Happy Holidays! Harold, Heather, and Kenna hope you all have restful winter breaks! This is the last newsletter for the semester - it will resume in early January.
More detail on the Spring workshops will be available in mid-January. In the meantime, here's the workshop schedule:
Mondays:
Bullet Journaling
Latin Dance
Life Through My Eyes: Film Workshop
Tuesdays:
3-D Poetry
Comics
Self-expressive Songwriting
Watercolor Painting and Feminist Expression
Pentathlon Opportunities
Dance/Theatre: Christmas Playlist
Saturday, December 15
5pm
Clarice, Dance Theatre
DDT presents its first-holiday show featuring The Ngoma School. A medley of holiday songs through the years, Christmas Playlist blends classical ballet tutus with jazz, hip-hop, and liturgical dance forms to create an evening of celebration. DDT presents world premieres: Gospel Suite, Nutcracker Medley. Gospel artists Richard Smallwood, Walter Hawkins and Byron Cage’s inspirational music create the soulful sounds in Short’s Gospel Suite – a ballet work dedicated to the strong women that have shaped his life. Nutcracker Medley is a wonderful excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s score with original choreography by Short.
The Nutcracker
Sunday, December 16
3pm
Clarice, Kay Theatre
Ballet Company M is proud to present a rendition of Tchaikovsky's classic holiday ballet, The Nutcracker. With the help of her Nutcracker, the audience will travel with Clara from her mother's holiday party, through a beautiful snowstorm and into the magical Land of the Sweets.
Music: CAFE Youth Holiday Concert, Communities Celebrating Together
Friday, December 14
Clarice, Kay Theatre
7PM
The Cultural Academy For Excellence Youth Org (CAFE) presents its annual Holiday Event Concert which will feature the versatile orchestration of steelpan music, performed by a talented group of CAFE students. The young CAFE artistes will showcase music of various genres: classical, traditional and cultural music of the Caribbean and Latin American. The evening's entertainment will include Bele dance by students and other talents to provide the audience with an evening filled with festive joy and celebration.
Visual Art: Mirrored Re-Collection
Sobia Ahmad + Sepideh Salehi
November 1 - December 15, 2018
Stamp Gallery
In this exhibition, the artists examine issues related to national identity and belonging, cultural memory, the notion of home, and gender. They incorporate aspects of storytelling and weave their personal histories into broader cultural fabrics, the two often intersecting in difficult ways. Their work prompts us to consider: What is the relationship between personal narrative and larger structures of power? How do artists, especially women, use their work to navigate complex political and social terrains?
Know of any events on campus that other Arts Scholars should attend? Let Kenna know!
Other Opportunities
Stamp Gallery Call for Artists for Visualizing Protest: The Art of Resistance
Protests have long been a social tool by which to mobilize groups of people around shared grievances, allowing them to collectively interrogate power structures and enact change through the discursive processes of resistance. Protests have been an important moment at which resistance enters public space and gains broader visibility. Some forms of protest, such as riots, can even erupt spontaneously and result in alternative discourses that undermine the original aims of the protestors.
This exhibition thus seeks to explore the role of visual production around protests. It will consider such questions as: How do we understand the relationship between what is visible/invisible or public/private in collective forms of resistance? How does artwork and new media shape, interrogate, or blur these distinctions? How does the visual response to protests and resistance movements by artists memorialize and historicize the events? Do new technologies change the nature of protests, resistance movements, and how they are mobilized? If so, how we understand them visually? What is the role of audience? What is the role of visual imagery produced by resistance groups themselves?
UMD Art Gallery call for artists for Black History Month
Deadline: January 5th, 2019
The office for Multicultural Involvement and Student Advocacy (MICA) is looking for a student artwork to highlight in a curation for Black History Month this upcoming February 2019. This piece will be hung for the entirety of the month in the Teaching and Research Gallery Room of the UMD Art Gallery in the Art/Socy Building. We are looking for artworks revolving around the theme of black migrations and the movement of those with African descent, metaphorically and literally. Art pieces touching upon this overall theme will be preferred during selection. Other topics the artwork can include or intersect the overall theme with: struggles with black identity, mental health/mental wellness, colorism within the community, racism, intergenerational issues, queer identities, learnings from African American history, history of music, multi-ethnic/biracial struggles, migration stories, etc.
Email submissions to art curating Coordinator at MICA, Ghonva Ghauri: gghauri@umd.edu
Submission requirements:
Image of artwork: must be clear and high quality
A note listing: materials, mediums, and dimensions of the piece
A one-page write-up to explain the visual piece's relevance to the theme outlined above [And again- Art pieces touching upon the theme of Black Movement will be preferred during evaluation.]
City Internship Opportunities
City Internship Programs are open to students from any year and with any major, and they may choose a placement in one of 9 career fields: Banking & Financial services; Consulting & Professional services; Law & Politics; Technology & Engineering; Marketing, Advertising & PR; Media, Entertainment & Journalism; Art, Fashion & Design; Start-ups & Entrepreneurship; Charities, NFPs & NGOs. Apply before the new year for the Global Accelerator programs in Paris, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco as places are filling up quickly. There is more availability in London, Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, and Washington D.C.
