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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T190000
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SUMMARY:Flux Factory Annual Auction: December 4\, 2018
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, December 4th\nGeneral Admission 7pm – 10pm\nVIP Hour 6pm – 7pm\nPlaxall / LICA Gallery\n5-25 46th Avenue in Long Island City\n\n\n\nPurchase Ticket Now \nFlux Factory’s annual Art Auction is our most important fundraiser of the year\, and it’s always a wonderful time to gather with friends from far and wide. This year we are honored to once again partner with Long Island City Artists to host the event at the beautiful PLaxall / LICA Gallery. \nEach year we auction work by approximately 70 artists\, including many Flux Artists-in-Residence as well as luminaries from our broader community such as such as Swoon\, Duke Riley\, Mark Dion\, and more.\nYou can preview the art and bid online!\nBid Online \nThe silent auction would not be complete without catering and an open bar\, with sideshows\, performances and more! This year we are happy to announce that Kreung Cambodia will be catering\, with beer provided by Arrowood Farms\, wine and cocktails will also be available. \n\nThis benefit supports Flux Factory’s ability to provide over 75 artists in 2019 with stipends to produce art exhibited at Flux’s free public events.\n\nGuests of Honor:\n\nMelinda Katz\, Queens Borough President and NYC REIC (New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative) \n\n\n\n\nImage description: Two photos side by side. The first photo shows Melinda Katz\, Queens Borough President standing at a glass podium speaking to a crowd. She is a woman with blond hair to her shoulders. She is holding a microphone with one hand and gesturing with her other hand. There are people sitting behind her. The second image shows the screen of a laptop sitting on an table\, behind the computer is a crowded meeting hall. On the screen of the computer is the text “We can pool our money to invest in buildings and land for local\, cultural and cooperative uses.” \nThe NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (NYC REIC) is a not-for-profit corporation working to secure permanently affordable space for civic\, cultural\, and cooperative use in NYC. They believe that the people who live and work in New York City should be able to create the city we want together and that permanently affordable work space is at the heart of economic justice\, cooperative power\, and neighborhood resilience. REIC has laid the groundwork to establish Community Land Trusts so that large groups of citizens can pool small-scale investments to keep beloved local businesses in place and thriving. This will allow community members to divest from big banks and invest in their own neighborhoods and their own destinies.\n\n\n\n  \nThe 19th Queens Borough President\, Melinda Katz has been a dedicated public servant for nearly 20 years\, serving in the City Council\, in Community Boards\, in the State Assembly and more. A Forest Hills native and part of a family of artists\, Melinda has performed publicly as a singer on numerous occasions. Melinda and Flux both care deeply about providing affordable space\, and so Flux is awed by Melinda’s recent creation of over 15\,000 units of affordable housing in Jamaica Queens\, as well as her other recent initiatives such as creating thousands of new seats and capacity for public schools\, and programs for non-violent criminal convictions to be expunged. \n\n\n\nAuction Committee Members:  \nJean Barberis\, Amir Badawi\, Aliya Bonar\, Danny Crump\, Sarah Dahlinger\, Liz Dunn\, Leslie Figueroa\, Caitlin Foley\, Dylan Gauthier\, Haiba Hamilton\, Lena Hawkins\, Emireth Hererra\, Scott Hirst\, Helen Ho\, Nung-Hsin Hu\, Oriana Leckert\, Cayla Lockwood\, Rhonda Lowry\, Shah Mazhar\, Morgan Meis\, Georgia Muenster\, Katharine Mulherin\, Will Owen\, Caroline Partamian\, Jake Pratt\, Misha Rabinovich\, Nat Roe\, Rodrigo Sanchez\, Sallie Sanders\, Jonathan Sims\, Maya Suess\, Sally Szwed\, Jevijoe Vitug & Sarah Weitlauf. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2018-auction/
LOCATION:Plaxall Gallery\, 5-25 46th Avenue\, Long Island City\, 11101\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:World Puzzle: Performance by Jaime Iglehart
DESCRIPTION:World Puzzle\nNovember 29th\, 7–10 pm\n\nWorld Puzzle is an interactive performance which gathers people together in a place of calm after storms both internal and external. Artist Jaime Iglehart invites participants into a dreamscape in the middle of the ocean. She asks for the assistance of friends to put together literal puzzle pieces and to name the pieces of ourselves we want to call back and bring forward with us into the world.\n\n \n \nThe evening will begin at 7pm with healthful refreshments. Refreshments will be followed by an experimental happening which has never before been attempted. \nRSVP is requested\, but not required. To RSVP\, please email: newagebeverages@gmail.com \n\n Jaime Iglehart is a multimedia artist exploring jungian psychology\, community visioning and the line between imagination and concrete world-building. Her projects involve socially engaged play\, dystopian fantasy and highly personal iconography.\n\n\n\nThis performance was made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts New Works Grant\n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/world-puzzle/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181120T210000
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SUMMARY:Migration in Transition: Residency Exhibition by Open Place
DESCRIPTION:Migration in Transition\nNovember 15 – 20th\nRSVP on Facebook \nOpening + Curator’s Tour\, November 15\, 6 – 9pm\nClosing Reception\, November 20th\, 6pm – 9pm\nOpen Hours: Saturday\, Sunday and Monday 1pm – 6pm\, Tuesday 1pm – 9pm\n \nExhibition\, workshops and events by the Ukrainian collaborative duo Open Place \n\nThe exhibition Migration in Transition presents two volumes of research: Fresh Market Archive and a publication titled SOURCE. An archive is a kind of mélange – a mixing of various narratives and social compounds. Open Place has been collecting stories determined by the themes of emigration\, violations of employee and human rights\, patriarchal control over women\, xenophobia\, self-identification and identity\, and other precarious conditions. The publication SOURCE is a collection of interviews of people and groups who are actively challenging the political status-quo regarding the status of marginalized people and other difficult political issues\, and who have visions of proactive tactics on how to address them. \nThe works in Migration in Transition include materials gathered from Open Place’s international research as well as stories collected during their residence at Flux Factory. \nMigration and challenges that arise because of migration\, was the starting point of Open Place’s research. They began to understand migration as a process of transition\, which is fundamental to so much of contemporary life. People migrate between identities\, countries\, languages\, economic realities\, genders\, political beliefs\, contexts. Migration in Transition is an attempt to build bridges through disparate experiences\, and create a source of trust and solidarity. Migration in Transition is a collaborative environment and the place for reflection. \nThe goal of Migration in Transition is to record diverse experiences in one expansive text\, and to create a political and social document collectively. This exhibition presents Open Place’s ongoing goal to bring together different perspectives into a universal message\, offering strategies and tactics that we can all access. \nThe exhibition will be accompanied by workshops and discussion. Full schedule will coming soon. \nOpen Place Bio\nIn 1999 Yuriy Kruchak and Iuliia Kosterieva organized the artistic platform Open Place. It is directed to extension of creative research and to establishment of the links between art process and the different layers of modern society. Art is understood as a space of intersections of artistic social and political processes. The platform seeks to provide both the artist and the viewer with a specific form of equality and liberation. Open Place strive to extend the borders of influence of art\, and to engage the new groups of people to creative process\, through the interdisciplinary projects\, as well as to establish a fruitful dialogue between society and those who creates art.\n\nwww.openplace.com.ua
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/migration-in-transition-residency-exhibition-by-open-place/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
CATEGORIES:Residency Shows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T220000
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SUMMARY:Mark for Redaction: The Ride\, Performance by Ramy El-Etreby
