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Film Series and Panel Discussion MAY 1st - 2nd, 2010 As part of its ongoing ADFF Spring and Summer Film Series at Teachers College, Columbia University, ADFF is presenting the "LOVE AND SOCIETY" film series on May 1st and 2nd, a selection of classic, comedy, and urban films that explore the dynamics between the values promoted by societies and individual's ability to give and receive love. PROGRAM AT A GLANCE SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010 1:00PM THE OTHER WORLD (France/Algeria) 3:00PM NO TIME TO DIE (Ghana) 5:00PM BURNING AN ILLUSION (UK/Barbados) 7:00PM EL MESTIZO (Venezuela) FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2010 1:00PM BLUEPRINT (US) 3:00PM NOTHING BUT A MAN (US) 5:00PM PANEL "LOVE AND SOCIETY" With * Director of Blueprint, Kirk Shannon-Butts* * Co-Founder and Co-President of the The Spirit of a Woman Leadership Development Institute (S.O.W.) Monica C. Dennis * * Author/Poet and Public Speaker Jewel Allison, who recently published the book of poems Stealing Peace * WHERE: Teachers C...

Open Call for proposals 2011 HMK {Hotel MariaKapel} Deadline: 1 June 2010 (stamped with that date on enveloppe is on time) A.I.R. Hotel MariaKapel invites artists, curators and researchers to submit proposals for our 2011 programme. About HMK Hotel Mariakapel is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, a 16th century town by the IJsselmeer, just 40 km north of Amsterdam. In the old center of the town, in a medieval orphanage with adjacent inner garden and Maria Chapel, Hotel Mariakapel receives artists from all over the world. The programme involves artists and curators working in a wide range of media, focusing on installation and context based work, video/film and performance art. Projects are developed both in public space and in the chapel’s exhibition space. Hotel MariaKapel is kindly supported by Hoorn City Council, the Province of Noord-Holland, and the Mondriaan Foundation. Things to consider when applying: When sending in a proposal for an artistic or curatorial...

Friday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. Wollman Hall (65 W 11th St - enter at 66 W 12th) Reception to follow The event is free and open to the public. To celebrate the publication of the new issue of Fashion Projects the MA Fashion Studies at Parsons the New School for Design will be hosting a screening, featuring a range of short experimental films about fashion and memory–the topic of the new issue. They include films by the British-based fashion design duo Boudicca, Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, designer Shelley Fox, and fashion photographer Laura Sciacovelli.

LE PETIT MARCHE – APRIL PRESS RELEASE ‘A piece of the famous London Portobello Market in Lagos’ It’s almost that time of the month again so we would like to invite potential vendors to come and participate in what is going to be an UTTERLY FAB LPM this month….and of course subsequently. Lagos’ favourite fashion + lifestyle market is back with a BANG this month, we’ve moved house to the uber-fab GET Arena, Lekki! To celebrate we are giving our shoppers an opportunity to kart and shop!!! We’ll be giving away prizes to the fastest male and female kart-ers! Fashion . From independent to high street, hottest trends to vintage; men, women and children will be catered for. Experience . GET ARENA on the 25th of April 2010 from 12 noon till 6pm. – GET offers you all a combo of the BAR n GRILL, The G Lounge, GOONIES kids, surrounded by one of the most sophisticated GO Karting tracks you will find anywhere!! With an excellent menu, awesome cocktails and great music, who says shopping can’t b...

To coincide with the programme CCA,Lagos will be hosting a three day workshop on fashion and photography, in which artist Pinar Yolacan will guide participants in conceiving and realizing work(s) that will go on to be exhibited within the CCA,Lagos library space as part of our Fashion, Art and Identity series. The workshop will take place from the 21st- 23rd April 2010, for more information please contact Oyinda Fakeye at info@ccalagos.org or on 07055680104, spaces are limited.

As part of the year long focus on Photography and Art, Fashion and Identity, CCA,Lagos is pleased to present Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan’s critically acclaimed series “Maria” , (2007) a stunning collection of 12 stunning life size portrait photographs of African-Brazilian women emerging from stark black backgrounds. Taken over a twelve month period in Itaparica, Bahia, Yolaçan’s images are evocative of Old Master portraits, possessing the psychological and emotional immediacy of the Romantic genre. In this series the artist subverts regality by dressing her sitters in elaborate hand sewn couture costumes with trimmings of ‘unusual’ materials such as velvet, satin, tripe, placenta and sheep’s testicles. Through this series Yolaçan engages with issues of beauty, the body, colonialism, and death as a way of broaching the “impermanence of things.” The exhibition launches with a light reception at the CCA,Lagos gallery space on Saturday 17th April, where press and guests will be invited to...