At the Center

The Center for Performance Research (CPR) has more than a catchy acronym to offer--it's a space for dance in Brooklyn. More specifically,  CPR "provides affordable space for rehearsal and performance, innovative arts programming, education and pedagogical engagement with the communities of New York City and abroad." Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the 4000 square feet center is "L.E.E.D. certified green." 

Tonight, Tuesday, June 15th @ 7pm , Caras El Puente Ensemble will be at CPR to share their "choreographic process of workshop"; something which the blurb promises is" ideal for teaching artists working with dance, diverse youth populations, or addressing socially engaged themes."

There is a reasonable $5/$10 suggested donation for all CPR events, and the glorious details are below:
 

Choreographing The Last Layer

Tuesday 6/15 @ 7pm

Where: CPR, 361 Manhattan Avenue (at Jackson), Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
11211. L train to Lorimer

Workshop/Demo with CARAS El Puente Dance Ensemble and Rozz Nash
Ensemble director Rozz Nash and young dancers address and demonstrate
the group's choreographic process; how culturally specific dances
and backgrounds of the troupe members inform the creation of
contemporary works such as their most recent, The Last Layer.

Rozz has an MA in Performing Arts Administration from NYU, and has been
teaching in New York City schools for 17 tears. Rozz founded CARAS in
2009.

For more information : www.cprnyc.org

The Word

Community Word Project is now accepting applications for their 2010-11 Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program. The program has a tuition cost of $100.

Details are below:

Announcing Community~Word Project's Teaching Artist Training and Internship
Program (TATIP) for the 2010-2011 School Year

We are pleased to announce the 11th year of TATIP, which offers practicing
artists and MFA students the opportunity to transform their creative process
into teaching tools to integrate the arts into the public school curriculum.
Through this program, participants gain skills that enable them to reach out
to underserved youth while gaining experience in NYC classrooms.

This training gives participants the opportunity to identify and explore
their own creative and thinking processes and then to transform these
processes into effective teaching tools. These tools become the foundation
from which one can build and implement a meaningful curriculum. Throughout
the training, participants will gain real-life classroom experience through
our internship program as they assist experienced Community-Word Project
teaching artists.

*PLEASE NOTE: There is a $100.00 tuition contribution fee payable upon
acceptance to the program (for the Advanced and New & Beginning levels
only.) Scholarships will be available; details and procedure for requesting
scholarships will be forthcoming with notice of acceptance.

Application Deadline: 10am on Monday September 27th 2010

The application can be downloaded directly from our website. Early
applications are encouraged. Applications must be received in full by the
deadline in order to be considered. Late materials will not be accepted
under any circumstances.

There are three levels of training offered; one for beginning and new
teaching artists, one for undergraduate artists, and another for those
advanced artists that have at least two years experience working with
underserved youth in the public school environment. Applicants will be
notified of acceptance by Friday October 1st.

Please visit our website to download the applications and the ³Frequently
Asked Questions about TATIP² document.

http://www.communitywordproject.org/teaching-artist-training-program/
 

Revival

Teaching Artists who are looking to develop themselves professionally might want to check out Moore College of Art & Design's Teachers Summer Institute, which starts on June 27th, in Philadelphia.

It's an annual residential program and the theme this year is Recharge, Refocus, Reconnect.

Registration information is available online. Details below:

Under the guidance of exceptional teaching artists in painting, printmaking, ceramics, and photography, art educators are given the support and facilities to revitalize and advance their individual studio skills while collaborating with colleagues in designing inventive classroom applications. Curators from the Barnes Foundation will lead daily seminars dealing with issues in modern art and how to relate them to the issues of young people. Add to this Moore’s highly respected gallery program and access to the city’s vital contemporary arts venues, and you’ve got a dynamic framework for introducing new opportunities for teachers to connect with youth in the classroom.

The Teachers Summer Institute 2010 runs June 27– July 3 at Moore College of Art & Design, 20th Street and The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. The annual program draws art educators from as far away as Florida and Massachusetts. Participants earn graduate–level credit. For more information, visit www.moore.edu, e-mail ce@moore.edu or call 215-965-4030.

What Can I Do?

Teaching artists can look forward to attending The School of the Future (SOTF). 

SOTF, not be confused with the School of the Future, is a month-long art project in Bushwick, that invites teaching artists, and everyone else, to answer the question of a lifetime: 

"What do you want to learn?"

