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NORMAN COLSTON-STELLA KOMINA SIMATOY//AN ISLAND JOURNEY//

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NORMAN COLSTON-STELLA KOMINA SIMATOY

Paper, Paint and Clay…Hands On… Creative Workshops

The Ionion Center for Arts and Culture is very pleased to announce a series of Visual Art Workshops which will take place at the Center during the month of June 2013.

The Workshops will be led by Artist Norman Colston who is staging an Exhibition entitled “An Island Journey” during his Residency at the Center between 6th to 26th June.

The Center will be opened from 11am to 1pm and 6pm to 8pm each day or by special appointment.

Originally from Dundee, Scotland and a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Norman was the former Director of Dundee Printmakers Workshop. Since retiring from the post of Arts and Heritage Manager for the City of Dundee, Norman has returned to Painting, working from his studio on the Ionion Island of Zakynthos for the last six years.He has travelled extensively in Greece for the last four decades and his colourful and vibrant paintings are clearly influenced by the Country, its Culture and its People. He follows the graphic tradition of artists as diverse as Moreau, Ingres, Klimt and Stuck who have been influenced by both the myth and reality of ancient Greece. His imagery investigates the classical proportions of the human figure through his personal observation and recording of life models and mannequins.Fragmented marble, eroded bronze sculptures and ceremonial ceramic pots along with the symbolism of the fruits are central to his visual vocabulary. The paintings seek to stimulate a connection between artist, painting and viewer through direct access to the work.

The Workshops which are aimed at a wide cross section of the Kefalonian community will create an opportunity for personal and group exploration of basic research, visual stimulation, observation and recording. This will be achieved through the use of a number of drawing and painting materials leading to a positive outcome for the individual participants.

The enrolment cost for the Workshops  is 10 euro including all sessions.  The Workshops which are encouragingly priced  as tutorial cost 10 Euros for each 3 hour session and include basic materials. Each session is limited to 6 participants so that individuals can work in a creative and relaxed environment.

The Workshops will take place at the following dates and times; Thursday 6th; Friday 7th; Monday 24th; Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June.The Workshops will take place in the Evening between 7-10pm.

Additionally there will be an Open Access Studio Drop In Sessions on the above days between 11am and 1pm. Norman will be happy to discuss his work with all interested parties on an informal basis at those times or by appointment.

The exhibition content will be complemented by a selection of Ceramics by Kefalonian artist Stella Komina Simatou.

Ceramicist Stella will also be undertaking a two- part Workshop on the creation of Primitive Bowls.

The first part will be the Making of the bowls at the Center on Tuesday 4th June followed by the Loading and Firing of the Kiln on Monday 17th June at Stella’s Studio. The total cost for this will be 12 Euros per person and take place between 7pm – 9pm on both evenings.

Certificate of participation will be offered to all participants

To find out more and enrol for the Workshops please contact the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture  on Tel.26710.41126 www.ionionartscenter.gr –info@ionionartscenter.gr

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MASK AND THE WORLD -SPERANZA SPIR, Holistic movement and butoh workshop.

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The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is proud to announce 

the project of Speranza Spir  : MASK AND THE WORLD – Holistic movement and butoh workshop.

A HOMMAGE TO KEFALONIA: 60 YEARS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

The process of understanding one’s anatomy and the experience of soul and genealogy of place involve a prying apart of the self to uncover the ever resonating essence of personal identity and biological genealogy. This short 2-day workshop will focus on bodywork that will encourage one to encounter parts of the Self through interaction with the natural environment of Kefalonia (and possibly that of Ithaki) relative to consciousness (through the body) of the randomness of a natural disaster, such as the one experienced in 1953 on Kefalonia Island. Through holistic movement explorations based on the Holistic Gymnastics Ehrenfried method, as well as Butoh dance practice, participants will ponder questions and notions pertaining to survival, belonging and root-identity, and articulating response through collective and individual creation and choreography to uncover and inform the relationships between the body and self, place, identity and belonging. The use of these two methods suggests the shape-shifting and somatic potentials that will come together and accrue specific meaning for all participating.

Details :

The workshop will take place at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Dates :13 – 14 May, 2013.

Time: 9h-14h. Maximum participants: 10

This workshop will be given in English.

If participants are willing, we may plan a site specific public performance.

The site and day will be determined as we evolve as a group.

Open to all.

Please forward your name and contact information with a short bio and why you are interested in doing this workshop.

For furthers inquiries  and enrolment please contact Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture , info@ionionartscenter.gr, www.ionionartscenter.gr

Ehrenfried Holistic Gymnastics is a movement approach bringing equilibrium via the intelligence of the body. It is based on simple movements, verbally suggested by the practitioner, encouraging proprioception and personal awareness. In turn, this exploration of movement enables the participant with musculoskeletal agility, aiding the body to liberate itself of automatisms and habits which can be a source of tension, pain, and compression. The repertoire of movements encourages active rest, joint alignment, mobility & muscle toning, all the while rhythmic breathing guiding the way movements are executed. Gradually, the internal organs regulate from the effects of rhythmic breathing; behaviour modifying itself in tandem with changes in physical habits giving way to the joy of movement and discovery of self.

Butoh is a form of dance theatre originating in Japan out of the post-World War II era, partly as opposition to America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as in protest of Western materialism. Butoh work calls on the body’s work, its changing conditions through stillness and physicality, and linking one to the essential and raw experiences of physical and spiritual states.

