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Aug 4, 2009Calling all Artists: 5th Annual Last Supper Festival
It's officially Last Supper season!
Incubate, Roast, and Ready your creative juices for the 5th Annual Last Supper Festival. This year's salon of ideas will bigger and better than ever, with an excellent cast of projects/planners/curators, pre-Season events (upcoming fundraiser, symposium), and more community interaction. Spark conversation, engage in critical analysis, gain exposure to a diverse audience, and enjoy your work in the context of other media by submitting your emerging projects to the 2009 call.
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2009
Submission forms available for download at: http://www.lambastic.com/about.html
The Last Supper is a multimedia, project-based collaborative festival that addresses the act of consumption. Viewing the creative process as a cyclical, communally interactive conversation between media, it is a non-profit benefit event for the Food Bank of New York City. The Last Supper is an indoor-outdoor salon of ideas occurring in NYC during the crux of seasonal change at the end of September. As a feast for the senses and a symposium of genres, the gathering kindles the creative miasma infused by the city’s autumnal shift, harvesting the cornucopia of media in our own backyard and sparking an atmosphere for open dialog and collaboration. Short films and works from emerging directors and artists, edible installations from creative culinarians, performance, design projects, writing and music from several local bands and DJ’s will grace the dinner table. Each year, the show sparks dialog about consumption by curating projects based on a theme of global and local import. This year, more than 50 creators and volunteers will discuss ideas about “Means” with an audience of peers to evaluate our state of consumption. The decay of Summer and the emergence of Winter will be celebrated at the Fifth annual Last Supper.
Curatorial Theme: Means
In an atmosphere of political and economic crisis, along with dwindling resources, our precarious societal climate demands a review of the way we consume locally and globally. An artist’s resource, whether medium, message, or muse, is the voice of its cultural language. Creating is making something from nothing. Consuming, like all laws of matter, transforms the states of products. As creators, we must cherish this cyclical process and consider its affect. Repurposing traditional practice to our contemporary needs and desires has become vital to both aesthetic and functional life. Whether in the form of urban victory gardens, reclaimed handmade objects as art and design, DIY techniques, prevailing independent films and bands, the self-sustaining artist is a simultaneously complex, imperfect, and idyllic model for contemporary life. The Last Supper’s 2009 salon is the creative dialog about consumption where Means as motive, economy of Means, ways and Means, and Means of production are all tools for storytelling.
History
What began four years ago as an intimate word-of-mouth dinner party in a small backyard has evolved organically into what is known today as The Last Supper Festival. The event, which falls in late September--thus symbolically marking a change of seasons--is a multimedia experience that challenges the traditional methods of exhibiting and viewing artwork. Instead of singular artistic moments, the festival presents, in concert--just as it unknowingly did at the original backyard dinner party--a range of artistic mediums from local emerging talent including visual art, culinary art, film, performance and music--ie: a stimulation of all five senses. This unique approach to curation blurs the defined creative boundaries, thereby facilitating an exchange and connection between various artists, communities and audiences.
"..a feast for all five senses that will likely leave you with an unbuttoned fly." -Village Voice
"Will edible art give ‘artsy fartsy’ a new meaning?" -NY Magazine
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3rd Ward Classes in Popular Mechanics
Check out what the Editors of Popular Mechanics have to say about two of our most AWESOME classes How to Make Crappy Stuff Awesome & How to Turn Bike Parts Into an Awesome Table.
Calling All Bluegrass Bands
We're looking for amazing Bluegrass Bands for our Bluegrass BBQ on August 23rd.
If that's you(!) email us at events@3rdward.com, subject "Bluegrass Band".
Freelancers! Get your voices heard!
Join our friends at the Freelancers Union this Wednesday!
NYC Comptroller and Public Advocate Candidate Event
July 29, 7 to 9 p, Freelancers Union, 20 Jay Street, Suite 700, Brooklyn
This fall, New York City elections will be held for various City seats, including Comptroller and Public Advocate. Come to this Freelancers Union’s event to learn more about these positions and to hear the candidates discuss how they will make progress for freelancers in New York. Be an informed citizen, munch on some food, and network with your fellow freelancers!
The 2009 Summer Solo Show Artist will be announced TOMORROW!
Thank you to everyone who submitted to The Summer Solo Show, our nationwide open call for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums - sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!
Judges Katherine Brinson, Curator at the Guggenheim, Amy Kisch of Sotheby’s and Jeremy Ortega Art Director at Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine have been hard at work narrowing it down to just one artist.
TOMORROW we will reveal who that is!
Calling All Musicians
Introducing the “Put Your Music Where Your Mouth Is” competition:
RethinkPopMusic (RPM) is hosting a two-night competition asking artists to “Put Your Music Where Your Mouth Is.” The competition will put artists in front of industry experts who will choose the winners based on talent. The winner from each night will be given a performance slot at the RethinkPopMusic Stage during Midpoint Music Festival (MPMF) on September 25th in Cincinnati, Ohio. Additionally, the winner from each night will have their single included on a future RethinkPopMusic compilation album and will be in consideration to become a RethinkPopMusic Affiliated Artist.
Night-One
July 30th | 8:00pm | Crash Mansion (NYC)
Night-Two
Aug 7th | 8:00pm | Cameo (Williamsburg)
The judges will vary for each night and include:
Bob Berman Founder of RethinkPopMusic, Ben Foxx acclaimed producer and audio engineer (The Vanguard, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie), Aaron Barr musician/actor (lead singer of The Vanguard and star of Mow Crew), Gregory Hewes RethinkPopMusic Regional Director of A&R and more!
Please apply at www.SonicBids.com/PutYourMusicWhereYourMouthIs
IMPORTANT: All submitting artists must be available to perform at either showcase date in New York City and must be able to travel independently to Cincinnati, Ohio on September 25th for the Midpoint Music Festival. Additionally, prior to the artists’ performance, the single for the RethinkPopMusic Compilation CD must be submitted as an uncompressed stereo track. RethinkPopMusic guarantees to select 2 artists from Sonicbids, but is considering selecting up to 10 artists through Sonicbids.
Bushwick Farmers Market. Finally.
Our Friends at Band of Bicycles also put on the Bushwick Farmers Market.
EVERY WEDNESDAY, 10a-6p
Then come to Drink and Draw after you load up on fresh local goods.
Get it in your belly, Bushwick!
