Borderbend Programming in 2012 (past)
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for more about these recent Borderbend programs -- such as pictures and audio documentation.
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January
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February
Visual Music: Piano + Painting Concert with the Justin Dillard-Junius Paul Duo & DOE Projects / Deborah Doering
in the Fine Arts Building's Curtiss Hall (February 25) |
March
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"Spring, Rebirth & Renewal," an interfaith arts event, happened at the Ridgeville Community House on March 25. "Spring, Rebirth & Renewal" included readings of poetry and from sacred texts, as well as musical performances. 
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April
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Saturday, April 14 (7 p.m.)
Curtiss Hall Fine Arts Building 410 South Michigan Avenue co-presented by the PianoForte Foundation, Poetry Foundation & the Borderbend Arts Collective |
A Celebration of Silent Spring at 50
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A celebration of Silent Spring at 50 happened at the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education on April 21, during the Green Gary Day program hosted by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
This program included readings from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and a conversation with Patricia DeMarco, Director of the Rachel Carson Institute. Those who read passages from Silent Spring included Daniel Weinberg, Celeste Ux, Ellen Szarleta, Brenda Scott Henry, Eric Diamond, Marsha Bradley & Eric Leonardson. |
Here are some pictures and writings by children. * Some of the writings and drawings were created after they went on a hike in Miller Woods earlier this month, and some other pieces were created on Green Gary Day in response to the question, "What are your favorite springtime sounds?"
* Thanks to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore staff for helping to facilitate this. |
May
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"Excavating Arts & Activism in Illinois & Wisconsin"
Sunday, May 13, 2012 Mess Hall 6932 N. Glenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60626 "Excavating Arts & Activism in Illinois and Wisconsin" was a discussion at Mess Hall that focused on examples and problems from neighboring states in creative activism. This event, which was co-presented by Mess Hall and Borderbend Arts Collective, was free and open to the public, and it included a potluck.
We discussed and compared the use of art strategies for grassroots political messaging and organizing, from within the Wisconsin Uprising to the work around closing prisons and opposing torture, fighting the mayoral austerity agendas, and organizing against the NATO summit in Illinois. We looked at tactics of visibility, of physical witness, of community coherence and of purposeful play. The focus was on applicable strategies contextualized within artist and activist practice, and how strategies applicable in one state or city context might or might not be transferable to another. We also explored the role of imagination, creative practice and the arts in building social movements. The participants included Alice Kim, Lane Hall, Yasmin Nair, Dan S. Wang, Dan Godston, and others who came to this event at Mess Hall. |
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