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EVENTS

Vigil for Peaceful Tomorrows In honor of Martin Luther King's notion of pursuing "peaceful ends through peaceful means," families of September 11 victims founded Peaceful Tomorrows, which seeks nonviolent responses to terrorism. The group's nightlong event—which begins on Tuesday 10 and continues into Wednesday 11—features speakers and performers from 6:30pm?10pm, including Michael Ratner from the Center for Constitutional Rights, Debbie Almontaser from the Muslim American Society, and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman. An overnight candlelight vigil follows from 10pm?7am. Washington Square Park, Fifth Ave at Waverly Pl (www.peacefultomorrows.org)

Afternoon of Reflection On a day when all are sure to have serious thoughts, the 92nd Street Y opens its concert hall for contemplation, along with readings from contributors to 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11th, an anthology of tales, poems and essays by acclaimed NYC writers including John Guare, Art Spiegelman and Susan Wheeler. Proceeds from the book's sales benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts. 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave at 92nd St (212-415-5500).

VISUAL ART

Group Exhibitions:

Pop Patriotism at Momenta Art Sept. 7- Oct 7 Offering artifacts of popular culture placed alongside the work of artists skeptical of America's renewed devotion to its flag, the exhibition POP Patriotism addresses the implications of this recent trend. The explosion of patriotic fervor that first swept across the country last fall and winter, seemingly justified by the trauma caused by what occurred in September, has a less than wholesome side that appears to have little to do with a simple pride in one's nationality. Focusing on the mass marketing of national sentiment and nostalgia engaged in by the media, fashion and entertainment industries, the artwork included in POP Patriotism reflects a skepticism towards the propagandistic and commercial opportunism that has been so prevalent in the past several months. Curated by Peter Scot. Momenta Art is at 72 Berry street, Brooklyn, 11211 NY.

Opening on September 4 and running through October 10 at the Urban Center Galleries of the Municipal Art Society, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council presents MICROVIEWS Artists' Documents of The World Trade Center, a hands-on exhibition which presents the building's architecture and environs as documented by the artists during their residencies. "Viewers are invited to sift through this archive of daily life at the World Trade Center, including photographs, drawings and video of public areas, office suites, hallways, studios, and infrastructure. Microviews explores the processes of reconstruction and memory through everyday documents," the exhibition states.

At Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, THE UNITY CANVAS is an "artist-to-artist, New York-based, collective response to the tragedy of 9/11 and the times we live in. Artists submitted 12-inch squares of unstretched canvas, in any medium - paint, digital, embroidery, etc., word about the project spread on the Internet and through word of mouth," the project states. About 300 pieces have been received so far from every region of the US as well as all over the world, including Brazil, Canada, England, France, Japan, Malaysia and Spain.

Exit Art has announced that the exhibition, REACTIONS, will become part of the permanent collection of The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The donation will be known as the Exit Art Reactions Collection. Selections from Reactions will be shown in The Library of Congress' upcoming Great Hall exhibition, Witness and Response: September 11th Acquisitions at The Library of Congress. The exhibition, which includes a selection of material collected from across the country since last September, will be on view September 7th - October 26th in Washington, D.C. The Library, as an official repository of American history, felt a responsibility to preserve and share this important material.

"Face of Courage: Portraits in Remembrance of the Fallen Heroes of the FDNY and the NYPD" at Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College Foundation, Inc. Bel Air, MD from 2002-08-29 until 2002-10-17. The exhibition presents works by several portrait artists who capture the likeness of heroes of the September 11th from the FDNY and the NYPD. The Face of Courage is an ongoing project whose intentions are to provide families of fallen uniformed rescue workers with portraits of their loved ones and, and organize these paintings in a traveling commemorative exhibition. Donations are needed to help defer such expenses as transportation. Please call 410-836-4428 for further information on how your tax deductible donation can help support.

Information Technology, War, and Peace project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies is organising an exhibition and colloquium for this September, entitled "911+1." There will be a series of events that include work in the field of new media (video, instillation, and net art) that respond to September 11.

The Santa Fe Art Institute Opens 9/11 Refuge with the work of New York Artists of the Emergency Residency Program Wednesday, September 11th, 2002. The exhibition is coordinated by SFAI director Diane Karp, and will run through October 15th. The Santa Fe Art Institute was the only program to offer shelter to working artists after the attacks, and hosted over a hundred artists in their September 11th Emergency Residency Program. Artists who had been at work in studios close to the tower's collapse were invited to continue their interrupted projects or begin new ones in the peaceful climate of New Mexico. For more information, please call 505-424-5050 or visit www.sfai.org. Opening Reception, Wednesday September 11th 5pm ?7pm The Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St Michael's Drive Santa Fe, NM 87505 Tel: (505) 424-5050 Fax: (505) 424-5051

Arts Administrators and Board Members from all over New York State will converge on The Marriott Financial Center Hotel in New York City, October 17, 18 and 19, 2002 for the annual conference entitled Rebuilding and Recovery: The Arts at Ground Zero". The focus of this conference will be Marketing, Fundraising, and Rebuilding and Recovery which will include policy discussions of the role of and future of the Arts community in New York State. Highlights include: Meet The Funders; Individual Gifts and Planned Giving; Developing an Effective Web Presence; The Arts & Economic Development; Pensions & Benefits; Crisis Management; The Arts in the Redevelopment of NYC and a performance by the Flea Theatre. The conference will open on Thursday, October 17 at 5 PM with the screening of "WE ARE FAMILY" at the Museum of the American Indian. "WE ARE FAMILY" captures the gathering of more than 200 music, film, television and sports personalities along with police officers, emergency room doctors, and those most affected by the tragedy, as they assembled to re-record the classic hit song "WE ARE FAMILY", as a musical call for tolerance and global understanding. For further information contact Pat Berman at the Alliance Offices: (631) 298-1234 or pkbarts@aol.com

Ground Zero at Detroit Museum of New Art: organized by artists Frank Shifreen, Daniel Scheffer, and Julius Vitali, Ground Zero, an exhibition of post 9/11 art, features the work of over 50 artists. Artists from all over the country have created works in many styles, in varied media and with many reactions to the world since last September and to the drama of cultural clash.

"Celebrate America's Freedoms: A Day of Remembrance": Different programs of commemorating September 11 are being documented by the American Association of Museums (AAM) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, (IMLS) in "Celebrate America's Freedoms: A Day of Remembrance." The initiative will highlight the role of museums in collecting and hosting the images and words which portray contemporary histories as well as the role of museums as special places where communities can reaffirm and discuss the freedom to assemble, the freedom to create, the freedom to worship, the freedom to inquire, the freedom to express ideas, and freedom from fear.

Imagine New York: "Imagine New York: An Exhibition of Ideas", on view from Wednesday, July 17 through October 10 at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue at East 51st Street in New York City. The exhibit includes a collection of ideas and images regarding the future of the World Trade Center site, Lower Manhattan and the region, chosen from among more than 18,000 ideas gathered through Imagine New York. Free and open to the public.

Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering: New York is unique. Yet like other cities that have been struck by disaster, it will come back. Van Alen Institute has curated "Renewing, Rebuilding, Remembering" to demonstrate how cities, after incomparable loss of people and places, find ways to plan, design, and reconstruct the life of the city. The Institute put out a call for ideas for the exhibit. Students, designers, planners, artists, professors, photographers, public officials & a wide range of respondents from around the world were generous in suggesting places, projects, issues, & designs that were telling for the future of New York. From this response and ongoing research, the Institute chose to focus on specific processes and projects in seven cities: Beirut, San Francisco, Kobe, Manchester, Berlin, Sarajevo & Oklahoma City.

Ground Zero: A 300-piece exhibit of paintings, photographs, digitally altered images & sculptures about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is on view at the Museum of New Art in Detroit. Organized by NY artists Danny Scheffer, Frank Shifreen and Julius Vitali, "Ground Zero," features works by 60 artists. The exhibit is intended to reflect the range of attitudes about Sept. 11, from patriotism & ruminations on the imagery of that day to anti-American perspectives and appeals for peace. The curators say they want to broaden the public discussion about terrorism, national security, news coverage, patriotism & freedom of expression in times of war. 13 Jul - 24 Aug, 2002.

World Views program: What was once an indoor mall at the World Financial Center will become artist studios under a program designed to draw tenants & visitors back to the battered complex. Nine artists will exhibit works ranging from a computer-rendered history of downtown development to handcrafted artificial trees. Before Sept. 11, the program administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council had artists working on a donated vacant floor of the WTC. The artists are all expected to respond in some way to their immediate surroundings & the devastation of the WTC attack. Artists' Residency Open House: July 21, 2002, 12-5pm. Brown Bag Open Studios: July 22 & 29, 2002, 11am-2pm Exhibition: Oct 30, 2002 ? Jan 17, 2003 (All events held at the WFC Courtyard Gallery, Vesey Street, NYC).

New Views: DUMBO: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has chosen artists to participate in a residency project to explore Lower Manhattan from studio vantage points in Brooklyn. Artists will investigate and respond to the Manhattan skyline and the city, a subject so dramatically altered by the attacks on the WTC and the events of Sept. 11. An exhibition of works created in residence will be open to the public for 3 consecutive weekends from Sept. 28 - Oct. 13, 2002.

SHOW: The Flag: a collaborative exhibition at the Armory Northwest Gallery in Pasaden, CA (May 12-June 16, 2002) focusing on the portrayal and display of the American flag. Included are historical works from the 1960s, as well as artworks inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks & their aftermath. The flag can embrace the ideals on which this country was founded, court controversy and dissent, or achieve both simultaneously. A public dialogue hosted by Carol Wells, Exec. Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, with Carol Sobel, First Amendment specialist for the ACLU, will be held on June 15, from 2 - 4 PM.

Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art: From Mar 17 - Jun 30, 2002, The Jewish Museum this contemporary art exhibition accompanied by extensive education programs, forums for discussion, and a major publication. At the core of this initiative was a selection of recent works by thirteen internationally recognized artists, all of whom make new and daring use of imagery taken from the Nazi era. Employing the challenging language of conceptual art, the artists bring the highly charged imagery of the Third Reich out of the past and into the present, leading us to question how images shape our perception of evil today.

After Before: Artistic Encounters Following September 11: A group exhibition featuring "Portrait Conversations" with Ghassan Abulaban. This collaboration includes artists, educators, therapists, community workers, and professors and students from Boston College, Boston University and Lesley University. Attleboro Museum, Center for the Arts. May 5 - June 1, 2002.

Reaction: A multimedia art exhibition/performance festival to benefit NYC art & artists. "Reaction" will explore the ripple effects of September 11 on the work of a wide range of NY artists. Each artist will show samples of pre-9/11; the bulk of the work on exhibit will be pieces created after 9/11. 50% of sales go directly to the artists, the other 50% to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. May 3-May 10, 2002, at DNA Studio Gallery, 2174 3rd Ave, btwn 118th & 199th Sts.

10048 INBOX vol.V is an artist-initiated project to benefit the Michael Richard's Fund. INBOX vol.V is a limited edition of prints, multiples, and works on paper that respond, comment, reflect and analyze the experience of living in NYC post 9/11. Opening reception for 10048 INBOX vol.V, April 27, 2002, at UCU Gallery - 507 West 24th St, NYC - from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. INBOX vol.V will stay on view at UCU through May 18, 2002, and is available for purchase.

Street Weapons: Technologies of Youth Culture, Social Activism & Direct Action: An exhibition, planned for Feb. 2002, of creative devices and tactics used by activist groups to nonviolently resist the bodily harm that gathering in public places often engenders. The exhibition will be preceded by a series of workshops with organizations focused on direct action on and around the Yale campus. Workshops will be led by Jordi Claramonte of Fiambrera Obrera-Las Agencias; Kate Rich, specialist at the Bureau of Inverse Technology on Overcasting; Electronic Disturbance Theater; Natalie Jeremijenko on 'engineering change'; and others. Contact Natalie Jeremijenko at Yale University, (203) 432 4326.

Exit Art, a cultural space near the World Trade Center, is organizing a project called REACTIONS that aims to be an international response to September 11 from both inside and outside the art world. REACTIONS opened with over 1,000 works on Saturday, January 26, 2002 at Exit Art, 548 Broadway, 2nd floor, NYC.

Conference: A group exhibition at Walter Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba looking at the world since 9-11. Includes a new installation by Dread Scott looking at how the US war is affecting the people of Afghanistan. December 12, 2001- February 9, 2002. 219 E 2nd St (at Ave B), NYC. Opening Sunday, December 16, 2001 3-6PM. For more info, call the gallery at 212-674-3939.

EmergeNcy, an impromptu arts collective, presented an exhibition and benefit sale on December 8 and 9, 2001, of art work made in response to the events of September 11. Crane Street Studios, Long Island City, NY. You can view the works online.

Response: George Mason University brought together from November 27-December 21, 2001, in its Fine Arts Gallery and Johnson Center Gallery, student work responding to the events of September 11. The students are from four universities in the Washington, DC area: George Mason University, Corcoran College, University of Maryland and Virginia Commonwealth University.

The Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY, gave visual artists, writers, musicians, and performers the opportunity to respond to recent tragic events. While the show is over, their website presents a selection of these images. (November 2001). The exhibition then moved to The Bronx River Art Center and Gallery (BRAC).>

Secret Wars: Houston's Art Car Museum showed an exhibition entitled "Secret Wars." America's "new war" against terrorism will be fought with unprecedented secrecy, including heavy press restrictions not seen for years, the Pentagon has said. "Secret Wars" investigates artistic dissent to covert operations and government secrets. The artists have retrieved evidences, personal and public, that call into question the good intentions of classified information and COINTELPRO tactics. September 21, 2001-February 24, 2002.

