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Costume, Identity, and the Body: A Workshop with B. Dunn Movement Saturday, March 13, 2021 2pm EST / 11am PST https://www.culturehub.org//echo-immersive-experience-work... Only a few spots left! Register for the second in a series of three workshops with B. Dunn Movement Dance and Theatre Company, ECHO Immersive Experience, an immersive theatre project intersecting live performance, music, set, costume, and sound design with Virtual and Augmented Reality. EIE creates a tapestry weaving together narratives from the kidnapping and enslavement of tens of millions of African people over hundreds of years of forced migration. This workshop with Brigette Dunn-Korpela, Athena Lawton, and Brance Souza will address the following: the collaborative process, importance of identity in approach to design, the challenging relationship of costume to dancer/performer, importance of costume as a storytelling tool, costume as partner and extension of self, and examining relationship to clothing in daily life. Performers pictured: Whitney Jackson, Kayla Johnson, Brance Souza, Alan Perez, Dion Pratt, Dominique McDougal. Photography by Josh S. Rose.

Left and Right, Being who/where you are Saturday, March 13 1pm EST / 10am PST 7pm EST / 4pm PST... https://www.culturehub.org//left-and-right-o/where-you-are Left and Right, or Being who/where you are" is an interactive online AI theater performance created in collaboration with Brown Arts Initiative, based on research at the Digital Democracies Institute. Conceived and Directed by Ioana B. Jucan. Digital Design and Development: Tong Wu, Nuntinee Tansrisakul & Yuguang Zhang. The performance utilizes the interactive platform ohyay[ohyay.co], which supports the realization of functions such as layering and modifying actors’ video windows for dramatic visual effects, moving elements around the virtual stage, or transferring audience from scene to scene. It is among the first-of-its-kind for a production that embraces the online component as a core asset and builds the entire theatrical experience around it. Images from Yuguang Zhang's website

As we near the 1 year mark of the pandemic hitting New York City and Los Angeles, CultureHub opens Re-Fest 2021 on March 12, an online festival that brings artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future through online performances, conversations, workshops, and exhibition. Re-Fest 2021 engages the theme "re-circulation", exploring how we circulate art, ideas, and information both locally and between geographically disparate communi...ties. On March 12, at noon EST, the CultureHub family will go for a walk... 6 feet apart, yet connected by the sound of our voices. You will see us from far above, yet hear us nearby: follow link below to watch. Next time, we hope you will join us. This event is the first in a series of mass walking experiments, created by Nuum Collective. https://www.culturehub.org/re-fest-2021-events/walking-mass

Residency Q&A Monday, March 22, 2021 6pm EST / 3pm PST https://www.culturehub.org/events/residency-q-a... Bring any questions you might have to this informal Q&A session with the CultureHub team about the Residency Program. In this Zoom meeting, CultureHub staff will be available to answer questions regarding the Residency Program and the application process. CultureHub is currently accepting applications to the Residency Open Call now through April 18. Yearlong residencies will take place between July 1, 2021June 30, 2022 and will be anchored in either New York or Los Angeles, using a hybrid approach that uses both in person and online methodologies for collaboration and public engagement. Learn more about the Residency Program at culturehub.org/residency

#Throwback to Re-Fest 2018 as we gear up for Re-Fest 2021, opening this March! Grab your very own vintage Re-Fest artifact, "Re-Fest Re-Constructed" by Kayla Scott from the CultureHub Store: culturehub.org/store The mission of Re-Fest is to bring artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future. In 2018, Kayla Scott (past CultureHub Team member) re-purposed excess promotional cards, designed by Grant Gregory, to create one-of-a kind ...3D art object inspired by the concept of a networked map that creates pathways to connect disparate raised structures or hubs. Re-Fest Re-Constructed by Kayla Scott 12 x 12 x 2 inches Re-Fest 2018 Promotional Cards on Canvas 2018

Downtown Variety: Serbia Edition on Serbian TV! Check out this Serbian TV channel PTC’s program Kulturni dnevnik’s coverage of Downtown Variety: Serbia Edition! Thank you to our friends in Serbia Eho animato for sharing such beautiful, powerful work Visit culturehub.org/watch to watch the full program. https://www.youtube.com/watch