September 2009 Archives
IAM Osaka's Mamoru in B'lyn Exhibition
"Microsound Festival"
Group Exhibition
October 3-31
Diapason Gallery
882 Third Avenue, 10th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
For more on Mamoru, visit his site.
Campbell University Prof Heads WJI Team at Student Media Convention
NEW YORK, September 28, 2009—World Journalism Institute (WJI) announces that Dr. Michael R. Smith, professor of journalism at Campbell University (Buies Creek, N.C.), will head its team of journalism teachers at the fall National College Media Convention. The convention is the largest annual gathering of college journalists and advisers in the country and this year will be held October 28 – November 1, in Austin, Texas.
The WJI sessions will be taught by Smith and Drs. Wally Metts (Spring Arbor University) and August Grant (University of South Carolina). The focus of this year’s WJI team will be convergence media with instruction in digital media and surviving the current newspaper revenue crisis.
Smith, one of America’s leading authorities on convergence, backpack, and multi-platform journalism, has written numerous articles and books and has been associated with WJI for several years. Smith will lecture on “Going Digital Without Going Broke.” Metts is currently the president of the Associate of Christian Collegiate Media and has been a frequent presenter at CMA conventions in the past. His topic will be “Survive and Thrive: Five Models for Newspapers in the Coming Decade.” Grant, a pioneer in convergence media instruction, will speak on “Online Models That Will Give Your Newspaper Greater Reach.” All the sessions are free to college journalists and advisers attending the convention.
The World Journalism Institute is entering its second decade of instruction and exists to recruit, equip, place and encourage Christians in the mainstream newsrooms first of America and then the world.
For more information:
Kim Collins
Deputy Director
World Journalism Institute
800-769-7870
office@worldji.com
IAM Webcast Draws a Global Audience
International (11)
Tokyo, Japan
Kanagawa, Japan
England
Hokkaido, Japan
Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Bangkok, Thailand
Manila, Philippines
Andalucia, Spain
British Columbia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Osaka, Japan
Oslo, Norway
United States (27)
Texas
Pennsylvania
California
Virginia
Colorado
Illinois
Florida
Tennessee
Kansas
Missouri
Georgia
Indiana
Massachusetts
North Carolina
South Carolina
Hawaii
Maine
Alabama
Arizona
Idaho
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
Eva Flatscher to perform in Vienna
IAM & Don Miller's Million Miles Tour
IAM Seeking Art for Small Works Auction
This fall, IAM's auction will be conducted online! Anyone may bid on art during the auction period through an IAM eBay storefront. Bids will start at a minimum amount and be open through the month-long auction period. (This is in contrast to past auctions, which occurred on one evening at a New York-based event.) Proceeds will benefit IAM programming.
If you are an artist interested in donating a small work to IAM (12"x12" or less), please contact Alissa Wilkinson for a submission form and more information. Submissions must be received by Thursday, October 15. The auction will open online at noon (EST) on Friday, November 6 and run until noon on Friday, December 4.
Women in War Zones Next Steps
Whether you came to our packed screening of Women in Warzones or just read about it online, we encourage you to not let the stories Helene and Bijoux to stop with a documentary screening. Take action and get involved with putting an end to injustice against women. Here are a few simple ways you can get involved:
Stay connected!
-The film's new website (womeninwarzones.org) will be up next month! It will have a space to learn more about conflict in the DR Congo, additional video content that didn't make the final cut of the documentary, slideshows of award-winning photography of the women, info about upcoming events, a forum providing ideas on different ways to Take Action, links to other groups making a difference in Congo, a social networking portal where members can connect and organize ideas, and more.
-make sure we stay connected to you! If you didn't leave you email on the mailing list, send us an e-mail saying where you met us and that you'd like to be added to the list- don't worry we won't bombard your inbox with constant e-mailing!
-join our facebook group
-tell us your ideas! We want to hear from you.
-talk to universities, organizations, religious groups, venues that you or people you know are connected with
-ask to see if they'd like to sponsor a screening or gallery event
-connect them with us at womeninwarzones@gmail.com
-share the project with your friends and coworkers. See if they have any interest in setting up or attending an event.
