Loyola Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections

Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College presents: Loyola Collects:
Selections from the Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections
Exhibition Dates: October 6 – October 26, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9, 5 – 7 pm

Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College in Maryland is pleased to present Loyola Collects: Selections from the
Permanent Collection & Faculty Private Collections.  This exciting exhibition will include works of nineteenth-century French artists such
as Honoré Daumier, Alponse LeGros and Dominique Jouvet-Magron as well as drawings of  Minimalist, Agnes Martin and  Abstract Expressionist,
Morris Louis.  The exhibition will also feature lithograph prints by Irving Amen, Hollis Sigler and various other prints and photographs from
contemporary artists such as Suzanne Marshall, Joy Laville, Ed Ruscha, Matthew Sugarman, Grace Hartigan, M. Jordan Tierney, Joseph Hyde and
Sarah Hobbs. 

We are also proud to include in the exhibition several items of rare furniture, including a collection of “Morris Chairs” (ca.1933) designed
by Gilbert Rohde (1894-1944) for the Troy Sunshade Company, and an adjustable “flip top” floor lamp designed and manufactured by Kurt
Versen (1901-1997) around 1935;   Rohde, a noted American industrial designer, is widely known as an innovative furniture maker, and is
perhaps best known for his design of the clock tower for the Herman Miller Company, Zeeland, Michigan in 1931.   Both Rohde’s and Versen’s
pieces should provide a fascinating glimpse at the work of some of America’s foremost designers of the early decades of the twentieth
century.

Julio Fine Arts Gallery is located on the Loyola College campus at 4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210. Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm. For more information about the exhibition and gallery programs, contact Gallery Director, Kay Hwang at
(410) 617-2799.

Charm City Kitty Club presents VOTE KITTY!

Charm City Kitty Club presents
VOTE KITTY!
Fri-Sat Oct 3-4


Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224
Phone: 410-276-1651

The Kitty Club kicks off our 7th season of knicker-twisting fun with a
celebration of the day Baltimore became Suffragette City-the ground breaking
convening of Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton and other
voting-rights activists in Charm City in 1906! Featuring the burlesque moves and
jazz vocals of Cherry Bomb, the thought-provoking theater of Susana Cook, the
musical stylings of local bard Reina, and much, much more! Tear off your chads.
Vote early! Vote often! VOTE KITTY! 7pm Kitty Cocktails, 8pm Show. $12,
$10mbrs.www.charmcitykittyclub.com

CAmm Salon and Cinema Lounge

1st Mondays CAmm Cine Lounge
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave.
(410)276-1651
www.creativealliance.org
Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec 1

Lounge, the vibrant film gathering formerly at Gardel's, moves to The Patterson, joining its lively following to the CAmm Salon's detailed critiques. Cinema Lounge's Stacie Gentzler (Black Ink Films) hosts! Bring your new film or work in progress (max length 15min) and have a critical conversation with peers. Networking power hour finishes the night! Bring business cards, headshots, and
press packets for our info exchange tables! Bar is open. Oct 6: Guests Jamie Horrigan & Kevin Hill of Studio Unknown talk audio shop. 7pm. $8, $6 mbrs.

Public Moves Federal Hill

Public Moves Federal Hill
Sunday October 26th
Federal Hill & American Visionary Art Museum
www.publicmoves.net

Find a neighbor, grab a friend, and take your family to re-charge your inner batteries by JOINING US on Sunday, October 26 for an extraordinary event: Public Moves Federal Hill, created by Shua Group and hosted by the American Visionary Art Museum. Public Moves Federal Hill is a community performance atop Federal Hill featuring Baltimoreans of all ages and colors, shapes and sizes, backgrounds and experiences. The performance is inspired by the everyday movement we see on the hill and each person will play a part in creating it. Join us and...
* SHARE a moment of community with total strangers...
* PLAY inside a moving mass of people...
* RE-DISCOVER the amazing sensation of moving along a steep hill...
* DO SOMETHING SO DIFFERENT from the ordinary you will not soon forget...
* and have FUN!