Photography:

DUST TO DNA: Kevin Clarke and Mikey Flowers 9/11 The images that Emergency Medical Technician Flowers took became the basis for a collaboration with the artist Kevin Clarke, whose studio was also near the WTC. Dust to DNA: Kevin Clarke and Mikey Flowers 9/11, the result of their endeavor, is on view at the International Center of Photography from June 28 through September 1, 2002. It is the third exhibition in the series "Imaging the Future: The Intersection of Science, Technology, and Photography," and is curated by Carol Squiers. For this collaboration, Clarke used Flowers' images of 9/11 and its aftermath for portraits of people who survived the attacks or who were involved in the rescue effort. A view of smoke billowing from the ruins behind a group of firefighters is overlaid with the DNA sequences of the survivors.

Annu Matthew will explore post-Sept. 11 backlash against South Asians in a digital photographic study The Backclash of September 11. In Kingston, R.I. at the University of Rhode Island's Fine Arts Center Galleries.

Memorial in Boston: Russ Peres, Marine Corps veteran from Gloucester has build a Sept. 11 memorial designed to rebuild the faith of his countrymen. Peres, helped by other homeless veterans, set up a wall of Sept. 11-related photographs on City Hall Plaza. He shot most of the photographs during several visits to New York City, the first one just a week after the tragedy. But the theme of the wall is strangely optimistic: Though there are a few pictures documenting the destruction at Ground Zero, many more show the posters and flowers and flags from around the country that sprouted all over New York in the days that followed.

Social Documentary Photography - A Group Show by the NYC Indy Media Photo Collective: Throughout history, Social Documentarian photographers have rarely had a secure home. They have been beaten, jailed, black-listed and even that people would sometimes rather not see. This show at the Brecht Forum exhibits work which reflects the raw passion of independent media makers and documentarians. Exhibit opening on July 2.

The Chicago Arab American Arts Council and the American Friends Service Committee sponsored a photo exhibition at the Thompson Center of the Palestinian experience between 1948 and 1998. In one photo, a body is carried through the streets of Bethlehem. Another shows a Palestinian youth lying in the street, shot by the Israeli army, as other Palestinians throw rocks. The photos were removed on June 3 because of concerns that it was too controversial, but were reinstalled just the following day. The exhibition was on display until June 7.

The International Center of Photography in New York has a small exhibition of recent photos from Afghanistan, picturing many of the dead civilians—pictures the US press has not seen fit to publish.

6 Months, A Memorial at the Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, presents photographically-based works made in response to, but not necessarily documents of, Sept. 11 memorials. The work ranges from color photographs of spontaneous memorials and vigils to "A Moment of Silence," a one-minute video showing a close-up of a candle filmed during the nation-wide vigil (9/21/01), to "Flaggingspirits," a collective web-based project by photographers from all over the U.S. concerning the use and display of the American flag, to a recycled wedding dress adorned with newspaper images of Afghan people. March 11-April 28, 2002.

Aftermath: Photography in the Wake of September 11: an ongoing series sponsored by the International Center of Photography in NYC of exhibitions, films, lectures, discussions, & publications that attempt to frame and understand the impact of the terrorist attacks on America through photographs. The Aftermath project means to broaden the dialogue around photography, to move beyond our collective fascination with the pictures many of us have committed to memory and to consider how they intersect with wider political and aesthetic issues. January 11-March 17, 2002

Painting:

Jos Sances recent work, including "Roll On, or Neil Young's an A—" and "Holiday Home," raised a big fuss when it opened at the Fetterly Gallery in Vallejo, CA. Images include a tank rolling over a bridge, while snipers skulk underneath the ivy as a gunboat approaches. Open the picture-within-a-picture windows and see these politically charged messages: a '50s family blaming war on "silly scriptures," a nude woman spread-eagle in front of a Confederate flag with a cross covering her genitals, and a doctored Wal-Mart receipt with the printout "Where's Osama Toilet Seat $14.97" and "B-1 Bomber $1,000,500,321.87."

Krystal Higgins: Recently, in an exhibition at my school, a piece that I created in response to 9-11 was set to be put on display. Unfortunately, the illustration advisors felt that my piece was too "controversial" (while my classmates had produced nostalgic pieces, I chose to illustrate how the government was invading our personal entertainment choices in order to exclude anything 'controversial' or violent), and refused to hang it among the others. I am now a junior at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

Patti Smith: Smith's World Trade Center drawings — a series of silkscreens that document the view from her window of a shard of the North tower — will appear in a retrospective of her art work at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 2003. As reported in The New Yorker (March 11, 2002): "Dense calligraphic lines of poems and phrases wind along the silk-screened ribs of the wrecked tower."

Anne Dushanko-Dobek's series called "Wounds" was on display in the gallery at Johnson & Johnson headquarters in NJ when 9/11 happened. Now, she's extended her themes of damage, fissures, injury and unpredictabiliy to a new acrylic series that incorporates the flag, using bleeding stripes as a visual metaphor for those who died. View Dushanko-Dobek's Crying Tower here.

Imagine: Nancy Spero's "Imagine," in which haunting images of women covered in burqas seem to float within the landscape, was featured on the postcard for the IMAGINE: IRAQ plays. Now, you can see the image, along with Spero's other works at Galerie Lelong, 528 W. 26th St., NYC, 212-315-0470. Feb 7 - Mar 16, 2002.

The BlueOrange Works is a group of ongoing projects made by artist Madeleine Hatz & in collaboration with others. They started on Sept. 17, 2001 with an alternative flagproject (flag for humankind) at 450 Broadway Gallery (NYC), as part of "Fusion". Presently, there is a web site, film projects in progress, and BlueOrange Events in Hatz's studio, as well as "migrating works". So why those colors? Blue and Orange are complementary colors.That means they are direct opposites, mutually exclusive, yet forming a whole. As one phrase, BlueOrange becomes a paradox: the joining together of the apparently incompatible.

Sculpture & Installations:

David Cohen, the owner of Chelsea Jeans, a clothing store on Broadway near Fulton Street, a block from where the World Trade Center sealed more than $1,000 worth of Ralph Lauren sweaters and shirts and Levi jeans, covered with the pulverized remains of the twin towers, behind glass, creating a 50-square-foot, ready-made diorama of ground zero. According to Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times art critic, "His efforts resulted is the city's most artful shrine to Sept. 11." Meanwhile Mr. Cohen's store is to disappear by mid-September. He has taped a note to the window, below the "For Rent" sign and above the "Everything Must Go" notice. It says: "After the events of Sep. 11th 2001, which totally destroyed our store, we invested a lot of time and money in order to open our doors once again. We hoped that things would get better . . . but they didn't . . . and soon we will have to close our doors permanently. We are very sorry, we gave it our best shot, but now we will have to say goodbye. About our memorial for Sep. 11th? We don't know what to do with it but if you have any suggestions, I would love to hear from you."

