October Events
Alan Bigelow’s WebYarns and Tammy McGovern: Hyper Texts Demonstrations
Thursday, October 1 at 7pm
First Thursdays programs are presented by Citizens Bank
WebYarns are created in Flash and using images, text, audio, and video, these non-traditional narratives employ poetic and occasionally humorous/ironic metaphors. Often they make statements about contemporary life, culture, and politics. The stories are created for viewing on the Web, but they can be (and have been) shown as gallery installations. For his presentation at Burchfield Penney, Bigelow will be showing a selection of his work, with some commentary on creative process and the emerging form of digital literature.
Tammy McGovern will demonstrate several of her interactive animations and experimental web environments that combine audio, text and images into mouse and keyboard driven compositions. Often making use of appropriated elements from print, broadcast and junk e-mail, these works employ interactive techniques that remix the original materials in ways that give rise to playful and unexpected juxtapositions and sequences.
This program is part of the Burchfield Penney’s First Thursdays programs, supported by Citizens Bank.
Poetry Reading: Max Wickert
Sunday, October 4 at 2pm
Presented by the David and Ruth Lampe Poetry Endowment
Max Wickert taught at the University at Buffalo for many years and has two books of Poems: All the Weight of Still Midnight and The Pat Sonnets. His Translation of Torquato Tasso’s The Liberation of Jerusalem recently appeared in the Oxford World’s Classic series. He is working on the first English translation of Andrea da Barberio’s Reali di Francia. This is a free event.
4th Bi-Annual Cross-Border Post Keynesian Conference
Thursday October 8 - Saturday, October 10
The 4th Bi-Annual Cross-Border Post Keynesian Conference takes place at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College. Visit http://buffalostate.edu/economics/pk2009.xml for complete conference details.
The Burchfield Penney is pleased to offer the following programs in partnership with the conference.
All programs are free and open to the public.
Screening: Cradle Will Rock
Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm
Introduction by Professor Drew Kahn, Theater Department, Buffalo State College
The Cradle will Rock is a 1937 musical of the same name by Mark Blitzein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, the film is an allegory of corruption and corporate greed set in "Steeltown, USA." In 1999 writer/director Tim Robbins wrote a semi-fictional film recounting the original production of The Cradle Will Rock. The film, entitled Cradle will Rock (without the "The") blended the true history of Blitzstein's show with the creation (and subsequent destruction) of the original Diego Rivera mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center.
Discussion will include how the Work Projects Administration (WPA), had an active presence in Buffalo, including most notably playwright, actor and theater educator Manny Fried. Many actors and directors were able to come to Buffalo from New York and Boston because of WPA support and continued their careers in the region as a result.
Lecture: Mark Goldman
Saturday, October 10 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm
The Great Depression and Buffalo's Arts Culture
In Mark Goldman's book, "City on the Edge", much of Buffalo's history deals with the cultural institutions that were built during some of the most trying times of the 20th century including the Fine Arts Academy (now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) and the first artist run gallery in the US. A short time before the Crash of 1929, Charles Burchfield quit his job as a designer at the Birge Carey Wallpaper Co. to devote all his time to painting. Goldman will lecture on the opportunities that can be discovered during difficult times and how Buffalo has the uncanny ability to regenerate itself when the economy hits the hardest.
Performance: "…Whose Names Are Unknown": Words, Images and Songs from the Great Depression with The 198 String Band Saturday
October 10 at 8:00 pm
Introduction by Professor, Charles Mancuso, Music Department.
This multimedia presentation engages the audience through sight, sound, and thought-provoking imagery to appreciate the devastating experience of the Great Depression and the national recovery policies of the New Deal. The sixty minute program consists of live interpretive narrations that set the historical context of social and economic occurrences of the era, through compelling photographs, punctuated by a live performance of folk songs of the time. The presentation title, "…Whose Names Are Unknown," is taken from an eviction notice that appeared on a farm in the Midwest, "to John and Mary Doe, whose names are unknown." The program helps to reconstruct the experience of ordinary Americans who have gone voiceless in their own national history.
Burchfield Penney Annual Gala and Art Auction
Friday, October 16
At the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Buffalo
Presented by Mass Mutual Financial Group
Email Katerina Syntelis at syntelk@buffalostate.edu for tickets and information.
BPGala.org
The Burchfield Penney is a partner in the 2009 Doors Open event
Saturday and Sunday, October 17 - 18
Visit www.DoorsOpenNiagara.com for information.
Screening: Episode 3 of the new series of Art 21
Thursday, October 22 at 7:00 pm
Transformations
Featuring artists Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman and Paul McCarthy
Visit art21.org for more information.
Members Only Reception
Friday, October 23 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Free for Burchfield Penney members, $10 for "not yet" members
Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Milton Rogovin
October 24 at 1:00 pm
Presentation: Milton Rogovin: His Life, His Photography by artist and art historian Melanie Herzog, Prof. of Art History, Edgewood College, Madison, WI.
author of Milton Rogovin the Making of a Social Documentary Photographer.
US debut of the new documentary about Rogovin: Picture Man: The Poetry of Photographer Milton Rogovin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTTAcM90p8M
A Reading by Eric Gansworth from the Collaborative Book: From the Western Door to the Lower West Side
October 25 at 2:00 pm
Continuing the weekend long celebration of the upcoming 100th birthday of beloved photographer Milton Rogovin, Mr. Gansworth will share with the community selections from their recently published book.
Reading by Greg Ames, Buffalo-born author of Buffalo Lockjaw
Thursday, October 29 at 7pm
Presented in partnership with Talking Leaves.
