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SUMMARY:First Friday Art and Studio Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Our celebration of arts and artists in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Riverside Hotel\, The Common Well\, Hannah Ball\, and Casino Beach\, these family-friendly evenings give you a chance to meet Garden City’s artists in their studios and work spaces. Plus\, you’ll find hands-on art activities at artKids tables and keep an eye out for roving and pop-up artists and performances throughout the night. \n\n\n\nNew for 2023: we have eliminated the guest artist fee! We can set you up with a location to show your work\, all you need to do is apply!FIRST FRIDAY GUEST ARTIST APPLICATION \n\n\n\nMore information about the next First Friday is available at The LWC District First Friday Event Page on Facebook. \n\n\n\nSee below to view an interactive Google map of the First Friday participating venues.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/1950/
LOCATION:Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installations,Open Studios,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Powell: Introduction to Hand Printed Linocut
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, painter and printmaker Elizabeth Powell (Vermont) will lead you in the creation of hand printed linocuts focused on pattern. \n\n\n\nPeople of different backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. Partial scholarships are available by writing info@surelspalce.org. \n\n\n\nAges 16 and up. Materials will be provided. \n\n\nElizabeth PowellMay - June\nElizabeth Powell is a painter and printmaker in Burlington\, Vermont.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe earned her MA and MFA in Printmaking and Painting from the University of Iowa in 2020 and a BA in Economics and Fine Arts from the University of Vermont in 2016. She has a keen interest in color theory\, patterning\, and the morphology of shapes as psychological representations of femininity.  \n\n\n\nHaving extensively studied gender inequality in her economic studies\, Powell explores the way the same sociological differences that lead to a systemic economic imbalance between men and women\, present themselves in visual taste for form\, pattern\, and color.Since finishing her MFA\, Powell has had solo shows in Iowa and upstate New York and is looking forward to her 2023 solo exhibition with Kishka Gallery in White River Junction\, Vermont.  \n\n\n\nPowell has attended residencies with BreckCreate in Breckenridge\, Colorado; InCahoots in Petaluma\, California; and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos\, New Mexico. \n\n\n\nDuring her residency\, Powell led a workshop on the creation of hand printed linocuts focused on pattern. \n\n\n\nPowell exhibited her work and gave an artist talk at the end of her residency. Her work wass comprised of abstract shapes and patterns. During the pandemic\, she largely focused on creating small paintings because of limited studio space and a desire for easily portable materials. She used the residency at Surel's Place to explore how her individual works of art can exist on a larger scale\, focusing on two larger canvases. This continued expansion is fitting since this work developed during one of the most constricting situations imaginable: while she was immobilized during an illness. Experiencing physical limitations\, she instinctively began to draw and abstract the shape of her own body to reconnect with it and to reclaim it. \n\n\n\nAn overlying skeletal structure often accompanies these forms\, but they entered Elizabeth's work from a surprising source. "On a quest for plain\, utilitarian underwear\, \n\n\n\nI was pulled into the abyss of online shopping. I am fascinated by over-the-top lingerie\, which is both impractical and outlandish. I am intrigued by the way the fabric forces women’s bodies into geometric shapes\, as if they are packaged into a smaller container." It was after this\, the cage or net-like imagery became a part of the work\, informed by her studies in gender inequality and its expression in form\, pattern\, and color.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/elizabeth-powell-introduction-to-hand-printed-linocut/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:From Eternity's Yurt: A Night of Poetry\, Philosophy and Music
DESCRIPTION:Poet Diane Raptosh returns to Surel’s Place with Hand Signs from Eternity’s Yurt\, a chapbook of poems featuring 22 sonnets. Each of the poems springs from a quotation by the British moral philosopher Mary Midgley\, who has a reputation as one of the most expansive and compelling moral philosophers of the twentieth century. “She thinks very much like a poet\,” Diane says of Mary Midgley. “The themes are very down to earth and contemporary: the environment\, animal rights\, civic unease.” \n\n\n\nDiane has invited Greg McElwain\, Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at The College of Idaho\, to join her. McElwain published Mary Midgley: An Introduction\, which is the first substantive introduction to Midgley’s influential philosophy on the human condition. Joining both Diane and Greg is their musician friend Scott Knickerbocker who will punctuate the words with tunes on the guitar. \n\n\n\nFree!
