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Performing in Percussionist Jennifer Wilsey’s Concert, with the Cardew Choir, on 12/8/11

December 1, 2011 – 8:32 pm

Percussionist Jennifer Wilsey

A special announcement — if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us at Mills College, in Oakland, California, for an evening of improvised music and other soundings, featuring:

Jennifer Wilsey, percussion,
with special guests:

Ashley Bellouin, live processing
Cornelius Cardew Choir, directed by Tom Bickley
Rachel Condry, clarinets
Gretchen Jude, voice
Adam Lowdermilk, bass
Jacob Peck, guitar

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I’ll be singing and sounding with the Cardew Choir, as well as playing gong and Tibetan bells. The performance will take place in the lobby, the stairwells, and inside the Littlefield Concert Hall, on the Mills College campus.

Jennifer Wilsey, Rachel Condrey, and members of the Cardew Choir (including me) also performed together with a stellar cast of musicians and production team members, in composer Pauline Oliveros’ Tower Ring, at the Ann Hamilton Sound Tower at the Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, California, in June, 2011.

Members of the Cornelius Cardew Choir who will be performing include:

Sarah Stiles
Laurie Polster
Ann O’Rourke
Marianne Tomita McDonald
Cathryn Hrudicka
Frances Hopson
Nancy Beckman
Brad Fischer
Bob Marsh, co-founder
Tom Bickley, co-founder and director

Date of this performance: December 8, 2011, from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. (PST)

Free Admission to the public, as this is Ms. Wilsey’s graduate level recital.

Location:

Mills College
Littlefield Concert Hall, Music Building
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, California

Free parking is available in several lots on the campus, and along the street outside of the concert hall.

For more information, please call:
650.464.1052

Stay tuned for news about other events, projects, books, and performances coming up in the next year! Please feel free to ask questions or comment below this post—and come say hello, if you attend an upcoming event. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios: Support Artists and Craftspeople, Shop Locally

November 25, 2011 – 6:54 pm

The Artists Invite You In…

Come see the work of over 100 hand-picked artists and craftspeople at studios, workshops and galleries in Berkeley, California. They will open their doors to the public during the 21st annual Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios, which takes place over four weekends every year, starting with Thanksgiving weekend, and continuing until the weekend before Christmas.

The self-guided tour presents a unique opportunity to meet the artists, to shop locally and buy original, creative gifts, and to see working artists and craftspeople’s studios.
The event also gives viewers a glimpse into the creative process, and an opportunity to sign up for arts and crafts classes and workshops. Many studios are located in a single building, or are clustered within walking, bicycling, or short driving and public transit distance.

The event website provides a list of this year’s participants, and how to find their studios. You can find additional information at the event Facebook page.

Dates:

Saturdays and Sundays 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. (PST)
November 26–27, December 3–4, 10–11, and 17–18, 2011.

All genres of fine art and crafts will be available, including blown glass, functional and decorative ceramics, ornaments, Menorahs, hand-made Christmas decorations, lamps and lighting, painted and custom furniture, garden art, floor cloths, one-of-a-kind clothing, textiles, dolls, leather bags, many styles of jewelry, sculpture, photography, paintings, original prints and works on paper, musical instruments, mosaics, work from recycled materials, and artisan food products. All work is hand-crafted, and many pieces are one-of-a-kind.

This much anticipated popular event is known for the high quality of the work shown. A free map and directory is available, which shows the locations of all the participating studios. Admission to the event is FREE, and in many studios, complimentary wine, cheese, crackers, and other holiday snacks and beverages are available to visiting guests in the studios.

Places to get a directory and map:

Download it from the event web site.

If you don’t regularly have access to a computer or mobile phone [but then, how would you be reading this? ], or if you just want to have a print copy, you can send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:

Berkeley Artisans
2547 Eighth St. #24 A
Berkeley, CA 94710

You can also pick up a directory at the above address. All participating artists and craftspeople will have the directories at their studios. Maps will be available weekly in the East Bay Express newspaper during the event, and at many bookstores, cafés and art supply stores in the East Bay.

For other directory distribution points and information, call (510) 845-2612 or email the Berkeley Artisans organization.

The Berkeley Artisans gratefully acknowledge sponsorship by the East Bay Express, and Oakland Magazine.

Additionally, the PROARTS East Bay Open Studios occurs for two weekends in June each year. Please watch this blog for an announcement about the June 2012 event.

My studio building will be participating in this event. You can view photos of my studio building here. Please email me in advance to arrange a visit to my studio, as I am only there during selective hours. You can also email or call me to make arrangements for a meeting at my studio/office at times other than the Open Studios season. Just leave a message at 510-845-5510, stating clearly the purpose for your meeting or visit, your name, and a phone number and email address where we can reach you.

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Music in Motion performance on 11/17/11 features compositions from members of the Cardew Choir

October 31, 2011 – 12:37 pm

Join us for the Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series
Thursday, November 17, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. (PST)
at the Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street, at the corner of 6th Street, in San Francisco
Phone: 415.255.5971

For information about the Luggage Store New Music Series, visit this site.

Tickets will be available at the door, from $6.00-$10.00 on a sliding scale. For updated information about this specific performance or others in the series, please visit the Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series calendar at Outsound.

Program:

Music in Motion, featuring members of the Cornelius Cardew Choir

Solo, duet, quintet, sextet and ensemble pieces composed by Bob Marsh, Diane Caudillo, Nancy Beckman and Tom Bickley, as noted below:

One Minute, One Life — Nancy Beckman, 2011
Performed by the Cardew Quintet

Basho — Tom Bickley, 2011
Performed by Tom Bickley, recorder

Forest for the Trees I — Bob Marsh, 2011
Performed by the Cardew Choir

Six Minute Exploration — Nancy Beckman, 2011
Performed by Tom Bickley, recorder, and Nancy Beckman, shakuhachi

So Low — Bob Marsh, 2011
Performed by Bob Marsh, voice and movement

Forest for the Trees II — Bob Marsh, 2011
Performed by the Cardew Choir

Stillness and Volition — Diane Caudillo, 2011
Performed by Diane Caudillo, Emmy Brockman, Angela Roberts, Tom Bickley, Nancy Beckman, Bob Marsh — voice and movement

Forest for the Trees III — Bob Marsh, 2011
Performed by the Cardew Choir, with an invitation to the audience to join the performance.

The complete list of Cardew Choir members for this specific performance, in no particular order, includes:

Sandra Yolles
Angela Roberts
Ann O’Rourke
Marianne McDonald
Kalonica McQuesten
Alex Kruckman
Thea Farhadian
Diane Caudillo
Juliayn Coleman
Emmy Brockman
Nancy Beckman
Bob Marsh, co-founder
Tom Bickley, co-founder & director

Download a poster and share it with your friends: MusicinMotionCCCPoster

I have been a composer and performer with the Cardew Choir for nearly a decade (as well as performing with other vocal and instrumental musical groups), but I am currently writing a new novel and working on other music and sound design projects, so I’ll be sitting this one out. That’s one of the great aspects of being a member of this ensemble—you can “workshop” a new composition or ask the group to improvise on some ideas you may have, so you can see and hear how a potential piece could be developed further. The ensemble is flexible, so that different members can perform at various events and take time off for other projects, yet we have retained a core group of experienced performers who have backgrounds in diverse areas of music, movement, theatre, and other art forms.

