Pele will be playing three shows with their friends and labelmates
The Ivory Coast.  We hope to see you somewhere.

FRIDAY  11/02/01
MILWAUKEE
CACTUS CLUB
2496 S. WENTWORTH

SATURDAY  11/03/01
MADISON
DER RATHSKELLAR/MEMORIAL UNION
800 LANGDON ST

SUNDAY  11/04/01
CHICAGO
EMPTY BOTTLE
1035 N WESTERN

Crouton Music
www.croutonmusic.com
P.O. Box 070352
Milwaukee, WI  53207
USA

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Folktales is a series produced by Crouton to explore the literary
aspects of sound and performance.  This series will develop the
idea that communication through sound can tell individual stories
and reveal insights into people's lives that are otherwise unspoken.
Each volume will feature three 3" CD's by individual artists and
released in single run, numbered editions of 300.

The second installment in the series features a three CD set with
compositions by Jon Mueller, percussion; Bhob Rainey,
saxophone; and Achim
Wollscheid, CD, cassette, and LP as sound source transformed
through
laptop.  Ranging between a nearly indefinable drum set, sharp and
tonal
saxophone work, and orchestral electronics, the 'sound tales' on
these
CD's unfold like true literary works and stand as personal
statements
reflecting various emotions and ideas at particular moments in
time.  Each
part of the series also comes with an insert of exquisite corpse text
from
the three artists who wrote passages based on their recordings.

Jon Mueller studied drums with late jazz legend Hal Russell in the early
90s. Since then, he has been an active composer and performer in the
groups Telecognac, Pele, and Collections of Colonies of Bees.  His
collaborative work spans a variety of artists including Aranos, Byard
Lancaster, Steve Nelson-Raney, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, and he has
also performed as part of Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra.  He has
appeared on numerous CDs and LPs and performs regularly throughout the
U.S.

Bhob Rainey is a soprano saxophonist who studied composition at the New
England Conservatory.  In 1996 he began to cultivate an approach to the
saxophone that utilizes both the extreme possibilities of sound available
on the instrument and the extreme ends of the dynamic spectrum, tending
towards silence.  He has performed with numerous internationally
recognized musicians such as John Zorn, Kevin Drumm, Fred Lonberg-Holm,
and Jerome Noetinger in the U.S. and in Europe and has both produced and
appeared on numerous CDs.

Achim Wollscheid is a sound and visual artist from Frankfurt and has been
working with sound, light, video and film since the early 1980's. His
exhibitions and performances involve site-specific installations using
human participation in real-time sound transformation. Focusing these
works on sound, space, and the interactivity of people within that space,
reveals a combined media presentation that creates an event, rather than
focusing on one particular form or idea. His installations have premiered
at various museums and institutions throughout the world, and his sound
projects have included collaborations with Asmus Tietchens, Merzbow,
Bernhard Gunter, and others.

Available now at:

Crouton Music
www.croutonmusic.com
P.O. Box 070352
Milwaukee, WI  53207
USA

Posoh!
Wade Fernandez/Wiciwen Apis-Mahwaew, Annie Humphrey, and Mitch Walking Elk
will be performing for

"NATIVE VOICES FOR THE WOLF RIVER"

Tuesday, Nov. 13th 7:30 pm

BARRYMORE THEATRE in Madison

Tickets $12 advance $14 day of show
          tickets via credit card from the Barrymore 608-241-8633
to print a poster http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/nativevoices.pdf

info.   www.nativevoices.net/wfernandez

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Thanks!


>From: Marilu Knode <inova@...>
>To: mknode@...
>Subject: slightly revised (fwd)
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:39:03 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:16:12 +0000
>From: dickblau <dickblau@...>
>To: inova@...
>Subject: slightly revised
>
>I?m looking for someone (of the female persuasion) to help my mother,
>Beatrice Manley. She is 80 and easy. Needs help walking, driving,
>cleaning,
>cooking, working out, taking showers, and using the computer. (She is an
>
>actress, teacher, and author.)  The job involves 5-6 hours/day  six days
>
>per week and pays $10/hour. I can imagine two people splitting the work
>as well. The position will be open in mid-December. Dick Blau
>(414-229-6743)
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Hello, please forward this information to any interested list-serves or
individuals.
Hope to see you there,
Thanks,
Jenny Plevin
Community Media Project

Community Media Project Presents:
Cinemas of the Scattered African Diaspora
Fall 2001

