[Studio MV] Artist Profile : The Art of Calligraphy, Nevenka Kovacevich

March 29th, 2012

By Michala Smith | Edited by Jerry Kann

Martha’s Vineyard, MA — In the age of digital printers, we sometimes overlook the value of calligraphy—the fine art of writing by hand. Martha’s Vineyard Calligraphy has been providing calligraphy and handwriting services nationwide for over twenty years. Names, messages and greetings can be hand-sketched on anything from invitations and Thank You cards to wedding vows and marriage certificates. Nevenka Kovacevich, the owner of Martha’s Vineyard Calligraphy, is currently working on an original poem and is looking forward to a project involving hand-lettered song lyrics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For pricing or to contact M.V. Calligraphy for your next event, check out Ms. Kovacevich’s website at www.marthasvineyardcalligraphy.blogspot.com, or email her at MarthasVineyardCalligraphy@gmail.com

[Studio MV] Artist Profile : Randi Baird

February 28, 2011

Martha’s Vineyard, MA — Sitka Creations is happy to have had the opportunity to use the work of Island photographer Randi Baird, during 2010.

By Michala Smith

New York City native Randi Baird visited the small, picturesque island of Martha’s Vineyard in her teens, never expecting that she would eventually become a full-time resident. Ms. Baird has been a photographer for over two decades and has been featured in several publications, including Cape Cod Life, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, and Edible Vineyard. Having been raised in an urban environment, moving to Martha’s Vineyard fifteen years ago turned out to be a huge culture shock for Ms. Baird. Instead of occupying the streets of San Francisco and Manhattan, she found herself becoming fully immersed in the rural lifestyle of Martha’s Vineyard. Ms. Baird is a cofounder of a non-profit organization on the island called Island Grown Initiative, whose goal is to support farmers with an array of programs. She is a local activist and a dedicated photographer whose work is diverse yet distinct. Although she is an exceptional wedding photographer, Ms. Baird portfolio includes architecture, food, and environmental portraiture. She is constantly updating her blog, which exhibits her past, published and current work.

Check out Ms. Baird’s website and blog at www.rbaird.com

Randi Baird

[Studio MV] Children Blast Off To Worlds Unknown [MV]

Sitka Creations is happy to share another blog from it’s Arts + Culture blogger Anna Marie. Anna Marie lives on Martha’s Vineyard and is a featured blogger for Sitka Creations. Enjoy! Please feel free to leave your comments below.

Summer Reading

Children Blast Off To Worlds Unknown

By Anna Marie D’Addarie

How many books does it take to get to Venus? Just ask one of the children signed up for the Summer Reading Program at the Oak Bluffs Public Library. He or she will gladly tell you it takes exactly one hour of reading to reach Venus.

More than 100 children have jumped on the “Starship Adventure” at the Oak Bluffs library, joining the thousands of other children across Massachusetts to be part of the annual Summer Reading Program. Families who summer on the Vineyard take advantage of this great program, packing their children’s school reading lists along with the sunscreen. One young girl eagerly signed up with two very tired looking parents in tow. Her mother said, “She insists we stop at the library as soon as we get off the ferry. We haven’t even been to the house yet.” Sounds a bit unbelievable but similar stories can be told by librarians state-wide as children line up to read books all summer long. Not to be outdone by summer people, Island children can’t wait to join the ranks of readers and usually win the top prizes, such as having your own shelf at the library. Last year’s winner filled her shelf with her favorite books and decorated it with pictures too.

This year’s theme of interplanetary travel has lured in young readers and given Children’s Librarian, Jessica Bower, a chance to decorate the Children’s Room with fun, space-y items. A large, round Mylar spaceship sit atop one of the reading tables, its portholes are cut out and the “astronauts” are stuffed animals. Ms. Bower’s original idea was to have children use the tent-like spaceship to sit in and read, but after putting it together she didn’t feel it was big enough so she filled it with stuffed animals. The children love to play with it. Above the circulation desk in the bright Children’s Room hangs a mobile of all the planets in our solar system. Library Aide Allison Brown put it together from a kit. There are many other out-of-this-world decorations but the real stars are the books.

