Saturday, 10 March 2007 - 11:55 AM CST

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Saturday, 10 March 2007 - 11:55 AM CST

see for special events

Wednesday, 11 April 2007 - 9:34 AM CDT

Friday April 13 7 p.m Walker Open Stage "Busy busy Days of April: Fools, Earth & Arbor" with Guest Host: James Livingston. All performers of any age, level of perfection, or weirdness are welcome, sign up at 7. Building accessible on NW. FFI Tony 612-872-0233
Also james at Epworth Church , Sun, 15, 2pm reading poetry

Wednesday, 18 April 2007 - 8:59 AM CDT

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Artists With Disabilities Alliance (AWDA)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Walker Church - 3104 16th Ave. S., Minneapolis
Tonight’s facilitator: Suzanne Byrne, 763-504-2405

READ AGENDA bold-face items: Change as needed. Set up note taker.

INTRODUCTIONS:
Each participant shares briefly what is going well in their art life, what is difficult, and what support they would like from the group.

OLD BUSINESS:
Critique group - Guidelines to give constructive feedback to those who share their creative expression or art & craft work.

NEW BUSINESS:
Art Shows/Sales:
The World Jubilee – results from Saturday, April 14, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, St. Paul.
AWDA ornament creation and fund-raising project – Deb Costandine
Other updates? – June 23-24 Jordan Art Festival (juried) offers tents, discounts for educational presentations; deadline April 30.
Sales Tax Amnesty – Pamela Bottoms
2007 GLBT Pride Art Show at The Soap Factory (June 15 – July 22)
AWDA Meetings in Greater Minnesota – Update (see Calendar)
Workshop Topics or Presenters – Writing - Marketing - PASS programs - Creating art together
Mentoring – Interest? Sources of mentors?
Other 2007 activities, group outings:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
• Open Stages at Walker Church – Friday, May 11, 7:00 (John Bennett hosting Beatniks and Hippies Night). FFI: Jennifer, 612-722-6612.
• April 18 City Pages – May have an article about artist Mari Newman
• Interact: Future Perfect: A Genetically Modified Musical runs April 19 – May 19; 651-209-6689 or www.interactcenter.com (AD: April 28, 3:00; May 4, 7:30; ASL: May 12, 3:00 & 7:30), $15, $10; 212 3rd Ave. N., #140, Mpls.
Kip Shane performed two roles last month in Jon Skaalen’s play, “Helen of Boyd”
• An artist with a disability is looking for an apartment in the Lake & Hennepin/Lyndale area of South Mpls. that would be up to $750 and allow a cat. Contact Jon.
• "Wild Music" exhibit at the Science Museum -- 50 free tickets available until June 3. Show includes many enhancements for the visually impaired. Help evaluate accessibility on Sunday, April 22, noon to 3:00. Email wmtemp@smm.org or call 651-221-4733.

FUTURE MEETINGS:
? Wed. May 9 at Walker Church Facilitator: Kip Shane
Wed. June 13 at Walker Church Facilitator: Terri Parks

TIME FOR ART: Share your visual art, poetry, performance art…

We request that all meetings be fragrance-free.
To share group info, send to Jon, jon@vsaartsmn.org, 612-332-3888.


CALENDAR:
Thru April 30 Art by Anne Krocak & Mari Newman, Vision Loss Resources, 1936 Lyndale
Thru July 31 Art by Alissa Hullett at Park State Bank, 430 First Ave, Suite 104, Mpls.
Thru June 3 "Wild Music" exhibit at the Science Museum includes many enhancements for the visually impaired. www.smm.org/wildmusic
April 24, May 1, 7:00 – 7:30 PM -- KFAI “Disabled and Proud” program every Tuesday on
May 8, 15, 22, 29 90.3 FM Mpls. or 106.7 FM St. Paul, www.kfai.org/programs/disabled.htm
April 19 Sister Kenny opening, 5-8, 800 E. 28th St.; runs thru May 18
April 19 Interact opens “Future Perfect: A Genetically Modified Musical,” 7:30
April 20-22 St. Paul Art Crawl F 6-10, Sat 2-10, Sun 12-5; www.stpaulartcrawl.org
April 23 6:30-8:30 Bemidji AWDA at Public Library (Terri, Craig)
April 24 4:30-6:30 Fergus Falls AWDA at Ottertail Power (Terri, Craig)
April 26 4:30-6:30 Duluth AWDA at Access North CIL (Craig,
May 3 6-8 St. Cloud AWDA, 1101 7th St. S. (Jon/Gail/Kip/Tara)
May 9 6-8 AWDA at Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
May 17 5:30-7:30 Hinckley AWDA at St. Paul Luth. Church (Jon, Monique)
May 18-20 Art-a-Whirl, NE Mpls. (5-10, 12-8, 12-5) www.art-a-whirl.org
June 13 6-8 AWDA at Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
June 30 – July 7 American Council for the Blind (ACB) national conference at Hyatt in Mpls.
Aug. 2-12 MN Fringe Festival, www.fringefestival.org
Aug. 4-5 Powderhorn, Uptown & Loring Art Fairs
August 16-18 Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disability (LEAD) Conference at Guthrie, www.kennedy-center.org/accessibility/lead/conference
Oct. 4-6 Artability at Apollo, Apollo Resource center, 313 N Dale St., St. Paul, www.peopleincorporated.org
Oct. St. Paul Lowertown Art Crawl – Robin Priestley (651-776-5569)
Dec. art sale at Walker Church
Dec. art sale at First Universalist Church, Mpls.

