Dance FlashMob – EVERYONE is invited to dance on the streets of North Parkwith Eveoke Dance Theatre- Learn the dance on… Wednesday, September 8 from 6-7:30pm at Eveoke Dance Theatre 2811-A University Avenue
Perform the dance “flash mob style” on the Street in celebration of the opening of wheat hARvesT/Art Produce Garden Meet at 28th and Gunn St.at the wheat field behind Jefferson Elementary Saturday,September 11 -4:30pm and dance it down the street to Art Produce
September 11th is the opening celebration of Art Produce Garden. The kickoff event for Art Produce is wheat hARvesT, an interactive integration of art and urban agriculture. Join in wheat processing with David Krimmel, Eveoke Dance Theatre, The Brother Gunderson, and Julia Dash's "Vegetable Monologues".
wheat hARvesT is a community-growing project by David Krimmel. The project utilizes locally grown grain to promote awareness of current issues in commercial food production. This past spring a vacant lot in urban North Park was transformed into a field of wheat. Community members are growing wheat in their home gardens and will come together for a community harvest.
Winnow wheat and join the activities in the garden every Thursday in Sept.& Oct.3-7pm during the North Park Farmers Market.
On September 11th the streets of North Park will become a dance floor as Eveoke Dance Theater leads participants in transporting locally grown wheat to Art Produce Gallery. Using threshing tables, winnowing baskets and a bicycle powered grain mill, participants are invited to process the grain into flour. On exhibit in the gallery will be a wheat inspired installation, documentation, and artist designed grain processing equipment. For more information- http://wheatharvest.org/
RECENT:
The Tag Project by Wendy Maruyama
July 8 - 18, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, July 10th, 6-9pm
The Tag Project is a community/collaborative/advocacy project. 120,000 tags that were issued to each Japanese American who was interned in ten different camps in 1942 are being recreated. Each tag had a name, an ID number and the camp location where that individual was being sent.
The public is invited to participate every day from 10-am-4pm helping the artist write names, stamp numbers, age the tags in coffee, or help create strands of aged tags for the installation.
Sundays, July 11 and 18th between 1-4pm are sponsored by the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego.
Wendy Maruyahttp://vimeo.com/8774422
http://wendymaruyama.com
http://eo9066.blogspot.com
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FREE SPACE: A street level look at interfaces between public and private by Megan Willis
May 15- July 4, 2010 Opening Reception May 15,7-9pm.
Free Space is an installation that looks at disparate tactics for appropriating and reclaiming residual spaces in the urban landscape for both public and private use. Residual Spaces are interstices in the city that are abandoned, underutilized, leftover, liminal, and indeterminate. These spaces oscillate between public and private. Residual spaces take the form of alleys, parking lots, building recesses, window ledges, sidewalks, roof tops, fire escapes, blank facades etc. As a starting point, Free Space focuses locally on the residual spaces of C Street in downtown San Diego. This installation uses video documentation, maps, duct tape and furniture to examine these tactics of appropriation.
Gallery Schedule of events:
May 15th - Opening Reception
May 16th - Interactive Community Event-NP Arts Festival
June 5-6 - There Goes the Neighborhood- Meet at Art Produce
5th - 3-4pm, Residual Spaces Walking Tour
6th - noon-3pm, Satellite Picnics
June 12th - Reception and Gallery Talk, 7-9pm
June 25th - Film Screenings: 7:00pm - Lost Book Found by Jem Cohen, 8:00pm - The social life of small urban spaces by William H. Whyte
ART Produce Gallery has been honored with an Orchid award in the category of Public Art by the San Diego Architectural Foundation.The jury noted that this award "generated much debate over what exactly defines the "public" aspect in public art... "When artist Lynn Susholtz renovated the old North Park Produce building, her plans included a pedestrian art gallery.. The long and narrow space has storefront windows along University Ave,where the art is part of the street, the art viewer is also on display, and the activity of the street becomes part of the experience of the art. Places like this are fundamental to the experience of walking in the city. It creates a public space, a meeting space. It is places like this gallery and the view it shares with the street, that make walking in the city worthwhile... It's a provocation to think about art in the community" Learn more about the award at www.orchidsandonions.org
Voices:Mapping the Hood
Art@theCore/Building Community
Stone Paper Scissors, Eveoke Dance Theatre, TranscenDance Youth Arts Project, North Park Main Street and the Cultural Worker have joined forces to develop a neighborhood initiative called ART @ the Core: Building Community. Art @ the Core uses art as a catalyzing force for positive change. Our goal is to increase access, engagement, and participation in the civic process through cultural development. We seek to identify and utilize community resources to build sustainable, representative, inclusive processes that support and expand constituencies that enhance the cultural and economic vitality of the community
OurSpace/Creative Exchange stems from the idea of the Potlatch, a public ritual/festival/feast involving a gift exchange practiced by some indigenous cultures. Potlatch was a community celebration of important events, but also a redistribution and reciprocity of wealth. Once banned by Canadian and US governments, it was considered a wasteful and unproductive custom, not associated with “civilized” values. As artists and community activists we wish to reconsider this custom as an antidote to the Internet-based virtual exchanges and market-driven connections so abundant today. It is our belief that real objects exchanged in a real space, in a real community, can initiate real connections between people and communiti
OurSpace/Creative Exchange is a project of Art @ the Core
See VIDEO of David Krimmel and his Community Wheat hARvesT.
A panel discussion about how the arts are covered by the media in San Diego. Watch the Video
SNAPSHOTS: Changing Perspectives in the San Diego Art Scene
Panel Discussion with Philly Joe Swendoza (Art Rocks!) Robert Pincus (SD Union Tribune) Patricia Frischer (SD Visual Art Network) David White (Agitprop Gallery) Katherine Sweetman, moderator (Director, Lui Velazquez) Kevin Freitas, coordinator (Art as Authority.). Watch the video.
September 11th is the opening celebration of Art Produce Garden. The kickoff event for Art Produce is wheat hARvesT, an interactive integration of art and urban agriculture. Join in wheat processing with David Krimmel, Eveoke Dance Theatre, The Brother Gunderson, and Julia Dash's "Vegetable Monologues".