DESCRIPTION:The Ride\nSaturday\, November 10th @ 8pm \nPlease RSVP via eventbrite \n\n\n\n\nFree  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ride is a live solo theatre performance\, written and performed by Ramy El-Etreby and directed by Zahra Noorbakhsh\, and part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil \n  \n  \nRamy El-Etreby is a queer\, Muslim\, Arab American writer\, performer\, storyteller and educator based in Los Angeles\, California. Ramy’s story\, “The Ride”\, was originally featured in the ground-breaking anthology\, Salaam\, Love: American Muslim Men on Love\, Sex\, and Intimacy\, which he has developed into a solo theatre piece. He is a VONA/Voices fellow and holds an MA in Applied Theatre from the CUNY School of Professional Studies. \nZahra Noorbakhsh is an award-winning comedian and co-host of the #GoodMuslimBadMuslim podcast. The podcast was invited to record an episode at the Obama Whitehouse. The Pop Culture Collaborative has named Zahra their 2018 Sr Fellow on Comedy for Social Change. Her newest standup show\, “On Behalf of All Muslims: A Comedy Special” is currently in development and set to debut at San Francisco’s Brava Theatre\, June of 2019. \nMark for Redaction is a group exhibition from October 11 until November 11\, envisioned by former flux resident Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\, this exhibition showcases multi-disciplinary forms of contemporary art from self-identified Kweer (queer)\, lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, trans\, and/or gender non-conforming people who have ties to what is colloquially known al-‘ālam al-‘arabī (South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA)) and the respective diaspora.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-the-ride/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T230000
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SUMMARY:Flux Iron Chef 2018 (Flux Thursday)
DESCRIPTION:Flux Iron Chef 2018\nFlux Thursday\, November 8th\nCompetition starts at 8pm\nLive! in Flux Factory Kitchen Arena \nJoin us for Flux Factory’s annual Iron Chef competition! Flux chefs will call on their culinary skills and creativity as they face off against one another to prepare spectacular dishes for an esteemed panel of judges in front of a live audience. A “secret ingredient” will be revealed which the competing chefs must incorporate into each dish they create within one hour. Bring a snack or beverage to share and cheer on the chefs as they compete for the title! Live commentary by Cayla Lockwood. \nCompeting Chefs\nAliya Bonar\nSarah Dahlinger\nMoira Williams\nAbigail Entsminger & Scott Ries\nDeloris Igworia\nJevijoe Vitug \nJudging Panel \nRhonda Lowry\nJess Dilday\nYounger\, Gayer\, Prettier Gwyneth Paltrow (Seth Timothy Larson) \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-iron-chef-2018/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T203000
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SUMMARY:Mark For Redaction Film and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Mark For Redaction Films\nThis Series is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\n\nNovember 4\, 3pm-8:30pm \nThe film will be followed after Maktuv* Workshop \n3pm-5pm\nMaktuv*: An Evening of Islamic and Jewish Calligraphy  \nJoin us for an interactive workshop led by experiential educator\, community organizer\, and artist Ruben Shimonov. We will explore the significance of Arabic in Islam and Hebrew in Judaism\, as well as the close relationship between both Semitic languages. It’ll be a space to share our personal connections with the holy languages of our respective faiths and to engage with these two languages through a hands-on calligraphy workshop. No background in Arabic or Hebrew calligraphy necessary. \n*As cognates\, Maktoob and Ketuv mean “written” in Arabic and Hebrew respectively.About the workshop facilitator:\nBorn in Uzbekistan\, Ruben belongs to the native Persian-speaking Jewish population of Central Asia that has lived alongside their Muslim neighbors for 1300 years\, engaging in cultural and intellectual commerce. Given his background\, Ruben possesses a strong passion for Muslim-Jewish community building. He has brought this interest to his professional\, communal\, artistic\, and volunteer work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n6pm\n74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle)\nDirected by Raed & Rania Rafei\, 2012\, Lebanon\, 1hr35\n\nA political docu-fiction work about the occupation of AUB in 74 seen from the modern lens of current Arab uprisings.\n \n1974: Lebanon is in intellectual\, cultural and political ferment. For 37 days\, students from the American University of Beirut occupy the university’s premises to protest against rising tuition fees and US political imperialism. 2011: in the midst of the Arab Spring\, the Rafeis decide to step back and reconsider today’s situation in the light of that period pregnant with hope\, but also a prelude to the Lebanese civil war.\n\nThe Film premiered at the FID Marseille International Film Festival in 2012 where it received the critic’s award. The film received other international prizes and was screened in film festivals around the world in countries like Germany\, Italy\, India\, Brazil\, Mexico\, Canada and others. \n \nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrVn4-NJ00\nRaed Rafei is a Lebanese filmmaker\, writer and multimedia journalist. For over ten years\, he was a reporter for national and international publications covering political\, social and economic issues in the Middle East. He also worked as a researcher\, producer\, and director on many TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera\, CNN and ARTE. Since 2011\, Rafei has been making independent hybrid films. He made two feature films: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) (co-directed with Rania Rafei)\, and Here I am … Here you are(2016); and two short films: Prologue (2011) and Salam (2017). His films have screened at international film festivals and received several prizes. Rafei is currently based in California where he is pursuing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California in Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-74-the-reconstitution-of-a-struggle/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T170000
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SUMMARY:Maktuv*: An Afternoon of Islamic and Jewish Calligraphy
DESCRIPTION:Maktuv*: An Afternoon of Islamic and Jewish Calligraphy\nThis event is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\n\nThe workshop will be followed by selected films by Raed Rafei\n\nSunday\, November 4\n3pm – 5pm\nPlease RSVP on eventbrite\n\nAnd share the event on Facebook \nJoin us for an interactive workshop led by experiential educator\, community organizer\, and artist Ruben Shimonov. We will explore the significance of Arabic in Islam and Hebrew in Judaism\, as well as the close relationship between both Semitic languages. It’ll be a space to share our personal connections with the holy languages of our respective faiths and to engage with these two languages through a hands-on calligraphy workshop. No background in Arabic or Hebrew calligraphy necessary. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n*As cognates\, Maktoob and Ketuv mean “written” in Arabic and Hebrew respectively. \nAbout the workshop facilitator \nBorn in Uzbekistan\, Ruben belongs to the native Persian-speaking Jewish population of Central Asia that has lived alongside their Muslim neighbors for 1300 years\, engaging in cultural and intellectual commerce. Given his background\, Ruben possesses a strong passion for Muslim-Jewish community building. He has brought this interest to his professional\, communal\, artistic\, and volunteer work. \nRuben is a participating artist in the Mark for Redaction exhibition\, and has work hanging in the Flux Factory gallery.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/20969/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181103T203000
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SUMMARY:Mark For Redaction Film (Salam and Eccomi … Eccoti)
DESCRIPTION:Mark For Redaction Films\nThis Series is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\n\nThis series of films will follow a Islamic and Jewish Calligraphy Workshop by Ruben Shimonov\nNovember 3th 5pm – 8:30pm\nSelect works by Raed RafeiSALAM\n(19mins)\nLebanon |Arabic with English subtitles | 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSALAM is a docu-fiction that retraces the ordinary afternoon of a Syrian woman. In the intimacy of her home\, Salam reveals the difficult journey of discovering her sexuality in a conservative society. The film is based on an interview with a real Syrian woman. \nThe film premiered in April 2017 at Fribourg International Film Festival\, an International Film Festival in Switzerland\, where it received the award of Best International Short Documentary. \n\nTrailer: https://vimeo.com/200694065 \nEccomi … Eccoti (Here I am … Here you are)\n(68 mins)\n\nLebanon | Arabic/French/Italian with English subtitles | 2017Two men. Two realities. And a quest for a common future in a world beset with real and imaginary boundaries. Eccomi … Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon. On one side\, the lure of Europe\, a presumed safe haven for homosexuals\, and on the other\, a longing for one’s roots.\nThe film premiered in March 2017 at Beirut Cinema Days and was screened in October 2017 at the San Francisco Arab Film Festival and the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival. It was later screened in several cities including Berlin\, Hamburg\, and Calgary.  \nTrailer: https://youtu.be/oXTzblEhzwY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7pm\nTripoli Stonewall (work in progress) \nfollowed by a discussion with Raed Rafei \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-salam/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Mark for Redaction performance: NAXÖ