Tuesday, 8 May 2007 - 8:10 AM CDT

Artists With Disabilities Alliance

Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Carleton Artist Lofts, 2285 University Ave., St. Paul

Facilitator is Kip Shane, 612-729-6023.

Carleton Artist Lofts are several newly renovated live & work buildings. We will tour studio, rehearsal & community spaces and a sample apartment. Use the north entrance off parking lot. Please arrive on time. Since it is a secure building, we will have someone at the door for a short while to let you in. If no one is there, buzz the Pamela Veeder apartment. We will start in the meeting room across from the entrance, tour the public areas and a typical apartment, and then go into our meeting agenda. (Don’t use the University Avenue entrance since we won’t have anyone stationed there.) The building is fully accessible.

DIRECTIONS: From Hwy 280, go east on University. One block past Raymond, turn left on Carleton and then right on Charles to the entrance with banners flying. From the east, take University west from Snelling to Hampden. Turn right, go one block to Charles and go left to the entrance of Carleton Artist Lofts.

Join us to share your art, writing, music, questions!
AWDA info: 612-332-3888, jon@vsaartsmn.org; www.vsaartsmn.org http://www.vsaartsmn.org/ or www.Angelfire.com/mn3/awda https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/awda . Or to add an item to the agenda, call Kip Shane.
Fragrance-free, please, so all can participate.
The June 13 meeting will be at Walker Church.


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Monday, 4 June 2007 - 3:25 PM CDT

Artists With Disabilities Alliance (AWDA)

Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Walker Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
Facilitator: Terri Parks, 612-990-9695

1. INTRODUCTIONS:
Each participant shares briefly what is going well in their art life, what is difficult, and what support they would like from the group.

2. BUSINESS MEETING:
READ AGENDA bold-face items: Change as needed. Set up note taker.

HISTORIC MEETING: This is our 50th meeting! We first met November 12, 2002 at the Hennepin Center for the Arts. About 62 individuals have attended one or more meetings.

OLD BUSINESS:
Guidelines for Giving Critiques at AWDA Meetings – Discuss guidelines to give constructive feedback to those who share their creative expression or art & craft work and who wish to have feedback.

NEW BUSINESS:
Yahoo Group: Deb Costandine has done preliminary work setting up a Yahoo discussion group for AWDA. She will describe how we can make this email networking tool work for artists.
Art Shows/Sales: Any preferences for group participation at future shows/fairs?
Summer Picnic?: Meet in July or August in Powderhorn Park?
Fringe Festival: Tony Wentersdorf, Dan Reiva and other artists with disabilities will have shows in the Fringe Fest (August 2-12). How can we assist, support or attend? (See Auditions below)
Accommodations: We may have our first attendee who is deafblind. Are there special accommodations he or others need to make these meetings work for all?
Careers in the Arts Meetings, Grant Proposal: VSA arts of MN and the State Arts Board last week submitted a grant proposal to encourage continued career networking by AWDA and other groups now meeting around Minnesota. If awarded, we’d receive about $900 to use over the next year to assist with entering shows, pay speaker stipends, hire interpreters, assist members (up to $30) to attend classes, enter art events, etc. Decisions would be made by our group.
Workshop Topics – What programs should AWDA offer? Writing? Marketing? PASS programs? Creating art together? Mentoring artists? Group outings? Ideas for presenters?
Other:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

FUTURE MEETINGS: set dates, places & facilitators if possible
Wed. July 11 at Walker Church Facilitator: Deb Costandine
Wed. Aug. 15 at Walker Church Facilitator: Tony Wentersdorf
Sept. Facilitator:

3. TIME FOR ART: Share visual art, poetry, music, performance …

We request that all meetings be fragrance-free.
To share info with our group, send to: ______________ or jon@vsaartsmn.org, 612-332-3888.


