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| The Power of DIY |
The Power of DIY: Do It Yourself
Alternative Exhibitions & Performances
Thursday, June 24, 6:30-8pm - FREE
Taller Boricua, Multicultural Space, 1st Floor
at the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Avenue, between 105 & 106 Streets MAP
Advance sign up is closed. You are welcome to just come on by!
Join this panel of visual and performing artists who are creating unique projects for super alternative spaces: from homes to the Internet to hotel bathrooms. By using untraditional venues, artists can do a lot with fewer resources and take more control of their artistic destinies. The resulting art is often accelerated by this DIY philosophy. It’s propelled forward by the artists’ commitment to their aesthetic, and supported by their professional savvy.
Panelists: Yanira Castro, Jorge Rojas, and Cassie Thornton
Panel Facilitator: Charles Rice-Gonzales of BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance)
The panel will be in English, but the audience may ask questions in Spanish.
Co-presented by The Field & Taller Boricua, with support from Senator José Serrano, as part of The Field’s program Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists.
Taller Boricua/The Puerto Rican Workshopis a 40-year old artist-run nonprofit art gallery and multidisciplinarycultural space in El Barrio. Its mission is to be a proactiveinstitution for the community in East Harlem by offering programs thatstimulate its social, cultural, and economic development throughpromotion of the arts.
PANEL BIOGRAPHIES:
Director/choreographer Yanira Castro collaborates with performers and designers on individual projects under the name a canary torsi. They work in a multiplicity of spaces: from warehouses and tiny restrooms to the stage, embedding dances within installations that directly address the audience’s experience of the live event. Castro’s work has been presented by DTW, PS122, and The Chocolate Factory, among others, and has toured internationally. She has received several fellowships and awards for her work including: The Jerome Foundation, MAP Fund, ArtistNe(s)t and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Her newest work, Wilderness, will premiere at The Invisible Dog, presented by DTW, Oct 27-Nov 7.
Charles Rice-González is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance which he founded in 1998 with Bessie Award-winning dancer/choreographer Arthur Aviles. BAAD! is a workshop and performance space in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx that showcases challenging and cutting-edge works by women, people of color and the LGBT community. He received a BA in Communications from Adelphi University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and his debut novel, Chulito will be published by Alyson Books in the fall.
Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on the creation and processes involved in artistic production. Rojas has exhibited across Mexico, the United States and India including Queens Museum of Art (New York), New World Museum (Houston), Ex Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), White Box (New York), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles) and West Chicago City Museum (West Chicago). His work is included in numerous private and public collections including The Mexican Museum (San Francisco) and Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach). Rojas currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Morelos, Mexico. JorgeRojasArt.com
Cassie Thornton is an artist educator living in Brooklyn, NY. Her projects are systems for investigation and interaction with psycho-governmental and corporate footprints on people. She has founded a School of the Future, a Teaching Artist Union, a Consulting Company in a Forest, and a Barter System Beauty Salon. A recent project imbues our definition of debt with beauty and value: WealthOfDebt.com. Cassie will be studying Social Practice at California College of the Arts this fall.
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| Skills Swap & Idea Party |
Skills Swap & Idea Party
A Collaboration of OurGoods.org and Chanika Svetvilas
Tuesday, June 29, 6-9pm – FREE
Advanced sign up is closed - just drop by.
Taller Boricua, Art Galleries, 1st Floor
at the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Avenue, between 105 & 106 Streets MAP
Light refreshments will be served.
SKILLS SWAP, 6-7:30pm: Seek and you shall find! Meet other people interested in bartering skills and exchanging experiences or expertise.
IDEA PARTY, 7:30-9pm: Want feedback on an idea? Each person has 10 minutes to present an idea and get feedback from the group.
WHAT IS A SKILLS SWAP?
At the Skills Swap you will have the opportunity to exchange 1-3 skills or services for another. Think of what you’re looking for, and hopefully you’ll find it. For instance, you could trade sewing for dog walking. And if you sew, you can offer to teach the skill or hem or tailor one piece of clothing.
Guests will write the skills they would like to share and what they are seeking on label tags. Each person will be given 3 popsicle sticks to list the skill or service and contact information to exchange with others during the evening. Participants will have the opportunity to continue to barter through OurGoods.org, an online bartering site.
WHAT IS AN IDEA PARTY?
An Idea Party works like this: We’ll set up groups of up to 10 participants who will present their ideas in the following fashion:
“This is what I want to do:_________; here is my obstacle:_________.”
