The Mangrove Opening #2

Here are some great photos of the Mangrove Reception from Mark Hammon!

photos Mark Hammon

http://www.truckeerivergallery.com/

Thanks Mark for generourly sharing them with the blog.

The Mangrove Opening

We had a great time at the Mangrove Opening.

First exhibited at Burning Man 2007, The Mangrove is an eclectic collection of artworks sculpted by different artist or artist collectives. Each work offers a different lesson, rendered with exquisite craft and detail, in how discarded materials can be reused to create beauty out of 'trash'.

The works now grace the bank of the Truckee River in downtown Reno, Nevada, on the corner of Sierra Street and Island Avenue. This lot is now transformed into an interactive art grove as of September 6, 2008, and remains on display, free to the public, until December 13, 2008.

BRAF extends our sincerest thanks to the The Freight House District, LLC, the City of Reno, United Rentals, Fernley Electric and Peppermill Hotel Casino Reno and the Sierra Arts Foundation for their support of this project.

photos affinity & MonkeyBoy

Fire at the Detroit Dream Project - Temple

Hello and Greetings, We are sad to tell you that someone set fire to the Detroit Dream Projects –Temple to the American Dream on September 2. The Temple is still standing but has sustained some damage.

Around 9pm that evening a guy was in the park and it appears he may have thrown an accelerant on the back post and set it on fire.

Some locals from the neighborhood saw what happened and quickly hosed the Temple down and from what I am told the neighbors let this guy know in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome back in the area!

We are all very appreciative and in debt to these Good Samaritans!

At this time we are determining what action needs to be taken to repair the damage and may need some assistance i.e. some good old fashioned community elbow grease and general support once a plan of action has been made.

We are obviously very disappointed by this unfortunate situation, but like the Phoenix from the Ashes we will regenerate and rebuild. Did you know our logo is the Phoenix rising over the city of Detroit?

And that is what we plan to do this coming Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the Temple site located at 17363 Redford Street, Detroit Michigan, next to the Motor City Blight Busters Head Quarters from 12 noon til after dark so we can get some fire performing in hopefully!

We will be hosting an informal workday and potluck fundraiser that day to help assist us in repairing the damage to the back post of the structure.

Won’t you come out?!

Your presence and support would be very appreciated! If you can come out to help or just enjoy the day with us at the site we would be very happy to have the company! Any help will be put to good use! If you have any questions please feel free to contact me (313.608.4580) or any member of SPARC through the website. Thank you on behalf of SPARC and the Detroit Dream Project!

Danielle Kaltz (~doxie)\

The Black Rock Arts Foundation would like to thank Doxie for all of her work in gathering both the local Burning Man Community and other local people who have been dedicated to making the Detroit Dream Project thrive, and SPARC and to the Motor City Blight Busters for all of their help and support in helping repair the Temple. I made a donation this morning and I hope you will too!

Financial Donations:

http://www.donatetoblackrockarts.org/

Please be sure to specify "Detroit Temple" in the COMMENTS area.

In-kind Donations:

http://www.detroitdreamproject.com/contact/

All contributions (including equipment and monetary donations), may beconsidered tax deductible contributions and would be greatlyappreciated. Contribute to the Detroit Dream Project and help make alasting impact on the landscape and spirit of this community.

The Mangrove Opening Reception

ScrapEden @ Burning Man 2008

Did you come by to visit us in our American Dream backyard. We created flags with words and arranged the words to create sentences, created and left a new word or took a word as a gift. The visual effect was a poetic combination of clotheslines, prayer flags and quilts, with a dash of magnetic poetry.

Cocktails with BRAF @ Burning Man

We Are Everywhere - Everywhere Lane

Everywhere Lane - Regional Network Center

Everywhere Lane

On the Playa

Everywhere lane

Come Visit Us on Everywhere Lane!

So we are camping at Burning Man with our buddies this year on Everywhere Lane. Come on over to visit us in our American Dream backyard. We'll lounge in the shade, sip lemonade and conspire to bring interactive art to communities beyond the playa! Any day from 10 to 6, you can create new or play with the flags that we have created that have a single word on them. Rearrange the words to create sentences, create and leave a new word or take a word that speaks to you as a gift.

We hope the visual effect will be a poetic combination of clotheslines, prayer flags and quilts, with a dash of magnetic poetry.

And on your way out stop by and visit our Everywhere Lane neighbors, Burners without Borders, Black Rock Solar and the Regional Network Center.

In addition, we are having an "On-Playa BRAF Reception" and we would love to have you stop by. If you’ll attending Burning Man 2008: The American Dream, be sure to join us for annual Black Rock Arts Foundation Meet and Greet Cocktail party on the playa!

