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Featuring Tapes ‘N Tapes, Eyedea & Abilities, and Total Babe
Sunday, July 11, 1–9 pm Free
Walker Open Field/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Soak in the sun and take in the sounds of TAPES ‘N TAPES, EYEDEA & ABILITIES, TOTAL BABE, Justin Wulf, BubbleTeeth, and Wolf Mountain on the Walker’s rolling hillside. This daylong festival of music brings high school musicians into the mix with established bands, rappers, and performers.

In addition to featured acts on the main stage, bring your best music mixes to trade in a MIX TAPE EXCHANGE (5:30 pm), create your own musical instruments in our ART-MAKING TENT (1-6 pm), and make connections or learn more about the professional arts community at the YOUNG ARTISTS RESOURCE FAIR (2-6 pm). Presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC).

1 pm Wolf Mountain

2 pm BubbleTeeth

3 pm Just Wulf

4:30 pm Total Babe

6 pm Eyedea & Abilities

8 pm Tapes’n Tapes

LINK:

Open Exposure Facebook Event Page

Come and support young musicians under the age of 20!

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 6-10 PM at the BEAT COFFEEHOUSE

6 pm Diving for Illusions
7 pm Cat & Fox
8 pm Wolf Mountain
9 pm Howler

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 6-10 PM at the DEPOT COFFEEHOUSE

6 pm Nice Purse
7 pm The Beloved Kings
8 pm Faith Boblett
9 pm BubbleTeeth

SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 6-10 PM at ECLIPSE RECORDS

6 pm The Burn Aways
7 pm Sons of St. Francis
8 pm Enable Mind
9 pm Just Wulf

DO YOU WANT PLAY WITH TAPES ‘N TAPES AND EYEDEA & ABILITIES?
DEADLINE: Friday, June11

Send in your music for a chance to perform at three showcases (see below) around the Twin Cities. Three select bands will go on to play with Tapes ‘N Tapes and Eyedea & Abilities at the Open Exposure Festival at the Walker Art Center on July 11.
To enter: email your MP3s or URL to teenprograms@walkerart.org. For more info call 612.375.7683.

OPEN EXPOSURE SHOWCASE SERIES
Leading up to Open Exposure, the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) is hosting three showcases highlighting some of the best high school bands and rappers in the Twin Cities. Support all ages venues and up and coming bands by attending the Open Exposure Showcases!

Beat Coffeehouse
1414 West 28th Street, Minneapolis
Thursday, June 24, 6-10 pm

The Depot
9451 Excelsior Boulevard, Hopkins
Saturday, June 26, 6-10 pm

Eclipse Records
1922 University Avenue, West St. Paul
Sunday, June 27, 6-10 pm

1. Apply for WACTAC
2. Call for High School Bands & Rappers
3. Open Exposure All Ages Showcases
4. Open Exposure Festival featuring Tapes ‘N Tapes and Eyedea & Abilities

1. WALKER ART CENTER TEEN ARTS COUNCIL (WACTAC) APPLICATION
Application Deadline: Friday, June 4, 2010

WACTAC is a group of 12 high school students who work with the Walker to produce programming that connects teenagers to contemporary art and artists. Past projects have included: teen art exhibitions, performances, film screenings, artist talks, workshops, and events, marketing materials. Meetings are held weekly during the school year and last approximately 90 minutes. Applicants must be high school students enrolled for the 2009–2010 school year. We are looking for opinionated, self motivated teenagers with a wide variety of experiences, interests, and skills.

Go to teens.walkerart.org/wactacapp and fill out the form.

2. DO YOU WANT PLAY WITH TAPES ‘N TAPES AND EYEDEA & ABILITIES?
CALL FOR HIGH SCHOOL BANDS, RAPPERS, AND MUSICIANS
DEADLINE: Friday, June11

Send in your music for a chance to perform at three showcases (see below) around the Twin Cities. Three select bands will go on to play with Tapes ‘N Tapes and Eyedea & Abilities at the Open Exposure Festival at the Walker Art Center on July 11.
To enter: email your MP3s or URL to teenprograms@walkerart.org. For more info call 612.375.7683.

3. OPEN EXPOSURE SHOWCASE SERIES
Leading up to Open Exposure, the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) is hosting three showcases highlighting some of the best high school bands and rappers in the Twin Cities. Support all ages venues and up and coming bands by attending the Open Exposure Showcases!