Stay tuned for news about other events, projects and performances coming up in the next year! Please feel free to ask questions or comment below this post, and come say hello, if you attend an upcoming event. We look forward to seeing you there!

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President Obama Proclaims October 2011 as National Arts and Humanities Month in the U.S.A.

September 30, 2011 – 3:47 pm

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION

Norman Rockwell’s magazine covers are classic and recognizable portrayals of American life. A longtime advocate of tolerance, Rockwell was criticized by some for a painting now hanging steps from the Oval Office — The Problem We All Live With. Inspired by the story of Ruby Bridges, this painting depicts a young girl being escorted to her newly-integrated school by United States Marshals. Today, the portrait remains a symbol of our Nation’s struggle for racial equality.

Like Rockwell’s painting, art in all its forms often challenges us to consider new perspectives and to rethink how we see the world. This image still moves us with its simple poignancy, capturing a moment in American history that changed us forever. This is the power of the arts and humanities — they speak to our condition and affirm our desire for something more and something better. Great works of literature, theater, dance, fine art, and music reach us through a universal language that unites us regardless of background, gender, race, or creed.

Millions of Americans earn a living in the arts and humanities, and the non-profit and for-profit arts industries are important parts of both our cultural heritage and our economy. The First Lady and I have been proud to honor this work by displaying American art at the White House and by hosting music, dance, poetry, and film performances and screenings. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, along with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services continues to recognize the skill and creativity of American artists, historians, and philosophers while helping educate and inspire our children through the power of the arts and humanities.

We must recognize the contributions of the arts and humanities not only by supporting the artists of today, but also by giving opportunities to the creative thinkers of tomorrow. Educators across our country are opening young minds, fostering innovation, and developing imaginations through arts education. Through their work, they are empowering our Nation’s students with the ability to meet the challenges of a global marketplace. It is a well-rounded education for our children that will fuel our efforts to lead in a new economy where critical and creative thinking will be the keys to success.

Today, the arts and humanities continue to break social and political barriers. Throughout our history, American hopes and aspirations have been captured in the arts, from the songs of enslaved Americans yearning for freedom to the films that grace our screens today. This month, we celebrate the enlightenment and insight we have gained from the arts and humanities, and we recommit to supporting expression that challenges our assumptions, sparks our curiosity, and continues to drive us toward a more perfect union.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2011 as National Arts and Humanities Month. I call upon the people of the United States to join together in observing this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs to celebrate the arts and the humanities in America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Via the National Endowment for the Arts

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Crayola Launches “Creativity as 21st Century Skill” Program at the U.S. Department of Education

August 19, 2011 – 12:18 am

With government and business leaders now emphasizing creativity as an essential 21st century skill for every student, Crayola is launching an initiative to inspire creativity in the next generation of Edisons, Armstrongs and Zuckerbergs. The U.S. Department of Education staff will join elementary school principals and educators for the program premiere.

Crayola has teamed up with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) to create the “Champion Creatively Alive Children” program. The professional development program emphasizes creativity as a 21st century skill and addresses the need for arts-infused education in schools. It empowers art teachers to become the “chief creative officers” in their schools and ensures that principals have the tools to lead their faculty to develop the originality in every child.

The U.S. Department of Education is hosting a professional development event based on this program at its national headquarters to put Department staff, who work on behalf of students every day, in touch with teachers and principals, their counterparts in the classroom. All participants, including principals and teachers from the Northeast, were told, “Don’t come as you are, come as you were,” with a child-like spirit. Hands-on activities led by Cheri Sterman, Crayola Director of Education and Child Development, will draw out each participant’s creativity to show how art activities build critical thinking and collaboration skills in students.

“We’re hosting this event today because Secretary [of Education] Duncan and the Department recognize the importance of integrating the arts into teaching and learning from cradle to career,” said Suzanne Immerman, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the U.S. Department of Education. “Our students today really need more than knowledge and skills to succeed. They need ingenuity and imagination, and arts education is the ideal way to infuse creativity and critical thinking in their efforts to be productive citizens in a global workforce.”

At the session, Rachel Goslins, Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, will present key findings from the Committee’s newly-released report, “Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America’s Future Through Creative Schools.” She will emphasize the critical role arts education plays in closing the achievement gap and building students’ innovative thinking skills.

“Creativity and innovative thinking are essential skills for success in school and in the 21st century workforce,” said Ms. Goslins. “It is not enough merely to graduate more students from school; we must engage and inspire them while they are there, and prepare them for successful careers afterward. All of our research points to the power of the arts in schools to increase academic achievement in reading and math, engage more students in learning and build creative thinking skills. Programs like “Champion Creatively Alive Children” are crucial in giving principals and teachers the tools they need to ignite the potential in all of their students.”

Other education thought leaders who will present include: Suzanne Immerman, Director of Strategic Partnership for the U.S. Department of Education, Gail Connelly, Executive Director of NAESP, Deborah Reeve, Executive Director of NAEA, Tim Magner, Executive Director of P21, and Victoria Lozano, Vice President of Crayola. Sharon Hartley, Crayola Executive Vice President, will deliver 36 pieces of children’s artwork to be on permanent display at the Department of Education. The artwork was inspired by children’s vision of the theme “what creativity means to me.”

“Creativity is a skill that every child needs,” said Mike Perry, Crayola President and Chief Executive Officer. “We started this program asking ourselves ‘What if every principal and teacher championed creatively alive children in their schools?’ Imagine how ready these children will be to face 21st century challenges with a strong foundation in creative thinking.”

The “Champion Creatively Alive Children” professional development program includes videos showcasing how arts-infused education builds the 4Cs — critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication. A fifth video devoted to arts-infused education advocacy helps art(s) teachers become the chief creative officer in their schools. Each video tells the story of a school that was awarded one of 20 “Champion Creatively Alive Children” mini-grants from Crayola and NAESP for the innovative ways they are integrating art across the curriculum. Five facilitator guides accompany the video series to enable principals and teachers to lead workshops and staff and parents’ meetings around art as a way to building 21st century skills. The entire series is available at no charge on Crayola.com.

Source: Crayola via PRNewswire, Washington D.C., Aug. 9, 2011. Photos are from Crayola.com.

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More much-needed good news for Arts Education:

SPS [Seattle Public Schools] receives $1 million planning grant aimed at enhancing arts instruction in classroom (8-5-11)

Seattle Public Schools has received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Wallace Foundation to engage the community and develop a multi-year plan for introducing more arts instruction into the classroom.

The Foundation’s Arts Learning Initiative planning grant, which runs from July 2011 through January 2013, will support development of a comprehensive K-12 arts education plan aimed at increasing quality learning opportunities for all students, especially those with the least access to the arts.

[Excerpt, please read the rest of this article at the Ballard News-Tribune.]

