STREET ARTS A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture & Free Expression

OCTOBER NOVEMBER 2010

Albuquerque New Mexico

516 ARTS The 5G Gallery ABQ Ride ABQ Trolley Co. ACLU-NM Albuquerque Academy Albuquerque MainStreet The Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque Public Art Program Amy Biehl High School BECA Foundation The Cell Theatre Church of Beethoven Creative Albuquerque Downtown Action Team FUSION Theatre Company Global DanceFest The Guild Cinema KiMo Theatre & Art Gallery KUNM Radio N4th Theater National Hispanic Cultural Center New Studio A.D. The Outpost Performance Space Warehouse 508 Working Classroom

CONTENTS

Introduction 2 Exhibitions 4 Murals & Tours 6 Hip Hop Film Festival 8 Spoken Word Festival 9 Calendar 10 Performances & Events 12 Talks 14 Join 516 ARTS 16 Credits 17

www.516arts.org • 505-242-1445 STREET ARTS is organized by 516 ARTS, with ACLU-NM & local organizations

Visual Art • Spoken Word • Music • Film • Dance • Talks • Tours INTRODUCTION STREET ARTS 3

Starting from Scratch

Let’s begin with two generally agreed upon definitions of Hip Hop. One deals in the intangible realm of sensibility and perspective: Hip Hop = Culture. The second refers to the business of selling snapshots and sound-bites gleaned from the culture’s creative expression: Hip Hop = $.

If Hip Hop is indeed a way of life, what is that “way?”

Consider an apt metaphor derived from a widely known mode of Hip Hop expression, the scratch. Created when the turntablist’s fingers manipulate recorded sound in sync to new musical elements, the scratch is both defiant and tributary.

The practice of re-contextualizing sound and symbol is evident in Hip Hop’s signpost elements: “break dancing,” “MC’ing/rapping,” “graffiti,” “beat making” and “beat boxing.” Each challenge the norms of the visual/performance/literary mediums in which they’re associated. This subversive approach extends beyond art making to Note from the Project Director education, activism and government. Those marginalized are empowered by Hip Hop to deconstruct and remix unjust dominant cultural narratives. Art is food. You can’t eat it but it feeds you… It needs to be everywhere because it is inside the world… Art soothes pain! Art wakes up sleepers! Art fights against war Though Hip Hop’s retail products participate in global capitalism, there are still graff and stupidity! Art is like good bread! Art is like white clouds in blue sky!…HURRAH! artists who put their bodies at risk challenging notions of public vs. private space. Turntablists and beat-makers innovate audio technology, questioning the ownership — Bread & Puppet Theatre of sound. Breakers shatter popular notions of the traditionally trained dancer. Hip Hop writers rattle the realms of literature, theater and journalism. Its lyricists move crowds in meaningful ways, transcending narrow night club music. I am pleased to welcome everyone to STREET ARTS: A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture & Free Expression, an Since the 90’s, Hip Hop poets have contributed to the revitalization of performance arts collaboration with 25 local organizations featuring a poetry. In stride with the self-sustaining spoken word community, Hip Hop poets full line-up of public programs this fall. We have worked brandish the kinetic rhythm of the block party, reporting the human condition to an together to develop programs that celebrate art in the urban audience trained to listen closely. environment, freedom of speech and collaborations among artists and organizations. SHOUT OUT: A Festival of Rhythm and Rhyme shines the spotlight on this new breed of Hip Hop poet. Like the scratch, we’ll leap forward and back in one After spending much of last year on the LAND/ART project that looked to electrifying movement. We’ll celebrate the passionate poetry of Amiri Baraka, a the natural environment of New Mexico, the STREET ARTS project focuses pivotal figure in the 60’s black arts movement to which Hip Hop owes a tremendous on Albuquerque as the urban center of the state. The programming presents debt. We’ll head nod and stomp feet to the word play of two widely revered writers of local artists along with an array of guest artists and performers from around the Hip Hop generation: Amalia Ortiz, an award winning poet whose work examines the country and the world, with a scope ranging from explorations of regional the complexities of the Chicana experience -- both stateside and abroad -- with identity, to global perspectives from Africa, Brazil, Cuba and England. The intelligence and beauty; and Kevin Coval, a critically acclaimed poet and co-founder dialogue spans history, civil liberties, human rights and questions what of Louder Than A Bomb, the world’s largest youth literacy festival. Throughout the four freedom means in the United States and in other parts of the world. The project days New Mexico’s own diverse poetic voices will bless the stage and electrify all with helps connect New Mexico artists, performers and audiences with a larger, homespun lyricism. international dialogue. The phrase “Hip Hop is Dead” continues to circulate in popular discourse. Which The subject of this series of events includes, but is not limited to, the elements Hip Hop are we talking about? Mine empowers me to celebrate the diversity of of Hip Hop culture. Many of the programs and events focus on educating young our collected narrative, to explore the rhythm of my community, the rhythm of my people about their civil liberties, highlighting issues of access and freedom of imagination. How about yours? expression. Who gets to “play” in the art world is largely dependent on who has access to it. Street Art has become such a vibrant movement around the world — Idris Goodwin because it gives a voice to the people and invites everyone to participate. Co-Curator, SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme The Calligraphy of Chaz Bojórquez New Mexico Remix In many ways the entire STREET ARTS project owes its inspiration to the work and 516 ARTS presents a special collaborative project with artist Chaz Bojórquez and The STREET ARTS project centers around current day trends in Street Arts, its enthusiastic energy of Charles “Chaz” Bojórquez, an artist of exceptional skill, Hip Hop playwright Idris Goodwin titled New Mexico Remix. Goodwin has created roots in graffiti writing and its relationship to Hip Hop. So what is the difference dynamism, and dedication to education and support for younger artists. In 1969 a new play that integrates the stories of New Mexico youth who participated in his between Street Art and graffiti? “Street art is more about interacting with the Chaz’s imagery burst into Los Angeles’ collective summer workshop at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Voces writing program. audience on the street and the people, the masses. Graffiti is about connecting Note from ACLU Director 1 consciousness when his signature image “Señor Bojórquez will create a site-specific, temporary mural incorporating text from with different crews, it’s an internal language.” In both cases, “...physically Suerte” first went up on a concrete pier along Goodwin’s play on the 25-foot high front wall of 516 ARTS. Goodwin will perform connecting to the street through art or graffiti is a uniquely corporal way to People have sought to suppress artistic expression since the the 110 freeway heading east towards Pasadena. New Mexico Remix at the KiMo Theatre on November 6, opening for Amiri Baraka integrate with the city, or with your neighborhood… For artists it’s a form of beginning of civilization. Why? Because art is powerful. It has 2 Since then it has appeared in Hollywood films and Cecil Taylor for SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme. The mural will be dissent and self-affirmation, a way of not accepting the lot you’ve been given.” the ability to inspire, to provoke, to challenge, to build, and to and educational documentaries, in mainstream on view at 516 ARTS October 2 - December 11 during the exhibition Street Text: Art Graffiti master Chaz Bojórquez, asks, “Does graffiti have intent, purpose, cultural deconstruct. Art is expression at its most sophisticated; that’s why art magazines, on gallery walls in Milan and From the Coasts. Chaz Bojórquez’ residency in Albuquerque for STREET ARTS is co- identity, history and create unity? Who owns the public space and who has the it is so important that we defend art when it comes under attack. Osaka and Madrid, and in museums such as the sponsored by Albuquerque Academy. right to speak and be heard?” Smithsonian Institution. However it was only when This inherently close relationship between free speech and art I’d like to thank the many colleagues and friends, whose teamwork was his icon began to appear in prison tattoos, and in prompted the ACLU of New Mexico to collaborate with 516 ARTS invaluable to this project, especially Andrew Connors, Francesca Searer, other graffiti artists’ piece books that Chaz felt he to bring you STREET ARTS: A Celebration of Hip Hop Culture & Free Expression. With Rhiannon Mercer, Barbara Geary, Christopher Goblet and Sherri Brueggemann. had really made a difference, that his work was STREET ARTS we aim to not only highlight the formidable talent of our participating Special thanks to the ACLU-NM for spurring this collaboration onward, to speaking to his community. Since 1969 he has artists and performers, but also celebrate the constitutional rights that guarantee their Rob Strell and Gary McAfee for hosting the Street Arts fundraiser and to the been sharing his refined aesthetic and dedication freedom to express their talent, creativity and ideas to fullest potential. dedicated Board, staff and volunteers of 516 ARTS. And thank you to the McCune to craftsmanship with anyone who cared to ask, Charitable Foundation, The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation, The The ACLU would like to extend special thanks to 516 ARTS Executive Director Suzanne and has selflessly served as a mentor to generations of artists. He is the ultimate City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Arts and all the generous grant funders, Sbarge who invited us to be a part of this exciting collaboration. Exploring the example of an old school street writer yet he pushes forward with his ever inspired sponsors, business supporters, advertisers, artists and speakers who have given intersection of civil liberties and artistic expression has been a greatly rewarding innovation and passion for the work of others. We thank him for all he has done to their time and creativity, and all the members and contributors of 516 ARTS. We process. It is our hope that you will come away from STREET ARTS with a heightened motivate our thinking about community based art forms and the universal relevance couldn’t do it without you! appreciation for the creative vibrancy of hip hop culture and a renewed commitment to of locally-rooted forms. preserving free speech—not just for artists—but for all Americans. — Suzanne Sbarge — Andrew Connors Executive Director, 516 ARTS • Project Director, STREET ARTS — Peter Simonson Curator of Art, The Albuquerque Museum Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico

1 Faile, from Cedar Lewisohn, Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution, 2008 2 Cedar Lewisohn, ibid.

STREET ARTS logo generously donated by Chaz Bojórquez

ABOVE: Chaz Bojórquez, Los Locos de Cali, 10 color serigrapah, edition 24, Collection of the National Hispanic Cultural Center

FRONT COVER: Shepard Fairey, Billboard Eye, silkscreen print, courtesy of OBEY Giant

BACK COVER: Above left to right: Chip Thomas, wheatpaste mural • Rainbow Drips on Anasazi building • Poet Kevin Coval • Ernest Doty, The Great White Buffalo (detail), mixed media, 72” x 96” “You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. Below: Gajin Fujita, Sky High, gold leaf, acrylic, paint marker, spray paint & Mean Streak on panel 16” x 48”, courtesy of L.A. Louver Or the questions it asks you...” —Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities

STREET ARTS Guide published by 516 ARTS, 516 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org • Design by Suzanne Sbarge • Printed by VanGuard Printing EXHIBITIONS 4 STREET ARTS 5

Working Classroom & ABQ Ride present 516 ARTS presents

Collective Memory: Albuquerque Ernest Doty STREET TEXT: Art From the Coasts An installation on the D-Ride bus Shepard Fairey & The Populist Phenomenon October 1 – November 30 Jaque Fragua Working Classroom Collective Memory: Albuquerque, an installation of images on the free D-Ride bus that loops October 2 - December 11 Gaia around Downtown, featuring the youth artists working with guest artist Christina Marsh from Baltimore, who asked 516 ARTS presents Street Text, a two-part exhibition examining Street Art and its evolution into a world-wide cultural movement. The the students to create iconic images of Albuquerque. While some students focused on what it means to travel with- Stevan Gutierrez downstairs portion of the exhibition titled The Populist Phenomenon is curated by Francesca Searer of 516 ARTS. It includes a mix of local, in the city, others composed archetypal New Mexico forms—coyotes, the Zia symbol—for their bus panels. This Thomas Christopher Haag workshop was intended to be a collage workshop that melded method, meaning and material in a way that works national and international artists, and examines the artists’ work as a means of expressing a message to the masses. It also explores Mark Jenkins beyond the scrapbook experience. For these 30 bus panels, the students used a wide range of image transfer how street artists are affected when their work moves into the realm of galleries, museums and public art. Work includes on and off-site techniques, painting and drawing to create assemblages that describe a very real, personal narrative or journey. Alexandre Orion installations, photographic documentation, portable representations of wheatpaste, stencil and canvas work methods, and video footage of Bus panel by Paul Lopez Their original pieces are installed on the bus. Special thanks to Bobby Sisneros, Marketing Specialist at ABQ Ride. Albert Rosales street artists in action. 516 ARTS presents a series of new Downtown murals created by artists in The Populist Phenomenon (see page 6). Visit the satellite exhibition at 5G Gallery Within/Without: Works by David Polka and The GroundScore Collective, which features artists from the Slinkachu INFO: Working Classroom, 212 Gold SW, 505 242-9267, www.workingclassroom.org 516 ARTS exhibition in a collaborative installation exploring abandoned and forgotten objects, places, and the urban experience. or ABQ Ride, call 243-RIDE Chris Stain The upstairs portion of the exhibition titled Street Text: Art From the Coasts, curated by Andrew Connors, SWOON Curator of Art, The Albuquerque Museum, compares masters of graffiti art from New York and Los Chip Thomas Angeles, tracing the transition from paintings on borrowed walls and subway cars to works created for KiMo Theatre Art Gallery presents ••• galleries and museums. Documentary photography from the 1970s and ‘80s root these traditions in their local communities. The exhibition explores these two different genres of graffiti art in America within Chaz Bojórquez Street Art: Albuquerque Style and apart from the context and history of Hip Hop Art and Culture. It focuses on educating audiences Gusmano Cesaretti October 2 - December 11 about this highly developed international art form in contrast to tagging and vandalism. The title “Street Street Art: Albuquerque Style, curated by Augustine Romero, brings together local artists who have been Henry Chalfant Text” refers to the role of text and writing in the graffiti movement, which is explored through exhibition developing their Albuquerque style in the streets for over 25 years. The importance of street art allows for new Gajin Fujita programs including Spoken Word events with guest writers. The exhibition catalog includes essays by conversations in how we look at art that exists outside the traditional ideas and spaces where art is exhibited. Andrew Connors, Henry Chalfant and Francesca Searer. The opening of these exhibitions kicks off the Lady Pink Medium, location, and material are all some of the key factors that distance these artists from more traditional two-month STREET ARTS celebration. artists whom we see in galleries and museums. These artists who offer up their works in the true quest of artistic John Lorne freedom often do it without financial rewards or personal recognition.

EVENTS: Saturday, October 2, 5-7pm: Opening Reception

SOFA working on a mural at an approved mural site Friday, October 15, 5-8pm: Downtown ARTScrawl

LOCATION: KiMo Theatre Art Gallery, 423 Central Ave. NW • 505-768-3522 open Tue - Fri, 8:30am - 4:30pm & Sat, 11am-5pm

The 5G Gallery presents Within/Without Works by David Polka & The GroundScore Collective November 5 - 26 As a satellite exhibition to The Populist Phenomenon at 516 ARTS (see page 5), The 5G Gallery presents Within/ Without: Works by David Polka and The GroundScore Collective (Ernest Doty, Stevan Gutierrez and Thomas Christopher Haag). The exhibit includes several artists from the 516 ARTS exhibition in a collaborative installation exploring abandoned and forgotten objects, places, and the urban experience. They focus on surface, material and technique, working with materials other than aerosol, including found signage and objects from the urban environment.