Beat Coffeehouse
1414 West 28th Street, Minneapolis
Thursday, June 24, 6-10 pm

The Depot
9451 Excelsior Boulevard, Hopkins
Saturday, June 26, 6-10 pm

Eclipse Records
1922 University Avenue, West St. Paul
Sunday, June 27, 6-10 pm

4. OPEN EXPOSURE FESTIVAL
FEATURING TAPES ‘N TAPES, EYEDEA & ABILITIES, AND TOTAL BABE
Sunday, July 11, 1–9 pm Free
Walker Art Center Open Field

Tapes ‘n Tapes, Eyedea & Abilities, and Total Babe

Soak in the sun and take in the sounds of Tapes ‘N Tapes, Eyedea & Abilities, Total Babe, and four high school bands on the Walker’s rolling hillside. This daylong festival of music brings high school musicians into the mix with established bands, rappers, and performers.

In addition to featured acts on the main stage, bring your best music mixes to trade in a mix tape exchange, create your own musical instruments in our art-making tent, and make connections or learn more about the professional arts community at the Young Artists Resource Fair. Presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC).

http://walkerart.org/openfield/projects/open-exposure

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Longplayer is a piece of music that is designed to last for one thousand years. It started on January 1st 2000, and if all the calculations are correct shall continue without repetition until December 31st 2999. It was created by Jem Finer who is also the founding member of the group The Pogues. Longplayer is based on existing music, lasting 20 mintues and 20 seconds in length, which is processed by a computer using a simple algorithm

Artist Joe Discroll performs his song Just Once, I really like the live looping performance, how every piece mashing together creates a magnificent piece of ear heaven.

Click this link for full flyer: Hip-Hop Workshop

IFP is offering summer media workshops for teens and kids.

There are a total of five different workshops, each one giving teens hands on experience and a chance to express themselves through media arts.

The first workshop begins June 14 and the last workshop starts July 26.

For more information visit

www.ifpmn.org

Or call 651-644-1912

Franklin Art Works, a visual and performing arts center in Minneapolis, is hosting 8 weeks of free Saturday photography workshops for local high school students ages 15 to 18. The courses are taught by 9 former McKnight Photography Fellowship recipients, including Xavier Tavera, Peter Haakon-Thompson, Wing Young Huie and Monica Haller, covering a topic of the instructor’s choice.

Workshops take place each Saturday from 1-4pm starting June 5th through July 31st at a variety of locations across the Twin Cities. At the end of each workshop you’ll work with instructors to select one photograph that will be printed and framed courtesy of Franklin Art Works and shown in a final exhibition in Franklin’s Project space.

Students are welcome to enroll for more than one workshop. For a full list of course descriptions and class locations click here http://franklinfresh.tumblr.com/  or call Colleen Harriss at 612-872-7294×4 to register. Space limited to 5 students per class, sign up today!

Check the guidlines. Create a 10 Second film about anything. Then email to tensecondfilmfestival@gmail.com

Check out some of last years winners.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TenSecondFilmFest

Last Thursday, another WACTAC member and I met at the Walker after traveling our respective bus routes to see Bill Daniel’s Who is Bozo Texino? A 56 minute long black and white film shot in super 8 and 16mm, Bozo Texino follows Bill Daniel as he travels the country for over 16-years by way of hopping trains.  In his travels, Daniel encounters emblems and symbols, tagged in chalk.  These signatures, penned by hobos and rail workers for over a century, provide a loose narrative arc to the film as Daniel tries to track down the man behind a particular drawing of a cowboy named Bozo Texino.

Daniel’s investigative style of film making allows the rail-riders he interviews to come through as individuals, but also help deliver the film’s message as a whole.  However, this message is not as simple as most documentaries I’ve seen.  The final scene of the film is a long shot of a field of discarded boxcars.  The man behind the legendary “bozo texino” graffiti ends the film on an unexpected note when he remarks how one day he got tired of drawing the same emblem time after time and leaving his mark on boxcars eventually lost all meaning for him.  In a Q&A session with Daniel after the film, he remarked how he purposefully allowed his film to conclude without explicitly stating a central message he had in mind.  This gave me more to think about that anything presented in the film itself.  Hopefully, filmmakers like Daniel continue to tell stories in new, varied ways that expand the definition of what a film can do and be.

The Depot
On Saturday Witt and I load up the tent in the back of the trusty Buick Century for the drive over to the The Depot in Hopkins (our only non-city venue and close to where I grew up in Plymouth). We finally figure out how to arrange the two parts of the platform so that we can tie them down securely to the roof! The drawback is that there is no longer a plywood spoiler up top. Witt has told me that I do not have to be there for the entire band showcase, which I feel guilty about and decide to stay for the first band, Nice Purse who of course, rock. The Depot is a youth run coffee shop and performance venue, something that I wish I had access to when I was growing up (teens these days, they get everything). The tent is cozily located in the coffee shop due to the expected second night of monsoon rains. I hang out for a while and make a movie inside the tent, its all dark.

