Everyone’s been asking, and here’s the happy answer: the HONK! Festival returns to Somerville for another Columbus Day weekend, this October 9-11th!
Similar to past festivals, we will feature a brass band convergence in Davis Square all day Saturday, and a parade down Mass Ave. on Sunday afternoon.
Mark your calendar, and tell everyone you know that there are some exciting changes to be anticipated this October:
We are also planning something new this year — a Friday afternoon honk in nearby neighborhoods, in collaboration with community groups from the culturally diverse areas of East Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain. And we’re delighted that this year’s Sunday night blowout concert will be held in Davis Square’s beautiful and renowned Somerville Theatre.
Interested in getting involved? Boston-area locals are invited to a Community Meeting on Thursday, May 28th, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM at the West Branch Library in Davis Square, 40 College Ave.
Disclosure: I am a member of the HONK! Festival organizing committee, and helped put on last year’s event. You can see our coverage of it here.
Anti-globalization activists Attac distributed 150,000 fake copies of Die Zeit, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper. Headlines present reports the group said it thinks can become reality within 13 months, from nationalized banks to agreement among global leaders.
The print version (shown below) was distributed in over 90 cities across Germany, and accompanied by a replica of the Die Zeit website, carrying the same headlines. The organization has made PDF copies available for download.
Die Zeit editor-in-chief Giovanni di Lorenzo has elected to treat the prank as a marketing opportunity:
Naturally, we can never endorse an imitation of Die Zeit in print or online, particularly not in quality as good as this, but it’s not surprising that Attac chose Die Zeit for this campaign, as it’s the largest national newspaper of quality.
Further official comments by the paper state that Die Zeit will not seek legal action against Attac.
John Jordan has a litany of descriptors: co-director of Platform, co-founder of Reclaim the Streets, founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA), author, lecturer, artist, radical, filmmaker, and so on. His work consistently and successfully merges imagination with social engagement, and with In the Footnotes of Library Angels: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imagination [PDF], he’s scripted a penultimate introduction to thinkers who combine their creative capacities with radical politics.
The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army for the 2008 Taipei Biennial. Photo credit.
Written for the Live Art Development Agency’s Study Room, a free, open access research facility by and for artists, students, curators, academics and other arts professionals interested in Live Art, the piece
addresses performance and activism, and the strategies that artists have engaged with to address radical cultural, social and political agendas over the last 20 years.
From Beuys to Provo, stopping off to visit Wendell Berry, Herbert Marcuse, and the Zapatistas on the way, Jordan crams a rich genealogy into fifteen short pages – a must read for anyone wishing to understand and engage contemporary activist art.
Thanks, Andi!
Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC) is a guerrilla art collective which undertakes controversial, often illicit, projects in public space both on- and off-line. The group’s aim is to raise questions about early 21st Century Capitalism and have some fun too.
Members Andy Cox and Amy Berk will present at next month’s Rising Tide Conference, a series of topically organized panels, seminars, and roundtable discussions about the intersections of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism.
The San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artists collective Futurefarmers presents The Reverse Ark: In the Wake at the Contemporary Museum, starting March 28.
Part art installation, part community project, part learning platform developed around the concept of an “ark” as a site for preserving, exploring, and learning, The Reverse Ark will stock an inventory of recycled materials for its own building.
. . .a living laboratory will emerge – a vessel for inquiry and improvisation including workshops, lectures, video screenings and frameworks for reflection. Together we will build The Reverse Ark.
Through a series of free-school inspired workshops, Futurefarmers will generate shared inquiry centered around such diverse topics as puppetry, and clothing.
Outside the museum, Futurefarmers teams up with the City From Below conference with Walk/Gambling/Play on Stoops, and for a conference presentation on Gardening the City.
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