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/hand-signs-from-eternitys-yurt-an-evening-of-poetry-philosophy-and-banjo/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance,Reading,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Rafi Münz: Site-Specific=Spiritual Ecology and Spring of Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Artist-in-Residence Rafi Münz presents his work while he has been at Surel’s Place and gives an artist talk about his process and approach.  \n\n\n\nFree! \n\n\nRafi MünzApril - May\nArtist-in-Residence Rafi Münz and his host\, Boise filmmaker and writer Elizabeth Rodgers. \n\n\n\nRafi Münz ( רפי מינץ) comes to us from the village of Givat Ada in northern Israel where he has lived for more than 25 years. He is a freelance artist and teacher working as a painter\, sculptor\, illustrator\, calligrapher\, and printmaker. His works deal with social\, political and ecological agendas--expressing these through the personal experiences of daily living rather than global events.  \n\n\n\nRafi's work and studies have taken him all over the world\, beginning with The Bezalel School of art in Jerusalem and continuing with a Masters of Fine Art from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He also developed a specialty in printmaking from the Kunstneijverheid School in Amsterdam and Goldsmith's College in London.  He co-founded the Old Jaffa Artists’ Colony in Tel Aviv in 1964 and was active as an artist there for 30 years before becoming the managing director of the Kibbutz Art Studios. \n\n\n\nHeritage\, Studies\, Technique\, Experience... these are words Rafi uses to describe himself. But he finishes by saying: "The bottom line: Whenever possible\, I try to take myself less seriously." \n\n\n\nDuring his residency\, Münz led a workshop exploring the uses of found garbage as initiative & material for art works. They collected materials from recycling bins and transformed these materials into a mean for personal expression. \n\n\n\nFor his final event\, Münz exhibited his installation "Site specific = Spiritual Ecology & Spring of Creativity." Drawings\, photos & texts formed the basis for a series of paintings/collages interlacing Münz's experience of the Garden City community with the intentions & choices of the locals who guided him. He recruited individuals of variable ages\, gender\, and lifestyles to serve as his guides--emphasizing aesthetic views\, feelings\, and thoughts about recycling and sustainable living. The result was exhibited as several “autonomies”- telling peoples’ stories interwoven with his reaction to them. He used as many recycled materials as possible in the construction of his work. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0w6_CVKh8
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/rafi-munz-site-specificspiritual-ecology-and-spring-of-creativity/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230501T170000
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SUMMARY:Idaho Gives: Your Support Makes Art Happen
DESCRIPTION:We support artists — and with your help\, we can expand that support to more international\, national and local artists who have historically been underrepresented or challenged to find a spot in the arts community.  \n\n\n\nOne of the best — and easiest — ways you can support artists through Surel’s Place is to donate during Idaho Gives\, which runs this year from May 1 through May 4.  \n\n\n\nThis is the kind of work your generous contributions support:  \n\n\n\nOur month-long artist residencies are life-changing\, career-making experiences\, and every time we can increase our stipends or supports we open the door to more BIPOC artists\, more artists with different abilities\, more artists from ALL economic backgrounds and others who face incredible hurdles in sharing their creativity and insight with the world.  \n\n\n\nOur subsidized year-long studio residencies give Idaho artists an accessible and affordable opportunity to invest in their own creative futures — and ensure that our community stays vibrant and energized by new artistic voices.  \n\n\n\nAnd our events such as the First Friday Art and Studio Strolls in Garden City’s Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District bring the community and the community’s artists together to forge new relationships\, new insights into how we can face our shared challenges\, and\, quite frankly\, have a lot of fun together! \n\n\n\n\nDONATE THROUGH IDAHO GIVES!
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/idaho-gives-your-support-makes-art-happen/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230422T130000
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SUMMARY:Rafi Münz: Don't Throw it Away!
DESCRIPTION:This workshop for people ages 16 and up with Israeli artist Rafi Münz explores the uses of found garbage as initiative and material for art works. This will include collected materials from recycling bins and transforming these materials into whatever one wishes to construct or use as a means for personal expression. \n\n\n\nBring along articles/backgrounds/raw materials from recycling that you might like to include in your creation. \n\n\n\nScholarships available! \n\n\nRafi MünzApril - May\nArtist-in-Residence Rafi Münz and his host\, Boise filmmaker and writer Elizabeth Rodgers. \n\n\n\nRafi Münz ( רפי מינץ) comes to us from the village of Givat Ada in northern Israel where he has lived for more than 25 years. He is a freelance artist and teacher working as a painter\, sculptor\, illustrator\, calligrapher\, and printmaker. His works deal with social\, political and ecological agendas--expressing these through the personal experiences of daily living rather than global events.  \n\n\n\nRafi's work and studies have taken him all over the world\, beginning with The Bezalel School of art in Jerusalem and continuing with a Masters of Fine Art from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He also developed a specialty in printmaking from the Kunstneijverheid School in Amsterdam and Goldsmith's College in London.  He co-founded the Old Jaffa Artists’ Colony in Tel Aviv in 1964 and was active as an artist there for 30 years before becoming the managing director of the Kibbutz Art Studios. \n\n\n\nHeritage\, Studies\, Technique\, Experience... these are words Rafi uses to describe himself. But he finishes by saying: "The bottom line: Whenever possible\, I try to take myself less seriously." \n\n\n\nDuring his residency\, Münz led a workshop exploring the uses of found garbage as initiative & material for art works. They collected materials from recycling bins and transformed these materials into a mean for personal expression. \n\n\n\nFor his final event\, Münz exhibited his installation "Site specific = Spiritual Ecology & Spring of Creativity." Drawings\, photos & texts formed the basis for a series of paintings/collages interlacing Münz's experience of the Garden City community with the intentions & choices of the locals who guided him. He recruited individuals of variable ages\, gender\, and lifestyles to serve as his guides--emphasizing aesthetic views\, feelings\, and thoughts about recycling and sustainable living. The result was exhibited as several “autonomies”- telling peoples’ stories interwoven with his reaction to them. He used as many recycled materials as possible in the construction of his work. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O0w6_CVKh8