And when weʼre done, come along for a FREE visit to the American Visionary Art Museum, and be a part of Fall For Art day at the museum. What's required? Show up to one rehearsal on Federal Hill in October (see details on sign up page) and free up your afternoon on Sunday, October 26th for the event. Find our more and sign up at: www.publicmoves.net

Stories From The Woods

Stories From The Woods

curated by Alex Ebstein
October 3 - October 31
Current Gallery
30 S.Calvert
Baltimore, MD 21202

Opening reception, October 3 from 7 - 10 pm

Exhibiting Artists: Bonner Sale, Christine Buckton Tillman, Emily Nachison, Emily Slaughter, John Bohl, Annie Gray Robrecht

Stories From The Woods investigates a fascination with the natural world. The showcased artists explore a contemporary reinterpretation of nature, while simultaneously drawing from past folklore and classic painting. Through stylized, representational, sculpture, narrative paintings, and whimsical installation pieces by a group of invited, regional artists, Stories from the Woods seeks to transform the space into a platform for these fantastical narratives.

MYSTICAL CIRCUITRY: MIND, BODY, AND ART

MYSTICAL CIRCUITRY: MIND, BODY, AND ART
School 33 Art Center & the Library
Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 10am-6pm

School 33 Art Center and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts are pleased to announce a public program in conjunction with the closing reception of Vision Quest curated by Jason Hughes. Mystical Circuitry: Mind, Body, and Art is a full day of activities including a film screening, panel discussion, and yoga workshop. This program is in collaboration with The Library and is free and open to the public.

12 – 1:30pm | film screening – Ram Dass: Fierce Grace at School 33

2 – 3:30pm | panel discussion on with audience Q&A at School 33

4 – 5:30pm | Vinyasa Yoga Workshop at The Library

School 33 Art Center is located at 1427 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230 | 410-396-4641 | www.school33.org

The Library is located at 1401 Light Street Baltiore, MD 21230 | www.thelibraryproject.net

About the Program

The film Ram Dass: Fierce Grace chronicles the life of Richard Alpert, a Harvard professor who in 1963 was removed from his position at that institution for conducting controversial psychedelic drug research. He later traveled to India where he met his guru Maharaj ji, who renamed him Ram Dass ("Servant of God"). Best known for his 1971 best seller “Be Here Now”, Ram Dass became an inspiration to people around the world. Seating is limited so please contact School 33 Art Center to RSVP by Thursday, October 2, 2008 at school33@promotionandarts.com.

The topic Mystical Circuitry: Mind, Body, and Art will be an intriguing panel and group discussion revolving around various issues addressed in the film and throughout the featured exhibition. Mysticism, the paranormal, transcendence, and consciousness are some of the topics that panelists will discuss and engage in with the audience.

LOS SOLOS SERIES /KRISTEN ANCHOR & VANESSA PLACE

LOS SOLOS SERIES
presented by Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad
Friday, 10/3/08, 8:30pm, $6 sug.donation

KRISTEN ANCHOR (Balto)
VANESSA PLACE (LA)

Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Chas. Village


baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

KRISTEN ANCHOR will present a short program of film and video including work by herself, Rahne Alexander, Sabine Gruffat, Mary Billyou and more! Kristen Anchor is a Baltimore video artist and musician. Her goofy, political videos have screened all over the U.S. and appeared on several independent film compilations. She's the drummer for The Degenerettes Baltimore's all-girl underground garage group.

VANESSA PLACE is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2) and the forthcoming Conceptualisms: An Ill-Conceived Guide to Kinda Conceptual, Post-Conceptual, Extant and Taxonomical Writings, etc., in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse).

