elsewhere events

If you were out and about on Elm st. Friday night you probably ran into a few of Elsewhere's Carto-Ethno-Geographers.  Artists-in-residence, staff members, and friends of Elsewhere teamed up to explore our urban landscape and find out exactly what's happening in our neighborhood when we're all in Elsewhere on a Friday evening.  Pictures were taken, interviews were recorded, and maps were made.  All of this is being compiled by our crack team of press officers in order to create a new multi-media record of the South Elm neighborhood.  This episode of CITY was presented in association with the new South Elm Alliance, a group including Elsewhere that is interested in addressing the particular issues of our small corner of Greensboro.  We had a lot of fun getting to know our larger space and are planning on making more trips to complete our research.  If you'd like to join us just stop by during our regular hours and ask about CITY, SEA, and our mapping project.

This week we have three different oppurtunities to come out and enjoy our new Urban Green back-alley garden.  On Wednesday, May 27th at 5:30 Elsewhere will be hosting one of May's two meetings of Sustainable Greensboro's Green Drinks event.  There has been considerable interest already, so if youd like to have a couple of drinks in a beautiful new green space tucked away in downtown Greensboro and get to know a few green-minded friends now is the time. 

Friday night at 8 is the long awaited opening of the garden.  Earth Fare will be providing the edibles and Elsewhere's first floor is making the transformation into a fun and informative exploration into the Earth's most important chemical process - photosynthesis!

Finally, this Saturday at 1 pm we're inviting everyone out to garden with us for the afternoon.  Little Green Thumbs is our family gardening event.  In addition to a fun afternoon digging in the Earth and exploring the possibilities for green development in an urban space there will be a sustainable toy workshop and a petting zoo presented by the Natural Science Center of Greensboro.  Personally, I find pretty much everything the NSC does to be fun at any age and expect this to be no different.

So there you have it.  This week is the last chance to get in our Elsewhere's incredible diverse selection of events for May.  It's been an amazing month and I expect the end to be no different.  Stay tuned in June for the beggining of our 2009 series of Artist Conversations and exciting new prospects for CITY.

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From April until October you can count on Elsewhere to provide an interesting and unique interactive experience Friday nights at 8 pm.  So where were those colorfully dressed Elsewherians last weekend?  We were all tied up hosting a private party for the Triad Health Project's Dining for Friends Benefit.

Besides being an all-around good time for the guests, the hosts, and the Elsewherians, the party let us all make some new friends.  It's always exciting to see new faces come in and experience our environment for the first time.  Music was provided by our own DJ Spacecamp (Dan White) while George gave tours to small groups and we all busied ourselves chatting with our new pals.

The party also gave us an excuse to rearrange much of Elsewhere, which is exciting news for any and all of you who participate in our events.  And if any of you are interested in hosting your own private event at Elsewhere be sure to email events@elsewhereelsewhere.org.

Coming up:  CITY - Mapping the Urban Landscape

This week's episode of CITY will be a special game.  We are stepping out of our City and into the South Elm Neighborhood to map the people, locations, and experiences that surround Elsewhere.  Small groups will be departing the space with an Elsewherian every 30 minutes.  Come join our team of geo-ethno-cartographers in creating a new map of our immediate environment that we hope will influence the long-term chaotic narrative and disscusion created by CITY.

Before I finish I have to give a special thanks to Jona, Mark, Laura, and Martha who all came out and volunteered their time to help us pull off last week's benefit.

Last weekend Elsewhere hosted Vexations, a communal musical experience in conjunction with South Elm's John Foy Piano restoration.  Vexations was a recreation of John Cage's 1963 performance of Erik Satie's 1893 score; a piece of music one-page long that was played in 840 repetitions for nearly 24 hours.  To complete the recreation Elsewhere allowed visitors to sign in and out of the performance and be refunded a nickel for every twenty-minutes that they listened.

After-words is a collaborative group art show hosted by Elsewhere's Etc. Collective and participating Elsewhere artist-in-residence.After-words extends the concept of Elsewhere's Messages show, an exhibit of works hosted at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, to Elsewhere's living museum set within a former thrift store. 

Artists will present an interactive environment of artworks in sound, sculpture, installation, works on paper, performance and video.  After-words explores a post-communication era where visual languages yield a new arrangement of sounds, symbols, visions, illusions, and ideas. 

If Messages is a show about a variety of frameworks for interpreting, reading into, and making meaning through the materials and communications in everyday life, then After-Words creates an atmosphere where that fractured meaning founds new modes for conversation, play, and exchange in the communication process. 

Over 20 artists will feature new works in the show, hosted at Elsewhere from 8-11pm. 

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5th from 8pm to 11pm

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Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Alex Wolkowicz:
Join Alex, a visual artist from Liverpool, UK for the
opening of "Plink Plink" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative.
Alex will host an evening of windchimes. Alex is a visiting
artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production
site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm.

Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist
or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June through
September.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th at 10am
Join us Saturday morning from 10am-1pm for URBAN GREEN. Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every Saturday til the Fall.

