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Artist Housing Scoop
Thanks for expressing interest in CuDC’s upcoming artist housing opportunities. To keep you in the loop, this monthly update provides project status reports, lists any “to do” items and shares other opportunities. Please feel free to contact us if you have questions.
Project Update
• Douglas Street Work/Live Condominiums – Applications will be accepted beginning MONDAY
Make your dream of home ownership come true. CuDC will begin accepting applications for purchase of the 41 work/live condominium units at 2414 Douglas Street NE, WDC 20018 on June 4, 2007 at 9 am. Applications and instructions are available to download at http://www.culturaldc.org/projects/projects_in_development.html.
Applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Applications may be hand-delivered or mailed. If you mail your application and it is received prior to June 1st, you will be asked to resubmit your application. If a mailed application is received on June 1st or 2nd, we will consider it to have been received with the mail on June 4th. Mail is typically delivered to CuDC at 3:30 pm; all applications received in the mail will be date and time stamped at that point. We will accept applications until August 9, 2007 at 5 pm. If you have questions, call 202.315.1324 or e-mail housing@culturaldc.org.
Please Note: CuDC’s office is located in a residential building. Please respect our neighbors and do not “camp” outside the building prior to June 4th. For delivery after June 4th, CuDC’s office is open 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday and Saturday 12 – 6 pm.
• Dance Place Arts and Housing Project. CuDC is excited to announce our role as a consultant to Artspace Projects (a national, nonprofit organization) and Dance Place for their development of a new mixed-use arts center in the Brookland neighborhood. CuDC will provide a local arts “voice” and expertise to the project. We need you to help get this project going, please take 10 minutes of your time to complete their online survey, available at www.ArtspaceWashDC.org . This survey will assist in the development of affordable new space where artists may live and work, and a new home for Dance Place in the Catholic University/Brookland area of Northeast DC. Responses will help determine interest in a potential arts community, design the facility, and assess housing and workspace needs. If you have questions please contact us at housing@culturaldc.org or 202.315.1324.
Have you checked out our website? Find eligibility requirements, projects under development and completed projects at http://www.culturaldc.org/projects/artist_housing.html.
Other Opportunities
New Space Roundtable. Join CuDC and invited area experts – Amy Cavanaugh, Associate Director of ARCH for Arts and Culture, ARCH Development Corp. and Patrick Stewart, Executive Director, Atlas Performing Arts Center – for a roundtable discussion on the role location plays in the facility planning process. Following a tour of the new Honfleur Gallery, we will address how to prioritize the factors involved in making a location choice and how to mitigate audience challenges before, during and after. What factors should you consider? How do you balance the needs of your organization with the wants of your audience? What’s the best way to prepare your current audience for the move – and how do you develop a new audience in your new neighborhood? Bring your legends, lessons learned & questions to share with fellow arts administrators. Refreshments will be served. The Roundtable will be held at the Honfleur Gallery 1241 Good Hope Road, SE Washington, DC 20020 on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 9:30 – 11:30 am. To register, visit www.flashpointdc.org or email redcircle@flashpointdc.org by 6:00 pm on Monday, June 4, 2007. Red Circle Members are free, non-members are $40.
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Lecture at the IDB: Gender and Identity in the Caribbean: Afro-Costa Rican Women
Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.
Gender and Identity in the Caribbean:
Afro-Costa Rican Women
with Syracuse University Professor Dr. D. Kwame Dixon
to see the flyer and photo of Dr. Dixon, open this link: http://www.iadb.org/cultural/email_files/kwame.pdf
Dr. Kwame Dixon will examine the literary discourse of Afro-Costa Rican writers with particular emphasis on the works of Eulalia Bernard, Shirley Campbell, and Delia McDonald. Afro-Hispanic writers, except for Nicolas Guillén, Nancy Morejón (Cuban) and possibly Manuel Zapata Olivella (Colombian), are for the most part socially excluded by the traditional Latin American literary canon because their writing is considered too specific in its themes on the black experience. It is argued that the writings of Afro-Hispanic writers are socially cleansed from the larger literary canon of Caribbean and Latin American literature. This discussion aims to show how Afro-Costa Rican women, through use of identity and gendered discourses, situate Afro-Hispanic writing within the larger frame of Latin American and Caribbean literature.