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The U.S. Congress has declared Sept. 11-17, 2011, as National Arts Education Week, continuing a tradition that began in September, 2010. Congress designated Arts in Education Week to promote and showcase the immense role arts education has in producing engaged, successful, and college and career-ready students. You can read statements made by congressmen on the House floor regarding arts education at the Arts Education Partnership web site, and the text of the actual resolution here.

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Let us hope these programs will set precedents for government agencies, philanthropic foundations, and private corporations to work together with arts educators and artists to create more opportunities for strong, effective arts education programs in U.S. schools—especially public schools—that are available to ALL children. These programs set shining examples and are sorely needed in the face of recent media coverage suggesting that today’s children might be “less creative” than previous generations—and are vastly under-prepared to meet the challenges of our time.

In recent business leadership surveys, many C-level executives and business owners have stated that creativity is the number one skill needed in our future workforce, and it will be even more essential to foster innovation at the rapid pace demanded by our current economy. Kudos to the sponsors of these arts education programs for implementing such vital initiatives—our shared global future will be determined by creative thinking, highly developed problem solving skills, and sustained innovation in all areas of life and work.

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The Arts as Champion of Change

July 25, 2011 – 12:23 am

Champions of Change is a weekly initiative to highlight Americans who are making an impact in their communities and helping our country rise to meet the many challenges of the 21st century. The subject of this video, Amy Rasmussen, was recently named a White House Champion of Change. She is the Executive Director of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE).

[Additional words by Amy Rasmussen:]

I am honored to be a White House Champion of Change — I am both humbled and inspired by my fellow Arts Education Champions, who are all working with passion and persistence to improve the lives of children everyday across our country. I applaud President Obama for taking a leadership role in acknowledging the power of the arts to transform communities, to improve education and to drive our economy. I truly appreciated the opportunity to participate in a lively exchange of ideas with members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and The Creative Coalition, and staff from the U.S. Department of Education, the Arts Education Partnership, and Americans for the Arts during our recent round-table discussion.

My work at CAPE — Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education — is rooted in the belief that the arts can play a leading role in transforming education, particularly for students who have been left behind by traditional schools. In fulfilling our organization’s mission to increase student success through arts driven education, we have inspired change in different ways:

1) The arts can serve as a catalyst for change: The status quo in our country is that great schools provide great arts programming and struggling schools do not. This is particularly true in urban centers like Chicago, where schools are forced to focus on reading and math to the detriment of other subject areas. This situation frustrates and bores students, and alienates teachers. CAPE is changing this status quo by working with classroom teachers to integrate the arts across the curriculum – an approach that re-engages students in learning and empowers teachers to think critically and creatively about their approach to working with struggling students.

2) Arts educators can serve as leaders in change: Most arts educators, particularly in elementary schools, only work with students when classroom teachers have lunch or have planning periods. This approach leads to arts instruction that is disconnected from the classroom, and arts teachers who are isolated from the rest of the faculty. Working with CAPE and the Chicago Public Schools, pioneering arts teachers have re-imagined their roles as arts educators. They now serve as leaders within their schools’ instructional planning teams, collaborators with classroom teachers on integrated arts projects, and facilitators of arts-based community-engagement strategies. This leveraged role for arts teachers has created a more meaningful and strategic role for the arts across the entire school.

3) Arts organizations and teaching artists are agents of change: In most communities, artists are ready, willing, and able to serve students, but they are often only brought into schools to fill in programming gaps and are viewed as vended services to students. In Chicago, CAPE supports the work of about 70 teaching artists, across 130 schools, who collaborate with arts teachers and classroom teachers to plan instruction and to inspire new approaches to teaching and learning. These teaching artists are skilled professional artists who serve as creative catalysts– bringing new artistic ideas, new teaching strategies, and new creative perspectives to the classroom.

As a Champion of Change, I look forward with a collaborative spirit and open heart as we continue to learn from, to improve, and to share our work. Providing a high-quality education for all children should be a top priority for every American. I’m grateful everyday to the CAPE board, staff, researchers, artists, teachers, principals, parents, and students for their unending dedication to this goal.

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For more arts and arts education news of recent months, visit Americans for the Arts.

To learn more about the challenges facing arts in education, please read “Arts Education Policy: Without Clout, There Will Be No Change,” a statement by Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert Lynch.

To learn what you can do to make a difference, read: “The Top 10 Ways to Support Arts Education.”

For recent news from the California Arts Council (where I live), visit the What’s New section of their web site.

I’ll be keeping a close watch on the proposed and already implemented government funding cuts to the arts, and how they will impact arts education—and I’ll post more information about related topics in the future. After all, children ARE our future, the sustaining citizens of our culture, and they need to be prepared effectively with 21st Century skills.

Here’s a great video produced by Zacgary Productions for the Santa Monica-Malibu, California Unified School District, which includes Sir Ken Robinson’s introduction about the importance of the arts and creativity in our schools:

The Arts: The Importance of Creativity in Schools from Zacgary Productions on Vimeo.

A video made for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

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Performing in Garden of Memory 2011 at Chapel of the Chimes, on Summer Solstice, June 21st

June 12, 2011 – 4:43 pm

New Music Bay Area and Lifemark Group Arts present
Garden of Memory 2011: a walk-through concert
to celebrate the Summer Solstice

Tuesday, June 21, 2011, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. (PDT)

Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave., in Oakland, California

Admission is $15 general, $10 students and seniors, $5 kids under 12
(kids under 5 are free).
Tickets are available from brownpapertickets.com or at the door.

You may arrive anywhere between 4:30 and 9:00 p.m., but it is recommended that you allow at least two hours to walk through the Julia Morgan designed building, which contains approximately 110 rooms or chambers, with lush gardens, skylights, fountains, ponds, and elegant stained glass windows. Please wear comfortable shoes.

The building has an elevator and is accessible for most people. While children usually love the event, please be prepared to carry babies and very young children. Strollers do not easily fit in some narrow passageways or in crowded garden rooms.

The Chapel of the Chimes is a magnificent building, a San Francisco Bay Area historial landmark. I have been either performing at, or attending this event since it began, and it is truly a unique and magical annual celebration of the Bay Area’s diverse New Music scene. It is also a delightful place to shoot video and take photos—but please remember to respect the focus of the performers, the meditational ambience of the location, and your fellow audience participants by not distracting them from the music.

One of the delights is the marvelous cross-blending of musical sounds as you walk from one chamber down a passageway to the where the next performer or group is stationed. There are also several chapels in the building, where some of the ensembles will perform. You will be given a map of the building and a performing schedule when you enter the building.

There are drinking fountains on the lower floor of the building, but you may want to bring bottled water, as it is often warm in the Chapel of the Chimes in June. Several vendors sell food and beverages outside of the Piedmont Avenue entrance to the building. There is also an entrance on Howe Street.

For more information, contact New Music Bay Area

Featured Composers and Performers:

I’ll be performing with the Cornelius Cardew Choir. We will be performing one of composer Cornelius Cardew’s pieces, The Great Learning: Paragraph 7, plus reprising composer Pauline Oliveros’ popular Heart Chant, which includes optional audience participation; and the choir will be participating in the sunset bell-ringing ceremony at approximately 8:28 p.m.