EVENTS: Friday, November 5, 6-10pm: Opening Reception LOCATION: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW • 505-242-1445 • www.516arts.org Sunday, November 7, 11:30am: Open House after Church of Beethoven performance with Saywut?! for SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme open Tue - Sat, 12-5pm

Los Gallos by David Polka LOCATION: The 5G Gallery, 1715 5th St. NW, 505-977-9643, www.factoryon5.com EVENTS: open Wed - Sat, 10am-5pm & Sun, 10am-2pm Saturday October 2, 6-8pm: OPENING RECEPTION: at 516 ARTS, music with DJ’s Open Road & Shakedown Sunday, October 3, 1pm: TALK: Conversation with Chaz Bojórquez and Henry Chalfant at The Albuquerque Museum (see p. 14) BECA Foundation presents Sunday, October 3, 7pm: SCREENING & TALK: Style Wars with Henry Chalfant at The Guild Cinema (see p. 8) Saturday October 23, 2pm: TALK: Defending Artistic Liberty presented by ACLU-NM at 516 ARTS (see p. 15) Article 19 Thursday, October 28, 7:30pm: TALK: Poetry in the Margins Graffiti, Hip-Hop & the Poetic Tropes of the Streets of São Paulo with Jeremy Lehnen, at 516 ARTS (see p. 15) November 2 - 14 Saturday, October 30, 1pm: TALK: Curators Andrew Connors & Francesca Searer (see p. 15) BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, the global artist and designer run non-profit project founded in Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 4-7: FESTIVAL: SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme at multiple venues (see p. 9) 2008, presents Article 19. Drawing inspiration from both the preamble and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration Wednesday, November 10, 7pm: TALK: History of Style with Dave Hickey at 516 ARTS of Human Rights, artists, architects + designers from around the world were challenged to Explore, Discover and Act through Art + Design. The result is an international exhibition which embodies not only the spirit of Article 19 of the UDHR but also explores the ever-growing challenges faced by contemporary society in all corners of Images top to bottom: Chaz Bojórquez, STREET TEXT logo the globe when attempts are made to realize our human right to freedom of expression. Deadline for submissions Henry Chalfant, Min One Painting in New Lots Avenue Trainyard, Brooklyn, 1981, photograph from artists is September 25. Download submissions guidelines at: Thomas Christopher Haag, Hypnotize (detail), mixed media on panel, 66” x 84” Gaia, Saint John, wheatpaste mural, 85” x 48” www.becaicad.org/artist-designer-submissions.php

EVENT: Friday, November 5, 5-7pm: Opening Reception

LOCATION: New Studio A.D., 505-244-0223, 312 Rosemont Ave. NE, www.NewStudioAD.com “If the city was a body, graffiti would tell us where it hurts. By cutting out the pain, you risk damage to open Tue - Sat, 11am-5pm the whole. No one part is more important than another.” —Chaz Bojórquez, Artist INFO: www.BECAICAD.org, www.theBECAfoundation.org MURALS 6 MURAL TOURS STREET ARTS 7

Albuquerque Public Art Program & ABQ Trolley Co. present Street Arts Trolley Tour: Urban Art Trawl Saturday, October 16, 10am-noon Albuquerque Public Art Program and ABQ Trolley Co. present a guided Street Arts Tour. Take a ride on “the best first thing to do in Albuquerque” trolley and get a special insider’s tour of urban Street Arts in the Duke City. Depart from the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St. SW.

INFO/RESERVATIONS: ABQ Trolley Co., 505-453-5161, www.abqtrolley.com FEE: $15

Chris Stain, from El Rey Theatre mural Thomas Christopher Haag, mural detail Albuquerque Street Art Highlights Take a self-guided tour of some of Albuquerque’s Street Arts highlights. This list includes just a handful of the many vibrant murals on the streets of 516 ARTS presents Albuquerque. The list was compiled by some of the STREET ARTS project partners and artists. Artists are named where known. Some murals in this list New Downtown Murals are long-term fixtures in the urban landscape and some may be removed at any time. Start the self-guided tour in Downtown and enjoy! Starting October 1 on & near Central Avenue in conjunction with The Populist Phenomenon DOWNTOWN / BARELAS / EDO:

Floating Man 516 ARTS, in partnership with the Downtown Action Team, Albuquerque MainStreet and Downtown businesses, presents a series of new murals featuring local Mural by Kevin Zuckerman and international artists whose work is also in the exhibition The Populist Phenomenon at 516 ARTS (October 2 - December 11, 2010). The project focuses on BigByte building, 123 Central Ave. SW artists working in the Street Art genre, giving them the opportunity to create works in more long-lasting, high-profile locations. Check the 516 ARTS website for on 2nd St., just north of Central in Downtown, west-facing wall the latest mural locations. Rainbow Drips INFO: 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, ww.516arts.org 520 Central Ave. SW, unfinished “Anasazi” building 6th & Central in Downtown LOCATIONS INCLUDE: at the top of the 6th floor, east facing wall

1st Street: Santa Fe Pacific Trust 5th/6th Street: 516 ARTS Campo Expandido VIII 123 Central Ave. NW, east facing wall 516 Central Ave. SW, between 5th & 6th, front entrance east facing wall Mural by Raymundo Sesma & Working Classroom Artist: Chip Thomas Artist: Thomas Christopher Haag Parking lot on 8th & Gold behind Downtown Flying Star

2nd Street: Santa Fe Pacific Trust 5th/6th Street: 516 ARTS Alley 123 Central Ave. NW, north facing wall 516 Central Ave. SW, back alley between 5th & 6th UNM / NOB HILL / EAST NOB HILL: Artist: Chris Stain Artists: Warehouse 508 youth artists responding to 516 ARTS exhibitions with mentoring artists Juli Cobb, Mitchell Olson & Albert Rosales Yale Boulevard Wall 2nd Street: HDIC Theatre Building Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner 100 Central Ave. SW, west facing wall, on 2nd St. between Central & Gold 7th Street: PNM Substation Yale Blvd. north of Lead, east facing wall Artist: Thomas Christopher Haag West side of 7th St. between Central & Gold, all 4 walls Co-sponsored by HDIC, Farina Pizzeria, C. Dimery Antiques Artists: Amy Biehl High School youth artists from Bret Aaker’s art class Masks y Mas & Guerrilla Graphix Co-sponsored by PNM Mural by Brandon Maldonado 3106 Central Ave. SE in Nob Hill 3rd Street: Francis Tinnin Park 7th Street: El Rey Theatre Pocket park corner of 2nd & Gold, east facing wall 620 Central Ave. SW at 7th St., west facing wall Artist: Chip Thomas Artists: Chris Stain & Jaque Fragua with Lichiban Co-sponsored by Downtown Action Team & TinMil, LLC Co-sponsored by El Rey Theatre