Missing by Barbara Siegel: through October 19, 2002, in New York City, Lehman College Art Gallery is presenting Missing: an installation by Barbara Siegel, based on the posters of missing people and honoring the lost lives.

"MoreAliveThanOthers": Israeli-American sculptor Nitza Danieli Horner was provoked to do this work by the assassination of Daniel Pearl and inspired by his wife's writing: "They did not take his spirit."

Gut Reflections. Israel. Palestine. 2002: Adi Yekutieli follows a familiar theme of his past work dealing with perception of history, colonialism, personal and collective memory, issues of identity, and the impact of occupation and oppression on the Arab?Jewish relationship. The installation is configured from 3 elements: 2 pieces of molded parts of the artist's body filled with raw cow guts; a series of 29 images consisting of some of the artist's art work done in the last 20 years (some of the art work he did with Arab communities in the last 6 years in Israel and Palestine, and some photos representing local reality). The last component presents fragments from an email exchange between Yekutieli and a Palestinian woman he met in Balata Refugee Camp. The correspondence starts in September 2000, a month before the outbreak of the Palestinian 2nd Intifada and ends in Spring 2001 with the death of Yekutieli's brother. April 6-18, 2002 at Adams House Art Space, Cambridge, MA.

INFLIGHT LOUNGE: "How Do We Know the Sky Isn't Green and We're Just Colorblind?" Belgian video artist Grimonprez created an environment reminiscent of an airport lounge, complete with television monitors, coffee tables, extra-wide seating, and his version of INFLIGHT magazine. Including more than fifty videos of disaster movies, documentaries, and art films, the video library also featured dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997 —Grimonprez's sensational and critically acclaimed study of sky-jacking. April 20?June 9, 2002 at Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Installation by Aileen Bassis: The Aftermath (9/11): NJ artist/photographer Aileen Bassis has created an installation that reflects her emotions and those of people in the metropolitan NYC community. The walls of the gallery are covered with photocopy transfer prints of faces of friends & neighbors. Faces are repeated and fragmented, in different sizes and in mirror images. The words: HURT, ANGRY, GUILTY, SCARED, LOST are formed by knotted and glued black thread, and are also penciled on the images. June 28-July 20, 2002 at Ceres Project Room, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 W. 39 St. NYC. Contact Aileen Bassis at aileenbassis@hotmail.com.

A Chair is a Throne is a Freedom Fighter's Camp Stool: Jerri Allyn's traveling installation will be exhibited in New York Public Library Reading Rooms in all 5 boroughs (one month each) from April-August, 2002. The installation is made up of 21 artist designed chairs and stools that act as portraits of people who have resolved conflicts creatively and rendered thought provoking alternatives to punishment. CD disc-man's are in the design of every seat for the public to listen to stories, written and narrated by Allyn, with soundscapes by award-winning Radio Producer Helene Rosenbluth. For more information, updated listings on events, and to book group tours, please visit: www.interactionarts.org

After the 11th: New York artist Norm Magnusson has created a booklet entitled "After the 11th" that explores the various emotional and intellectual states (Xenophobia, Loss of Innocence, Patriotism, etc.) that he has experienced since September 11. He is in the process of planning an exhibition based on the work in the booklet. Some of the images can be viewed here. (April 2002)

Looking Forward: Every evening from April 5 - May 5th, 2002, 8 windows and 4 14-foot high clock faces on the 16th floor in the waterfront tower of 1 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, were transformed by Michael Counts into video projection screens from which the faces of hundreds of New Yorkers-children, mothers, fire fighters, relief workers, residents & NY personalities- gazed out, surveying the landscape & watching over the city at this unique time of rebirth & renewal. WFMU broadcast the voices of New Yorkers whose images appeared in the clock tower, set to an original score by long time collaborator Joseph Diebes, which was synchronized with the clock tower images.

Chadoor Study: Iranian-born Gita Khashabi's art exhibit examines the contrast between the bleak, black chadoor and the rich visual structures and decorative patterns of Islamic architecture and their written language. Khashabi has long been fascinated by the dichotomy between religious and social pressures, which shifted to repress all female expression as simultaneously the architecture began to display the beautiful and ostentatious structures we know today. Weekends in April 2002 at She@Gallery, Century City. Khasabi's performance piece, "Chadoor," was featured at the New Millenium Project: Response to Sept. 11th in Venice, CA. on Dec. 20, 2001.

Bomb: an installation by two Colorado University graduate students was created in the hours immediately after the September 11 tragedy. Lori Ann Warren and Suzanne Feris worked furiously for several days and nights wrapping threads around a bomb-like piece of metal.

Murals & Collages:

Jewish Youth for Community Action, based in Berkeley, CA, held a mural release party on March 21, 2002. The mural — conceived, designed and painted by JYCA youth participants — portrays JYCA's view of "tikkun olam," or "repairing the world." As Elizabeth Milne-Kahn, one JYCA participant, put it, "In order to counter-balance the media's messages, we decided to make a mural to express our belief in peaceful change."

Bay State Reflects: On March 11, 2002, the city of Boston dedicated ``The Bay State Reflects,'' a collage of artwork by almost 1,000 Boston Herald readers reacting to the Sept. 11 tragedy. Just a few days after the terrorist attacks, the Herald asked readers to share their feelings in poems, artwork, news clippings or photos. Their responses, ranging from fear and rage to hope for the future, were put together into a unique work of art that documents how this unprecedented event touched ordinary Americans. The collage wraps around the flag stand in front of the main entrance to City Hall.

Towers of Remembrance: This project is being undertaken by artists, students, and others from the Maine College of Art Community (MeCA) and greater Portland area. A changing collage of projected images will illuminate two columns of windows of the Porteus Building at MeCA, rising 60' above street level.

The Eleventh Day: Students at Spring Branch Middle School in Houston were moved by Picasso's Guernica, which hangs in two arts classrooms, to create a similar painting in response to September 11. Art teachers Suzanne Greene and David Butler chose approximately 20 images from over 200 individual paintings completed by their students and "collaged" them into a Picasso-like composition. 40 students participated in painting the mural on a front hallway floor.

Poster Art:

Posters for Peace: Downloadable versions of antiwar posters made after September 11.

Tower of Babble: Robbie Conal's latest poster, featuring W, Ashcroft and Cheney.

The Art For A Change website is dedicated to the arts and their role in transforming society, from creator Mark Vallen's own socially conscious paintings and drawings to the works of other like- minded artists who possess a critical vision. Buy an "I Am Not The Enemy" poster, featuring Mark's portrait of a Muslim woman.

Time to Consider: Creative Time, Poets & Writers, the Van Alen Institute and Worldstudio Foundation solicited responses from international artists to the September 11th tragedy and launched a public poster/media art campaign in New York on February 11, 2002. The four selected posters can be downloaded from the internet or picked up in various public locations around New York. On March 13, 2002, the WhY Women Poetry Series will host a reading of selected poetry submissions at NY's 14th Street Y.

