I've been working on this project for the past couple of years, and I have completed the West Baltimore portion of the project.
The East-West Expressway was a planned highway to connect Route I-70 near the Baltimore Beltway through Leakin Park and many historic and/or black neighborhoods. It was to go across the harbor with a 16 lane bridge and then connect with I-95. Only a small portion of the highway was built, the "Highway to Nowhere," where 20 blocks of houses and communities were lost for a short stretch of road.
Neighborhoods, communities, and organizations eventually won the highway war, one of many across the country. The Red Line, a 14 mile transit line, will follow much of the proposed route. The Gwynns Falls Trail, a hiking and biking trail, runs through Leakin Park from where the I-70 highway stops.
This piece delves into the history and memories of residents and community activists and lets them tell their stories about the fight to stop the highway and how things have changed since from both the planning and community perspective.
The piece can be found on Sound Cloud as an MP3 -
http://soundcloud.com/bad-crow/rooted-unrouted-west
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Rooted/Unrouted: West Baltimore and the Highway to Nowhere
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Encounters Film Festival - UK
Due 6/30/09
http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/
30 minute max.
The festival is open to short films of all production techniques, including animation, documentary, drama, experimental or artist film and hybrid work.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Conference - Teaching Citizenship & Civility
http://slpapers-proposals.blogspot.com/2009/05/international-conferenceteaching.html
Due 9/15
nternational Conference/Teaching Citizenship and Civility Call for Papers
The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Announces the 11th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
November 12-15, 2009
The Society picks conference themes to encourage faculty from the relevant areas to submit papers, panels, or other standard forms of presentation, but submissions may speak to any issue regarding ethics across the curriculum. Questions about possible submissions should be sent to the directors at Wade.Robison@rit.edu.
Theme: Teaching Citizenship and Civility
It is a hallmark of civility within a society that those of opposing points of view can reasonably discuss their differences and find common ground amidst their disagreements.
Teaching students to become civil citizens and modeling a civil society within our classes are always pressing concerns. The concept of citizenship may encompass a wide variety of ethical actions (such as volunteerism or philanthropy) and political relations (such as nationalism or globalism). Teaching students to become civil citizens requires consideration of the content and practice of citizenship, in all its forms. Even in classes where the content is far removed from what seems relevant to a civic education, the way in which the class is taught -- how disagreements about answers are resolved -- can teach lessons essential to civility. Teaching civility, in all its forms, is an education across the curriculum. Although the theme of the conference highlights the content and practice of teaching civil citizens, submissions are not limited to the conference theme.
Submissions (either papers or abstracts) should be formatted for blind review and sent by September 15th 2009 to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society, Donna Werner, DWerner@stlcc.edu or by hard copy to Dr. Donna Werner, Philosophy Department (HE 103), St. Louis Community College, Meramec, 11333 Big Bend Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63122-5799. Phone: 314.984.7934.
We will make decisions about papers as soon as we can after they arrive. So the sooner you submit your abstract or paper or panel suggestion, the sooner you will hear from us regarding its suitability for the conference.
The Society publishes Teaching Ethics, and papers for conferences may be considered for publication either in that journal or in a possible anthology on teaching citizenship and civility.
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
WPA Call for Experimental Media - rec'd by 8/1
From: Adam Griffiths
Date: 2009 May 6 2:10:52 PM EDT (CA)
Subject: WPA Experimental Media Series 2009 Call for Entries
WPA Experimental Media Series 2009
September 24, October 1, 2009 @ The Phillips Collection
October 28 & 29, Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art
Juror: Kelly Gordon, Associate Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden
Submission Deadline (received): August 1, 2009
For the next installment of the WPA’s Experimental Media Series, WPA
will present a selection of innovative video and sound works over the
course of two evenings at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC,
and two additional screenings of selections from the Phillips event
combined with student works at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
For the screening, WPA is calling all video and sound artists to
submit works that explore any subject matter of their choice in
innovative ways. A selection of the received video and sound works
will be presented in the framework of a public screening. Artists
selected for the screening nights will be notified during the last
week of August. Additionally, two artists submitting the most
compelling entries, as reviewed by the juror and based on overall
quality and innovation will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media
of $750 and the WPA Experimental Media Prize of $750 on October 1.
Please note that the WPA Prize will go to an artist living and working
in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Artists may submit up to 3 pieces in either sound or video with a
maximum run time of 3 minutes. Please remind artists to review the
guidelines closely in order to adhere to these basic requirements.
Link to WPA EMS 2009 Entry webpage: http://www.wpadc.org/events/calls2.html
Download Call for Entries: http://www.wpadc.org/pdf/EMS_2009.pdf
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