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Collaboration, Social Justice, and Professional Empowerment: A Multi-Genre Workshop Led by Kristina Marie Darling

Collaboration, Social Justice, and Professional Empowerment: A Multi-Genre Workshop
Led by Kristina Marie Darling

The program is part of the POETRY – LITERATURE 21st CENTURY,applies under the 2023 International Program of the Ionion Center for the Arts & Culture
Program Overview:
Collaborations inevitably lead creative practitioners to reflect on their own voice, aesthetic choices, and their subject position, expanding one’s sense of what is possible in one’s own projects, even when working alone. Set in a gorgeous location in the Ionian Islands, Greece, this workshop will consider collaboration in service of social justice and professional empowerment. The program will be conducted in sites of extreme interest, such as the Medieval Castle & the Ancient Monuments as well in the Kefalonian beaches. We will place a particular emphasis on collaborating with those whose work differs significantly from one’s own in style, genre, perspective, worldview, and/or medium.

Dates:

Program Dates: Tuesday, May 2nd – Wednesday May 10th 2023
Who is it for:
Creators from all the art fields with special focus to poetry in connection with various art forms. Participants are welcome either in situ or by distant participation form.

Details:
Organizer: Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, https://ionionartscenter.gr/
Location: The Greek Island Kefalonia
Deadlines for applications-Early Bird registrations: March 20th 2023
Final Deadlines for applications – registrations: April 20th 2023
Language: The program will be conducted in English. All languages are welcome.
Application: web application: http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk
OR Email application: info@ionionartscenter.gr
Contact & Information (submissions, fees, grants info): info@ionionartscenter.gr
Program Information: contact@ionionartscenter.gr

The Instructor: Kristina Marie Darling, https://kristinamariedarling.com/
Guest Speakers
Poetry & Music: Dale Trumbore, https://www.daletrumbore.com/
Literature & the Visual Arts: Mary-Kim Arnold, https://mkimarnold.com/
Nick Flynn, https://nickflynn.org/
Hasanthika Sirisena, https://www.hasanthikasirisena.com/
Literature & Film: Chloe Honum, https://www.chloehonum.com/
Mary Kathryn Jablonski, https://mkjpoet.com/
The Ethics of Collaboration: Carol Guess, https://www.carolguess.net/
Oliver de la Paz, https://www.oliverdelapaz.com/
Finding Your Community: How to Connect with Collaborators Beyond Your Chosen Discipline: Tina Cane, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tina-cane
John James, https://jj-poetry.com/
Poetry as Spiritual Journey : Ioana Cosma , http://www.silverbowpublishing.com/ioana-cosma.html
Twentieth-century American Literature; Epistolary Poetics: Nicholas Skaldetvind, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-skaldetvind-56a63b215/
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Program
Day One: Welcome & Celebration
Readings & Performances on the beach, Welcome Dinner
Day Two: Poetry & Music, Poetry as Spiritual Journey
Guest Speakers: Composer Dale Trumbore, Ioana Cosma
Day Three: Literature & The Visual Arts
Guest Speakers: Nick Flynn, Mary-Kim Arnold, Hasanthika Sirisena, Nicholas Skaldetvind,
Day Four: Literature & Film
Guest Speakers: Mary Kathryn Jablonski & Chloe Honum
Day Five: Finding Your Community: How to Connect with Collaborators Beyond Your Chosen Discipline: Guest Speakers: Tina Cane & John James
Day Six: The Ethics of Collaboration . Guest Speakers: Carol Guess & Oliver de la Paz
Day Seven: Celebration & Farewell
Readings & Performances in the Caves
Farewell Dinner
Poetry & Star Gazing

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, https://ionionartscenter.gr/, info@ionionartscenter.gr.
ALL THE RIGHTS RESERVED

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IONION CENTER ACADEMIC GRANT’S 2021-2022/ARTS–SCIENCES-RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY-EDUCATION

OPEN  INTERNATIONAL  GRANT CONNECTED PROGRAMS 2022

Detailed info for the grant connected programs : https://ionionartscenter.gr/grants/