ADDITIONAL SERIES ARTISTS INCLUDE:

* Fursaxa
* Melissa Moore
* Kristen Anchor
* Vanessa Place
* Kara Feely
* Hadieh M. Shafie
* Sawako
* Sarada Conaway
* Susan Alcorn
* clyde forth
* Brooke Sietinsons

CityLit Project at the Baltimore Book Festival

CityLit Project at the Baltimore Book Festival
September 26, 27, and 28, 2008

Eastside Circle and East Park
For complete schedule and information,
visit www.CityLitProject.org or call 410.274.5691

Zazen Boys play the Talking Head

Zazen Boys play the Talking Head
Thursday, October 2nd, 9 p.m.
407 E. Saratoga St.

A Japanese band formed by former Number Girl guitarist and vocalist
Mukai Shutoku, the Zazen Boys' music blends complex rhythmic songs
reminiscent of math rock with extended improvisational songs. The
perfect follow up for fans of the High Zero Festival, the Zazen Boys
show will begin at 10 p.m., with doors at 9 p.m., on October 2nd. Two
Japanese camera crews from major networks will also be in tow that
night as part of a televised documentation of their overall tour.

Number Girl was one of the most influential indie rock bands in Japan,
accordingly Zazen Boys has a big following in Japan. Their newest
album (released 9.17.2008) with Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) was
recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, NY.

This is the first time the Zazen Boys have ever played show in
America, so it's momentous occasion for the band and for Baltimore!

For more information, check out http://www.myspace.com/zazenboys and
http://www.talkingheadclub.com/.

Baltimore Book Festival, Magazine Stand

Baltimore Book Festival,
Friday, September 26, 5-9pm
Saturday and Sunday, September 27-28, 11am-7pm

Chromatic Experience

This year's Magazine Stand is curated by Chris Day and Molly O'Connell of Closed Caption Comics. Chromatic Experience will feature self-published artists’ books and zines for purchase.

It’s at the Baltimore Book Festival located directly across from the Washington Monument (south side) 600 block N. Charles St.

Go to http://www.baltimorebookfestival.com for all of the other events taking place at the festival.

DOCUMENTARY: Vincent Who?

The Inter-Asian Council of the Johns Hopkins University will be hosting Curtis Chin, the director of Vincent Who? and will be holding a showing of the documentary with Q&A session afterward.

Who is Vincent Chin?
Vincent Chin was a Chinese American living in Detroit. In 1982 he was brutally assaulted by two drunk men, former autoworkers who had recently been laid off due to the competition experienced by Japanese automakers. The two men saw Vincent and believed him to be Japanese and proceeded to attack him. Vincent Chin died in the incident.

25 Years Later
Vincent Chin never saw justice. Both men were eventually acquitted of all charges in 1986. Today, this case not only is an injustice to not only the Asian American communities but to others as well. Especially in Baltimore, where racial profiling and tensions in the community still exist, it is an important issue to discuss.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
3301 North Charles St.
Charles Commons Multi-Purpose Room
1-3pm

