The major collective exhibition will take place in the historical location of the Arsenale in Venice in March 2017.
The prestigious venue in the lagoon city will host the exhibition of 30 works of painting, 30 sculptures and installations, 30 works of photographic art, 10 videos, 10 land art projects, 5 performances which will be performed live during the exhibition's opening ceremony.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION
ARSENALE OF VENICE ̶ 25 March 2017
OPENING AND AWARDS CEREMONY ̶ 11th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE
Exhibition open through April 9, admission free

Exhibition of finalists and winners, 125 international artworks - Nappe Arsenale, Venice
26 March – 9 April 2017 opening hours 10am - 6pm daily
Opening ceremony: Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 6:00 pm
Guided tours:
Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 11:00am Nappe Arsenale and on reservation (phone number +39 0415937242)

Campo Santo, Cal Shakes do some Califas dreaming

Chad Jones 0 comments California Shakespeare Theater, Campo Santo, Catherine Castellanos, Intersection for the Arts, Jonathan Moscone, Sean San Jose

Nov 04

EXTENDED THROUGH NOV. 23

Sean San José is Isaac in the Campo Santo/California Shakespeare Theater production of Alleluia, the Road by Luis Alfaro. The play is one part of the elaborate Califas Festival at Intersection for the Arts. Photo courtesy of Intersection for the Arts




There’s something extraordinary happening at Intersection for the Arts, and only part of it has to do with theater. Intersection, along with Campo Santo and California Shakespeare Theater have been partners for years, but their current collaboration is kind of staggering.

It began back last April with a production of Richard Montoya’s The River directed by Campo Santo’s Sean San José (read my review here) and continued with Cal Shakes’ season opener, Montoya’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José in June starring San José and directed by Jonathan Moscone (read my review here).

Now we have the culmination of the collaboration in the Califas Festival, a multimedia exploration of what it means to be a Californian. There are filmed documentaries on display in the galleries alongside photo documentations and some really staggering art, not to mention a floor covered with letters written by theatergoers from the previous plays and notes they wrote for proverbial bottles. When you go to see the play, which is sort of the centerpiece art, you are completely immersed in this astonishing exhibition. The play takes place in one of the two installation rooms, and there’s no central stage. The action takes place all over the room, with different parts of the exhibition providing the backdrop.

The play, Alleluia the Road by Luis Alfaro, is one more part of this California mosaic. Moscone directs and San José stars, and though critics have been asked not to review the show itself, potential audience members should know that this experience – the art and the play – cannot be missed. As with every Campo Santo production, you are guaranteed intelligence and emotion and powerful writing and incredible performances. If all you knew about this play was that it was written by Alfaro (whose Oedipus El Rey and Bruja have been so powerfully engaging at the Magic Theatre) and that it stars San José and Catherine Castellanos and Nora el Samahy and Brian Rivera and Donald E. Lacy Jr. among others, you would know that is something you need to see. If you care at all about Bay Area theater.

Come early for the show or make time to stay after, but engage with the exhibition (I highly recommend the 10-minute documentary Aquadettes by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari). At a recent performance, it was heartening to see audience members writing letters and postcards during intermission to add to the exhibition. This isn’t one of those art things offering hollow jabber about interactivity. This really as interactive as you’d like it to be.

And just to be clear about Alleluia, the Road – this is not a performance piece in a gallery. It’s a full-on, two-act play (about two hours in length) that takes a figurative road trip through the Golden State. And when it comes right down to it, you can have all the art and photography and documentary films in the world to beguile viewers, but when the lights go down on a performance, what matters most is story, emotion, connection. That’s definitely the case here, but that level of engagement almost always happens when Campo Santo, Cal Shakes and Intersection engage in that thing we need so much more of in the Bay Area theater world: collaboration.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
The Califas Festival and Alleluia, the Road continues an extended run through Nov. 23 at Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission St., San Francisco. Tickets for the play are $30. Visit www.theintersection.org.

Program News: The MAP Fund Announces 2013 Grants to 41 Groundbreaking Performance Projects

April 8, 2013

 

Today, The MAP Fund, administered by Creative Capital, announced its 2013 grants to 41 groundbreaking projects involving 70 generative artists. For this, its 24th year, the MAP Fund will provide direct project funding ranging from $15,000 to $40,000, plus an additional $200,000 total in general operating grants to all applicant organizations and artists. Since its founding in 1988, the MAP Fund has provided more than $24 million in project funding to nearly one thousand works across all performing arts disciplines, $1 million in general operating funds since 2009, and $600,000 in research and development grants since 2010.

"Over the years, the MAP Fund has consistently identified the most exciting artists and projects to support," says Ruby Lerner, President & Executive Director of Creative Capital, which administers the MAP Fund. "We are so proud and honored to house this vital program for the performing arts."

The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that experimentation drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports artists, ensembles, producers and presenters whose work in the disciplines of contemporary performance embodies this spirit of exploration and deep inquiry. MAP is particularly interested in supporting work that examines notions of cultural difference or "the other," be that in class, gender, generation, race, religion, sexual orientation or other aspects of diversity.

