Volume 1, Number 34, November 13
Up Front News
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Filmmaker Draws Audience. On November 10th Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez visited DIVA's Second Friday Film Forum and screened two of her ethnographic films, "Qoyllur Rit'i: A Woman's Journey" and "Ch’ullacuy". Martinez's work has centered primarily on the Peruvian Andes where she was born, although her filming includes topics dealing with other Latin American countries as well. She was trained in Cultural Anthropology at the Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cuzco (Peru) and in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. She has earned her doctoral degree in Communication and Society at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon where she is currently an Assistant Professor. Martinez’s research focuses on international communication and transnationalism. Her creative work is the result of her interest in indigenous and mestizo cultures and societies, and the diverse forces, both local and global that help maintain or transform their ways of life. |
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Newsletter Moves To Bimonthly Publication. This newsletter is moving to a twice a month publication schedule. This will allow for more coverage within a single edition and allow individuals to get caught up with the current news before another newsletter comes down the wire. The next issue will be published on November 27th.
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Editing Your Screenplay Workshop Offered. Join screenwriter Jo Jo Jensen for a two-your workshop on editing your screenplay. She'll discuss format, subplots, dialog and characters and offer other helpful tips to give your screenplay punch. Jensen is a published author and has worked with Hollywood producers as an editor, writer and script consultant. Currently JoJo has projects ranging from feature films to television series out to producers for consideration. Workshop: December 2nd from 10:00AM to 12Noon. Cost $15.00. Register on-line www.divanow.org or by phone
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Main Gallery – Oregon Fiber Artists (15 artists) "Elements" Oregon Fiber Artists is a diverse group of textile and fiber artists brought together by a common interest in creating and exhibiting work in their chosen medium. They are committed to extending their creative skills, and challenging the boundaries of textile art. Their individual members have been making art in various media for many years, and revel in the diversity of style and form that the group represent. The exhibit features a range of pieces within the broad theme ELEMENTS, varying in size, technique, and interpretation, while focusing on the discrete possibilities for visual expression offered by fiber manipulation. They explore, for instance, ideas of substance and structure, image and imagination, surface and recess, expectation and surprise.
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Drop-In Figure Drawing. Working from models, this class will help the figure drawer learn techniques to improve his/her skills. Instructor John Holdway will be on hand to assist and coach. Warm up exercises will include gesture drawing. Students will move into drawing longer sustained poses in each three hour session. Drop-In Figure Drawing meets on Wednesdays and is ongoing. Time: 6-9 PM. The fee is $10.00 per session, or purchase a bloc of 5 or 10 sessions at a 10% discount.
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EFF at DIVA CENTER
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November 15 Best Of The Eugene Film Festival : An evening of documentary work
Time:7:00 PM Wednesday
Sponsor: DIVA Media Arts Committee and Eugene Film Festival
Admission: $5.00
The Best of the First Annual Eugene Film Festival will be screened this Fall at the DIVA Center. Come and enjoy some of the finest filmmaking available today. This month's emphasis is on the documentary film. Here are four indie films that caught the public's eye back in May.
Caught in Paint. Caught in Paint captures painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on four by eight foot transparent surfaces while choreographer David Parsons and members of the Parsons Dance Company are seen in mid-air, through the painting, imitating the dancing lines of Blitt's paint strokes. Lois Greenfield, who collaborated in this union of paint, dance and photography, made dynamic photographs as she, too, was being filmed. The creative sparks and positive energy of all the artists challenged the group to stretch their limits and perform magic. Rita Blitt, USA, 6 min., www.ritablitt.com
Ride of the Mergansers. Eugene Film Festival Best Documentary Shor The Hooded Merganser is a rare and reclusive duck found only in North America. Every spring, in the Great Lakes region, the wary hen lays and incubates her eggs in a nest high in the trees. Just 24 hours after hatching, the tiny ducklings must make the perilous leap to the ground below to begin life in the wild. In 'Ride of the Mergansers,' this drama, rarely observed by humans, is brought to the screen in a heartwarming blend of natural history, humor, and suspense. You'll be entertained, educated, and inspired - and leave with a newfound appreciation of the phrase “leap of faith.” (Steve Furman, USA, 11 min.)
Kanreki Baseball. Kanreki Baseball is a documentary film about the Shonan Dreams, an amateur baseball team of age 60 and over, and their year from spring 2004. The Shonan Dreams is made up of members coming from diverse backgrounds. The summer of that year, the Dreams’ 71-year-old ace pitcher, Kiitsu Ogawa, suffers from liver cancer and leaves the team. Tomonori Kinoshita, who began playing baseball after retirement, now supports the team as scorekeeper while coping with his own illness. As they cope with aging and illness, they find that baseball gives them another reason to live for.