Web Sites:

After the Fall: Artists for Peace, Justice & Civil Liberties Gallery & Anthology: When Colorado's
"The Arts Paper" (TAP) put out a call for works by artists for peace, the response was so tremendous that they could not publish all of the work in their December 2001/January 2002 commemorative print issue. So TAP is continuing to publish submissions by artists in all media on their new website.

theARTproject: Artists Respond to Terrorism. On this site you will find images that respond to the events and aftermath of 9/11/01. theARTproject's intention is to function as a dialogue for those who wish to communicate through images.

911-Ground Zero presents visual art work that deals with the terrorist attacks that took place on 09/11/01, the war in Afghanistan, anthrax, national security, bombs, and all other current events of the past few months. Images by all visual artists are welcomed and will be featured online. 911-Ground Zero does not "curate" or "jury" the work that is submitted.

Participation Art Work:

September 11 Quilt Project debuts in Denver. Two symbols of American life - the flag and quilting - have come together to mark a tragic moment in the country's history. The September 11 Quilt Project made its Denver debut this weekend as hundreds of people solemnly viewed the gigantic American flag composed of individually designed panels. The 60-by-120-foot flag was displayed on the ground at City Park next to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. For more information about the project or to learn how to contribute a square, visit the Web site at www.september11quiltproject.org or call (303) 839-8484.

One Blood is a 6X13 ft canvas covered with human blood as a call for the recognition of human unity & a plea that the bloodshed of Sept. 11 not be seen as justification for inflicting more bloodshed on innocent people in other nations. 22 persons in northern CA gave & spread their own blood. Claire Lemmel, the artist, and David Jones, her husband, asked that participants not contribute to the piece with any thought of anger, hate or violence. One Blood was first shown in November 2001 in Point Arena, CA. On New Years Eve, 2001, it was the centerpiece of a special service at the First Unitarian Universalist church in Houston, TX, where it remained on exhibit for four days. The response to the showing was very strong and twenty-six Houstonians then replicated the piece. The second piece is of the same dimensions and is called One Blood Houston. The One Blood project is to replicate the piece in more U.S. cities: San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, D.C. and NYC. One Blood San Francisco Bay Area is currently in progress. All 5 pieces will be shown in NYC on Sept. 11th, 2002.

SKINTalks: SKINTalks is a conceptual art piece inspired by events surrounding Sept 11th. It was created to address issues of sensitivity around a wound or trauma. The messages of SKINTalks, printed on sheer bandage strips, challenge people to think about how their actions affect others. SKINTalks, the vision of artists Anita Walsh, Megan Maher, and Katie Morris, will be complete when the public has applied the bandage strips to their skin.

Donna Sheehan, artist, environmental and radio activist, has created an interactive community forum by hanging her prints on the side of an empty building in the northern California town of Point Reyes Station. Below the display she put a bucket with paper, pens and pushpins and a sign urging everyone to pin up their points of view and reactions.

The Word Room: An interactive installation that was first mounted at Janalyn Hanson White Gallery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from November 12 to December 12, 2001. The room was filled with a soundscape comprised of four layers: selective words from webster.com, a young voice reading from a mid-19th century American Reading Primer, a series of news bites about the American war in Afghanistan recorded from Farsi-language radios, and a live feed from the microphone in the gallery. Add your own words to the "web wall."

Mend Piece for the World: In the wake of September 11 and in response to the rising tide of violence, Yoko Ono has created "Mend Piece for the World." This participation art work was introduced at Judson Memorial Church in NYC on October 30, 2001, and will remain at Judson through December.

Flags & Quilts:

5 miles of red, white and blue/Star-Spangled 9/11 memorial to unfurl in San Francisco. Thousands of volunteers will unfurl a 5-mile-long silk banner with 3, 000 American flags under the Golden Gate Bridge and wrap it along San Francisco's coastline on Sept. 8 in a commemoration of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The memorial artwork is the product of Chinese American artist Pop Zhao, who stretched the world's longest artwork on the Great Wall of China last year. Zhao, who lives in San Francisco and works in studios here and in Beijing, will unfold the banner at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 from Baker Beach to the Marina Green with the help of 2,000 volunteers. To volunteer to help hold the banner on Sept. 8, call (415) 664-2348 or (415) 391-4348 or e-mail volunteer@celebratetheflag.com.

Peace Flags: Compelled by the need to create an advertisement for peace post 9-11, Melina Finkelstein, in her first attempt at political speech and functional art, created "The Blooming of Peace." Peace Flags, a web site where you can buy products with "The Blooming of Peace" design, was created as a fundraising mechanism for social justice organizations. Finkelstein will be exhibiting her peace flags in a show entitled "Art and Politics," in the office of San Francisco Green Party Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez. "Art and Politics" will be on view from March 1 - April 30, 2002. The opening reception will be on March 1 from 6 to 8 pm. Matt Gonzalez' office is located in City Hall in room 244. This event is free. For more information call 415-663-9263 or visit Peace Flags.

Art Quilts: Jeanne Williamson in Natick, Massachusetts, has been responding to ever-changing current events through her weekly quilts.

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Film, Video, TV

Before, During, After by Shalom Gorewitz. "Before, During, After" is a collection of collaborative works that reference the devastating events of September 11th in New York. "Levinas in Yorkville" overlays images of Yorkville in upper Manhattan with text and music. In "The Ambiguous Coil" Gorewitz responds to the tragic events and their effects on New York. He writes: "After the panic, a tentative response." Music by Christen Clark.

Frame by Frame: HBO announced its documentary series, Frame by Frame, will screen for the first time in San Francisco for the first time from August 5 - 12 at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The series, which began in New York will hold its fifth annual event in Gotham this autumn. Kicking off the event in the Bay Area featuring 26 documentary films are theme film blocks taking a look at the effects of 9/11 worldwide. Among the films in the program are Darcy Dennett's "Morning: September 11"; Etienne Sauret's "WTC: The First 24 Hours"; James Ronald Whitney's "Telling Nicholas" as well as the much heralded "In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01." The film features clips and photos from 100+ New Yorkers and independent filmmakers.

Independent Perspectives on 9.11: After September 11th MediaRights.org received many requests for suggestions of documentaries relating to Afghanistan, the Middle East, international affairs, history, racial stereotyping and immigration. In response, it created Independent Perspectives on 9.11 to help showcase films and new media that will comfort, inspire and provoke and which will help educators, nonprofits, activists, and media makers encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.

War Photographer: For more than two decades James Nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war, famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating, eloquent clarity. It begins in the eerie silence of Kosovo in 1999 with Mr. Natchtwey turning his camera on burning farmhouses, grieving families and grave sites and follows him into the poorest sections of Jakarta, where homeless families live beside railroad tracks, and to the West Bank city of Ramallah in the early months of the current intifada.