Here’s the list of choir participants, as of this date (more performers may be added):

Tom Bickley, Director
Nancy Beckman
Ann O’Rourke
Kalonica McQuesten
Angela Roberts
Eric Theise
Brad Fischer
Dean Santomieri
Katherine Setar
Sarah Stiles
Cathryn Hrudicka
Jed Holtzman
Juliayn Coleman

By the way, if you’re on Twitter, for the first time, this event will be tweeted, as a kind of social experiment—follow the hashtag #GofMem and @DJ_Moderne (performer Ken Ueno) on Twitter, between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m., and even during the afternoon before the event begins! You can also follow my main Twitter account @CreativeSage, although I probably won’t be tweeting while I’m performing, recording, shooting video or taking photos, along with Links Sound owner/partner/audio engineer Richard Links, aka @Marantzguy.

Articles and blog posts about the annual event:

Photos and videos from past events:

Information Links:

New Music Bay Area

Chapel of the Chimes

Directions
Maps

Press Release

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East Bay Open Studios — 400 Artists Invite You into Their Work Spaces: June 4-5 & 11-12, 2011

June 1, 2011 – 10:57 pm

For more information, visit proartsgallery.org

EAST BAY OPEN STUDIOS 2011
June 4 – 5 and 11 – 12, from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

During the first two weekends in June, and throughout the year by appointment, East Bay Open Studios connects the public with over 400 artists in 14 cities in the East Bay. Since 1979, this event remains the largest art event in the region and draws an annual audience over 50,000!

My studio building in West Berkeley, commonly known as The Sawtooth Building (or Kawneer Building), is a central focal point of the East Bay Open Studios, featuring works by artists of many genres. If you’re in the area, get a map (see below) and come visit us!

How to plan your studio tour:

Pick up a copy of the Directory of East Bay Arts, the event publication that profiles participating artists and includes maps, an East Bay Arts Index of local arts organizations, galleries, venues and artist groups, and the 12 month East Bay Arts Calendar. Directories are available at Pro Arts and are distributed in the East Bay Express, first week in June.
Go to the Preview Exhibition that showcases artwork from each of the over 400 participating artists.
Pick-up Artists’ invitations and announcements.
Attend Open Studios Events.
Follow open studio street signs and banners on event days, or take a curator’s tour.
Log on to the Pro Arts Online Gallery for all your 2010 East Bay Open Studios information, listings, maps and more! Each participating artist has a fully searchable personalized webpage with image gallery.
Create your own Top Three Must See list for an East Bay Open Studio tour. We invite you to create your own “Top Three Must See” list from among the participating artists. You may also add a favorite nearby restaurant, bar, or other neighborhood gem as a pairing.
We will be sharing Open Studio tour suggestions throughout the preview month on our website and Facebook. Make your picks, then Download the entry form to fax or return to Pro Arts gallery, e-mail your Top Three picks to margo@proartsgallery.com or post to Facebook’s Top Three List

East Bay Open Studios Event PR (PDF Download)

Preview Exhibition (PDF Download)

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Make the Most of Your Summer: Recalibrate, Renew, Re-create & Turn Your Ideas into Action to Meet Your Goals!

May 30, 2011 – 5:39 pm

Summer is the perfect time to renew your creative spirit and your commitment to your Creative Self.

Take a deep dive into creative processes and immerse yourself in practices that will help you re-calibrate and re-create. Emerge with new insights and inspiration to turn ideas into action.

This teleclass is for you:

If you have a great idea but can’t get it off the ground
If you are writing a book or thesis and feel blocked
If you are working on a significant artistic project (any genre), and want to take your creativity to the next level
If you have a favourite cause and need new ideas to make it a success
If you are in a leadership role at work and need to foster creativity in yourself and your team
If you own a business and need to take it to the next level—but need to renew your creative energy first.

What would it take for YOU to START or FINISH that favorite creative project, and accomplish your goals?

Don’t hesitate, especially if you’ve done that before… Summer is the perfect time to renew your creative spirit and your commitment to your Creative Self.

Join seasoned creativity experts Linda Naiman and Cathryn Hrudicka in a supportive, creativity enhancing 4 week program, full of fresh, valuable content and personal exchanges with other creative people like yourself! Although we’re calling it a “teleclass,” it’s really in a group-coaching format, with valuable content provided by the supportive facilitators.

4 week class starts Tuesday, June 21, 2011

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. PDT U.S.,
with an additional series at 3:00p.m. PDT, (subject to enrollment)

Content of the teleclass includes:

Week 1 (June 21^st) — Getting started on your creative project (or renewal); establishing and sharing your goals; getting through blocks.
Week 2 (June 28^th) — Developing positive Creative Habits; learning to focus more effectively; gaining strength and exchanging support.
Week 3 (July 5^th) — Getting into The Space while Getting into the Flow; Idea Generation Techniques that really work; progress sharing.
Week 4 (July 12^th) — Focusing and completion; identifying your next challenge and taking action steps; summary of learning and value.

Some of the resource material for the teleclass includes The Creative Edge Workbook, by Wayne Morris; The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp; the books and workshops of jazz composer Kenny Werner; teachings of composer/musicians Allaudin Matthieu, Art Lande, and Pauline Oliveros; and books by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way. Additional material will be included from the co-facilitators’ own personal and work experience with the creative process and innovation.

Calls will be recorded and made available only to those who enroll in the program. If you are unable to attend all four sessions, you’ll be able to listen to the recording for any session you’ve missed.

Registration is only open until June 19 for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW, and save on the cost:

$225 if you register by June 11
$250 if you register from June 12-19

$20 bonus affiliate. Sign up your friends and colleagues to receive a $20 CAD bonus

Learning Benefits for You or Your Work Team:

Find your Creative North Star and create your personal compass for beginning or completing your creative project
Draw observations, insights, and wisdom that will help enhance your personal creativity and focus, so that you can be more productive and bring new skills to your project
Facilitate creativity enhancing skills and growth in your staff.
Develop a strategy for achieving your creative goals and making creative decisions, for yourself or your work team.
Enhance creativity and learn new improvisational skills to enhance productivity and effectiveness, in yourself or your staff.
Find like-minded, accomplished creative people who will support you and your creative goals during the teleclass, and on an ongoing basis (by choice) after the teleclass series ends.

Bonus: Save 20% on coaching

Confidential one-on-one coaching is available at a special price for participants. We will also be offering some follow-up, in-depth coaching groups, which we’ll announce at the end of the Teleclass series…or ask us about options.

About the Facilitators:

Linda Naiman

Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and author, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is founder of Creativity at Work, and as co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, she recognised internationally for pioneering arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership in organizations. She has spoken at US Navy Leadership Symposiums, the Creativity World Forum, and the European Summit on the Arts and Business. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations. She was recently selected by IBM as a creative leader for a study to be published in 2011.

