Showing posts with label Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute. Show all posts

Friday, February 26, 2010

Workshops and events at Nonstop

Nonstop Institute of Yellow Springs
presents

Workshops

Events

Anarchy in the Kitchen, an evening of gastronomy performances (via skype from Baltimore), exploring digestibility, consumption, good taste, domesticity, hunger, and accessibility, is curated by Laura McGough for the 2010 Umami International Festival of Food and Art. Participating artists include Graham Coreil-Allen, Steve Bradley, “bunny and chick” (Tim Nohe and Marian April Glebes), Bradley Chriss, Adam Good, Carolina Mayorga, Lisa Moren, Rebecca Nagle, Natalia Panfile, Casey Smith, and Shannon Young.
AND
So much MORE, visit their link for a full listing of events.
http://nonstopinstitute.org/nonstop-presents/

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

NonStop Presents

Wednesday, October 22

9:00 AM, Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Avenue - Chuck Taylor and James Johnston’s Sounds and Circuits class will host Antioch alum Dylan Hay who will demonstrate and perform altered circuit boards. Demonstrations will include: light activated 555 op-amp; Harmonic Series properties of a bowed string; beat phenomena between two sound source; and pitch phenomena in water-filled glass bottles. The public will have opportunities to participate and ask questions.

1:00 PM, Methodist Church, 202 S. Winter Street - Nevin Mercede and Isabella Winkler’s Culture and Interpretation class will host an exhibition and discussion of student work in writing and the visual arts.

3:00 PM, 140 Glen Street - Michael Brower, Antioch alum, former Professor of Political Economy and leader of a Center for Quality of Working Life, will lead a discussion of the trends, effects, causes, and cures of poverty in the workshop A World Without Poverty: Possible? Necessary? Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in his book Creating a World Without Poverty writes that using Microcredit and Social Business we can and should do this.

7:00 PM, YS Library Meeting Room, 415 Xenia Avenue - Painter, author, and faculty emerita of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Antioch alum Deborah Curtiss will speak on A Passion for Visual Literacy. Her books include Introduction to Visual Literacy (1987) and Making Art Safely (1993).

For a complete listing of Festival Week events

please visit NonSTop calendar page at their nonstopinstitute.org site.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Rude Mechanical Orchestra in Yellow Springs




Jennifer Float of the Nolaa Gallery submitted this video of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra performing on Xenia Avenue. They are a "music and performance group based in NYC, who strive to support people and communities working for social justice" and had come to support the "Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute."