CIBA Show (arts/culture)

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Be Part of The Marin Show: Art of the Americas

The California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA) will soon participate in the largest Indian Art Show and Sale in the country, The Marin Show: Art of the Americas, on February 25, 26 and 27. CIBA members will have an opportunity to enter their finest work in the large CIBA booth where it will be displayed and potentially sold. Each year thousands of collectors, buyers, and educators come from all over the world to attend the Marin Show.

The CIBA Show Team will design and operate a large booth at the Marin Show on a professional level. The Team will establish a secure process for: (1) Accepting basketry for sale; (2) Documenting basketry; (3) Engaging the public and providing education; and (4) Managing the sales of basketry. Through this experience, CIBA will be preparing for a much larger role in the Marin Show next year. In 2012 CIBA will participate by providing speakers, education programs and potentially, increased sales of member basketry.

Weavers who apply to CIBA to participate in the event will be required to pay a $30 fee. This fee will entitle each weaver to enter three baskets in the CIBA booth and will help offset the substantial cost of the booth rental. Weavers must set, and will receive, a fixed price for each basket. Baskets not sold will be returned to the weaver. The weaver must cover the cost of return mail.

CIBA members may either ship their work via UPS or deliver, by appointment, their work to the Woodland office. Baskets entered in the Marin Show must be received by Monday, February 21, 2011.

If you would like to be a working member of the CIBA Show Team, please contact the Woodland office.

Please Note:
Neither CIBA, nor the management of The Marin Show: Art of the Americas, can guarantee the sale of any artifact or object. Objects entered into the CIBA booth will be handled carefully and will be well documented, but CIBA will not insure the work of contemporary weavers entered into The Marin Show: Art of the Americas.

To apply for entry, please fill out this entry application form and mail it to Marin Show Entry, 1005 Court Street, Woodland, CA 95695. Please include a photo of yourself.

 

Virginia Garcia
CA Indian Basketweavers Association
1005 Court Street
Woodland, CA 95695
P: 530-668-1332
F: 530-668-1386

Spirit of a Play (arts)

From Joy Harjo: 

I am a poet, musician, performer, and playwright, and the spirit of a play is bothering me. This spirit has been sending me songs, scenes, and characters and I can hardly wait to where it will take me.

I am looking for funds to complete a first draft of an original musical play, including three original tunes, and sessions with premier dramaturge Shirley Fishman. She’s been called the “heart and soul” of La Jolla Playhouse. She was the heart and soul assisting me with my first production, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. These funds will also go toward a reading/performance at the Public Theater in New York.

Al Green sings, “Love will make you do right, love will make you do wrong.  Love will make you stay out all night long.” It is love that motivates us, makes this circle called Earth go round and round. This holds true with a circle of friends who came together during Indian school, at the height of indigenous freedom movements and now come together for an all night wake for their friend who has died at the hand of her lover, in a double suicide. Many stories emerge, collide, provoke, and reveal the intimate interconnections and secretsthat haunt the wake party. The music interweaving the tale is original funky, tribal, rock, stomp dance mix. A chorus of ex-lovers who are part of the band will also tell what can’t be told, in the manner of a Greek chorus.

To Donate go to: http://projectsite.unitedstatesartists.org/project/i_think_i_love_you_an_all_night_round_dance