Contact: iacjhu@gmail.com

Is You Is or Is You Ain't

Location: Creative Alliance at The Patterson
Brought To You By: Creative Alliance
Phone: 410-276-1651
Event Website: Click here
Cost: FREE!
Dates & Times:09/13/2008 - 10/25/2008 :: 05:00 PM
Description: A semi-naked woman glides through a swimming pool with a shark-fin on her head. Toy figures reenact a murder on an urban street. Estranged lovers from a French film are captured as line drawings in a shaky loop. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t is the Creative Alliance’s first major touring exhibition, seven works on video by artists of national and international significance, from Baltimore and elsewhere. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t explores the zone between play-acting and metamorphosis, a place where we go to pretend we’re something other than what we are, or to change ourselves altogether. It’s a safe place, a retreat, a place where by fictionalizing ourselves we can speak truth with something close to fearlessness. Shifting and proxy identities become both tools for liberation and defensive strategies, part of an instinctual reaction towards self-preservation in an environment of constant flux. The artists included in Is You Is or Is You Ain’t strike postures of pathos, resistance and irreverence. Winter in America, by Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Kambui Olujimi, uses toy figures to tell the heartbreaking, true story of a sidewalk robbery that left one man dead. Beyond the obvious irony, the story gains visceral power for being told at one remove. Similarly, Karen Yasinsky’s line drawing animation, Oh, Juliette, captures the fraught emotional space between a man and a woman in an almost-still moment from Jean Vigo’s Atalante. The transgendered cast of Kalup Linzy’s KKQueens Survey populates a call center surveying artists about their relationships, sex lives and art world habits. Mustache2, by the film collective AnC, is a satirical, ultimately poignant narrative about a cabinet salesman who advises a protégé to “find his own way” while maintaining a barely credible façade of optimism. Becoming more than herself, Simone Montemurno takes on the shark’s sleek power along with the homemade shark-fin on her head, deftly transforming the threatening into the sensuous. Laura Parnes mirrors a blissful family overlooking a pastoral landscape with wildlife footage of animals stampeding from danger to suggest how we’ve lost touch with a primal—and critical—instinct for peril. Zoë Charlton assumes the poses of famous nudes from the art historical canon flipping the vulnerability of the artists’ model to question her own place as an African American woman artist. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t was curated by Kristen Anchor and Jed Dodds (Creative Alliance), and Christopher West (Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), with special thanks to NYC powerhouse Mari Spirito. The exhibition premiered in Indianapolis April 2008.

Bright-Shiny New @ Paperwork Gallery

Bright-Shiny New

Paperwork Gallery
107 E. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Opening Reception: Friday September 19th, 6-8pm
Exhibition run September 19th - October 30, 2008

Jaime Bennati
Jessie Lehson
Joseph Letourneau
Janna Rice
Allison Wade
Daniel Wallace

www.paperworkgallery.com
paperworkgallery@yahoo.com

FIRE IN THE BELLY

FIRE IN THE BELLY
Fire on Stage with The Last Poets & 5th L, Olu Butterfly, Wombworks and More!

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224
410-276-1651
09/26/2008 - 09/27/2008 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
http://www.creativealliance.org

The impact of Baltimore’s 1968 riots is still felt. The drumming, music and protest poetry of Black Arts Movement founders The Last Poets laid the groundwork for hip-hop, slam poetry and the black spoken word movement. They’re joined by high-powered synchronized poets 5th L, neo-feminist avant poet Olu Butterfly, DishiBem Traditional Contemporary Dance Group, youth performers from Wombworks and others, echoing the reverberations of the uprising on our stage. Discussion follows.

MAYOR’S CULTURAL TOWN MEETING HIGHLIGHTS THE ARTS AND TOURISM Tuesday, October 7, 2008

MAYOR’S CULTURAL TOWN MEETING HIGHLIGHTS THE ARTS AND TOURISM

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 7-9pm
The Walters Art Museum

Mayor Sheila Dixon, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance invite residents, artists and community leaders to the seventh annual Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting. This year’s meeting reveals the important role the arts play in Baltimore’s tourism industry. The meeting takes place Tuesday, October 7 from 7-9pm at The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street.

During the Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting, Sam Rogers, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for the Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Association, unveils the organization’s fall/winter campaign and cultural tourism initiative. Afterward, Mayor Dixon discusses the state of the arts in Baltimore. The evening concludes with Mayor Dixon answering questions from the audience.

The Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first served basis.

For more information on the Mayor’s Cultural Town Meeting, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.promotionandarts.com.

20th annual BALTIMORE Open Studio Tour 2008

BALTIMORE OPEN STUDIO TOUR 2008

Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19, noon-5pm

Kick-Off Reception and Block Party for Baltimore Open Studio Tour 2008

on Friday, October 17 from 5-8pm at School 33 Art Center at 1427 Light Street

School 33 Art Center, Mayor Sheila Dixon, and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts presents the 20th annual BALTIMORE Open Studio Tour 2008. Everyone is invited to visit Baltimore area artists and their studios during the citywide tour on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 from noon to 5pm. This annual tour features more than 140 Baltimore artists and their collections for viewing or purchase. During this event, guests can experience a unique and personal behind-the-scenes look at participating artists’ studios. Baltimore Open Studio Tour is a part of Free Fall Baltimore.

