INTRODUCTORY COURSE TO BE OFFERED THIS FALL

Exploring Arts for Social Change: Communities in Action to be offered again this fall

Course number Education 496, 13 weeks

Credit and non-credit

ICASC NEWS

Winter 2012 Letter from Judith

Judith Marcuse Projects, Winter Newsletter 2012

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New Year’s greetings!

May 2012 bring you good health, fulfillment and unexpected pleasures.

Judith Marcuse elected as Ashoka International Senior Fellow

Media Release

JUDITH MARCUSE ELECTED SENIOR FELLOW
OF ASHOKA INTERNATIONAL

Vancouver, BC, 11 July 2011:

The members of the Board of Directors of Judith Marcuse Projects (JMP) are delighted to announce that Judith Marcuse, Artistic Producer of JMP, has been elected a Senior Fellow of Ashoka International.

Judith's Spring Letter

Spring greetings from Vancouver!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We have lots of news! The last few months have been a whirl of travel for meetings and consultations, speaking and teaching. And there are exciting developments on several ICASC projects.

Latest update from Judith Marcuse

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Winter is here.

In this part of the world, thick carpets of leaves perfume the air and, although our Canadian west coast grey skies occasionally light up to a brilliant blue, the sun arrives late and leaves early. The wind and rain have come; we had our first wind/snowstorm earlier than usual...the first sign of a more extreme winter we are told is coming.

Letter from Judith Marcuse, Summer, 2010

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It has been a very busy and productive year for us at ICASC...and high time to bring you up to date!

I have been on the road to Sénegal, Mali and to South Africa; to The Hague in Holland; London, England; New Orleans; and to many centres across Canada, to speak, teach and network for our Centre. It has been inspiring and energizing to meet so many extraordinary people doing wonderful work, often in very challenging situations. Here is some of our news.

ICASC Fall Institute program is full!

Registration for the ICASC Fall Institute - Exploring Arts for Social Change: Communities in Action is full! If you are interested in attending please put your name on the waiting list and note that ICASC hopes to offer this program again in the spring semester.

ICASC Fall Institute - REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Registration for the ICASC Fall Institute - Exploring Arts for Social Change: Communities in Action is now open!

Registration for non-credit students here.

Registration for credit students, please see the Faculty of Education homepage.

ICASC Fall Institute Update

ICASC is pleased to advise that credit arrangements for the upcoming Fall Institute/Special Topics Course have been confirmed. Offered in collaboration with SFU Faculties of Education and Continuing Studies, for credit and non-credit learners, this unique course will take place over 12 weeks in three-hour, once-weekly evening sessions starting on September 8th, 2010. Updated course details and credit information here.

When: 04/15/2010 - 18:00
Where: Room 1315 Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre Campus 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC

The International Centre of Art For Social Change (ICASC), a partnership between Judith Marcuse Projects and Simon Fraser University, invites you to celebrate the launch of a new 30-minute video, So What Is Art For Social Change?, with a free public showing at Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre Campus, on Thursday, April 15th, at 6 P.M.

ICASC Announces Fall Institute

ICASC is pleased to announce its first Fall Institute, Exploring Arts for Social Change. This is the first university-based course of its kind to be offered in Canada.
We encourage the participation of students, artists and anyone interested in exploring community-engaged arts as potent elements in diverse agendas such as:
• health promotion and training
• work with youth and elders, with new Canadians and with marginalized populations
• social justice, human rights and environmental work
• inter-generational and inter-cultural work
• conflict resolution

New ICASC Video Released

“So What is Art for Social Change?”, a new half-hour video about the many ways that community-engaged arts are evolving around the world, will be available in March. An entertaining compendium of diverse examples from Canada and abroad, the video also includes comments from senior writers and practitioners in the field.
This video is a companion piece to Despertar, available for download or viewing on this website.

African Initiative

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Judith Marcuse On the Road

Judith Marcuse recently returned from The Hague, where she spoke and taught in the Peace Palace at an international conference on the arts and conflict resolution, later travelling to Senegal and Mali to meet with artists and others who are using the arts in community development and other educational and social change agendas.
She returns to Africa in March to speak at the Arts and Humanity Conference in Durban, South Africa.

When: 12/18/2009 - 18:00
Where: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC 3rd Floor, Centre For Dialogue meeting area

Dear JMP Members and Friends,

Please join us for our rescheduled Annual General Meeting.

6:00pm, Friday December 18th, 2009
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
3rd Floor, Centre for Dialogue meeting space

Please meet at the entrance to the left of the 3rd floor elevators for admittance as doors are locked from 5:30pm onward.