CONTACT & INFORMATION  : research@ionionartscenter.gr 

APPLICATIONS  : http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

APPLICATIONS BY E-MAIL : info@ionionartscenter.gr

PROGRAMS 

▪  SEA(S) ARTS 2022 International Exhibition

▪ Sustainable Horizons & Toxic  Environments

▪ ‘’TIMELESS LIGHT’’ Open to Sciences,  Arts, Technology and Philosophy

▪ Living Histories, Education and Social Involvement

▪ Transforming a School in Art Museum

▪ Working for the Community, Murals program

▪ Configuring Kommos: Narrative in Event, Place and Memory

▪ Exploration, Research and Art Performances based on the Ancient,    Byzantine,Meta-Byzantine and Medieval Kefalonian Monuments

▪ Academic Research, Arts and Educational processes in Caves / Geology, Anthropology, Paleoanthropology

▪ Sea Sports Exploration & Sea Research programs

▪ Public Music Event , Global Mucisian

▪ Literature: Science of Translation, Marketing & Communication

▪ Ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotelian Philosophy

DEADLINE FOR 2021-2022 ACADEMIC GRANT’S SUBMISSIONS: OPEN

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE:  10 DAYS AFTER THE FORMAL SUBMISSION

Higher  Education Institutions, Artists, Scientists, Researchers with personal or group projects are encouraged  to participate by submitting proposals for: Master classes, thematic workshops, study abroad programs,faculty led programs, semester abroad , field studies, research, experimentation, establishment of events , summer schools, exhibitions, presentations, festivals, conferences.Projects of innovation are encouraged.

For all the programs is required formal submission.

Submissions  for cademic grants 2021-2022 

INFO:          https://ionionartscenter.gr/

CONTACT : contact@ionionartscenter.gr /    OR                       research117519@ionionartscenter.gr

GRANTS 2022 AVAILBLE UP TO 40.000 EURO (academic groups of 12-18 students+2 professors)

ELIGIBLE FOR  GRANTS: Proposals FORMALLY submitted by universities,  professors or art’s involved team instructors, schools all levels, & all fields,  faculties, research centers.

ACCEPTABLE :Projects based on the existing Ionion Center international programs (list above)  OR new projects submitted by the interested institutions . All the academic fields are eligible.

LOCATION:  ALL PROGRAMS will be advanced in the Greek  Island Kefalonia  at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture and  on sites of significance  such as archaeological and historical places.

TIME : All the granted  academic projects will take place between April 5th 2022 until November  30th 2022, dates according the time schedule of the applicants/universities/institutions.

SELECTION COMMITTEE : Internationally recognized  academics, members of the Academic Team of the Ionion Center

GRANTS-AWARDS POLICY: The grants-awards policy of the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is based on the value, innovation, international focus  and long term impact of the projects.

APPLICATIONS  : http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

APPLICATIONS BY E-MAIL : info@ionionartscenter.gr

GRANT’S INFO, DETAILS,TERMS, CONDITIONS : ionionartscenter@gmail.com  /or/  info@ionionartscenter.gr

INFO: https://ionionartscenter.gr/

CONTACT : contact@ionionartscenter.gr /OR/          research117519@ionionartscenter.gr

 

IONION CENTER ACADEMIC GRANT’S 2020-2021/ARTS–SCIENCES-RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY-EDUCATION

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image credits to Prf.Craig Dongoski(granted project 2017,Georgia State University, working on public murals).