The question links to information about upcoming classes, and forums on their website, along with an invitation to "share your idea here."

Also: The weekend is now, and teaching artists are invited to join ATA on Facebook to talk about jobs and things like the terrifying budget proposal just put forth by mayor Michael Bloomberg. The New York Times says the mayor's plan, which even he admits is a nightmare, will "reduce the city’s teaching force by 6,700, and close 50 senior centers, 16 day care centers and perhaps 10 libraries."

Finally: Xanadu - ONJ

The TA's Apprentice

An Apprenticeship Program for Teaching Artists?

What might that look like?

Research: The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Union, AFL-CIO, is a proud trade union whose roots go back to the 1890's. Are You Iron Worker Material?

Futurists

From the Teaching Artists Union, we have received word that the School of the Future is now.

Cool. Why wait?

Not to be confused with that other school of the future, TAU's SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE is an art project and the "launching pad for the art movement of education."

More information is below, and on the group's website:

THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
The School of the Future is an artist-run school for teaching artists. The school focuses on teaching artists as experts in the study of information through performing and visual arts; it serves as the first site devoted to the resourcefulness and adaptability of teaching artists. Each curriculum developed for the school is an art project, making the school a group show. The projects will be designed to use art as a learning process that activates and considers the site of the school.

The portable school building is fit with movable walls, so no barriers will remain between after school educators, professors, and substitute public school teachers. The school term is a process of discovery where the students and teachers refine this model of school from within the transparent school walls, engaging in a large collaborative artwork that analyzes, critiques, and pushes school out of its big brick buildings.

School of the Future opens this July in Bushwick’s Sgt. Dougherty Park for a month of programming. Starting in February, an open call for curriculum asks artists to consider the site of the school as an art project that they can engage a specific student body to perform.

The School of the Future is a project of the Teaching Artist Union—a group of NYC artists who consider teaching a part of their art practice. Principal Cassandra Thornton and Head Librarian Christopher Kennedy (Institute of Applied Aesthetics) are also supported by TrustArt, OpenSpaceAlliance, NYC Parks Department and the Association of Teaching Artists.

Site Visit Sunday January 24, 1pm
Join us on Sunday for a site visit to Sgt. Dougherty Park, the site for the SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE. The park is located on the corner of Meeker Ave. and Vandevoort Avenue. It is bordered by the BQE, Staples, and Con Ed property, in a wonderful industrial wasteland. Since projects at the school will respond to the site, please attend a group site visit or go solo, but please feel obliged to learn the park.

Also: Tron - Light Bikes w/ Jeff Bridges

To the Choir

The Bruce High Quality Foundation would like to remind you that "the $200,000-debt-model of art education is simply untenable." Instead, BHQF proposes exciting free alternatives, and encourages prospective students to Build Your Own University. Teaching artists who crave continuing education without the side effects, such as the strangled feeling that can come from being mired hopelessly in debt, might want to check it out.

Learning opportunities are listed below. I didn't make them up.

Bruce High Quality Foundation University is:

A university, a space for higher education and research, a community of scholars; an expansion of the BHQF practice to include more participants (that's where U come in); and a "fuck you"* to the hegemony of critical solemnity and market-mediocre despair.

To join a class, check their website or send an email to the listed address. Or come to Build Your Own University (BYOU) to find out more.

WRITING GROUP

Sundays, 12-4pm
chateauxmargo@gmail.com

OCCULT SHENANIGANS IN 20TH/21ST CENTURY ART
Sundays, 3-6pm
occultshenanigans@gmail.com

THE ARTIST AT WORK
Sundays, 6-9pm
Website

NASA (THE NATURAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS OF ART)
Mondays, 12-4pm

Webpage

WHAT’S A METAPHOR?
Mondays, 6-8pm

Website

BHQFU DETECTIVE AGENCY

Mondays, 7:30pm

Website

eliascotez@googlemail.com

BYOU (BUILD YOUR OWN UNIVERSITY)

Jan 12, Feb 9, March 9, April 6, May 4, June 1, all at 7pm

Webpage

OPEN CRITIQUE

All the Tuesdays when BYOU is not scheduled. 7pm

Webpage

PHILOSOPHY OF MOTION PICTURES

Wednesdays, 7:30-10:30pm

Webpage

DRAMA

adrearose@gmail.com

MUSIC IN SPACE

Saturdays, 3-6pm

Website