Friends, Comrade, Artists, Culture Creators, Activists, Performers, Ranters, Dancers, Spirit Leaders, and Exuberant New-path Makers,
What are you passionate about? What are you working on? Come and tell us!
7th Annual St. Pat/St. Brigid All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators at Club Timbuktu
Join us for music, dancing, poetry, puppetry and all kinds of soapbox moments! This is an opportunity for you to showcase your ideas, projects, movements, hopes, organizational work and art to hundreds of the city’s most active and engaged people. You will have only 2 minutes (120 seconds) to present. Because the place will be crowded and distracting, we encourage presenters to be engaging and demonstrative. Think of this as an opportunity for Show and Tell .
There will also be a lit table available. Feel free to bring something to share.
***IMPORTANT***
If you want a 2-minute soapbox moment, please email at sura@suraforchange.com a.s.a.p. (instructions below).
7th annual St. Pat/St. Brigid All City Gathering of Activists, Artists and Culture Creators
Tuesday, Mar. 17, 5-10pm
Club Timbuktu
520 E. Center St.
Donation requested ($5 or 1/2 -1 hour registering people at the door)
Changes this year
We are going to be watching the time (and we’ll have a gong or cane. watch out!). Please time yourself, so that we don’t have to.
While we hope to accommodate everyone, we are unable to guarantee late inclusions. Please sign up ahead of time if you want a sure spot.
To be included in the soapbox moments:
. If you are representing an organization, movement, group or idea, we need the name of that org, etc. along with the name of the person presenting.
. If you want to do a creative piece , i.e. poetry, music, dance, performance, etc. send us your name, what you want to do, and time requested. We may be able to allow for more time on some of the creative presentations.
. What time slot do you want to be in? We haven’t exactly determined them, but generally: 5:30 – 7:00, 7:00 – 8:00, 8:00 – 9:30. Please give your first and second preference. We will send out the schedule after we have you plugged in, and you’ll need to register your arrival at the door.
“What a stretch of 7 years since this sweet event began! Let’s call the meeting to order!” – Olde Godsil
The Merry Band
Community
Nia Dancers
George Martin calling our ancestors
Bill Sell
25 Feb 2009 | 12:18 pm | Art, DIY - Do It Yourself | No comments yet - Add your comments
+++ Update+++
This has been taken off the table until the community has more of an opportunity to voice concerns. Thank you Alder Zielinski!
There is a meeting at the City Plan Commission on Monday to create legislation to regulate murals. If this passes, any future Art in the Alleys project will become prohibitively expensive (all work and paint was donated).
Homeowners – Do you want to pay an extra fee (tax) on art murals on your garages?
Artists – Do you want your art censored and hindered by government?
Allies – Do you want city bureaucrats deciding what your neighborhood should look like and what tools you should use to beautify your alleys?
Let your voice be heard at the City Plan Commission!
If you can’t make the meeting, please write a letter to your Alder and the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee members (below).
City Plan Commission
January 26, 2009
1:30 PM
809 N. Broadway, 1st Floor Boardroom
Zoning – Public Hearing – 1:30 PM
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21 Jan 2009 | 1:13 pm | Art | No comments yet - Add your comments
Check out these alleys, vibrant with murals. and this interview with Julie Ferris of the City’s “Insight Milwaukee.”
And Thanks to Sarah Dollhausen of True Skool for bringing the details to my attention:
There is currently an ordinance being proposed by Alderman Zilenski (District 14) and Alderman Witkowiak (District 12) that if passed, would make it very difficult to paint a mural in Milwaukee.
This mural ordinance will make it illegal to have murals facing alleys…this means that the Art in the Alleys project will be considerably affected. No murals facing an alley will be allowed. Also, existing murals facing alleys will have to get permits and pay fines within 90 days if this ordinance passes.
This ordinance is illegal! It goes against our First Amendment Right in the Constitution of Free Speech. This City of Milwaukee has more pressing issues to contend with such as teenage pregnancy rates, segregation, police brutality, and the list goes on than to create another fee that citizens have to pay to beautify our communities. We do NOT need another ordinance for painted murals.
This ordinance calls for the City of Milwaukee to regulate the size, location, amount of, and content of a painted mural in public view. These Alderman want to create a permit process and regulations for painted murals which would include a $100 permit fee and approval process and an annual $75 inspection fee. Continue reading ‘New Mural ordinance would penalize Art’
12 Jan 2009 | 10:15 am | Art, Representation | No comments yet - Add your comments
Our 3D Vision group is working on a community art and beautification project.
We want to beautify and make our neighborhoods safer and we’d like to use one or two of our alleys (or streets) as pilot projects which might spur more interest throughout Riverwest and beyond. In the short run this will result in us being part of ArtWalk and getting a little press, and in the long run we hope this idea spreads out into other parts of the city.
Specifically, we’re working right now to hook up with some artists (of all ages and genres, come on over!) who would be willing to paint murals on garage doors. Property owners will receive a rough sketch of the work to be done, and would have input and say in what goes on their space. This could expand to stencils for use in alleys (or on trash cans, to encourage their use), or personalized stencils to go in front of each house, according to the specifications of the resident/homeowner. We could also do a little gardening in the occasional small patches that are found in some alleys.
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5 Aug 2008 | 10:19 am | 3rd District, Art, DIY - Do It Yourself, Safety | No comments yet - Add your comments
Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism: Digital Arts and Culture at UWM
Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism opens Saturday, April 12, 5:00-9:00pm at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.
Seeing Green encourages artists to leave the confines of the studio and take an active role with the community, to collaborate and address issues of the environment, and to open a dialog with the public. Guest curator Nicolas Lampert invited over 40 local artists to work on a project for the duration of eight months. During the month of April, 2008 the show will be exhibited at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the gallery will serve as a hub space, informing the viewer and the public of the many environmental projects taking place throughout the city, exhibiting visual work and books, screening films and holding discussions and events based around the exhibition.
Calendar:
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 5:00-9:00pm
Seeing Green opens at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.)
Sunday, March 30th, 2:00pm
Reading by California author Rebecca Solnit
Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00-9:00pm
Curator talk by Nicolas Lampert 4:30-6:00 / Film Screening
(Screening of 5 minute films and videos on urban ecology issues by: Lane Hall, Lisa Moline, Lindsay Holden, Brandon Bauer, Ray Chi, Laura Klein, Eddee Daniel, Suzanne Rosenblatt, Spencer Tepper, Zachary Nesgoda).
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25 Mar 2008 | 9:07 am | Art, Environmental Sustainability | No comments yet - Add your comments
Here’s a cool little piece about a design competition in NYC funded by the Cooper-Hewitt and the DOT. Maybe we can get something similar here in Milwaukee. I see a collaboration between MIAD and the city.
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/03/five_better_bik.php
20 Mar 2008 | 10:03 am | Art, Streets, Bicycles, Pedestrians | No comments yet - Add your comments
