[History_students] FW: INC's Festival of the Arts of Nature

[Foster, Tom]

Fyi below

 

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Thomas A. Foster

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of History, SAC 422

DePaul University

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Chicago IL 60614

 

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From: Honold, Randall 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:59 PM
To: LASAC
Subject: INC's Festival of the Arts of Nature

 

Hello, 

 

I've pasted below an announcement for the Institute for Nature and
Culture's planned "Festival of the Arts of Nature."  Please share this
with faculty, staff, and students in your department/program/center.
Anyone interested should try to attend the information session on
October 19th and/or contact Bill, Liam, or me for more information.

 

Best,

Randy

 

 

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DePaul University

Institute for Nature and Culture 

 

Festival of the Arts of Nature

 

 

Several of us have been continuing the discussion of the idea of
undertaking an exploration of the role of the arts in environmentalism
that dates back to our Institute for Nature and Culture retreat at the
Resurrection Center in Woodstock in May, 2007. 

 

We now have an idea-a tentative plan for a festival of the arts that
would provide opportunities for any and all who are interested to
participate. 

 

Our idea is:

 

Let's form a consortium of faculty, staff and students who will, working
either individually or as small teams, go out, find a work of art that
they feel will actually matter in some way to those who experience or
participate in it, recruit it for presentation in a "Festival of the
Arts of Nature," which we will sponsor on campus in spring or-more
likely-the fall of 2012, and then report on the experience of doing this
as part of a wind-up event.

 

The idea is that these "producers" will not be artists themselves, and
will in general not have special knowledge of the art or genre they
chose to explore. They will instead represent the ordinary citizen,
hopeful of enriching his or her experience of the world, supposing,
however naively, that the arts may have a role to play in doing this,
but finding that the task of finding such art to be a daunting and
sometimes frustrating task.

 

The producers will: 

 

*	Find works in any medium or genre that seem likely to "work" in
some way, in a festival context-that is, to refine, clarify, deepen or
challenge a viewer's or listener's experience of himself or herself as a
mammal, a self and one among many of God's creatures.
*	Recruit the project and "produce" it-that is, oversee its set-up
and presentation as part of the festival.
*	Provide a reflective report on this experience as part of a
discussion winding up the event. We envision this including two
presentations by invited speakers: one on the role of the arts in human
life generally; the other on their role in contemporary American life.
(We don't have speakers in mind for these talks, and welcome
nominations.)
*	As appropriate, produce versions of this report and accounts of
arts projects for the Institute's new web site, "Environmental
Critique". 

 

Budget: Limited, as usual-but there is one. No exact numbers yet, but we
may be able to provide petty cash-that is, low three figures-for
out-of-pocket expenses. We are also seeking ways to provide small
honoraria for participating artists and expenses and honoraria for the
invited speakers. (Suggestions-as always, but especially in this
matter-welcome.) 

 

 

Schedule:

 

Wednesday, October 19-12 - 1 

A one-hour session (in McGowan South, Room 204) to give interested
faculty, staff and students a chance to discuss the project and suggest
ideas. 

 

Monday, November 14-Deadline for persons or teams interested in
producing an event for the festival to indicate interest by providing a
statement of interest, including name(s) of the person or team and brief
comment (a paragraph or so) on the nature of his/her/their interest.
Send to the organizing committee via Bill Jordan (newacademy at comcast.net
815-337-6896). 

 

Early December (date to be decided)-Meet to discuss the program, set a
date and discuss venue and requirements for presentations. 

 

 

In the meantime: 

Contact Bill Jordan (newacademy at comcast.net, 815-337-6896), Liam
Heneghan (lhenegha at depaul.edu, 5-2779) or Randall Honold,
rhonold at depaul.edu, 5-4928) to discuss ideas about or for the project.

 

 

 

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