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09/10 Season 09/10 SEASON :: 1 WElcOmE tO mONtAlvO’S 09-10 SEASON What is Montalvo? We are often asked this question. Simply put, Montalvo is an arts legacy in Silicon Valley. It is a beautiful historic Villa with multiple performance venues and miles of hiking trails, on 175 stunning acres of open space in the midst of an urban landscape. Left to the people of California by the state’s first elected senator, James Phelan, for the advancement of art, architecture and music, Montalvo today is a nonprofit, member-supported arts center. Our mission is to foster community engagement through the creation and presentation of multidisciplinary art, uniting the broadest possible audiences with a global community of artists. We do this through our diverse arts programs, including: :: Annual theme-based arts initiative :: music & Performance :: Education & Public Programs :: New media & visual Arts :: Sally & Don lucas Artists Residency Program :: Historic villa & Grounds This summer Montalvo launches an exciting concert series presented by livE NAtiON in its renowned Garden Theatre. We also have a variety of programs happening year-round: we present jazz, folk, rock and classical concerts, public programs, and theatre/dance performances in the Carriage House Theatre and Villa. Montalvo reaches out to approximately 20,000 students through our school programs. We invite more than 60 artists to be in residence at the Lucas Artists Residency Program and commission new work in the literary, performance and visual arts. And we preserve and maintain the historic Villa and its grounds. We are passionate about what we do and we hope to expand the role of arts and culture as an essential community resource. But we could not do all of this without your support. montalvo’s programs and its historic heritage are sustained by your commitment and generosity. thank you! This year, discover what about Montalvo resonates with you. Join us and explore the diverse events, programs and opportunities we offer. Visit Montalvo in its incredible physical surroundings and on the web at www.montalvoarts.org. Consider signing up or renewing your membership using the form enclosed in this brochure, or at www.montalvoarts.org/give. Look for the to see programs with exclusive member receptions. I invite you to become a part of Montalvo’s present and its future, and I thank you again for your support. charmaine Warmenhoven President, montalvo Board of trustees cONtENtS AGENCY: The Work of Artists :: 4 Music & Performance :: 8 Education & Public Programs :: 14 New Media & Visual Arts :: 18 Sally & Don Lucas Artists Residency Program :: 19 Historic Villa & Grounds :: 20 Board of Trustees & Donors :: 21 Membership :: 24 Venue & Ticket Information :: 23 15400 Montalvo Road :: Saratoga, CA 95070 www.montalvoarts.org cH Carriage HOuSE Fl FRONT Lawn Gt GARDEN Theatre Hv Historic VILLA PS Project Space v VERANDA mONtALVO’S 2009 ARtS iNitiAtivE Through their unique methods of expression, artists increase our Hirokazu Kosaka awareness so that we may see anew Ruin map (Picasso’s Guernica); refresh our ears so that we may hear clearly (Cage’s 4:33); and expand our understanding so we may think differently (Thoreau’s Essay on Civil Disobedience). I believe that artists’ insights, creative processes and completed artworks are especially useful during an era like the one we live in—a time of unprecedented social and economic reorganization; of rapid transformations within the environment, political, social and scientific systems; of noteworthy shifts in religious and cultural values. AGENCY: The Work of Artists is a focused, thematic series of newly commissioned and existing art projects that explore the subject of interdependence—life’s dynamic, reciprocal interplay—from a variety of approaches including family, immigration, the environment, faith, cultural memory and economic globalism. More than 60 artists were invited to participate in AGENCY because of their sensitive, compassionate investigations Jan Henle, still from into relationships among people, places and systems as well as their skillful production con El mismo Amor of valuable, engaging public art, film, sculpture, photography, literature, performance and architecture. AGENCY bears some relevance for the present epoch by strengthening the cultural environment of Silicon Valley while furthering Montalvo Arts Center’s artistic mission to support and expand the role of the arts, artists, and arts organizations as a resources and asset for our culture and community. — Julie lazar, Guest curator Hirokazu Kosaka 4 :: www.montalvoarts.org/agency On the Retina HiROKAzu KOSAKA JAN HENlE: HiROKAzu KOSAKA: KAlpa: timE cON El miSmO AmOR ON tHE REtiNA (WitH tHE SAmE LovE) :: may 8 – July 5 :: PS :: June 19, 8 pm :: cH A screening followed by a conversation Hirokazu Kosaka is a visual and between artist Jan Henle and poet In a riveting work of creative collaboration performance artist, Zen archer, Artistic Bill Berkson Kosaka performs with Butoh dancer/ Director of the Japanese American Cultural choreographer, Oguri, with contributions :: may 28, 