Cultural Agents Initiative Newsletter
Week of
April 15th to 21st
2009
In This Issue
'Black and White, Unite and Fight': Race, Region, and Labor in Depression-Era Migration Narratives
Reflections on Biography: Kenneth Silverman on John Cage
Cultivating the Field: 3rd Annual Institute for Teaching Artists
A Conversation with Roy Haynes
Cracklin' with Roy : Honoring Roy Haynes
China Town Paper Picker Press
Tuesday, April 14th 3:00-7:00pm
Boston China Town Neighborhood Center
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The Cultural Agents Initiative
and
The Boston China Town Neighborhood Center Proudly Present:


Paper Picker Press
Workshop for Artists and Educators



'Black and White, Unite and Fight': Race, Region, and Labor in Depression-Era Migration Narratives.
Wednesday, April 15th 12noon - 1:30pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. cordially invites you to attend the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium: 'Black and White, Unite and Fight'.
 
Erin Royston Battat, Ph.D. Candidate in African American Literature, Harvard University
 
A question and answer period will follow the lecture.

Please feel free to bring a lunch.
 
Visit the Du Bois Web site to learn more about the Institute and its events:http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/events
Reflections on Biography: Kenneth Silverman on John Cage; discussants: Laura Kuhn and Jan Swafford
Wednesday, April 15th 6:00-7:00pm
Barker Center 110, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy Street
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Presented by the Humanities Center at Harvard.
 
Seating is limited; open to the public
"Cultivating the Field": 3rd Annual Institute for Teaching Artist at Lesley University
Friday, April 17th 8am - 5pm
University Hall, room 3-087, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
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This series of 3 connected days of professional development for artist
educators will:
-   explore the potential of documentation as evaluation
-   demonstrate how organizing and summarizing material in aesthetic ways
    can prompt reflection and be a stimulus to think about the work in new
    ways
-   illustrate how evaluating and documenting your work can  enhance your
    effectiveness as a teaching artist
-   provide new strategies for capturing your work for marketing purposes

Day 1­: Dec 1st 2008      

Participants will be introduced to new ways of redefining evaluation and documentation

Day 2 : January 16th 2009     
participants explore their own work and practice in relationship to evaluation and documentation

Day 3: April 17th 2009        
Participants share applications of strategies to their work in the field

Both new and experienced teaching artists will engage in active learning and
will have a variety of opportunities  for discussion and networking.

Price: Attend one day for $50
Attend all three days for $125

For a schedule and information on registering go to www.lesley.edu or call 617/349-8596

PRESENTED BY LESLEY UNIVERSITY'S CREATIVE ARTS IN LEARNING DIVISION, THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, the ART INSTITUE OF BOSTON, JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL, VSA ARTS YOUNG AUDIENCES of MA AND NECAP (NEW ENGLAND CONSORTIUM OF ARTIST-EDUCATOR PROFESSIONALS) IN COOPERATION WITH THE STATE ARTS AGENCIES OF NEW ENGLAND.

For more information about NECAP go to http://www.artisteducators.org/

For more information about the institute and to register go to
http://lesley.edu/gsass/cal_teachingartistinstitute.html
"A Conversation with Roy Haynes"
Friday, April 17th 4:00-5:00pm
Lowell Hall, Kirkland and Oxford Streets, Harvard University , Cambridge.
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Hosted and moderated by Bob Blumenthal '69 JD '72, author and Creative Consultant to the Marsalis Music record label.

Drummer Roy Haynes is the 2009 Jazz Master in Residence at Harvard University. A working musician since 1942, Haynes' unrelenting sense of swing has enlivened both his own bands and those led by a who's-who of jazz innovators across a wide spectrum of improvisation. According to Billboard magazine, he is "One of the seven wonders of modern jazz".

Admission free and open to the public (tickets or RSVPs not required).

Presented by OFA Learning From Performers program.
"Cracklin' with Roy : Honoring Roy Haynes"
Saturday, April 18th 8:00-9:00pm
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Harvard University, Cambridge
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A tribute concert with Roy Haynes, also featuring special guest Roy Hargrove, trumpet, with the Harvard Jazz Bands.

Drummer Roy Haynes is the 2009 Jazz Master in Residence at Harvard University. A working musician since 1942, Haynes' unrelenting sense of swing has enlivened both his own bands and those led by a who's-who of jazz innovators across a wide spectrum of improvisation. According to Billboard Magazine he is "One of the seven wonders of modern jazz".

Tickets: $15 general admission; $8 students and seniors; available through the Harvard Box Office at Holyoke Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge (Tuesday-Sunday, noon-6 pm), or at the door.

Tickets by phone: 617.496.2222; or on-line: www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

Information: 617.495.8676, www.fas.harvard.edu/ofa
Art Forum Speaker Series: Alfredo Jaar
Tuesday, April 21th 3:00-6:00pm
and
Wednesday, April 22th 6:00-8:00 pm
CGIS South, S-020 Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge
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ARTISTS ON THEIR ART

Considered one the most influential artists of our time, Chilean Alfredo Jaar has produced, over the last few decades, haunting installations, filled with muted images which, in their relentless unavailability, remind the viewers of their passivity in a number of crimes against humanity which have occurred or are occurring under their complacent watch. Jaar's work has been shown extensively around the world. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was named a MacArthur fellow in the year 2000. More than thirty publications have been published on his work by some of the most distinguished intellectuals and art historians.
In It is Difficult, Jaar will present and discuss his latest projects produced around the world, in which he continues to question and denounce the power structures at play as well as unrelentingly challenge the spectator's political inaction.
In collaboration with the Harvard Department of History and Art.
Featured Article
"Literature that Changed My Life"

$500 Prize
in books from Harvard University Press to the best essay


Perhaps a novel, a poem, story, or a play has had a profound effect on you. We invite students of Harvard College to submit a short essay (600 word limit) about the impact of a work of literature on your life. By its nature, creativity is an exploration beyond known forms.  And imaginative writing explores the unfamiliar, so fiction is not a distraction as much as it is a stretch of intelligence and sensibilities.

Tell us how a book changed your life.

 
Deadline:
April 21, 2009

Awards reception:
Late April

Send submissions to:
cultagen@fas.harvard.edu

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