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from the heart of Chelsea, NY�</span></i></b></p><b>
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<h2><font style="font-size: 22pt">Jakob Montrasio's 11-foot skyscraper photos at the "Shanghai
Prophecy" show</font></h2></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm" target="_blank">The Skyscraper Museum</a></span><font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight:700">, 39 Battery Place, through Winter 2010</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Could
Shanghai replace New York as the 'world city' of the 21<sup>st</sup>
century?</span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
That is the question this exhibit of 11-foot skyscraper photos,
models, and videos asks. With a population of 18 million and
growing, 'vertical cities' of skyscrapers could be Shanghai's
population salvation, and a model for China's -- and the world's --
growing urban centers. Of note in this exhibition are <b>
<a href="http://jakob.montrasio.net/" target="_blank">Jakob Montrasio</a></b>'s 11-foot skyscraper photos of Shanghai's towering towers
(at 128 stories, the 'under-construction' 'Shanghai Tower' will
surpass New York's 102-story Empire State Building). Also catch Montrasio's 20-minute Shanghai video and glide through the
illuminated walkways of China's ancient city of the future.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 22pt">Goldberg Haas' Dances for a Variable Population</span></h3></span></p>
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Downtown Dance Festival, Chase Plaza, NY August 21, 2009</span></p>
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This group did it again! Choreographer
<a href="http://www.naomigoldberghaas.com" target="_blank">Naomi Goldberg Haas</a> has
assembled a company with dancers of different shapes, sizes, and
ages (ranging from early 20's to late 70's).</b> Haas works with the
movement styles of her diverse dancer-types -- to make wonderful
exhilarating works like <i>Fanfare</i>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> At
the end of the show, the audience was invited on stage to join in.</span></p>
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Everybody: the short, the tall, the old, the young, the cool, the
clumsy. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Vivent
les differences!</span></p>
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<h4><span style="font-size: 22pt">Caecilia Tripp's New York film</span></h4></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.bowerypoetry.com/" target="_blank">Bowery Poetry Club</a> screening/reception, July 21, 2009</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> <b>A
"Euro magic-realist" view of downtown New York with repeated scenes
� la Gertrude Stein.</b> Though the repetition can get to you,
Parisian filmmaker <b>
<a href="http://www.galerie-maisonneuve.com/tripp/tripp_making-of-americans.html" target="_blank">Caecilia Tripp</a></b>'s work lingers in the mind�with
luminous scenes of Washington Square Park nighttime and Chelsea
daytime.</span></p>
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<h5><span style="font-size: 22pt">Bob Holman's Poetry Floor</span></h5> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"</span></font><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #0000FF">Hollywood Poetry" after-party May 10, 2009</span></b></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">I
am jealous of <a href="http://www.bobholman.com/" target="_blank">Bob Holman</a>'s Poetry floor up in his fab loft. Lines of
the world's greatest poetry (from Rimbaud to Dickinson to Whitman,
plus so many more�and in many, many languages).</span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
Now I want a Poetry floor too. I love the way something as
'up-in-the-clouds' as poetry�becomes part of the solid foundation
that holds us up! (in Bob's loft anyway). And at the "Hollywood
Poetry" after-party, the loft's poetry floor held up the likes of celeb-poets Patricia Clarkson, Michael O'Keefe, Sapphire, Amber Tamblyn, Claire Daines, and more. Bravo Bob!</span></p>
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<h6><font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-size: 22pt">Jonas Mekas and Cecilia Vicu�a dance at the UN</span></font></h6></span></p>
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UN Correspondents Association Clubroom, February 21</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> <b>
Legendary avant-garde filmmaker <a href="http://jonasmekas.com/" target="_blank">Jonas Mekas</a> and multi-lingual poet
<a href="http://www.ceciliavicuna.org/en_exhibition.htm" target="_blank">Cecilia Vicu�a</a> danced in celebration of International Mother
Language Day (February 21) at the
<a href="http://www.unca.com/" target="_blank">United Nations Correspondents
Association</a> Clubroom.</b> Both gave readings and talks at
this benefit to promote literacy projects (co-sponsored by the UN
Language and Communications Programme). Jonas Mekas spoke lovingly of Lithuanian, his
native tongue and of his struggles to communicate in other
languages. Said Mekas, "Always it was a struggle. I spoke the wrong
dialect, my accent was too heavy. 'We don't understand. What are you
trying to say?' were the words I heard most often from other people.
Then I discovered the language of cinema and said, 'Finally, a
universal language that the whole world will understand.' But then
people watched my films and said, 'We don't understand. What are you
trying to say?' "</span></p>
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas and poet Cecilia Vicu�a</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"Being" is a compound of three forms:
"to grow", "to set in motion"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">And
"yes it may be so."</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"To
be not an <i>estar</i>, but a way of being." � </span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Cecilia
Vicu�a</span><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">, </span><i>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Instan</span></i></b></p>
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