For those of you who think the Harry Potter series is unique you probably don’t have children. Any child with a library card can rattle off authors and book titles from their favorite series’ such as Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” or “Warriors” by Erin Hunter, the “Twilight” saga by Stephanie Meyer, or “The Vampire Diaries” by L.J. Smith. Harry Potter may be the bestselling children’s series, but he certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on the hearts and minds of young readers.

So, how do you get to Mars, Mercury, or the farthest planet, Neptune? You read and read and read. The Summer Reading Program is simple. For every hour you read you get closer to a planet (Venus is the first destination). The more hours you read, the more planets you visit, the more prizes you win. The program goes from July 1 through August 30 and is open to children of all ages, even the very young. Pre-readers can participate by being read to by a parent, guardian, or sibling. Children track their hours on a book list and parents place their initials next to the total. When the children come to the library they add their hours to a card that is kept at the circulation desk. The library staff encourages the children, discusses the books with them, and recommends other titles.

This summer Ms. Bower has enlisted the aid of the Black Dog Kids (the children’s line of the popular Black Dog company). If the Oak Bluffs summer readers read 800 hours collectively Black Dog Kids will adopt a polar bear through the World Wildlife Fund. As our planet changes, the polar bears struggle to survive. Our children can make a difference by opening a book, or many books, this summer. I have no doubt they will reach this target.

Many other Oak Bluffs businesses have generously donated prizes. These businesses are: Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium, The Corner Store, Flying Horses Carousel, Glimpse of Tibet, Giordano’s Family Restaurant, Good Ship Lollipop Candy Store, Hair by Dana, Mary’s Linen Store, Reliable Market, Rose Bud Balloons, and Dinghy Dogs. I feel it is important to recognize all these businesses who stepped up in these difficult and uncertain times, many of them are small, family-owned stores. The free ice cream cones, hot dogs, and balloons are symbols of neighborhood generosity and what makes the Vineyard such a special place to live.

Think about these young summer readers when you are picking up your light, beach read or revisiting “The Great Gatsby.” The love of reading starts early but it’s never too late to soar to places far away. They are as close as your local library.

For more information on the Oak Bluffs Public Library visit: www.oakbluffslibrary.org

[Studio MV] Meet SITKA’S International Art + Culture Bloggers!

Anna Marie D’Addarie
Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Anna Marie

“Living on the island isn’t for everyone. Thank God,” says Anna Marie D’Addarie. She washed ashore on Martha’s Vineyard 10 years ago with her husband, Don. A recent widow, a situation she does not recommend to anyone, Anna Marie is a free-lance writer who also works full-time for Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. Anna Marie volunteers in the community when she’s not working one of her many part-time jobs such as knitting instructor at Island Alpaca Co., House Manager at the Vineyard Playhouse, and Library Aide at the Oak Bluffs Public Library. Anna Marie considers her family and friends to be the greatest blessings in her life.

Lidija Butković
Belgrade, SERBIA

Lidija Butković

Lidija Butković is natural-born cosmopolite and incorrigible philanthropist; a (not) meant to be journalist and convinced polyglot. Addicted to chocolate and books. She adores good advertisements and ice-skating. Never misses the Belgrade Book Fair. Her favorite part of a day is the morning with a cup of Earl Grey. Lidija’s unfulfilled wish is to see the ocean. (We’ll get her to MV one of these days!) In her spare time she lives her life; when she grows up she wants to be a child!

Tirzah De Franco
ECUADOR

Tirzah Russell

Tirzah De Franco is a Tennessee native who stumbled upon a new life in Ecuador. She has spent over a decade working in Ecuador and just might stay. When she is not teaching English she loves doing community work, spending time with the locals, and savoring their food, especially anything with peanut sauce in it. Her favorite place to be is out in the tropical mountains, rivers, or beaches.

Kelly Kidson
Vientiane, LAOS

Kelly Kidson

(Painting Credit: “Sid” by Sitka’s Owner, T.R.)

