Apply Now: Eight x Eight Weekend Dance Workshop

The Dancescapes Project presents: “Eight x Eight Weekend Dance Workshop”

Photo: Effie Bowen

WHO: For Dance Artists/Teachers (Tacoma, WA)
WHAT: Free community dance workshop
WHERE: Downtown Tacoma
WHEN: Deadline for application, Monday, July 16, 2012 (midnight)
Workshop Dates: Friday, August 24 — Sunday, August 26, 2012
Informal Showing: Saturday, August 25, 2012

The Dancescapes Project, in partnership with Spaceworks Tacoma and The Barefoot Collective, invites dance teachers and professionals to submit class and work proposals for our upcoming free community dance workshop, which will take place in downtown Tacoma.  Eight teachers and eight dance artists will be selected to teach a class and/or perform in our informal showing (eight classes, eight works). Dancescapes appreciates all forms of dance from contemporary modern and ballet to ballroom and B-boying. It is our goal to provide the community with a variety of classes, in order to celebrate and appreciate the diversity of dance.

TO APPLY:
 
Teachers
Please send a resume via email attachment to Dana Livermore at thedancescapesproject@gmail.com and follow the link below to fill out the online proposal form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K2TVY8W

Dance Artists
Please send the following items as attachments to Dana Livermore at thedancescapesproject@gmail.com:  One page (maximum) description of proposed work (duration, # of performers, genre, theme, special needs or space requirements, etc.)

• One page (maximum) description of proposed work (duration, #of performers, genre, theme, special needs or space requirements)
• CV/Resume, including phone number, email, and mailing address
• Work Sample (via email attachment, YouTube, or website link)

Eligibility
Applicants may apply as a single artist or group.  Applicant must be 18 years or older.  Non-traditional or multi-media classes/works will be considered.  Dance film submissions and artists interested in exploring site-specific work in the downtown Tacoma area are also highly encouraged to apply.

Figure Drawing Session + BELLYDANCING Tonight at the Mix!

You read that right! Tonight’s installment of ART@TheMix features a free figure drawing session with a live model, and a preview of works from the upcoming show, “The End”. Plus, BELLYDANCING! Yahoo! Hijinx start at 8:30 pm at 635 St. Helens Ave.; 253.383.4327.
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Fab-5 Celebrates L.I.F.E. – You Can, Too!

Dear Friends, Partners and Families of Fab-5,

Twelve months ago today Fab-5 launched the pilot project FABITAT. Four months ago, with the generous support of our local community Fab-5 made the FABITAT official so that our city’s young people have an ongoing place to gather and grow creatively. Now Fab-5 is entering its next chapter through the 2012 L.I.F.E. Program! 

With nine weeks of intensive arts workshops in Breakdance, DJ, Graffiti Art, Lyricist Lounge, plus our student coordinated Final Jam, L.I.F.E. 2012 is going to be huge; and this summer L.I.F.E. is just the beginning.

Combined with 20 additional weekly FABITAT hours, our summer Radio project on 90.1FM and an innovative partnership with the MLK Business Association to bring over 20 new planter murals along the way, summer 2012 will prove to be like no summer before. 

Of course your involvement means everything. For the 12.5 years that Fab-5 has been active, nothing has been more central to this movement than the support of our collaborators, participants, and community members. As we continue to uphold our service to all youth, providing all services free of charge, we look to you fellow community members, partners, educators, parents, students and families, to welcome your continued support for summer 2012.

If you are a like-minded individual who would like to contribute through volunteering or through the donation of time, money, or even other resources such as equipment, furniture, or art supplies – every contribution big or small would be greatly appreciated. With no full time staff members, all donations we receive go directly toward programming, so support at every level is welcomed, encouraged and greatly appreciated!

 Here are three incredible ways for you to get involved:

1. For more information on Fab-5′s demographics or to support the L.I.F.E. program financially visit here: http://www.fab-5.org/GIVE
2. To register yourself or a student for the 2012 L.I.F.E. Program, or to find more information visit here: http://www.fab-5.org/LIFE
3. To get involved as a volunteer, contribute supplies/equipment or even join this Thursday’s L.I.F.E. Work Party, simply respond with a message to INFO@fab-5.org

Thank you for your continued support & we hope to see you this summer at the FABITAT!

Warmly,
The Fab-5 Team
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A Future for Fab-5
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write@253 Open House and Book Arts Exhibit

Over the past couple of months, write@253 has quietly been moving into their space on the Hilltop, ramping up for writing workshops, student tutoring, and lots of other word-based activity this summer. On Third Thursday Gallery Walk, June 21, they’re throwing open their doors with an open house and exhibition of artist-made books. You’re invited to 1310 MLK Way from 5-8 pm this Thursday to check out the space, meet the staff, learn about upcoming activities, and view the book arts exhibit, about Tacoma history and family narrative, courtesy of the University of Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library. Visitors will have the opportunity to sign up for workshops covering skills from creative writing to resumé crafting to poetry.

write@253′s mission is ”to inspire the writer who lives in everyone, by nurturing creativity and celebrating the tremendous talents of our community.” What’s not to love? Give a big welcome to Tacoma’s own literary cadre as they mix it up with an all-ages community event! Find more info about this fantastic writing and tutoring program here.

