The Social Role of The Arts – April
The Institute for Policy Studies, CHIME and Busboys & Poets invite you to the monthly lunchtime series event for April, “SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL AGES AND STAGES.”
Brown Bag: Meeting With Cast of The Island
Meet the Freedom Theatre staff and cast from Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine in a visit to the Institute for Policy Studies as part of their inaugural U.S. tour.
Uncle Sam Is Sheltering the SWAG Economy
Silver, wine, art, and gold are scarce, transportable, and long-lasting physical assets that make handy tax shelters.
Revolutionaries in Modern Art
Shepard Fairey may have been a recurring artist over three exhibits on May 15, 2010, but the political threads that ran through each of the presentations were more exciting. “Revolutionary” was the theme du jour.
Imagination Crisis
The next time you feel hopeless and full of despair about the future, reach for a poem.
Workshop by Kathy Engel: Everything is Translation: Poetry that Breaks Boundaries
We will each bring a favorite poem and our readiness to listen, to write, and to share our work. We will share poems we love and discuss why, talk about fear and censorship that gets in the way of telling our stories through poetry. Why poetry? we will ask. We will look inside the notion that everything is translation, even within one language, the ways in which we make assumptions about one another without understanding each other’s languages, and what can happen when we break open the assumptions and move inside the language. We will write using prompts that push us in language, form and narrative. We look at questions of identity, form, sound, story, magic, dream, research, journey, connection. Our time together as poets will be informed by an understanding that community is not separate from poetry and that community cannot exist without the sharing of all the stories, all the voices.
Poem: ‘The Genesis of Torture’
On the issue of torture, what goes around comes around.
Poetic Document Making
The provocative work of German-born artist Andrea Geyer make us confront our responsibility as citizens.
Science Fiction From Below
Alex Rivera, director of the new film Sleep Dealer, imagines the future of the Global South.
Art Event: ‘It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq’
Stimulus: One Percent for the Imagination
Sign this petition, sponsored by IPS and Split this Rock, urging Congress to allocate 1 percent of the stimulus package to the arts.
Unleash the Arts: 1 percent of the Stimulus Package
What will be the fate of the arts during this recession? The Institute for Policy Studies recently launched a petition calling for 1 percent of the stimulus package to be spent on the arts.
Arts Stimulus Plan
Here’s a detailed call for the stimulus plan to include a program that will support artists and writers.