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MOUTHS WIDE OPEN
Announces
A Community Center
July 31st-August 23rd, 2004

GET INVOLVED!!

Mouths Wide Open will host a summer Community Center in Washington Square Church, 135 West 4th Street, Manhattan. The Center will serve as a meeting place, hub and information exchange point for the six weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention. We envision the Center as a vibrant hive of civic, activist and artistic activity – a space that will encourage collaborative civic-engagement projects, inspire daily discussion and conversation, offer to register voters, provide a venue for meetings and video screenings, function as a place to make fliers and posters for distribution, and foster the creation of on-site elements for the Mouths Wide Open performance event in the same space. That performance event, The Republic in Ruins, on August 31st and September 1st & 2nd, will be the culmination of Mouths Wide Open’s summer activities.

The Center will be staffed by Members of Mouths Wide Open along with other volunteers.. Passersby and visitors to Washington Square Park (half a block away) will be encouraged to drop in, and people from various communities and organizations will be contacted and invited to participate in activities, exchange ideas and collaborate on projects.


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Mouths Wide Open's
Community Center

WHERE:

Washington Square Church
135 West 4th Street

(Between 6th Avenue and MacDougal)

Subway stops:
CLOSEST: West 4th Street on the F, V, E, C, A, D & B trains.
Also, the 8th Street stop on the R train; Astor Place stop on the 6

WHEN:

JULY 31st — AUGUST 23rd

DOORS OPEN:

Monday: 1:00 - 8:00 PM
Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: 1:00 - 6:30 PM
Friday: 5:30 - 10:30 PM
Saturday: 4:00 – 10:30 PM
Sunday: closed



"Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves.
It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and
context so conversation can flow back and forth and
we can be influenced by each other."
W.E.B. Du Bois


The connection of art with community has been a core concern for many of us in our lifework, and to this end, the Community Center will foster a crossover of energy between artistic and social expression. A community art project will evolve over the course of the Center’s life span that will have an in-process nature, so people dropping in can constantly view the progress and add on to the work. All are welcome to participate. We imagine a lively, creative atmosphere in which people from a cross-section of class and community come together.

The Community Center will be open from late afternoon until early evening Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – Saturday (see schedule above), until right before the Convention. Beginning August 24th, all our efforts will be focused on the Anti-RNC Demonstration on Sunday, August 29th (see:
www.unitedforpeace.org), and on the Mouths Wide Open performance event The Republic In Ruins.


PLEASE JOIN US!! Click Here to Volunteer

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