Linda has been featured in Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) stories about Career resilience: Midlife prompts many to act on career aspirations, and Managing a Mid-Life Makeover, She is a an associate business coach at the University of British Columbia and coaches managers on resilience, creativity, innovation and leadership. Linda is on a mission to liberate creativity and make life and work, a work of art. Visit Creativity at Work for details.

Cathryn Hrudicka is Founder/Chief Imagination Officer for her company, Creative Sage™ / Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates. Her experience includes executive, transition, creativity and innovation coaching and consulting with individuals, work groups and organizations. She has served in senior management positions, has owned her own company for over 30 years, and has achieved recognition in a parallel career as a multidisciplinary artist and author. Cathryn has taught writing and music composition classes and often gives dynamic, interactive presentations on starting and finishing creative projects. She has been mentioned in international media, including Fast Company Magazine, Leonardo Music Journal, MusicWorks and many other print, broadcast and online media outlets.

Her company, Creative Sage™ / Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, has won awards for innovation and communications using social media. Cathryn is a contributing author to three landmark books on the subject, The Age of Conversation 2 (2008) and The Age of Conversation 3 (2010), as well as the recently published book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreward by Henry Chesbrough (Kogan Page, published March, 2011). She has also written eight novels, a poetry book, and numerous other writing projects. Two of her blogs provide more information, at: http://www.CreativeSage.com/blog and: http://www.CreativeSageArts.com/blog

Don’t hesitate…make the most of your summer — Recalibrate, Renew & Re-create: turn your ideas into action and achieve your goals!

We look forward to welcoming YOU to our supportive group!

(You’ll also find this post on my Creative Sage business blog, as this teleclass works very well for organizational leaders, managers, and business owners, as well as artists of all genres! Contact us if you have any questions.) This post was updated on June 15, 2011.

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Performing Tower Ring by Pauline Oliveros, at the Ann Hamilton Sound Tower on the Oliver Ranch, Northern California Wine Country, June 4-5, 2011

April 29, 2011 – 5:17 pm

Deep Listening Institute presents

TOWER RING, by Pauline Oliveros

In the Ann Hamilton Tower at Oliver Ranch
Located in Geyserville, in Sonoma County, Northern California

Performance Dates: June 4 and 5, 2011, at 4:00 p.m.

The legendary composer launches World Premiere of new work in Ann Hamilton’s Tower at famed Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County, California.

Contemporary composer Pauline Oliveros’ site-specific composition, commissioned by Oliver Ranch Foundation, will resonate the walls of the magnificent tower created by artist Ann Hamilton for two rare performance events in the late afternoon on Saturday and Sunday, June 4th and 5th, 2011, which truly will be once-in-a-lifetime experiences for both the audience and the performers. (I am proud and very blessed to be among the stellar ensemble of performers.)

The listening audience will be positioned on the tower’s elegant, spiraling, double helix stairways, where they will be able to experience vibrant audio sensations unlike any they’ve heard before. The top of the tower is open to the sky; at the bottom is a reflective pool of water. There are 24 unusual, rectangular light wells placed in various locations on the round, concrete, 76-foot tower. In a mythic setting, armed with a multitude of tiny, shimmering bells, the audience will become an integral part of the performance.

A confluence of carefully orchestrated sounds will emanate from a rising and descending traditional gong to float and merge with choral voices. A custom made tower-length long wire instrument and the long smooth tones of a didjeridu will provide a completely unique sonic experience. There will be additional musicians and instruments, and a spoken word text in one section of the event, performed by author/performer Ione. Composer Pauline Oliveros will be among the noted performers.

The two performances will take place among the rolling hills and magical oaks of the Oliver Ranch, located in the Geyserville, California wine country. The audience will be shuttled to a meeting place, where they will take a brief, scenic hike to the tower, past several other site-specific sculptural works that have been designed by some of the most acclaimed artists of our time, commissioned by the Oliver Ranch Foundation. The performances will benefit the not-for-profit arts organization, Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

Deep Listening® is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary selective nature of listening. The result of the practice cultivates appreciation of sounds on a heightened level.

About the Performers

In addition to the voices of the Cardew Choir, directed by Tom Bickley, members of existing trios and quartets will be a part of the performance. I am very honored to be included among the Cardew Choir performers, and am fortunate to have known Pauline Oliveros for many years as a music/arts mentor and friend.

Cardew Choir members who will perform in Tower Ring include:

Tom Bickley, Director
Nancy Beckman
Diane Caudillo
Tom Duff
Brad Fischer
Frances Hopson
Cathryn Hrudicka
Brenda Hutchinson
Bob Marsh
Marianne McDonald
Kalonica McQuesten
Ann O’Rourke
Una Nakamura
Eric Glick-Riemann
Nathan Rosquist
Katherine Setar
Sarah Rose Stiles
Eric Theise
Sandra Yolles

Other Performers include:

The Deep Listening Band— Pauline Oliveros, conch/harmonica; Stuart Dempster, conch/didjeridu; and David Gamper, conch/overtone flutes

Horns of Hathor — Pauline Oliveros; Ione, improvisational spoken word; and Chris Chafe, long wire instrument)

Timeless Pulse — Pauline Oliveros, with percussionists George Marsh and Jennifer Wilsey.

Mills College students will join in the performance on various instruments.

Brenda Hutchinson will be Bell Mistress for the event; artist Renko Dempster will create real-time drawings during the performance; and movement will be guided by choreographer/dancer Christopher Pilafian.

Here is a video clip from KQED-TV’s program, “Spark,” about artist Ann Hamilton and the design and construction process of the Sound Tower, with composer/performer Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble rehearsing and performing for the Tower’s opening:

For more information about the Ann Hamilton Sound Tower, photos, and amazing video clips of a variety of other vocal and instrumental ensembles that have performed there, visit the Oliver Ranch Foundation site.

Attire for the Audience:

It is suggested that audience members wear walking shoes and comfortable clothing.

Ticket Information:

There are three ticket price levels for this benefit event, which is nearly sold out:

$100 — Concert only.

$250 (Special offer) — Includes the concert and a special tour of the famed Oliver Ranch. This often requested tour will take place at a mutually agreeable time during 2012.

$500 (Special offer) — includes the concert, Oliver Ranch tour, a DVD of the performance, and a signed score of Tower Ring by composer Pauline Oliveros.

Tickets can be purchased online only through Brown Paper Tickets.

Those who are unable to attend are invited to help support the event by purchasing tickets for one or more students who would like to attend. Contact Lisa Kelley to make arrangements.

More information is available at the Deep Listening Institute site.

Richard Links, owner of Links Sound, will be recording the performances, along with others on the production team. Richard and Cathryn Hrudicka will be shooting video and taking photographs, which will be added to this blog (in a new, forthcoming post), and at other sites shortly after the event. Keep checking this blog for updates.

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The Cardew Choir will be Guest Performers on Then and Now on KALW, 91.7 FM, hosted by Sarah Cahill, on May 1, 2011

April 1, 2011 – 10:08 pm

In celebration of its tenth birthday, the vocal ensemble I often perform with, The Cardew Choir, will perform live on the radio on Sunday night, May 1, 2011, in San Francisco and online!