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/rafi-munz-dont-throw-it-away/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230407T053000
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SUMMARY:First Friday Art and Studio Stroll
DESCRIPTION:Our celebration of arts and artists in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District kicks off for 2023 in April! \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Riverside Hotel\, The Common Well\, Hannah Ball\, and Casino Beach\, these family-friendly evenings give you a chance to meet Garden City’s artists in their studios and work spaces. Plus\, you’ll find hands-on art activities at artKids tables and keep an eye out for roving and pop-up artists and performances throughout the night. \n\n\n\nThis year\, the Riverside Hotel will be debuting mini murals along the Greenbelt fence behind the hotel. They are also hosting a scavenger hunt where people search for certain items in the art. They will choose someone out of the people who complete the hunt to win a staycation at the hotel!We have new venues including Barbarian Brewing\, The Common Well\, and the Flamingo House (you can’t miss it…). \n\n\n\nSurel’s Place is partnering with The Backyard Artists to feature multiple artists and genres. At Surel’s Place look for an installation by Roxy Albig and an exhibit and live art by Jacey Adams and Roman Bolen. Next door to Surel’s Place\, in the new “Flamingo House” (you’ll understand the name once you see it!) you’ll find installations by OJ Johnson and Clara Geise along with artwork by Kim Porter.  Plus another installation by Megan White at Urban Gallery on 34th Street. \n\n\n\nAlso new for 2023: we have eliminated the guest artist fee! We can set you up with a location to show your work\, all you need to do is apply!FIRST FRIDAY GUEST ARTIST APPLICATION \n\n\n\nMore information about the next First Friday\, is available at The LWC District First Friday Event Page on Facebook. \n\n\n\nSee below to view an interactive Google map of the First Friday participating venues.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/first-friday-art-and-studio-stroll/
LOCATION:Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Open Studios,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Heit: Every Horizon Turns Liquid
DESCRIPTION:With its location along the river\, the Surel’s Place residency offeres Stephanie Heit (MI) unique support for her continued work on her manuscript Every Horizon Turns Liquid. As an ecopoetic exploration where water is at stake amidst climate change and evolutionary rigors\, this residency supported and fostered play and environmental inquiries budding in the piece. The work began along the shorelines of Lake Michigan\, documenting through somatic engagement the effects of Lake Michigan’s changing water levels\, and now expands to include our environs along with other real and imaginary locations. Stephanie worked outdoors\, utilizing movement and awareness exercises combined with writing to engage with place. She invited the environment to inform her work process and product through dialogue and somatic exchange with the landscapes she visited. These exercises combined with scientific research result in the work you will hear. This manuscript was a 2020 Nightboat Poetry Prize Finalist. \n\n\n\nFree and open to all.  \n\n\nStephanie HeitMarch - April\nA queer poet\, dancer\, and teacher\, Ms. Heit engages with her Ypsilanti\, Mich.\, community and beyond through a disability performance collective\, a literary organization for disabled poets\, and the somatic writing space she runs with her wife\, Petra Kuppers\, a 2017 Surel’s Place artist-in-residence in poetry. Her first poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System)\, was a Nighboat Poetry Prize finalist and explores the seams of language\, movement\, and mental health difference. Her second\, Psych Murders\, is scheduled for publication in fall 2022 by Wayne State University Press. Her work has appeared in journals including Sonora Review\, Ecotone\, Venti Journal\, Rogue Agent\, About Place\, Anomaly\, Bombay Gin\, Dunes Review\, Typo\, and Disability Studies Quarterly.  \n\n\n\nDuring her residency\, Heit led a workshop on the exploration of our inner and outer landscapes through guided awareness exercises to hone senses and bring attention to bodily sensations. Heit offered creative prompts with options to respond in drawing\, writing\, and/or movement.  \n\n\n\nWith its location along the river\, the Surel's Place residency offered Heit unique support for her continued work on her manuscript Every Horizon Turns Liquid. As an ecopoetic exploration where water is at stake amidst climate change and evolutionary rigors\, this residency supported and fostered play and environmental inquiries budding in the piece. The work began along the shorelines of Lake Michigan\, documenting through somatic engagement the effects of Lake Michigan’s changing water levels\, and now expands to include our environs along with other real and imaginary locations. Heit worked outdoors\, utilizing movement and awareness exercises combined with writing to engage with place. She invited the environment to inform her work process and product through dialogue and somatic exchange with the landscapes she visited. These exercises combined with scientific research resulted in the work presented during her reading event.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/stephanie-heit-every-horizon-turns-liquid/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230401T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230401T160000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Heit: Sensorial Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\n\nJoin poet and dancer Stephanie Heit for a workshop of sensate play at Surel’s Place. We will explore our inner and outer landscapes (including outdoors\, weather permitting) through guided awareness exercises to hone our senses\, to bring attention to our bodily sensations\, and to observe what we notice. Stephanie will offer creative prompts with options to respond in drawing\, writing\, and/or movement. There will be space to share our responses and experiences. We’ll collaborate as a group to create support\, cultivate pleasure\, and tend ourselves and the environment around us. Stephanie will share some examples of her own work created using this process. \n\n\n\nNo experience necessary\, everyone welcome\, wheelchair accessible space. \n\n\nStephanie HeitMarch - April\nA queer poet\, dancer\, and teacher\, Ms. Heit engages with her Ypsilanti\, Mich.\, community and beyond through a disability performance collective\, a literary organization for disabled poets\, and the somatic writing space she runs with her wife\, Petra Kuppers\, a 2017 Surel’s Place artist-in-residence in poetry. Her first poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System)\, was a Nighboat Poetry Prize finalist and explores the seams of language\, movement\, and mental health difference. Her second\, Psych Murders\, is scheduled for publication in fall 2022 by Wayne State University Press. Her work has appeared in journals including Sonora Review\, Ecotone\, Venti Journal\, Rogue Agent\, About Place\, Anomaly\, Bombay Gin\, Dunes Review\, Typo\, and Disability Studies Quarterly.  \n\n\n\nDuring her residency\, Heit led a workshop on the exploration of our inner and outer landscapes through guided awareness exercises to hone senses and bring attention to bodily sensations. Heit offered creative prompts with options to respond in drawing\, writing\, and/or movement.  \n\n\n\nWith its location along the river\, the Surel's Place residency offered Heit unique support for her continued work on her manuscript Every Horizon Turns Liquid. As an ecopoetic exploration where water is at stake amidst climate change and evolutionary rigors\, this residency supported and fostered play and environmental inquiries budding in the piece. The work began along the shorelines of Lake Michigan\, documenting through somatic engagement the effects of Lake Michigan’s changing water levels\, and now expands to include our environs along with other real and imaginary locations. Heit worked outdoors\, utilizing movement and awareness exercises combined with writing to engage with place. She invited the environment to inform her work process and product through dialogue and somatic exchange with the landscapes she visited. These exercises combined with scientific research resulted in the work presented during her reading event.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/stephanie-heit-sensorial-gardens/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230227T220000
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre: Transforming Space
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\n\n\n\nThis 3-hour workshop explores movement practices and devising exercises used in Nervous Theatre’s process of collaborative theatre-making. The company uses a variety of entry points to generate physical material and create theatrical compositions. Participants will rediscover their relationship to space and each other\, dropping into some of the exercises used in devising Nervous Theatre’s latest piece which was created for Surel’s Place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll bodies welcome. Ages 16 & up. \n\n\n\n\n\nPeople of varying experience\, backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. Partial scholarships available by request from info@surelsplace.org.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/transforming-space-with-nervous-theatre/
LOCATION:Project Flux\, 4338 W Chinden Blvd\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre at Surel's Place: A Performance in Process
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets\n\n\n\n\nNervous Theatre company members Connor Berkompas and Isabel Shaida work with Space and Movement\, exploring the ways we can collectively transform place and each other. Over the course of their month-long residency in Boise\, their latest work has been directly informed by Surel’s Place and collaborations with local movement artists. \n\n\n\n*The company will also be leading weekly Saturday Morning Movement Workshops throughout February and a 3-hour workshop on Transforming Space on Monday\, Feb 27th at the end of their residency.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-a-performance-in-process/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230225T203000
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre at Surel's Place: A Performance in Process
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets\n\n\n\n\nNervous Theatre company members Connor Berkompas and Isabel Shaida work with Space and Movement\, exploring the ways we can collectively transform place and each other. Over the course of their month-long residency in Boise\, their latest work has been directly informed by Surel’s Place and collaborations with local movement artists. \n\n\n\n*The company will also be leading weekly Saturday Morning Movement Workshops throughout February and a 3-hour workshop on Transforming Space on Monday\, Feb 27th at the end of their residency.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-at-surels-place-a-performance-in-process-2/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230225T113000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230113T183830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T215323Z
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre: Movement and Space Drop-In Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nervous Theatre (Bozeman) invites you to join them in their movement practice on Saturday mornings throughout February. Using exercises that explore the building blocks of theatre\, the company’s training breaks movement and storytelling down to their most essential components. Each class in this series will offer you time to get into your physical body and become curious about your relationship to space – bringing particular attention to architecture\, scale\, and spatial relationship. \n\n\n\nAll bodies are welcome. Ages 16 & up.People of varying experience\, backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. \n\n\n\nFree (donations encouraged)
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-movement-and-space-drop-in-workshop-4/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230207T233041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T173338Z
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre at Surel's Place: A Performance in Process
DESCRIPTION:Get Tickets\n\n\n\n\nNervous Theatre company members Connor Berkompas and Isabel Shaida work with Space and Movement\, exploring the ways we can collectively transform place and each other. Over the course of their month-long residency in Boise\, their latest work has been directly informed by Surel’s Place and collaborations with local movement artists. \n\n\n\n*The company will also be leading weekly Saturday Morning Movement Workshops throughout February and a 3-hour workshop on Transforming Space on Monday\, Feb 27th at the end of their residency.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-at-surels-place-a-performance-in-process/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230218T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230218T113000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230113T183706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T213126Z
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SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre: Movement and Space Drop-In Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nervous Theatre (Bozeman) invites you to join them in their movement practice on Saturday mornings throughout February. Using exercises that explore the building blocks of theatre\, the company’s training breaks movement and storytelling down to their most essential components. Each class in this series will offer you time to get into your physical body and become curious about your relationship to space – bringing particular attention to architecture\, scale\, and spatial relationship. \n\n\n\nAll bodies are welcome. Ages 16 & up.People of varying experience\, backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. \n\n\n\nFree (donations encouraged)
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-movement-and-space-drop-in-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230110T183558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T165432Z
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SUMMARY:New Date: Drink Great Beer\, Support Art!
