Archive 2012

In 2012, Roxbury Community College opened the season with the now annual “Artist’s Voice” exhibit and a second exhibit featuring the works of students and faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Roxbury Community College. In addition, artist and co-curator Ekua Holmes brought sparc! the artmobilie to the exhibit so that folks in attendance could make art with the artists.
Highlights:
Joanna Marinova and her colleagues at Press Pass TV opened our 2012 season with “What’s Beautiful Never Dies”, a multimedia event featuring live performances and unveiling for the first time, songs from the “What’s Beautiful Never Dies Project” composed by the performers who worked with the families of children murdered in Boston – designed and performed to celebrate and honor their lives. It was an unforgettable evening. A selection of these artists performed again at our annual Statehouse exhibit and at a luncheon hosted by MOVA for our curators, area politicians and policy makers, advocates and serve providers to recognize the outstanding contributions of survivors and advocates.

2012

Violence Transformed 2012: The Artist’s Voice

April 1 – June 1, 2012

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    • Location

      Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: May 6, 3-5pm.

      Artists and curators were available to make art with attendees at sparc! The Art Mobile.

      Artists

      Community artists and artists affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

      Curators

      Ekua Holms and Mariah Lee Siegman

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What is Beautiful Never Dies

April 5, 2012

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      Mainstage Theater, Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening 7-9 pm

      This multimedia event featured live performances and the premier unveiling of songs from the “ What is Beautiful Never Dies” music project, honoring children murdered in Boston and their families. This was Press Pass TV’s first Violence Transformed event, and was organized by Joanna Marinova and Press Pass TV.

Being UBUNTU: The Youth Speak

April 9 – 19, 2012

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    • Location

      Towne Art Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception April 10, 5-8pm./p>

      The 2012 Ubuntu Arts Exhibit, “Being Ubuntu: The Youth Speak” was a display of collaborative artwork created by local youth and supportive mentors. It was the sixth year that this exhibit had been hosted by the Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program (JJYA) at Wheelock College and conducted in collaboration with Violence Transformed.

      Curators

      Ann Tobey and Bridgit Paula

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MOVA’s Annual Victim Rights Conference

April 11, 2012 9-2pm

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    • Location

      Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

      Description

      Performances: Drew Ricciardi, Jae Lee, and the “What is Beautiful Never Dies” project

      Violence Transformed and the Massachusetts Office for Victims Assistance (MOVA) hosted curators, politicians, policy makers, advocates and service providers to recognize outstanding contributions by survivors and advocates. This was the first year in which the Violence Transformed State House exhibit did not coincide with the MOVA conference, and thus MOVA invited Violence Transformed to organize performing arts events for conference participants throughout the conference.

Violence Transformed 2012: Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art

April 19-27, 2012

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    • Location

      Doric and Nurses Halls, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception and Performances: April 19, 3:30-5:30 pm

      An exhibit of works in varied media and an opening reception at which visitors met participating artists and enjoyed live music and dance performances.

Play Off X: Work of Marlon Forrester

April 25 – September 9, 2012

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    • Location

      Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA

      Description

      Opening Reception: April 27, 5pm

      Artist

      Marlon Forrester

      Curator

      Barry Gaither

The Question Campaign: 21 Days of Questions, 365 Days of Action

October 17, 2012

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    • Location

      Cambridge College

      Description

      Opening Reception 4-7pm. The City of Cambridge, Cambridge Health Alliance, and the organizers of the “21 Days of Questions, 365 Days of Action” kicked off the “21 Days Campaign” at Cambridge College. Violence Transformed and the Victims of Violence Program of the Cambridge Health Alliance co-hosted the kickoff event, gathering questions about domestic violence and encouraging participants to create T-shirts to form a clothesline of questions that would become the focal point for on-going action to address and prevent domestic violence. In addition, the Cambridge Health Alliance offered interactive forums and invited all employees to voice questions about violence in relationships, homes and communities, and create T-shirts for display on the Alliance’s companion Community of Care Clothesline Project. For more information go to: http://www.facebook.com/21Cambridge

“Arts in the CommonHealth: Transforming Space Through the Healing Arts” Conference Presentation

December 1, 2012

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    • Location

      Marran Theater, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

      Description

      Mary Harvey (Director of Violence Transformed and Founding Director/Senior Psychologist of the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance) spoke on the “Arts in the CommonHealth: Engaging Creativity, Changing Expectations” panel on the second day of Lesley University’s “Arts in the CommonHealth” conference. Moderated by Vivien Marcow Speiser, the panel also included: Charles Washburn (Executive Director of VSA Massachusetts), Sean Caulfield (Co-Founder and Creative Director at ARTZ: Artists for Alzheimer’s), Alexa Miller (Owner of Arts Practica and Co-Creator of the Training the Eye Program at Harvard Medical School), and Sandra Bertman (Professor of Palliative Care, Medical Humanities and Arts).

“Engaging the Other Conference”presentation by Jeff Lowenstein

December 5-8, 2012

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    • Location

      University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

      VT co-sponsored Jeff Lowenstein’s travel to South Africa’s “Engaging the Other Conference” where he presented written, video and photo documentation of the Lowenstein family’s return to Essen Germany, 74 years after flight from Nazi Germany. The title of the presentation was “Intergenerational Healing Journey of Return to Germany by Survivor and his Children: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Other in the Present” and was given by Edward Lowenstein, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, and Dunreith Kelly Lowenstein (Harvard). “The conference offered a unique opportunity to listen to scholars who have introduced new avenues of inquiry in the field of transgenerational effects in the aftermath of extreme violence from different subject positions, including the perspectives of bystanders, survivors, perpetrators and their descendants. Conference discussion will move from the epicenter of the most traumatic historical events to interdisciplinary reflection on how societies and smaller groups of people affected by these histories have engaged with processes of working through the trauma as an attempt to create new cycles of repetition –empathic connection with the Other.” http://www.engagingtheother.co.za/