Maps with artist’s names, studio locations, and media of all participating artists will be available at School 33 Art Center and other locations around the city. A complete schedule of this year’s artists and their studios will be listed on the School 33 Art Center website at www.school33.org.

In addition, an exhibition and silent auction showcasing a sampling of work by artists on the tour will be held at School 33 Art Center at 1427 Light Street on Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19, 2008. The exhibition reception and block party takes place on Friday, October 17 from 5–8pm at School 33.

For more information about Open Studio Tour, visit www.school33.org or call 410-396-4641.

The Sixth Annual CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

The Sixth Annual CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

Exhibition Dates: September 16-October 25, 2008

Gallery Talk: Friday, September 26: 6 pm / Reception 7 pm

September 12, 2008—Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present the Sixth Annual Curators’ Incubator program, featuring this year’s curators Rebecca Weber and the curatorial team Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash.

This annual program remains dedicated to promoting the talent of emerging curators within our community, recognizing the obstacles that face curators as they work to gain experience, while providing encouragement and guidance throughout the curatorial process. After being selected through a competitive two-phase application process, curators are mentored by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC)—a voluntary committee comprised of respected local artists, writers and educators—helping them to strengthen and clarify their original proposals in preparation for an exhibition at MAP and publication of critical writing in a program catalogue. The Curators’ Incubator program recognizes the significant relationship that exists between a curator and an artist and illustrates the contributions each makes in realizing a curatorial vision.

About This Year’s Exhibitions:

Curator Rebecca Weber presents Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, an exhibition that addresses the ubiquitous use of surveillance in contemporary society and the issues that are raised regarding security and a person's civil liberties. “Through humor, sarcasm, beauty, and a critique of power, the six artists included in Invisible Omniscience have taken on the challenge that art as a subversive practice must. To challenge the powers that aim to protect us with secret observation: this is the call to arms of this new generation of artists who seek to balance their own anxieties and fears with the promise of democratic freedoms from unreasonable intrusion into collective and individual privacy."

Participating artists include: William Betts, Christa Erickson, Leslie Furlong, Brendan Howell, Frank Klein and Eric Parnes.

Co-Curators, Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash ask the question, “In the face of constant change, how do individuals contribute to the shape of society? As catalysts, what responsibilities do artists assume in shaping the future?” These questions have been addressed as part of AFRIKATALYST: A Collective Perspective, an exhibition featuring work from educators whose mission focuses on the transmission of cultural information to the generations that follow. “Based in the nation’s capital, AFRIKATALYST introduces the visual representation of a contemporary renaissance art movement forging positive connections between productive individuals and ideas. The visionary work of master painter, James Phillips, will join works by a cadre of emerging artists in an intensely futuristic conversation. Drawing from areas of personal interests as diverse as engineering, history, and sociology, the work of the collective stresses the spiritual interconnections of all people as fundamental to survival and transcendence.”

Participating artists include: Johnnie Bess, Christian Braneon, Jonathan Edwards, Jamille Shaka Jones, Akil E. Kennedy, Nate Mathews, James Phillips, William Nathaniel Thomas IV and Jeffrey Vinson.

Please plan to join us at 6 pm, Friday, September 26th for a Gallery Talk led by this year’s curators, followed by a Reception at 7 pm.

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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a non-profit center for contemporary art established in 1981 to: develop and maintain a dynamic environment for regional artists to exhibit their work, nurture and promote new ideas and new forms, and facilitate rewarding exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.

MAP is located at 8 Market Place in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live! Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm. There is no admission charge. To learn more about this exhibition and MAP’s future programming, please access our website: www.mdartplace.org or call: (410) 962-8565.

