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Kronica Gallery, Bytom Poland

Today, we visited Bytom's sole contemporary "gallery," which is funded by the city as part of the Cultural Center that houses the dance festival we've been enjoying. The gallery, Kronica, seems to operate on a theoretical level. Our host, Stach Ruksza, described the mission as bringing something of the "alien" to the Polish Silesian region. Whereas many other parts of Poland and Eastern Europe are experiencing an influx of "the outsider"… Continue

Added by Peter Ferko on July 3, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Dance Festival, Bytom Poland

For those of you interested in dance, I'm writing a bit about the XV Annual Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Bytom Poland at DNA World, including some of my dance photos (there's a first time for everything). Here are some of the non-dance visual highlights (caveat that they're straight out of the camera so far).



untitled (train between Warsaw and Katowice)



untitled… Continue

Added by Peter Ferko on June 30, 2008 at 6:12pm — No Comments

Poland: Warsaw

Wendy and I started our visit to Poland with 24 hours in Warsaw and made a good visit with the curator of the Center for Contemporary art. There was a really good exhibit of a Polish artist who lived much of his life in London. He and his wife were better known as writers: the Themersons, Stefan and Francziczka. His visual art consisted of really unique photograms, some of which he created using structure made of a sheet of glass for holding objects with room for a camera below. Here… Continue

Added by Peter Ferko on June 29, 2008 at 5:21am — No Comments

Harambee Dance Co. needs a storyteller this Sat, June 21

Harambee Dance Co. needs a storyteller this Sat, June 21



1) The Harambee Dance Company seeks an experienced storyteller for our "Harambee Storytelling" presentation. Two

musicians will be provided to accompany the storyteller. There will be three 20 - 30 minute presentations during the day

at 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm. The fee is $ 200.



* We have run this announcement several times and have connected with some extraordinary storytellers. There are so

many… Continue

Added by Peter Ferko on June 19, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

I am an artist...and so is everyone else!

Don't miss this amazing description of artists in America from the New York Times. According to the latest U.S. census, "artist" is one of the biggest professions in the country, responsible for huge amounts of income and covering everything from modern dancer to architect.

Added by Peter Ferko on June 17, 2008 at 5:17pm — No Comments

what was the last piece of art that moved you?

For me:
I just saw choreography by Kate Weare. It was sexy and sophisticated, new and had roots all at the same time.

Added by Peter Ferko on May 15, 2008 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

photo op

http://www.artistswanted.org/exposure/

Added by Peter Ferko on May 12, 2008 at 9:52pm — 2 Comments

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