Join us as we review the previous year’s achievements and look at the year ahead for the International Centre of Art for Social Change.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Goldbard and Lerman Dialogues Enrich and Engage


ICASC would like to thank everyone who attended the recent presentations and dialogues with Arlene Goldbard and Liz Lerman, two world leaders in the field of art in community/community cultural development. We were delighted to host Arlene and Liz. Their knowledge, clarity and humour, as well as their generosity, created memorable moments of shared stories and perspectives, new learning, and creative insight for us all.

Judith Marcuse awarded the Canada Council Jacqueline Lemieux Prize

Ottawa, September 16, 2009 – The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that Vancouver-based artistic director, producer and choreographer Judith Marcuse has been awarded the 2009 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize.

ICASC to Host Public Dialogues with Visiting Luminaries

We are pleased to announce that two of the world’s leading figures in the world of art for social change/art in community will be coming to Vancouver in October. ICASC is pleased to announce the following two free public events:

EARTH=home Engages Both Head and Heart

Canadian choreographer Judith Marcuse toured her latest large scale multi-media live theatre/dance creation, EARTH=home, to youth audiences across Canada in March and April 2009. Thirty-six performances were presented to an audience of over 10,000 youth and adults in West Vancouver, Nanaimo, Surrey, Vernon, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver. 

When: 04/23/2009 - 12:00
04/25/2009 - 14:00
Where: Scotiabank Dance Centre 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC

The environment, consumerism and social justice are at the heart of Judith Marcuse’s thrilling interdisciplinary show EARTH=home, which returns to Vancouver following an extensive tour across Canada.

When: 04/08/2009 - 19:00
Where: room 1600 - SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC

ICASC co-presented a free reading and conversation with playwright Julie Salverson on April 8th. Julie’s work focuses on ethics, trauma, and the foolish witness in telling risky stories.

Julie Salverson

Judith Marcuse Projects Sends EARTH=home on National Tour

The staff and directors of Judith Marcuse Projects (JMP) are pleased to announce that the most recent production in Judith Marcuse’s trilogy of dance-theatre works for young people, EARTH=home, will soon be on the road for a five-week, nine-city Canadian tour, 5 March-25 April 2009.

ICASC in action

Judith Marcuse taught a day-long workshop in January, 2009, for the students of Simon Fraser University’s innovative Semester in Dialogue program. The current term’s program is called Designing the Future. Also in January, Judith was part of a dialogue with students in the SFU certificate program in Sustainable Community Development. The topic: Making Change Happen.

Creative Conversations Have Begun!

We are pleased to report that ICASC’s recent three days of Creative Conversations activities were, indeed, very creative events!

JMP announces EARTH=home National Tour

Judith Marcuse Projects is pleased to announce the national tour of their multi-media live theatre/dance creation, EARTH=home, to youth and family audiences across Canada in March/April 2009. Part of a series of works designed to address issues concerning today’s young people, EARTH=home encourages youth 12 to 17 years old to think about environmental and social issues, and to participate in their communities in work for positive change.

ICASC website launches!

The International Centre of Art for Social Change website (ICASC.ca) has launched!

ICASC Website
This website has been created so that ICASC can communicate upcoming news and events, programs and services, as well as provide a forum (via the ICASC Blog) for dialogue.

As a registered user you will have the ability to contribute to the ICASC blog, so why not click the Blog Sign in button and create an account now so your voice can be heard!

We also invite you to sign up for the ICASC newsletter by clicking on Newsletter sign-up where we will add your email to our mailing list so you can receive occasional updates about the site and what is happening in Art for Social Change. (When you create a blog sign in you are automatically added to the newsletter. You can opt out again by clicking Newsletter sign-up and unselecting the newsletter)

We value and appreciate your comments, feedback and suggestions. Please direct all inquiries to info@icasc.ca. Full contact details can be found on the Contact Us page.

ICASC at Performing the World Conference, New York

Judith Marcuse, Celeste Snowber and Lynn Fels from ICASC hosted a dialogue about the Centre at the PTW gathering in New York as part of research about how best to fulfill the needs of practitioners in the field of art for social change as well as to develop our Centre’s networks. For more information about PTW: www.performingtheworld.org

ICASC at Hollyhock

Judith Marcuse attended the Social Venture Institute gathering at Hollyhock, September 11-14th. ICASC was one of three case studies – designed to help non-profits “become sustainable”.

When: 11/03/2008 - 14:00
11/03/2008 - 17:00
11/03/2008 - 19:00
Where: Scotiabank Dance Centre 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC

The International Centre of Art for Social Change (ICASC) invites you to participate in two days of free public events, including a
presentation and dialogue with Arlene Goldbard, a world leader in the field of community cultural development. 

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