Special thanks to the mural co-sponsors and helpers Bella Roma B&B, Diamond Vogel, C. Dimery Antiques, Christopher Goblet, Guerrilla Graphix, Farina Pizzeria, Historic District Improvement Company, Kwal Paint, Rick Rennie, True Value and mural volunteers: Downtown Java Joe’s Travis Cole, Joel Davis, Barbara Geary, Alfredo Gomez, Forrest Haag, Michael Hurley, Josiah Jones, Roman Lopez, Sean Mallon, Mo 906 Park Ave. SW Marwan, Angelo Orona, Claude Smith, Benjamin Tobias, Shawn Warrick, Laila Weeks, Eli Wentzel-Fisher, Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher. Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner between 9th & 10th south of Central, east facing wall

The 5G Gallery Black Market Goods “It’s like a secret message to the viewer, or a puzzle that invites solving. Like any good piece of art, it New mural by David Polka Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner, started by Stove Gallery begs to be looked at over and over again, to be discussed by its fans and detractors.” Launching November 5 for STREET ARTS 114 Morningside NE between Central & Copper, east of Nob Hill 1715 5th St. NW, next to the Factory on 5th, south facing wall west & north facing walls —Patricia Sautoff, on the Rainbow Drips piece at 6th & Central, The Weekly Alibi Our Lady of Kazan Monastery G & L Neighborhood Outdoor Gallery Murals by Brother Barney Murals by rotating artists including Thomas Christopher Haag & Ernest Doty 324 Hazeldine SW at 4th St. in Barelas Corner of Washington & Roma in Nob Hill. north facing wall north & west facing walls The House of Murals Revlis Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner www.acebarbershop505.com Corner of Quincy & Adams Streets in Nob Hill C. DIMERY ANTIQUES Murals by rotating artists invited by Revlis Gallery 712 Central Ave. SE in EDO (East Downtown) NORTH VALLEY: Fence behind Pop ‘N’ Taco Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner Acme Salvage Yard Central Ave. & Edith, north side of street, west facing wall Murals by rotating artists invited by building owner Two football fields of full of ever-changing murals 2nd St. between Montaño & Osuna, in the North Valley

open mondays “An increasing number of private businesses are hiring graffiti artists to decorate their storefronts in booming monthly artshows neighborhoods—such as Nob Hill and Downtown—creating an axis running through Historic Route 66 and which Morningside Antiques, LLC is branding Burque as a city with a fertile, vibrant and hybrid Street Art culture...not unlike the way in which the Joel-Peter Witkin Hyatt glass pyramid roofs have come to signify the Albuquerque skyline.” —Adriana Ramírez de Arellano, Anthropologist 4001 Central NE, Albuquerque • 505.268.0188 • www.cda23.com 505.242.7735 FILM FESTIVAL 8 SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL STREET ARTS 9

Henry Chalfant

Amiri Baraka The Guild Cinema & 516 ARTS present Dafnis Prieto HIP HOP FILM FEST Cecil Taylor

October 1 - 3 & October 15 - 16 Kevin Coval

The Guild Cinema, in partnership with 516 ARTS and the ACLU-NM, present a series of films exploring the cultural, artistic and social 516 ARTS & partners present phenomena of Hip Hop, free expression in the street arts and its continued relevance. LOCATION/INFO: The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. NE, 505-255-1848, www.guildcinema.com SHOUT-OUT EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme Amalia Ortiz Friday - Sunday, October 1 - 3 double feature with JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD November 4 - 7 at multiple venues

Fri & Sat, 3pm, 5pm & 7pm / Sun, 3pm & 5pm Friday & Saturday, October 15 - 16, 5pm & 8:30pm Idris Goodwin Dir. Banksy - 2010 - 87 min Admission: $7 per movie or $10 for both Admission: $10 general admission, $7 Students Dir. Benjamin Franzen & Kembrew McLeod - 2009 - 65 min FESTIVAL SCHEDULE The first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and Thursday, November 4, 7:30pm • at The Outpost Performance Space Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy (of course) money. This documentary traces the rise of Hip Hop from the urban DAFNIS PRIETO & THE PROVERB TRIO 516 ARTS, in partnership with the ACLU-NM, is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more Festival kick-off with Cuban born drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto, rapper Kokayi & keyboardist The Outpost Performance Space and Church work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane than thirty years, innovative Hip Hop performers and producers have been re-using Jason Lindner. Youth poets from NHCC’s Voces open the program. of Beethoven, presents SHOUT-OUT: A Festival New Orleans to the separation barrier on the portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions. at the Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. SE, 505-268-0044, www.outpostspace.org of Rhythm & Rhyme, featuring poetry, music, Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a TICKETS: $15/$10 Outpost & 516 ARTS members, available in advance from Outpost or at the door visual art and collaborations between artists anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many Friday, November 5, 7:30pm • at 516 ARTS far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. of Hip Hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital and organizations. “In this festival, we move 516 WORDS: Kevin Coval & Amalia Ortiz Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true Underground—while also featuring emerging Hip Hop artists from record labels forward and back in one electrifying movement. 516 WORDS poetry event with Kevin Coval, Amalia Ortiz, Carlos Contreras, Sina Soul & Tanaya Winder, story of how an eccentric French shop keeper Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune and more. It also provides an in-depth We celebrate the passionate poetry of Amiri music with Dj Philos, emcee’ed by Idris Goodwin turned documentary maker attempted to locate look at artists who have been sampled, such as Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown’s at 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org Baraka, a pivotal figure in the 60s black arts and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn drummer and the world’s most sampled musician), as well as commentary by another TICKETS: $10/$8 Outpost & 516 ARTS members, available at the door movement to which Hip Hop owes a tremendous Banksy the camera back on its owner – with spectacular highly sampled musician, funk legend George Clinton. As artists find ever more debt. We’ll head nod and stomp feet to the word results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, this documentary asks a Saturday, November 6, 7:30pm • Keynote Performance at the KiMo Theatre play of two emerging voices in the Hip Hop and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in critical question, on behalf of an entire creative community: Can you own a sound? AMIRI BARAKA & CECIL TAYLOR, WITH IDRIS GOODWIN interview. As Banksy describes it, “It’s basically the story of how one man set out to Diction and Contra Diction - A collaborative performance with the literary and musical legends Amiri generation: Amalia Ortiz, an award winning film the un-filmable. And failed.” Baraka and Cecil Taylor + New Mexico Remix - Idris Goodwin, with Chaz Bojórquez projections, poet whose work examines the complexities of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: emcee’d by Hakim Bellamy, followed by reception at 516 ARTS • presented by Outpost & 516 ARTS the Chicana experience with intelligence and co-sponsored by ACLU-NM, with NM Dept. of African American Affairs beauty; and Kevin Coval, a critically acclaimed THE RADIANT CHILD at the KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Ave. NW, 505-768-3522 STYLE WARS poet and co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb, double feature with COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS TICKETS: $27/$22/$17/$10 student rush, $5 discount for Outpost & 516 ARTS members with Director Henry Chalfant in person! available from Outpost, KiMo Theatre Box Office & Ticketmaster the world’s largest youth literacy festival. And Co-presented with 516 ARTS Friday & Saturday, October 15 - 16, 3pm & 6:30pm throughout the four days, we’ll be electrified Sunday, November 7, 10:30am • at Church of Beethoven Admission: $7 per movie or $10 for both by the homespun lyricism of New Mexico’s own Sunday, October 3, 7pm B eATBOXING in the String Section: Sywut a ?! + NMSO PERFORMERS Dir. Tamra Davis - 2009 - 93 min diverse poetic voices.” Admission: $10 general admission, $7 students and 516 ARTS members followed by an open house at The 5G Gallery for David Polka & The GroundScore Collective In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was Dir. Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver - 1984 - 69 min at The Kosmos at the Factory on 5th, 1715 5th St. NW, 505-234-4611, www.churchofbeethoven.org a phenomenon. He became notorious for his TICKETS: $15 adults/$10 students with valid ID/$5 under 12, available at the door When director Tony Silver and co-producer Henry Chalfant delivered the broadcast graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the version of their prize-winning film to PBS in 1983, the world received its first full late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold immersion in the phenomenon that had taken over New York City. The urban his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, landscape was physically transformed by graffiti artists who invented a new visual and became best friends with Andy Warhol. GUEST PERFORMERS INCLUDE: language to express both their individuality, and the voice of their community. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti AMIRI BARAKA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, music history AMALIA ORTIZ, Tejana actor/writer/activist, uses Hip Hop and spoken word poetics In Style Wars, New York’s ramshackle subway system is their public playground, and the public, Basquiat was launched into and criticism. Poet icon and revolutionary activist, he has read and lectured on cultural to explore injustices and human rights. She has performed on three seasons of Russell battleground, and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means international stardom. However, soon his and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. Baraka is Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX. She performs possible are Mayor Ed Koch, the police, and the New York Transit Authority. cult status began to override the art that had Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the former in theaters, classrooms, detention and rape crisis centers across the country. Meanwhile, as MC’s, DJ’s and B-boys rock the city with new sounds and new moves, made him famous in the first place. Director Poet Laureate of New Jersey. DAFNIS PRIETO is a Grammy award nominated, Cuban born drummer whose we see street corner breakdance battles turn into performance art. Style Wars has Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in revolutionary techniques have made a powerful impact on the international music scene. become an emblem of the original, embracing spirit of Hip Hop as it exploded into KEVIN COVAL is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry. A regular this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, contributor to The Huffington Post and National Public Radio and a teacher at The School He has received commissions, grants and fellowships from Chamber Music America and the world from underground tunnels, uptown streets, clubs and playgrounds. New bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art of The Art Institute of Chicago, Kevin was featured on four seasons of Russell Simmons Jazz at Lincoln Center. Since 2005, he has been a member of the NYU Music Faculty. York’s legendary kings of graffiti own a special place in the Hip Hop pantheon. was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and Def Poetry on HBO. He is the co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry This film is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging Hip Hop , pianist and composer, has been described as “...one of the most misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, festival in the world. CECIL TAYLOR revolutionary musicians of the last century. His blending of jazz and modern classical culture, and the continuing struggle to keep its authentic spirit alive. but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and sensibilities set both traditions on their ears and they’ve never been the same since then. allure of both the artist and the man. Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry IDRIS GOODWIN is an NEA award-winning playwright, break beat poet, essayist and educator whose work confronts truth and absurdity within our socio-political landscape. Along with Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, Taylor helped to usher in a turning Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn Goodwin’s works have enjoyed critically acclaimed premieres across the nation and he has point in the history of the music. Avant and free jazz would be unthinkable without O’Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego been featured on HBO, The Discovery Channel and National Public Radio. his innovations.” He was named as an NEA Jazz Master, and received a Guggenheim Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, among many others. Fellowship and a MacArthur “Genius” Award.

