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2010 CCNY Photo Benefit Auction

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Monday, October 25, 2010 6 - 8pm Located at The Exhibition Lab 548 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor (betw 10th / 11th Avenues) $15 admission. All proceeds go to The Camera Club of New York (CCNY), a non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization that has been nurturing talented photographers since 1884. For further inquires, contact CCNY at info@cameraclubny.org or by phone: CCNY wishes to thank The Exhibition Lab for their generosity in hosting this year’s auction.

FELAbration

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culled from: http://artspeakafrica.blogspot.com/ First published in 1982, Fela: This Bitch of a Life is the authoritative text on the life and times of Africa's greatest ever musician. In just under 350 pages, the reader is invited to the living room of Fela’s iconoclastic mind, discovering from the inside the key turning points in his life – his childhood in Abeokuta and the forceful influence of his parents, especially his mother; student life in England; his coming to black consciousness in America (and his encounters with Funk and some of the key players in African-American musical and political culture); his return to Nigeria and setting up the Shrine and Kalakuta Republic and his increasingly painful struggles with the authorities in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading about Fela brings to life post-Independence African history in all its turbulence and drama. The book also includes interviews with some of Fela’s wives, allowing the reader to get an intimate perspective

Sign Up for the Street Photography Now Project

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Each Friday from 1 October 2010 a new Instruction will be issued by one of the photographers featured in Street Photography Now. This will appear on the front page of this website, and be sent out by email. To receive the weekly Instruction by email, send a message to signup@photonet.org.uk with SPNP in the subject header. You can join at any time. You may upload one photograph per Instruction to the Street Photography Now Project Flickr Group. You may respond to as many Instructions as you want. We are looking for candid photographs taken in the stream of everyday life. Your photographs should demonstrate an understanding of the history and practice of street photography – you can stretch or even break the unwritten rules of the genre, but you should be aware of them first. It may help to read the introduction to Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren’s book Street Photography Now. The Project administrators reserve the right to remove any unsuitable photographs without explanation. Pr

Clemens en August in SMBA

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8th, 9th and 10th October Shop open from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The fashion label Clemens and August is also calling in at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam during its tour this year. For three days, over the weekend of 8, 9 and 10 October, SMBA is providing space for their new women's and men's collection, complete with fitting rooms and point of sale. Clothing by Clemens and August is exclusively available at the locations on their international tour. The fashion label avoids the expensive overhead costs that accompany standard sales models, such as shop rental and distribution with this tour concept. Every season the collection enters a gallery or museum in a large city. Thus Clemens and August will be reaching its audience this autumn through institutions including Witte de With in Rotterdam, Artists Space in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Kunstverein in Munich – the city which is also the home base for this fashion concept by Alexander Brenninkmeijer. SMB

One Minute Awards 2011

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One Minutes Magazine, series of One Minute video art to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. It will appear on a monthly basis. The awards and the launch of TOM Magazine is in February 2011. Series for which you can submit entries are: Video performance: you and the camera Cut and Paste: technical miracles A Small History: small stories about matters we should not forget about Micro Commercial: small companies run by passionate owners Fairground Attraction: surreal details of a visual dreamworld Mini road movie: travel report from A to B, a world network of travels Per series 6 entries will be nominated for an award plus cash prize. Deadline 1 December 2010.