Along with editing blogs, Kelly is the Web Marketing Manager for Sitka Creations and part of it’s team of Web Designers. She welcomes your ideas or requests: kelly@sitkacreations.com or twitter @kellykidson

Kelly is originally from the Adirondacks of New York, spent over a decade in Rhode Island, was inspired by her travels in Eastern Europe (with Sitka’s owner) and later, Southeast Asia. An always-thinking-business-DIY-geek; she blends her previous corporate design and marketing experience with her various (rather un-related) grassroots start-up venture experiences. When not working on SITKA projects, her spare time is spent studying the Lao language, dabbling in freelance writing, exploring Laos via her scooter and camera lens. She has a preference for strong Turkish coffee and Pentel Needle Tip pens; in a world without money she would gladly work for either.

ARIV
Martha’s Vineyard, MA

ARIV

Alfred Rivera is an ever-so-close to nearing middle aged upstart and a career dishwasher bent on recycling pre-existing gentrified personalities, and strange things that he has heard on a bus into a pseudo-fabulous 155 pound mammalian box-set of yellowing teeth, speed-dialed wrong answers with tectonic slabs of over-confidence. ARIV can sometimes be found playing (music) in cafe’s and clubs on Martha’s Vineyard. We’ll keep you posted!

Are you an artist or organization with an upcoming event that you would like reviewed?
Please contact us about the possibility of it being included on our blog!
Email: info@sitkacreations or Twitter @sitkacreations

[Studio MV] High Flying On Martha’s Vineyard

High Flying
By Anna Marie D’Addarie

“History is the river we stand in,” Chet (Charlie Hudson, III) tells the audience at the beginning of “Fly,” the first play of the summer season at the Vineyard Playhouse. This play is all about history: not Black History or white-washed American History, but all our histories: each one of us who calls him or herself and American can lay claim to part of the story. Some of us may not like what we see.

“Fly” tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II from flight training to success in the sky for the all-black air corp.

The play is framed with the Inauguration of President Obama where the Tuskegee Airmen were honored guests. Director, and co-playwright, Ricardo Khan has his cast of seven men tell the story with an in-your-face style that leaves no doubt these men will succeed and will not be broken by the racism all around them. On the first day of flight training, Capt. O’Hurley (Joe Forbrich) brags to the new trainees that he washed out 69% of the previous class. He has high hopes that he can break that record with the group he sees standing in front of him.

How these men get through the training is a testament to their sheer willpower. At almost every turn they are told they will not succeed: they are not smart enough; they do not poses the physical skills; they will turn and run in the face of danger; they are not patriotic enough to fight for their country. We in the audience know none of this is true. We sit comfortably in our seats in 2009. A black man is our president. But how many of us would have had the courage these aviators had to fight bravely for a country that didn’t even recognize them as men? Where does such courage come from? “Fly” tries to answer that question.

Tuskegee, Alabama
For those of us born after World War II, the story of the Tuskegee Airmen may be just a footnote. If nothing else, I hope this article inspires you to learn more about them. I had the pleasure of meeting James W. McLaurin, a DOTA, a Documented Original Tuskegee Airman. Mr. McLaurin is a big man who has a bright smile, a large hand that engulfs yours when he shakes it, and kind eyes with a twinkle in them. His voice is deep but not loud. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard part of the year and “Fly” has brought him into the spotlight. Mr. McLaurin met with the cast during rehearsals and provided valuable information but more importantly, inspiration. You can’t help but feel a deep admiration for him. At the opening night party on June 21, Mr. McLaurin spoke of those days in Tuskegee. He was 21 years old but had his pilot’s license for 5 years already. He said, “We all just wanted to fly.”

Telling the Story
The cast is very aware of their responsibility in telling this story. This isn’t just another play to add to their already impressive resumes. One night after a preview show, the tired cast stayed behind to talk to a Navy fighter pilot, a man in his 90s, now in a wheel chair who had just seen the show. The veteran congratulated the cast and one of them responded, “No. We thank you for your service.” It was a touching moment, one of many moments this play inspires.