DESCRIPTION:Musical performance by NAXÖ\nSunday\, October 28\, 6:30pm\nFollowing the screening of deseos / رغبة  at 5pm \nThis performance is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\n\nMirza N. Shams\, under his/their stage name NAXÖ\, is a queer/gender-fluid Egyptian music producer\, composer\, pianist\, keyboardist\, and singer. NAXÖ’s work conjures a magical concoction that blends electronic/psychedelic waves and beats with the nostalgia of MENA/SWANA folklore and eastern classical music that captures the liminality through lyrics and their voices whispering to resist and re-imagine kinder worlds.  \nSamples began creating their/his own hybrid into a club sound that fits as well in theaters and festivals as it does on dance floors. NAXÖ was born in early 2013\, producing and performing fusions of dubstep\, psytrance\, folktronica\, electronica\, and psychedelic music. Compositions are consisted of Middle-eastern North-african folklore/classical music\, particularly Egyptian using stringed instruments like Oud\, Kanoon\, Bouzouki\, and Strings sections blended with groovy electronic rhythms and bass lines accompanied by eastern percussion like Tabla\, and Duff and electronic dominant drumming styles influenced by rock\, jazz\, trap-hop and psychedelic music. \nInfluences: Sayed Darwish\, Omar Khairat\, Infected Mushroom\, Astrix\, Beats Antique\, Jordan Rudess\, Dream Theater\, Myrath\, Feed Me\, Noisia\, Shpongle and more. \nwww.naxoriental.com\nhttps://soundcloud.com/naxoriental
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-performance-naxo/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Mark For Redaction Film (deseos)
DESCRIPTION:Mark For Redaction Films\nThis Series is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\n \n\nOctober 28\, 5pm\nScreening of deseos / رغبة\nFollowed by discussion with co-writer Maya Mikdashi \nFollowing a performance by NAXÖ at 6:30pm\n2015\, 30 minutes\n \nFilm by Carlos Motta\nfollowed by a discussionwith Maya Mikdashi\nThe film Deseos / رغبات (Desires) exposes the ways in which medicine\, law\, religion\, and cultural tradition shaped dominant discourses of the gendered and sexual body through the narration of two parallel stories. The first is that of Martina\, who lived in Colombia during the late colonial period of the early 19th century. The second is the fictionalized life of Nour\, who lived in Beirut during the late Ottoman Empire. Part documentary and part fiction\, the film presents an imaginary correspondence between these women. Separated by geography\, culture\, and religion they both faced the consequences of defying sex and gender norms \nThe colonial court prosecuted Martina in 1803 for being a “hermaphrodite” after being accused by her female lover of having an “unnatural” body. Martina was tried in a court of law and ultimately set free after medical doctors appointed by the court were unable to find evidence of her lover’s accusation. This story is documented in the 1803 legal case found in the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá\, Colombia. \nMeanwhile\, in Beirut\, Nour was married to her lover’s brother after Nour’s mother found them making love. Despite the fact that Nour’s story does not occur in a courtroom nor is it found in a legal case\, notions of Islamic and late Ottoman laws\, cultures\, and histories condition her narrative. \nMaya Mikdashi  \n\n\n\nMaya received her Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. Her dissertation\, entitled “Sex\, Secularism\, and Sectarianism: Practicing Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon\,” is an ethnography of the Lebanese legal system and of the entanglements between gender\, sex\, and sectarianism. She is also Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. She works at the intersection of legal anthropology\, feminism\, queer theory\, and theories of secularism and religion.\n \n \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-film-deseos/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T150000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Between the Vulnerable Territory and the Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Between Vulnerable Territory and the Utopia\nSaturday\, October 27th\, noon – 3pm\nWorkshop is Free\nPlease RSVP on Facebook \nProspective participants: people\, who dream with a better world!\nNumber of participants: 17\nDuration: 3 hours\nLanguage: English \nPeople are invited to participate in a workshop Between the Vulnerable Territory and the Utopia which emphasizes the importance of collaboration and solidarity\, beyond borders\, language and ethnic groups. Participants will design a map of vulnerable territory based on their context\, beliefs and experiences. Then together\, we will analyze the map\, and strategize resilient strategies towards transforming vulnerable territories into safe and inspiring spaces. At the end the workshop participants\, individually or collaboratively\, will design maps which imagine territories of possibilities. With collaborative facilitation by the artists listed below\, some renewed awareness and imagination\, the vulnerable territory will become the utopian territory – imaginary\, but not necessarily unreal. \nBios\nEMIRETH HERRERA\nEmireth Herrera is an independent curator and professor at Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila in Mexico. Her curatorial practice focuses on building a strong discourse to foster diverse conversations through strategies that invite spectators to reflect and establish a critical posture\, dialogue\, dream. Emireth curatorial practice explores the production of art through multiple formats that are essential to initiate social transformation \nYURIY KRUCHAK and YULIA KOSTEREVA\nArtists\, organizers of the artistic platform Open Place. Works of Yuriy Kruchak and Yulia Kostereva transform the audience into the actors\, creating a community consisting of the artist and the viewer\, whose behavior and interaction serves to interpret and reveal social structures in an urban environment. Their activity not only addresses the relationship of art to the reality of life\, but also always the relationship of the artist to the audience. Both of them are not only artists but work as curators and organizers\, and thus unite the productive and receptive sides of the art business in their own life history.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-vulnerable-the-utopia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T170000
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SUMMARY:Mark For Redaction Film (Shorts)
DESCRIPTION:Mark For Redaction Films\nThis Series is a part of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil \n\nOctober 21\, 5pm \nShorts Program\nA screening of selected short films and videos \nFollowed by a conversation by Lily Hook \n \nOutside/In\nby Suzy Salamy  \nSuzy Salamy is a social worker and a filmmaker. She has an extensive history working in the television and film world\, and has  worked on several award winning documentaries about the Middle East \nHow can people reconcile a profound love for their culture with societal prohibitions that do not recognize the nuances of who they are? Can LGBTQ rights be divorced from politics or treated in isolation from other human rights? These are some of the questions that are explored in Outside/In\, a short documentary. The film follows three Lebanese Queer activists who struggle to merge their personal and political beliefs through their activist efforts while maintaining their own identities. \n\n2010 مونديال / Mondial 2010 \nFilm by: Roy Dib \n2014 / Lebanon / 19’20” / In Arabic with English Subtitles \nCast: Abed Kobeissy\, Ziad Chakaroun \nSound Engineer: Fadi Tabbal and Stephane Reeves (Tunefork Recording Studios) \nSynopsis \nMondial 2010 is a film on love and place. A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. The viewers are invited through the couple’s conversations into the universe of a fading city. \nNote:\nThe relations between Israelis and Lebanese are governed by the 1943 Lebanese Criminal Code and the 1955 Lebanese Anti-Israeli Boycott Law\, the former of which forbids any interaction with nationals of enemy states\, and the latter of which specifies Israelis\, making a trip for a Lebanese citizen to Israel (or Palestinian territories) impossible. \n\nTomorrow We Inherit the Earth\nBy Zulfikar Ali Bhutto\nArtist\, Performer\, Curator \nThis multimedia series comprised of textile work\, performance and video attempt to create a future landscape of a fictitious queer rebellion.  This revolution is seen through the eyes of a queer Muslim world intent on overthrowing the shackles of Western Imperialism. It seeks to challenge the shifting borders between terrorist and freedom fighter as seen and named by a dominant social structure.  \nThe series takes from the historical stock footage\, following on from the idea that in order to envision a future one must continue to look at the past. These archival video clips come are spliced together alongside narrative\, digital photo\, and video collage and poetry to build the first inklings of a new world order. \n \n\n7pm\nPerformance by Mx.Enigma and followed by a discussion.\n \nMx.Enigma (They/Them & Queen) is a multi disciplinary artist\, writer\, and media maker. They are a nonbinary transfemme of color living in NYC. They graduated Cum Laude at Brooklyn College in 2017 with a B.A in Media/Film & a side concentration in gender race and sexuality. Their work focuses on the intersections of queerness\, American culture & the public perceptions and has been featured in over 40 exhibitions including the  MOMA\, MAD\, Bronx Museum\, Tribeca Film Festival\, HBO & BRIC media. They are an alumnus of the Brandeis Collegiate Institute Artist Residency\, Summer 2017. They currently are a fall 2018 artist in resident with Trans Lab Theatre. They are currently working in collaboration with New York Public Library a summer reading of their play production “L’Chaim 2 Dykes” a truthful comedy humanizing the lives of Queer Ex-Hasidic Women who are struggling with their custody battles which in January 2019 will be performed at Judson Memorial Church. \n \nTo follow more of their work follow them on Instagram @mx.enigma \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-shorts/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181013T200000
