new leaders for a new century

Hey folks,

If any of you plan on being in the Bay Area in October, here's another national conference for emerging theatre leaders.

a national conference and mobilization for emerging theatre leaders
October 5-6, 2008 San Francisco, California
a program of Theatre Bay Area

event partners: Theatre Communications Group and Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Who should come?

If you're aspiring to make a life in the theatre as a leader - either artistic or administrative - and if you're somewhere in the middle of your career path - neither a beginner nor arrived at your dream job - this is the conference for you. Whether you're working up the LORT ladder, running a company you're trying to grow, or building a whole new way to have a career in the theatre, we're interested in talking to you.

http://www.theatrebayarea.org/programs/newleaders08.jsp

S.T. Shimi's bio & stuff

Yay! Here I am...


S.T. Shimi has been a member of Jump-Start Performance Co. (San Antonio, TX) since 1996 and is now serving as Artistic Director for Company Programming. She is a writer, dancer, dance instructor, choreographer and performer specializing in the creation of solo performance work. Her most recent works and collaborations include Southern Discomfort (2001), Something Else (2005), Watermark 1.5 (2006) and On The Island (2008), which toured in workshop form to the first National Asian-American Theatre Festival in New York, 2007. Shimi is the co-owner and an instructor/choreographer for Sirocco Dance Studio, a school for bellydance. Her movement skills include belly dance, contemporary, hip-hop and aerial/off-the-ground dance. Shimi is also a certified fitness dance instructor. As co-ordinator of W-I-P (Works-In Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance), she programs and facilitates San Antonio's longest-running monthly lab for original movement-based work in collaboration with San Antonio Dance Umbrella. She is an artist-educator with over ten years of experience in socially conscious, multi-disciplinary community projects with youth and adults.
S.T. Shimi received a B.A. in Theater and Women's Studies from Dartmouth College and currently serves on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS.

http://www.myspace.com/shimarella
shimi@jump-start.org

The Heifer Theatre Project 2008

Through Heifer International, a world hunger and relief organization, high school students from around the country are educated about Heifer's mission, experience the Global Village, and create a performance piece through a series of guided exercises and workshops by an artistic staff.

The Global Village experience is the main catalyst for their creative work. For three days and two nights the students live in a simulation of one of three communities: Mozambique, Tibet or the Mississippi Delta. The students themselves come from a variety of backgrounds from foster children to highly affluent. No matter where they fall on the spectrum of backgrounds, walking in the shoes of the third world adds perspective to their lives. From that experience springs forth incredible reflections, lyrics, movement pieces and so much more.

Check out our blog http://heifertp2008.blogspot.com/ to see how this project progresses.

On a final note, each year we are always searching for artistic staff. I know Anthem and Victor expressed interest and they are on my radar, however, if anyone else is interested or would like more info...send me a comment. I'd love to hear from you!

Joe's Pub's 10th Anniversary Announced

Hey guys,
We just announced our 10th anniversary last week and i'm very proud of the line up i hope that you can check out joe's pub sometime this fall!
Press Release here
Updated line-up here

Shanta

Chi-wang Yang (Bio and Statement)

Here was my response to our TCG statement:

Bio
Chi-wang Yang is a Los Angeles-based theater director. Committed to physical performance and cross-disciplinary experimentation, his work combines stage, media, and technology. He is a founding member of video performance collective Cloud Eye Control. His work has been featured at REDCAT, Time-Based Arts Festival, SF International Film Festival, NY International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, and the Platform International Animation Festival. Last fall he co-directed film shoot in Cuba for an upcoming theatrical production titled The Closest Farthest Away/Entrañable Lejanía. Chi-wang received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Other training includes the SITI Company with Anne Bogart, the Kitchen Summer Institute, and Brown University (BA). Chi-wang was the recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award for Theater Directing.

