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Arts in the One World 2011
Schedule of Events

All events in Providence, RI

 

Overview

All meals will feature guided conversations. There will be one overall facilitator, identifying the themes and outlining the logical flow. Groups of ten or so will share a table; at each table, a note-taker and another facilitator. The charge: to meet one another, share stories, and suggest actions for the future (for attendees, and to broadcast generally via our site). To this end, we’re asking each table to consider four questions: Where does your work come from (what brought you to your current slate of projects)? What are you focused on right now? What would make this work most effective/less obstructed? Then, in cases where there’s more than one table full of guests (the Friday night dinner, for example, is quite small), we rearrange ourselves a large group and consider: How, collectively, may we help each other advance our separate projects? By extension – how may we hold this work in common and advance the field (of art for social change)?

Thursday’s dinner points to guiding questions – identifying ideas that will inform and deepen subsequent meals.

Friday’s lunch is designed to look at institutions (theaters, agencies, schools) working in this line.

Friday’s dinner focuses on the specific case of art-in-the-prisons.

Saturday’s lunch calls together independent artists and explores how personal practices are being directed to change in positive ways.


Thursday, Apr 21

  • Dinner - by invitation, for 30
    John Nicholas Brown Center, 357 Benefit St, Brown
    5:00pm - set up
    6:00-9:00pm - dine & conversation

Framing questions
An interfaith/Interdisciplinary conversation in the spirit of a Passover Seder; a Seder is organized around questions. Conversation will consider: What are the responsibilities/limits of diaspora/witness-by-proxy? What do we do with the destructive character of creation (the old giving-way)?

Facilitators:
Alan Flam & Erik Ehn

 

Friday, Apr 22

How is your institution (theater, school, partnership) framed for and working towards social change?
Presentations: Case studies: effective advance of community (health; the performance of identity), from Providence and beyond.
Conversations: Recommended actions – sites/projects.

Facilitators:
David Diamond, Vanessa Gilbert, Pauline Ross, Michelle Hensley, Dorothy Jungels, Georgiana Pickett

  • Dinner, by invitation, for 10
    Swearer Center, 25 George St, Brown campus
    5:00pm - set up
    6:00-9:00pm - dine & conversation

Art and Public Policy: Incarceration
Presentations: Projects in the prisons.
Conversations: Assessing and developing this work; how this work models work in the field of art-for-change at large.

Facilitator:
Erik Ehn

 

Saturday, Apr 23

Approaches are inclusive of the esthetically wide (populist; aimed at expressing/creating community quickly) and esthetically contained (a particular craft or experimental approach; aimed at developing art-practice).

Workshop leaders include:
Martha Bowers, Orlando Pabotoy

  • Panel Discussion - open to all
    Post Genocide Rwanda: Inventing Structures of Hope
    Wilson Hall, Room 102, Brown Campus
    10am-12:30pm


    Moderator:
    Jean-Pierre Karegeye, Macalester College

    Panelists:
    Jean de Dieu Mucyo, Executive Secretary, Rwandan National Commission Against Genocide
    Tom Ndahiro, Genocide Scholar, Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center
    Dr Tim Gallimore, Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center
    James Kimonyo, H.E Rwandan Ambassador to the United States, or his representative

How does your art practice work to further change?
A focus on – Framing partnerships: Art and Public Health, Art and Social Theory (economics), Art and Peacebuilding.
Lunch will be created with Farm Fresh Rhode Island’s Harvest kitchen and students from Brown University and Johnson & Wales University

Facilitators:
Martha Bowers, Orlando Pabotoy, Dorothy Jungels