VIVA EL CINE LATINO @ the Creative Alliance

CA's third annual Viva el Cine Latino brings a night of local videos made by and about Baltimore Hispanics to The Patterson!

Creative Alliance's Por la Avenida / On the Avenue present

VIVA EL CINE LATINO
In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month!
Thu Oct 9
8pm $8, $6 mbrs, stus, snrs.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave
Info: 410-276-1651  www.creativealliance.org

In partnership w/ Carrera East, Wide Angle Youth Media & Adelante Familia

From the first documentary made by and about the Latino community in Baltimore
to this year's ground breakers, we salute Baltimore's Latino leaders young and
old on the big screen! The first of its kind, Adelante Familia's Opening Roads /
Abriendo Caminos (2002) documents Latino life in Charm City.  Mauricio Osorio's
The Room (2007) won at last year's CAmm Slamm, and his Elizabet (2007)
co-directed by David Long, tells the comical story of cultural miscommunications
between a hopeful young Colombian and his American future father-in-law.  Middle
and high school students from Carrera East's Mi Espacio afterschool program
working with Wide Angle Youth Media take the camera and tell it how it is,
exposing their lives from school to the streets.

Sowebo Arts is proud to announce its First Show at The Baltimore Pho

Sowebo Arts is proud to announce its First Show at
The Baltimore Pho
1116 Hollins Street
Baltimore, 21223

Opening With a reception 6-8 pm on Thursday, Sept 25th and running through Nov 11th at the Baltimore Pho in Sowebo's own Hollins Market.

Kim Tyson, a long time supporter of art in SoWeBo, and designer of this year's Poster Auction poster border, is hanging a one-woman wonderland at the Pho. Her whimsically, colorful paintings and wood cuts turn Baltimore's premier Vietnamese restuarant into a bright oasis.

If you have never been to The Baltimore Pho, the long vacant Cultured Pearl has been transformed into Baltimore’s newest (and best) Vietnamese restaurant. Now is the time come visit and enjoy a free beverage and tasteful sampling of Pho while perusing Kim's original paintings and woodcuts.

Come join us for a fine first time at The Baltimore Pho!

Ignite Baltimore #1

Ignite Baltimore #1

If you had five minutes on stage, what would you say to Baltimore? What if you only had 20 slides and they rotated automatically every 15 seconds?

On October 16th at 6 pm, 16 artists, technologists, entrepreneurs, writers, bloggers, and philosophers will answer this challenge at Ignite Baltimore #1. The event will take place at The Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave in Baltimore's Station North Arts District.

What is Ignite?

Cities all over the world are organizing Ignite events, where thought leaders come together to share what they know and make new connections. Full details can be found at ignitebaltimore.com. The official Ignite website is ignite.oreilly.com.

Ignite will be webcast live the night of the event on http://www.RADARREDUX.net.
RADARREDUX is a program of the Greater Baltimore Cutlural Alliance in partnership with Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins University.

Ignite #1 Speakers

Full topic descriptions and speaker biographies are available at
http://ignitebaltimore.com/speakers,
but here's a summary:

* Aaron Henkin - 20 Favorite Baltimore Stories
* Clarence Wooten - 12 Hard-Won Lessons of Entrenepeurship
* Rev. Amy Sens - (Interesting) Stuff You (Probably) Didn’t Know about the Bible
* Mario Armstrong
* Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson - How to Start a Revolution: Urban Interactions in the New American City
* Dave Troy - The Emerging Hive-Mind
* Bill Mill - Overcoming Cognitive Bias
* Brent Halliburton - 100 mistakes I will try not to make again
* Bryan Liles - From Waterfall to Agile - A Journey to Productivity
* Yair Flicker - Optimizing the Speed and Performance of Web Applications
* Michael Jovel - Let’s get physical
* Prescott Gaylord - Stop making green building and construction so hard
* Jimmy Gardner - Have a great idea? What are you gonna do about it?
* Lionel Foster - “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”
* Janna Howley - Safe, healthy, nutritious food for everyone
* Eileen Wold - Exploring the energy industry landscape