We will also participate in a phone interview with composer Pauline Oliveros beginning at 9 pm PT. The entire program runs from 8:00-10:00 p.m. PT.

Tune in or log on, and join us!

About Sarah Cahill — Radio and Interviews:

Then and Now is a weekly program on KALW San Francisco, 91.7 FM, Sundays from 8-10 pm. Streaming audio is available at KALW.org

Sarah Cahill is a pianist and music critic whose radio program was named “One of the Hundred Best Things in the Bay Area” by Citysearch online magazine.

Sarah’s popular KALW program focuses on the relationships between classical music and new music, encompassing interviews with musicians and composers, historical performances, and exciting recordings outside the mainstream.

For playlists, please contact Sarah Cahill.

Visit Then and Now on Facebook.

Visit the web site for Sarah Cahill’s radio program, and to learn more about her other activities.

RSVP to the Cardew Choir event on Facebook.

Come visit The Cardew Choir Facebook page.

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Outsound Presents Music in Motion at the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, on March 10th

March 2, 2011 – 5:50 pm

Outsound presents Music in Motion—a series curated by Bob Marsh. For more information about the Outsound series, visit http://www.outsound.org/.

Music in Motion focuses on the ongoing dialogue between space and sound. The sound helps define the space. The space helps define the sound.

As a member of the Bay Area-based experimental vocal sound ensemble, The Cornelius Cardew Choir, I will be vocalizing, improvising and moving as part of an upcoming new music performance event featuring solo vocalist/performer/composer Laurie Amat, The Cardew Choir, and the Free Reed Vibrating Society, in a program involving structured vocal and instrumental improvisations, moving sound through space and time.

Featured will be improvisations on compositions by Laurie Amat, Bob Marsh, Nancy Beckman, and Tom Bickley.

The program will be approximately 90 minutes long, and will include compositions with such fanciful titles as: 3 Hums 3 Times + 1; Pods; MumbleShuffle; Everything Changes; and Qi Honk (performed by the Cardew Choir).

Some of the Free Reed Vibrating Society compositions include: Sparseness; The Beats; Cush-cush; The Birds; and Freedom.

Interwoven throughout the program will be Laurie Amat’s solo compositions and improvisations, and a group finale (with optional audience participation), May I Have This Dance?

The performance will take place on Thursday, March 10, 2011, from 8:00pm – 10:00 p.m., at:

The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street, in San Francisco (near the corner of Market and 6th Streets, and the Powell St. BART/MUNI station)

Tel.: (415) 255-5971

Admission is $6-10 at the door. In the spirit of serving the community, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Space/Sound Investigators, aka Performers in the Cardew Choir include:

Anne O’Rourke
Eric Theise
Sarah Rose Stiles
Dean Santomieri
Nathan Rosquist
Kalonica McQuesten
Marianne McDonald
Cathryn Hrudicka
Ryk Groetchen
Tom Duff
Amar Chaudhary
Nancy Beckman
Diane Caudillo (+ artist credit for flyer and illustration above)
Tom Bickley (co-founder and director)
Bob Marsh (co-founder)

Space/Sound Investigators, aka Performers in the Free Reed Vibrating Society include:

Bob Marsh – president, melodica
Sandra Yolles – melodica
Rent Romus – accordion
CJ Borosque – melodica
Melissa Margolis – accordion
David Slusser – accordion
Diane Caudillo – melodica
Juliayn Coleman – harmonica
Suki O’Kane – accordion, melodica
Michael Zelner – harmonica
Tom Bickley – melodica
Jim Ryan – melodica

Solo Voice/Movement:

Laurie Amat

For more information about solo vocalist/performer/composer Laurie Amat, visit http://www.myspace.com/laurieamat.

We look forward to seeing some of our friends there! If any of my readers attend, please come and say hello after the performance, and let me know if you came because of this blog post or due to hearing about it via Twitter, Facebook, or another source. Let’s explore the sound, space and movement continuum together!

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Announcing a New Teleclass Series: Creativity, Resilience and Making the Most of Transitions

February 1, 2011 – 2:00 pm

Are you going through a transition in your career, workplace or life?

If you are an artist of any genre, you know that transitions are an ongoing part of your creative life. How can you maximize your resilience to cope with them, and even thrive?

Are you in a leadership role, charged with leading your staff or a work team through a transition? How can you help them develop resilience in times of rapid change?

After considerable feedback from our clients, readers, friends and colleagues, we have decided to offer some high-value learning and coaching opportunities, co-facilitated by Cathryn Hrudicka (Creative Sage™/Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates) and Linda Naiman (Creativity at Work.).

Announcing a New Teleclass Series:

Creativity, Resilience and Making the Most of Transitions

Starts Tues Feb 15, 2011

With facilitators Linda Naiman and Cathryn Hrudicka

Why do some people suffer real hardships, yet not flounder?
What exactly is that quality of resilience that helps people bounce back from adversity and even excel?
How can you access and use your creativity to become more resilient in your journey?

If you are going through a major transition in your career, workplace or life, or…if you must guide your staff through a workplace transition, join us for our 4 week program:

Teleclasses will take place on four Tuesdays:
February 15 –March 8, 2011, at
1:00 -2:00 p.m. PST / 4:00-5:00 p.m. EST

Calls will be recorded and made available only to those who enroll in the program. If you are unable to attend all four sessions, you’ll be able to listen to the recording for any session you’ve missed.

UPDATE, January 28, 2011 — Registration is only open for TWO MORE WEEKS for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.

Learning Benefits for You or Your Work Team:

Find your North Star and create your personal compass
Draw observations, insights, and wisdom from your coping experiences in order to learn and grow,

Facilitate coping skills and growth in your staff.

Develop a strategy for creating goals and making decisions, for yourself or your work team.

Enhance creativity and learn new improvisational skills to enhance resilience and effectiveness, in yourself or your staff.

Build bridges from present day transitions to a more fulfilling and successful future.

Why is resilience so important?

Resilience is a reflex, a way of facing and understanding the world, that is deeply etched into a person’s mind and soul. Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air. Others do not. — Diane Coutu, “How Resilience Works,” Harvard Business Review, May 2002

We live in a world of turbulent change, and most of us are facing transitions in our lives. Many people have lost jobs, are unhappy in their careers, or have sustained personal losses, due to the challenging economy, changes in life stage, or for other reasons.

Companies, associations and nonprofit organizations are also facing rapid transitions and the necessity to change to meet the demands of a challenging economy, coupled with exponential technological changes. Sometimes pressure can freeze us into non-action, but that is a bit like treading water. It works temporarily, but if we don’t move forward, we sink.

For organizations, treading water is unsustainable and often has disastrous consequences. Standing still and not adapting effectively to change is no longer an option—for individuals, work teams, or organizations.

In times of turbulence, it’s helpful to focus on what is truly in our power to control. As Albert Einstein wisely said: “Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.” Finding opportunity takes imagination and creativity.

Who Should Attend this Teleclass:

Leaders and managers of companies, nonprofits, associations and trade organizations; individuals and work team members who are undergoing major workplace, career and life transitions; individuals at mid-life or at other change points who want to thrive and achieve success in the next stage of their lives.