CALENDAR:
Thru July 31 Art by Alissa Hullett at Park State Bank, 430 First Ave, Suite 104, Mpls.
Thru Aug. 19 Discover What art is exhibit at Minnesota Children's Museum, St. Paul
Thru August 31 Art by Jan Severson & Holly Tappen, Vision Loss Resources, 1936 Lyndale
Tuesdays 7:00-7:30 PM -- KFAI “Disabled & Proud” program on 90.3 FM Mpls. or
106.7 FM St. Paul, www.kfai.org/programs/disabled.htm
June 6 4:30 - 6:30 Fergus Falls AWDA at Otter Tail Power, 216 S. Cascade
June 7 4:30 - 6:30 Duluth AWDA Access North CIL, 118 E. Superior St.
June 11 4:30 - 6:30 Bemidji AWDA Library, 509 America Ave NW
June 13 6-8 AWDA at Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
June 14 6-8 St. Cloud AWDA at Lake George Facility, 1101 7th St. S.
June 25-27 12:30-3:00 Art Workshop with Upstream Arts at Courage Center
June 30 1:00 Big Pink (Jon Skaalen’s house in Stillwater) hosts Open Eye Figure Theatre puppet show, "Little Grandpa's Big Adventure," followed by BBQ
June 30 – July 7 American Council for the Blind (ACB) national conference at Hyatt in Mpls.
July 11 6-8 AWDA at Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
Aug. 2 9:30-3:00 Music Across Abilities Workshop, Perpich Center
Aug. 2-12 MN Fringe Festival, www.fringefestival.org
Aug. 4-5 Powderhorn, Uptown & Loring Art Fairs
Aug. 15 6-8 AWDA at Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Mpls.
August 16-19 Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disability (LEAD) Conference at Guthrie, www.kennedy-center.org/accessibility/lead/conference
Oct. 4-6 Artability at Apollo, Apollo Resource center, 313 N Dale St., St. Paul, www.peopleincorporated.org
Oct. St. Paul Lowertown Art Crawl – Robin Priestley (651-776-5569)
Dec. art sales at Walker Church & First Universalist Church, Mpls.

Auditions --
The Electric Telescope Theatre Co. is conducting auditions for its third straight MN Fringe Festival production. Its 2006 Fringe production of “The 9-11 Tapes” was one of the “Top Picks” of Pulse TC magazine which noted it was “sharply written” and the cast could “REALLY act.”
Play Description: In this year’s show, Dan Reiva’s “The Cold, Dark Matter at Hand,” a great ship founders on its voyage to Proxima Centauri. They say nothing is more beautiful than a spaceship dead in the water. Legend has it a young astronaut discovers survival is mind over matter. This science fiction fable needs a diverse cast of men and women including teens, young adults and adults. Roles will be assigned through color blind casting.
Auditions will be held: Wed., June 6, 7-9 PM, and Sat., June 9, 10-2 PM
Callbacks will be held: Wed., June 13, 7 PM
Rehearsals begin: Week of June 25
Location: Urban League Academy High School, 2201 Blaisdell Ave. S., Mpls.
Appointment: call Dan Reiva, director, 612-310-3690 after 3 PM or on weekends. (If you can’t make the scheduled audition time slots, call to see if an alternative time is available.)
Performances: will be at the Minneapolis Theatre Garage, 711 Franklin Ave. Mpls.,
Aug. 2, 7:00; Aug. 5, 5:30; Aug. 7, 10:00; Aug. 8, 8:30; Aug. 12, 5:30.

Monday, 4 June 2007 - 3:27 PM CDT

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Monday, 4 June 2007 - 3:28 PM CDT

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Wednesday, 6 June 2007 - 8:59 AM CDT

Tony Wentersdorf's play:

"Cathect Adult" (Full Circle Empty)

will be performed for the
Minnesota Fringe Festival in August at The
Minneapolis Theater Garage on
711 Franklin Ave in MPLS.
Performance
dates/times are: Frid Aug 3 /7pm, Sat Aug 4 /1 pm, Mon Aug 6 /8:30 pm,
Frid Aug 10 /5:30 pm, Sat Aug 11 /7 pm.

This play is about the experiences of a mentally ill client at dysfunctional, cult-like day-treatment program which was based on a personal experience of the
playwright.