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Fellows Quartet at the Carriage HouseWho Made Us Creative? People, Place, and Power in ProvidenceOver the last ten years, the work of artists, activists and scholars in Providence has been incorporated into a rhetoric of “creative city building.” Join a conversation with founders and current leaders from AS220, New Urban Arts, Community MusicWorks, and The Steel Yard about what it means to start and sustain organizations which support creative practice in Providence. This event is part of the 2011 New Urban Arts Series of Conversations on Creative Practice and is generously supported by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Thursday, April 7, 7-9 pm, at New Urban Arts, 743 Westminster Street. Click here to download the flier. -Jori Ketten, Media Lab Director (and event co-instigator) Brahms at the baggage claimBike racks in production
Fellows Quartet in Amherst
"The entire event was very special–the performance was superb and thoroughly appreciated and the feeling of community in the room was palpable throughout the entire event.. The quartet really captured the interest of the kids from Holyoke in their pre-concert meeting with them. Also really bonded with the audience. I was also delighted to reconnect with Kirby; she gave in inspiring talk during intermission."
Fellows Quartet concerts
Plans are still emerging for the Fellows Quartet's Brahms and Shostakovich performances next week. In addition to the Sunday, March 20 concert at the Carriage House Stage at 4 pm, the Fellows are "cooking up" several additional West Side appearances at various nontraditional performance venues. Promises to be fun, and if you want to be in the know, send an email to Carole (carole@communitymusicworks.org) and we'll send you an update with the details! Culture Stops! (Before & After)Visit the Culture Stops! website. Visit the Culture Stops! Facebook page. Find out how to participate in Culture Stops! More photos by Jori in CMW's Flickr account. March 10: Culture Stops!In response to the proposed cuts to federal budgets for the arts and humanities, Rhode Island advocates are spearheading a national campaign to draw attention to what life would be like in America without creativity, imagination and thought.
Culture Stops! is a citizen-driven, peaceful day of action by individuals and organizations in the creative sector across the United States who share the simple belief that the power of creative thought is the lifeblood of democracy. According to Americans for the Arts, the nonprofit arts industry alone generates $166.2 billion annually in economic activity, supports 5.7 million full-time equivalent jobs in the arts and related industries, and returns $12.6 billion in federal income taxes. For the organizers of Culture Stops!, it’s not just "the potential for economic devastation that is troubling, but the prospect of diminishing the vitality of American life." They maintain that "funding cuts to the arts and humanities, heritage and preservation, arts education, public broadcasting, and a host of related federal programs that quietly seed and leverage investment in the creative sector will result in a crisis of our national conscience." On Thursday, March 10, Culture Stops! will "put a face to the millions of individuals, for-profit companies, nonprofit organizations, and institutions who fuel and sustain the creative sector and who are the backbone of America ingenuity." Please join CMW in supporting Culture Stops! Check out the website to learn how you can participate, visit the Facebook page, and sign the petition. -Heath Marlow, CMW staff March 20: Experimental MusicOn Sunday evening, there will be a concert of experimental music at 186 Carpenter Street, a wonderful new small performance venue on the West Side of Providence, co-run by CMW's very own Jori Ketten. The night will feature solo performances by Mem1 alongside Tumble (a percussion/electronics duo from Italy) and saxophone player Ashley Paul. I will also be sharing my new approach to cello and electronics developed during my recent residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts working with electroacoustic composer David Behrman. Sunday, March 20, 8 PM -Laura Cetilia, CMW staff Carole’s practice retreatLater this week, I am getting on an airplane and flying to the most eastern point of North America: St. John's, Newfoundland. For my Practice Retreat, I am going to be going to check out a Graduate Program at Memorial University, one of four schools I have applied to. Yes, I am going back to school next year. This school up in Newfoundland is very intriguing to me… a place for me to indulge in more musical studies surrounded by a beautiful landscape, a quaint little city, and the Atlantic Ocean.
I'm going to be in Newfoundland for five days. Part of that time will be meeting people from the Newfoundland Symphony and from Memorial University. That being said, I am also going to have a lot of time to explore! I have never been to Newfoundland and I don't know anyone there. Have any of YOU been up to Newfoundland? Does anyone have suggestions of great places to go or things to see? If you have friends up there who would love getting a "Hello!" and a bright smile from a CMW Fellow, I have open ears for all types of suggestions!
Thanks, friends! I will be sure to post an update upon my return.
-Carole Bestvater, Fellow
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