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About: new Art and Activism listserver

Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:22:50 -0800 (PST)

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    Originally dated: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:22:50 -0800 (PST)

    > Subject: new Art and Activism listserver
    >
    Hi -
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    > the following is to invite you to join a new mailing list: ARTERY -
    > for
    > arts, community, and activism. I'm initiating this to keep in touch
    > with
    > friends and promote dialogue between the artist and activist
    > communities.
    >
    > The list is new, so it's open to growth and development from your
    > input.
    > Judging from the response so far, I think it's going to be a hot
    > list.
    > Please pass this info on to any
    > interested parties.
    >
    > To subscribe, follow the directions below.
    >
    > take care,
    >
    > Dan Vie
    > foolish@smartt.com
    > Vancouver Canada
    >
    > ###############################
    > ARTERY - Community Arts For Social Change
    >
    > Welcome to the ARTERY - a networking forum for community-based
    > artists
    to share news, ideas and strategies about their activist work in
    community.
    > This lightly-moderated mailing list will serve as a resource and
    > inspiration for artists concerned with integrating an activist
    > consciousness into their work; who use art as a transformative medium
    > for justice and social change, and work to create collective
    > mythologies that
    > embrace visions of our possible futures.
    >
    > Community art is not specialized technology for a consumer elite.
    > Accessibility to the work, inclusive of the family and
    > non-professional, will be seen as key.
    >
    > This will be a place where artists who have been influenced by the
    > work of such companies as Welfare State, Bread and Puppet, and
    > Boal's
    > Theatre of The Oppressed can dialogue about their activities around
    > the globe.
    >
    > Discussion may range from the aesthetic to the practical - and focus
    > on
    > such topics as:
    >
    > - what's effective for stimulating social change?
    > - ethical responsibility as an artist
    > - positive vs. negative impacts of image-making
    > - choosing the mainstream or marginality?
    > - techniques from commedia, popular education, street
    > theatre, etc.
    > - designing work for demonstrations and direct action
    > - creating rituals and ceremonies
    > - scripts, proposals, and how-to build this and that
    > - infiltrating the popular media
    > - grassroots mobilizing of volunteers
    > - the problems of sponsorship and funding
    > - and especially, sustaining and motivating yourself
    > as a community-based artist.
    >
    > This can be a supportive resting place to evaluate our successes and
    > failures, to stimulate our collective poetics of community-building,
    > and disseminate ideas and energy for non-violent, creative protest.
    > Although my background is in theatre, the list is not exclusively for
    > performance-based arts. All celebration artists, culture-jammers,
    > giant puppeteers, shamans and fire-dancers, fools and pranksters,
    > horn-blowers and tree-huggers welcome.
    >
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > To *** SUBSCRIBE *** to ARTERY:
    > send a message to listproc@u.washington.edu with the following in the
    > message body:
    >
    > subscribe artery <your full name>
    >
    > You will receive a letter of confirmation to be resent as a security
    > measure.
    >
    > To *** CHANGE *** your subscription to *DIGEST* version
    >
    > (new messages are bundled and sent out to you once a day)
    > send a message to listproc@u.washington.edu with the following:
    >
    > set artery mail digest
    >
    > To *** UNSUBSCRIBE *** - remove your name from the distribution list
    > -
    > send e-mail to:
    >
    > listproc@u.washington.edu
    >
    > In the body of your message, include only the line:
    >
    > signoff artery
    >
    > And finally (the good part!) to SEND MESSAGES to the members of the
    > ARTERY list, send to:
    > artery@u.washington.edu
    > * * * * (please NOTE: this is *different* than the 'listproc'
    > address)
    > * * * *
    >
    > This list is maintained by Dan Vie (foolish@smartt.com). Please
    > contact me for more information.
    >
    > As the list grows, I'll be taking a more active role as moderator.
    > Flaming will be discouraged. Guidelines will be posted about content
    > for announcements, action alerts, etc.
    > posted October 21, 1997.
    >



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