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.
PLEASE JOIN US!! Click
Here to Volunteer
Mouths
Wide Open's
Community Center
WHERE:
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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:
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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 |
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"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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