Volunteer Where the He(art) Is: The Art of Elysium

The Art of Elysium is a unique volunteer program geared towards getting working artists including actors, singers, painters, musicians, fashion designers and the like involved in helping children with serious medical conditions. Through working with volunteers via The Art of Elysium, these severely ill children are given the opportunity to just be kids -- instead of patients.

This week, join Sony Music's Marisa Pizarro for a volunteer information session at Norwood. In the past a few people you may know personally -- Roxy Cottontail taught girls how to DJ -- have lent their talents to this amazing program.

Thursday, May 13th
7:00pm

The Art of Elysium
Volunteer Information Session

Norwood
241 West 14th Street (bet. 7th & 8th Ave.)
NYC

RSVP: AOEatNorwood@gmail.com

On April 30th AOE's second annual fundraiser hosted by Joy Bryant, Sara Moonves, Bee Shafer and Nicole Vecchiarelli pulled in the big shots. Click here to view photos from the event.

Still can't commit to helping these lovelies because you're already burning the candle at both ends? Click here to snag some insane experiences and art to benefit The Art of Elysium.

Fashion for Passion

Fashion for Passion is hosting their first fundraiser to help raise money to support children in the arts and music. Entry to the event is free and there will be a one hour open bar so you can donate all the money you'd spend on adult beverages to the kids. ODB would approve.

Thursday, April 22nd
10:00PM - 2:00AM

35 East 21st Street
NYC

BEATS BY
Project Matt
Erock
DJ Cassie

SPECIAL GUEST DJ SET
Whitest Boy Alive

Free beer and vodka from 10:00-11:00PM.


RSVP: ffpfundraiser@gmail.com

My Beautiful Laundrette

Photo: Valentinaina via Flickr

The Laundromat Project is a community-based arts organization that invites artists to create public projects in laundromats in Brooklyn and Harlem through its Create Change program. Participants in the program create socially relevant installations in laundromats that help build relationships between the art; artists and residents of the community.

Click here to find out more about the 2009 Create Change Public Artist Residency Program and to download an application.

ALL CIRCUITS ON: THREEING: VIDEO BY PAUL RYAN

Anthology Film Archives
Thursday Dec 13 7:30 PM
32 Second Ave , New York, NY 10003

For the third installment of ALL CIRCUITS ON, we’re giving the evening over to the artist, author, and teacher Paul Ryan. Ryan spent four-and-a-half years studying in a Catholic monastic order before going on to work with Marshall McLuhan from 1967-68. He began experimenting with video during this period, and this led him to theorize about the impact it would have on art making, society, memory, relationships, utopia, religion, and the environment. What Ryan recognized was not just the rise of a new medium or technology, but the dawn of a new electronic culture.

Tonight’s topic will be “Threeing,” the yoga of relationships Ryan developed using video during the 1970s, a “three person solution to relational confusion.” Remember the popular late-70s megahit THREE’S COMPANY? The video world of “Threeing” could well be what that reactionary series was reacting to, a Me-Generation rebuke of communal thinking and living. We’ll use that as a counterpoint to ground Ryan’s thinking in the context of early video and his participation in the pioneering media collective RAINDANCE.

Organized by Rebecca Cleman (EAI) & Andrew Lampert (Anthology).
Works to be screened include:
Paul Ryan: RITUAL OF TRIADIC RELATIONSHIPS (1971-76), 12-minute excerpt, video. Documentation of participants using dynamic sound and movement techniques to illustrate Ryan’s theory of triadic behavior. These are anything but boring clinical experiments.
Raindance :THE RAYS 1970, 24 minutes- or less, video Including Frank Gillette, Paul Ryan and Michael Shamberg with Allen Rucker and John French. Passing the camera around “like a joint,” the members of RAINDANCE theorize on the nature of television and alternative communications systems. The title refers both to Point Reyes and to the broadcast TV signals of a nearby transmitter that caused “rays” to distort the picture.