This lecture is being presented in anticipation of National Caribbean American Heritage Month in June. Dr. Dixon lives and works at the Syracuse University Center in Madrid, Spain, and is currently Visiting Professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University where he teaches courses focused on Race, Democracy and Human Rights in Afro-Latin America.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from Clark Atlanta University and his primary research is focused on understanding how race, racial discrimination and gender intersect to create particular forms of discrimination and marginalization that lead to human rights violations. Dr. Dixon is a Fulbright scholar and has conducted extensive field research on Afro-American communities in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, and Nicaragua. In 1999 and 2000 Dr. Dixon served as a consultant to Amnesty International for the United Nations World Conference.
Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center - Inter-American Development Bank - 1330 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC
Metro Center, 13th Street exit - Free and open to the public – Photo ID required First come, first seated
After the event, visit the IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery exhibition: Young Costa Rican Artists: Nine Proposals.
www.iadb.org/cultural 202 623 3558
DC WritersCorps celebrates its 10th Annual Youth Poetry Slam League Championship. Mon, May14th Kennedy Center
Press Release
Monday, May, 9, 2007
for more information contact 202 332-2848 or Kenny@dcwriterscorps.org
For Immediate Release
DC WritersCorps celebrates its 10th Annual Youth Poetry Slam League Championship,
Monday, May 14th, 6:00 PM sharp at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage with a special ALL-STAR Poetry Slam Event!
This special and free poetry slam event will bring together some of the country's best adult poetry performers versus some of the best youth poets who have participated in DC WritersCorps over the past decade.
All-star poets include Silvana Straw, Regie Cabico, DJ Renegade and Chris August. These poets have participated on DC and NY Poetry Slam Team and have a vast resume of personal performing experience. On Monday this “Old School Team” will go against the DC WritersCorps “All Star Young'uns” which include Isaac Colon, Sage Morgan Hubbard, Tony Denis, and Catherine Witt. These young poets have represented Washington, DC in poetry slams for the past ten years, and Catherine Witt was MVP of the 2006 Stuart Hobson Middle School Youth Poetry Slam League Champions.
Our Slam Master will be Lisa Pegram, Director of Programs for DC WritersCorps. You could be a judge and help to determine old school vs. younguns on Monday, May 14, 2007 at 6:00 PM.
Overview:
DC WritersCorps has offered community writing workshops and literacy programs to at-risk and underserved residents in Washington, DC since 1994. In that time we've served over 10,000 residents, employed over 150 writers, and partnered with 100 community sites. DC WritersCorps sends accomplished writers into DC public middle/junior high schools to serve over 500 youth a year.
Mission:
To use literature, media, performance and the teaching of creative writing to help youth change their orientation towards reading and writing and to strengthen basic literacy skills. Through artistic development, we provide hands on work experience and leadership skills to prepare youth for academic and lifelong success.
WritersCorps Projects:
In-school creative writing workshops; After-school creative writing clubs; Youth Poetry Slam League; 2kNation Radio Journalism Program; Youth Apprentice Program (YAP) DC National Youth Slam Team
DC WritersCorps Program Partners
College Bound, Inc., Sol y Soul, DC Public Schools, CentroNia, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Department of Parks and Recreation, DC Housing Authority
Funders: Freddie Mac; Eugene Fdn & Agnes Meyer Fdn; Fannie Mae Fdn; Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Fdn; The Ludacris Fdn/Pepsico; Morning Star Fdn; DCCAH; Serve DC; Children's Fund of Metropolitan Washington; Spring Creek Fdn; Jacob & Charlotte Lerhman Fdn; Marpa Fdnt; NEA; Community Fdn of the Natl. Capitol Region; Hattie M. Strong Fdn; Karibu Books
To find out more or to support us, go to www.dcwriterscorps.org,
This celebration is a collaboration between DC WritersCorps, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage and Sol y Soul.
UNDERWATER, MAY 12th organic electronica sound and visual performance
click here to view flyer
underwater : an art performance presentation
organic electronica sound and visual performance
saturday 5/12 : 8pm @ 1520 14th st, nw
[14th & church sts nw : 1 block morth of "p" st.]
music : aphrodizia
visual art : dissedent display + megasleepyhead
human sculpture : painted lady performance project
RSVP for May 12 :
http://www.galbanum.com/music
read more about the artists featured in UNDERWATER:
http://www.aphrodizia.net/s&d
more info at:
www.aphrodizia.net
"We Begin Here, Poems for Palestine and Lebanon" reading at Grace Church Thursday, May 10th, at 7 pm.