For example: “I want to have a block party; but I don’t know what the procedures are.” Next, the group will brainstorm solutions and offer information. Each participant presents an idea and shares advice with others.
Who? Have you ever had an idea? Good, you are eligible.
How? Enrollment is limited. Please RSVP with your idea/goal and obstacle by June 25th.
Idea Parties were introduced to OurGoods.org by Erin Marie Sickler at Trade School, a project of OurGoods.org.
Co-presented by The Field & Taller Boricua, with support from Senator José Serrano, as part of The Field's program Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists.
Taller Boricua/The Puerto Rican Workshopis a 40-year old artist-run nonprofit art gallery and multidisciplinarycultural space in El Barrio. Its mission is to be a proactiveinstitution for the community in East Harlem by offering programs thatstimulate its social, cultural, and economic development throughpromotion of the arts.
BIOGRAPHIES
OurGoods is a barter website for anyone with a creative project. The site matches barter partners, provides accountability tools, and offers technical assistance resources to help artists complete their barters and their projects successfully.
OurGoods emerges in response to the current economic crisis. To some extent, the arts have always existed in a recession economy. Independent artists in particular are experts at making do with very limited resources. As it becomes clear that even those limited resources will shrink in the coming years, OurGoods enables us to leverage what we already do well in order to create a support system for ourselves. For more information, visit OurGoods.org.
OurGoods is a recipient of The Field's Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) grant. ERPA receives funding from The Rockefeller Foundation's Cultural Innovation Fund.
Chanika Svetvilas presented her first public Skills Swap at Taller Boricua in conjunction with her solo show Import/Export which involved a team of ten people to complete the installation of transformed readymade materials that reflected on the relationship between labor, consumerism, and migration and ultimately globalization. Svetvilas has exhibited citywide in New York as well as Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Denver, and has held residencies at Brooklyn Community Access Television and UpSet Press. She received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and will pursue her MFA at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in the Fall of 2010.
Erin Sickler is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Previously, she has worked at institutions including the Queens Museum of Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Recent exhibitions include: Queens International 4 (Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY 2009), Hanging Out at No Rio (ABC No Rio and Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY, 2009), and Apologies and Further Concessions (BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2010). She is Exhibitions and Collections Manager for 601Artspace and the New York correspondent for the Swiss art magazine Kunst Bulletin. This summer she will be a 2010 Fellow at the Smithsonian Latino Center.
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| Public Display of Invention |
Public Display of Invention
Monday, September 21, 2009, 7:30pm
WNYC's The Greene Space
After nine months of entrepreneurial investigations, the ‘ERPA 7’ present their models for economic and financial sustainability in a Public Display of Invention. Each artist will have 15 minutes to show off their wares and field questions from a discerning public audience. Join us to witness the fruits of their labor and hear how individual artists and arts organizations plan to revitalize their own economy.
ERPA 7: Kahlil Almustafa, Nick Brooke, Rachel Chavkin/The TEAM, Connie Hall/Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, JoAnna Mendl Shaw/The Equus Projects, Jon Stancato/Stolen Chair, and Caroline Woolard
Learn more about ERPA!
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| New Economy Smack Down |
New Economy Smack Down
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7pm
Galapagos Art Space
Don’t be brought down by the economy, instead usher it in with an evening of lively debate, truth-telling, and prophesizing. Join us to wrestle with the urgent issues and uncertainty that confront the performing arts community. A two-part panel of arts and business leaders will help set the stage for this impromptu evening of possibility.
PANELISTS:
Cultural Stakeholders and Gatekeepers:
Cultural Entrepreneurs:
Special performance by aerialist artist Lisa Natoli
We want to know where you are coming from to make the most of Wednesday's dialogue.
This event is co-presented by The Field and Galapagos Art Space as part of The Field’s Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) program, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2008 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund. Learn more about ERPA at www.economicrevitalization.blogspot.com.
Corner of Water Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, F to York, C/E to High Street, 2/3 to Clark Street
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| Invention Session #3: Chez Bushwick |
Artist or Cultural Entrepreneur?
Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:30-10pm
Chez Bushwick
In any economy, being a professional artist really means that you are on a path to one of three possibilities: (1) get hired by an established artist or company, (2) be a pickup artist (i.e. self-employed freelancer), or (3) start your own company. In all of these cases, you are an entrepreneur with an emerging micro-enterprise – your art. And as the term entrepreneur implies, you have to be willing to take full risk and reward for your new enterprise. However, it seems that we often shy away from taking our work as seriously as we could to optimize our success. Instead of thinking of it as “selling out”, is there a way to buy in? Can we learn to get organized, plan our businesses, and think about our growth, audiences, finances and work as the entrepreneurial enterprises that they are? Are there tools we can learn to use that might guarantee a higher probability of success, sustainability and aesthetic risk taking? Is there a way to be both pragmatic and artistic?
Join The Field and Chez Bushwick in a lively discussion with working artists and social/cultural entrepreneurs about entrepreneurship, and how you can appropriate these skills and ideas for your own business. Learn about The Field’s Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) project and how you can apply to participate in ERPA.
Moderated by Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Artistic Director, Emerging Artists, 3LD Art & Technology Center and Founder, The Lost Notebook
Panelists:
• Ryan Fix, Founder, The Pure Project
• Lara Galinsky, Vice President of Strategy, Echoing Green
• Jmy Leary, Dance Artist
Ryan Fix moved to NYC in 1998 with a small bag and $700 cash. He lived on a sofa. Fix started his career on wall street working on a trading floor and subsequently moved into real estate development. While excelling at both, he desired something more fulfilling. With a growing awareness of the global imperative for sustainable development and a deepening passion for creative practice, Fix developed `the pure project,´ an idea incubator and creative consulting collective which blends creative practice, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable initiatives.
Lara Galinsky is the Vice President of Strategy at Echoing Green. Lara's portfolio consists of marketing and communications, evaluation, thought leadership, alliances, strategic planning, and internal capacity building. She also co-authored Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact (2006). Most recently, Lara Galinsky worked as the director of National Programs at Do Something, Inc., working with over 20,000 educators to inspire 4 million young people to get involved in their communities and develop vital leadership skills. Before that, Lara launched the BRICK Award, which annually honors and funds the most outstanding young community leader. Lara graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and has completed executive programs at Columbia University business School and Georgetown University's School of Public Policy. She serves as a board member for the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition and the Fast Forward Fund and board chair of StartingBloc. She recently graduated from Coro's Leadership New York program and is attempting a second book for Echoing Green.
Jmy/JM/Jm/Jbird/Jamm Leary b. 1979, San Francisco, CA. She is now a dancer for luciana achugar, Nancy Meehan Dance Co., Dance by Neil Greenberg, Walter Dunderville, Biba Bell, Felicia Ballos, and The Stanley Love Performance Group and has previously been a dancer for Mel Wong Dance Company, Merce Cunningham 2nd Company, and Nancy Garcia. Her design company Icon has costumed the work of Anna Sperber, John Jasperse, luciana achugar, and RoseAnne Spradlin. She produces AUNTS events, a punk-rock presenting and social infastructure for dance. With Biba Bell, Felicia Ballos and Robert McNeill she is the performing group MGM Grand that tours throughout the USA kinda like a band. www.moderngaragemovement.com & www.myspace.com/aunts
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli has been a curator, producer, anthropologist and performing artist in New York City and internationally since 1999. She is Artistic Director for Emerging Artists at 3LD Art & Technology Center (www.3ldnyc.org). She is the Founder of the Lost Notebook, an arts initiative dedicated to discovering new ways of making compositional theater economically sustainable (www.lostnotebook.org). She is on the Board of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater where she was the Managing and Programming Director from 2004 – 2006 and started the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator (www.ontological.com). She is completing her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University. |
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| Invention Session #2: Joe's Pub |
No more Grants and Grandma: Alternatives to traditional fundraising: Microfinance, venture capitalism, patient capital, art investment funds and other ways to make money for your art
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 11:30am-1pm
Joe’s Pub
If the majority of New York's ambitious performing artists will never attain financial stability from grants and individual donations, what are some other ways we can build financial stability? What are microfinance, venture capitalism, entrepreneurship, patient capital and investment funds? What do these things mean and how can we successfully modify them to meet our singular needs? Hear from experts in these fields and learn how you can appropriate their solutions for your art-making.
Join The Field and Joe’s Pub in a lively discussion about new ways to make money. Learn about The Field’s Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) project and how you can apply to participate in ERPA.
