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Volume II, Issue 9 Arts4All Newsletter New Beginnings Issue |
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From the Editor: Welcome to the January, 2000 issue of the Arts4All Newsletter. Celebrating New Beginnings, this issue commences Volume II of the Newsletter. Going back to the very beginnings of humanity, we introduce the first of a series taking a long look at art and technology - their basic affinities and tensions - from prehistory to the present. From Paleolithic cave paintings, we shoot rapidly into the present, for a fascinating project that incorporates ancient archetypal imagery with contemporary visual art.
Starting a new life together, two well-regarded theatrical institutions, old enough to know about these things, agree to cohabit, to the benefit of all concerned. In new beginnings of a different sort, immigrants young and old from around America share their stories with each other. To commemorate a happy couple's new life together, their families pull out the stops for a wedding party worthy of note. On a cozy, low-key small-town stage, classic jump music is resuscitated. This month we present some annotated web listings on the arts and culture, hoping you will find them helpful now and over the coming year. And concluding all these new beginnings, a valedictory of sorts. Next time, be sure to come back for the Renaissance Issue of the Newsletter. We'll have poets, singers, dancers, painters, jugglers, clowns, - OK, well some of that stuff anyhow. Lorenzo di Medici never had it so good. AMC
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Art and Technology [Part One] by Kristin Redpath From the moment one of our grunting, cave-dwelling mammoth-hunting forbears picked up a rock, threw it, succeeded in killing dinner, and mused, "Ah - Tool!" the technological race was on. From there, art made with tools was a natural progression, and anyone could probably have picked up a rock and chipped a stylized animal or leaf or person into a cave wall.
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by Paul Foster It was 1971, December, the winter of our discontent with Communism. Nothing was moving, not government relations, not friendly relations, not even the Danube moved. Frozen solid clear to Moscow. Shortly before opening night, the Budapest authorities asked us all to pack and leave at once. ITI made a few phone calls for us, and the show went on, to glowing reviews.
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Perspectives by Meryl Joseph: Exploding the Negative - a statement by the artist about her work's origins and techniques. To me, a photograph is a pathway to enter myth, inviting the viewer to take a journey into the ancient cave, to find the language of the soul. Tour - an illustrated journey through episodes in Meryl Joseph's artistic life. Her use of the
term "episodes" indicates that, while thematic and narrative
unity are evident throughout, different explorations were taking place
at various times. Each episode contributed imagery and experience to the
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Memos from the World: by Michael Nicolella Author Janet Bode asked middle-school students from across the country, "Please write about your roots." The stories are told by students in immigrant families and by those whose ancestors emigrated to the United States long ago. The stories were often about progress, heritage, generation gaps, and being separated from loved ones.
by Peter T. Helger The reception was awesome - at a club on the Sound, across a drawbridge, with semi-resident swans just outside the windows and lots of boatyards flanking the approaches. Later on, back home, I felt like a veteran of interplanetary travel.
by Alberta Moraine Duke Robillard is a missionary of sorts, spreading the good word that blues and jump music still know how, even in the Year 2000. Not long ago I accompanied friends to see Robillard's band play at a small-town club where the stage is just past the edge of the longest table, and your sight-lines depend on the coiffures of the people you sit behind.
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Linkage: Creative Resources Online by Michael Nicolella This Linkage installment features web pages to be useful as references throughout the new year. Diverse contents and thorough standards characterize each of these sites, grouped by category. You can find Emily Post, as well as screenplay formatting. There's a European Language Translator equipped even to handle non sequiturs.
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Starting Over, Going Up and Coming Down by Anne M Carley The Colonists from across the pond revolted, and in their new nation's founding documents exalted free speech and freedom of the press. They also were careful to protect creative artists, giving them an exclusive right to their creative output for a defined duration. The length and complexity of today's copyright law might stun the drafters of the Constitution, but threads do run continuously from that document to the present law - primarily, the notion that the writings and discoveries of authors and inventors have economic value - are, in fact, a kind of property.
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Artists and institutions worldwide, including: The
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts And much more from around the world...
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News releases straight from the press agents! Updated continually, the Bulletin Board posts news about artistic events and organizations worldwide, including: Reviews
of the RSC's 'Othello' at London's Barbican
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Concert pianist Jenny Mitchell, trumpeter Jon Wilder, painter Anne Kovach and lyric soprano Vanessa Conlin are here to share a sampling of their work. Stay tuned - there are more to come in February's Newsletter.
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