Friday November 2nd 7pm
Saturday November 3rd 9pm
Sunday November 4th 7pm
Genesis (La Genese)
Director: Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Mali, 1999, 102 minutes In Bambara with
English subtitles

Cheick Oumar Sissoko marks the coming of the 21st century with a film set
at the beginning of time. He discovers insights into one of the most
urgent problems facing Africa and indeed the world - fratricidal strife -
by returning to the biblical account of its origins. Just as he used a
historic allegory to denounce contemporary African dictatorship in his
film Guimba, in La Genese he uses the story of Jacob and Esau to explore
internecine wars from Liberia to Somalia and from Congo to Kosovo. By
translating this archetypal story into a distinctively West African
context, Sissoko makes it possible for us to see Africans as
representatives of a universal humanity. The stories have been carefully
selected to form a compelling moral narrative, an ethical argument for
peace and community.  Sissoko explains, "My aim has been to return Africa
to the center of consciousness and events, to build bridges between the
concerns of Africans and of other people. Because La Genese associates
universal themes with a profound anchorage in African reality, I believe
it constitutes a new stage in our cinema."

"Cheick Oumar Sissoko restores to the Bible its universal vocation. Robert
Bresson and Terence Malick dreamed of filming Genesis - but a Malian has
succeeded in doing it."
- Le Monde

Friday November 2rd  9pm
Saturday November 3rd  7pm
Sunday November 4th  9pm
The Closed Doors [Al Abwab al Moghlaka]
Director: Atef Hetata, Egypt, 1999, 105min, Arabic with English Subtitles

Directed by Youssef Chahines longtime assistant, The Closed Doors touches
on several taboos in contemporary Egyptian society, examining their social
and political implications. Set during the Gulf War, it tells the story of
Mohamad, a highly impressionable young man who embraces fundamentalist
ideas as a way of dealing with the confusion of adolescence and sexual
awakening. This powerful first feature by one of Egypts most promising
young directors tackles complex themes like oppression, jealousy, virtue,
the love ideal and violence in an uncompromising way.

"Reveals a finely balanced portrait of various social classes caught in a
swirl of religious, cultural and personal fixations, done with remarkable
sympathy, sensitivity and control" -Deborah Young, Variety



All films are in the UWM Union Theatre 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. All Films Are
FREE and open to the public. For more information call the Community Media
Project at 414-229-2931

http://www.uwm.edu/SOA/CMP

Art To Rock Your Lame Ass

Fuel Cafe
818 N. Center St.

Over the Summer you may have seen his "Dick" at H2O...or his "Meat"
at Bliss... Now see the "Rock too big for one hand" at Fuel. Work
from Gene Evans' continuing, Rock and Roll influenced, series.

Thru November...

For more information visit http://www.luckystarstudio.com

I received this message from Sarah Helms at the Schauer Arts
and Activities Center in Hartford, Wisconsin. They are looking for
artists to propose class ideas which will be brought to
committee before final decisions are made.

-------------
I work with the Schauer Arts and Activities Center in Hartford, WI.
We have a  Community School of the Arts (CSA) program and we
are looking for Teachers.  I thought MARN would be a great
resource for us to use in finding teachers, if possible could you
please place a notice on your website?  Hope everything is
going well at MARN.

Sincerely,

Sarah Rae Helms
Assistant Director
Schauer Arts and Activities Center
147 N. Rural St.
Hartford, WI 53027
Phone: 262-670-0560
E-mail: srhschauer@...

Mike,
I forgot tell you on the phone, besides proposals for classes,
right now there is interest in Piano, Guitar, and Creative Writing
teachers.
Sorry I forgot.
Thanks again.
Sarah Rae



Sarah Rae Helms
Assistant Director
Schauer Arts and Activities Center
147 N. Rural St.
Hartford, WI 53027
Phone: 262-670-0560
E-mail: srhschauer@...

To all malty libation connoisseurs and music theatre patrons,

The Skylight Opera Theatre is holding it's annual Novemberfest
Beer Tasting on Friday, November 9.  For $20 you can enjoy
dozens upon dozens of different beers, sample tasty hors d'oeuvres
and have a swell time at the Skylight.  Call 291.7811 to register for
this
exciting event.

JOIN US FOR...