DESCRIPTION:Boise’s Lost Grove Brewing has chosen Surel’s Place as the recipient of its Powerful Pints donation for February. That means that a portion of the brewery’s sales for the month will support art and artists through Surel’s Place — and we get a chance to hang out with our friends and supporters over a few pints! \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a quaff or two on Monday\, Feb. 13\, and meet some of the board members\, volunteers and artists at Surel’s Place and the Garden City Placemaking Fund\, and know that for at least a while\, your beer budget also benefits the arts! They’ve got a brand new pizza menu and you can show off your musical knowledge in an art-themed game of Music Bingo — so let’s make a night of it! \n\n\n\nLost Grove will donate a portion of all sales on Feb. 13\, but if you can’t make it that day\, you can still enjoy a beer and help out! Lost Grove is also donating $2 from every pint of Margot Amber Ale sold all month long. \n\n\n\nThanks to Lost Grove’s generosity\, we will be featuring art at the tasting room created by some of our recent studio artists-in-residence and Placemaking Fund artists. All the work is for sale\, and from artists including Lorelle Rau\, Mary Arnold\, Julia Green\, Justin W. John\, Jay Smith\, Lily Black\, Chloe Pampush and Ace Zappa. \n\n\n\nHuge thanks to the good folks at Lost Grove\, who built their business around community. Lost Grove is a certified B-Corp\, which means they measure success not just through profits but through their social and environmental impact\, as well as a certified carbon neutral beverage producer. Along with Surel’s Place\, Lost Grove is supporting The Cabin\, the Women’s and Children’s Alliance\, the Idaho Wildlife Federation and others in 2023.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/drink-great-beer-support-art/
LOCATION:Lost Grove Brewing\, 1026 S La Pointe St.\, Boise\, 83706
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230211T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230211T113000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230113T183601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T213008Z
UID:1309-1676109600-1676115000@surelsplace.org
SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre: Movement and Space Drop-In Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nervous Theatre (Bozeman) invites you to join them in their movement practice on Saturday mornings throughout February. Using exercises that explore the building blocks of theatre\, the company’s training breaks movement and storytelling down to their most essential components. Each class in this series will offer you time to get into your physical body and become curious about your relationship to space – bringing particular attention to architecture\, scale\, and spatial relationship. \n\n\n\nAll bodies are welcome. Ages 16 & up.People of varying experience\, backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. \n\n\n\nFree (donations encouraged)
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-movement-and-space-drop-in-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230204T113000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230113T182230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T213314Z
UID:1306-1675504800-1675510200@surelsplace.org
SUMMARY:Nervous Theatre: Movement and Space Drop-In Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Nervous Theatre (Bozeman) invites you to join them in their movement practice on Saturday mornings throughout February. Using exercises that explore the building blocks of theatre\, the company’s training breaks movement and storytelling down to their most essential components. Each class in this series will offer you time to get into your physical body and become curious about your relationship to space – bringing particular attention to architecture\, scale\, and spatial relationship. \n\n\n\nAll bodies are welcome. Ages 16 & up.People of varying experience\, backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. \n\n\n\nFree (donations encouraged)
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/nervous-theatre-movement-and-space-drop-in-workshop/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20230105T221321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T210845Z
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Everett: Natural Habitats
DESCRIPTION:A chance to meet and learn from January 2023 Artist-in-Residence Roxanne Everett.  \n\n\n\nWhile at Surel’s Place\, Everett worked on a series of paintings that reflect the grasslands\, woodlands\, riparian ecosystems and open canopied forests of Southern Idaho. These paintings include both large scale landscapes and individual species’ studies. She spent time outside daily to make entries in her sketchbook and to take photos — many right along the Greenbelt near Surel’s Place. These reference materials were used in the studio to create larger paintings. Some ecological study was a part of this process in order to focus on representing the Southern Idaho ecosystem\, e.g. painting native plants and not exotic ones! \n\n\n\nThe talk begins at 7:30 p.m.\, with a Q and A and reception to follow. Free.  \n\n\nRoxanne EverettJanuary\nRoxanne Everett\n\n\n\nEverett is landscape painter with a winding forest path of a background. She trained as an architect at the University of Idaho but after several years in that industry returned to school to earn a graduate degree in forest ecosystems management. Working as a National Park Backcountry Ranger for months at a time in remote and sublime locations allowed her to realize how pristine environments were being altered either through human neglect or through bigger problems like climate change. \n\n\n\n“My work is ecosystem based\,” she says. “I paint the natural/native vegetation including vistas\, endemic plants or animals and often address things that threaten the area. … My goal as a painter is to transport viewers into places they may value\, awakening their own previous relationships to the land or inspiring further stewardship. With increasing frequency of large scale disturbances like fire or climate change\, these paintings also serve as future documentation for what we see today and may act as a catalyst for greater care toward our fragile natural resources.” \n\n\n\nWhile at Surel’s Place\, Everett is working on a series of paintings that reflect the grasslands\, woodlands\, riparian ecosystems and open canopied forests of Southern Idaho. These paintings include both large scale landscapes and individual species’ studies. She spends time outside daily to make entries in her sketchbook and to take photos — many right along the Greenbelt near Surel's Place. Several workshop participants were able to join her\, some pictured below\, during this exercise last Saturday for "Sketching on Location." These reference materials are used in the studio to create larger paintings. Some ecological study was a part of this process in order to focus on representing the Southern Idaho ecosystem\, e.g. painting native plants and not exotic ones.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/natural-habitats-exhibition-art-talk/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition and Artist Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20230114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20230114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20221219T231942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T184212Z
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Everett: Sketching on Location
DESCRIPTION:Create sketches focused on native vegetation with artist Roxanne Everett \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, painter Roxanne Everett (Seattle) will lead you in the creation of sketches focused on native vegetation. In addition to warm up exercises\, participants will sit and sketch at several locations along the Greenbelt. Encouraged to capture both a vista plus smaller “singularities” of individual pieces\, attendees will benefit from assistance from Everett with instruction in mark making\, color\, and composition. \n\n\n\nPeople of different backgrounds and demographics are encouraged to participate. Partial scholarships are available by writing info@surelspalce.org. Ages 14 & up. \n\n\nRoxanne EverettJanuary\nRoxanne Everett\n\n\n\nEverett is landscape painter with a winding forest path of a background. She trained as an architect at the University of Idaho but after several years in that industry returned to school to earn a graduate degree in forest ecosystems management. Working as a National Park Backcountry Ranger for months at a time in remote and sublime locations allowed her to realize how pristine environments were being altered either through human neglect or through bigger problems like climate change. \n\n\n\n“My work is ecosystem based\,” she says. “I paint the natural/native vegetation including vistas\, endemic plants or animals and often address things that threaten the area. … My goal as a painter is to transport viewers into places they may value\, awakening their own previous relationships to the land or inspiring further stewardship. With increasing frequency of large scale disturbances like fire or climate change\, these paintings also serve as future documentation for what we see today and may act as a catalyst for greater care toward our fragile natural resources.” \n\n\n\nWhile at Surel’s Place\, Everett is working on a series of paintings that reflect the grasslands\, woodlands\, riparian ecosystems and open canopied forests of Southern Idaho. These paintings include both large scale landscapes and individual species’ studies. She spends time outside daily to make entries in her sketchbook and to take photos — many right along the Greenbelt near Surel's Place. Several workshop participants were able to join her\, some pictured below\, during this exercise last Saturday for "Sketching on Location." These reference materials are used in the studio to create larger paintings. Some ecological study was a part of this process in order to focus on representing the Southern Idaho ecosystem\, e.g. painting native plants and not exotic ones.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/sketching-on-location/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20221201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20221201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20221119T193553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221120T192935Z
