EVENT SCHEDULE!!!

DECONSTRUCTING THE OTHER
A series of events organized by the CalArts Arts and Activism class
DECEMBER 3, 2008 - ALL DAY
CALARTS, 24700 MCBEAN PARKWAY, VALENCIA, CA 91355
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Contact : Evelyn Serrano (eserrano@calarts.edu , 661.755.6974)
The CalArts Theater School class, Survey of World Theater: Art and Activism will be presenting a day-long event on campus titled “Deconstructing the Other”. This day will be dedicated to the examination and exploration of the walls that divide our society as well as making an effort to scale or outright annihilate these isolating structures. Panels, workshops, guest performances and original work generated by the class will be taking over several spaces around campus in a loud and unified cry for mutual understanding and acceptance of a total human experience. Help us to open eyes, sharpen ears, and blend artistic spirits at an event that is sure to be remembered as a creation for and by all people.

PROGRAM:

10:00-11:30am – Main Gallery Conference Room
Presentation by Ari Kletzky / Islands of LA
Islands of LA is an art-research experiment using traffic islands as territories of socially engaged art. The intention of this ongoing social experiment is to use art as a vehicle to foster discussion, create community and explore the use and availability of traffic islands as public space. This presentation will be followed by a dialog with the artist focusing on issues of individual agency and public space.

10:00am-12:00pm – President’s Conference Room
Who’s Afraid of Community Organizers? Getting back to Basics in the New Recession
This 2-hour session will discuss the basics of community organizing: assessment, stakeholder analysis, outreach, and implementation. Guaranteed to inspire!
Presentation by Joshua Parr

11:00am – Lulu Von Hagen Courtyard
The Theater of Play
A manifesto by Sam Fisher, Jessica Hemingway, Chris Hampton, Chrsitina Irby, Gabriel Marantz, Lawrence McEvoy and Andrew Walke

11:15am – Lulu Von Hagen Courtyard
CalArts Community Garden
Information session about our CalArts Community Garden, and invitation to participate in a collective gardening and weeding extravaganza. Tools, plants and seeds will be provided.

11:30am-12:30pm - KCIA 105.3 CalArts Radio Station
KCIA will air and stream original advocacy manifestos conceived and performed by Erica Bitton, Bryce Carver, Michael McIntyre and Jennifer Nelson.

12:00-1:00pm –Cafeteria and cafeteria entrance
Live performances by Susanna Battin, Howard Duncan, Marcus Pontello and Marlene Beltran

12:00-1:00pm – Cafeteria entrance
Presentation and fundraiser in behalf of East Central Los Angeles community (Skid Row)
The presentation aims to bring awareness about issues affecting the community of East Central Los Angeles and ways in which to support the work of local non-profits. It will be followed by a fundraiser to collect funds to purchase trash cans for Skid Row. This is part of a campaign begun by Skid Row resident and community organizer Manuel Campito a.k.a.OG and supported by the United Coalition East Prevention Project.
Presenters: John Malpede (Los Angeles Poverty Department), Kevin Michael (United Coalition East Prevention Project), General Dogon (LA CAN), Charles Porter (United Coalition East Prevention Project), Manuel Campito, and CalArts Arts and Activism students.

2:00-4:00pm - KCIA 105.3 CalArts Radio Station
Reading of Forgotten World a play by Ugandan playwright and CalArts graduate student Deborah Asiimwe
Six Spirits of former child soldiers come to haunt a Photographer who took their pictures when they were still alive. The children want to know why their existence was obscured, yet their post life has become a commodity through exhibitions, auctioning and international gatherings. Their Spirits appear as seen on the mind of the Photographer.

5:00-6:00pm – Main Gallery
Theater Games
Arts and Activism students Alejandra Bursik-Cervantes, Christopher Hampton, Jessica Hemingway, Christina Irby and Janice Pak invite you to join them in play. No previous training, experience or special attire is required for this session.

6:00pm –Main Gallery
Community Potluck
Students in the Arts and Activism class in collaboration with Student Council invite you to join us for some good eats and better company. Don’t come empty handed!
*This event is a collaboration with the CalArts Student Council.

6:30-7:00pm - Main Gallery
Performance by In Lak Ech
In Lak Ech is a Mayan concept meaning you are my other me-tu eres mi otro yo. In the flesh, In Lak Ech is a performance poetry and song collective of Xicana multi-media artists, writers, students, and organizers uniting to tell Her-story through poetry. In Lak Ech is comprised of Marisol Torres, Felicia Montes, Claudia Mercado, Cristina Gorocica, Rachel Thorson Véliz, Liza Hita, and Marlene Beltran. Their flowering words, which express their urban indigena realities are offered to the past, present, and future generations. Since their birth on International Womens Day, 1997, they have been heard from the jungles of Chiapas to the concrete jungles of Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond.
*This performance is generously funded by ICAP and the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP)

8:00-10:00pm - Ensemble Theater II –E407)
blu, a play by Virginia Grise directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
Soledad, ex-wife of a career gang member now in jail, works two jobs to support her three children, only to face the death of her eldest son who, in an effort not to follow in his father’s footsteps, joins the military and dies in Iraq. Through an unearthing of ancient rirtuals and traditions, her partner Hailstorm helps Soledad face memory, history, Chicano culture and her environment.
All day- MOD Lobby
Works by artist Art Betanzos