7:30 pm :: cH Center in L.A. and an ordained Buddhist by master harmonica player, Tetsuya priest. In Kalpa: Time, Kosaka presents a Sculptor Jan Henle screens a film Vivian Nakamura. This performance features the group of woodblock prints adorned with Bittencourt and he directed about a living use of 200 spools of thread, 100 ladybugs poppy seeds referring to a story told by sculpture located on an abandoned coffee and shooting arrows. Buddha to explain kalpa, a Sanskrit word plantation in Puerto Rico. Con el Mismo $20; mEmBERS & StuDENtS $18 meaning eon. In Buddha’s account, a 16 Amor features the artist and local mountain square-mile cube is formed at the beginning men working the land with handmade unless noted, AGENcY events are of kalpa. A single poppy seed is placed in the tools. Following the screening Henle is in free. Dates subject to change. cube each century, yet kalpa ends before conversation with poet Bill Berkson. For most up-to-date information visit the cube is filled. By adding poppy seeds $10 SuGGEStED DONAtiON www.montalvoarts.org/agency to these prints, Kosaka draws a parallel between kalpa and the passage of time in our lives. AGENCY: The Work of Artists was inaugurated by Adam Silverman and Nader HiROKAzu KOSAKA: Tehrani with a showing of Boolean Valley in November 2008 at the San Jose RuiN mAP Museum of Art before it was shown in 2009 at Montalvo Art Center’s Project :: Beginning may 22 Space. Since then, the following artists’ films, performances, exhibitions and Public locations tBD public conversations have been presented at Montalvo: Julia Meltzer and As part of Ruin Map, Kosaka invites elders from local communities to draw David Thorne; Saba Mahmood; Chhandam Youth Company; Peter Sellars from memory the site of their childhood. He and films he commissioned for Vienna’s 2006 New Crowned Hope Festival by transforms the sketches into traditional directors Garin Nugroho, Bahman Ghobadi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, woodblock prints on handmade papers that are assembled in flip books and exhibited Tsai Ming-Liang, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Paz Encina, and Teboho Mahlatsi; in the participants’ communities creating a Remy Charlip; AXIS Dance Company; and Zaccho Dance Theatre. continuum between experience in time, past and present. www.montalvoarts.org/agency :: 5 cONNiE SAmARAS: miERlE lADERmAN uKElES: LouiS HOcK: Selections from After the O OAK OH!, A Day of Gathering/ the mexican tapes: A chronicle of life American century Public learn-in Outside the law (1986), the American tapes (2009) and FERAl (2004) :: July 10 – Sept 6 :: PS :: July 21, 3 pm :: Fl, v Samaras presents selections from her Mierle Laderman ukeles is a sculptor, public :: Sept 11 – Nov 1 :: PS, Hv recent work Angelic States—Event and performance artist, Percent-for-Art Louis Hock is a video- and filmmaker, visual Sequence and V.A.L.I.S. (Vast Active Living Artist of Fresh Kills Park, and senior critic in artist, and professor at uC San Diego. His project Intelligence System). She also premieres sculpture at Yale university. Commissioned addresses the cultural clashes and exchanges After the American Century, which combines for Montalvo, O OAK OH! focuses on the occurring on both sides of the u.S.-Mexico border. photography and a video installation shot in health of Montalvo’s land and the sudden His award-winning documentary series, The Dubai. This project unpacks the changing death of some of its ancient oaks. A Day of Mexican Tapes, is complemented by premiere narratives of global hyper-capitalism, trans- Gathering/Public Learn-In brings together screenings of The American Tapes in which Hock nationalism and the future imaginary. scholars, spiritual leaders and experts to revisits the stories of three families he recorded share their knowledge of these majestic 25 years earlier. FERAL, a video and sound cONNiE SAmARAS: oaks, the perils of Sudden Oak Death installation, depicts the border patrol’s random Re-Drawing maps of interdependence: and solutions that are underway. ukeles’ selection process. Science Fiction and Rethinking Agency evolving project concludes in October 2009 with a video projection, a second public $10 SuGGEStED DONAtiON :: July 12, 2 pm :: cH conversation and performance. Connie Samaras, Kavita Philip, (Associate DiScOvering the RAmayana Professor, uC Irvine) and Ward Smith tHROuGH KAtHAK Chitresh Das DancE (Librarian, Southern California Library) :: August 30, 1 pm :: cH present two film screenings and cOmpany WitH conversations that examine speculative Pandit Chitresh Das: Explore the interdependence of music, dance and theater in Kathak as an artistic and cultural fiction cinema and literature in relation to :: Aug 30, 7:30 pm :: Hv science, economy, character construction, expression through demonstration, performance and the ability to imagine the future as a Pandit Chitresh Das is a leading master of and discussion. In ancient times the Ramayana series of possibilities. the Kathak tradition—a renowned classical conveyed the “right” way to live and to be—enjoy dance of North India.
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