“Fly” moves smoothly between memory and stark reality with the help of Ted Louis Levy who enhances the plot with his tap dancing, sometimes a sound effect, other times Greek chorus, always wonderful. Choreographer Hope Clarke elevates simple cadence to high art through Mr. Levy. The cast picks up the beat and soon everyone is flying including the audience.

The set is almost bare. A large projection screen fills the up-stage wall. Green military trunks and five stainless steel chairs are in a V formation on stage. The chairs become the fighter planes and the actors tip them back and forth precariously, keeping the audience on edge as we fear for them. Good staging by director Khan.

The sound effects, by Jim Novack, are perfect. Just the right amount of jarring gunfire and engine noise that seems to rise up from far away, inching closer, taking the audience into the action.

The cast, excellent all, are: Ted Louis Levy, the Tap Griot; Charlie Hudson, III, Chet; Robert Kama Robinson, W.W.; Samuel T. Gaines, Oscar; Mark Hairston, J. Allen; Joe Forbrich, Capt. O’Hurley; Walker Lewis, Col. Snopes. The play was written by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan.

“Fly” was commissioned by the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education and the Vineyard Playhouse production is billed as a “work-in-progress.”

Speaking at the opening night party to the assembled audience, cast, and crew, Mr. McLaurin said he has seen many (if not all) of the videos, documentaries, and films about the Tuskegee Airmen, but this play was the first time he cried. Nothing more needs to be said.

For history, photographs, and additional information about the Tuskegee Airman visit:
www.tuskegeeairmen.org

The Vineyard Playhouse is a community based professional theater operating year round.

For more information visit: www.vineyardplayhouse.org

[Studio MV] Event Review: SAND – Through Our Eyes

By Kelly Kidson

SAND

Sand may be regarded as synonymous with excursions on Martha’s Vineyard, but this past weekend, SAND was something more than simply the soft ground that gives way underfoot.

The exhibit “SAND – Through Our Eyes” was a collection of documentary styled photographs from the Island’s next generation of photographers. SAND opened to a full house Saturday, May 3rd, at the Featherstone Center for the Arts.

SAND is what the all girl collaborative comprised of Sarah Felder, Amy Sertl, Nicole Mercier and Danielle Fogg call themselves; an acronym of their first names. The girls’ collection on display at Featherstone encompasses their work from the last 8 months; exploring the secret and often forgotten places of Martha’s Vineyard. It provided a refreshing “un-island” perspective of life on the Island.

Under the direction of Janis Baer, from the Center for Creative Expression, the girls spent time after school and on the weekends, capturing moments and inspiration from places around the island such as; Webb’s Campground, Cedar Tree Neck, Leonardo Bros. Junk Yard and The FARM Institute. A separate area, the “back porch”, at Featherstone featured SAND’s on location photos for a behind the lens look at the girls doing what they do best; exploring Martha’s Vineyard and taking photographs.

Visitors to Featherstone were greeted with the group’s photo; standing in front of a graffiti tagged “no girls allowed’ wall, reminiscent of childhood camp. Yet, this is no children’s camp; the work presented reflected the talents of a group much older than their average 17 years. Each girl offered their own vision, their own unique perspective on each area of the Island they documented. Sarah stated she wants to create photos that she can “look at and instantly know why she likes it”. I, for one, found myself repeatedly circling back to her “Squares”, a black and white photograph of an abandoned urinal. Amy, looks to capture a moment, a second in time to make it last forever. Nicole, who has been studying photography since the 7th grade, challenges herself with the use of a trusted Holga camera, the effect is stunning. Danielle however, I think summarized the overall feeling of the exhibit. Her biography stated “my life in the photography world is just a beginning spark to the fireworks I want to create”. Girls, we are all looking forward to the future fireworks show!

For more information contact:

Featherstone Center for the Arts
30 Featherstone Lane
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
www.featherstoneart.org

Additionally, watch for the SAND Exhibit coming to Sitka’s Studio on Hines Point soon!
Details to follow.