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SUMMARY:COUNTERMAP & OUTSIDE WOMEN
DESCRIPTION:Roohi ChoudhryNovember/December\nRoohi Choudhry (NY) writes fiction about outsiders. Most often\, her characters are refugees displaced from the homes they once knew. They may be outsiders as migrants in their adopted countries\, but they were pushed to the fringes before they even left the homes of their birth. They became outsiders as activists\, childless women\, men who raise families alone\, or non-believers. \n\n\n\nDuring her residency at Surel's Place\, Roohi Choudhry continued to develop these themes of people who must find home again on the outside across geographies and generations in her novel-in-progress\, Outside Women. \n\n\n\nTwo women - separated by 100 years - are both displaced from their homes. Hajra is an academic in 1990s Pakistan who witnesses violence in which her brother is implicated. Sita grows up in a close-knit family in 1890s India until natural disasters ravage her village. Through interspersed chapters from the two perspectives\, Outside Women explores the forms of kinship in which outsiders everywhere find refuge. \n\n\n\nSeveral community members participated in a writing workshop where they created "Countermaps." These were also be on display during the final event. Workshop attendees spent an afternoon exploring the familiar streets in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District and scavenging for stories. They came back to Surel’s Place for writing and map-making prompts that helped them turn their found scraps into story treasure.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/countermap-outside-women/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20221119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20221119T160000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20221119T193259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221120T194609Z
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SUMMARY:STORIES FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD: A SCAVENGER HUNT AND WRITING WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:Where do writers get their ideas? Hint: it’s not just by sitting at a desk. \n\n\n\nscholarships available \n\n\nRoohi ChoudhryNovember/December\nRoohi Choudhry (NY) writes fiction about outsiders. Most often\, her characters are refugees displaced from the homes they once knew. They may be outsiders as migrants in their adopted countries\, but they were pushed to the fringes before they even left the homes of their birth. They became outsiders as activists\, childless women\, men who raise families alone\, or non-believers. \n\n\n\nDuring her residency at Surel's Place\, Roohi Choudhry continued to develop these themes of people who must find home again on the outside across geographies and generations in her novel-in-progress\, Outside Women. \n\n\n\nTwo women - separated by 100 years - are both displaced from their homes. Hajra is an academic in 1990s Pakistan who witnesses violence in which her brother is implicated. Sita grows up in a close-knit family in 1890s India until natural disasters ravage her village. Through interspersed chapters from the two perspectives\, Outside Women explores the forms of kinship in which outsiders everywhere find refuge. \n\n\n\nSeveral community members participated in a writing workshop where they created "Countermaps." These were also be on display during the final event. Workshop attendees spent an afternoon exploring the familiar streets in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District and scavenging for stories. They came back to Surel’s Place for writing and map-making prompts that helped them turn their found scraps into story treasure.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/stories-from-our-neighborhood-a-scavenger-hunt-and-writing-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20221008T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20221008T180000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20220924T003337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220924T003356Z
UID:120-1665223200-1665252000@surelsplace.org
SUMMARY:Boise Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:With Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen \nJazz Szu-Ying ChenOctober/November\nJazz Szu-Ying Chen is a Taiwanese artist currently residing in Kaohsiung\, Taiwan. She has exhibited regularly in Europe\, Taiwan\, with one of her biggest solo shows to date at Taipei’s Chini Gallery. She also regularly collaborates with notable medical and electronic music organizations. Jazz’s subjects of focus span over her interest in the beauty and grotesque within the field of anatomy/medical historical imageries\, to Nordic and Chinese mythologies and folklore such as “Classics of Mountains and Seas.”  \n\n\n\nShe manipulates the dissected anatomical imageries and creates tableaus with mythological monsters\, dissected bodies\, and botanical details. The tableaus are meant to tell stories regarding the cultural clashes\, her views on superstition\, reflections from her Taiwanese roots\, and they also function as social commentaries on the currently turbulent contemporary society. In her most recent body of work\, she explores the complicated “love” among familial relationships and contradicting ideas of familial boundaries between eastern and western cultures while using classical symbols such as ouroboros as their carriers. \n\n\n\nShe graduated from Central Saint Martin’s BA Fine Art course in 2013\, and MA Art & Science in 2015.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/boise-open-studios/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Studios
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20221007T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20221007T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20221003T180522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T003136Z
UID:131-1665163800-1665174600@surelsplace.org
SUMMARY:First Friday
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/first-friday/
CATEGORIES:Open Studios
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20220928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20220928T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20220922T003813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T162656Z
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SUMMARY:YOUR BRAIN IS A GARDEN
DESCRIPTION:The exhibit and art talk will include selected pages from “Garden” and the companion posters created during the residency.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/your-brain-is-a-garden/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition and Artist Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20220916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20220916T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20220920T162855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T212202Z
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SUMMARY:OBJECTIONS: A SERIES OF STILL LIVES BY JONATHAN HEWETT
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan HewettSeptember 8th - September 17\, 2022\nOur first Studio AIR of 2022 was Jonathan Hewett\, a 22-year-old artist\, green in his career. He recently graduated from Boise State University with a BFA in Visual Arts with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting. Since Jonathan’s early childhood\, he has always been scribbling\, filming\, or photographing something. Jonathan gains most of his inspiration from the peculiar nature of the human soul. He enjoys exploring the intricacies of metaphysics with painting\, and looks for poetry in all things. In addition to painting\, Jonathan runs Relax Graphix\, a side project where he publishes his more irreverent\, humorous work. \n\n\n\nDuring his residency\, he explored themes pertaining to ontology and rhopography. What’s that? Essentially he is interested in painting everyday objects (rhopography) with a suggestion of what it means to be that object (ontology).  “I am interested in how we form intimate memories and relationships with everyday objects\,” he explains\, “and the strange metaphysical dark matter between a person’s soul and an inanimate object.”