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SUMMARY:El3aza [al-azaa] by Noura Ballout
DESCRIPTION:October 13\, 8pm\nEl3aza [al-azaa] by Noura Ballout\nThis event is part of the Mark for Redaction\, envisioned by Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\nRSVP on facebook\n\nEl3aza is a funeral\, we morn the people and things we have lost. On October 13th \, we morn the loss of language\, the loss of land\, the loss of family\, the loss of “chosen family”\, the loss of lovers\, the loss of love. \nThe dress code for this funeral is all black. The 3aza will take place in the Habibi room\, no shoes in this space. Bring with you your grief and we shall collectively grieve. \nNoura Ballout is a Detroit based Artist\, Curator\, and Entrepreneur. Their work is an exploration of self and a critic of societal perceptions of their intersectional identities. Telling a story of a; brown\, queer\, muslim\, and trans diaspora. Noura has exhibited their work at The Arab American Museum\, 555 Gallery\, Whitdel Arts Gallery\, and Wayne State University.  \nNoura’s Instagram 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mfr-el3aza/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday: hosted by Tarab NYC
DESCRIPTION:October 11\, 7pm meal // 8pm workshop begins\n(National Coming Out Day)\nPart of the Major Exhibition Mark for Redaction \nPlease join Flux Factory and Tarab NYC on Thursday\, October 11th\, for our monthly community potluck and art salon. This month’s Flux Thursday falls on National Coming Out Day and one day before the opening reception for Mark For Redaction. To recognize the day and open the exhibition to our community\, Curator Hilal Khalil has invited Tarab NYC to help us critically investigate the concept of “coming out.” \nThe board of Tarab NYC recognizes that “coming out” is complicated for many. Individuals in our communities have had a wide variety of experiences positive both positive and negative. “Coming Out”\, itself a courageous act\, is ultimately a personal choice\, and it is the reality that many people do not have the privilege of being able to “come out” and many choose not to because of family\, culture\, religion or for personal reasons. \nOn October 11th\, National Coming Out Day\, Tarab NYC hosts a Writing and Storytelling workshop where you will have the opportunity to reflect\, write about and discuss the concept of “coming out\,” and share your own experiences. This workshop is open to everyone\, join us as we center the voices of a queer\, trans\, and gender non-conforming people from the MENA region. Participants will have an opportunity to get a sneak preview of Mark for Redaction on exhibit from Oct 12 to Nov 11 at Flux Factory. \nThe event is free\, but please do bring food or drink to share!
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-with-tarab-nyc/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181011T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Mark For Redaction
DESCRIPTION:October 11 – November 11\nOpening Reception\, Oct 12\, 6pm\nOpen Hours: Thursday – Sunday\, 1 pm – 6pm or by appointment\nSee Full Calendar below \n  \n  \nBy Hossein Edalatkhah\nMark for Redaction is a group exhibition from October 11 until November 11\, envisioned by former flux resident Razan Al-Salah and curated by Hilal Khalil\, this exhibition showcases multi-disciplinary forms of contemporary art from self-identified Kweer (queer)\, lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, trans\, and/or gender non-conforming people who have ties to what is colloquially known al-‘ālam al-‘arabī (South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA)) and the respective diaspora. \nMark for Redaction seeks to build community and provide a safe(r) space for artists to discuss and unpack the many layers of identity by displaying personal works of art that challenges notions of visibility\, “Kweerness”\, and “coming out” in relation to the colonialist concepts of the “Orient” and the “Occident”. Set in a reimagined apartment that mirrors the private apartments and studios of “Kweer” artists\, Mark for Redaction presents installations\, performances\, workshops\, screenings\, and discussions. \n  \nList of Artists \nAhimsa Timoteo Bodhran\,  Alex Khalifa\, Alireza Shojaian\, Caitlin Abadir-Mullally\, Diyar\, Eric Mathieu Ritter\, Hossein Edalatkhah \, Jamil Hellu\, Maya Mikdashi\, Naji Raji\, Noura Ballout\, Raed Rafei\, Rami Karim\, Ramy El-Etreby\, Roy Dib\, Wael Morcos\, Warda Alkandari\, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.  \n  \n*more artists will be listed after inspection \n\nFull Schedule\n. . . . . . . . . . . . .\n \nFlux Thursday: hosted by Tarab NYC\nOctober 11 \n7pm meal // 8pm workshop begins\n(National Coming Out Day) \nPlease join Flux Factory and Tarab NYC on Thursday\, October 11th\, for our monthly community potluck and art salon. This month’s Flux Thursday falls on National Coming Out Day and one day before the opening reception for Mark For Redaction. To recognize the day and open the exhibition to our community\, Curator Hilal Khalil has invited Tarab NYC to help us critically investigate the concept of “coming out.” \nTake a look at the full description of this program here. The event is free\, but please do bring food or drink to share! \n\nOctober 12\nOpening Reception and Party!\nOpening reception 6-7pm \nDance Party 8pm \nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \n\nOctober 13\, 8pm\nEl3aza [al-azaa] by Noura Ballout \nEl3aza is a funeral\, we morn the people and things we have lost. On October 13th \, we morn the loss of language\, the loss of land\, the loss of family\, the loss of “chosen family”\, the loss of lovers\, the loss of love. \nThe dress code for this funeral is all black. The 3aza will take place in the Habibi room\, no shoes in this space. Bring with you your grief and we shall collectively grieve. \nNoura Ballout is a Detroit based Artist\, Curator\, and Entrepreneur.  \nTake a look at the full description of this program here. \n\nOctober 21\, 5pm \nShorts Program\nA screening of selected short films and videos \nFollowed by a conversation by Lily Hook \nOutside/In by Suzy Salamy \n2010 مونديال / Mondial 2010 by Roy Dib\nTomorrow We Inherit the Earth by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto \nHow can people reconcile a profound love for their culture with societal prohibitions that do not recognize the nuances of who they are? Can LGBTQ rights be divorced from politics or treated in isolation from other human rights? These are some of the questions that are explored in Outside/In\, a short documentary. The film follows three Lebanese Queer activists who struggle to merge their personal and political beliefs through their activist efforts while maintaining their own identities. \nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction Film Screenings Program. Take a look at the full description of this program here.\n \n\nOctober 28\, 5pm\nScreening of Deseos رغبات \n2015\, 30 minutes\nFilm by Carlos Motta\nfollowed by discussion with Maya Mikdashi\nThe film Deseos / رغبات (Desires) exposes the ways in which medicine\, law\, religion\, and cultural tradition shaped dominant discourses of the gendered and sexual body through the narration of two parallel stories. The first is that of Martina\, who lived in Colombia during the late colonial period of the early 19th century. The second is the fictionalized life of Nour\, who lived in Beirut during the late Ottoman Empire. Part documentary and part fiction\, the film presents an imaginary correspondence between these women. Separated by geography\, culture\, and religion they both faced the consequences of defying sex and gender \nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction Film Screenings Program. Take a look at the full description of this program here. \n  \n6:30pm\nFollowing the screening of deseos / رغبة  at 5pm \nMirza N. Shams\, under his/their stage name NAXÖ\, is a queer/gender-fluid Egyptian music producer\, composer\, pianist\, keyboardist\, and singer whose work conjures a magical concoction that blends electronic/psychedelic waves and beats with the nostalgia of MENA/SWANA folklore and eastern classical music. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction Film Screenings Program. Take a look at the full description of this program here. \n\nNovember 3\n5pm\nSelected works by Raed Rafei\nSalam (20 min)\nHere I am … Here you are (70 min) \n7pm\nTripoli Stonewall (work in progress) \nfollowed by discussion with Raed Rafei \nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction Film Screenings Program.  Take a look at the full description of this program here.  \n\nNovember 4\,  \n3pm-5pm\nMaktuv*: An Afternoon of Islamic and Jewish Calligraphy\nPlease RSVP on eventbrite\nAnd share the event on Facebook \nJoin us for an interactive workshop led by experiential educator\, community organizer\, and artist Ruben Shimonov.