Describe the type of theater you would like to create and/or support and sustain.
I want to create a theater that, in the traditions of Cage and Fluxus, seeks to affirm it’s core essence while tempting total annihilation.
I want to create a theater that is a leader in cultural invention and innovation.
I want to create a theater that is local, national, and international.
I want to create a theater that is home to film, dance, music, visual art, science, and academics.
I want to create a theater that is diverse on the axes of race, aesthetic, form, and discourse.
I want to create a theater that champions a spirit of experimentation and fosters an excitation for unique encounters in it’s audience.
I want to create a theater that is passionate, abstract, and entertaining.

Cloud Eye Control show at REDCAT in LA, July 17, 18, 19!

I sent this out via email but wanted to make blog it. A group that I am a part of, Cloud Eye Control, is performing this week at the REDCAT NOW Festival in downtown LA. We just opened last night and had a good show. Damaso was in attendance and it was really nice seeing his familiar face. Info below. Please circulate to any interested parties! We got a good write-up in the LA Times, check it out here!

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NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2008
JULY 17–19 (THU, FRI, & SAT) @ 8:30 PM

Cloud Eye Control: Final Space and Subterranean Heart
With an ingenious blend of projected animation, live theater and upbeat music, Cloud Eye Control generates hyper-live performances of technological fancy. Whether probing outer space for a new habitat or mining earth for embedded gems, the creative team of Miwa Matreyek, Anna Oxygen and Chi-wang Yang seamlessly fuses disciplines to revel in a multidimensional, seductively cinematic experience.

http://www.cloudeyecontrol.com

The fifth annual NOW Festival encourages risk and invention to foster new dance, theater, music and hybrid performance works from artists throughout Los Angeles. Join us as REDCAT launches nine innovative and interdisciplinary projects that bend traditions and investigate new visions of work for the stage.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 W. 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.redcat.org

Accepting frequent flyer miles and hotel points

Some of our donors were interested in donating their frequent flyer miles and hotel points, but I don’t know how to start that process.

Does anyone have experience with this? I’d appreciate any nudge in the right direction.

Oanh

Latrelle Bright (Bio and Mission Statement)

Latrelle Bright, a recent graduate of the MFA Directing program at the University of Memphis, is a leader, teacher, director and arts advocate. She currently serves as Assistant Program Director for the Heifer Theatre Project (with Heifer International, a world hunger relief and sustainability organization) in Little Rock, AR and Director of Audience Development for Voices of the South in Memphis, TN.

Prior to graduate school she co-founded The Renaissance Guild (a Black theatre company) in San Antonio, TX and served as its artistic director for five years and also worked as Drama Director for Antonian High School and Holy Spirit School. In addition to her theatre work, she served her community through volunteer work with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, serving on the board of the YWCA of San Antonio and the Alamo Theatre Arts Council and speaking at a number of events on the power of social entrepreneurship.

Aesthetically the lyrical, the surreal and the "imagistic" are most appealing to her and favorite directing credits include Spell #7 and Betrayal for TRG, original works for Jump-Start Performance Company - Otherwise Occupied and Lost Recipes, The Sound of a Voice, The Castle, Hedda Gabler, The Love of Don Perlimplin...at the UofM and Topdog/Underdog at Hattiloo Theatre.

Her next creative venture, inquisition performance company, is an organization that will focus on creating performances and peripheral events focused on the questions of the day, engaging audiences in arts-based civic dialogue and pursuing means of post-performance activism.

Check out this weeks Green Show online!

Visit http://eq.tv to see The Oregon Shakespeare Festivals GREEN SHOW live online. The shows play on a loop as well as streaming live at 7:15 on specially scheduled evenings. I hope you'll be able to check it out. This minute we have Ananda Natya Indian Dance. Tomorrow is Bardbershop a multicultural ensemble of OSF actors doing funny barbershop quartet. Also check out our myspace page where we will hopefully be beta testing our Green Show TV code. http://www.myspace.com/osfashland