+ New Mexico poets and musical artists include Hakim Bellamy, Carlos Contreras, Saywut?!, Sina Soul, Tanaya Winder, DJ Cole and youth poets “The kids who painted the subways of New York, turning deferred-maintenance wrecks into brilliant canvases and from the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Voces writing program. Biographies are included in event programs and at www.516arts.org. infusing the faceless grid with their own identity, planted the seeds of an art movement that has inspired people the world over to say, ‘we are here and we won’t be ignored any more.’” —Henry Chalfant, Documentarian CALENDAR 10 STREET ARTS 11

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Saturday, October 9, 2pm & 8pm Friday, November 5, 5-7pm Thursday, September 30, 2-3pm Spoken Word Festival RADIO SHOW PERFORMANCE OPENING RECEPTION KUNM Afternoon Freeform special on Hip Hop and Free Speech The Crossing & The Bicycle Thief, theatre performance with Jonathan Article 19, an international, juried exhibition of art + design Listen at 89.9FM, or online at www.kunm.org Khumbulani Nkala at N4th Theater Thursday – Sunday, November 4 - 7 at New Studio A.D. SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme Starting October 1 Saturday, October 9, 6-9pm at Outpost Performance Space, 516 ARTS, the KiMo Theatre Friday, November 5, 6-10pm MURALS SPECIAL EVENT & Church of Beethoven OPENING RECEPTION New murals Downtown presented by 516 ARTS & partners 90 Years Protecting Your Voice: ACLU of New Mexico Bill of Rights Celebration, Within/Without: Works by David Polka and The GroundScore Collective fundraising gala at The Albuquerque Museum on & near Central Avenue between 1st & 7th Streets Thursday, November 4, 8-9am at The 5G Gallery RADIO SHOW Saturday, October 2, 6-8pm Friday & Saturday, October 15 & 16 KUNM Call-in Show with Arcie Chapa, featuring guests Kevin Coval, Wednesday, November 10, 7pm OPENING RECEPTION FILM FEST Amalia Ortiz, and SHOUT-OUT Festival Co-Curator Idris Goodwin. TALK Street Text: Art From the Coasts & The Populist Phenomenon at 516 ARTS Hip Hop Film Fest featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child and Copyright Listen at 89.9FM, or online at www.kunm.org History of Style with Dave Hickey at 516 ARTS (October 2 – December 11) Criminals at The Guild Cinema Thursday, November 4, 7:30pm Saturday, November 13, 7pm Saturday, October 2, 4-6pm Friday, October 15, 5-8:30pm PERFORMANCE SPECIAL EVENT ARTSCRAWL OPENING RECEPTION The Proverb Trio featuring drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto and El Otro Lado: The Other Side community storytelling event and art reception Downtown ARTScrawl, including open houses at 516 ARTS & the KiMo Theatre Street Art: Albuquerque Style at the KiMo Theatre Art Gallery rapper Kokayi, opening with youth poets from NHCC’s Voces program for the collaborative, art project led by Chrissie Orr and Michelle Otero Art Gallery (October 2 – December 11) at The Outpost Performance Space at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Education Building Saturdays, October 16, 10am-noon Sunday, October 3, 1pm Friday, November 5, 7:30pm Friday & Saturday, November 19 & 20, 8pm TOUR TALK PERFORMANCE & Sunday, November 21, 2pm Albuquerque Street Arts Trolley Tour: Urban Art Trawl Conversation with artist Chaz Bojórquez & documentarian Henry Chalfant 516 WORDS spoken word event with Kevin Coval, Amalia Ortiz, Carlos PERFORMANCE Depart from the National Hispanic Cultural Center at The Albuquerque Museum Contreras, Sina Soul & Tanaya Winder, emcee’d by Idris Goodwin Molodi, a Hip Hop performance collective blending traditional percussive at 516 ARTS dance with guerrilla theatre, slam poetry & beat box Saturday, October 16, 2pm at The Cell Theatre Sunday, October 3, 7pm TALK SCREENING & TALK Saturday, November 6, 7:30pm Guerrilla Literature with Local Poet #117 at 516 ARTS Style Wars screening and talk with director Henry Chalfant KEYNOTE PERFORMANCE Saturday, November 20, 2pm at The Guild Cinema Cecil Taylor and Amiri Baraka performing Diction and Contra Diction, TALK Saturday, October 23, 2pm and Idris Goodwin performing New Mexico Remix Connecting the Dots Between Street Arts & Public Funding, a panel discussion TALK at the KiMo Theatre facilitated by Sherri Brueggemann, with panelists Chantal Foster, Dan Fuller, Friday - Sunday, October 1-3 Defending Artistic Liberty, a panel discussion exploring First Amendment rights Brent Ricks, Dr. Holly Barnet-Sanchez, at Warehouse 508 FILM FEST of free speech and artistic expression at 516 ARTS Hip Hop Film Fest featuring Style Wars and Exit Through the Gift Shop Sunday, November 7, 10:30am at The Guild Cinema PERFORMANCE Thursday, October 28, 7:30pm Beatboxing and classical music with performances by members of the PLUS! TALK New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and poet Saywut?! October 1 – November 30 Stay tuned for additional radio programming about STREET ARTS Poetry in the Margins: Graffiti, Hip Hop & the Poetic Tropes of the Streets of at The Kosmos at the Factory on 5th with guest artists and performers on KUNM Radio 89.9 FM D-RIDE BUS PROJECT São Paulo with Jeremy Lehnen at 516 ARTS followed by open house at The 5G Gallery next door Collective Memory: Albuquerque, an installation of images on the free D-Ride bus Downtown Saturday, October 30, 1pm TALK Thursday, October, 7, 6-8pm Gallery Talk with curators Andrew Connors and Francesca Searer for Street Text: TALK Art From the Coasts & The Populist Phenomenon at 516 ARTS Urban Enterprising, a talk with Amber Fosse and entrepreneurial Hip Hop panelists at Creative Albuquerque Saturday, October 30, 3-5pm OPENING RECEPTION Friday, October 8, 8pm Alley Art Mural created by youth artists from Warehouse 508 PERFORMANCE on the back of the 516 ARTS building The Talking Drum, a poetry and music performance with Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala at 516 ARTS