Promises follows the journey of filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg, an American who grew up in Jerusalem and was a journalist during the intifada, (Palestinian uprising). Over the course of 4 years, B.Z. and Justine Shapiro, the filmmakers, were welcomed into the daily lives of seven Israeli and Palestinian children between the ages of 9-13. Each child offers a dramatic, emotional and sometimes hilarious insight into what it's like to grow up in the charged and complex city of Jerusalem.

ARTISTS EMERGENCY RESPONSE (AER) launches VIDEO PETITION PROJECT to voice opposition to the Israeli Occupation & to speak for a just solution to the Palestinian Refugee Crisis & an equitable and lasting peace in the Middle East. A student group at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago working with faculty and staff, AER consists of Jewish, Non-Jewish, and Arab American members working to respond to the current Middle East Crisis as artists and activists. AER has written 11 petition statements to be read on camera by people in the U.S. and Canada. The video will serve as the visual testimony of North Americans asserting their multi-faceted views against the Israeli Occupation. Beginning in the summer of 2002, AER will work with organizations and individuals throughout the US and Canada to sign thousands of individuals onto the Video Petition. The completed tapes will screen in a variety of venues, from colleges, universities, & high school campuses, to community organizations, art venues, public access television, radio, & internet sites. The Video Petitions will also be sent to public officials and leaders. For more information or to endorse or participate in The Video Petition Project, please contact AER: artistemergencyresponse@hotmail.com

The 13th annual Human Rights Watch International Film Festival: included "Afghanistan Year 1380," a video documentary (filmed by the Italian team of Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati), portrayting the devastating human toll of Afghanistan's long civil war and the building of a hospital in Kabul to care for the wounded of both sides; Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki's documentary "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," examines Kissinger's role in the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 1970's, and the sale to the Indonesian President Suharto of American weapons, which were used in the East Timor massacre in 1975; Jean Khalil Chamoun's film "In the Shadows of the City" tells the story of Rami, a 12-year-old forced to leave his war-ravaged village in South Lebanon in the 1970's.

Palestine, Palestine: A documentary by Dominique Dubosc (2001): Sometimes a people can be caught in the dream of another people. Zionism is such a dream. Here, the dreamer is Israel. The prisoner of the dream is the Palestinian people. As we follow a puppet show through the schools of the West Bank during the second Intifada — and stop for a while in a refugee camp — we understand what it's like to be caught in the dream of the oppressor. April 18, 2002, at the Anthology Film Archives.

The Gone Buildings: NYC & 9/11: The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center screens five short films, including "9/11 1st St. NYC" (M.A. Toman), "911 ? Serra's Morning" (Saul Levine), "Periphery" (Ilana Rein), "Great Balls of Fire" (Leon Grodski & Pearl Gluck), and "White Balance (to think is to forget difference)" (François Bucher). Sun July 21: 2pm. Wed July 24: 4pm.

Media That Matters (Online) Film Festival: Our festival jury chose the best short films and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change. Includes "The Oil Is Not Enough" by Elizabeth Solomon, an examination of how the current conflict in Afghanistan has paved the way for America's new rush for oil into Central Asia. (added June 21, 2002)

On June 13th, 2002, at 7:30pm, Indymedia presented a benefit to support the ongoing Palestine Indymedia Projects. They showed exclusive video footage, including FIRST HAND (inside Jenin refugee camp while it was still under military occupation) + UP CLOSE & PERSONAL (with the Palestinian Authority & Arafat inside the Mukata) + DRAMATIC ACTIONS (around Bethlehem with the International Solidarity Movement!). All proceeds to benefit the Palestine IndyMedia Collective's projects. 56 Walker St-Manhattan.

Reports from the Global Village: A monthly series (that began in February 2002) of documentary and fiction films presenting cultural perspectives from around the world that explore the diversity and complexity of the "global village." The series comprises works that probe the impacts of the processes of globalization and the consequences of U.S. and Western foreign policy in the context of history and in light of the events of September 11th, 2001. Presented by Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. Also on June 5, 2002, at Anthology Film Archives.

War and Media: Presented by Third World Newsreel/Camera News at the Anthology Film Archives. A series of short films including Yun Jong Suh's "We Too Sing American," about Muslim children in America post-September-11; Ann Brandman & Paul Nishijima's "December 7/September 11," which compares the events & aftereffects of Pearl Harbor to September 11; and Cynthia Lockhart's "Terrorism: An American Reality" which explores how American foreign policy has fueled resentment around the world. June 7, 2002.

Haters, in response to the reporter 542 incidents of abuse against Arab Americans and other ethnicities after September 11th, aims ot contextualize historically the act of "demonizations" that occurs throughout the usage of images and language in media of certain people within the U.S. June 11, 2002. 7pm sharp. The IndoCenter of Art & Culture, 530 W.25th, 2nd Fl. (btwn 10th & 11th aves). RSVP to Third Wave Foundation at 212-388-1898 or info@thirdwavefoundation.org.

Underground Zero: The 7th annual Nantucket Film Festival will show 13 short works selected form a pool of films made by 150 filmmakers related to the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. June 20-23, 2002.

Wide Angle: Thirteen/WNET New York will produce a new weekly series of 1-hour documentaries focusing on global consciousness. "After September 11, there is nothing more urgent than helping Americans appreciate the complexities and dangers posed by events around the world," said James P. Rubin, former Asst. Secretary of State & co-host of the program. After airing each documentary, the evening's host will present a discussion with a high-profile guest to address the issues presented in the film.

Listen Up!: View online up to 60 youth-produced videos that express the desire for all people to respect each other's culture, race, sexual orientation and religion. Listen Up! is currently putting together an hour-long video compilation of these short videos that will act as a collective youth response to September 11.

9.11 Moments: ITVS presents 34 short videos online that present diverse reflections on war, peace, and identity. Clips include an Arab-American scoutmaster and his scouts in Michigan, to an 11-year-old Navajo girl in New Mexico to a political columnist in Texas. The videos can be viewed here.

Visions From Ground Zero: 9 filmmakers from NYU's Tisch School have been selected by Showtime Networks to produce films related to the effects of Sept. 11 for the network's "Visions From Ground Zero" project. The films, documentaries & narratives will be broadcast on Showtime during the 1st anniversary of the attacks. The filmmakers are: Kelly Atkins ("Twice a Day"), Brad Barnes ("Engine Trouble"), Sergei Bassine ("From the 97th Floor), Bryan Gunner Cole ("Unfurled"), Janet McIntyre ("Behind the Veil"), Rachel Zabar ("One Life"), Deena Lombardi ("As We Sleep"), Moira Stephens ("Breaking Bread), & Gabriella Spierer ("Welcome to NY").

2002 Television Documentary Festival at The Museum of Television and Radio in NYC, May 1-16, 2002. Opening Seminar: "To Testify or to Sanitize: Portraying 9/11" — a panel of filmmakers, documentary executives & historians discuss the moral responsibility / implications of using possibly exploitative footage of people in pain and dying as a result of the attacks. The festival includes old and new documentaries on Afghanistan, Muslims, the Middle East, and a panel discussion with Frontline producers.