Danielle Fogg

[Studio MV] Your Invited! Sitka Creations’ SPRING OPEN HOUSE

Enjoy a French themed evening to celebrate 7 years of SITKA CREATIONS
bringing you internationally flavored Graphic Design & PR.

Sample the music of our own DJ ARIV, Hors d’œuvres by Meghan Onega, Cocktails
and of course, ART by several of Sitka Creations’ artists. (All artwork
will be available for purchase!)

Everyone welcome!

When:

May 1st, 2009
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Where:

The Garage Studio
60 Hines Point
Vineyard Haven, MA

Questions?

info@sitkacreations.com

Sitka Creations

[Studio MV] Event Review: Turkish Film Festival @ MFA BOSTON (English & Turkish)

Sitka Creations is pleased to offer the first review by our own Web Marketing Manager, Kelly Kidson. Kelly currently resides in Rhode Island, but as of June 2009 will be covering Southeast Asian Art & Culture from her vantage point in Nong Khai, Thailand.

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Merhaba Boston!

By Kelly Kidson
Turkish translation by Naim Uygun

Three Monkeys

The 8th Annual TURKISH FILM FESTIVAL opened March 27th to a sold out audience at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The festival was opened by Erkut Gomulu, founder and director of the Boston Turkish Film Festival and was co-presented by the Turkish American Cultural Society of New England.

The film chosen to open the week long festival was Üç maymun (English Title: Three Monkeys); a 2008 Turkish film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

The title “Üç maymun” refers to the traditional Japanese proverbial principle of the three monkeys that “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”; the same evils which Ceylan’s characters choose not to hear, see or speak of. We follow one family and a troubled politician as they attempt to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure. The family endures these trials by attempting to ignore the cause; the truth. The plot centers on the question: Does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?

Ceylan’s style of directing is evident throughout the movie. The film lacks any background music other than an uncomfortable cell phone ring, rain and nature; when asked about this, Üç maymun actor, Ercan Kesal, quoted Ceylan as saying “the music of life is more effective than background music”. Ceylan wants the viewer to make their own emotional connections with the individual characters. For example, he includes a fourth family member, a small boy, who in the movie we never learn the exact story of, but we are certain that both the father and son have feelings of unresolved guilt towards him. Ceylan’s photography background is also evident, the film being filmed in digital and faintly devoid of many colors other than washes of sepia and aqua infused with bright light and dark contrasts. Three Monkeys brought Ceylan the Best Director Award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Along with the actress Ayça Damgaci from the film My Marlon and Brando, Üç maymun screenwriter and actor Ercan Kesal was seated in the audience. Kesal accepted the 2009 Boston Turkish Film Festival Excellence in Turkish Cinema Award following the screening in behalf of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who was unable to attend the opening. Kesal also hosted a Q & A session following the movie and joined viewers at the film’s reception. Three Monkeys was Kesal’s first feature film; he jokingly told the audience that had anyone told him in 2007 that he’d be in Boston in 2009, he would have thought that would be a subject for a movie in itself. Kesal revealed to his American audience that he is actually a doctor by profession with a political background. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Anthropology.

The Turkish Film Festival runs at the MFA- Boston until April 5.

Other highlights include:

My Marlon and Brando / Gitmek by Huseyin Karabey – Saturday March 28, 2009 3:00 p.m.

“In March 2003, as American bombs began falling on Baghdad, Turkish actress Ayça Damgaci left her flat in Istanbul and headed for the Iraq border. Behind that cordon was Kurdish actor Hama Ali Khan, the love of Damgaci’s life- her moon and stars, her Marlon and her Brando, her everything. Hüseyin Karabey makes his narrative debut retelling the tale of Damgaci’s quixotic road trip to the war zone, with Damgaci playing herself and Khan appearing in the actual video love notes he sent to her during their time apart.” -Gitmek Facebook Page

Dot (Nokta) by Dervis Zaim – Friday, April 3, 2009 8:00 p.m.