Inside the tent (with flash)

Eclipse Records
Sunday evening the Open Exposure Showcase Series moves to Eclipse Records in St Paul. I have been told I had the night off (as Maria keeps telling me) but I wanted to come by just to see the tent set up and also because I have never been to Eclipse. The Listening Tent is in the back of the Walker mini-van so I just show up around 6 and watch The Burn Aways. I am kind of freaked out when at one moment the bassist spits on the drummer who returns the favor. Robert tells me this is something punk rock bands do, which I don’t remember from my youth but then I can’t remember anything these days. But I did see punk rock bands back in the day, you teens!

Occupied tent

The tent is in the same room as the stage, which is a cool opportunity to listen to the band from the tent. I don’t get a chance as Maria is hanging out (napping?) in there for a while.

We have one event left now, Open Exposure on July 11, make sure you experience the The Listening Tent.

by Peter Haakon Thompson

Since December I have been fortunate to be an artist in residence with the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC). The final result of our time together is called The Listening Tent, a 4’ wide by 7’ long tent. The tent is constructed from thrift store blankets (washed!) and a wood frame. It was inspired by our visit to the world’s quietest place (located here in South Minneapolis!).

the tent finished!

It also came as a response to Open Exposure, the music event WACTAC is presenting currently with a culmination on July 11. We were thinking about what we could do that would be using the basic element of music; sound. Although a concert is all about listening, it is a rather proscribed activity–look at the band and listen. I was curious to see how muffling and disconnecting sound from visual cues would work in the environment of a music performance. One also enters the tent alone, something else that is a seeming contradiction at a music show. The Listening Tent is a dark, quiet space to enter with this prompt,

Use this tent for a moment of solitude while listening to what is around you and what is in your head.

We set it up at The Beat Coffee Shop on Thursday evening for its public debut at the first of the music showcases.

Outside The Beat

Four bands were in the line-up, Diving for Illusions ,Cat & Fox, Wolf Mountain and Howler. I was mostly hanging out in front of the coffee shop where we had the tent set up and guarding the burritos. We had some visitors to the tent however, teen and otherwise. One coffee shop patron said something about how “people are always telling me I have to listen more” and tried out the tent for 5 or so minutes, one of our longer visitors. Some other comments related to the feeling of motion while in the tent, like a boat, something I also experienced. Sound is heard through the tent but one user described it eloquently this way,

“Things were brought down to a loud murmur. The roughness of the street was softened and idle chatter was akin to your neighbors in an apartment with thin walls”

There was also a sense that time was differently experienced, “I forgot where I was for a minute. I felt like I could walk out of it and end up in Narnia. Also, I kept thinking about disasters (I’m claustrophobic).”

Finally, unless you can make a true, portable anechoic chamber, “Motorcycles are loud. Even when you’re in a tent.”

Looking forward to The Listening Tent being used tonight at the Depot and on Sunday at Eclipse Records.

A satisfied customer

Sarah has returned! Sarah has been away at Oxbow making art all day e’eryday for the past couple of months, we’re hearing about her experiences.

This post is being written in real time, just so you know.

Are there any teens out there (especially rappers or hip hop artists) who are interested in performing in a  wactac event? PLEASE CONTACT US. THE DEADLINE IS TOMORROW.

There are like six conversations going on right now, I can’t even effectively take notes.

A couple of weeks ago Nick and Witt took a trip to Sam’s Club (or Costco….I’m not sure?) and they bought these three 12 packs of  Mountain Dew. The tropical fruit flavor is actually pretty good. Although there’s so much dye in it that it stained the table pink. That doesn’t seem healthy.

“We got a little off track”- Witt, just now, at the meeting.

This weekend we’re going to finish constructing our anechoic tent with artist Peter Haakon Thompson! Should be really cool. Come to Open Exposure on Sunday July 11th to check it out!

“I’m announcing my love”- Adrianna explaining to us how she is willing to miss band practice to assist WACTAC. What a kind soul.

Esau and Nakami just realized they are both going to college in Boston. Can you say best friends for life? Congratulations to all graduates!

WACTAC MEETING LESSON #1: Do not exploit people’s boyfriends at meetings.

Discussing options for this years student open house…exciting!  You should all plan on coming! Its free!

Me: Yeah, but where are we going to get a bunch of sticks?
Nick: Uh, THE JUNGLE. HELLO.

The meeting today was very productive, lots of productive discussion.

Seacrest out!
-Kaitlyn

Don’t delay, fill out your WACTAC application today!

The deadline has been extended to Monday, July 12!  Call 612.375.7683 or email teenprograms@walkerart.org if you have any questions.

Nice Purse updated their MySpace with four newly recorded tracks (recorded in studio with So TM records!) off their upcoming album “Black Medal”

Go check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/pantherbolt