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Global DanceFest & 516 ARTS present 516 ARTS, NHCC & The Academy for the Love of Learning present Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala El Otro Lado Storytelling Event & Opening Friday, October 8, 8pm • Saturday, October 9, 8pm & Sunday, October 10, 6pm Saturday, November 13, 7pm

Global DanceFest and 516 ARTS welcome Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala from Zimbabwe for a series of performances 516 ARTS, NHCC and The Academy for the Love of Learning present a community storytelling event and exhibit for El Otro Lado: in Albuquerque. A published playwright, actor, poet and comedian, Nkala’s work is informed by his harrowing The Other Side, a collaborative, interdisciplinary art project led by artist Chrissie Orr and writer Michelle Otero. The event escape from Zimbabwe to South Africa in 2002. Upon arriving in South Africa from the ravaged Zimbabwe, he worked is emcee’d by Michelle Otero and features project participants and New Mexico poets. El Otro Lado: The Other Side uses the as a gardener, a handyman and a vendor and performed his story in the streets of Cape Town. In 2006 he was cast creative process to address issues of migration, human rights and sense of place. The project empowers the universal need to in a Motorola commercial where he met Bo Petersen, who worked with him as his drama coach. They formed a see and witness ourselves clearly in the world, as well as to be seen and known by others. Orr and Otero have led workshops partnership and together created The Crossing and The Bicycle Thief, which he will perform for Global DanceFest over the past year with four communities in Albuquerque: El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, Native American Community at N4th Theater. The Crossing was performed at the Harare International Festival of The Arts in 2009. The two plays Academy (NACA), Barelas Senior Center and Westside Community Center. Sharing their stories has given El Otro Lado were also performed at Grahamstown National Arts Fringe Festival, The Baxter Theatre, New Space Theatre, The Cape participants a sense of freedom through this experience of being seen and heard. The expression of their personal identity is Town Holocaust Centre and many more. The Crossing was part of The Voorkamerfees in Darling and toured schools in revealed through the distinctiveness of their art and handwriting, and by their literal voices in the oral storytelling. This process the Eastern and Western Cape. culminates in an installation of visual and audio representations and oral storytelling. The event celebrates the opening of the exhibit, which runs through January 10, 2011. El Otro Lado - Albuquerque is presented through a partnership between The At 516 ARTS, Nkala will perform The Talking Drum, poetry and music piece. Nkala says, “Many, many years ago, in the Academy for the Love of Learning, 516 ARTS, La Plaza de Encuentro and Connecting Community Voices. days of our ancestors, when people lived according to their clans, villages were very far apart and separated by big This event is made possible in part by the New Mexico Humanities Council, Albert I. Pierce Foundation, the City of Albuquerque Pubic Art Program and McCune Charitable Foundation. mountains. When the Chief of a certain clan wanted to send a message to another clan, he would send the Nyanduri, a poet, to the top of the mountain. Using his drum, the Nyanduri would play different tunes according to the message. Chrissie Orr & Caitlyn Moppert LOCATION: National Hispanic Cultural Center, Education Building, 1701 4th St. SW, 505-246-2261, www.nhccnm.org The messages would be replied to or passed on in the same way. This is how messages were communicated. This INFO: 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org, www.elotroladoproject.org was the ancient and reliable way of communication. This was the talking drum.”

LOCATIONS: The Talking Drum - Friday, October 8, 8pm at 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org th The Crossing & The Bicycle Thief - Sat, October 9, 8pm & Sun, October 10, 6pm at N4 Theater, 4904 4th St. NW, 505-344-4542, www.vsartsnm.org The Cell Theatre & FUSION Theatre Company present TICKETS: October 8: $8/$5, 516 ARTS members • October 9 & 10: $20/$12 students & seniors • available at the door INFO/RESERVATIONS: N4th Theater, 505-344-4542, www.vsartsnm.org MOLODI: RAW FOOTAGE Friday & Saturday, November 19 & 20, 8pm & Sunday, November 21, 2pm

The Cell Theatre and FUSION Theatre Company ACLU-NM presents present Molodi, a collective of artists from STOMP, Step Afrika!, Cirque du Soleil and the 90 Years Protecting Your Voice #1 hit movie Stomp The Yard. Molodi blends ACLU of New Mexico Bill of Rights Celebration traditional percussive dance with guerrilla theatre, slam poetry, beat box and vibrant Saturday, October 9, 6-9pm personalities that bring to life a high energy, The Bill of Rights Celebration is the ACLU of New Mexico’s annual gala in honor of our constitutional freedoms and rhythmic experience. Current and energetic, the dedicated community of civil libertarians who defend them. Please join us to celebrate the ACLU’s 90 year his- Molodi incorporates and fuses traditional tory of protecting the right to free expression and artistic liberty with an evening of hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and African American stepping, Tap and South live performances by local artists and musicians. Special guests include Hip Hop Playwright Idris Goodwin and African gumboot. With the influences of social Peter Simonson, Executive Director, ACLU-NM. issues into an undeniable contemporary style that isn't confined to a specific set of rules. The Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd. NW, 505-243-7255, www.cabq.gov/museum LOCATION: They frequently collaborate with trained actors, TICKTS: $100 suggested minimum donation acoustic bands, singers, slam poets, rappers, INFO: ACLU-NM, 505-266-5915 x1006, www.aclu-nm.org dancers of all different backgrounds, and have strong influences of gospel music of the Baptist Church. There is always a level of improvisation and experimentation, connecting the artists with the audience on a more personal level. Molodi Rhythm infuses itself into audience members who suddenly realize that instead of watching the “Naturally, we are all in favor of individual freedom, but where do we want to go with that freedom and what do show, they are part of the show. Their intention is to fuse art forms together, let the art thrive we want to do with it?... For the people, being free means having the right to work and to speak out. We all have to in a contemporary setting, and inspire a sense wage our own struggle and to pay for it accordingly.” — Sembene Ousmane, African Film Director & Writer of unity among all people through rhythm, collaboration and personal expression.

