Habit of Art is running an “Instant Art Collection Giveaway” from Thursday, May 26, until Tuesday, May 31, 2011, where ten Etsy contemporary artists from around the globe will give away 25 pieces of art, including a few original pieces, to 3 lucky winners. Each of the three collections range in value from $160 - $275.
For a chance to win you simply need to visit Habit of Art starting on May 26 and comment on the giveaway post.
Don't forget to visit the website on May 26, 2011
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Instant Art Collection Giveaway on May 26
Posted by Shaila Abdullah Labels: contest, Event Announcements
Habitat, Symbol & ArtMay 27-29, 2011
SteamPlant Event Center
Salida, Colorado
Colorado Art Ranch’s eighth Artposium, “Dwellings: Habitat, Symbol & Art,” will construct—and deconstruct— the meaning of home. The weekend event will explore how a house is not merely a shelter, but a source of identity, a symbol of family and heritage, and, ideally, a work of art. We’ll build a three-dimensional view of dwellings from the perspectives of an architect, anthropologist, a builder, two visual artists, and two writers.
Registration: $200 (includes all presentations, reception, workshops, lunch and breakfasts). $150 for students.
Architect Danny Wicke will illustrate how Rural Studio is designing artistic and environmentally responsible “shelters for the soul” for the impoverished residents of Hale County, Alabama. He will also lead a discussion about his current project, “The $20,000 House.”
Christina Kreps, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Denver University, will give us insight into how people around the world create homes for themselves.
Leigh Davis, an artist based in Brooklyn and Washington DC, uses photography to document how people adapt generic living spaces, such as self storage units and YWCA rooms, in response to radically changing economic conditions.
Craig Nielson, a Salida, Colorado designer and green builder, will discuss the need for portable shelter for people displaced by war and natural disasters and demonstrate the ShelterCart, a low-cost solution for humanitarian relief.
BK Loren, an award winning Colorado author, will lead two classes for writers of any level: “Dwelling in Words: Finding Your Place in Writing” and “Nomad's Land: The Internal Sense of Home.”
Sandra Dorr, a Grand Junction author of poetry, essays, and short stories, will lead a session on how to write “Ancestors, Visions & Dwellings.”
Dean Dablow, Professor Emeritus of Photography at Louisiana Tech University, will direct two photography classes: “The Space Between Us”
Sean Smith, green builder and former host of HGTV's Professional Grade, will host the Panel discussion on Sunday.
Rasaka Theatre Company presents culture/clash: three plays about the South Asian Diaspora
Posted by Shaila Abdullah Labels: Event Announcements
Rasaka Theatre Company presents "culture/clash: three plays about the South Asian Diaspora," a trio of world premieres penned by South Asian playwrights.
The production will include:
- "Instant Recall" by Anita Chandwaney: Madhu can't seem to recall why she asked Nigel to meet her at the café-or can she?
- "Night Shift" by Angeli Primlani: A young girl and an older woman face danger and each other in the middle of the night in a motel lobby on a quiet North Carolina highway.
- "Midnite's Vultures" by Pushkar Sharma: Two Indian-American poets in their twenties confront the paradoxes of their identity when asked what it means to be an Indian in America.
The play will take place at the Strawdog Theatre, 3829 N. Broadway St., Chicago, IL 60613. Previews August 13 & 14, 8 P.M. Opens Saturday, August 15, 8 P.M. (reception following). It runs Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 P.M., Sundays at 3 P.M. and closes September 6, 2009. Performance Time is approx. 75 minutes. For tickets, call 312-777-1070 or visit www.strawdog.org. $20 for regular tickets, $12 for previews August 13 & 14, $12 Student/Senior/Industry (Thurs & Sun only), visit www.strawdog.org with credit cards -or- use cash/check/credit card at the door.
Bivas Chaudhuri, featured on Hyphenated Spirit recently, has an exhibition coming up at Sande Webster Gallery - Philadelphia from July 8 - August 29, 2009. Please use the link below for more details about this event.
http://alonzodavis.com/adfellowship/09chaudhuri.html
http://alonzodavis.com/adfellowship/10chaudhuri.html
Artwork can also be purchased on this website or directly by contacting the Sande Webster Gallery. One-third of each sale (tax deductible) will go to the fellowship fund.
View the feature on Bivas Chaudhuri
April 19, 2009: East End Live Art: Teachers Speak Out
Posted by Shaila Abdullah Labels: Event Announcements
East End Live Art: Teachers Speak Out
5:00 pm, Sunday, April 19, 2009
Café Flores, 6606 Lawndale Street, Houston 77023
$ Free
Teachers are on the front lines, combating this nation's greatest challenges. With very little financial, legislative, or social support, teachers in Houston--one of the most multi-ethnic cities in the nation--daily grapple with social inequity, gifted youth, cultural conflict, united voices, financial shortfalls, generous colleagues, crime, and acts of kindness, and all the complexities inherent in the educational crisis we face. At East End Live Art: Teachers Speak Out, come listen to work by teachers who participate in VBB teacher workshops which blend creative writing with educational psychology and the study of trauma. Student perspectives on education, often overlooked or inarticulated, will be shared as part of an installation that portrays opinions about school and provides advice to teachers. Following the performance, there will be a question and answer session with teachers, performer-educator and VBB Co-Founder Marcela Descalzi, and Victoria Jones, MEd, MA, LPC-Supervisor (psychotherapist; also writer and former WITS Executive Director). As always, there will be an open mic. Bring your voices and come hear talk about the real issues. VBB Founding Director Sehba Sarwar will host the show.
Cosponsored by Rice University's Center for Education, KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM, Houston Institute for Culture, Houston Area Association for Bilingual Educators, and Café Flores.
East End Live Art: Mothers Who Make Art
5:00 pm, Sunday, April 19, 2009
Café Flores, 6606 Lawndale Street, Houston 77023
$ Free
Each year, people are pushed to celebrate holidays that are targeted to increase the sales for large companies. This year, VBB hosts our first alternative Mother's Day. Join us in our support of artists-mothers Maiah Arnold, Christa Forster, Sharon Engelstein and Kayte Young. VBB Founding Director Sehba Sarwar will host the show, and there will be an open mic for all. Bring your voices!
Cosponsored by KPFT Pacifica Radio 90.1 FM, Houston Institute for Culture and Café Flores.
TSAR Publications would like to invite short-story submissions by women of South Asian origin in the United States and Canada, for an upcoming anthology to be published in Fall 2009. The maximum length of a submission should be 4000 words. Their previous anthologies, titled Her Mother's Ashes, and Her Mother's Ashes 2, have both done quite well, and for the new anthology they would especially like to encourage younger writers to submit. More information about their press can be found on their website at www.tsarbooks.com.Submissions should be sent along with brief bios as email attachments to: inquiries@tsarbooks.comThe deadline for submissions is May 15, 2009.More details can be found at www.tsarbooks.com/CallforSubmissions.htm
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