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6th at 2pm
Green Dialogue at Elsewhere featuring Sue Edelburg. HOW TO: Join a Vericult. Sue Edelburg is speaking as part of Elsewhere's eight part series of NC-based eco-thinkers presenting DIY environmental projects for urban living. The Green Dialogues are part of Elsewhere's 2008 Community Arts Project, The Urban-Green Campaign, which will also include the transformation of Elsewhere's back alley into an eco-park and community garden called The Hanging Gardens of Greensboro. Urban-Green is funded by The Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greensboro.

ALL of these events are FREE! Donations are greatly appreciated.

FRIDAY AUGUST 22nd from 8pm-11pm

RADIO FM goes live with a conversation on creative collaboration with Guerra de la Paz and Elsewhere's directors

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LIKE A GLOVE

Dress up with us to participate in the creation of a collaborative photo-flipbook of Elsewhere's vintage clothing collection with NY-based photographer Shalin Scupham.

See his work so far at:

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SATURDAY August 23rd! 10am-1pm: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every Saturday til the Fall.

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MONDAY August 25th! 4pm at the WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM ARTIST TALK
by Guerra de la Paz at the Weatherspoon Museum on the UNCG campus.

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WEDNESDAY August 27th! 6:30-9:30pm SNEAK PEEK EVENING
with Alain & Neraldo of Guerra de la Paz. Elsewhere members will enjoy a sneak peek preview while savoring sangria and delectable desserts.  Live music in the garden.  New members welcome. Please RSVP.

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FRIDAY August 29th! 8-11pm OPENING CELEBRATION
of new work by Guerra de la Paz featuring DJ Tim Trouble, swirling neon rainbows, and treats by Earthfare.

Check out our new collaborative blog: gdlpiselsewhere.vox.com

We hope to see you soon.

The Elsewherians.

Sorry its been so long since an update, everyone!

Here is what is going on this weekend at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative!

FRIDAY AUGUST 15 from 8pm-11pm: Artist Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Molly Anne Goldberg: Join Molly, a visual artist from San Francisco, CA for the opening of "Yours Truly" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. Molly Anne Goldberg will host an evening of letters. Molly is a visiting artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm. Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June through September.

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SATURDAY August 2nd! 10am-1pm:: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every saturday til the Fall.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 2nd at 2pm: Green Dialogues at Elsewhere featuring Jim Dees: Jim Dees is the Environmental Sustainability Coordinator for Guilford College. Jim's session, "How to Institutionalize Sustainability," will explore how a to turn an institutional structure such as a university toward green practices and sustainable architectures. Jim Dees is speaking as part of Elsewhere's eight part series of NC-based eco-thinkers presenting DIY environmental projects for urban living. The Green Dialogues are part of Elsewhere's 2008 Community Arts Project, The Urban-Green Campaign, which will also include the transformation of Elsewhere's back alley into an eco-park and community garden called The Hanging Gardens of Greensboro. Urban-Green is funded by The Future Fund of the Community Foundation of Greensboro.

ALL of these events are FREE! Donations are great appreciated, it helps keep elsewhere up and running!

This weekend of July 25th:::

FRIDAY JULY 25, 8pm to 11pm: Artist  Conversations at Elsewhere featuring Laurencio Ruiz, a visual artist from State College, PA. for the opening of "Give me a Hand!...Why me?" at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative. Laurencio  Ruiz will host and evening of puppetry, slide show, and video. Ruiz is a visiting artist at Elsewhere, a living art museum and arts production site sculpted from a former thrift store on South Elm. Artist Conversations at Elsewhere feature a different artist or artist group every Friday night at 8pm from June though September 606 South Elm St. downtown Greensboro.  336.549.5555  www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

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SATURDAY JULY 26th- 10am-1pm:: Urban Green Gardening
Come Garden with Us. We are turning the alley behind the elsewhere museum into an eco-park and community garden. We will be gardening every saturday til the Fall.

** All of our events are FREE, but we very much appreciate DONATIONS to keep Elsewhere up and running!**

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elsewhere artist collaborative
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Downtown Greensboro, NC
336-549-5555
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org 

Hello all you lovely people!

We finally are going to be updating whats going on here at Elsewhere again VIA the Internet! Its going to be great.

I just want to greet all of you and say hello! HELLO! How are you? I'm pretty good. I hope you are having a fabulous day and/or evening.

I also also wanted to mention the links to the left of this post.
 We have a myspace, a facebook, and a flickr.
We send out invites for all our events on myspace and facebook - so become friends with us so you can get the updates! Elsewhere has a flickr that we encourage our visitors to update with photos they take here visiting the museum.
To log in and upload your photos:
log in: elsewhere.elsewhere
password: toyboat
So please! If you come visit, upload your photos to Elsewhere's Flickr photostream!
The flickr also gets updated with the current documentarian's photos of the events that are happening here at elsewhere and put into sets - please look and enjoy!

So, keep on checking back every week for our updates about all the events that we have here!

Be well!