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The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Conference Room – 12:00pm (Closed Working Session) Meeting Lead: Ernesto Sopprani, Director, Airspace Queer Performance Residency Program; EMERGENCE lead Curator, SF/BA EAP, Co-Founder Director, THEOFFCENTER, Independent Cultural Worker, Curator, Artist Advocate. Local independent curators / Cultural Producers gather to discuss curatorial processes across disciplines. We will share challenges and contribute ideas to help understand the […]

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Conference Room – 2:50pm (Closed Working Session) Meeting Lead: Adam Fong, Ex. Director, Center for New Music; Director of National Initiatives, SF/BA EAP, Emerging Leaders Network Council, American for the Arts A working group of network leaders convenes to support and influence planning of regional gatherings. Engaging with broader networks offers an important opportunity […]

The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

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The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – A Working Session

Conference Room – 12:00pm (Closed Working Session)

Meeting Lead: Ernesto Sopprani, Director, Airspace Queer Performance Residency Program; EMERGENCE lead Curator, SF/BA EAP, Co-Founder Director, THEOFFCENTER, Independent Cultural Worker, Curator, Artist Advocate.

Local independent curators / Cultural Producers gather to discuss curatorial processes across disciplines. We will share challenges and contribute ideas to help understand the evolving role of the independent curator. Following the model adopted by SOMArts TheNews’ Curators Roundtable – This group of independent cultural producers / Curators will be tasked with a collective knowledge exploration. Asking what is most immediate, finding effective ways to bridge across practices. Knowledge cultivated in this session will be openly shared and will help inform future programing at EAP, other service organizations/ possible partners as well as the independent producer community.

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Ernesto Sopprani coordinates location-specific and primarily community-based performance projects. Whether as an artist or as an arch-collaborator, his work is geared towards investigating innovative and self-sustainable models of presenting art and performance, specifically queer work, which expands upon the common definition of Queer and challenges his and his community’s relationship to live performance. As Director of THEOFFCENTER, Ernesto has overseen the production, curation and execution of dozens of site-specific, research-based art interventions, a number of large scale performance festivals, multiple performer centered art programs both at presenting houses (YBCA, Mission Cultural Center, Mission Dance, The Magic Theatre, SOMArts and others) as well as public spaces (BART trains, city streets, and a privately owned boxing ring). Ernesto, an experimentalist of prose and form at heart, is the co-founder of 11 11 ArtGroup, a creative partnership funded with life partner and collaborator Evan Johnson; 11 11’s goal is to create and present queer[ed] text based theatre and sound installations. Ernesto was participant of the 2011 YBCA’s Bay Area Now 6 program. After being a fellows forEmerging Arts Professionals.’s 2011 class, he became part of leadership where he has served in many roles, of which the present one is of Curator of EMERGENCE 2015.

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

May 28, 2015/0 Comments/in EMERGENCE 2015 /by esopprani

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration Meeting

Conference Room – 2:50pm (Closed Working Session)

Meeting Lead: Adam Fong, Ex. Director, Center for New Music; Director of National Initiatives, SF/BA EAP, Emerging Leaders Network Council, American for the Arts

A working group of network leaders convenes to support and influence planning of regional gatherings. Engaging with broader networks offers an important opportunity for learning and development. This group is tasked with bringing forward the needs of their respective networks. Knowledge cultivated in this session will support stronger inter-network connections, and help inform future programming of both EAP and other hosts and facilitators of convenings, such as Center for Cultural Innovation and Americans for the Arts.

Lead Bio

Adam Fong has worked as a composer, performer, and producer of new music since completing his MFA in Music Composition at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith. As Associate Director of Other Minds (2006–2012), Fong produced six editions of the annual Other Minds Festival, dubbed the “premier new music festival on the West Coast” (Los Angeles Times), and many special projects including the CD reissues of Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano and The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles, tribute concerts to Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, and Dane Rudhyar, a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Fluxus, and the American Premiere of 18 Microtonal Ragas based on “Solo for Voice 58″ by John Cage. Fong’s own compositions have been performed internationally in Auckland, London, Berlin, Tübingen and Darmstadt, at many US universities, and throughout California, by performers including the two-piano team Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. In 2008, he co-founded Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area, a network dedicated to the development and growth of next generation arts and culture workers; he was Chair of Business Development in 2010-11 and Director from 2011-14. Adam also holds a master’s degree from Stanford University (English). He has lectured on experimental music and received international publication of his scholarly and creative work, and serves on advisory boards, panels, and committees at the local and national level.

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The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

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The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – Morning Working Session

The Independent Curator – Evolving Definitions – A Working Session

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Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration – Afternoon Working Session

Connections Across the Region: Next Gen Networks Collaboration Meeting

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