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/objections-a-series-of-still-lives-by-jonathan-hewett/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20220901T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20220901T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20220920T165516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T165557Z
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SUMMARY:THE SCENT OF MY FATHER
DESCRIPTION:Opal Palmer AdisaAugust\nDiverse and multi-genre\, writer Opal Palmer Adisa (Caribbean) was nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Retired as the Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies\, Adisa has lectured and read her work throughout the United States\, South Africa\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, Germany\, England and Prague\, and has performed in Italy and Bosnia. An award-winning poet and prose writer Adisa has over sixteen titles to her credit\, including the novel\, It Begins With Tears (1997)\, which Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults. She has been a resident artist in internationally acclaimed residencies such as El Gounda (Egypt)\, Sacatar Institute (Brazil)\, McColl Center\, (North Carolina) and Headlines Center for the Arts (California\, USA). Opal Palmer Adisa’s work has been reviewed by Ishmael Reed\, Al Young\, and Alice Walker\, who described her work as “solid\, visceral\, important stories written with integrity and love.” \n\n\n\nFor the last 23 years Opal was a distinguished professor at California College of the Arts. She has been a visiting professor at several universities including\, Stanford University\, University of California\, Berkeley and University of the Virgin Islands. Her poetry\, stories\, essays and articles on a wide range of subjects have been collected in over 400 journals\, anthologies and other publications\, including Essence Magazine. She has also conducted workshops in elementary through high school\, museums\, churches and community centers\, as well as in prison and juvenile centers. \n\n\n\nDuring her residency\, Opal worked on a creative nonfiction piece reflecting on her father who passed many years ago. The collection is titled The Scent of My Father and is in three sections: his birth in Cuba; his return to Jamaica and life in Jamaica\, including meeting and marrying her mother; and finally the author explores her relationship with him. Opal led "Writing What Writes You"\, a mixed genre workshop. On August 14th\, 2022 Opal read "The Storytellers Return" on Radio Boise's "The Poetry Show." For her final event at Surel's Place\, Opal read a passage from The Scent of My Father. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYP15OtrPBk&t
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/the-scent-of-my-father/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20220827T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20220827T160000
DTSTAMP:20260504T200222
CREATED:20220920T165424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T165424Z
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SUMMARY:WRITING WHAT WRITES YOU – A mixed-genre workshop
DESCRIPTION:scholarships available \nWriters of all levels and genres are invited to discover hidden sources of creativity.\nThis workshop with Caribbean writer Opal Palmer Adisa is based on the premise that there are stories and poems you need to write\, but they aren’t necessarily the ones you are writing. Opal Palmer Adisa has developed a technique to help you discover these hidden sources of creativity using guided meditation and even some poems from the Caribbean to tease out this premise. Participants will access material we had not known we had in our storage bag. It does not matter whether you’re a poet or a prose writer\, whether you write creative nonfiction or fiction or essay\, this workshop will provide you with an opportunity to find out and write what is writing you. \nOpal Palmer AdisaAugust\nDiverse and multi-genre\, writer Opal Palmer Adisa (Caribbean) was nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Retired as the Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies\, Adisa has lectured and read her work throughout the United States\, South Africa\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, Germany\, England and Prague\, and has performed in Italy and Bosnia. An award-winning poet and prose writer Adisa has over sixteen titles to her credit\, including the novel\, It Begins With Tears (1997)\, which Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults. She has been a resident artist in internationally acclaimed residencies such as El Gounda (Egypt)\, Sacatar Institute (Brazil)\, McColl Center\, (North Carolina) and Headlines Center for the Arts (California\, USA). Opal Palmer Adisa’s work has been reviewed by Ishmael Reed\, Al Young\, and Alice Walker\, who described her work as “solid\, visceral\, important stories written with integrity and love.” \n\n\n\nFor the last 23 years Opal was a distinguished professor at California College of the Arts. She has been a visiting professor at several universities including\, Stanford University\, University of California\, Berkeley and University of the Virgin Islands. Her poetry\, stories\, essays and articles on a wide range of subjects have been collected in over 400 journals\, anthologies and other publications\, including Essence Magazine. She has also conducted workshops in elementary through high school\, museums\, churches and community centers\, as well as in prison and juvenile centers. \n\n\n\nDuring her residency\, Opal worked on a creative nonfiction piece reflecting on her father who passed many years ago. The collection is titled The Scent of My Father and is in three sections: his birth in Cuba; his return to Jamaica and life in Jamaica\, including meeting and marrying her mother; and finally the author explores her relationship with him. Opal led "Writing What Writes You"\, a mixed genre workshop. On August 14th\, 2022 Opal read "The Storytellers Return" on Radio Boise's "The Poetry Show." For her final event at Surel's Place\, Opal read a passage from The Scent of My Father. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYP15OtrPBk&t
