monday night — 02.23.04 — Artists Launch Resistance to Republican Convention
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1. About this Monday Night
2. Featured presenters and websites
3. About the noRNC Arts in Action Working Group:
4. Websites
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1. About this Monday Night
When: Monday February 23,7pm
What: Artists Launch Resistance to Republican Convention-Discussion
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 5th Floor
Who: All are invited
it’s about time.
hey folks,
here’s an exciting event that noRNC Arts is involved in this upcoming
Monday the first in a series. The next general noRNC Arts meeting will be
on the following Monday, March 1,7pm?location TBA.
For Immediate
Release:
Contact: Jason Jones
surplus@riseup.net
646-221-7845
Artists Launch Resistance to Republican Convention
This summer,New York City artists will lead a wave of creative resistance
against the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). On Monday,
February 23rd at7pm, several creators will showcase their artistic
counter-messages to the RNC as a part of 16 Beaver Group’s “Monday Nights”
series. Action Arts, an artists’ collective within the noRNC Arts in
Action Working Group, is curating this event as the first in a series of
critical forums designed to promote dialogue between the arts community
and the creative resistance movement.
The series will provide space for artists to present their projects and
plans while encouraging creators of all kinds to “plug in” to the
movement. This event is open to the public and members of the media
seeking an understanding of this energized and unprecedented noRNC Arts
movement.
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2. Featured presenters include:
WW3 Arts in Action:a collective using graphic arts and street theater to
call for peace in the face of endless war.
http://ww3artsinaction.org
Billionaires for Bush:savvy and humorous group using grassroots
participation and cutting-edge, online tools for organization. Finalist
in MoveOn.org‚s „Bush in 30 Seconds‰ contest.
http://www.billionairesforbush.com
Joshua Kinberg: multimedia activist, inventor of “disposable culture
jamming” devices, and featured artist in the 2004 Parsons Design and
Technology Winter Show.
http://a.parsons.edu/~jk/thesis/
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3. About the noRNC Arts in Action Working Group:
The noRNC Arts in Action Working Group is a committee within the noRNC
Clearinghouse, and is open to those preparing a creative response to the
2004 Republican National Convention scheduled to occur in NYC from Aug.
30ˆSept. 4.
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4. Websites
http://www.counterconvention.org/
http://www.rncnotwelcome.org/
About 16Beaver:
16Beaver is the address of a space initiated/run by artists to create and
maintain an ongoing platform for the presentation, production, and
discussion of a variety of projects. It is the point of many
departures/arrivals. Monday nights are an evening to share time and
generate discussions, links, and ideas. Meetings usually begin at7pm and
the location is almost always at 16Beaver Street, 5th Floor.