A reminder of the reading to celebrate the publication of "We Begin Here, Poems for Palestine and Lebanon" edited by Kathy Engel and Kamal Boullata, at Grace Church on Thursday, May 10th, at 7 pm. The reading will feature local poets Sarah Browning, Wade Fletcher, E. Ethelbert Miller, Richard Schaaf, and others. We'll be joined by editor and poet Kathy Engel.
Following the reading, we'll have a moderated discussion with special guests and peacemakers, Hannah Schwarzschild, a labor and employment attorney in Philadelphia and an activist with Jewish Voice for Peace and Nadia Hijab, who is a Senior Fellow at the DC-based office of the Institute for Palestine Studies, and co-director of its Washington, D.C. office.
For more information about the anthology—or to order your copy—go to
www.interlinkbooks.com
Grace Church is located at 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20007. For public transportation take the blue connector shuttle bus to Wisconsin Avenue and walk south. Two hours of free parking are available (with validation) at Lowe's Cinema Garage, at Wisconsin Avenue and K street.
That morning, from 10-11 am, "We Begin Here" will be featured on WPFW 89.3 FM, on the show "On the Margin" with Josephine Reed. Please tune in! Here are the poets and activists you'll hear from:
Kamal Boullata, co-editor with Kathy Engel of We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon. Painter and writer born in Jerusalem 1942. Living in Paris.
Sarah Browning is founder of DC Poets Against the War whose first book Whiskey in the Garden of Eden is forthcoming from The Word Works in July, 2007.
Alexis De Veaux is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, essayist, and biographer, whose acclaimed biography of Audre Lorde, Warrior Poet (2004) won the Zora Neale Hurston - Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award. She is associate professor in the department of women's studies at SUNY Buffalo.
Kathy Engel is a poet, teacher, producer, and consultant for social justice and peace organizations. She is theauthot of two collections: Banish the Tentative (1989) and Ruth's Skirts (2007). She serves on the board of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
Martin Espada is author of several collections of poetry, most recently The Republic of Poetry (2006), and professor of English at the University of Massachusettes Amherst, where he teaches creative writing, Latino Poetry, and the work of Pablo Neruda.
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz is an activist writer, and scholar whose most recent book is The Colors of Jews: Racial Politic and Radical Diasporism. She teaches comparative literature at Queens College and with the Bard College Prison Initiative.
E. Ethelbert Miller is the author, most recently, of How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love. He is chair of the board of the Institute of Policy Studies.
Melissa Tuckey is events coordinator of D.C. Poets Against the War and the organizer of the evening's reading and discussion. Her chapbook, Rope As Witness, has just been released by Pudding House Press.
Anacostia Mural Painting
Local D.C. Artist Cheryl Foster will collaborate with Tracey Gallogly of Northern Ireland on a painted mosaic mural. Local youth from ARCH skills,
Lifepieces to Masterpieces and Covenant House will be working with the two artists to complete the piece in the span of two weeks. The work starts on Monday May 7th and will continue until the 18th at 2208 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Washington DC 20020.
There will be a Mural Unveiling on Saturday, May 19th at twelve noon with a reception to follow.
Anyone interested in volunteering to work on this project should call Briony Evans at 202-889-5000 x113 or email her at bevans (at) archdc.org
Brief information about the artists:
Cheryl Foster has over ten years of teaching experience as well as a long list of public art commissions in and around Washington and Maryland. Foster has worked with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities as well as many other public organizations in the region. Her murals can be seen in the Arlington Cemetery, Fort McNair's Enlisted Men's renovated Dining Hall, D.C.'s Office on Aging Wellness Centers and numerous businesses and residences along the east coast.
Tracey Gallogly has worked on public commissions for murals and sculptures in Dublin and Belfast. She has been exhibiting work in various galleries in Belfast since 1997. Recently she worked with the New Belfast Community Arts Initiative and local youth to create two community mural projects.
(5/3)MESHELL N'DEGEOCELLO & W.Ellington Felton @ 9:30 Club!
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Call for Submissions: Words, Beats and Life Journal
It Ain’t My Fault: Blame it on Hip-Hop
Many believe rap music to be culpable for the failing within black communities. Jay-Z and Lil’ Jon have become more popular targets than racism and poverty for political pundits and self-appointed race men. The WBL Journal staff is looking for submissions that address this re-emerging phenomenon. The overarching theme for this issue is “It Aint My Fault: Blame it on Hip-Hop,” but below you will find themes to guide your research.
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