\nIt’ll be a space to share our personal connections with the holy languages of our respective faiths and to engage with these two languages through a hands-on calligraphy workshop.  \nTake a look at the full description of this program here. \n6pm\n74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle)\, 2012\, 90 min \n \nA political docu-fiction work about the occupation of AUB in 74 seen from the modern lens of current Arab uprisings. \nRaed Rafei is a Lebanese filmmaker\, writer and multimedia journalist. For over ten years\, he was a reporter for national and international publications covering political\, social and economic issues in the Middle East. He also worked as a researcher\, producer and director on many TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera\, CNN and ARTE. Since 2011\, Rafei has been making independent hybrid films. He made two feature films: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) (co-directed with Rania Rafei)\, and Here I am … Here you are(2016); and two short films: Prologue (2011) and Salam (2017). His films have screened at international film festivals and received several prizes. Rafei is currently based in California where he is pursuing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California in Santa Cruz. \nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction Film Screenings Program. Take a look at the full description of this program here. \n\nNovember 10th\, 8pm\nThe Ride by Ramy El-Etreby\n \nFree event. RSVP here.  \nThe Ride is a live storytelling by an Arab American writer\, performer\, storyteller and educator\, Ramy El-Etreby.  \nRamy El-Etreby is a queer\, Muslim\, Arab American writer\, performer\, storyteller and educator based in Los Angeles\, California. His writings have appeared in The Huffington Post\, Queerty\, KCET\, the award-winning blog Love Inshallah. Ramy’s story\, ”The Ride”\, is featured in the ground-breaking anthology\, Salaam\, Love: American Muslim Men on Love\, Sex\, and Intimacy\, which he has developed into a solo theatre piece. Ramy currently works as a teaching artist in L.A. with the Geffen Playhouse and Center Theatre Group. He is a VONA/Voices fellow and holds an MA in Applied Theatre from the CUNY School of Professional Studies. \nThis event is a part of the Mark for Redaction. Film Screenings Program. Take a look at the Full Description of this program here. \n\nNovember 11\, 1 to 5pm\nSalon Al-Mahjar\nGallery is open at 12:00pm for viewings.\nGhada’ (Lunch غداء) will be served at 1:00pm\nOpen Mic / Performances at 2:00pm\n \nSalon Al-Mahjar صالون المهجر is an open mic for immigrant queer\, trans\, and allied artists\, actors\, writers\, storytellers\, activists\, feminists\, singers\, musicians\, poets\, thinkers\, teachers\, and historians from West Asia and North Africa. \nWe gather to celebrate each other’s voices\, exchange ideas\, engage in each other’s passions\, counteract censorship\, promote and support each other\, give and receive constructive feedback\, and challenge what may be considered inappropriate “ayb” عيب or “haram” حرام. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/mark-for-redaction/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T230000
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception & a Device to Say Goodbye
DESCRIPTION:6pm – 9pm\, S.T.E.P Closing Party  \n 9pm\, A Device to Say Goodbye with Hillerbrand + Magsamen\nWalk Time and Date: Saturday September 29\, A Device to Say Goodbye departs at 9pm \n   \n\n\n \nLocation: Flux Factory https://goo.gl/maps/5MYiEHxyNvL2\nWalk Length: approx. 30 minute\, starts at 9pm\nWalk Capacity: unlimited\nWalk Level: Easy – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome!\nPlease RSVP here \nFor the closing event\, we will create devices to say goodbye\, walk through the exhibition and exit Flux Factory together\, walking to a post box where we will mail our devices.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/closing-reception-a-device-to-say-goodbye/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180922T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
CREATED:20180817T075832Z
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SUMMARY:Gallivanting! A walking tour of Little Manila\, NYC
DESCRIPTION:Gallivanting! A walking tour of Little Manila\, NYC \nIra Briones\, Laura Cabochan\, Rocco S. Cetera\, Claro De Los Reyes Xenia Diente\, Kiran Mansukhani\, Will Simbol\, Jacob Walse-Domínguez\, Sining Kapuluan (Arts of the Archipelago) \nRoosevelt Avenue\, from 63rd Street to 71st Street\, is known as Little Manila for its large concentration of Philippine residents and businesses. Gallivanting! creatively explores connections through a one-mile walking tour of sites\, sound\, food\, music\, dance and discussions that seek to link Little Manila from its roots from the Philippines\, its context in the American Immigrant experience\, and its ongoing dialogue with its neighboring businesses from South Asia and Latin America. \n \nWalk Time and Date: Saturday\, September 22 gallivant begins 2 – 4pm\nLocation: Triangle at 65th Street and Roosevelt Avenue\, Woodside Queens 7 train to 61st or 69th  stations https://goo.gl/maps/zrv6aW6MmwB2\nPlease RSVP here\n\nWalk Length: approx. 2 ½ hours\nWalk Capacity: 20\nWalk Level: Easy to Moderate – some busy and crowded sidewalks – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome! \n\nPlease wear comfortable clothing\, shoes\, bottled water and bring your MetroCard. \nEvent is FREE
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/20453/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:pasaré:la pasarela me lleva pa'lla - O V A H
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 16 \nWalkshop Disrupts: 6pm\nLocation: Flux Factory \nWalk Length: 2 hours \nWalk Capacity: 10\nWalk Level: Easy – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome\nPlease wear comfortable clothing and shoes \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nPasaré:la pasarela me lleva pa’lla – O V A H\nray ferreira \nPasaré:la pasarela me lleva pa’lla – O V A H draws from the practice of runway as appropriated by the ballroom scene. ray’s walkshop aims to create an adjacent speculative space where bodies activate the site through their engagement with the space while disrupting the normative gaze by moving between spectator and actor. The workshop uses modified Boalian techniques\, writing\, and sculpting to examine embodiment as an interaction between multiple spaces. \nhttp://rayferreira.net/
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/pasarela-pasarela-me-lleva-palla-o-v-a-h/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180915T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180915T133000
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SUMMARY:Perambulator
DESCRIPTION:Perambulater by Clare Qualmann\nThe word Perambulator has three meanings listed in the dictionary – a stroller or baby carriage\, a person who walks\, and a surveyor (on foot). \nThe Perambulator walk invites stroller users to walk together en masse around the Long Island City neighborhood\, collectively surveying its challenges. When walked alone these impediments are an annoyance\, and often unnoticed. Walking together with strollers heightens their visibility; the absurdity of multiple strollers negotiating each obstacle in their path enables a collective\, creative and aesthetic reclamation of the mobility challenges when caring for children. Come and help us explore the obstacles and interruptions that the materiality of the street presents to the stroller user\, creating a collective performance to make visible our presence. \nWalk Time and Date: Saturday September 15\, Perambulator walk departs 11:30 am\nLocation: Flux Factory \nWalk Length: approx. 2 hours (with opportunities to pause\, rest and play)\nWalk Level: Moderate – pushing stroller in a group\nRegister Here \nPlease wear comfortable clothing and shoes. \nThis event is presented as part of Saunter Trek Escort Parade…(S.T.E.P.) at Flux Factory\, curated by Christina Freeman\, Emireth Herrera and moira williams. \nOpening and Curators’ tour\, September 6\, 2018 from 6 – 9PM\nClosing reception and party\, September 29 from 6 – 9PM
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/perambulator/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180914T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Dream Yards
DESCRIPTION:Dream Yards is a playful outdoor walking performance to specific locations around Long Island City; where the audience might find themselves in (old medieval) York! Dreams are collected from public donations\, woven into a script and performed on the walk by the character Kong Lear (Claire Hind) and her fool (Gary Winters)\, who then guides the audience through the 5 stages of sleep. \nFor an all too brief hour I lived and walked through a waking dream. Transported to Lear’s Blasted Heath at the same time as I tramped the streets of medieval York and in the company of Roy Orbison\, this became a timeless\, dislocated landscape of other people’s dreams\, someone else’s story and my mess (audience feedback\, York UK).www.garyandclaire.com \nDream Collection: September 13\n*During Flux Thursday Come along and drop a dream into our heads from 7- 9 pm! \nWalk Time and Date: September 14\, Dream Yards walk departs 7:30 pm \nLocation: Flux Factory \nWalk Length: approx. 1 hour\nWalk Level: Easy – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome!\nWalk Capacity: 30\nPlease wear comfortable clothing and shoes.\nClick to Register! \nThis event is presented as part of Saunter Trek Escort Parade…(S.T.E.P.) at Flux Factory\, curated by Christina Freeman\, Emireth Herrera and moira williams.\nClosing reception and party\, September 29 from 6 – 9PM