MARN's
"Hump Day Happy Hour"

the first wednesday of each month @ 5:30pm

@ the Swingin' Door
219 E. Michigan
(between Water & Broadway)

this is not an event, this is not a meeting, this is not a lecture, this is
not a senate committee hearing...
this is simply a chance for us to hang out with each other, relax, and have
a good time from 5:30pm-7:30pm (or as long as we happen to stay)

contact me with any questions at george@...

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We would like to remind you of this upcoming event.

The First Lulu at Theater X

Date: Friday, November 9, 2001
Time: 7:30PM - 10:00PM CST (GMT-06:00)

Theater X presents the First Lulu by Frank Wedekind.  Thursday
through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.  Thursdays
are pay what you can.  Call Broadway Theater Center ticket
office for tickets.

There is a real need for the jazz community to come to terms with
its own potential self-destruction in the Milwaukee area.  In light
of
last week's benefit for Baltimore Bordeaux at Bartlett's, which was
wonderful, and in light of the terror of September 11, I think a
dialogue is long overdue.  This is nothing new, but it is
particularly
a problem here.

First of all, there are only so many potential gigs and clubs, and
most of us don't have agents to do the "dirty" work.  Some musicians
have what they feel are squatters rights on those gigs.  They would
almost "kill" rather than have anyone come in and offer the
management
a promotional package. In reality, that happens in every venue in the
world.  Why should that be an exception here?  If you have a
contract,
and the management likes what you do, you are fine.
But don't necessarily expect to stay there for the rest of your life
when you get hired. That is not reality.

The second problem is backbiting musicians-----some of whom think
that
they are the only person good enough to be doing what they are doing.
Well, get real!!!!!! New talent and returning talent is a norm
everywhere.  Why would it be necessary to feel threatened by every
new
talent that came along?  Anyone with that attitude wouldn't stand a
chance in a larger market.  Competition is a norm in show business,
and jazz is show business just like the rest of the music business.
The backbiting and jealousy among jazz musicians in Milwaukee has
gotten out of control.  I hear it all of the time.  It is killing the
artform.  To expect to make a "living" playing jazz in Milwaukee is
like expecting to have your parents support you for the rest of your
life.  Hooray for you if you do.

The third problem is that there is really no union control anymore,
so
musicians don't have anyone to go to when they feel they have been
wronged.  The union served a good purpose in that respect and still
does in most larger cities.  What's better?  A strong union, or a
bunch of unhappy musicians???

The fourth problem is the venues and festivals themselves.  Some seem
to encourage this infighting because it ultimately gives them more
control over the musicians.  If we are infighting, they can use that
to their advantage---in bookings and in your wage. Their bottom line
is money.  To say they are in it for the jazz preservation bit is
also
not complimentary, and most professional jazz venues don't use that
elsewhere.

Lastly, WYMS radio plays its share of local jazz artists, but there
again is a problem.  They get calls if they play
someboday----like...."why aren't you playing me?"  They should
support
local artists like all of the other jazz stations in bigger cities
do,
but that is not their
only job. Money is the bottom line there also.  They need to play the
artists who are the greats, and they need to serve their supportive
listeners in the way they see fit. They also need to survive by
having
necessary fund raisers.  It would be nice if they had a gig hotline
like they used to because that it also the norm elsewhere.

I have been very fortunate overall in the last ten years making my
way
through this quagmire, and, being human, I have made some mistakes of
my own.  But there are times when I honestly say to myself-----it's a
sad scene---why be a part of it??  The artform is being destroyed by
the very people who are making the music.

Baltimore's benefit brought the community together for the first time
in many years.  It was a jam, and it was very clear who was "in it"
for the sincere purpose it represented.  UJL should be commended for
putting it together.  It was a wonderful expression of support for
another musician.  Joey Cross and her trio should be thanked for
their
participation and sound system and including everyone they could in
the session.  Bartlett's needs to be thanked for hosting the event.

Jazz doesn't have a large audience here.  Let's try to keep what we
have and create new listeners for the future.  This is an artform,
not
a war.

If you need a map to Wednesday's MARN happy hour just click
on the link on the MARN homepage.


http://www.MARNonline.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Achim Wollscheid: Ambiguous Participation
Sound and Visual Installation/Performance
Tuesday, November 13, 7 p.m.