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On Thursday, September 30, 2-3pm, tune in to KUNM Afternoon Freeform with Rufus Cohen and guests for a Hip Hop and Free Speech special celebrating the kick-off of the STREET ARTS project, with interviews, musical guests and international Hip Hop music. Guests include Jeremy Lehnen, UNM Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, sharing Hip Hop and urban culture from Brazil and Spanish America. On Thursday November 4, 8-9am, join KUNM Call-in Show host Arcie Chapa for a discussion with spoken word artists featured in SHOUT-OUT: A Festival of Rhythm & Rhyme: HBO’s Def Poetry artists Kevin Coval and Amalia Ortiz, Albuquerque poet and teacher Carlos Contreras, and 242.9802 Festival Co-Curator Idris Goodwin. Listen at 89.9 FM, or online at www.kunm.org, and visit the KUNM website for the latest schedule of radio programming about Hip Hop admission open house 2323 1st Street NW Culture and Freedom of Expression. Sunday, October 31, 2010 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Music Building, Performance Hall stubblefieldprint.com

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516 ARTS presents 516 ARTS & The Albuquerque Museum present Poetry at the Margins: Graffiti, Hip Hop & the Poetic Tropes of the Streets of São Paulo Conversation with Henry Chalfant & Chaz Bojórquez Thursday, October 28, 7:30pm Sunday, October 3, 1pm Today, people are growing thanks to rap. A few musicians who are politically aware are sending the message and people get it. Ca j h z Bo órquez believes that true self- HENRY CHALFANT is an (Racionais MC’s) expression comes from the soul. At an early acclaimed photographer and Hip Hop has become an international forum, a voice for marginalized peoples to express their discontent, a political space to age, in the 1950s he experienced the graffiti one of the foremost authorities confront socio-economic disparities and discriminatory practices. The Hip Hop movement in Brazil stands in a tradition of cultural tradition of the East Los Angeles Mexican- on New York subway art. He has transmutation advocated by movements such as the Movimento Antropofágico. However, unlike the Movimento Antropofágico, Americans. Los Angeles ‘Cholo’ style graffiti published articles and lectured Hip Hop did not emerge from the middle and upper classes of Brazilian society nor is the objective of Hip Hop to express a was dictated by an honored code of writing. extensively on this and other homogeneous national identity. Rather, Hip Hop has materialized within and from the marginal communities of Brazilian society, Allegiance to that code of traditional writing aspects of urban youth culture. an alternative arena for the emergence of a subaltern voice. This talk will discuss recent cultural manifestations of Hip Hop culture brought you respect. He combines the His photographs are exhibited within the urban space of São Paulo, and the social and political aspects of this movement. Jeremy Lehnen holds a Ph.D in Latin tradition and honor from Cholo gang graffiti, in New York and major galleries American Studies from UNM. He currently teaches in the UNM Department of Spanish & Portuguese. His primary area of research the educational knowledge from art school, and museums in Europe and is in the field of cultural studies with an emphasis on the contemporary cultural production of Brazil and Spanish America. and the spiritual skills of Asian calligraphy. are in the collections of the In 1979 he embarked on a round-the-world Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. LOCATION/INFO: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org experience, visiting and living in 35 countries, studying how graphics and letters He has co-authored the definitive account of New York graffiti art, Subway Art describe culture and national pride. The graffiti art that Chaz Bojórquez paints (Holt Rinehart Winston, N.Y. 1984) and a sequel on the art form’s world-wide today, ask even deeper questions of himself. “Does graffiti have intent, purpose, diffusion, Spray Can Art (Thames and Hudson Inc. London, 1987). Chalfant co- cultural identity, history and create unity? Who owns the public space and who produced and did the background research and photo-documentation for the has the right to speak and be heard?” film Style Wars, which was first shown on PBS television in 1984. His photographs 516 ARTS presents record hundreds of ephemeral, original art works that have long since vanished. Special thanks to Albuquerque Academy. Photo by Olivia Barrionuevo. Curators’ Talk Chalfant calls himself an “unofficial archivist” of the graffiti art movement in Saturday, October 30, 1pm LOCATION: The Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain NW New York. He says “My studio was a focal point not only for graffiti writers, but 505-243-7255, www.cabq.gov/museum it was also a postmodern archive and museum for scholars, filmmakers, authors, Curators Andrew Connors and Francesca Searer will give an informal talk and discussion about the two-part exhibition Street Text: INFO: The Albuquerque Museum or 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org sociologists, anthropologists, photographers and historians.” Art From the Coasts & The Populist Phenomenon at 516 ARTS (see p. 5). Andrew Connors is the Curator of Art at The Albuquerque Photo by Mercedes Rodriguez Museum and the guest curator of Street Text: Art From the Coasts. Francesca Searer, Program Coordinator at 516 ARTS and the curator of The Populist Phenomenon, says “Guerrilla-style public art challenges us to rediscover our environment and inspires us to be aware of a rich vocabulary within visual communication.” Creative Albuquerque & Downtown Action Team present LOCATION/INFO: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org Panel: Urban Enterprising - Making a Living in the Hip Hop Industry Francesca Searer Thursday, October, 7, 6-8pm Russell Simmons, Queen Latifah and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (Bad Boy Records/Sean Jean) all have a few things in common. They came from humble beginnings, felt immense commitment to their careers and possessed a burning passion for Hip Hop. Considering examples from The Albuquerque Museum & 516 ARTS present mega moguls who generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually to long-established industry insiders who silently drive the hottest clothing lines, record labels, production and management companies, a panel of established Hip Hop entrepreneurs will explore what drives Gallery Talk with Dave Hickey: History of Style financial and critical success in the Hip Hop world, and how you can achieve your own urban entrepreneurial dreams. Entrepreneur, journalist Wednesday, November 10, 7pm and Hip Hop historian Amber Fosse will lead the conversation. Born and raised in Albuquerque, Fosse is the founder/former Editor-In-Chief of Using the works in the Street Text exhibitions as illustrations, author, professor, and social critic, Dave Hickey will Mugshot Magazine, an internationally distributed Hip Hop publication based in New York City. Other panelists include Gabriel Jaureguiberry, provide an historically and geographically sweeping discussion of graffiti style. Hickey’s study of street aesthetic owner of Ace Barbershop and Cyrus Gould, producer of Breakin’ Hearts. dates to his observation of writers in New York in the 1970s and continues to the present as he travels widely across this country and around the world. Dave Hickey is one of the best known American art and cultural critics LOCATION/RESERVATIONS: Creative Albuquerque, 102 Gold Ave. SW, 505-268-1920, www.creativeabq.org practicing today. He has written for many major American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper’s Magazine, Vanity Fair and Playboy. After 20 years on the faculty of the University of Amber Fosse Nevada, Las Vegas, he recently joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Art History at UNM.