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/dream-yards/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Flux Thursday\, S.T.E.P…
DESCRIPTION:September 13th  7 – 10 pm \n  \nPlease join us for our monthly community potluck and informal art salon!  \nWe invite you to meet walking artists\, and ask: Who sets the pace and measurement of the world\, the power of dreams and our entanglements between each of these and one another? \n  \nDrop a dream into Claire Hind and Gary Winters’ Heads \nWalking Score Slam – Conceptual walks that can be rolled wheeled and walked! \nWalking Artists’ Talk with: Walis Johnson\, Clare Qualmann\, Jevijoe Vitug \nWalk it out with The Rude Mechanical Orchestra! \n  \nDate: Thursday September 13 \ndinner begins at 7:00pm  \nLocation: Flux Factory \nWalk Length: approx. 3 hours \nWalk Capacity: 150 \nWalk Level: Fluxy Fun – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome! \nThe event is free\, but please bring a treat or drink to share with 4 people\, wear comfortable clothing and shoes. \nAbout the Artists \nWalis Johnson’s project\, The Red Line Archive is a mobile public art project that engages New York City residents in a conversation about race and the history of the 1938 Red Line Map that helped create the segregated urban landscapes of the city. This “cabinet of curiosities” is wheeled along city streets\, inviting people to freely associate about personal artifacts and documents from the artist’s family history in gentrifying Brooklyn and ephemera collected during four artist walks in and along the periphery of redlined neighborhoods. \nClare Qualmann’s Perambulator walk\, invites local stroller users to walk together en masse around the Long Island City neighborhood. Questions at the core of Perambulator walk – no matter the location of the stroller walk – are about the obstacles\, interruptions\, and challenges that the materiality of the street presents to the stroller user. When walked alone stroller impediments are an annoyance\, and often unnoticed. Walking en masse with strollers heightens the visibility of walkway impediments; the absurdity of multiple strollers negotiating each obstacle in their path\, enables a collective\, creative and aesthetic reclamation of mobility challenges with a stroller. \n \nJevijoe Vitug will talk about his project\, Source of Living\, A hand powered street cart that could turn into a boat\, designed specifically for a disabled vendor. The project is interested in exploring ideas on appropriate technology\, everyday survival and environmental change. Vitug is a Philippine-born artist living and working in New York City whose project-based work ranges from painting\, photography\, digital\, sculptural objects to performance\, community-based projects and curatorial projects. His work often touches on the notion of reinvention through various mash-ups of contradiction. In response to constant change brought by environmental and technological shifts\, his “multi-functional” projects focus on the confluence between the ideal and the real\, the past and the future\, the local and the global. \nGary Winters and Claire Hind \nDream Yards is a playful outdoor walking performance to specific locations around Long Island City; where the audience might find themselves in (old medieval) York! Dreams are collected from public donations\, woven into a script and performed on the walk by the character Kong Lear (Claire Hind) and her fool (Gary Winters)\, who then guides the audience through the 5 stages of sleep.\nDream Collection:  Come along and drop a dream into our heads from 7- 9 pm \n \nThe Rude Mechanical Orchestra! is a 30-odd-piece New York City radical marching band and dance troupe. Through our music and performance\, we strive to support people and communities working for social justice. We play protests\, demonstrations\, direct actions\, picket lines\, marches\, benefits and events for good causes. We function as a democratic collective through consensus-based decision-making. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/flux-thursday-s-t-e-p/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:The Invisible Wind 8
DESCRIPTION:The Invisible Wind 8 is an ongoing series of suburban night walks. Strap on your hiking boots\, bring water\, snacks toshare\, warm clothes\, stamina\, and an open heart. We will walk from the Laurelton\, NY railroad station to the Lawrence\, NY railroad station along Rockaway Turnpike\, parallel to JFK airport. Be prepared to witness the monstrosity of takeoffs and landings – humans observing machines and mechanized systems of transportation. We will make one planned stop at the Sherwood Diner\, and unplanned stops along the way as needed. Be prepared for guest performances- and bring a few burning questions. \n\n\n\nWalk level – Moderate due to length and terrain. Apologies\, this walk is not accessible for all.\nWalk capacity – 12\nRegister Here!! \nwww.theinvisiblewind.com \nThis event is presented as part of Saunter Trek Escort Parade…(S.T.E.P.) at Flux Factory\, curated by Christina Freeman\, Emireth Herrera and moira williams.\nClosing reception and party\, September 29 from 6 – 9PM
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/the-invisible-wind-8/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Of Statues and Markers
DESCRIPTION:*Please email step@fluxfactory.org to be added to the waitlist* \n\nSaturday September 8\n workshop beings at 5pm\, walk departs at 7:30pm  \nLocation: Flux Factory\nWorkshop: 2 hours \nWalk Length: approx. 2 hours\nWalk Capacity: 10 \nWalk Level: Easy – sticks\, wheels and walkers welcome!\nPlease bring your MetroCard and wear comfortable clothing and shoes.  \nRVSP on Eventbrite \nTom Bogaert \nOf Statues and Markers is a night time stop\, flash and walk\, where we as a group use DIY modified night vision cameras in an attempt to capture New York City’s monuments by night. The Of Statues and Markers infrared flash photography walk is meant as a way to evaluate tendencies that celebrate some histories while at the same time erase other histories. The walk will result in a collective perspective and in turn a collaborative potential counter-monument that will be installed in the Flux Factory gallery for the remainder of S.T.E.P…. \nOf Statues and Markers also includes a night vision infrared camera hacking workshop! Cameras will then be used on the walk. \nUsed cameras will be available on site but participants are also welcome to bring their own old point-and-shoot cameras to hack. \nWorkshop begins at 5pm. We will share a quick meal\, then the walk begins at 7:30 pm \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/of-statues-and-markers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T123000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Dutch Kills Dérive
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 8 \n9:15AM – 12:30PM\n\nLocation: Flux Factory\nDeparture Time: 9:30am\nWalk Length: approx. 3 hours\nWalk Level: Moderate. Mostly on sidewalks but involved some stairs\, rocky\, & steep off road terrain.\nWalk Capacity: 30 people.\nParking: Our walk ends near 25-30 Skillman Ave. LIC 11101. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing\, closed toe shoes & bring a water bottle.  \nRVSP ON EVENTBRITE \nWater is life… Until we shit in it  \nDrowning in our own muck and mire\, modern society must transmute its existence into that of an allegorical baptism in order to emerge a society of water protectors. The historic facts of exactly how our civilization has transformed the historic Dutch Kill waterway into a sewershed will act as both numbing analgesic and a point of illumination. Explicit historic content may be demoralizing but this is exactly how our colonization cleanse will bring us to a higher collective consciousness. Through mournful direct action of nu rituals and physical prayers for atonements we will follow the Creek’s ley lines to the hallowed centers of power and reclaim\, enliven and bless our waterways. As our senses awaken to the hydro-geologic power of place\, an enlightened understand of our prefigured toxic legacy will wash over the derive participants and respect for her sacred water cycles restored. \nGIL LOPEZ AND MITCH WAXMAN\nOrganizer of Dutch Kills Derive: \nGil Lopez was the community organizing resident at Flux Factory in 2014 and remains active in the community. He is also cofounder and president of Smiling Hogshead Ranch\, an urban farm collective located adjacent to the Dutch Kill. His environmental education work\, social engagement practice and nontraditional societal participation are life-crafted to expose the cracks in the spectacle for your bewilderment. \nMitch Waxman is the Newtown Creek Alliance historian and has been chronicling the Creek on his Newtown Pentacle blog since 2009. An advocate to restore\, reveal and revitalize the Creek\, his walking and boat tours have exposed hundreds to it’s murky waters and it’s deeper meaning and understandings. \nThis event is presented as part of Saunter Trek Escort Parade…(S.T.E.P.) at Flux Factory\, curated by Christina Freeman\, Emireth Herrera and moira williams.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/dutch-kills-derive/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:Saunter Trek Escort Parade (S.T.E.P….)