Ignite #1 Schedule

6 pm: Mingling, drinks, and free food (light dinner fare, courtesy of our sponsors)
7 pm: First wave of presentations
7:50 pm: Mingling, drinks, and free food
8:15 pm: Second wave of presentations
9:00 pm: Informal festivity/merriment

Sponsors

Ignite Baltimore #1 has been made possible through the generous support of Intridea, Greater Baltimore Technology Council, Roundhouse Technologies, and Smart Logic Solutions

Tickets
Admission is free, but please RSVP via EventBrite so we know how much food to order.

Get Involved!

The Architecture of Memory: A Writing Workshop

The Architecture of Memory:
A Writing Workshop


Chezia Thompson-Cager

Saturday, October 4
2:00 - 5:00 pm

Free Admission
Call (410) 783-5720 to register

The Contemporary Museum will explore oral histories and the art of storytelling with a free workshop, The Architecture of Memory: A Writing Workshop, led by poet and scholar Chezia Thompson-Cager on Saturday, October 4, 2008. Through conversation and group exercises, Chezia Thompson-Cager will help participants translate memories into a story format and harness their "creative voice." Thompson-Cager says that the workshop "seeks to illuminate the real power that the individual has to master her or his own personal language and to use it to create a more humane world environment."

The Architecture of Memory will be held in conjunction with the museum's upcoming exhibition My Life in Fiction: New and Recent Works by Kianga Ford. The exhibition will explore how geography, social circumstances, and perception are used in storytelling.

Chezia Thompson-Cager is a professor of poetry at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has received numerous awards including the Baltimore Poetry for the People Association "Legacy Award," Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Poetry, The Experiment in International Living research grant in Nigeria, and a Wye Humanities Fellowship.

Workshop Information
The workshop is designed to be intergenerational for ages 15 and older. No prior creative writing experience is required. Admission to The Architecture of Memory is free, but advanced registration is required. Workshop will be held at the Contemporary Museum. To register, contact the museum at 410-783-5720 or rhaywood@contemporary.org by October 2, 2008. Space is limited!

The Architecture of Memory is supported by the Maryland Humanities Council.

Lyle Kissack Work Rhymes @ MINAS

Lyle Kissack
Work Rhymes
MINÁS Gallery
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
September 20 –October 26, 2008
Reception: Saturday, September 20
7:30 – 10:30 pm

Lyle Kissack exhibits recent photographic drawings. Kissack creates his images by swinging a disposable camera in an arc, then altering the photographs by removing emulsion and adding ink drawings. The resulting effect is one of both motion and permanence.

My Life in Fiction, an exhibition of works by Kianga Ford

The Contemporary Museum
Baltimore, MD
http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions.html

My Life in Fiction, an exhibition of works by Kianga Ford @ The Contemporary Museum featuring four newly-commissioned projects.
Opening reception, Saturday Sept 20 6pm-8pm
September 20 through November 23, 2008

Believing that we live in a time characterized by its ubiquitous fictions, Kianga Ford creates works that explore narrative as a lived and immersive experience. This exhibition brings together Ford's new and recent projects that explore narrative as environment and her role as a producer of fictions, a consumer of stories, and a character in the narratives of others. Ford's recorded narratives and immersive environments enlist the conventions of cinema and television to ask questions about how we negotiate and are negotiated through the fictions that we imagine about one another.

Bizet's "Carmen" hits Theatre Project nxt wk

For those of you interested in opera and theatre, Carmen is coming to the Theatre Project venue right across from the Symphony Hall. I've been hearing a lot of buzz about it! It's bound to be a sumptuous cocktail for the senses, I hear.... (http://www.theatreproject.org/)