ABC No Rio: creative resistence

ABC No Rio Announces
Creative Response and Resistance
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ABC No Rio is proud to be one of several hosts this
August for the
Creative
Response and Resistance Activist Summer Camp (
http://www.creativeresistance.us ).

Summer Camp is a group of artists, thinkers,
activists, citizens and
friends who wish to celebrate and strengthen, through
performance and
art,
music, discussions and theater, the momentum of the
anti-war movement.

Summer Camp is a gathering of cultural, social, and
artistic
communities
seeking to expand our networks, challenge the dominant
assumptions,
strengthen our activities, and work towards defending
our rights.

Creative responses, satiric guerrilla theater, info
warfare, music,
workshops, video screenings, performances, debates,
talks, and fashion
coalesce into a month long laboratory and creative
resistance camp to
help
kick off a new season of Resistance and make a
response to unjust and
amoral activities.

Events at ABC No Rio follow. For a complete listing of
all events
please go
to http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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STENCIL WORKSHOP AND PRESENTATION WITH JOSH MACPHEE
Friday August 8
noon to 6:00pm
$3-$5

Josh MacPhee is a Chicago-based artist and activist.
For the past
decade
Josh has focused on reaching broad audiences through
many forms of
street
art, including spray paint stencils and wheat pasted
posters.

He has also been extremely interested in documenting
all forms of
public
expression by others, from traditional graffiti to
altered stop signs
to
marker scrawls on corporate advertisements. With this
documentation
Josh
has put together small and inexpensive artist
books/zines and is
currently
working on a book about spray paint stencils called
'Stencil Pirates'
that
will be published in March 2004 by Soft Skull Press.
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PINK BLOQUE UNJUSTIFIED TOUR 2003:
END THE OCCUPATION AT HOME AND ABROAD!
Friday August 8
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

Workshop: Kick, Ball, Change the World:
Our dance workshop is fully interactive; the Pink
Bloque brings new
moves
to the movement. In Kick, Ball, Change the World we
discuss dance as an
effective protest tactic for creating a spectacle.
Also addressed is
the
importance of using pop culture as a tool to reach
audiences unfamiliar
with activism. This workshop is geared towards
audiences interested in
creating a new look for protest culture in their
region. We will
spend
time in the indoor space dancing and dialoguing, and
one hour will be
spent
on the streets bringing radical dance moves to your
community.

The Pink Bloque is a Chicago-based radical feminist
dance troupe
dedicated
to challenging the white supremicist, capitalist,
patriarchy one street
dance party at a time. The Pink Bloque is multi-issue
group, but this
summer our focus will be on ending occupation at home
(meaning
government
encroachment on civil liberties and corporate control
of public and
private
spheres) and abroad (the US occupation of Iraq, and
US Imperialism
throughout the world).
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PRESENTATION WITH PAUL CHAN
Monday August 11
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

Paul Chan discusses the poster campaign he launched
after returning
from
Iraq as part of the Iraq Peace Team.

Paul Chan is a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation new media
arts fellow.
Chan's
video work is distributed by Video Data Bank (
http://www.vdb.org ).
His
new media work can be seen at National Philistine
( http://www.nationalphilistine.com ).
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PRESENTATION BY SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERS
Tuesday August 12
7:00pm-9:00pm
$3-$5

Founded in New York in November 1996, the Surveillance
Camera Players
(SCP)
manifest their opposition to the use of surveillance
cameras in public
places by performing specially designed satirical
plays directly in
front
of these cameras. Since Thanksgiving 2000, the SCP has
also been
mapping
out and giving weekly walking tours of highly
surveilled neighborhoods
in
New York City. There are now SCP groups in Arizona,
Italy, Lithuania
and
Sweden. Bill Brown, the SCP's co-founder and current
director, will
show
videotapes and talk about the group's performances,
history and
relationship to other "street theater" groups.
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WW3 ARTS IN ACTION: SETH TOBOCMAN AND CHRISTOPHER
CARDINALE
Wednesday August 13
6:00pm-8:00pm
$3-$5

In 2002 Artists from the magazine World War 3
Illustrated and others
formed
an arts collective for the purpose of providing
visuals to the peace
protests here in New York. This slide show documents
that work.
Following
the slide show will be a break-off group which will
focus on idea
development for the WW3 banner and street art workshop
on August 15th.
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PERFORMANCE: THE MISSILE DICK CHICKS
Wednesday August 13
8:00pm-10:00pm
$3-$5

The Missile Dick Chicks are a posse of pissed-off
housewives from
Crawford,
Texas, the home of our beloved President George Walker
Bush. Usually we
prefer to leave the talking to our husbands, but
recent events have
conspired to drag us away from our martinis and
over-the-counter
pharmaceuticals and into the streets.

The dim-witted ramblings and demonstrations of the
anti-authoritarian
rabble that have infected our country of late make our
blood boil. The
sight of these smelly, smarmy marchers smirkingly
besmirching our
smiling
President is too much to bear. The biggest questions
these riff-raff
face
day-to-day are which Starbucks to vandalize and where
to score their
next
bong hit. And these ne'er-do-wells dare to second
guess our
Commander-in-Chief? For shame!
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PRESENTATION: MORE GARDENS THEATER AND PUPPETRY
ACTIONS
LISA AND ARESH OF MORE GARDENS
Thursday August 14
7:00pm-9:000pm
$3-$5

The community gardens sprouted up in New York City's
working class
neighborhoods, mostly resided by people of color. The
community gardens
are
a testimony to a day by day revolution started by
placing seeds of
hope in deliberately neglected neighborhoods. The
amazing
transformation
from toxic earth to a green oasis. The slide show
hints on proactive
approaches put to play in the last 5 years to defend,
preserve, and
create
more of this flourishing revolution.
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BANNER PAINTING AND PROP MAKING
Friday August 15
noon

For WW3 street actions; guided by Seth Tobacman and
Christopher
Cardinale.
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SLIDE LECTURE WITH SETH TOBOCMAN:
3 TACTICS FROM FRANSISCO GOYA
Friday August 15
7:00pm-9:00pm
$3-$5

This slide lecture deals with three aproaches to
political art found in
the
work of the great spanish painter Goya and still used
by cartoonists
artists and activists today.
1.Detournement
2.Magical Animals
3.Social realism

Seth Tobocman became politically active in the late
1970s early 1980s
in
response to the Iran Hostage crisis and the rise of
Ronald Reagan. He
has
been drawing comics all his life. In 1979 he founded
the radical
comicbook
World War 3 Illustrated with Peter Kuper. In the 1980s
and 90s he was
involved with the squatters movement in New York.
Today he works with
the
anti-war movement, the anti-globalization movement and
with activists
in
Palestine and Israel. He has three books in Print:
'You Don't Have To
Fuck
People Over To Survive,' 'War in the Neighborhood,'
and 'Portraits of
Israelis and Palestinians.' His cartoons have been
used as posters,
flyers,
banners, murals and tattoos by radical folks all over
the world.
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Creative Response and Resistance Summer Camp is
sponsored by Voices in
the
Wilderness
( http://www.vitw.org ).

For registration information and a complete schedule
of all events
please
go to http://www.creativeresistance.us .
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156 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 254-3697

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