Kanreki Baseball sheds light on those who worked through the years of Japan’s post-war economic growth, and are now devoting their time after retirement to playing baseball. (Makoto Kanamori, Japan, 30 min., www.kanrekibaseball.com
Trout Grass. Eugene Film Festival Audience Choice Best Feature This enchanting film, written and narrated by David James Duncan (author of 'The River Why') begins in a remote village in China with the intricate process of selecting bamboo specifically suited to building fly rods. As the story unfolds, 'Trout Grass' follows a piece of bamboo through the hands of a master rod maker who feels 'the power of unseen hands' assisting his work. For centuries, bamboo has provided raw material for buildings, inspiration for poets and sages and products as diverse as broom handles to the filament in Edison's light bulb. It remains one of the Earth's most renewable and useful natural resources. Josh Moro, USA-PNW, 49 min., www.troutgrass.com
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November 17 Eugene Celebrates the Performing Arts Series: "Topsy Turvy" (1999)
Time: 8:00 PM Friday
Sponsors: DIVA Media Arts Committee and the Eugene Opera
Admission: Free
The evening screenings in this series will be presented, in rotation, by resident companies of the Hult Center on the third Friday of each month. It is the goal of this on-going series to showcase the diversity of the arts that are available in Eugene.
The first film will be Mike Leigh's brilliant " Topsy Turvy", the story of Gilbert and Sullivan during the creation of "The Mikado," which became the single most successful stage production in the world for the next fifty years. W. S. Gilbert is played by the brilliant English actor Jim Broadbent and the primo basso Richard Temple is played by Timothy Spall. Screening and audience discussion lead by Thomas Blank.
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November 18 Video Slam
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sunday
Sponsor: DIVA Media Arts Committee (FDV)
Admission: $2-5.00 ss.
Artists screen their short videos in a competition following in the tradition of the poetry slam. An audience choice award sends the winner to the OpenLens Festival competition. A goal of this monthly event is to help develop a local video and film community where work can be screened and discussed by peers and the community. See the Video Slam web site for entry details.
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November 18 - Classic Film Seminar Series: "The Red Desert" (1964)
Time: 7:00 PM Friday
Sponsor: DIVA Media Arts Committee (FDV)
Admission: Free
The Red Desert (1964) by Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni has been described as "a visually impressive, nearly dreamlike look at an alienated housewife slowly going mad in a surreal industrial town," and "a truly great film about alienation in the modern age".
In this seminar, the screening is followed by thought-provoking audience discussion lead by program coordinator, Steve Poizat-Newcomb, will focus on the film's form, content and significance. Poizat-Newcomb is Secretary of the DIVA Center's Media Arts Committee and brings to this open door seminar a background in film studies. Free. For more information call .
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Learn More About The DIVA Media Arts. The Center provides an online Media Arts Calendar that describes up-coming events throughout the year. You can also read more about the Media Arts Program and its goals and objectives online.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design. (Scout Report) Upon the most casual glance through this lovely and visually stimulating online exhibit, one might think that an equally appropriate title for such a venture might well be "da Vinci Comes Alive!
Designed to accompany an in situ exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, this multimedia tribute to da Vinci’s work includes a section where visitors can look over the Forster Codices in all of their exquisite detail.
All told, they contain five notebooks filled with drawings and illustrations, all of which were eventually bequeathed to the Museum by John Forster in the late 19th century. Another feature on the site is the "Canal Challenge", which lets users attempt to design a canal inspired by the work of da Vinci, and most importantly, to see if it works properly.
The site is rounded out by a selection of electronic cards, the opportunity to win a trip to Italy, and a timeline of his life. Visit Web Site. |
TWO SHOWS AT THE DIVA CENTER THIS MONTH
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Art Deadlines List. A free monthly e-mail newsletter providing information about juried exhibitions/competitions, call for entries/proposals/papers, jobs, internships, writing & photo contests, scholarships, residencies, design & architecture competitions, auditions, fellowships, casting calls, tryouts, grants, festivals, funding, financial aid, and other opportunities (including some that take place on the web) for artists, art educators and art students of all ages. Edited and published by Richard Gardner. Premium list available for paid subscription.
Ashland Film Festival Accepting entries. Regular Entry Deadline November 17, 2006! The Ashland independent film festival is currently accepting entries for its 6th annual festival April 12-16, 2007 in downtown Ashland, Oregon on five screens of the historic Varsity Theatre. Filmmakers working in all genres, themes and lengths are welcome. All films are eligible for submission to the 2007 festival if completed after January 1, 2005. To download our Entry Form and for more information visit the festival website www.ashlandfilm.org and go to the filmmaker page.
Deadline: May, 2007 - Community Arts Grants are available each year for individuals and groups producing arts projects and programs that benefit the City of Eugene and its residents. These grants are made possible with funds from the City of Eugene Room Tax Fund. More Information.
Mentor Program Seeks Artists and Administrators. The University of Oregon Mentor Program is looking for artists and arts administrators to speak with students about their work. The Mentor Program offers a one-credit, career-exploration class through 13 departments and schools at the University of Oregon. In the classes, students are matched with two mentors working in areas of the students' interests. The students conduct a thirty-minute informational interview with each mentor. Students also work on a resume, a cover letter, and networking skills in the classes. We are currently looking for a muralist to speak to a student who is also interested in Renaissance art. We are also looking for curators, especially those working on the
West Coast or with experience with Byzantine art.
If you are interested in speaking with one of these students about your work for thirty-minutes, please contact Kristi Lodge, Assistant Director, Mentor Program, University of Oregon Career Center at or
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