madonnas series, created for the 2nd iteration of Proxy Bodies, are an outcry of despair and hope, a visceral visual response to the dehumanising impact of war. Emerging as iPad drawings, the images evolve to become digital embroideries through custom-developed algorithms, channelling the processes of artificial cross-breeding. This work is inspired by Donna Haraway’s Cyborg manifesto, Ukrainian traditional embroidery patterns and Shevchenko’s ongoing research into Renaissance Grotesques. http://www.galinashevchenkosequences.com/
Bryony Graham had to develop a new relationship to her body and society after becoming disabled through illness with a chronic pain condition. Album (1991/1999) spans the before and after the onset of this – from an album of photos in 1991 to an album with the photos taken out in 1999, leaving only the photo corners. Rub, is an ongoing series of rubbings of pain med blister packs, which for a while were the only thing Graham could do. In her work as an artist and founder of Felixstowe-based project space Hamilton MAS (where the first iteration of Proxy Bodies took place), Graham is interested in finding ways to make invisible support structures both visible and useful, with particular regard for people living with long term health conditions.
Performed in different places around the world over the past five years, Dominique Savitri Bonarjee’s Collapse is a ritual of resistance and surrender, a practice for listening to gravity, time, the weather, the climate, and the movements of an expanded field of aliveness. As part of Proxy Bodies In Felixstowe, Collapse #9 took place on the beach, surprising a Saturday afternoon crowd of families and beer drinkers with a 30 minute slow collapse of the artist,, from standing to lying down on the sand. www.dominiquebb.com
Brought in for this second episode of Proxy Bodies, Chicago based, Ukranian born artist Elena Pach’s paintings muse with subjective tension, employing multitude of fractured fragments of sight, sound, scent, and memories; appearing as deconstructed amalgamation of barely recognizable fairy tale, evoking a sense of timelessness.
And finally, the work of New York & Chicago based artist Maria Dimanshtein dives into intimate existential ponderings that will ring true to most. In her text-based drawings, Dimanshtein brings up for discussion the unwelcome and rejected aspects of the human experience: anxiety, loneliness, heartbreak, disconnectedness. Taken out of the confines of a traditional book and placed onto the gallery wall, poems explode with primeval immediacy. https://www.mariadimanshtein.com/
Episode 2 of Proxy Bodies is curated by Galina Shevchenko, with hands-on installation help from Clareese Hill. We are grateful to all who have helped Proxy Bodies (2) arrive at this place – including Elly Clarke’s PhD funders CHASE Doctoral Training Programme, for supporting the origins of this show.
Proxy Bodies 2.0 will also be a fundraising site, joining efforts with the Ukraine TrustChain organisation that helps fund aid and evacuations for Ukrainians in the active war zone. Our small teams go where big international orgs can’t, to provide urgent food, medical supplies, and rides to safety.
Artworks featured in the show will become available for sale as wearable art items through the
Ukraine TrustChain fundraising ArtMerch initiative, which will launch on April 8.
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25. Alvin Eng, FF Alumn, online and live at CUNY & City Lore, Manhattan, May 20 and more
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE
Friday, MAY 20, 2022
Two-Part BOOK LAUNCH!
Virtual & In-Person/NYC
Our Laundry, Our Town
My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
A memoir by Alvin Eng
Part I (May 20)
Virtual Book Launch Reading and Talk / 5:30pm – 7 pm (EST)
AAARI/CUNY’s online Friday Lecture Series https://aaari.info/22-05-20eng/
Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York
Part II (May 20)
In-Person Book Launch / 7pm – 9pm (EST)
CITY LORE Gallery, 56 East 1st Street, East Village, NYC
“Alvin Eng’s masterful, sweeping memoir about growing up with his five siblings in a dysfunctional family in the back of the Foo J. Chin Chinese Hand Laundry in Flushing, Queens is laced with his marvelous humor, family anecdotes and metaphors that bring a century of the Chinese American Experience to life. I was deeply touched, especially by the spirits parallels between the folks in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and the laundry and the beautiful idea that his parents didn’t really see each other either––like the characters in the play. Just a beautiful book.”
STEVE ZEITLIN author Poetry of Everyday Life, Founding Director of City Lore
Hope you can join us online or in-person to celebrate the publication!
More details soon!
OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN
My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Fordham University Press publication date: May 17, 2022
Available for Pre-Order now:
Fordham University Press
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531500368/our-laundry-our-town/
please select a favorite indie bookstore – https://bookshop.org/books/our-laundry-our-town-my-chinese-american-life-from-flushing-to-the-downtown-stage-and-beyond/9781531500368
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09M8VMBJV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
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26. Ayana Evans, FF Alumn, career fair at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, April 9
FF Alumn Ayana Evans – www.ayanaevans.com – is hosting a career fair titled Cash Rules Everything Around Me: A Career Fair for More Than Just Survival in partnership with Weeksville Heritage Center on Saturday, April 9th from 2-7pm on the Weeksville Heritage Center’s campus in Crown Heights; 158 Buffalo Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213.
This completely free career fair is open to all but geared towards––Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer and trans folks––and those who have been formerly incarcerated, have court-involvement histories, or have otherwise been system-affected.
From Ayana:
“This is a career fair aimed at employing formerly incarcerated and court-involved folks. A big part of this project is creating a welcoming space that removes hierarchies and stigma. This will not be a career fair in the same fashion it normally is done. What happens if it’s more like a block party?”
In addition to fostering a lively atmosphere for the duration of the fair––complete with food & DJs––we’ll have several artmaking workshops, representatives from local internship/paid fellowship opportunities, info on re-entry services, resume-writing/editing sessions, and panels on how to build a career in the arts with representatives from Studio Museum in Harlem, Brown Art Ink, Artists Alliance Inc, Twitter, MoMA, and more. This is not a traditional career fair; everyone will be dressed in casual, colorful clothes and we encourage job-seekers and other attendees to do the same. NO SUITS.
Also at this event employers & organizations will be encouraged to participate in NYC’s Fair Chance Act. The Fair Chance Act (which was first supported on a national level by the Obama administration) makes it illegal for most employers in New York City to ask about the criminal record of job applicants before making a job offer. This means ads, applications, and interview questions cannot include inquiries into an applicant’s criminal record.
More info: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/
*This project is supported, in part, by a grant from Jerome Foundation.
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