The Blame Show / Dissent = Freedom: May 1-11, 2002 at The White Box Gallery (525 West 26th St, NYC). If dissent = freedom then political satire = artistic freedom, curated by the Blame Committee, Eleanor Heartney & Larry Litt. Co-sponsored by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) & National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). May 8th Public Forum: "Art Now: Polite, Politic or Political?" Sarah Glover, artist; Eleanor Heartney, art critic; Larry Litt, videographer; Svetlana Mintcheva, NCAC Arts Advocacy Coordinator; Tim Rollins, artist-educator; Dread Scott, artist-activist.

From the Ashes - 10 Artists: a documentary by Academy Award-winning director, Deborah Shaffer. Recently screened at Sundance (January 10 - 20) 2002 as part of the festival's special September 11th program, this hour-long documentary traces the stories of 10 downtown New York artists in the wake of that momentous day, as they attempt to rebuild their lives and redefine the meaning of their art. April 18, 2002, at the Lighthouse in NYC co-sponsored by NY Women in Film & Television and ArtTable.

7 Days in September: Steve Rosenbaum's 7 Days in September is a feature documentary that looks at New York City's trauma during the week following the September 11 attacks through the eyes, and the cameras, of 27 New Yorkers. Premiered at Doubletake Documentary Film Festival in NC on Apr. 4, 2002. On Apr. 18, 2002, CameraPlanet Pictures hosted a NYC screening.

9/11 & BEYOND: INDEPENDENT VOICES SPEAK: This 6-month anniversary festival of films and videos made in response to 9/11 was presented by konscious.com on March 10, 2002 at the Culture Project in NYC. Included a special sneak preview of the documentary, "Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero," and various shorts produced by Third World Newsreel, Guerilla News Network, DCTV, and others. konscious.com was also the presenter of "Reality Will Not Be Televised" — films and panel discussions at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC in December, 2001, covering issues related to 9/11, Afghanistan, mass media, the Middle East, veiling and flag-waving. All films and videos are being streamed online.

"Remote stills/Under Attack," an interactive video by Ennio Bertrand (first exhibited at the Arengario in Milano, Italy) was removed from the Armory Show (Feb. 21-25, 2002) at NYC's Pier 88 after staff complained that the continuously-looped images of UA Flight 175 exploding into the WTC were inappropriate in light of the fact that the pier had been used for months as the staging area for attack-related operations. "Remote stills/Under Attack," in which the observer can move the airplanes like he/she might in a videogame, questions the role of the observer; the illusion of distance and security that television and video screens usually evoke; and the relationship between game or fiction and reality.

Great Balls of Fire: A short documentary by Leon Grodski & Pearl Gluck. Walking aimlessly in the streets of NYC in the aftermath of the WTC collapse, a homeless man says the event is not a surprise, it is part of his understanding of life and history. He's not flying a flag, not crying out "United We Stand," and not selling American trinkets. He's sharing his words like he's been waiting for everyone to finally wake up. Screened at 2002 No Dance Film and Multimedia Festival (Utah); 2002 Arizona State University Art Museum Film & Video Festival; 2002 New York Video Festival; Anthology Film Archives; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany); Santa Monica Museum Of Art; European Media Art Festival (Germany); Jewish Museum (New York); Ocularis (Brooklyn); Bronx River Art Center. For more information, phone 646-345-5969 or e-mail thesushibar@msn.com.

WAR & PEACE: An ongoing collaborative documentary project about September 11 and its aftermath by the D-Word Community, an online community of international documentary professionals. WAR & PEACE premiered at Ocularis (Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY) on February 3, 2002, at 8:30pm. Segments are also being streamed individually on the web.

Framing September 11: Conversations Across Communities. The UNC—Duke Film and Speaker series aims to create a forum that situates September 11 by showing documentary films, providing panels of speakers, and opening up discussions with audiences, composed of students, staff, and faculty from the two campuses and Triangle community members. The themes of the events include: gender and militarism; the politics of resources; U.S foreign policy; and struggles for democracy. Feb. 1, March 1, April 5, April 26, 2002. For more information contact bnu@duke.edu or ecryst@email.unc.edu.

Sundance Special Event: September 11: A collection of short documentary films was presented at the Sundance Film Festival on January 12, 2002. Included were "Site," Jason Kliot's digital footage of the faces of people staring up at the hole in the sky where the WTC used to be, and Deborah Shaffer's "From the Ashes," which chronicles artists based near 'ground zero.'

White Balance (to think is to forget differences): This 30-min. video by François Bucher (from Cali, Colombia) explores problems of power and privilege. Media and internet footage are intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks. The video presents a question that needs to be visited over and over. Yvonne Rainer asked this question in her film Privilege: "...are 'permanent recovering racists' the most we can ever be?" Jan 10 - Mar 2, 2002 at Location 1, NYC.

Global Action Project youth producers are currently creating media around issues related to the September 11 attacks. G.A.P. has 8 programs in production, through an interactive process that combines small and large group work in video, theater, conflict resolution and diversity training. One of these films, "2 Homes," produced by refugee youth living in NYC from Burundi, Sierra Leone, Kosova, and Liberia, will be at the Sundance Gen-Y studio in late January, 2002.

MOMA in New York presented three films related to September 11 as part of its Documentary Fortnight Program (December 6-16, 2001). Monika Bravo showed her tribute to artist Michael Richards who died in the tragedy; Paper Tiger Television critiqued the media coverage of the U.S. involvement in the Middle East; and the Independent Media Center presented a documentary of New York City's reponse.

Creative Time and Panasonic, in an effort to broaden public discussion of the impact of September 11, presented ahistory (1992) by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. Launched on October 29 and running through November 30, 2001, ahistory was part of The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision. ahistory references national monuments from around the world to explore how iconography can inform notions of national identity, collective memory and history which today, when our nation's psyche is heavy with questions about ourselves and our futures, strikes a resonant chord.

Fresh Kills: Artists Respond to the Closure of the Staten Island Landfill. While this exhibit at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY, was conceived prior to September 11, artist Mierle Ukeles altered her video installation — Penetration and Transparency: Morphed — to reflect upon the new purpose of the previously-closed landfill: as the sorting ground for the debris of the World Trade Center Attacks. For 30 days, she ran a text crawl on four monitors, posing questions that amounted to:"Is any of this still relevant?" Then she began to phase in interviews with landscape architects, wetlands specialists, environmental engineers & experts on garbage decomposition. Oct. 14, 2001-May 27, 2002.

9.11: This video, produced by NYC Independent Media Center, documents spontaneous memorials in NYC and culminates with the first peace march. 9.11 offers critical perspectives of U.S. policy leading up to the World Trade Center attack, media treatment, and racial backlash. This program is also streaming on the web at Free Speech TV. Completed September 26, 2002.