Speranza Spir – Éducatrice Somatique

Motricity & Dance movement educator

Ehrenfried Method Holistic Gymnastics

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BILL FRAVEL WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

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IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE

International Art’s Festival

    KEFALONIA WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP

AND HERITAGE JOURNEY

Bill Fravel Watercolors-Marilyn Fravel  

In memory of the 60th anniversary of the destructive  earthquake on Kefalonia- Ithaca  islands, Bill Fravel Watercolors desires to conduct an educational watercolor painting workshop at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture in the Greek Island Kefalonia

Eligible  are artists and interested  from around the world to earn more about painting in the watercolor medium.  Students at all painting levels of learning are invited to participate.  This workshop  will create work from painting plein air , from free inspiration or from photographs of the Island during the workshop.

WORKSHOP DATES:Sunday, September 7 to September 13   2013

 

WORKSHOP/EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Group instruction, demonstration, individual mentoring

Painting day trips to Fiskardo and Poros

Afternoon/evening group critiques

Painting outdoors at Ionion Center, in Metaxata

Public exhibition “Pin-Up & Post It Show” of Bill Fravel & students works

Marilyn Demos (Dimitratos) Fravel, wife of Bill Fravel watercolorist/instructor , will also take interested students/participants to area of Poros to explore her family roots and the ancient  history and archaeological  sites of the  area,  where her paternal grandfather was born and raised before immigrating to the central coast of California in the early 1900’s.

Detailed information: Bill Fravel Watercolors

Marilyn Fravel, WOFA

2510 El Paso Grande Ave.

Henderson, Nevada  89074 USA

(702) 468-6041 studio/text

BillFravel@aol.com

www.billfravel.com

bill.fravel   Skype

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PLANETARY COLLEGIUM – I-NODE GREECE- OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES

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PLANETARY COLLEGIUM –  I-NODE GREECE

OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES

Syncretic strategies towards art, science, technology, and consciousness research.

Applications are invited for the post of PhD candidates of  the – I-Node, Planetary Collegium PhD Program.

I-Node is the new Node of Planetary Collegium PhD Program of Plymouth University, UK.located in Ionion  Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) on the Greek island  Kephalonia.

INFORMATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Collegium

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/273

http://www.facebook.com/ionionode

http://www.ionionartscenter.gr

You can download the I-Node prospectus and the newsletter via sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/cv7ksS6UMcuVApNW%2Bjwm6g

The Planetary Collegium is an international platform for research in art, technology and consciousness, with its hub (CAiiA- Advanced  Inquiry  in Integrated Arts) based in the University of Plymouth. Its president is Roy Ascott.

The Collegium consists of artists, theoreticians and scholars who meet online and periodically face-to-face in many parts of the world, to develop their research in the practice and theory of art, technology and science with special interest in telematics and technoetics. Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD. Post-doctoral research is also pursued. Within the context of transdisciplinarity and syncretism, the Collegium promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research within a post-biological culture.

Applicants should have a MA degree and proven fluency in English language (in case English is not their native language).

Applicants  eligibility is not limited to any particular field. It is based on the innovation  of the  proposals  in connection to the Planetary Collegium research  high standards, accepting  students or academics.

All part-time doctoral research candidates attend three mandatory ten-day face-to-face Composite Sessions each year over a continuous three year period. Typically, each session involves three days of individual research updates presented for discussion by the group; a three stage critique by all members of the group in respect of each other’s work; individual supervisory tutorials; a two-day public symposium; and a one-day cultural visit.

Doctoral candidates are required to submit progress reports to the University of Plymouth Research Committee at regular intervals.

  • At the conclusion of each Composite Session, candidates submit their Research Update (ppt) and Critical Response (Word).
  • The Transfer Report (5,000 words), accompanied by independent expert commentator’s report, is submitted to support the transfer from MPhil to full PhD status.
  • After a minimum of four year’s research, a candidate is eligible to submit a thesis for Final Examination, which includes a viva voce examination. The final submission may consist in either a written thesis of 80,000 words, or a thesis consisting in two parts: a digital portfolio of practical work which has been initiated, researched and developed exclusively within the candidate’s registered research period, and a linked narrative of no less than 35, 000 words.

Application materials, timeline and all additional information will be announced on further notice.

Applicants should send their declaration of interest to Katerina Karoussos,

 Director of I-Node: kkaroussos@gmail.com

ACADEMIC BOARD OF THE I-NODE

Professor Roy Ascott ,

Founding Director, Supervisor, President of the  Planetary Collegium, CAiiA Hub, Plymouth University.

Katerina Karoussos

Executive Director of the I-Node

Dr. Iannis Zannos

Director of Studies – First Supervisor (DoS/S1)

Professor at Masters Programme in Sonic Arts and Technologies, Music Department, Ionion University, Corfu, Greece

Georgos Papakonstantinou

Second Supervisor (S2)

Professor  in the University of Thessaly Greece

Archtecture, Director in documentary films and multimedia projects .

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As a part of Planetary Collegium, I-Node is  supported by its Advisory and Academic Board which includes all its Honorary members form CAiiA hub as well as from its two other nodes the M-Node and The Z-Node. Each one of the members is a leader in his/her respective fields. This board stands not only as inspiration to PhD candidates,but also it could provide mentorship and support.

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