The Bamboo Theatre
832 East Locust Street
Milwaukee, WI  53212

For more information please call (414) 305-1992

(Milwaukee, WI) The Bamboo Theatre and Crouton Music will
present a rare,
one evening installation and performance by the Frankfurt based
sound and
visual artist Achim Wollscheid.  The installation/performance
begins at 7
p.m. and will feature two segments.  The first half of the evening will
feature the installation entitled Ambiguous Participation - an
audience
interactive event requiring visitors to bring various electronic devices
and appliances from home, including fans, small vacuum cleaners, coffee
makers, etc.  Audience members are asked to NOT bring devices that are
normally used as sources of sound (radios, tv's, etc.).  Through the use
of a computer, the switching on and off of the devices will be determined
by the visitor's voices and movement throughout the room.

Taking the interaction of the installation one step further, Wollscheid
will eventually be joined by percussionist Jon Mueller in a live
collaboration while the process of the installation continues.

Achim Wollscheid is an artist, writer and teacher who has worked as an
artist since the early 80s, and has collaborated with a variety of
musicians and artists. His exhibitions and performances involve
site-specific installations using human participation in real-time sound
transformation. Focusing these works on sound, space, and the
interactivity of people within that space, reveals a combined media
presentation that creates an event, rather than focusing on one particular
form or idea. His installations have premiered at various museums and
institutions throughout the world.  He is one of the co-founders of the
highly regarded German multimedia collective SELEKTION, and his musical
work has appeared on recordings alongside such artists as Merzbow, Pan
Sonic, P16.D, and John Duncan.

"Indicative of Wollscheid's approach is a commitment to site-specificity.
In his work the art object is reduced to a systematic response to a given
situation: light panels react to passers-by, sound banks play back in
response to voices and ambient noise, lights dim randomly, objects and
rooms resonate against the drumming of small hammers. Through applying
these systems of interaction and response the art object as a singular
body disappears in order to reveal the broader, delicate interplay of
multiple bodies within social space." - Brandon Labelle, from the book
Achim Wollscheid : selected works 1990-2000 (2001 Selektion).

See also:

www.selektion.com
www.nordpol-bruecke.de
http://croutonmusic.com/zine_wollscheid.html



Crouton Music
www.croutonmusic.com
P.O. Box 070352
Milwaukee, WI  53207
USA

Brian Sevedge will be the featured poet on Monday, November 5 at Thai Joe's,
located on the first floor in the Prospect Mall.  Brian also hosts the weekly
Friday night poetry readings at Jitterz Coffee House in Wauwatosa.

Fyi

We held our first artists' mtg in Madison, Monday, October 29 and 60 artist
showed.  We are hoping this group moves as smoothly and quickly forward as
has MARN.

Keep up the good work MARN

Mark J. Fraire
Grants Programs and Services Specialist
Wisconsin Arts Board
608-264-8191
608-267-0380 (fax)
www.arts.state.wi.us <http://www.arts.state.wi.us>

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Things are moving fast!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 6, the full Senate will vote on
Senate Bill
265, sponsored by Sen. Kevin Shibilski, Sen. Rick Grobschmidt,
and Rep.
Gregg Underheim, which will increase the tax credit funding
mechanism for
the Local Arts Endowment to 25%.  (The full text of the bill can be
found
at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2001/data/SB-265.pdf.)  Last
Wednesday,
the bill was approved by the Senate Committee on Housing,
Universities,
and Government Operations, on a 6-1 vote.  After it passes the
Senate, it
will move on to the Assembly and then to the Governor for his
signature

As you know, the Local Arts Endowment was created by the Legislature this
summer, and now we need a way to get money into it.  The bill creates a
25% tax credit funding mechanism for the Endowment.  It's IMPERATIVE that
these legislators hear from as many arts supporters as possible about the
value of the arts in their communities and the importance of public
funding to their programs and services.

If the arts in Wisconsin are going to continue gaining attention,
visibility, and funding, we all have to get involved in the political
process.   Advocacy is not a dirty word, it's not for lobbyists only, and
it's not difficult.   It's really just speaking up for what you believe
in, and everyone can do it.  We all must become advocates for the arts in
our communities.  Remember, your action will help get MORE MONEY FOR THE
ARTS -- AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ARTS AND COMMUNITIES -- ACROSS
WISCONSIN.

Action Step:
Please contact your State Senator TODAY to urge their support of Senate
Bill 265, with this message:

"The arts in Wisconsin are growing in importance to the state's economy,
education and community life, and are enjoyed and appreciated by many
people in [your community.]  Senate Bill 265, which will create a 25% tax
credit funding mechanism for the new Local Arts Endowment, will help make
the arts accessible to everyone in Wisconsin.  For a relatively small
investment, the state will reap huge benefits in economic development,
education for our children, and quality of life.  Please support Senate
Bill 265, for the good of everyone in [your community] and across the
state.  Thank you!