War Stories: Teenagers in Charlottesville, VA, ruminate on the current war and events since September 11 in a video installation at the Downtown Mall (107 Main St; Monday-Saturday, 11am to 9pm; Sunday, 12pm-7pm). Sponsored by Light House, a non-profit organization offering workshops in digital filmmaking to teens who want to tell their stories on screen.

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Theater, Performance Art & Protest

On September 11, 2002 in AFTERIMAGE at Dixon Place, 33 artists of all disciplines will consider how 9/11 resonates in their lives, one year later in "an incredible evening of reflective art that acknowledges our grief and simultaneously channels it into redemptive creative growth." Performances will begin every hour on the hour between 6-10 PM. In each hour, there will be 50 minutes of performance, followed by a 10 minute break. Audience members are welcome to stay for the entire evening, or just for a single hour of performance.

On the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, from September 9 - 11, 2002 at the Town Hall in New York City, BRAVE NEW WORLD — under the direction of Producing Artistic Director J Dakota Powell — will host performances by playwrights, composers and lyricists in about 40 plays of varying lengths as well as approximately 18 non-theatre pieces.

Edinburgh Fringe: The events of 11 September inspire a number of shows to be staged at the world's largest arts festival. The Edinburgh Fringe will see U.S. satirist Michael Moore deliver his verdict on 11 Sept. in his first ever one-man show. Other shows will include Project 9/11, which follows seven people in New York on the day of the tragedy, while Jumpers is about how four New Yorkers cope with the aftermath. And drag queen Tina C. satirises the entertainment industry's response to 11 Sept. 4-26 August, 2002.

"Even The Birds Were On Fire": NYC-based artists Marshall Weber and M.T. Karthik's "Even The Birds Were On Fire" is a montage of personal observations and expressions of witnesses from New York City and beyond. The title of the performance is borrowed from the observations of a child who had unknowingly watched people jumping out of the burning WTC. Co-produced by the Booklyn Artists Alliance and Revolocien Rekids, "Even The Birds Were On Fire" is accompanied by an installation of 45 feet long and 8 feet scroll and quintophonic audio composed of texts, images and other ephemera collected from the people and the streets of New York during the hours, and subsequently days and weeks, immediately following Sept. 11 — including texts by poets and political commentators such as Amiri Baraka, Noam Chomsky and members of RAWA. (Revolutionary Association of Afghani Women). At the start of the performance, dustmasks are handed to the audience to physically prepare them for all the dust dumped into the air during the performance. "At the end I burn all the hair off my body as a mourning ritual and evocation of 'the smell'," Weber said. "Even The Birds Were On Fire" was performed on November 13th, 2001, at The LAB in San Francisco's Mission District and on December 4th, 2001. at Track 16 Gallery in LA's Bergamot Station. In February 2002, it was performed at Columbia College's Hokin Center, in Chicago.

Hurriyya! (Freedom!): A benefit for justice in Palestine: Featuring speakers, performances, spoken word, video, and music. 7-9pm: Reports on injustice at home and abroad, and what you can do with Kate Rhee (Prison Moratorium Project), Subhash Kateel (DRUM), Suzanne Adely (Al-Awda, Palestinian right of return coalition, Pafny), Kristen Schurr (Democracy Now and Free Speech Radio News). 9-11pm: Performances, live music, spoken word, and video, with Indymedia Palestine, Mahina Movement (fierce women of color performance/music/spoken word), more performers to be announced. 11pm-late: Blackkat DJs Jason Bk, Pow Pow, and Chrome. Who we are: Direct Action for Justice in Palestine is a New York- based collective of activists and humanitarians working in coalition with Palestinian, Israeli, and international peace activists in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank and Gaza. We are individuals and do not represent a particular political ideology or government. June 7, 2002, at Flux Factory (38-38 43rd Street, Sunnyside, Queens).

Not in Our Name: The project was initiated at a meeting in NYC on March 23, 2002. Not in Our Name invites organizations, networks, coalitions and individuals to endorse The Call, take up the Pledge of Resistance, and help make it a force in society to expand and broaden resistance across the country. We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names. Events around the country on June 6, 2002, included candlelight vigils, protests, guerilla theater, poetry, storytelling, etc.

Alive from Palestine: Stories Under Occupation: The Al Kasaba Theatre, Ramallah, presents a stageplay that has been deemed "necessary theatre" (The Guardian, UK) for its intimate glimpse into ordinary lives lived under occupation— the anger, despair, love, loss and frustration. The US performance tour will begin through the sponsorship of Yale University in New Haven, CT, at The Long Wharf Theatre, June 25-29. For more information call 203.787.4282. In Los Angeles at The La Mirada Theatre, Friday, July 5. In San Francisco at The Palace of Fine Arts, Sunday, July 7. For more information on California performances email Nicole at BintFilmLA@aol.com or call 323.464.6122.

The Tenement Museum and the Immigrants' Theater Project present American Dreams: Plays About New York City & the Immigrant Experience: 8 weeks of performances and staged readings by The Immigrants Theatre Project. Includes Sajjil ("To Record"), a dramatic exploration of Arab American identity woven from interviews with New Yorkers of all backgrounds, and First Language, a Middle-Eastern woman and her Western son struggle with love, sexual longing, and ethnic belonging. Thursday evenings at 8pm from June 6-Aug. 1. Tenement Theater @ 97 Orchard Street.

3 Weeks After Paradise: a stirring hour-long monologue by American playwright Israel Horovitz. A documentary version has been picked up by Bravo and will air on the one-year anniversary of the attacks. Mr. Horovitz reports: "I was glad to have been able to make something solid and loving from something so hateful and destructive." The JCC in Manhattan presents a staged performance of 3 Weeks After Paradise on June 3, 2002.

Other Love: A Solo Play with Trombone: What happens when you unexpectadly slam into your sworn enemy and your defensive rhetoric unravels? Other Love is Reverend Billy, slow-motion sidewalk rage, Fishing with Dad, a wild dog in Central Park and a gun. At the Ontological Theatre at St. Mark's Church (131 E. 10th St. at 2nd Ave), NYC. The shows run from June 8-23, 2002, Wed-Sun, 8 PM, with an extra late night show on Saturdays.

Life During Wartime: An examination of shattered identities, both personal and national, in post 9/11 Manhattan written and directed by Dominic Orlando of the No-Pants Theatre Company. Two stories interweave: The Girl, an amnesiac who barely survived the attacks, and Leo Lewis, a political comic who pushes his anti-American humor too far and discovers the limits of fame. As these New Yorkers pick their way through the physical, emotional, and political wreckage of 9/11, LIFE DURING WARTIME explores the nature of trauma and loss, and the healing power of art. May 23-June 2, 2002 at Here Arts Center in NYC.

T3 4 Pe@ce: TeleTwinTowers.org, Feedbuck Galore, Planet Generation Global Move & Chashama Theater present this free 3-day festival. With theater, installations, street performances, food, music, dancing, news forums, etc. In an effort to provide an open forum for the creative expression of different views and o