DESCRIPTION:  \nImage: “S” Archive. Ongoing. Gudrun Filipska + Carly Butler\nSaunter Trek Escort Parade…(S.T.E.P.)\nCurated by Christina Freeman\,\nEmireth Herrera + moira williams\n \nSeptember 6 – 30th at Flux Factory +\nOctober 28 – December 2 at Queens Museum \nOpening + Curators’ Tour\, September 6\, 6 – 9PM\nClosing Reception + Walk\, September 29\, 6 – 9PM\n \nGallery Hours on Saturdays & Sundays from 1-6PM \n  \nRSVP on Eventbrite\nFull Schedule! \n  \n\nS.T.E.P…. seeks to be an overlapping convergence and entanglement of walking\, walk-based works and programming\, mobilizing throughout New York.  S.T.E.P… embraces the many ways and bodies we walk while asking how walking as a creative act can challenge notions and open conversations around visibility\, gender\, labor\, exploration\, counter-mapping\, colonialism\, feminism\, motherhood\, contesting borders\, community building\, calling out gentrification\, street harassment\, (dis)ability\, carbon debt\, who sets the pace and measurement of the world\, the power of dreams\, and our entanglements between all of these and one another. \nThe first part of the exhibition and related events will continue through Sunday\, September 30 in and around Flux Factory with gallery hours on Saturdays & Sundays from 1-6PM\, and by appointment. A special Flux Thursday will take place on September 13 as part of S.T.E.P…. The second part of the exhibition will take place at Queens Museum\, October 28 to December 2. Performances and walks will take place October 28\, November 11 and December 2. S.T.E.P…. is open to all people of all abilities\n\n \nAbout the Curators:\nChristina\, Emireth and moira met at Flux Factory’s residency in 2016. Christina’s practice intervenes into existing systems\, approaching culture as something we actively shape together. moira williams’ co-creative practice weaves together performance\, bio-art\, food\, sound\, sculpture and group walking as a lived experience. Emireth Herrera is a curator who aims to reveal social transformation through democratic processes.\n\n \nParticipating Artists + Collaborators:\nAriel Abrahams + Tal Gluck\, Francheska Alcantara\, Artcodex (Mike Estabrook + Vandana Jain)\, Annie Berman\, Tom Bogaert\, Becky Brown + Annette Cords\, Compassionate Action Enterprises (Joan Giroux + Lisa Marie Kaftori)\, Xenia Diente\, Magali Duzant\, Katie Etheridge + Simon Persighetti\, Brendan Fernandes\, ray ferreira\, Gudrun Filipska + Carly Butler\,  Alexander Freeman\, FRONTVIEW\, Angeline Gragasin\,  David Helbich\, Claire Hind + Gary Winters\, Lisa Hirmer\,  Maya Kaminishi Jeffereis\, Walis Johnson + Paul Sue-Pat\, Kyla Kegler\, Kubra Khademi\, illesha Khandelwal\, Dominika Ksel\,  gil lopez + Mitch Waxman\, Magsamen + Hillerbrand\, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer\, Lisa Myers\, Kristyna and Marek Milde\, Sara Morawetz \, Clare Qualmann\, Morag Rose + The Loiterers Resistance Movement\, Julie Poitras Santos\, Marcos Serafim + Jefferson Kielwagen + Steevens Simeon\, SleepWalks (Lee Pembleton + Andrea Williams)\, Camille Turner\, Geert Vermeire + Stefaan van Biesen + Simona Vermeire\, Jevijoe Vitug plus Walking Discourse (Astrid Kaemmerling + Minoosh Zomorodinia) \nFull Schedule\n\nSupport + Sponsors:\nSupport for Saunter Trek Escort Parade… (S.T.E.P….) is provided by Friends of Flux\, Queens Museum\, the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, in-kind support from Materials for the Arts\, ART WORKS arts.gov\,  the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo\, and the New York State Legislature. \n \n\n\n \nSaunter Trek Escort Parade… (S.T.E.P….) events are free and take place throughout New York City.   \nFor details visit fluxfactory.org \nEmail: step@fluxfactory.org \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nPDF of Press Release
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/step/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180830T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
CREATED:20180627T215304Z
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SUMMARY:PASSAGES: Readings and Screenings
DESCRIPTION:Cancelled! Sorry friends. Come back in the future for Readings and Screenings\, and please follow the artists below.\n\nPASSAGES is a series of readings and screenings curated by Deloris O and Amia Yokoyama.\nDeloris Igworia\, is a multi-disciplinary artist in design\, math and poetry. a first-generation nigerian-american some of whose work explores their ideas about migration\, the body\, and desire\, rates of change and messiness specific to upheaval. \nAmia Megumi Yokoyama currently lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City. She is a multi-media artist who works with experimental animation\, video\, sculpture\, and installation.  Born into a bilingual\, multi-cultural household\, in the mid-west wasteland of suburban homogeneity – she has made her way to the metropolis. Amia attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and graduated from CalArts (2017) with a Masters in Fine Art from the department of Experimental Animation. Amia received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University\, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies (2010) with a specialization in Sustainable Development\, New Digital Media and Contemporary Art Theory.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/passages/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180824T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180824T233000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
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SUMMARY:ALBI AY! AY!