Enjoy libations and mingle with BRAF Board Members, Grant Recipients, Artists and our fabulous community of lively supporters. Come celebrate all that we do together!

Thursday, August 28, 2008,

4:00pm-6:00pm

BRAF Camp - 11:00 and Wheel on the Esplanade

Black Rock City, NV

Meet our Grantees: Primal Source Video

So now we have a video of Primal Source, enjoy



Prior Posts:

Primal Source Realized
Primal Source

Homouroboros Video

I just came across a new video of Homouroboros, you remember, THOSE monkeys in San Jose, and I thought you might enjoy it. I love the beginning where the kids (big and little) are obviously loving drumming...



video Brett Stalbaum

Detroit Temple - World Hoop Day

In our continuing saga of of documenting what community events are happening at the Detroit Dream Project. Check out the video to see how the Temple is being a base for the neighborhood!

I give you Faith's report on World Hoop Day:

Blight Buster showed up to help set up and and then our first round of kids were just walking by and we hooked them in and they stayed for about 2 hours (and finally won a hoop!!).

Peachy and Doxie who took flyers into the neighborhood to attract kids. I think kids going home with hoops brought more back to us. The fire department showed up (just in time for fire hooping) And started hooping with us! They read about it in the Livonia paper!! And they want to be involved next year. They are clowns on their off time!! How awesome is that!We gave away 15 custom made hoops!!!! The kids were so excited!! I haven't counted out how many small hoops we gave away, but there were quite a few.

And there are already plans in the works for next year.

And Doxie's Report:

So another year of World Hoop Day has past..it was 8.8.8 if you did not know...next year it will be 9.9.9 and yes last year it was 7.7.7!!it was a great day for hooping..even if the wind tried to blow Evol away!!

We gave away a ton of kid hoops and 15 custom built ones were raffled off to kids and adults! and the kids picked it up SO quick!! we pulled in kids from all over the hood....and yes now peach knows just how crazy I am ..though i like to think of it as determined ..cuz we cruised the hoods in my little red convertible and i went up to peoples houses where i saw kids outside and was giving away fliers!! and it WORKED!! ...

Revolva was in from Portland to perform..Micha came in with her huge crew ( i love that woman) Faith did her awesome fire hooping !! with the Detroit Fire Department watching and their jaws agape! They showed up with a rig and got out and played!! One of them is a Detroit Fire Department Clown crew and wants to be involved next year...we even got the three other fire fighters to hoop..it was a blast!!

video Revolva

The Mangrove Opening Reception

The Mangrove Opening Reception is going to be shortly after the Burning Man Festival closes, so mark your calendars now so you do not miss it.

Saturday, September 6, 2008,
5:00pm-8:00pm
Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery17 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV

Join us for a celebration of our first interactive art installation in Nevada.

The Mangrove is part of our Civic Arts Program, and is a collection of tree sculptures, each by a different artist.

The works will grace the bank of the Truckee River in downtown Reno, Nevada, on the corner of Sierra Street and Island Avenue. This currently empty lot transforms into an interactive art grove September 6, 2008, and remains on display, free to the public, until December 13, 2008.

BRAF extends our sincerest thanks to the The Freight House District, LLC,
the City of Reno, United Rentals, Fernley Electric and Peppermill Hotel Casino Reno and the Sierra Arts Foundation for their support of this project.

First exhibited at Burning Man 2007, The Mangrove is an eclectic collection of artworks sculpted by five different artist collectives. Each work offers a different lesson, rendered with exquisite craft and detail, in how discarded materials can be reused to create beauty out of 'trash'.

postcard design Maria Partridge

Meet-Our-Grantees Global Lives Project

I'll let one of our 2007 Grants-to-Artists matching grant recipients, tell you about their project in their own words.

The Global Lives Project is a collaborative effort of volunteers from around the world to build a video library of human life experience. Our content consists of uninterrupted 24-hour recordings of daily life of individuals selected to represent the diversity of human life on the planet. In collaboration with museums, universities and independent filmmakers in numerous countries, we are working to present this library as both a series of physical video installations and a free and interactive online video collection. We have already conducted recordings in Brazil, Malawi, Japan and the US, and plan an additional 6 shoots in 2008 and 2009.

The installation at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan featured 24 hours in the life of James Bullock, a cable car driver in San Francisco; Edith Kapuka, a junior high school student in rural Malawi, Rael Feliciano, a hip hop singer in Brazil; and Rumi Nagashima, a university student in Tokyo.