6/21/08

The Richmond Art Cheerleaders
Performance
Street Installation/Roving Performance


Pyramid Studios
Ledger
Theatre IV

The Roving Spectacle of Light

a
Roving Processional
Street Installation/Roving Performance

This project allows students from area schools to participate in a major public art event that will take place in downtown Richmond.

InLight RICHMOND is a celebration of 1708 Gallery’s 30th anniversary and a collaborative effort between local arts and community organizations in central Virginia to increase visibility and appreciation of the arts. Modeled after Paris' Nuit Blanche, InLight RICHMOND is an all-night celebration exhibiting a spectacle of multi-media installations and performances. As the Roving Spectacle passes the various installations and performance sites they will “turn on” and the InLight exhibition will be officially underway. Check out: http://www.1708inlight.org/

The Roving Spectacle participants come from various art education programs in the Richmond metro area.

Young Audiences • Arts for Learning • Virginia, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts have partnered to design a series of workshops in which area students will work with YAV teaching artists Mim Scalin and Robert Walz to create exciting moving sculptural objects based on the theme of ‘light’ to be used during the Roving Spectacle. Thanks to Celia Fay who helped sponsor this program.

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond students will be bring their large puppets designed for just such a moving spectacle in their summer workshops.

The SPCA will have artistic four-leggers running around helping light things up. And will join us from the Library’s Family Area with original works from kids showing up for fun there.

Capoeira Resistencia brings an Afro-Brazilian athletic cultural dance, music and samba spectacle with aspects from the world famous Carnival one of the world’s original “Roving Spectacles”

The Family Fun Area at the main branch of the Richmond Public Library will include picnic space, the SPCA Tail Wag’n and art making tables from YAV, VAC and the Science Museum of Virginia’s Skylab. Food and drink vendors will also be on site from 6-8pm, suitable for all ages.

Young Audiences • Arts for Learning • Virginia will host an art making ‘booth’ during the event in the exhibit area. Please visit us to create your own sculptural piece using available light and learn how to get the arts embedded in your schools. Located in the 300 block of W. Broad St. across from 1708 Gallery.

Please contact Rob McAdams at 804 615 6222 or at RichmondDirector.yav@gmail.com if you have specific questions about the Roving Spectacle.


Descriptions of a few of the organizations featured of the Roving Spectacle are listed below:

Capoeira Carnival/Samba
Capoeira artist will engage the audinece in this lively dance form that will be part of the Roving Spectacle of Light.

Visual Arts Center of Richmond
(formerly the Hand Workshop) engages the community in the creative process through the visual arts. Use our site to discover the adult art classes, youth art classes, events and art exhibitions through which you can explore your creative spirit. http://visarts.org/

Children's Art Activities
The Richmond Public Library will sponsor children's art activities in Library Park. Families are encouraged to bring a picnic; food and drink will be available. The Library will offer families an opportunity to hear stories relating to the theme of light, to make their very own light themed crown or headdress and/or make a collar for one of the SPCA's adorable adoptables.

SPCA Tail Wagon
The SPCA will bring their mobile adoption unit to Library Park. InLight attendees can create a collar for one of the available pets and then Rove together with the animals after joining The Roving Spectacle on Broad Steet.

Teen Insight / VMFA
Theatre IV

Student artwork created in a repsonse to Teen InSight's call for entries from VMFA's Teen Art Program will be displayed on the screen at Theatre IV's Empire Stage

Young Audiences • Arts for Learning • Virginia
visit www.yav.org for more information


Art 180
World Views
Theatre IV

The student work "World Views" was created with Art 180 artists and will be screened at Theatre IV.

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