“The film takes its subject from calligraphy; it is also shaped by the art form in terms of both form and content. The majority of Islamic poets interpreted everything in life as a book or a verse and endeavored to see calligraphy in everything animate and inanimate that existed in life. The value system shaping Ahmet, the lead character’s central dilemma thus derives from the moral values typically associated with a calligrapher. Ahmet is, after all, a calligrapher, but one who has committed murder…The crux of the film could be described as an examination of the link between actions, the people behind those actions and their consequences.” – Dervis Zaim, Director & Scriptwriter

Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey (2008): Best Director Award
Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt (2008): Best Digital Film Award

All films produced in Turkey and are in Turkish with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted. See MFA of Boston’s website for full listing for all 13 films and show times.

All screenings take place at:
Remis Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Official Festival Website:
www.bostonturkishfilmfestival.org

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Merhaba Boston!

Three Monkeys

By Kelly Kidson
Turkish translation by Naim Uygun

Bir MFA , Boston’da bir hedef kitleye satmak için 8.YIL Türk Film Festivali 27 Mart akşamı açıldı. Festival, Boston Türk Film Festivali direktörü Erkut Gömülü ve Yeni İngiltere’nin Türk Amerikan Kültürel Topluluğu eş başkanı tarafından açıldı: www.tacsne.org

Festivali açmak için seçilen film Üç maymun idi ( Ingilizce başlık: Three Monkeys ( Üç Maymunlar )). Nuri Bilge Ceylan tarafından yönetilen bir 2008 Türk filmi).

Üç Maymunlar (Three Monkeys) başlığı, üç maymunun geleneksel Japon atasözünde geçen ilkeyi ima eder: “ şeytan görme, şeytan işitme, şeytan konuşma”, Ceylan’ın konuşmamak, görmemek veya konuşmamak için seçtiği karakterlerin aynı şeytanları. Biz; onlar, aksi takdirde katlanmanın imkansız olacağı meşakkat ve sorumluluklardan kaçınmak için teşebbüs ederken bir aile ve bir politikacı izleriz. Aile, nedeni, doğruluğu ihmal etmek için teşebbüs ederek bu denemelere katlanır. Entrika, şu soru üzerine odaklanır: “Üç Maymunlar” oynama, onun mevcudiyetinin doğruluğunu geçersiz yapar mı?

Ceylan’ın yönetme tarzı, film boyunca bellidir. Film, rahat olmayan bir cep telefonun çalması, yağmur ve doğa’dan başka herhangi bir arka fon müzikten yoksundur. Bunun hakkında sorulduğu zaman, Kesal, Ceyla’a “ hayatın müziği arka fon müziğinden daha etkileyicidir.” deyişi gibi aktardı. Ceylan, bireysel karakterlerle onların kendi duygusal bağlantılarını yapmak için seyirciyi ister. Örneğin, o, dördüncü bir aile üyesi dahil eder, tam hikayesini asla öğrenmediğimiz sinema filmde küçük bir çocuk. Fakat, bize, hem baba hem de erkek çocuk çözümlenmemiş (tereddütlü) suçun duygusuna sahip olduğu bellidir. Ceylan’ın fotoğrafçılk geçmişi de bellidir: dijital filme alınmış film, ve mürekkep balığı boyası ile ve parlak ışıkla demlenmiş açık deniz mavisinin çalkantı seslerinden ve siyah tezatlardan başka birçok renklerden zayıf olarak (hafifçe) mahrumdur. Üç Maymunlar ,Ceylan’a 2008 Cannes Film Festivalinde, En iyi Yönetmen Ödülü getirdi.