Senators' contact information can be found at:
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/senhomepages.html If you don't know
your State Senator, you can find out who he/she is at
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/wamltest/.

The calendar for the day's session can be found at:
http://folio.legis.state.wi.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=236008&infoba
se=calendar.nfo&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg

Background information on SB 265, the Local Arts Endowment and the arts in
Wisconsin: Senate Bill 265:
http://www.wisconsinarts.org/advocacy/calltoaction.htm Local Arts
Endowment:
http://www.wisconsinarts.org/advocacy/calltoaction/talkpointsendowamend.ht
m The arts in Wisconsin:
http://www.wisconsinarts.org/advocacy/advresources/talkpointswiscarts.htm

Thanks for your good work!
Anne Katz

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statewide arts service, education and advocacy
Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts
Anne Katz, Executive Director
PO Box 1054
Madison, WI 53701-1054
608 255 8316     608 255 0334 fax
akatz@...
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statewide arts service, education and advocacy
Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts
Anne Katz, Executive Director
PO Box 1054
Madison, WI 53701-1054
608 255 8316     608 255 0334 fax
akatz@...
Check out our new website: http://www.wisconsinarts.org

2001 DATES TO NOTE!
OCTOBER IS ARTS AND HUMANITIES MONTH!
November 5-7:  Wisconsin Rural Challenge Fall Retreat, Rosholt
November 7-8:  Fall Tourism Conference, Eau Claire
November 9-10:  Wisconsin Historic Preservation Conference, Madison
November 28:  Wisconsin Rural Partners Rural Summit, Mosinee
March 6, 2002:  Arts Day at the State Capitol, Madison

>ATTENTION MILWAUKEE AREA ARTISTS!
>
>Interested in getting 15 minutes of direct feedback from four curators in
> Milwaukee without being in a gallery show or doing a studio visit?
>
>Join us for an OPEN PORTFOLIO REVIEW, Saturday, 17 November, at UWM, Noon
>- 4 pm
>
>Review location: Arts Center Lecture Hall, UWM, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.,
>behind Mitchell Hall, entrance from inside campus
>
>Reviewers:
>Peter Doroshenko, Director and Marilu Knode, Senior Curator, Institute of
> Visual Arts (inova), UWM Mark Lawson, Director, galleries at the
>Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Annemarie Sawkins, Associate
>Curator, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
>
>How it will work:
>1. Call MIAD receptionist at 414 276 7889 to reserve your OWN 15 minute
>session. 2. Artists can bring either up to 10 slides or 5 minutes of
>video. **Please bring slides in your own carousel, please cue works to
>the beginning. ** 3. Artists will show their work, curators will discuss
>it. 4. Come 15 minutes BEFORE your scheduled time to get set up. Artists
>not set up at their allotted session will be put at the bottom of the
>waiting list and are NOT guaranteed a turn!
>
>DON?T WAIT, CALL FOR YOUR RESERVATION NOW!
>
>For more information e-mail inova@....
>
>Open Portfolio Review is co-sponsored by the Institute of Visual Arts
>(inova), UWM; Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; and the Haggerty
>Museum of Art. This twice-yearly program, with a rotating roster of
>curators, will be held again in spring of 2002 at MIAD, date pending.
>


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>ATTENTION MILWAUKEE AREA ARTISTS!
>
>Interested in getting 15 minutes of direct feedback from four curators in
>Milwaukee without being in a gallery show or doing a studio visit?
>
>Join us for an OPEN PORTFOLIO REVIEW, Saturday, 17 November, at UWM,
>Noon - 4 pm
>
>Review location: Arts Center Lecture Hall, UWM, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.,
>behind Mitchell Hall, entrance from inside campus
>
>Reviewers:
>Peter Doroshenko, Director and Marilu Knode, Senior Curator, Institute of
>Visual Arts (inova), UWM
>Mark Lawson, Director, galleries at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and
>Design
>Annemarie Sawkins, Associate Curator, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette
>University
>
>How it will work:
>1. Call MIAD receptionist at 414 276 7889 to reserve your OWN 15 minute
>session.
>2. Artists can bring either up to 10 slides or 5 minutes of video. **Please
>bring slides in your own carousel, please cue works to the beginning. **
>3. Artists will show their work, curators will discuss it.
>4. Come 15 minutes BEFORE your scheduled time to get set up. Artists not
>set up at their allotted session will be put at the bottom of the waiting
>list and are NOT guaranteed a turn!
>
>DON?T WAIT, CALL FOR YOUR RESERVATION NOW!
>
>For more information e-mail inova@....
>
>Open Portfolio Review is co-sponsored by the Institute of Visual Arts
>(inova), UWM; Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; and the Haggerty
>Museum of Art. This twice-yearly program, with a rotating roster of
>curators, will be held again in spring of 2002 at MIAD, date pending.
>