Questions we will discuss and explore:

What are the transformational coping traits of resilient people?

Do I have the most effective attitudes and habits to thrive in adversity? How can I guide my staff or work team toward adapting their attitudes and habits?

Do I truly understand—and accept—the reality of my situation? Does my organization?

What values do I (and my organization) need to embrace to maximize resilience, mastery, and ability to thrive in the rapidly changing economic landscape?

How do I find meaning and purpose in my situation? How do I motivate other staff to find meaning and purpose in our work together?

Learning Topics:

Distinctions between change, transition, and transformation. Why transitions are so difficult, and how they can impact us emotionally, physically, spiritually, and economically

Adaptive change, and the Hero’s Journey (Campbell)

Strategies for developing resilience

How to face internal and external challenges and opportunities without sugarcoating them—and create strategies for dealing with or exploiting them;

The spiritual quest for meaning. Finding meaning and purpose in life or work. How to utilize the meaning-making power of communicating and developing mission, vision, values

How to develop and enhance your imagination, and nurture creativity Get support to take the necessary mental and action steps needed to solve problems effectively

Rehearse “what if” options that lead to meaningful insights regarding change.

Resources:

We will draw upon the work of William Bridges and his book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes; Joseph Campbell‘s book, The Hero’s Journey; Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning; and the research of Diane Coutu, on “How Resilience Works,” as well as the considerable wisdom and experience of the Teleclass facilitators and participants.

UPDATE, January 28, 2011 — Registration is only open for TWO MORE WEEKS for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.

Your investment is only $199.00, for a limited time only. In the future, we will be raising the cost for this very timely and valuable learning experience.

SPECIAL OFFER: $50.00 discount if you refer a friend, colleague or work team member. You pay only $149.00—what a great deal, for such important and in-depth information!

Refer friends and work colleagues to our Teleclass. Sign up here to be an affiliate and earn a $20 bonus for every person who registers through you: http://bit.ly/FebAffiliate

UPDATE, January 28, 2011 — Registration is only open for TWO MORE WEEKS for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.

About the Teleclass Facilitators:

Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and author, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is founder of Creativity at Work, and as co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, she recognised internationally for pioneering arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership in organizations. She has spoken at US Navy Leadership Symposiums, the Creativity World Forum,
and the European Summit on the Arts and Business. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations.

Linda has learned about transitions and transformation through embarking on her own Hero’s Journey. She has been featured in Globe and Mail (Canada’s national newspaper) stories about Career resilience: Midlife prompts many to act on career aspirations, and Managing a Mid-Life Makeover, She is a an associate business coach at the University of British Columbia and coaches managers on resilience, creativity, innovation and leadership. Visit Creativity at Work for more information about coaching and consulting.

Cathryn Hrudicka is Founder/Chief Imagination Officer for her company, Creative Sage™ / Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates. Her experience includes executive, transition, creativity and innovation coaching and consulting with individuals, work groups and organizations. She has served in senior management positions, has owned her own company for over 30 years, and has achieved recognition in a parallel career as a multi-disciplinary artist and author. Most relevant—Cathryn has gone through major transitions, learned how to develop resilience, and has developed dynamic, creative, successful approaches to help other people go through them.

Creative Sage™ / Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates has won awards for innovation and communication using social media. Cathryn is a contributing author to two landmark books on the subject, The Age of Conversation 2 (2008) and The Age of Conversation 3 (2010), as well as a forthcoming book, A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing: Practical Tips, Advice and Examples from Leading Experts in the Field, edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreward by Henry Chesbrough (coming in March, 2011). Two of her blogs provide more information, at: http://www.CreativeSage.com/blog and:
http://www.CreativeSageArts.com/blog

UPDATE, January 28, 2011 — Registration is only open for TWO MORE WEEKS for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.

Teleclasses will take place on four Tuesdays:
February 15 –March 8, 2011, at
1:00 -2:00 p.m. PST / 4:00-5:00 p.m. EST

If there is enough demand, we will open a second section on the same Tuesday dates, at 3:00 p.m. PST / 6:00 p.m. EST (U.S.). We will consider additional days and times, subject to participant requests and facilitator availability.

Calls will be recorded and made available only to those who enroll in the program. If you are unable to attend all four sessions, you’ll be able to listen to the recording for any session you’ve missed.

Your investment is only $199.00, for a limited time only. In the future, we will be raising the cost for this very timely and valuable learning experience.

SPECIAL OFFER: $50.00 discount if you refer a friend, colleague or work team member. You pay only $149.00—what a great deal, for such important and in-depth information!

Refer friends and work colleagues to our Teleclass. Sign up here to be an affiliate and earn a $20 bonus for every person who registers through you: http://bit.ly/FebAffiliate

Registration for this Teleclass is easy, convenient and secure.

Please note that we are limiting this initial Teleclass to a small number of participants, to more effectively facilitate discussion and attention. We will close registration by Feb 11.

Available Follow-up After the Teleclass:

Follow-up workshops, teleclasses, group and individual coaching will be offered to interested participants who need or want to explore these topics in more depth and receive additional support, skill-building and individual attention. Some offerings will be specifically geared toward artists, writers, musicians and creative professionals of all disciplines. Most sessions will be available by telephone, Skype or Webinar, but some workshops and coaching will be available in person, depending upon location. Further information will be provided at the conclusion of this introductory teleclass—and you can follow registration updates here.

Don’t hesitate or procrastinate—take charge of your ability to be resilient, cope with transition and adapt to rapid change.

UPDATE, January 28, 2011 — Registration is only open for TWO MORE WEEKS for this series! RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW.

Confidential one-on-one coaching is available at a special price for participants. We will also be offering some follow-up, in-depth coaching groups, which we’ll announce at the end of the Teleclass series…or ask us about options.

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Rotating Creative Crops

January 4, 2011 – 6:35 pm

Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2011 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 10, 2008.

Several years ago, I read an interview with artist/songwriter/performer Joni Mitchell, where she talked about “rotating creative crops.” In that context, she was speaking about the different eras in her artistic life, where she had focused more on her painting or music and songwriting, and how allotting her creative time that way had helped her process. Since then, I have spoken or written about rotating creative crops a bit differently, in the context of a single day, a week, a month, or a year, in terms of my own creative work. I have applied this principle to both my artistic and business pursuits, with interesting results. I now also use some of these ideas when I do creativity coaching with individuals or groups.

Earlier in my career, I worked with adults in a mental health agency, as an activities program director and arts therapist. I also worked in a group home with teenagers who had been runaways, or who had run into trouble with the law. In both situations, I was given the opportunity to design programs that involved rotating artistic modalities with the clients (I prefer to call them “clients,” rather than “patients”). I discovered that the order in which I had them rotate through different art forms affected the results we obtained and had an impact on the success of the therapy. For instance, I found that when I started with music or movement, the clients seemed to enjoy themselves and open up more, producing a different quality of writing when I later facilitated them in poetry or story writing processes. When I started out with writing, the clients’ work was (as a whole) not as insightful or deep, more stilted, and some clients were unable to write at all. I also found that taking them from music and movement to visual media, such as painting or collage-making, and then writing also produced more insightful results and a greater ability on some clients’ part to be playful with others as part of a group.

