ARTWEEK may come only once a year, but this summer we’re excited to introduce ARTWEEKend!
SCHEDULE
Friday, July 10:
6PM Doors
6:15-7:15PM Poetry Workshop with Niko Popow*
7:30-9PM Freeing Juanita Film Screening in partnership with New Jersey Film Festival**
*Free registration required. Donations directly to teacher welcome.
**Free registration required. Bring your own chairs!
Saturday, July 11:
12-2 PM Paper Weaving Workshop with Mickey Waring*
2-3:30PM Lunch Break**
3:30-10PM mignolo Block Party!***
3:30PM Doors
4PM Cornhole Tournament Begins****
5-6PM Live Music by Alejandro Ataucusi
6-7PM Live Music by Jay Channelle
7-8PM Live Music by The Outliiiers
8-9PM LBezzle
9-10PM DJ Phantom
*Free registration required. Donations directly to teacher welcome.
**Support local businesses!
***Free registration required. BYOB for $15 fee. $20 at door.
****Advanced registration suggested. $5 online. $7 at door.
Sunday, July 12:
10AM-12PM Contemporary Movement Practice with Nathan Forster of NJ Dance Coop (intermediate/advanced)*
12-2PM Open Source Forms Dance Class with alexx shilling of NJ Dance Coop (all levels)*
2-4PM Injury Prevention Workshop*
*Registration required.
About the Film
Freeing Juanita – Sebastian Lasaosa Rogers
Juanita has been unjustly detained in Reynosa, Mexico for over seven years, accused of a crime she didn’t commit and forced to confess in a language she didn’t understand. This intimate portrait follows Ana and Pedro, Juanita’s aunt and uncle, on their thousand-mile journey from the highlands of Guatemala. With the help of their Maya Chuj community and a network of Maya interpreters, they fight for Juanita’s freedom and demand justice from the Mexican authorities, a cause that became internationally recognized for its defense of migrants’ rights and language justice. 2024; 75 min.
Special Thanks to Paul Rogers and Rosa Lasarosa Rogers for making this screening possible! Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center & the New Jersey Film Festival!
About the Workshops
Poetry Workshop with Niko: Much of our everyday consciousness is organized by habit and the need to move smoothly through social life, and a great deal is filtered out before it ever reaches the page. Poetry offers one way of loosening that regulation: by submitting ourselves to a form or constraint, we can redirect the mind away from its usual self-monitoring and toward language itself, allowing unexpected images, tonal turns, and verbal associations to emerge. This workshop moves through poetic techniques, example poems, and a craft-oriented writing period with individual feedback, and concludes with sharing work aloud. It is open to writers at any level interested in using poetic form not simply to polish expression, but to generate it: to write beyond one's familiar habits of thought and into language that feels stranger, freer, and newly one's own.
Woven Stories - A Paper-Weaving Experience with Mickey: Discover the tactile and therapeutic art of paper weaving! In this creative, hands-on arts event, you will learn how to transform beautiful, painted and hand-made papers and texts into a unique interwoven work of art. This workshop is designed for absolutely everyone. No prior weaving experience is necessary.
Contemporary Movement Practice with Nathan: Start your morning with a blend of somatics, biomechanics, and intentional approaches to movement. We will expand, twist, swing, flop, and bounce as we investigate what it means to inhabit our bodies from the inside out as dynamic entities. Class begins with a full body warm up with built-in conditioning and stretch, leading to movement that invites joy and evokes flight. We will juice our viscera as we play with space, find our effort, and come together as dancers to begin a day of vibrant physicality and expression.
Open Source Forms with alexx: Dancing reveals the magic of being. We can meet our whole graceful, courageous, messy, formal selves through familiar and unfamiliar ways of moving. Guided by the philosophy that the source of creativity and wisdom is available within each of us, Open Source Forms (OSF) offers methods to access depth, specificity, courage and freedom in movement and creativity for all. Over the course of this class, we will use imagery to shed inhibitions, find ease of movement, and access deep physical intuition. No previous danceexperiencenecessary, only an openness to exploration. Come prepared with clothing layers, as we might shift nimbly from lying on the floor to dancing with abandon.
Injury Prevention Workshop: Join Excel Home Rehab for a sports injury prevention workshop: perform better, STOP injuries before they start, and create for longer. Get ready to learn simple, effective tips to stay safe and avoid injuries whether you’re hitting the gym, on stage, or chasing after the kids. This in-person event is perfect for everyone interested in keeping their body strong and injury-free. Come meet others, ask questions, and walk away feeling confident and prepared!