Moderated by Jonah Bokaer
Panelists:
Biographies
Catherine Barnett assists the Executive Director in all aspects of running Project Enterprise. She oversees PE’s program operations citywide, pertaining to recruitment, training and ongoing technical assistance to PE's member entrepreneurs. At various times during her career at PE, she served as a Center Manager in Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx; and oversaw PE’s individual donor strategy. Ms. Barnett has eight years of experience in marketing and corporate communications. While earning her MBA she designed marketing research plans for several minority and women-owned businesses. Previously, Ms. Barnett was a volunteer with the Sisters Lending Circle program of the Central Brooklyn Partnership, helping the program develop and implement a curriculum, identify necessary financial and community resources, and facilitate weekly meetings of low-income women entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, NY. She is fluent in Spanish and French and holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning choreographer and media artist. While working as a dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Bokaer completed a double concentration in Visual & Media Studies The New School, through combined studies at Cornell University, Parson School of Design, and NYU Performance Studies. He presently creates his own choreography, digital art, and installations in Brooklyn, New York, which have been presented throughout the United States and abroad, including venues in Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, and elsewhere. Bokaer also choreographs the Operas of theater artist Robert Wilson. Concurrent to dancing and choreographing, Bokaer was involved with the conception and development of two non-profit cultural institutions in Brooklyn: Chez Bushwick (Founding Director, www.chezbushwick.net) and CPR - Center for Performance Research (Co-Founder, www.cprnyc.org). Both organizations maintain an aggressive commitment to serving creative New Yorkers at affordable prices, while harnessing the power of economic development to sustain affordable workspace in New York City at the municipal level. Fundraising has been adventurous, highly unconventional, and sustainable for both organizations. Bokaer is a 2008-2009 Young Leader of the French American Foundation, the in 2007 Gallery Installation Fellow of Dance Theater Workshop, and a 2006-2007 grantee of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He currently serves on the Board of Dance Theater Workshop, the Artists Advisory Board of Danspace Project, and the Advisory Committee of Dance/NYC.
Chris Elam founded Misnomer Dance Theater, a NYC-based modern dance company founded in 1998. Misnomer was noted by the New York Times for creating “one of the top ten dance performances in NYC for 2006”, a show that earned Misnomer a position as one of “25 to Watch” for 2007 in Dance Magazine. Misnomer has performed in over 250 theaters in the USA, Indonesia, Turkey, Ireland, Brazil, France, and the Ukraine, and has presented 6 NYC seasons with support from frequent residencies, most notably at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYU’s Skirball Center, and The Joyce Theater Foundation. Elam’s artistic voice was recognized by his nomination for the national 2008 Alpert Awards for Excellence in Choreography, while the breadth of his work is exemplified by the range of his artistic collaborators, including the musical artist Bjork, the documentary team at the Sundance Channel, the Danish Dance Theatre, and Apple Computers. In addition, Elam’s work with Misnomer has led to the development of innovative online models to help performing artists make better use of web technologies. Elam advocates methodologies that bring audiences deeper into the performing arts experience and in 2008 is speaking on the subject of technology’s influence on audience engagement at conferences held by Fortune Magazine, Technology in the Arts, Arts & Business Council of NY, Dance USA, and PopTech. These efforts both complement and advance the company’s core artistic vision, which is, broadly, to engage its dancers and audiences in the experience and understanding of human interaction and intimacy. Elam is an active teacher, having worked in over fifteen universities, and is a world traveler, who has lived for extended periods within numerous dance communities worldwide ranging from Indonesia to Cuba. He received his undergraduate from Brown University and graduate degree from New York University. Please join Misnomer for the World Premiere of BEING TOGETHER, three original dances choreographed on the Summer Stages Dance / Baryshnikov Arts Center residency, with live original music by Evan Ziporyn. The show runs December 4-7 & 11-14 at the Joyce SoHo (tickets: www.joyce.org). There is a benefit performance and reception on December 5th. To learn more about Misnomer, and join of e-newsletter email list, please visit www.misnomer.org.
Heather Rees established Venture Philanthropy Fund in early 2008 to address funding challenges for social entrepreneurs while engaging fellow New Yorkers as social investors. Prior to her foray into philanthropy, Heather enjoyed working between the for- and non-profit sectors including her years of designing and implementing development projects and programs, establishing campus organizations and working on socio-economic issues worldwide. She has also worked as a consultant and volunteer with organizations such as the Fair Trade Foundation, Artisans United for the Development of Atitlan and the Business Council for Peace. Heather received her bachelor's degree in Political Science from UNC-Chapel Hill and a MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics.