“Benim Marlon ve Brando” dan aktris (kadın oyuncu) Ayça Damgacı ile birlikte, senaryo yazarı ve aktör Ercan Kesal hedef kitle (seyirciler) içinde oturdu. Açılışa gitmesi mümkün olmamış olan Nuri Bile Ceylan’ın adına perdeyi (elemeyi) izleyen Kesal, Türk Sineması Ödülü’nde 2009 Boston Türk Film Festivali Üstün Başarı ‘nı kabul etti. Kesal, aynı zamanda, bir Soru ve Cevap oturumuna ev sahipliği yaptı. Filmin kabul töreninde küçük izleyiciler katıldı ve film izledi. Üç maymun /Üç Maymunlar (Three Monkeys), Kensal’ın ilk filmiydi; dinleyicilere, kendi içinde bir sinema filmi için bir konu olacağını düşünmüş olacağını, onun 2009’da Boston’da olacağını, 2007’de ona hiç kimse söylemiş miydi şaka yollu söyledi. Kesal, onun Amerikalı dinleyicilerine (seyircilerine), gerçekten siyasal bir geçmişi ile bir doktor mesleği olduğunu belli etti (açığa vurdu). O, halen Sosyal Antropoloji’de bir PhD mesleğini devam ettiriyor.

Türk Film Festivali MFA-Boston’da 5 Nisan’a kadar devam eder.

Diğer öne çıkanlar şunları içerir:

Benim Marlon ve Brando / Gitmek by Huseyin Karabey – Cumartesi 28 Mart 2009 öğleden sonra 3.00

“2003 Mart’ında, bir Amerikan bombaları Bağdat üzerine düşmeye başlarken, Türk aktris Ayça Damgacı, dairesini İstanbul’da bıraktı ve Irak sınırına doğru gitti. O kordonun arkasında, Damgacı’nın hayat aşkı – onun (bayan) ayı ve yıldızları, onun Marlon ve onun Brando’su , her şeyi, Kürt aktör Hama Ali Khan vardı. Hüseyin Karabey, onun sahneye ilk çıkış öyküsünü, Damgacı’nın savaş bölgesine don kişot gibi idealist ve hayalci yol gezintisini tekrar söylettirerek, Damgacı bayanın kendisi ile oynayarak ve Khan hakiki video aşkı notlarında görünerek yapar. O (bay) onu (bayanı), onların birbirinden ayrı zamanlarda gönderdi.”- Gitmek Facebook Page

Derviş Zaim ile Nokta (Dot – Cuma, 3 Nisan 2009 öğleden sonra 8:00)

“Film, güzel yazı sanatından (kaligrafiden) konusunu alır, o, hem biçim hem de içerik cinsinden sanat biçimi ile şekillendirildi. İslam şairlerinin çoğunluğu hayatta her şeyi bir kitap veya bir dörtlük gibi yorumladı ve kaligrafiyi , hayatta mevcut olan canlandırılmış ve canlandırılmamış her şeyde görmek için çaba gösterdi. Değer sistemi Ali şekillendirir, Önde giden karakter’in merkez açmazı (ikilemi) böylece tipik olarak bir kaligrafçı ile ilişkin moral değerlerinden ortaya çıkar. Herşeyden sonra, Ahmet, bir kaligrafçıdır, fakat cinayet işleyen biridir. Filmin en önemli noktası, faaliyetler, o faaliyetlerin arkasındaki insanlar ve onların sonuçları arasındaki bağlantının bir sınavı (irdelemesi) olarak tarif edilebilir. “- Dervis Zaim , Direktör ve Senaryo yazarı

İstanbul Film Festivali, Türkiye (2008): En iyi Direktör Ödülü
Cario Uluslararası Film Festivali, Mısır (2008): En iyi Dijital Film Ödülü

Tüm filmler, aksi belirtilmedikçe, Türkçe ve İngilizce alt yazılar ile Türkiye’de üretildi.Tüm 13 film için ve şov zamanları için tam liste için MFA web sitesine bakınız.

Tüm Sahnelemenin olacağı yer:

Remis Odotoryumu
Hoş Sanatlar Müzesi
465 Huntington Bulvarı, Boston

Resmi web sitesi:
www.bostonturkishfilmfestival.org

“Y.Müh. Naim Uygun, İstanbul, Türkiye tarafından Kelly Kidson’un makalesi İngilizce’den tercüme edilmiştir.”