Although the results varied to a degree by individual and psychiatric diagnosis, as well as other factors, I found that these results were fairly consistent, and I began to keep a detailed log of the procedures, artistic modality rotation and results so I could observe patterns and correlations. Even though I was working with adult psychiatric clients or troubled teenagers, in these two separate contexts, I wondered if similar findings would apply to high-functioning adults who were not psychiatric clients, in a corporate creativity or business innovation training context. The answer was basically yes, although the processes and exercises were much different. Helping people to loosen up first through the use of music (listening, singing or playing instruments), movement or dancing enabled them to open up with each other more effectively later on, when we were doing teamwork or group exercises involving creative and strategic thinking, writing, storytelling and other methods to enhance innovative thinking. I have also used visual media and dramatic improvisation in business innovation programs, customized to the specific group or individuals involved. My business creativity and innovation training, consulting and coaching includes many other dynamic methodologies as well.

In my own work as an artist, I have applied the principle of “rotating creative crops” and have found that it significantly enhances my work in each artistic medium. It also helps me think and work more effectively in my business. For instance, on some work days, when my schedule permits, I begin the day with a walk outdoors or listening to music that resonates with my mood. Then, I might play music for an hour or two at a time. If I don’t have an hour that day, I’ll play or sing for fifteen minutes. I find that my mind is much more awake, and my creative thinking has been stimulated. It also enables me to feel less anxious and overwhelmed by the demands of my business.

Periodically through the work day, I will alternate 1-2 hours of playing music or singing, creative writing, or a visual medium with 1-3 hour time slots of work for my business. I also try to rotate that work as much as possible, designating specific times to check email, interact on social networks. return or make phone calls, do marketing outreach tasks, and work on client projects. Often I do have to accommodate the needs and schedules of my clients, but that’s fine—I simply adjust the “crop rotation” to a different time line. For instance, on days when I must do client phone conferences or call media people in a different time zone, I do that first, and take a walk, gardening, or music break later in the day. I find that this rotation of activities literally stimulates different parts of my brain, enhances both my strategic and creative thinking, and keeps my attention more focused. It also enables me to enjoy each day and retain a positive outlook.

On days or weeks when I have many business deadlines, it is harder to spend 1-2 hours at a time playing music during each day. Rather than completely skipping the music, I came to realize I can still do it, but for 15-30 minutes at a time, rather than two hours. That enables me to continue doing something I love, and yet still meet my deadlines.

Often we think we have “no time” to pursue our artistic or other beloved interests during a busy work day, but that’s because we think of it as an “either—or”; either I do my art or do my job. I’m here to tell you from practical experience that we can do both, if we think more flexibly and creatively about how we do it. We can write that novel, paint that painting or compose that music and hold a job or run a demanding business if we find some time-saving tricks and don’t think about it as an “either—or,” but instead, think about rotating creative crops throughout the day, or over a week or month. Some people are weekend composers, novelists, painters or actors, while devoting their week days to their job or business. It’s a matter of experimenting and finding a method that works for you.

I also rotate creative crops throughout the course of a year, sometimes by season, quarter or bimonthly, depending on what kinds of artistic projects I’m working on. If you’re a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary artist, you have probably developed a system that works for you, so that you can spend time developing in each of the art forms that you love. For instance, often in October through December, I write a new novel, timed with National Novel Writing Month, in which I participated for eight years, from 2001-2008.

Although I perform at different times during the year, I often designate winter through spring as being a time when I kick off new musical compositions, or I take on a music or sound design project that has an endpoint or a deadline. At certain times of the year, I work on revising my novels, writing articles, or recording my new music compositions. It’s not always cut-and-dried by season, but I do make an annual calendar where I map out my priority artistic projects and assign each project or art form a color (on my computer, or with magic markers, if I’m making a large paper wall calendar). I find that prioritizing and organizing my creative projects this way enables me to stay focused on specific goals and feel that I’m accomplishing even small steps on the way to a larger goal.

Thinking strategically and creatively about my artistic projects has helped me think and act more strategically and creatively in my business as well. I find that I need to remain flexible and keep experimenting and shifting my methods as needed, depending on opportunities that I foresee, new projects that come my way, and to coordinate with the schedules of people I’m collaborating with. I often get new ideas, so I’ve needed to find ways of sorting through them and prioritizing which ones to work on first, which is a subject for another blog post. However, I’m convinced that my methods of rotating creative crops have enabled me to work more efficiently and with more joy, and I know I think better when I honor my own system of creative work.

What methods have you found that help you think or work creatively? How have you managed to integrate your life as an artist with another job or business? I’m eager to hear how other people work, so feel free to leave a relevant comment about your experiences.

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Using The Fifteen Minute Challenge™ When You Feel Overwhelmed by a Challenging Project

January 4, 2011 – 2:56 pm

Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2011 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 15, 2008.

Sometimes we all feel daunted by an overwhelming challenge, whether it’s getting stuck in the middle of writing a novel, or rolling out a new service or product for a business. To tackle big projects in any area, a technique I’ve found to be highly effective is “The Fifteen Minute Challenge™.” I’ve often used it with my Creativity Coaching clients who are tackling a substantial creative project, or with Business Innovation clients who are coping with an overwhelming task list or trying to figure out where to start with developing a new product, service, or innovation management process.

You may have noticed I’m even applying this idea to music, currently composing a series of 15 Minute Challenge Pieces™, which involves quickly improvising a 15-minute musical sequence, or Comprovisation, and recording it, on any instrument, for voice, or for a sound art work, using combinations of “found sounds.” This variety of speed composing enables me to get a musical idea or theme down quickly, and then later, I can hone it further, which may include expanding, arranging or orchestrating it. Of course, I often find that once I’ve gotten through the initial 15 ice-breaking minutes, I’ll then continue to go on composing, for 30, 60 or 120 minutes—but that initial 15 minutes to get over the hump of my fear and resistance is the most important and valuable use of my time.

As many of you know, I have participated for eight years in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I’m especially finding The Fifteen Minute Challenge™ technique to be helpful when I am feeling overwhelmed by a section of a writing project, like my eighth NaNoWriMo novel. It’s a great technique to overcome any kind of writer’s block or indecision about where to go next with the story or characters. It is much easier to think about simply writing as fast as possible for 15 minutes and not worrying about anything else but getting words down on a page. I repeat this technique for several 15-minute time periods, sometimes assigning each one to a specific character, chapter or just a page of the novel.

Often, I use The Fifteen Minute Challenge™ in tandem with another favorite technique, Rotating Creative Crops™. You may want to go and read my post on that process, and then apply both techniques in your own way, to any type of challenging project you’re working on.

By the way, I love to get feedback from people who try any of my techniques or creative processes, and I love to hear about whatever techniques you use! Please feel free to comment after this post and let me know how you’ve applied The Fifteen Minute Challenge™, and how it’s working for you. Thanks!

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