Esther Robinson has worked on behalf of America's artists for over 14 years in many capacities, including foundation program officer, television and film producer, and technology entrepreneur. She is the founder of ArtHome, a non-profit business that helps artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy and home-ownership. From 1999 to 2006 Esther was the Director of Film/Video and Performing Arts for the Creative Capital Foundation and one of the principal architects of its innovative grant-making system. Established in 1999, Creative Capital provides funding to individual artists in media, performing, and visual arts, as well as emerging fields such as internet art, digital media, and work that combines science and creativity. Transforming the traditional role of grant-maker, Creative Capital pioneered a multi-faceted system of support for artists that includes working in long-term partnerships, providing advisory services and professional development assistance as well as traditional financial support. Esther's experience at Creative Capital made her intimately aware of the financial reality of working artists’ lives. Her close collaboration nationally with funders and artists and her annual adjudication of up to 1800 Creative Capital grant proposals (of which only two dozen would see funding), led her to question whether traditional grantmaking was the most effective way to support a stable and thriving culture sector in America. Recognizing the crucial role that financial solvency and home ownership had played in the lives of successful artists she had met across the country, Esther became convinced that home-buyer education and financial literacy should be vital components of a new support system for the arts. Determined to build a program that makes measurable change in the lives of individual artists, has broad impact regardless of aesthetic or cultural trends, and that builds vital communities both in and outside the cultural sector, Esther founded ArtHome. While developing ArtHome, Esther spent two years researching home-buying programs, low-income loan products, financial literacy curriculum and low-income wealth building strategies. She has built a strong advisory board of artists, arts funders, community development leaders, artist housing experts, bankers, and financial experts. She has been involved in numerous community development conferences and pursued professional development opportunities in financial literacy and homebuyer education. These have included intensive training through NeighborWorks(r) America's Training Division, where she acquired skills to deliver a comprehensive homebuyer education program based on the curriculum that NeighborWorks organizations use to turn prospective homebuyers into homeowners. Prior to this in 1995, Esther realized the goal of producing a national television series before her 25th birthday with Alive TV, a PBS series dedicated to alternative film, video, animation and experimental documentary. She was series producer for two full seasons at Alive TV including the eleven country co-production, Still/Here, a Cable Ace award nominee in 1996. In addition, she oversaw acquisitions, new program development and created the Alive TV web site. In 1998, Esther co-founded Wavelength Releasing, a company formed specifically to address new forms of content production, distribution, and exhibition. Wavelength Releasing partnered with esteemed companies such as CYBERSTAR (a division of LORAL), Texas Instruments, The Independent Film Channel, and others. Its projects were profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Variety, on CNN financial News and over 100 other print and media outlets. Wavelength Releasing was responsible for the first fully digital film release, executed via satellite to five cities in October 1998. It was also responsible for the highly successful multi-platform release of The Last Broadcast - the first ever desktop feature - a $900 movie that went on to gross over a million US. dollars internationally. Wavelength Releasing served as a new media consultant for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Concurrently in 1998, Esther produced the feature documentary HomePage with acclaimed filmmaker Doug Block, which screened in competition at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, SXSW, and more. It also aired domestically on HBO/CINEMAX and ZDF/ARTE in Europe, and over a dozen countries internationally. In addition to ArtHome, Esther is also finishing her first film: The Danny Williams Story (working title). This feature-length documentary chronicles her search to uncover the facts surrounding the mysterious 1966 disappearance of her uncle, Danny Williams and her discovery of 20 never-before-seen films made by her uncle while at the Warhol Factory. |
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| Invention Session #1: Galapagos |
Starving Artist: Fact or Fiction: Non-Profit Doesn’t = No Money
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm
Galapagos Art Space
What makes us think that we're a 'sell out' if we make money from our art? Why do we seem to believe that we must suffer to make great art, yet we pine away for the seemingly Utopian government sponsored art cultures of Berlin and Brussels? Is there something inherently hierarchical and damaging in the 'gift economy' that the arts and philanthropy work in? The non-profit model that most artists use may not be the best model for our work, yet we gravitate to it like lemmings. What about being for-profit or for-benefit? What do those things even mean? What about LLCs and L3Cs and what about a blend model?
Join The Field and Galapagos in a lively free discussion about the dysfunctional psychology of the non-profit model, and learn about potential alternative business models that might serve you and your work better. Learn about The Field’s Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA) project and how you can apply to participate in ERPA’s entrepreneurial lab.
