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Gallery5 is now accepting proposals and visual submissions for "Memento Mori", an exhibition that considers death and ephemerality in the modern era. The work assembled in this all media show will look at how artists are confronting these issues today and consider impermanence in contemporary culture. Memento Mori will run from October 29th until Dec 17th 2010 and will coincide with an observance of Dia de Los Muertos.

Both two-dimensional and 3-dimensional works are welcome. Gallery5 should receive all submissions and proposals no later than September 17th. All digital images should be a maximum of 10”x10” at 72 dpi. Please attach a numbered index of your work that includes title, dimensions, and medium. Bio, statement, resume, and relevant links may also be included in your submission.

See the call on Gallery5's web site

Dance Place
3225 8th St NE
Washington, DC

New Releases Showcase
Saturday, July 31 at 8pm
Sunday, August 1 at 7pm

Dance Place's annual adjudicated showcase of new works by established and emerging choreographers from throughout the region will feature works ranging in styles from modern to classical Indian dance.

Opening the evening's program is Orit Sherman's Inside a Cell, an abstract observation of the diverse and active inner life of the cell. Cellular processes, as captured in movement on stage, range from well-orchestrated organic progression such as mitosis, to abrupt and unsynchronized disintegration of cellular moieties.

Inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Stephanie Yezek's Madwoman in the Attic, examines the passionate and fraught character of Rochester's wife, Bertha Mason, and asks if she is really mad or simply the victim of a man's faded desire.

Tiffany Haughn's Others explores the idea that no matter how convinced we are in our beliefs and principles, there is always another side to every story. Until we are willing to accept that other belief systems are valid, there will be no peace or progress but just more of the same - clashing and opposition.

Based on her experiences as a witness of the onset of dementia, Danah Bella explores the loneliness and disappointment caused by the cyclical process of losing a memory, regaining that memory, and then forgetting it once again, in the solo de_mentia.

Nkosinathi ‘Natty' Mncube presents Still Feel the Presence III, the conclusion of his journey in finding and remembering events and moments in the past, as well as travelling in the unknown world. Memories come at a price, be it nightmares or epiphanies. The question is, do we find comfort and solace in these memories or do they haunt and make us vulnerable and uncomfortable in our own lives?

The evening closes with DADADance, choreographed by Keira Hart-Mendoza of UpRooted Dance. UpRooted's work can best be described as a visual feast of color, shape, and design, that places emphasis on the presentation of dance. With the help of costume design, set design, and video, Hart-Mendoza often creates rich visual worlds in which her dances live.

TICKETS:
$22 General Admission;
$17 Members, Seniors, Students, Teachers and Artists;
$8 Children (17 and under)

To purchase tickets visit www.danceplace.org or call (202) 269-1600

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Elsewhere is a living museum and international art residency program set within a three-story former thrift store housing a massive 58-year collection of cultural surplus. As you plan your fall curricula and spring classes, we invite you and your students to join us in Greensboro, NC to explore this experimental, interactive environment.
Elsewhere’s collaboratory, a laboratory for creative collaboration, hosts performative tours, afternoon workshops, multi-day classes, playshops, overnight retreats, semester-long projects, and student residency experiences. Students work with emerging and established visiting artists from across the globe to investigate our site, its histories, and hundreds of creative works sculpted from a set of shared material resources and unique architectures of our building. Programs activate critical concepts through hands-on experimentation and creative exchange, growing learning communities through the process. Collaboratory projects animate contemporary issues of creative practice, collaborative process, site-specificity, museology, cultural theory, social entrepreneurship, performativity, public + community art, and philosophies of art and everyday life.
Elsewhere’s directors work with professors to design short or long terms projects that utilize the architectures, artists, and resources to extend and evolve course material and curricula. Collaborative Director George Scheer holds a BA in Communication (UPENN), an MA in Critical Theory (DUKE), and is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies (UNC). Collaborative Director Stephanie Sherman holds a BA in 20th Century Literature (UPENN) and an MA in Critical Theory (DUKE). Elsewhere directors are also available to travel to your classes for presentations, studio visits, and workshops.
Elsewhere’s internship program invites students and recent graduates to join its international community of artists, curators, scholars, designers, and inventors. Each intern is paired with an Elsewhere artist/ staff mentor who works closely with students in an ongoing exchange about the practice and philosophy of their department (marketing, studio, administration, gardening) as well as non-profit organizational development. Please inform your students about this North Carolina window into the contemporary art world.
Thanks for your interest! A printable information sheet is attached. To develop a collaboratory project for you and your class, email George Scheer, Collaborative Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Learn more at www.elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs.

Saturday, June 12th, 6 p.m. at Chop Suey Books:
Tomas Muniz, creator of the zine Rad Dad, and Artnoose, the force behind the zine Ker-Bloom! This will be the last stop on a Summer Tour that took these two from Pittsburgh to Nashville and back. Come out to welcome them and enjoy readings from these great zines!

To learn more about either zine:
http://raddadzine.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ker-bloom/68156268016

Monday, June 14th, 7 p.m. at 1708 Gallery:
Jenny Hollowell Book Release for her debut novel, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe. This highly anticipated book has already received praises from such literary luminaries as John Casey, Jennifer Egan, and Sheri Reynolds.
To read an excerpt, see a video trailer for this book, or check out Jenny's bio:
http://us.macmillan.com/everythinglovelyeffortlesssafe.


Friday, June 18th, 7 p.m. at Chop Suey Books:
Natalie Lyalin, Rachel Glaser, and Mike Young read poetry.
Rachel B. Glaser's work has appeared in American Short Fiction, New
York Tyrant, Unsaid and others. Her book "Pee On Water," a collection
of short stories, comes out this June from Publishing Genius Press.
She has received a Pushcart Honorable Mention for her story "Pee On
Water." Glaser is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of the MFA
program at Umass-Amherst.

Mike Young is the author of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (PGP 2010), a poetry collection, and Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010), a story collection. He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press.

http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com/.

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books
2009) and the forthcoming chapbook Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She co-edits GlitterPony Magazine and Agnes Fox Press and lives in Philadelphia.


All events are free and open to the public.

Generative music player modeled on the collision of objects in two-dimensional space.