OPEN   CALL /  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM /ACADEMIC  GRANT’S   2020-2021/ ARTS–SCIENCES-RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY-EDUCATION

GLOBAL ANNOUNCEMENT OPEN FROM :   01-01-2020

DEADLINE FOR 2020 ACADEMIC GRANT’S SUBMISSIONS:   APRIL 5th  2020     due to pandemic the submissions for the year 2020 academic programs will be open until September 30th 2020, dates for realisation of the programs will be extended to December 20th 2020 

 

Open International Programs 2020      

1.  International Forum SEA(S) 2020, directed by Dr. Haytham Nawar .

2.  SOS- Paradise Calling, directed by Dr. Victoria Vesna and Dr. Haytham Nawar

3.  Timeless Light, International Exhibition directed by the Center  Team

4.  Sustainable  Horizons & Toxic  Environments,  directed by the Center  Team

5. Metamotif directed by Professor Nada Abdalla

6. Helios  the Elemental directed by Enrique Verdugo

7. Living Histories, Education and Social involvement course, directed by Professor Scott Townsend, North Carolina State University  and  American College Thessaloniki

8. Ithaca Rediscovered, History and Nature exploration, directed by ECOTRAVEL KEFALONIA

FIELDS OF INTEREST,CHALLENGES & TOPICS

  • – Economic, geopolitical, social transformations, migration, fast changing multicultural societies, high demands of industry and work rights, arts – design in production and markets, social involvement.
  • – Sciences and Arts in conjunction with advanced technologies, social & global consciousness, accross borders connectivity, Past, Present and Future.
  • – Climate change, toxic environments, continents, seas, oceans, sustainable planet.
  • Available will be  professional spaces and assistance for education,creation, performance-exhibitions,  academic connectivity, intercultural understanding.
The programs will be advanced in collaboration with the ECOTRAVEL KEFALONIA :  https://ecotravel-kefalonia.com

 

 

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Helios the Elemental,Photography master class Led by Enrique Verdugo

Helios the Elemental

Photography master class,Led by Enrique Verdugo

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Fundaments of analogue photography • Introduction to the analogue camera • Exposure and taking light readings • Shutter speed settings and movement • Apertures (f-stops) and depth of field • Creative approaches to photographing different subjects • Shoot black-and-white film (ISO. ASA) • Composition and lighting.

Introduction to basic darkroom skills:• Processing film from the previous days, making a contact sheet • Preparing and mixing developers, temperature versus timing • Washing and drying  • Analysing negatives in the light box • The equipment and how it works.

Making prints: • introduction to how enlarger work • Negatives papers and filter grade • Timing • Making first print test and visualizing final print • Dodging and burning.

Exhibiting at the Ionion Center

Venue : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture & sites in the island of Kefalonia.

Dates  Session 1:      September 7th – 13th 2020

               Session 2:       September 15th – 21st 2020

Location: Greece,   Island Kefalonia.

Opening date for applications: June1st 2020

Deadline for applications:  July15th, 2020

Deadline for completion of submissions/final participations: August 5th  2020

Eligibility : Open to all and to  Photography and film interested

Application by e-mail :  info@ionionartscenter.gr    /or/ ionionartscenter@gmail.com

Academic support : info@ionionartscenter.gr

Information, terms, conditions, fees :   info@ionionartscenter.gr

Side activities: Exploration of  Kefalonia’s lights and surrounds, included natural formations, sites of interest, beaches, museums, traditional dancing nights and events.

www.ionionartscenter.gr                                                         https://www.ionionartscenter.gr/2020 master-classes.

The program will be advanced in collaboration with the ECOTRAVEL KEFALONIA :  https://ecotravel-kefalonia.com

About Enrique Verdugo:

Enrique Verdugo is a photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in London. He was born in Santiago de Chile.

He holds a degree in Photography from Arcos Institute in Santiago de Chile and a Masters degree in Film Making from Kingston University in the UK.

Enrique is a freelancer and works with editorial, and architectural practices. His work includes a variety of commissions as well as creative educational projects. He collaborates with diverse artists, as well as on his own projects.

His work in photography and film is mainly on location. Subjects vary

from abandoned architecture and industrial spaces such as in his series ‘Echoes and Deserts’, to experimentation in portraying ‘time and motion’ using the human body as a canvas in his ‘Body and Flux’ series.

Enrique was shortlisted for the ‘Hariban Award’ in Japan in 2019. He is currently working on two self publishing projects, as well as producing a feature length documentary film about water and politics in his native Chile.

