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BI LINES VII AND THE BISEXUAL BOOK AWARDS on Saturday May 31, 6:30pm – 10pm

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The Bi Writers Association presents:

Bi Lines VII & The Bisexual Book Awards: A Multi-Arts Celebration of Bisexual Writing

Location: Westbeth Community Room.

Westbeth Artists Housing – Home to the Arts is located in the West Village at 55 Bethune Street at the corner of Washington Street. It is a few blocks from the LGBT Center. See directions below.

Date/Time: Saturday May 31-6:30-10pm. Doors open 6:30pm for book signings, the stage program is from 7-9:30, with more book signings until 10:00pm.

Afterparty: 10pm-1am
Tickets: $12 at the door

Program: Includes diverse author readings, live music, projected art from a bisexual comic anthology, capped off with the Bisexual Book Awards Ceremony and an afterparty.

AUTHORS/READINGS:

Manil Suri/novel The City of Devi
Cecilia Tan & J.R. Yussuf/fiction anthology Best Bi Short Stories
Mary Anne Mohanraj, author of Sci-Fi novel The Stars Change
Bushra Rehman/novel Corona
Marina Peralta/memoir Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity
Jean Roberta/erotic novel The Flight of the Black Swan
Lena Chandhok/comic anthology Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight

COMIC BOOK ART: Charles “Zan” Christensen/presentation of projected art from Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight

LIVE MUSIC: Michael David Gordon & Howell Mooney

HOST: Sheela Lambert, Director, Bi Writers Assoc.; Editor, Best Bi Short Stories

AWARDS PRESENTED: Bisexual Book Awards Ceremony

AFTERPARTY: Cafe Gitane at the Jane Hotel no entrance fee-cash bar/food. A couple blks from Westbeth-we’ll all walk over together.

DIRECTIONS: Option1-Take A train to 14 St. Walk west to Washington Street. Turn L on Washington and walk down to Bethune. Make R on Bethune.
Option2-Take #1 train to Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. Walk west on Christopher to Washington St. Make R on Washington and walk up to Bethune. Turn L on Bethune.

Find this event on Facebook or Bi Meetup. More performer details on Bisexual Examiner or Bi Writers Assoc. blog.

Performer info: Blog at www.biwriters.org
Contact: Sheela Lambert, Director, Bi Writers Association
fuscialadybug (at) netzero (dot) com
@TweetsBiSheela
917-583-1797

CHRISTINA MAILE, PENNY JONES, NANCY GABOR, PAUL BINNERTS AND STEPHEN HALL featured in May 16 interactive performance tour at the Metropolitan Museum

Organized with the Metaverses Team artists Justine Williams, Vanessa Gilbert and others, and the Metropolitan Museum’s Media Center, the interactive tour featured prints, paintings, and voices of Westbeth artists.
Tour participants were given interactive Ipads which when placed in front of selected artwork, would show videos or sound collaborations with Westbeth and Metaverses artists.

The tour began in the Great Hall and travelled from Ancient Greek and Roman through Oceania, and African, to the Medieval galleries.

At each stop which was indicated on a map, the participants either heard the voices of Westbeth artists describing their involvement in art , or held up IPads and watched as the pieces in the museum were transformed into pieces by Westbeth artists.

Tour participants given Ipads and earphones

Interactive IPads responding to selected images in the Museum

Interactive IPad showing linking images and soundscape

IPad with interactive image held in front of Museum statue

Video of Christina Maile print as it dresses the statue - a reference to the original painted condition of ancient Greek and Roman statues

Continuation of video

Nancy Gabor and Paul Binnerts voices performing a Medieval story while video of images rotate inside of Madonna statue

Stephen Hall's images of guns surround the armour of Henry VIII

In an area similar to this, the voice of Penny Jones described the contents of her apartment, and her puppets

Image of Dayak Shield from Borneo

Video of Christina Maile's shield prints. Soundscape described ethnographical elements of shield in a very academic voice, which was then contrasted with Maile's family personal recollections of shield

VALERIE GHENT’S receives rave review for her performance at Joe’s Pub, NYC on May 1, 2014

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Ghent’s show was enthralling and pure excitement. She did a great job with the vocals and drawing the entire audience into the fun. Like I mentioned earlier, her back-up vocalists were superb and her band spectacular. Definitely recommended if you like feel-good rock. – NEW YORK CABARET

Read the entire review here.
http://www.newyorkcabarettoday.com/blog/2014/05/02/Valerie-Ghent-is-a-True-Rockstar-at-Joes-Pub.aspx?alt_id=DRHG4-W1A74-2F7&ts=1399032267141

WESTBETH GALLERY – CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2015. Deadline May 31, 2014

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CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS

Background
The Westbeth Gallery is a nonprofit fine arts gallery located within Westbeth Artist Housing in the Far West Village in Manhattan. The mission of the gallery is to offer the opportunity for the general public to see the work of the residents of Westbeth and to serve the larger community by presenting work of emerging artists, work of mid-career or senior artists, work that is underrepresented in commercial galleries or curated shows that present work in new and interesting ways. The gallery is operated by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council which is a volunteer organization elected by the residents of the building. As such, exhibitors are given quite a bit of latitude in the content and arrangement of their work once it is selected and are expected to work independently to curate, market and install their exhibition professionally.

The gallery is seeking proposals from institutions, curators or individual artists for public exhibitions. Preference is given to proposals that highlight underserved artistic communities; which frame traditional artistic forms in new ways or which contextualize some aspect of Westbeth’s artistic or architectural history. Preference is also given to resident artists for at least half of the exhibition slots each season. Proposed exhibitions should be composed of artwork that is the product of professional artists. Student or community-made artwork is not being presented by Westbeth Gallery at this time.

Application Requirements
Please submit the following:
• 250 word statement of your proposed exhibition
• 250 words on your marketing strategy and audience for this show
• A C.V. of the curator and/or artist(s)
• Any visual support materials you feel are relevant

Costs
The gallery charges a fee for maintenance and upkeep and $100 deposit, which is refundable upon completion of the exhibition. A 25% commission is kept for works that are sold, although a sales record is not required in order to present.

Gallery Information
Guidelines for the gallery and floor plans can be found at www.westbeth.org under About/Location.

Selection Process
Once we have received your application, it will be reviewed by members of the Visual Arts Committee. Proposals that are considered viable will be scheduled on a rolling bases as there are openings in our season. Currently we have three openings for the 2014 season. We are also accepting proposals for the 2015 season.

Application Deadlines
Deadline is May 31, 2014
• Each slot runs approximately three weeks
• Load in on Wednesday / Load out on Monday 19 days later
• Proposals including Westbeth Residents will be given preference

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM AND INFORMATION HERE


Westbeth Gallery Call for Proposals 2015 DOWNLOAD