Meals and theater spring from, reinforce and invigorate community. Food is sustenance, a necessity that can be elevated to an art and is most special when delivered with love. Theater is sustenance, necessary to souls and intellect. Both are repositories of history and hope and visions for the future. From Heart, Head & Hands: Food/Theater/Community Part 1 by Candelaria … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
Readings by State-awarded Poets and Writers
We are thrilled - THRILLED, I say - to announce the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a series of literary events featuring Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in prose and poetry! The readings will take place this March and April 2011 in the Boston area and Western Mass., and they'll feature awardees from our 2010 review in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. … [Read more...]
Energizing Artist Opportunities
Dogs contributing to the public art project Park Spark by Matthew Mazzotta, MCC FY11 Sculpture/Installation Fellow. Interested in having your work shown or read during an international arts conference in Boston this coming April? Read more about theTransCultural Exchange's 3rd Biennale Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World April … [Read more...]
Screenwriter Chronicled
Caitlin McCarthy (left), a finalist in one of the recently announced MCC Artist Fellowships awards, will be interviewed on WCVB-TV Boston's Chronicle, this Friday, February 18, 2011. Caitlin will discuss her screenplay Wonder Drug, as well as her efforts, advocacy, and personal history with the DES drug disaster. (Caitlin's script explores the synthetic hormone DES, a drug … [Read more...]
Artadia Curatorial Panel in Boston
How does our seemingly endless access to information, as a culture, affect contemporary art practice? How does it change the way curators research and advance their work? These questions and more will be at the heart of the Curatorial Panel on Contemporary Art Research, a discussion organized by the national arts service organization Artadia. The panel discussion, hosted by … [Read more...]