Past Events
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Apr 3Creative Resilience LabMYArts | 1055 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI 53703 directions via Google Maps
We invite Expressions of Interest from people living and/or working in Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin who have practice, skills, knowledge and/or networks in the fields and/or intersections of emergency management, culture & the arts, climate change and related social + physical sciences, disaster risk reduction, funding bodies, policy, community partnerships, etc. to participate in …
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Nov 20Seduction and Sedition: Using Socially-engaged Art to Build Power Across Difference
A talk by Dawn Weleski with introduction by Dr. Jen Rae
L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Dawn Weleski co-founded Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant serving cuisine from countries in conflict with the U.S. Their art practice tests cultural norms, transforming protests and public offices into social stages. Notable projects include City Council Wrestling, where citizens and officials became wrestling characters representing their political passions, and Refuse Refuse: Radio, a climate-focused radio …
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Oct 26Thread: Artists, Activists and Educators Working with Fiber
Fort Atkinson Club Community Center, Fort Atkinson, WI
RSVP Featuring creative practices, stories, and activism from immigrant, refugee, and indigenous community leaders and allies, and curated by Laura Anderson Barbata. Our Presenters: Ceci Tejeda is a Cartoneria (papier mache) artist. Born in Mexico City, she now resides in Southeastern Wisconsin and has created work for numerous local and national events focusing on immigrant …
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Sep 20Creating Change: Practicing the Future Together
Syrus Marcus Ware & Jen Rae
6321 Mosse Humanities RSVP here
Join us for an interactive workshop using movement, textiles and creative methods to explore our ideal and just futures. Drawing on Adrienne Maree Brown’s suggestion that speculative practice allowed us the opportunity to “practice the future” (2022), we will get to play with the idea of time travel and with creative materials to develop new …
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Sep 19Irresistible Revolutions: Systems Change and Art at the Edge of the Future
Syrus Marcus Ware & Jen Rae
L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building Join via Zoom
Please RSVP Join us for Irresistible Revolutions: Systems Change and Art at the Edge of the Future, a talk by Syrus Marcus Ware with introduction by Jen Rae. Drawing from the works of authors and artists like Octavia Butler and Toni Cade Bambara, the year 2024 has been imagined as a time of significant transformation. …
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May 3Seeing you – Seeing me
Sri Vamsi Matta and Yashica Dutt
Madison Public Library, 201 W. Mifflin St.
Please RSVP An audio-visual art presentation by Sri Vamsi Matta on the reversal of gaze in Indian Mainstream, how Dalit-Bahujan artists across time and space have flipped the gaze, and challenging the existing oppressive and gate kept bramhanical overview. Followed by Conversation with Yashica Dutt about her book ‘ Coming out as a Dalit’ Yashica …
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Apr 29CAN I TELL YOU A STORY? The film screening and performance of “From a Door at The Center of a Table”
Hamel Music Center
Please RSVP Join us for a captivating film screening unlike any other, as we present “From a Door at The Center of a Table.” This unique event features a live micro-orchestra of improvisational jazz musicians, conducted by Grammy Award Winning Composer and Trumpet player, Keyon Harrold. Experience the journey of the film and its …
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Apr 27Keyon Harrold
Cafe Coda, 1224 Williamson St, Madison, WI 53703
Join Grammy-Award winning jazz trumpeter, vocalist, songwriter, and producer Keyon Harrold at Cafe Coda where he will play music from his newest album.