-we're raising money for our literacy aid program
-two libraries, one for medical and counseling staff and one for patients
-classroom instruction and private tutoring opportunity for patients of Panzi Hospital
-to donate please go to womeninwarzones.org/donate
Thank you again for coming to our screening of Women In War Zones. We look forward to partnering with you in the fight against sexual violence in eastern Congo.
Sincerely,
Scott Blanding and the Women in War Zones Team
Connecting with IAM in Chicago
If you are in the Chicago area and are interested in connecting with other artists and creative catalysts who are plugged in with IAM, contact our good friend Michael Langhoff.Michael is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently working on
Platform Projects, a curatorial initiative designed to mobilize, develop and sponsor collaborative projects through critical cultural dialogue and the simple act of listening. He is also part of the Philo- Artist Collective in Chicago.
On September 24, Michael and some of his friends from Philo- will host a viewing party in Chicago to watch the IAM Global Event webcast and follow-up discussion. Contact Michael for more info and to RSVP for the event!
Call for Entries: b.a.l.m. (extended deadline Sep. 12)
b.a.l.m. announces the “WHITE SHOW” call for entries, a juried art show.
The show is open to all artists 18 years and older. All entries are due September 12th, 2009 before 11:59pm.
Read more here...
Bronx Tourism Council Presents IAM's Lanie McNulty
Invites You To The Opening Reception For
Lifted Up in New York City
Lanie McNulty, "Seraphim," 2006, Gelatin Silver Print
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 6pm
Bronx Borough President's Art Gallery
Bronx County Building
851 Grand Concourse - Suite 301
The Bronx NY 10451
To Confirm Your Attendance, Please Call 718.590.3989
Wine & Cheese ReceptionProduced by
Rafael Salaberrios, Chairman
Doris Quinones, Executive Director
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Click here to listen to Lanie McNulty on the IAM Conversations podcast.
Hope Revolution Walk Oct. 3
Children throughout Cambodia and Southeast Asia are suffering from an epidemic, an epidemic of poverty and abuse. Girls as young as five years old are being sold into prostitution by family or friends overwhelmed by poverty. These girls are victimized over and over, without a voice, a defender, a means of salvation. The very worst of humanity preys on the innocence of these young girls. The New Song Project of the Ratanak Foundation seeks to give hope to the children lost to the sex trafficking in Cambodia. Girls are rescued from brothels by trained caregivers and taken to a safe haven where they learn to heal and again build a life. The Ratanak Foundation is committed to bringing life to the killing fields of Cambodia. We ask for your help in bringing a revolution of hope to a world of despair.
On Saturday October 3, 2009 walkers will be gathering in Brooklyn, NY at Dyker Beach Golf Course as a part of the Hope Revolution, the first annual walk to benefit New Song Project, an outreach of the Ratanak Foundation. Walkers will gather at 8:30 am and begin their five, ten, or fifteen mile trek through Brooklyn, along the shoreline to Coney Island.
IAM Artist Fleur de Lee Antique Reproduction Jewelry is partnering with the Ratanak Foundation to make this special event possible.
All funds raised will be used by the New Song Project to rescue the girls sold into prostitution throughout Cambodia. More information about the Ratanak Foundation and the New Song Project can be found here. (You may also make a secure, tax-deductible donation here.)
OR
Checks may be made payable to the Ratanak Foundation . Please mail check to: Leanora Ortiz, 104-Gatling Place Brooklyn, New York 11209
Thank you for considering this request for support. If you have any questions about the Hope Revolution, or the work of the Ratanak Foundation, please do not hesitate to email us.
IAM Denver: Creating Estuaries of Beauty
The studio was packed, as over sixty artists and creative catalysts gathered to wrestle with the ideas of art, faith, and humanity. The evening was rounded out with a lecture delivered by IAM founder Makoto Fujimura on sustainable art, followed by a panel discussion on the subject.
If you are in the Denver or greater Colorado area and would like to connect with International Arts Movement, please contact Caleb Seeling at caleb@samizdatcreative.com
Click here for more Bryce Boyer photography from "Sustainable Art: Creating Estuaries of Beauty."
Joyce Robinson (R), of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, chats at the resource table.
The Bryce Boyer Studio
IAM's Denver organizer, Caleb Seeling, with his wife, Angela
IAM Founder and Featured Speaker, Makoto Fujimura
Matt Heard and Makoto Fujimura Talk about Art and Faith
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