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PERORMANCE ART, INSTALLATION, FILM AND VIDEO OPPORTUNIES @ THE BOTTOM
OF THIS MESSAGE>>>>>

1. A performance art piece is unprecedented.

2. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never
being done before.

3. It is usually very current. This means that it is usually relevant
of today because of the short time between conception and performance.

4. Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and
sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with
conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

5. Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so
many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become
creativity.

6. Occupies an environment with specific objects and actions for a
specific amount of time.

7. The space time restraints of performance art does not allow for
elaborate sets/props and cost very little to produce.

8. Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

9. Since the audience is usually small the performers can actually
give things to the audience, such as food or money.

10. Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a
problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15
minute performance. Therefore, Performance Art Festivals are
appropriate in contrast to an individual performance.

______________________________________________________________________


HOWEVER WHICH WAY YOU DESCRIBE IT OR DEFINE IT PERFORMANCE ART
ROCKS...upcoming opportunities for performance art, installation and
film and video artists


all*cin productions is a woman-run organization
dedicated to exhibiting cutting-edge artists in an
alternative space, bringing awareness to the audience
by exhibiting art that addresses social and cultural
issues.  By challenging artists in conceptual,
thematic exhibits, we are initiating an open forum for
display of contemporary art issues.

all*cin productions is currently accepting resumes, bios and
proposals for ongoing data base of artists in the city of Milwaukee.

here are some current projects:
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Currently looking for performance art, installation, film and video
to be displayed at the 6th Annual Beauty Benefit for the Arts.  This
year the event will take place at the Historic Turner Hall on April
6, 2002.  OPEN THEME Please submit no more than a two-page
description of the performance, installation, film or video. Please
provide a clear visual description of your work.  Slides, VHS, or
stills accepted, please send a SASE for return of material.
Deadline:  Must be postmarked by March 1, 2002.  Any ???'s please
contact all_cin_productions@...

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Open call for art that deals with the theme of technology. Works
created with or in response to digital and electronic media are
welcomed. these may include, but are not limited to, installation,
music and performance. Please submit no more than a two-page
description of the performance, installation, film or video.  Please
provide a clear visual description of your work.  Deadline: Must be
postmarked by Dec 3, 2002. Any ???'s contact
all_cin_productions@...

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Please contact:

all_cin_productions@...

or send proposals to:
822 E Auer Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53212

JOIN us WEDNESDAY the 7th!!! for:

MARN's
"Hump Day Happy Hour"

the first wednesday of each month @ 5:30pm

@ the Swingin' Door
219 E. Michigan
(between Water & Broadway)

this is not an event, this is not a meeting, this is not a lecture,
this is
not a senate committee hearing...
this is simply a chance for us to hang out with each other, relax,
and have
a good time from 5:30pm-7:30pm (or as long as we happen to
stay)

contact me with any questions at george@...

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
Date sent:       Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:21:19 -0600

Interested in world cinema? The Wisconsin Film Festival is co-
sponsoring the 3rd Annual Madison CineFest Nuestra, "Many
Voices: Films of the Caribbean," showcasing recent films and
filmmakers from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad, Barbados,
the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Martinique, Canada and the
United States. Thursday, November 8 through Sunday, November
11. See http://www.wifilmfest.org/ for more information.

Are you a filmmaker? Do you know a filmmaker? The 4th Annual
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, April 4th - 7th, 2002) announces
a Call for Entries for film submissions and two juried competitions.
Seehttp://www.wifilmfest.org/ for details and entry forms. Please
share this announcement with filmmakers you know.

The Wisconsin Film Festival has received a major grant from
Academy of
Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to support Festival programming.
We were
one of only 14 film festivals chosen nationwide.

