Location: U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail
7pm, Fri Jan 29
Panel Discussion & Performance
9am, Sat Jan 30
All-day workshop with keynote address by Sara Diamond

CPPAMO’s mandate includes:

• providing opportunities for Aboriginal and ethnoracial performers to showcase their work to presenters across Ontario, and to build relationships with the presenters;
• providing opportunities for presenters to see and learn about diverse cultural values, histories and practices, and to develop relationships with diverse artists
• developing education and training programs on cultural pluralism with practical guidance on successfully integration culturally diverse values and principles into operations, planning, audience development, marketing, programming and decision-making processes

Please join CPPAMO at their first townhall and be part of the movement to change performing arts in Ontario.

Registration info: http://cppamo.eventbrite.com/
Facebook page: http://ja-jp.facebook.com/event.php?eid=267714561958&ref=mf

I put three ideas on the table. They were super encouraging and supportive. Seems like they’re favourable to any of the three; the decision is totally up to me based on whatever I want to pursue the most right now. So hard to decide - May 2011 is so far away! What will the world be like by then?

…now I just have to find the time somehow to apply for some grants to do this… argh. sigh. hmmm..

ARTISTS IN CONTEXT is a flexible organizational framework designed to assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.

Structured as a 10-year initiative, AIC is a timely and relevant endeavor to cultivate the visions, concepts, plans and projects of contemporary creative practitioners at an historic moment of transition and necessary change. The project initially leverages the intellectual, creative and activist underpinnings of three New England metro areas — Boston, Providence and Portland – and organizes situations for conversation, research and artistic production among individuals involved in the arts, architecture, sciences, humanities, commerce and communications.   AIC is a creative platform for the generation of ideas and real-world projects that move us closer to a sustainable future.

The first project of AIC is an Artists’ Prospectus for the Nation, a multimedia work that positions artists as active participants in society and documents their innovative plans for re-thinking issues of health, nature, shelter, learning, belief and justice, among others.  Broadly accessible and widely distributed, the Prospectus aims to be a resource for public conversations as well as policy making.

http://www.artistsincontext.org/

It’s a modest grant, but the applications are assessed by a blind jury (meaning they read your writing samples and artistic statement without knowing who you are) and it’s my second one from the tac so i am super super thrilled.. a big vote of confidence is how I see it.

THANK YOU to everyone who has encouraged me to continue writing - especially to those of you who have been inspiration, readers, mentors, referees… your support is so key.

Folks who literally gave the writing and me shelter while this particular project was still finding its first legs: my sister Polly, Sevan, Kerry, Shannon and Tom…. thank you.

my first iteration of String Theory, a low-tech, analog interactive installation

the outdoor portion @ iNiT ‘09

What did you think? (Of the fragment? Of the installation? Of INIT?) Did you like the surprises? Please comment here or email me your thoughts! I would love to hear from you.

Does anyone else find this absurd? !!!?!!

I’m flabbergasted. …All the more so because I just spent a good part of my weekend schlepping from one walk-in clinic to another. I waited almost 3 hours at one clinic (15 minutes the first time, when the nurse advised me to come back in 3 hours while she kept my name on the waitlist; 30 minutes the second time, after which the other nurse advised me to come back on Sunday first thing because otherwise I would be waiting at least another 2 hours that night; and 2 hours the third time even when I was practically one of the first people through the door)……… only to have the doctor look down my throat, up my nostrils and into my ears and then refer me to a specialist for the rest of my regular annual checkup. Had I known this would be the process I probably would’ve considered flying back to Toronto *just* to get the check-up done. Lord knows it would’ve taken less time to fly home and back than to try to see a doctor here.

“That’s just one part of the medical system here that you experienced,” said my roommate, “just, whatever you do, avoid going to the hospital if at all possible.”

This is a crazy place. I don’t know how anyone accomplishes anything with so much inefficiency afoot.

Check out the beautiful new flyer:

INIT flyer front

Tons of great artists and interesting works to be experienced… Visit the website and forward the Facebook page to your friends!