516 ARTS & The Alvarado Urban Farm present unCOMMON GROUND exhibitions and programs exploring self-sufficiency, community and visions of utopia SUMMER 2011 exhibitions: AcRoss The GReat DiviDe • WoRlds outsiDe ThiS one JUNE 4 – AUGUST 27 opening reception: Saturday, June 4, 6–8pm • 516 ARTS, Downtown Albuquerque 516 ARTS www.516arts.org Nonprofit Org 516 Central Avenue SW PROGRAM PARTNERS: U.S. POSTAGE Albuquerque, NM 87102 P A I D 516 ARTS FUSION Theatre Company t. 505-242-1445 Albuquerque, NM open Tue – Sat, 12-5pm Permit No. Alvarado Urban Farm The Guild Cinema 749 Basement Films Harwood Art Center The Box Performance Space Littleglobe Center for Contemporary Art Re-Source Downtown Action Team ABOVE: Roberta Price, Making Adobes, Reality Construction Company, on mesa near Arroyo Hondo, NM, June 1969; LEFT: N55, Spaceframe Vehicle; RIGHT: Jay Nelson, The Golden Gate 1, photo by Jack Halloway EVENTS more info: www.516ARts.ORG PANEL DISCUSSION SAT, JUNE 4, 2pm 516 ARTS presents THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNTERCULTURE: The Role of Women & the Place of Architecture Join artists, curators and guest scholars for a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibitions opening the same evening at 516 ARTS (6-8pm). Panelists will discuss the eclectic architectural styles developed by commune members of the 1960s and 70s, and the often-misunderstood status of women in these rural communes. Some of the panelists will share personal experiences of the communal lifestyle of that era at Libre and Red Rockers, communities in the Huerfano Valley of Southern Colorado, where they lived close to the earth to fulfill basic human needs, raise families, educate children and design and build their own homes. Panelists: Roberta Price, Mary Corey, Linda Fleming, Arnold Valdez and Erin Elder, moderated by Mary Anne Redding. FREE locATion: 516 ARTS, 516 central SW, Downtown ABQ, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org Roberta Price, Setting Up for Party Celebrating Completion of Dome Structure, Red Rocker Commune, Huerfano Valley, Colorado, 1970 SANTA FE TALK SAT, JUNE 25, 2pm 516 ARTS & CCA present COLLABORATION & COLLECTIVITY: A Conversation with Meow Wolf Join 516 ARTS guest curator Erin Elder and CCA director/curator Craig Anderson for a conversation with the Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf. More than 50 people have worked together to produce The Due Return, their latest and largest installation in the 6,000 square foot Munoz Waxman Gallery at ccA in Santa Fe, on view May 13 - July 10, 2011. FREE LOCATION: Center for Contemporary Art, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 505-982-1338, www.ccasantafe.org Meow Wolf, The Due Return, 2011, installation in progress at CCA OUTDOOR PANEL DISCUSSION WeD, JULY 13, 7pm The Alvarado Urban Farm & 516 ARTS present SEEDS FOR CHANGE Activism and art come together for an outdoor panel discussion at the farm with guest panelists Helen Fox, Arturo Sandoval and David Ondrik reflecting on their experiences with how farming has positively impacted people by reconnecting them with origins and growth. They will discuss the importance of farms in our communities as sustenance for our bodies, minds and souls. FREE LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ, www.alvaradourbanfarm.com INFO: 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org location in case of rain: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ David Ondrik, October Hoophouse, 2010, archival pigment ink print OUTDOOR YOUTH PERFORMANCE STAGED READING WeD, JUNE 29, 7pm FRI & SAT, JULY 8 & 9 FUSION Theatre Company presents The Box Performance Space presents THE LOST ENDING SEEDFOLKS The Lost Ending, an outdoor theatre performance for children of all-ages, is Paul Fleishman’s book Seedfolks features 13 very different voices — old, young, interactive by design, leading the young audience to experience the power of Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful — telling one amazing story about community action. A troupe of Players presents a “story hour,” but when the a garden that transforms a neighborhood. It describes the founding and first year book is lost, the children and Players must collaborate to create a new ending. of a community garden in an immigrant area of Cleveland. This staged reading The unfinished story offers a metaphor for our relationship to the land on brings alive this “hymn to the sense of community.” FREE which we live; how the story ends depends on people working together. FREE TIMES: Friday, 7pm & Saturday, 3pm & 7pm LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ locATion: The Box Performance Space, 114 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ inFo: FuSion Theatre company, 505-766-9412, www.FuSionabq.org 505-404-1578, www.theboxabq.com location in case of rain: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ PERFORMANCE / WORKSHOP OUTDOOR POETRY READING SAT, JULY 23, 2pm THU, AUGUST 11, 7pm Littleglobe presents The Harwood Art Center presents COAL: A MUSICAL HOW-TO... Join Littleglobe for a musical storytelling and interactive workshop for all ages Celebrate The Harwood Art Center’s newest poetry anthology titled How-To: with Molly Sturges. The story is a fable about an ordinary boy who goes on Multiple Perspectives on Creating a Garden, a Life, Relationships and Community. an extraordinary journey after meeting Coal, a firerock that contains both Using the metaphor of a garden for community, How-to... offers poets’ creation and destruction within her. It is followed by a participatory workshop reflections on life, relationships and the development of community, from start that adds audience voices to this work-in-progress as part of a collective to sustainability. Gather with select contributors, including Margaret Randall and dialogue. FREE Tony Mares, amidst the buzzing life of Downtown Albuquerque’s new Alvarado locATion: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ Urban Farm. FREE INFO: Littleglobe, 505-660-9473, www.littleglobe.org LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ INFO: 505-242-6367, www.harwoodartcenter.org location in case of rain: 516 ARTS, 516 central SW, Downtown ABQ 516 ARTS • EXHIBITIONS June 4 – august 27 Justin Bagley Amy Balkin Michelle Blade Building a Nation Siraj Izhar Jed Lind Elysa Lozano for Autonomous Organization Mary Mattingly Travis Meinolf Meow Wolf Jay Nelson N55 Mia Nussbaum David Ondrik Stephanie Smith Swimming Cities Roberta Price, Setting Up for Party Celebrating Completion of Dome Structure, Red Rocker Commune, Huerfano Valley, Colorado, 1970 David Wilson Meow Wolf, The Due Return, 2011, installation in progress at CCA OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, JUNE 4, 6–8PM Music with Michael Gallagher & Jerry Page 516 ARTS presents concurrent, related exhibitions, both of which are meditations on creating shelter, seeking space and exploring unlimited possibilities. WORLDS OUTSIDE THIS ONE ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE Curated by Erin Elder Photographs by Roberta Price Worlds Outside This One features a group of emerging international artists and Across the Great Divide is a solo exhibition of Roberta Price’s photographic memoir of innovators responding to the legacy of homesteading, squatting, hermitage and the back-to-the-land movement in the late 1960s and 70s, which serves as a point of fort building. It addresses the urge for momentary acts of self-determination, departure for examining the place of autonomy and community. The exhibition is in showcasing hand-hewn spaces in the gallery and interactive experiences, as well as conjunction with the release of her book Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle blueprints, shelters, journals and maps. This exhibition illuminates the productive of the Counterculture (UNM Press, 2010). It features a photographic archive of hippies, tension between Do-It-Yourself autonomy and shared notions of Utopia. Many communes, architecture, countercultural luminaries and events in the Southwest in the of the featured artists are also architects, philosophers, entrepreneurs, urban late 1960s and 70s. Her photographs capture the hope, optimism and utopian promise planners, economists and community builders. that fueled that period. The exhibition is curated by Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography, New Mexico History Museum, and is part of a national exhibition tour Above: Swimming Cities, Rafts Adriatic, 2009, c-print, courtesy Tod Seelie organized by 516 ARTS in partnership with The Museum at Bethel Woods, nY. FILM SERIES July 30 – August 4 SUN, JULY 31, 9pm MON - THU, AUGUST 1–4, 4:15 & 8:15pm MON - THU, AUGUST 1–4, 6pm Basement Films, 516 ARTS & DAT present The Guild Cinema & 516 ARTS present The Guild Cinema & 516 ARTS present RANDOM LUNACY COMMUNE TOGETHER This special outdoor screening follows THE FLYING Featuring narration by Peter Coyote and music by This exemplary, lively and provocative Swedish comedy NEUTRINOS, a family band of self-taught Dixieland prolific avant musician Elliot Sharp, Commune is a is set in a hippie commune in the mid 1970s Sweden, musicians led by the radically itinerant Poppa Neutrino feature documentary that explores an audacious where the hippie ethic was an article of faith. The on a quest for pure freedom. They were homeless by premise: that being together in the wilderness will action takes place almost entirely within the rambling choice, and documented their lives with an old HI-8 help create revolutionary movement in the rest of and ramshackle suburban house named Tillsammans, camera, capturing adventures that range from a stint society. which means “together” in Swedish. in a Mexican circus to pitting a scrap raft against the TICKETS: $5 students/seniors,