Video & photographic works:   http://enriquever.com/ https://vimeo.com/enriqueverdugo

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SOS paradise calling! Masterclass led by Victoria Vesna & Haytham Nawar

SOS paradise calling!     

  Masterclass led by Victoria Vesna & Haytham Nawar 

SOS

Who can go to vacation in paradise and ignore all the suffering going on above and below the earth, the water and the skies?

Meet a group of renowned artists and scientists to explore, learn think about the planet and come up with creative ways to address the urgent calls from people, animals and the invisible world.

Experience the gorgeous, mythical environment through field trips, lectures, workshops through hands on collaborative projects considering the myriad points of view.

Explore the mountains, gullies, lakes and the Ionian Sea.

SEE from a different perspective the planktons and micro-plastics.

HEAR the sounds of birds, the winds of change and the underwater noise pollution.

FEEL the air and get closer to your intuitive sensing.

TASTE the sea and the food that we will cook together and eat in community.

THE INSTRUCTORS:

VICTORIA VESNA, Ph.D.:Artist, Professor, Design Media Arts, founder and Director of UCLA Art Sci center, Visiting Professor at Empowerment Informatics Program, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Interface Cultures, University of Linz, Austria. Active since the early 1980s, she created early Internet art works and developed many projects in long term collaborations with scientists.

 

HAYTHAM NAWAR, Ph.D:Artist, designer, researcher, Assistant Professor and Director of the Graphic Design program, Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo. Founder and Director of the Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic, and New Media Arts Festival.

 

Dates              July 14-28, 2020 (due to the pandemic new dates will be determined and announced)

Location         Kefalonia Island, Greece

Venue             Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Deadline for applications:

Capacity         16 participants

 SOS!paradise calling!MASTERCLASSSUBMISSION POLICY, TERMS, CONDITIONS, FEES: please contact: ionionartscenter@gmail.com 

ELIGIBILITY 

Artists from all disciplines, scientists, researchers, philosophers, environmentalists, Minds seeking deeper meaning and connection between Creative Practice, Life and the World.

HOW TO APPLY?

If interested to know more details on general info, terms, conditions, fees, documentation, personal support, kindly email: ionionartscenter@gmail.com  OR  info@ionionartscenter.gr

 

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture operates in a Global environment in the fields of Higher Education, Arts and Research. The International Strategy of the Institution in accordance to its Establishment Act, is embracing the Globalization needs of the Academic and Art’s World. Knowledge, Academic Research and Innovation in across borders model constitutes the core program of the Institution.

Come to Create, Present, Perform

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Tom Faber : Quarry

TOM FABER

EXHIBITION

MAY 5TH 2019

Quarry, Tom Faber

 

‘’Myth-making’’

In the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go was released. It allowed you to see Pokémon through your phone camera, situated in the world with GPS, challenging you to catch them. Creatures could become visible all around you; you could see flaming horses appearing by the Parthenon, magnet- creatures wandering the streets, two headed birds walking on water.

The app was a craze – short lasting and kitsch. But it was a contemporary, technological distortion of an ancient human impulse – to see, to exist with and to accept a parallel world, overlaid on our own.

In Kefalonia last year I began thinking about the overlap of myth and the natural world. Ancient Greek culture considered beings and Gods to be embedded in the forces of nature – literally within the wind and the sea. Then and now, we have an impulse towards enchantment with our own inventions, our own power to hybridize and manipulate the biological world in both fiction and reality.

So what is the difference? Is something else at work here?

Man-made events are occurring on a scale now that seems to require myths, which have been used over time to help us conceive of complex natural and social phenomena.

But things that we might have considered of mythical status and size –the reconstruction of clone animals from samples, the digging up of ancient oil for burning, the visibility of funny hybrid animals through our phone cameras – have become normalized to the extent that the idea of what is a ‘myth’ is challenged.

Myth also means a lie, untruth. And now, in a scientific age, it is difficult to say that we thought the universe was born from an egg, or from the body of a frost giant, or will end in such a way.