Moderated by Sara Juli, Performance Artist, Director of Development at Dance Theater Workshop
Panelists:
• Robert Elmes, Director, Galapagos Art Space
• Amanda Clayman, Financial Wellness Program, The Actors Fund
• Chris Ajemian, Artist, Entrepreneur
• Brian Newman, CEO, Tribeca Film Institute
Biographies
Chris Ajemian writes and directs new works and is the founder of CATES LLC, an international tutoring & test prep agency based in New York City that provides dedicated artists with high-paying and fulfilling freelance jobs. His directing work has been seen at PS 122, Joyce SoHo, FringeNYC, Ontological-Hysteric, the American Dance Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, Napa Valley Opera House, Nooderzon Festival (Netherlands), ArtsHouse (Melbourne) and The Edge (New Zealand). Chris has also developed new projects in collaboration with the Radmin Company, Anonymous Content, NBC, CBS and Paramount Studios. Upcoming: the World Premiere of Sara Juli's DEATH at PS 122 in October.
Amanda Clayman, L.M.S.W. is a pioneer in the field of financial wellness. Financial wellness is a way of understanding and accepting the role that money plays in everyday life. It includes feeling competent making financial decisions and communicating about money with friends and loved ones from a place of clarity and purpose. It is not about building wealth per se, but centers on principles of self-care and self-determination. In her role at The Actors Fund, Amanda counsels individuals and couples and has developed a number of workshops that support the unique financial challenges facing entertainment and performing arts professionals.
Robert Elmes is the Founder and Director of Galapagos Art Space. Since 1995 Galapagos has played an important role in defining New York's cultural ecosystem. The New York Times called Galapagos "an ever- growing cultural oasis," Time Out New York called it an "essential element of New York City," and The Village Voice wrote that Mr. Elmes is "building a cultural movement brick by brick." Robert is originally from Vancouver, Canada, and freely admits that he really really likes hockey.
Sara Juli lives in Brooklyn and is both an active artist and arts administrator. Her innovative solo work has been performed at numerous New York City venues including Performance Space 122, The Ontological Theater, Danspace Project and many others. Nationally she has performed her work at the American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, University of Nevada/Reno and the Napa Valley Opera House. Internationally she has toured her work to The Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand. Her piece, The Money Conversation, where she gives away $5,000 in cash to audiences every night, has generated interest around the globe on the topic of money and the “starving artist.” Sara also works as the Director of Development at Dance Theater Workshop where she is responsible for the institutions fundraising program including institutional giving, individual giving, Board development, gift stewardship, planned giving, and cultivation of donors.
Brian Newman was recently named the President & CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) as the result of a combination between Renew Media and TFI. As a combined organization, the primary objective is to create one institution dedicated to innovation in film and media, the enrichment of audiences and the promotion of education, understanding and creativity through the media arts. TFI now gives approximately $1.25 Million annually to filmmakers and media artists through grants and fellowships in the United States and Mexico, in addition to other programs for media artists, youth and the general public. Newman was Executive Director of IMAGE Film & Video Center in Atlanta for five years, overseeing the Atlanta Film Festival among other programs. Previously he held positions at the IFP and the South Carolina Arts Commission. Brian also serves on the editorial advisory board for Art Papers magazine and the steering committee of Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media (GFEM). Newman has an MA in Film Studies from Emory University. |
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| Town Hall: Survive vs. Thrive |
Town Hall: Survive vs. Thrive
Monday, June 23, 2008, 7pm
The FAR Space
How can artists make their best work and afford to live in New York City without collapsing from exhaustion? How can companies grow when funding is dwindling? Join us for a community discussion with veteran arts leaders. Learn about ERPA: The Field’s two-year entrepreneurial lab and re-grant opportunity that addresses the systemic challenges that stand in the way of the financial health and stability of New York performing artists. Spread the word and let your voice be heard!
Town Hall Panelists:
• Alyssa Alpine, Festival Coordinator, Celebrate Mexico Now
• June W. Choi, Philanthropy/Nonprofit Management Professional (most recently with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)
• Penelope Dannenberg, Director of Programs, New York Foundation for the Arts
• Jaki Levy, Director of New Media, Misnomer Dance Theater
• Tamara Greenfield, Executive Director, Fourth Arts Block
• Gregory Kandel, Founder and Partner, Management Consultants for the Arts, Inc
ERPA is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2008 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund.
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