Spaceworks Artists: Cakewalk 2012 Needs YOU!

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UPDATE: CAKEWALK HAS BEEN MOVED TO SEPTEMBER 15, 2012. _________________________________________________________

Walk the walk for Spaceworks at the August Cakewalk! Photo: Jason Ganwich.

On August 18, 2012, we are throwing a party but not just any party, it is the Cakewalk!  With a goal to raise $5,000,

Spaceworks Tacoma will celebrate all of the outstanding artists and projects we’ve had the pleasure to work with over the past two years. The fundraiser, Cakewalk, is a triumphant return of a much-loved community art event that, in the past, supported Tacoma Contemporary.  (Cakewalk 2004 was an event of the game-changing “Scattered Ephemera” exhibition that put T-town on the art map – check it out here.)  Up for grabs are amazing artwork and fabulous cakes that are art in their own right!

Photo: Jason Ganwich.

Since July 2010, the Spaceworks journey has been nothing short of incredible. In just two years, we’ve supported 26 active projects, 54 art installations, and 100+ events and performances in 22 underused spaces. This year, we incubated two new businesses on Hilltop, Nate Dybevik’s Piano Co. and Fab-5’s Fabitat (who have signed leases with property owners and set up shop) and we’re working to help other projects stabilize while continuing to present quality temporary public art installations.

Thanks in large part to the passion and talent of our participating artists (YOU!), we have supported inspiring opportunities for artists and creative entrepreneurs to showcase their work and further their careers in Tacoma – while making our beloved T-town look gooood…

Will you help to make the Cakewalk a success?  We need donations of artwork and mind-blowing cakes!  If you consider frosting an art medium, then we need you: Collaborations between artists and bakers, and cake-inspired artwork are highly encouraged. We’ll supply the music and fun, integrating performances to make for an event that showcases many disciplines.

These Marie Antoinettes had their cake and ate it, too, at Cakewalk 2004. Photo: Jason Ganwich.

Your support, in whatever form it takes, tells the community, potential donors, and local politicians that not only do our Spaceworks participants believe in our work, but they have also contributed to the effort – your support is a powerfully persuasive argument that proves that this program is, at its core, a collaboration and tool to build community. Let us know how you can help by following this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Cakewalk. Please respond by Friday, June 29. We’ll follow up to confirm. We want you all to be there, so everyone who contributes will get free admission to the event.

A Single Word, A World of Damage

Next Thursday, playwright Rosalind Bell and Spaceworks artist Marilyn Bennett will perform a free reading of Bell’s play, Under the Circumstances, at Trinity Presbyterian Church. Presented by Conversations on Race and Dukesbay Productions, this autobiographical work examines how the relationship between two women writers is challenged when one of them writes a book spouting vitriol and slurs. The play centers on the tension between the author’s voice versus what her character says.

“The caution about language isn’t kidding,” notes Bennett. “Most of it is mine. I am honored to read this play with Ros, the playwright, and my talented co-actor Ieisha McIntyre. Rehearsals have been such a pleasure!” A short discussion will follow the performance. Reading is free; donations gladly appreciated. Under the Circumstances, Trinity Presbyterian Church, (1619 6th Ave. in Tacoma), 7 pm.

Illusive and Elusive: Janet Marcavage’s “Fabrications”

Shifting meanings? Art by Janet Marcavage.

It’s going to be a busy summer for Tacoma printmaker, Janet Marcavage, who is participating in exhibitions from New York City to Port Townsend, WA. Sandwiched into her coast-to-coast show schedule is an intriguing new Spaceworks installation, “Fabrications”, which will open at the Woolworth Building in Tacoma in mid-July.

“My installation celebrates the topography of textile pattern imprinted upon daily life and stems from my long-term investigation of printmaking’s visual systems,” she says. Her printed imagery is “inspired by everyday patterns used on a multitude of items from tablecloths and baby clothes to button-down shirts for men and women. I enjoy the way that these patterns shift meaning based on the color and the form in which they take, such as the form of a table, girl, man or laundry pile.

“Rooted in printmaking’s historical language of image construction, yet contemporary in application, the lines in the installation are optical, rather than subsumed elements in the image. The simplicity of repeated line is countered by the complexity of its shifting at the folds, abstracting and unifying my experience as a wife, mother, printmaker, and educator.”

Marcavages’s materials will include found striped textiles, bundled and suspended; and screenprinted windows and paper collaged in space.

If you’re in New York City between now and July 27, 2012, you can seen one of her recent screenprints in the International Print Center’s “New Prints 2012 / Summer Exhibition”, selected by Shahzia Sikander. The IPCNY is located at 508 West 26th St., Room 5A.

Her work will be included in the “Printmaker’s Hand II” at the Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend, WA, July 6-29, 2012. The opening reception is Sat., July 7 from 5:30-7 pm. On July 8 at 1 pm there will be a gallery talk given by juror, Sam Davidson. Northwind Arts Center is located at 2409 Jefferson St. in Port Townsend.

Marcavage’s Spaceworks installation at the Woolworth Building, 11th & Broadway in Tacoma, will run mid-July through mid-October.