DESCRIPTION:ALBI AY! AY!\nJoin us on Friday 24​ th​ of August ​for a night of performances followed by a party! \nDoors open at 7:30pm\n8pm-9pm: \nPerformance + Artist talk by Fadi J. Khoury \n9:30pm-10:30pm: Albi Ay! Ay! Multimedia installation party by Vegan Sushi For Breakfast \n10:30pm- 12:30am: Dance the night away with DJ Fursa!  \nLet us know you’re coming!\nThis event is free of charge!\nCurated by Janine el Khawand\n\nFadi J. Khoury will open with his first solo piece “عاري“ \nCombining classical ballet with folkloric belly dance\, this piece is a statement with deep personal significance that both expresses and generates a sense of self. Fadi embarks on an examination of identity and sexuality\, while attempting to reconcile between his traditional dance roots and contemporary dance practice. The piece is followed by a sneak peak into Fadi’s upcoming projects and an artist talk. \nFadi J. Khoury is an artistic director\, choreographer and dancer. He was born in Baghdad\, Iraq\, surrounded by the folkloric music and dance of Arab culture. He trained in classical ballet and folkloric dance\, but also in Modern\, Jazz\, and Ballroom. His performance reflects his unique mix of experiences and broad cross-cultural influences. \n\nThe party will kick off with Albi Ay! Ay! by Vegan Sushi For Breakfast​:\n \n“Albi Ay! Ay!” is a party! (I mean immersive participatory multimedia installation) based on the work of Maha Abdul Wahab\, an Arab forgotten sex-positive singer/composer from the 60’s. The project questions our understanding of Lebanese “traditional values”\, how our society has constructed a more conservative approach to sex\, and how we talk about sexuality today in art and pop culture in Lebanon and the region. \nWe’re celebrating the Arab women singers past and present who got it and flaunt it! \nVegan Sushi For Breakfast is the party name of Janine El Khawand and Myra El Mir who are cultural organizers and artists based in Beirut\, Lebanon. They have co-founded space27\, a feminist artist-run space and collaborative studio. Their work falls mostly within Relational Aesthetics\, existing at the intersection of art\, activism and social change. \nAfter the multimedia installation\, DJ Fursa will really get our hips shaking! Fursa (AKA Bashar) is the founder\, board member and resident DJ for Tarab NYC\, NYC’s Queer Middle Eastern\, North African and fabulous community organization! His style is a mix of dabke\, shami\, chobi\, redh\, chaabi\, bandari\, and other MENA beats mixed with pop\, dance and global booty beats. Find them on Twitter via @makhay And feel out Fursa’s style on Soundcloud. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/albi-ay-ay/
LOCATION:Flux Factory\, 39-31 29th St\, Long Island City\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180819T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
CREATED:20180701T192943Z
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SUMMARY:Butter on the Jam Knife & Cherry's First Solo: Works by Ryan Clayton and Wallis Cheung
DESCRIPTION:August 16th – 19th\nReception\, August 18th\, 7pm – 10pm\nPerformance\, 8pm\n\nGallery hours Saturday & Sunday\, 1pm – 6pm \nPlease RSVP on Facebook \nThe kitchen is where food is prepared\, our desire for continued existence realized fully in a location where not us becomes us. Non-lively matter (food) is prepared using thousands of years of technology to become an enjoyable (or merely passable) sensory experience for the lively (if perhaps a little tired) people. The kitchen also functions socially\, holding the potential for social gatherings and meals in its accumulated (or conspicuously absent) cutlery and plates. The kitchen is the household place where the virtual (in its capacity to hold endless potential) gets baked into the real. No longer in its virtual potential state the bread gets burnt\, the cake undercooked\, but the dinner conversation is wonderful and the souffle rises. In these moments of translation from possible to occurred\, virtual to real\, what potential is there to stick our fingers into the seams and let the steam out.    \nRyan Clayton is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. There he is currently working on his MFA at Concordia University. Working primarily in digital mediums\, Clayton fashions technology which continuously reshapes and morphs both his self and the worlds in which he finds himself in.   \nClayton has exhibited in Canada and internationally\, both as a founding member of the collective VSVSVS and individually. Recent and notable shows include\, Maureen Show III\, Darling Foundry\, Montreal\, at the same time\, Contemporary Calgary\, Calgary\, to space in\, Katzman Contemporary\, Toronto. Participation in art fairs include Free School\, Supermarket\, Stockholm and Sailing Stones\, Platforms Project\, Athens. \n\nRyan will be preforming a collaborative skype dance at 8 o’clock on August 18th with collaborator Emilie Morin.\n\nEmilie Morin was born and raised in Montreal. Since 2006\, she works as a freelance dance performer for live performance and dance on screen and has collaborated with many independent choreographers and filmmakers. Emilie is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Concordia University in the Intermedia Program (Studio Arts) in 2017. She has traveled to Europe\, the United Sates and Mexico to present her work\, given conferences\, and teaches. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n  \n  \nWallis Cheung (b. Hong Kong) is an artist based in Toronto\, Canada and currently working in Richmond\, Virginia. Her work stumbles along video\, text\, textile and performance on articulation of the continuous changes in becoming a woman implicated in race and class. She frames her shared voice of intersectional feminist theory\, erotica and East Asian horror. She is a founding member of an artist initiative\, VSVSVS in Toronto from 2010 to 2017 and currently relocated at Richmond\, Virginia to complete her MFA in Virginia CommonWealth University. Her recent exhibitions included I Had A Flashback That Never Existed at 506 Franklin\, Richmond\, VA; Pouring Out at DNA Gallery\, London\, Canada; at the same time\, Contemporary Calgary\, Calgary\, Canada; to space in\, Katzman Contemporary\, Toronto\, Canada.
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/butterknife/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180811T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180811T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
CREATED:20180629T193327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T191617Z
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: If all we had was a mug we could make the whole world - An Introduction to 3D modeling.
DESCRIPTION:August 11th\n2pm – 5pm\nFREE \nThis Introductory 3D Modeling workshop is for individuals with little or no experience using 3D modeling software. We will be using Blender\, an open source 3D production software compatible with all major operating systems to 3D model and render our favorite mugs. The program can be freely downloaded by participants for use on their own laptops. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring their own laptops and mice\, although their will be a few computers and mice available on a first come first served basis. \nThis workshop will familiarize participants with the 3D environment and interface\, basic 3D manipulation and creation of objects\, surface and texture. Participants will have the opportunity to work individually with instructor supervision on the creation of their favorite mug. At the end of the workshop participants will have rendered still images of their mugs and an opportunity to show these mugs as part of an exhibition. Completion of this workshop will give participants the necessary background to begin experimenting with 3D modeling and animation. \nRyan Clayton Bio: \nRyan Clayton is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. There he is currently working on his MFA at Concordia University. Working primarily in digital mediums\, Clayton fashions technology which continuously reshapes and morphs both his self and the worlds in which he finds himself in.   \nClayton has exhibited in Canada and internationally\, both as a founding member of the collective VSVSVS and individually. Recent and notable shows include\, Maureen Show III\, Darling Foundry\, Montreal\, at the same time\, Contemporary Calgary\, Calgary\, to space in\, Katzman Contemporary\, Toronto. Participation in art fairs include Free School\, Supermarket\, Stockholm and Sailing Stones\, Platforms Project\, Athens. \n 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/make-the-whole-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180809T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180809T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T175430
CREATED:20180608T195358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180810T153026Z
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SUMMARY:Going Sour: Flux Thursday\, August
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 9 \nDinner at 7pm\nPresentations at 8pm\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook \nPlease join us on Thursday\, August 9th\, for our monthly community potluck and art salon: an informal time to catch up with old friends\, eat something delicious prepared by our artist-chefs\, and learn more about the practice of artists and friends \nThe event is free\, but please do bring food or drink to share! \nHow do we define a “sour relationship”? Join us for a round table conversation and open mic addressing the metaphor of sour. We will talk about our experiences of relationships with friends and lover having gone sour\, or how to avoid that in the future. Think the sour taste of global politics\, or how relationships between governments effect us all. \nRyan Clayton\, Wallis Cheung and Janine Khawand will facilitate a “going sour” button making workshop. \n\nJevijoe Vitug  and guest artist Juan Lazaro will cook variations of  “Sinigang”\, a popular Filipino sour stew and give a presentation about the imperialist/colonialist relationship between the Philippines and US that “has gone sour” for a long time. \nJuan Lazaro is an immigrant painter whose work deals with Philippine colonial past and his strict Catholic upbringing. Learning Filipino comfort food from both his grandmother and mother\, Lazaro has a passion for cooking and learned the craft and trade of cooking professionally from his friend Chef Koko at San Francisco’s Izikaya Rintaro. where his experience transitioned in working as a cook in a Filipino restaurant in San Jose\, California. Juan Lazaro holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College\, New York and currently teaches drawing at William Paterson University in Wayne\, New Jersey. 
URL:https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/goingsour_fluxthursday/
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