FUNDRED.ORG
Fundred is a unique collaborative art project started by artist Mel Chin to raise funds and awareness to restore lead-contaminated soil in New Orleans. You can help by making your own Fundred Dollar Bill - a original, hand-drawn interpretation of the US $100 bill. The goal of the project is to collect over 3 million of these fabulous works of art. The cumulative total of 300,000,000 Fundred Dollars, collected from pick-up sites across the country, will be exchanged at Congress for $300,000,000, the funds required to make safe every lead contaminated property in New Orleans, so that every child is protected. Urbano is proud to be a Boston-area Fundred collection site. Please download the Fundred template and create your own Fundred Dollar Bill! Bring it or mail your completed Fundreds to Urbano where we are collecting them to be included in an ongoing exhibition in our new studio space.
Get Started! Download a Fundred Template [PDF]
Mail or deliver completed Fundreds to:
Urbano 29 Germania St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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EXPERIENCES DE CINEMA
A Partnership with Le Centre Pompidou, Paris
This ongoing partnership between the Expériences de Cinéma student film program in Paris and Urbano's Teen Film Curators provides Boston teens with a chance to collaborate on the creation of original short films, and share their work with peers in Paris, France.Working with French high school and college-level film programs, Expériences de Cinéma challenges young filmmakers to create a personal response to a selected classic experimental film. In 2008 – 09 the Teen Film Curators were asked to work with footage collected from participants in Sweden, Romania, France, and Boston to create an experimental narrative in the style of the Lumiere Brothers' pioneering experiments with film technology. The Teen Curators' finished work was screened at Le Centre Pompidou in Paris for an audience of international teen filmmakers.
Watch: La Ville Imaginaire
by the 2009 Teen Film Curators
THE OPERA FACTORY
A Partnership with Opera Boston
The Opera Factory, created in 2008, is an intensive summer opera workshop offered free of charge to Boston-area public high school students in collaboration with Opera Boston. Now entering its third year, the Opera Factory offers urban teens an opportunity to experience the process of creating a complex, multimedia show while fostering a new generation of musicians, artists, and opera aficionados. During the summer of 2009 the Opera Factory's 18 teen performers and set and costume designers presented a reimagining of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte to more than 300 audience members. Teen singers were coached by professional stage and music directors, while the set design team had an opportunity to work closely with Los Angeles-based performance and visual artist GRONK. The Opera Factory will resume in the summer of 2010 in Urbano's new studio space.
Read more about the Opera Factory
STORYBORDERS.ORG
A Partnership with the TransCultural Exchange and the Boston CyberArts Festival
StoryBorders is an international, cross-media meeting place for young artists from around the world. StoryBorders.org houses short films, images, writing, sound clips and more, contributed by young people who want to show the world their neighborhoods, homes, landmarks, and playgrounds. Our goal is to create a multi-media online exhibition of works by young artists (ages 0 – 20), and to spark an international conversation among aspiring filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, sound designers, and writers. Created in 2008 in partnership with the Cloud Foundation, StoryBorders opened to the public during the TransCultural Exchange's 2008 conference Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future.
StoryBorders is accepting new submissions from young artists everywhere! Visit www.storyborders.org to see work created over the last year and find out how you can participate.
VIOLENCE TRANSFORMED
A Partnership with the Violence Transformed exhibition and performance collaborative
Violence Transformed is an exhibition of visual and performing arts scheduled in concert with the Annual Victim Rights Conference of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance. Professional curators, performers, artists, and teachers from across the Boston area collaborate every year to seek out art and performance works that confront, mediate and challenge the prevalence of violence in contemporary society. The centerpiece of Violence Transformed is a weeklong exhibit of works in varied media held at the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston, accompanied by a celebratory evening of performance. For the last three years Urbano's Teen Spoken Word and Visual Art Curators have participated in Violence Transformed, creating exhibitions and poetry performances that address teens' responses to violence in Boston and the world.