Wisconsin Film Festival community sponsors include IMS
(Interactive Media
Solutions), Steep & Brew, Isthmus, 105.5 Triple M, Charter
Communications,
the Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor's Club, Wisconsin Film
Office, the
European Studies Alliance, and Planet Propaganda. If your business or
organization would like to know more about sponsorship, please contact
info@....

If you are interested in independent filmmaking, the 10th Annual
IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference takes place in Chicago,
November 16 - 18, 2001.  Join the IFP/Midwest for three days of panel
discussions, screenings,  parties, networking, and more.  Featuring top
independent producers (Rob Nathan, "The Deep End"), directors (Neil
LaBute, "Nurse Betty"), and distributors (Jeff Lipsky, Lot 47)!  Mention
the Wisconsin Film Festival and register at an IFP/Midwest Membership rate
for the Conference. See
http://www.ifp.org/docs.cfm/locales/midwest#conference for more
information.

The Wisconsin Film Festival is a public program of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute.

Thank you!

Wisconsin Film Festival
University of Wisconsin - Madison Arts Institute
(608) 262-9009 / (877) 963-FILM
info@...
http://www.wifilmfest.org

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Dear Friends of the visual arts,

October 20 saw the last event held under the umbrella of Visual Arts
Milwaukee! In the last six months VAM! produced special events,
artist commissions and billboards, plus Milwaukee's first EVER
visual arts brochure.

The time is upon us to begin thinking of 2002!

Join VAM! on Thursday, November 29, at 7:30 pm in MIAD galleries
(273 E. Erie, in the Third Ward) for an OPEN PUBLIC discussion about
the activities to organize for next year.

Come prepared to volunteer ideas, activities, your time, your money
to foment more non-traditional arts programming next year!

Please forward this e-mail to artists, collectors, curators, and
people who love the visual arts in Milwaukee!

For more information contact 2002 VAM! chair Marilu Knode at the
Institute of Visual Arts, UWM, 229 6516.

See you on the 29th of November!
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JOIN us TONIGHT!!! Wednesday the 7th for:

MARN's
"Hump Day Happy Hour"

the first wednesday of each month @ 5:30pm

@ the Swingin' Door
219 E. Michigan
(between Water & Broadway)

this is not an event, this is not a meeting, this is not a lecture,
this is
not a senate committee hearing...
this is simply a chance for us to hang out with each other, relax,
and have
a good time from 5:30pm-7:30pm (or as long as we happen to
stay)

contact me with any questions at george@...

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From:            "Anne Katz, Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts"
<akatz@...>
To:              "Assembly members" <akatz@...>
Subject:         FYI--progress of SB265
Date sent:       Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:14:59 -0600

FYI -- Senate Bill 265, which will create a 25% tax credit funding
mechanism for Wisconsin's Local Arts Endowment, was reviewed
by the State
Senate yesterday and referred to the Joint Finance Committee for
further
review (this is all part of the process, folks).  Although the
Legislature's floor period is supposed to end tomorrow, November
8, the
Legislature will be in session until next May, so we all will do
everything we can to ensure that the bill will continue to move
forward..
Contact with legislators to urge support of the arts in Wisconsin
will be
very important in the next few months, and the Assembly will keep
you
informed and update aboutt he steps along the way.

Thanks for all your good work!
Anne Katz
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"ART is not a thing; it is a WAY." -Elbert Hubbard

statewide arts service, education and advocacy
Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts
Anne Katz, Executive Director
PO Box 1054
Madison, WI 53701-1054
608 255 8316     608 255 0334 fax
akatz@...
Check out our new website: http://www.wisconsinarts.org

DATES TO NOTE!
November 9-10:  Wisconsin Historic Preservation Conference, Madison
November 28:  Wisconsin Rural Partners Rural Summit, Mosinee
March 6, 2002:  Arts Day at the State Capitol, Madison

Christmas in the Third Ward is coming up and a hot role is
available as Jolly the Gingerbread Man.  $12/hr.

Sundays, Dec. 2,9,16,23
Fridays, Dec. 7,14,21
Saturday, Dec. 15

You will wear a gingerman suit and head (warm) and stand by the
Gingerbread House (located outside the MIAD building (old Cafe
Marche) and hand out cookies, etc.  Santa will be there, Miad
students will be selling cider, etc. in their building.  It's the
Christmas thing in the Ward. Nancy O'Keefe's number is 273-1173.
  If you did all eight dates you could make $288.00.

Hello to all the beautiful Future Family members! All of us at the
Dr Zorders Institute wish you a special hello and warm wishes.

