Charlotte Street Foundation

Deadline: Friday, January 29 Urban Culture Project invites proposals from artists, curators, and culture producers working in all disciplines for projects to be presented at its Paragraph, Project Space, and la Esquina venues. These may include, but are not limited to, visual art exhibitions, installations, original live performances (dance, theater, music, performance art, spoken word), film and video screenings, literary readings, lectures, public programs, and hybrid forms thereof. Deadline is Friday, January 29, 2010 for proposals to be considered for fall 2010 - spring 2011, plus one-night and short-term events/projects to occur sooner as schedule allows.

Download an application here.

Informal Urbanisms: The Production of Space in the Developing World on Wednesday, January 6, 6:30 pm at la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street KC MO, is a provocative public program organized by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, founding partners of AGENCY, a design and research practice in NYC. 

The evening includes a screening of the feature-length documentary film Garbage Dreams: Raised in the Trash Trade, which follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo that is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt’s “garbage people.” 10% of proceeds from Garbage Dreams’ tour will go to the Spirit of Youth Association, a non-governmental organization of Zaballeen, which runs The Recycling School profiled in Garbage Dreams.

After the screening, Kripa and Mueller will host and moderate a panel discussion concerning emerging conditions in disadvantaged and marginalized urban populations around the world. Panelists include Toby Lunn, Mechanical Engineer; Maureen Lunn, Southtown Foundation / MA International Studies (University of Kansas);  Andrew Mikhael, RA, LEEP AP; and Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of AGENCY, who will also present recent architectural and infrastructural proposals. Read full press release.

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