[Studio MV] Event Review: Loirra Burra & Pierre @ CHE’S LOUNGE, Martha’s Vineyard

By ARIV

“Drive safe, slumbering mules.” This was the gestalt credo of the two bands that combined to shake the drywall off the studs Saturday, March 7th at CHE’S LOUNGE located in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Up first was a three piece progressive-punk setup named LOIRRA BURRA, which is a Portuguese colloquialism that translates interchangeably as, well, we’ll say “slumbering mule” or “ignorant bimbette” (for the sake of causing no offense to you, our dear readers) according to our most trusted dictionaries.

The room was tight and suffocating with the smell of untreated armpits, high school sophomores with too much makeup and not enough sleep, a fake plastic tree enduring a torrential pounding of kick drum cataclysms, a sound engineer leaping over couches and laps to save a wavering tom tom, staccato runaway lacerations and train wreck harmonies, and a Bono-esque excursion into the audience by a flat-cap wielding bass player. All of this was set into a very pleasant froth by LOIRA BURRA, Martha’s Vineyards own, and the prevailing flagship of ABOVEGROUND RECORDS.

Natasha, oh Natasha, the ethereal unreachable ideal of a lover’s broken heart; this is the cold molten core of the headlining band PIERRE‘s lyrical content. Just how do they manage to push through and relieve such a ubiquitous but yet so personal universal angst? Cooper, the lead singer and guitarist explains “we lift amps for strength”.

By an impressive use of dynamics and unkempt hair, the high school heart breakers PIERRE, pummeled threw an extremely compelling and innovating arranged set of classic pop-rock discordant rambles, leaving each member of the audience satisfied as if they had just attended a well managed hors d’oeuvre soirée. In my mind, the set was a little short, they had the audience but there wasn’t enough material; however, all was not lost! Their final sonic ode to youthful incompleteness became the Coda, by an outro soundtrack, laced heavily with Public Enemy, Public Enemy Number One. I’m sure Chuck Dee is a safe driver.

“Drive safe LOIRA BURRA.”

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[Studio MV] Event Review: Thievery Corporation @ TERMINAL 5, NYC

By ARIV

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I’ve heard this phrase for most of my adult life, but I never really understood its meaning. Surely everything in my great granddad-esque, mechanistic, deterministic view of the universe can be added to or subtracted from up and down the ladder so to speak so that every little bit is always accounted for. No wool pulled over our eyes and nothing should ever be swept under the rug. Ahh, phrase origins….but that’s another path.

Where we are right now is TERMINAL 5 in Manhattan, NYC on February 25 at approximately 10 p.m.; and the DJ headphone wielding dynamic duo/silver surfers of all things electronica/dub and groove were in the house. Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the co-founders of a booty-shaking synergistic system of bump and wiggle called Thievery Corporation were on the 5th day of their Northeast tour of the States.

Because of technical difficulties, I missed the opening of their set, but still got to munch down on an excellent buffet of: bass, congas, horns, bare Brazilian mid-riffs, sitar, black leggings housing a Latina songstress, a light show that I got a slight tan from, two horn players that looked like they were peeled off from the bottom of a NYC subway train, a Hispanic percussionist who also shared duties on the mic; channeling lyrics penned from the art damaged mind of David Byrne of the Talking Heads, a wiry olive toned hippie-esque barefoot black toenail polished Hugo Boss suit wearing bass player, a reggae styled guitarist with flam and bouyance whose red scarf seem to blow in a wind that did not exist and three MC’s straight out of Kingston who were dressed like their were ready for a south African jungle safari.

Well anyway, these are the parts that made the whole greater than its own addition. This is truth my friends, I learned something that night, and its not that recording video and smoking pot at a public venue is legal, but I understood why the whole is greater than its parts.

I first heard the latest Thievery album on CD, and honestly, I was not really moved at all. That is because I believe now, that I was just experiencing the parts. Being at TERMINAL 5 and being at ground zero with the live band; my reactions towards the “parts” was vastly transmuted, every song sounded ten times better, every bass thump, and sitar jangle peculated with new meaning and weight.

HEY, I WAS AT A LIVE SHOW!
and the show was great. 10+

EMERGENCE: the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.

Additional Links:
ESL Music | Artist | Thievery Corporation
Thievery Corporation

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