We are currently in the arrid climate and red earth of Sedona,
Arizona and have been truckin along with the van full of grooves
through Kansas City, Denver, Boulder, Telluride, Durango, and
now its off to Tempe!

The van's been mostly agreeable to our travels and we've only
had one near-death experience involving a quarter-sized
scorpion who wanted to snuggle with Capt. Pete. Good thing our
pal, Crazy Pat, was on the scene if you know what I mean...

We'll be out and about til Dec 23rd when we return to Milwaukee
and play a welcome back carter show at the Social on S 2nd St
(on Dec 23rd evening) so mark your calendars! Also, if you or
anyone you know wants to buy the latest RF disc "from
tomorrow," you can buy it locally in Mil-town at Atomic Records,
Rochambo Coffee/Tea Shop, or at Lotus Land Records (the
Super Noble Bros' store!).

We wish you well and hope to hear from ya'll, and we'll be a
writin' again as soon as we can find another Internet cafe or
friend with the hook-up.

Peace Love Dance Groove

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Hello all -

Just to alert you to next week's Experimental Tuesdays at the Union
Theatre. We are presenting the ('bout time) local premiere of Chantal
Akerman's 1993 _D'Est_, her beautiful, meditative experimental documentary
on an Eastern Europe in transition. "One of the best films of the 1990's"
J. Hoberman, _Artforum_.

The screening will take place Tuesday, November 13 at 7pm at the UWM Union
Theatre and it is FREE.

More info unspools below.

See you there -
Carl Bogner
UWM Film Department

**************

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre presents....

Experimental Tuesdays to present area premiere of
Chantal Akerman's _D'Est_,
her acclaimed documentary/travelogue about Eastern Europe in transition
Tuesday, November 13, 7pm FREE at the UWM Union Theatre

The Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre series is proud to present
the local premiere of Chantal Akerman's 1993 _D'Est_ on Tuesday, November
13 at 7pm. The screening in will be held at the UWM Union Theatre.
Presented by the UWM Union Theatre and the UWM Film Department, this
screening is free.

Chantal Akerman's acclaimed experimental documentary is both travelogue
and memory piece. _D'Est_ documents her months-long trip, in the early
1990's, from East Germany through Poland into Moscow, a journey through
lands in the midst of irrevocable change. Presented without voiceover
commentary, Akerman's rigorous and relentless camera -- the film features
her characteristic long tracking shots and commanding moments of stasis
strives to capture the history remnant in the everyday, a history, and
idea, of Eastern Europe just as it disappears in the upheavals of changing
politics and economies.

Writes Jonathan Rosenbaum in the _Chicago Reader_:
"Chantal Akerman's haunting 1993 masterpiece documents without commentary
or dialogue her several-months-long trip from east Germany to Moscow--a
tough and formally rigorous inventory of what the former Soviet bloc looks
and feels like today. Akerman's painterly penchant for finding Edward
Hopper wherever she goes has never been more obvious; this travelogue
seemingly offers vistas any alert tourist could find yet delivers a series
of images and sounds that are impossible to shake later: the countless
tracking shots, the sense of people forever waiting, the rare occurrence
of a plaintive offscreen violin over an otherwise densely ambient sound
track, static glimpses of roadside sites and domestic interiors, the
periphery of an outdoor rock concert, a heavy Moscow snowfall, a crowded
terminal where weary people and baggage are huddled together like so many
dropped handkerchiefs. The only other film I know that imparts such a
vivid sense of being somewhere is the Egyptian section of Straub-Huillet's
_Too Early, Too Late_. Everyone goes to movies in search of events, but
the extraordinary events in Akerman's sorrowful, intractable film are the
shots themselves--the everyday recorded by a powerful artist with an acute
eye and ear."

The Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre series is presented on the
second and third Tuesday of each month. Presented as a collaboration
between the UWM Union Theatre and the UWM Film Department, the screening
presents recent and canonical experimental film and video work that would
otherwise go unscreened locally. All of the screenigs take place at the
UWM Union Theatre and are free.

Chantal Akermans _D'Est_ (France/Belgium/Portugal, 1993, 16mm, 110
minutes.)
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7pm  FREE

UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor of the UWM Student
Union
(414) 229 4070, cinema@..., http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union
	 Theatre
For more information contact Carl Bogner in the Film Department at 414 229
4758 or Jonathan Jackson at the Union Theatre at 414 229 4070