LOCATION: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org 516 ARTS presents TICKETS: $10, seating is limited! Talk on Guerrilla Literature INFO/RESERVATIONS: 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org Saturday, October 16, 2pm 516 ARTS presents a talk on Guerrilla Literature with Local Poet #117 on public literature, accessibility in artistic endeavors and audience. Local Poet #117 defines “guerrilla literature” as any process by which you enter into direct dialogue with the community. Her own work began on the streets of Albuquerque in 1995 and ranged from drive-by-poetry and “spontaneous” performances to installations in alleys and on The City of Albuquerque Public Art Program & Cultural Services Department present telephone poles and even in the personal ads. At that time she coordinated a collective of “underground poets” who all practiced “responsible anonymity.” She has since progressed from publishing broadsides to publishing books, even receiving a National Endowment for the Arts Panel: Connecting the Dots Between Street Arts & Public Funding Fellowship in Literature. In this talk, Local Poet #117 will share how a passion for community engagement fosters life-long creative expression, Saturday, November 20, 2pm even as techniques shift. This panel discussion will explore the role that the Albuquerque Public Art Program should play in supporting streets arts activities. LOCATION/INFO: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org While policies and processes severely restrict what can be funded with public dollars, there are opportunities to partner with artists and available locations. Facilitated by Sherri Brueggemann, Public Art Urban Enhancement Program manager, guest panelists include Chantal Foster, local street mural connoisseur, Holly Barnet-Sanchez, UNM College of Fine Arts Associate Dean and co-author of a new book being written about the murals of East LA, Brent Ricks, Assistant City Attorney specializing in copyrights, Dan Fuller, Public Art ACLU-NM presents Collection Manager and local artists who have experienced the challenges of the mural arts in Albuquerque. Panel: Defending Artistic Liberty LOCATION: Warehouse 508, 508 1st St. NW, 505-296-2738, www.warehouse508.org INFO: The City of Albuquerque Public Art Program, 505-768-3833, www.cabq.gov/publicart Saturday, October 23, 2pm The more provocative art becomes, the more likely it will spark a public outcry and move government officials to censor. What rights protect Sherri Brueggemann our speech and artistic expression? How much freedom should artists have to publicly broadcast unpopular or controversial images and opinions? Join the discussion and learn what’s black and white about artistic freedom, and where the gray lies! The panel will be lead by Peter Simonson, Exective Director, ACLU-NM, and panelists include Reber Boult, Co-Legal Director, ACLU-NM; Adriana Ramírez de Arellano, J.D., Anthropologist; and Chip Thomas, medical doctor, photographer and wheatpaste mural artist.

LOCATION: 516 ARTS, 516 Central Ave. SW, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org “Here’s the difference: gallery art can’t go in the street, but street art can go in a gallery. Gallery art is taking on INFO: ACLU-NM, 505-266-5915 x1006, www.aclu-nm.org a pallor, while the art of the street is changing for the better.” — Dave Hickey, Art & Cultural Critic

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Become a valued member of 516 ARTS and help build the future for adventurous arts programs in New Mexico! Visit www.newmexico.org Clip and mail in with your contribution today! OUR MISSION YES! I would like to join 516 ARTS The mission of 516 ARTS is to forge connections between art and audiences, Bordo a f Directors Staff & Consultants Farina Pizzeria GRANT FUNDERS and our vision is to be an active partner in developing the cultural landscape of Arturo Sandoval, Chair Suzanne Sbarge, Executive Director The Flower Shop at Nob Hill Albuquerque and New Mexico. Our values are inquiry, diversity, collaboration Suzanne Sbarge, President/Founder Rhiannon Mercer, Assistant Director La Fonda del Bosque McCune Charitable Foundation The Restaurant of the NHCC Kathryn Kaminsky, Vice President Francesca Searer, Program Coordinator The FUNd at Albuquerque Community Foundation and accessibility. 516 ARTS offers programs that inspire curiosity, dialogue, risk- Guerrilla Graphix Joni Thompson, Treasurer/Secretary Barbara Geary, Education Coordinator City of Albuquerque taking and creative experimentation, showcasing established, emerging, local, Tandra Headrick Dr. Marta Weber, Fundraising Chair Claude Smith, Gallery Assistant City Council Historic District Improvement Co. national and international artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Programs David Vogel Janice Fowler, Bookkeeper Ken Sanchez, President, District 1 Becky Holtzman include exhibitions, gallery talks, panel discussions, music, poetry, theatre, public Kathy Garrett, Accountant Debbie O’Malley, District 2 Advisory Board Lisa Gill, Literary Arts Coordinator Bryan Konefsky art projects and more. Education programs include exhibition catalogs, exhibition Kwal Paint Isaac Benton, District 3 Frieda Arth Jane Kennedy, Development Associate tours for schools, curriculum packets for teachers and a variety of hands-on youth Student/Senior $25 KUNM Radio Brad Winter, District 4 Sherri Brueggemann Matthew Taylor, Web site design LA Louver Gallery Dan Lewis, District 5 arts activities. Individual $50 Please make checks payable to 516 ARTS Christopher Burmeister www.bulletproofstudios.com La Montanita Coop Rey Garduño, District 6 Andrew Connors Unsung, Distribution Family $75 or call 242-1445 to contribute by credit card John & Jamie Lewinger Michael D. Cook, District 7 Miguel Gandert Mariposa Gallery Trudy Jones, Vice-President, District 8 Friend $100 Idris Goodwin Special Thanks A SMALL ORGANIZATION WITH A BIG REACH 516 ARTS Don Mickey Designs Don Harris, District 9 Arif Khan Contributor $250 ABQ Trolley Co. La Montanita Food Coop Cultural Services Department 516 ARTS plays a unique role in New Mexico by bringing together diverse 516 Central Avenue SW Norty Kalishman Donor $500 ACLU-NM National Hispanic Cultural Center Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Albuquerque, NM 87102 John Lewinger organizations and artists around our common concerns. By working collaboratively Albuquerque Academy The Outpost Performance Space Bernalillo County Patron $1000+ Wendy Lewis Albuquerque Art Business Association with a grassroots approach, 516 ARTS organized the recent LAND/ART project, the Darby Photos New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Office of Cultural Danny Lopez albuquerqueARTS PNM, Mary Collins Affairs, & the National Endowment for the Arts largest arts collaboration in New Mexico history, serving residents and reaching Christopher Mead Join online and contribute via Paypal or process membership fees by check or credit Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau Adriana Ramírez de Arellano Elsa Menéndez American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 people around the globe. www.landartnm.org The Albuquerque Museum Screen Images, Inc. card. Please call us at 505-242-1445 or visit www.516arts.org/donate. 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Albuquerque’s Non-Profit, Member-Supported, Community-Based Performing Arts Center Please join us at some of our annual events: 2010-2011 OUTPOST SEASON HIGHLIGHTS September: New Mexico Black Expo Rosanno Sportiello • Rebecca Kilgore • Henry Threadgill’s Zooid • Ali Ryerson February: Call of All Drums Steven Feld • Ni Otoo Annan • Tarbaby w. Oliver Lake • Aaron Goldberg Tierney Sutton • Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio • Cecil Taylor & Amiri Baraka March: Black Student Leadership Conference Idris Goodwin • Tim Ericksen • Wild Earl • Benjamin Herman May: Meet the Buyers Working Classroom • John McLaughlin • Ravi Coltrane • Marco Benevento May: Annual OAAA Awards Banquet Kenny Werner w. Randy Brecker, David Sanchez, Scott Colley & Antonio Sanchez Dr. Harold Bailey, Executive Director Gerald Clayton • Christian McBride • Kurt Elling • Los Muñequitos de Matanzas Gary Burton & Chick Corea • 6th Anuual New Mexico Jazz Festival ALL ACTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE www.oaaa.state.nm.us • Unity & Purpose OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico

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