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/writing-what-writes-you-a-mixed-genre-workshop/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Flash Show: What We Leave Behind | Andrew Nemr
DESCRIPTION:FIRST FRIDAY OPENING RECEPTION\nFriday\, June 3rd  |  5:30pm – 8:30pm \nOPEN HOURS\nSaturday & Sunday\, June 4th & 5th  |  11:00am – 2:00pm \nCLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK\nSunday\, June 5th  |  2:00pm \nMany from our Surel’s Place community will remember tap dancer Andrew Nemr‘s residency in 2015 and his performance of Tap Dance: A Love Story at Boise Contemporary Theater in September of that year. But did you know that Andrew also has formal training in the visual arts? This flash show explores the relationship of choice and impact through tap dance\, visual\, sound\, and digital art. This show deconstructs\, and focuses on the many often unseen artifacts of an improvisational tap dance performance. Mr. Nemr actually uses his tap shoes as his tool for creating this visual art and by literally preserving what is left behind from his dancing. The work poses the question\, “What unseen impact do our choices have?” \nDESCRIPTION\nWhat We Leave Behind (WWLB) explores the relationship of choice and impact through tap dance\, visual\, sound\, and digital art. By deconstructing and focusing on the many often unseen artifacts of an improvisational tap dance performance\, What We Leave Behind poses the question\, “What unseen impact do our own choices have?” This\, of course\, brings other important questions to light\, such as\, “How can we see all our choices?” “How do we think about impact?” and more existentially “Can we really know what is good?” These questions speak to the formative relationship between ourselves\, our choices\, our impact\, and the potential for individual\, communal\, and social change. Developed in the inaugural InBreak Residency by Lebanese American tap dancer Andrew Nemr\, What We Leave Behind explores the experience of improvisational tap dancing\, and frameworks of oral traditions and spiritual formation\, to imagine a new way forward towards change for the good. \nAndrew Nemr\nARTIST STATEMENTMy work has always come to life at the intersections. Notably\, Tap Dance itself functions at the intersections of sound\, movement\, and personality. With formal training in the visual arts (School of Visual Arts\, 2001) and apprenticed in tap dance\, my work has explored storytelling\, digital art (including virtual reality)\, physical art\, and music. Fueling every exploration is an ongoing journey through the ways of oral tradition and spiritual formation as they interact with the questions of life. The questions have varied. At different times they may be more reflective (What is happening right now?)\, imaginative (What could be?)\, or existential (What is real?). Regardless\, I have found the vast variety of mediums to be amazing vehicles through which to share my journey of exploration and embody these important questions. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHYSince his residency 7 years ago\, Andrew has been back to perform CELLOSONG in 2018\, and recently danced an interpretation of Lalin composed by Nathalie Joachim for “Ourself Behind Ourself\, Concealed.” He now lives in Boise and uses it as his home base. \n\n\n\nMentored by Gregory Hines\, Andrew Nemr is an international artist\, teacher\, and speaker. His work has spanned the dance\, theatre\, music\, and visual arts worlds\, exploring art as a vehicle for storytelling and community building. Described as “A masterly tapper” by the New York Times\, Andrew has played with Grammy Award winning musicians across multiple genres\, and co-founded the Tap Legacy™ Foundation\, Inc. (along with Hines). Andrew’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including a TED Fellowship\, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and residencies with Google/TiltBrush and TED. Andrew is recorded on the Grammy nominated recording Itsbynne Reel by Dave Eggar\, the DVD Documentary and companion album Tuesdays at Mona’s by Mona’s Hot Four\, and narrates the DanceTime Publications DVD\, Tap Dance History: From Vaudeville to Film. He is the topic of the documentary short film Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story\, and hosts the weekly podcast\, Talking Notes. \n\n\n\nDuring Nemr's residency\, he was interviewed by Frankie Barnhill on NPR.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/flash-show-what-we-leave-behind-andrew-nemr/
CATEGORIES:Installations
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SUMMARY:Green Box Installation: The Only Thing We Have Left to Fear | Ted Apel
DESCRIPTION:Open Hours:\nSaturday\, December 11th  |  10:00am – 12:00pm\nSaturday\, December 18th  |  10:00am – 12:00pm\nClosing:\nSaturday\, December 18th  5:30pm – 7:30pm \nsound installation\nmotion lamp\, radio\, light\, sound \nIn 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to broadcast a series of radio addresses on policy directly to the American people. These addresses became known as “fireside chats” and continued throughout the three terms of his presidency. In this installation\, a radio plays a mixture of sounds from a forest fire and a fireside chat that has been altered to accentuate only the noisy parts of the speech. Here the message is obscured and reinterpreted in layers of noise. \nDuring the 1930s\, motion lamps were commonly displayed on top or near home radios as a visual accompaniment while listening to the radio. Motion lamps use the heat generated by a light bulb to turn a patterned cylinder of paper. The image appears to move due to the changing light from the moving cylinder. In this piece\, the image is an animated forest fire produced by the “Scene-in-Motion Corporation” in 1931.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/green-box-installation-the-only-thing-we-have-left-to-fear-ted-apel/
CATEGORIES:Installations
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