The 2013 grantee projects represent these principles in highly contemporary and unexpected ways. Among the 41 works, for example, are a collaboration between Pakistani singer Zeb Bangash and American klezmer clarinetist Michael Winograd; New York-based, Zimbabwe-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire's reconsideration of The Rite of Spring; and a new opera from composer Ted Hearn about the trial of alleged Wikileaks source Private First Class Bradley Manning. For full descriptions of the 2013 grantee projects, visit our website.

Ben Cameron, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Program Director for the Arts, notes, "For the last twenty-five years, the MAP Fund has been at the forefront of supporting exciting projects and extraordinary talent. We at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation are proud to support this exemplary program and look forward to the various works to be created with this year's grants."

Selection Process & Panelists

This year, the MAP Fund received a total of 813 submissions from artists in 42 states, reviewed in three stages by 58 arts professionals and artists from across the country serving as readers, evaluators and panelists.

For the 2013 awards, the panelists who selected the final projects were: Pia Agrawal (independent producer, Austin, TX), Michelle Boulé (independent dance artist, New York), Bill Bragin (Director of Public Programming, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York), Don Byron (independent composer, New Jersey), Jess Curtis (choreographer/director, Artistic Director, Jess Curtis/Gravity, San Francisco/Berlin), Jackie Sibblies Drury (playwright, New York), Cathy Edwards (Director of Programming, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT), Gayle Isa (Executive Director, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia), Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Producing Associate, New York Live Arts, Co-Director of anonymous bodies II art colllective, Philadelphia), Tommy Kriegsmann (President, ArKtype, New York), Mark Murphy (Executive Director, REDCAT, Los Angeles) and Susan Narucki (soprano and professor of music, University of California at San Diego).

About the MAP Fund

The MAP Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program, which was established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1988, has supported innovation and cross-cultural exploration in theater, dance and music for more than two decades. Among the longest-lived programs in arts philanthropy, MAP has disbursed over $24 million dollars to more than one thousand projects. Creative Capital has administered the program since 2001. For more information, visit www.mapfund.org.

About Creative Capital

Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel and career development services. Our pioneering approach—inspired by venture-capital principles—helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Since 1999, Creative Capital has committed $29 million in financial and advisory support to 418 projects representing 529 artists, and our Professional Development Program has reached 5,500 artists in more than 150 communities. For more information, visit www.creative-capital.org.

Alarm Will Sound, Inc.
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Ars Nova Theater I, Inc.
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Automata for Cloud Eye Control
Half Life, Cloud Eye Control's multidisciplinary performance piece inspired by personal blog postings of Japanese housewives who were directly affected by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Bang on a Can
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Beth Morrison Projects
The Source, a music-theatre piece composed by Ted Hearne with libretto by Mark Doten and video by Nikolai Antonie, questions the consequences of information transparency in the 21st century.

Big Dance Theater
ADAM SMITHEE, a dance/theater triptych co-conceived by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson in collaboration with video designer Jeff Parson, in which the company simultaneously employs techniques of narrative abstraction and hyper-narration through choreographic, video, aural, and textual fragmentation.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance
The Pomegranate of Sistan, a musical collaboration between Pakistani vocalist Zeb Bangash and American klezmer clarinetist Michael Winograd, addresses religious orthodoxy and nationalism across cultural divides.

Children's Theatre Company
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Columbia Music Festival Association for Wideman/Davis Dance
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CounterPULSE for Laura Arrington, Jesse Hewitt
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Dancers' Group for Dohee Lee
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Forklift Danceworks
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Fractured Atlas, Inc. for Susie Ibarra, Roberto Juan Rodriguez, Makoto Fujimura
Digital Sanctuaries, a digital soundwalk where the listener finds meditative spaces at twelve sites in Lower Manhattan, featuring original music composed by Electric Kulintang (Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez).

Fractured Atlas, Inc. for Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Life and Times (Episodes 6 & 7 of the ten-part series), conceived and executed by Nature Theater of Oklahoma, will explore the next iterations of the epic serial biography as a radio play and a film.

French Institute Alliance Française
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Haleakala, Inc. DBA The Kitchen
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Harlem Stage
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Headlong Dance Theater
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iLAND, Inc.
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Intersection for the Arts for Jonathan Moscone, Campo Santo, Joan Osato
Alleluia, The Road, is a series of performance and exhibition roadside attractions and revival tents that re-imagine collective identity created by Luis Alfaro, Joan Osato, Jonathon Moscone and California Shakespeare Theater.

Kronos Quartet
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Los Angeles Poverty Department
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Miami Light Project, Inc.
Third Trinity, created by writer/performer Teo Castellanos and director/dramaturg Tarell McCraney, is a new play that explores Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Drug Wars of the late 1980s.

New York City Players, Inc.
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New York Foundation for the Arts for Maria Hassabi
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New York Live Arts, Inc.
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On the Boards
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On the Boards
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Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe for Thaddeus Phillips
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Providence Productions International, Inc.
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Ragamala Dance
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Regents of the University of Minnesota, Northrop Concerts & Lectures
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Salvage Vanguard Theater
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Sojourn Theatre
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The Civilians
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The New Group
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The Performance Zone, Inc. DBA The Field for luciana achugar
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The Play Company
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Thin Man Dance, Inc.
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Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
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