But it is possible that reaching towards these ‘untruths’ can create a framework for conceptualizing troubling developments that are beyond our normal sight range. This mythical register helps us examine something that appears mythical itself: our constantly increasing power to distort the world around us.

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‘’Mυθοπλασία’’

Το καλοκαίρι του 2016, κυκλοφόρησε το Pokémon Go. Eπέτρεψε να δούμε  Pokémon μέσω της κάμερας τηλεφώνου μας, εγκατεστημένο  στον κόσμο  με GPS, προκαλώντας  να τα πιάσουμε. Τα Πλάσματα θα μπορούσαν να είναι ορατά γύρω μας. θα μπορούσαμε να δούμε άλογα με φλόγες να εμφανίζονται από τον Παρθενώνα,  πλάσματα μαγνήτες να περιπλανιούνται στους δρόμους, δικέφαλα  πουλιά που περπατούν στο νερό.

Η εφαρμογή ήταν μια τρέλα – βραχυχρόνια και kitsch. Αλλά ήταν μια σύγχρονη, τεχνολογική παραμόρφωση μιας αρχαίας ανθρώπινης ώθησης  να βλέπει και στην περίπτωση αυτή να αποδέχεται έναν παράλληλο κόσμο  σε συνύπαρξη με το δικό μας.

Στην Κεφαλονιά πέρυσι άρχισα να σκέφτομαι την συνύπαρξη  του μύθου και του φυσικού κόσμου. Ο αρχαίος Ελληνικός πολιτισμός θεωρούσε δυνατό όντα και Θεοί να ενσωματώνονται στις δυνάμεις της φύσης – κυριολεκτικά μέσα στα φυσικά στοιχεία όπως στον  άνεμο και στη θάλασσα. Τότε και τώρα ως άνθρωποι κατέχουμε μια ώθηση προς τη γοητεία  για τις δικές μας εφευρέσεις, τη δική μας δύναμη να υβριδοποιούμε και να χειραγωγούμε τον βιολογικό κόσμο τόσο στη μυθοπλασία όσο και στην πραγματικότητα.

Κατ’ αυτή την έννοια ποια είναι η διαφορά; Υπάρχει κάτι άλλο εδώ;

Τα γεγονότα που προκαλούνται από τον άνθρωπο συμβαίνουν σε τέτοια κλίμακα, που τώρα ανακαλεί τους μύθους  που έχουν χρησιμοποιηθεί στην πάροδο του χρόνου, για να μας βοηθήσουν να συλλάβουμε  σύνθετα φυσικά και κοινωνικά φαινόμενα.

Αλλά τα πράγματα που θα μπορούσαμε να λάβουμε υπόψη για τη μυθική τους υπόσταση και το μέγεθος –όπως  η ανακατασκευή κλώνων από ζωικά δείγματα, η εκσκαφή αρχαίου πετρελαίου για καύση, η ορατότητα περίεργων  υβριδικών ζώων μέσω των τηλεφωνικών μας καμερών – υποστηρίζουν μία κανονικότητα  σε  βαθμό που πλέον η ιδέα του τι είναι μύθος αμφισβητείται.

Ο μύθος σημαίνει επίσης ψέμα, αναλήθεια. Και τώρα, σε μια επιστημονική εποχή, είναι δύσκολο να πούμε ότι πιστεύαμε ότι ο κόσμος γεννήθηκε από ένα αυγό ή από το σώμα ενός παγωμένου γίγαντα  ή θα τελειώσει με τέτοιο τρόπο.

Αλλά είναι πιθανό ότι η προσέγγιση  αυτών των «αναληθειών» μπορεί να δημιουργήσει ένα πλαίσιο για την εννοιοποίηση των ανησυχητικών εξελίξεων που είναι πέρα ​​από  το φυσιολογικό εύρος των οραμάτων μας. Αυτό το μυθικό μητρώο μας βοηθά να εξετάσουμε κάτι που μοιάζει μυθικό αφεαυτού: τη συνεχώς αυξανόμενη δύναμη μας να στρεβλώνουμε τον κόσμο γύρω μας.

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