516 ARTS & The Alvarado Urban Farm present

exhibitions and programs exploring self-sufficiency, community and visions of utopia

PROGRAM PARTNERS:

516 ARTS

Alvarado Urban Farm

Basement Films

The Box Performance Space

Center for Contemporary Art

Downtown Action Team

SUMMER 2011

unCOMMON GROUND

FUSION Theatre Company

The Guild Cinema

Harwood Art Center

Littleglobe

Re-Source

516 ARTS

516 Central Avenue SW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

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P A I DAlbuquerque, NM

Permit No. 749

opening reception: Saturday, June 4, 6–8pm • 516 ARTS, Downtown Albuquerque

exhibitions: AcRoSS The GReAT DiviDe • WoRlDS ouTSiDe ThiS one JUNE 4 – AUGUST 27

www.516arts.org

ABOVE: Roberta Price, Making Adobes, Reality Construction Company, on mesa near Arroyo Hondo, NM, June 1969; LEFT: N55, Spaceframe Vehicle; RIGHT: Jay Nelson, The Golden Gate 1, photo by Jack Halloway

FRI & SAT, JULY 8 & 9

The Box Performance Space presents

SeedfolkSPaul Fleishman’s book Seedfolks features 13 very different voices — old, young, Haitian, Hispanic, tough, haunted, and hopeful — telling one amazing story about a garden that transforms a neighborhood. It describes the founding and first year of a community garden in an immigrant area of Cleveland. This staged reading brings alive this “hymn to the sense of community.” FREE

TIMES: Friday, 7pm & Saturday, 3pm & 7pm

locATion: The Box Performance Space, 114 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ 505-404-1578, www.theboxabq.com

WeD, June 29, 7pm

FUSION Theatre Company presents

The loST eNdINGThe Lost Ending, an outdoor theatre performance for children of all-ages, is interactive by design, leading the young audience to experience the power of community action. A troupe of Players presents a “story hour,” but when the book is lost, the children and Players must collaborate to create a new ending. The unfinished story offers a metaphor for our relationship to the land on which we live; how the story ends depends on people working together. FREE

LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ

inFo: FuSion Theatre company, 505-766-9412, www.FuSionabq.org

location in case of rain: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ

SAT, JUNE 25, 2pm

516 ARTS & CCA present

CollaboraTIoN & ColleCTIvITy: a Conversation with Meow WolfJoin 516 ARTS guest curator Erin Elder and CCA director/curator Craig Anderson for a conversation with the Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf. More than 50 people have worked together to produce The Due Return, their latest and largest installation in the 6,000 square foot Munoz Waxman Gallery at ccA in Santa Fe, on view May 13 - July 10, 2011. FREE

LOCATION: Center for Contemporary Art, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, 505-982-1338, www.ccasantafe.org

SAT, JUNE 4, 2pm

516 ARTS presents

The CoNSTruCTIoN of The CouNTerCulTure: The role of Women & the Place of architectureJoin artists, curators and guest scholars for a panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibitions opening the same evening at 516 ARTS (6-8pm). Panelists will discuss the eclectic architectural styles developed by commune members of the 1960s and 70s, and the often-misunderstood status of women in these rural communes. Some of the panelists will share personal experiences of the communal lifestyle of that era at Libre and Red Rockers, communities in the Huerfano Valley of Southern Colorado, where they lived close to the earth to fulfill basic human needs, raise families, educate children and design and build their own homes. Panelists: Roberta Price, Mary Corey, Linda Fleming, Arnold Valdez and Erin Elder, moderated by Mary Anne Redding. FREE

locATion: 516 ARTS, 516 central SW, Downtown ABQ, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org

WeD, JulY 13, 7pm

The Alvarado Urban Farm & 516 ARTS present

SeedS for ChaNGeActivism and art come together for an outdoor panel discussion at the farm with guest panelists Helen Fox, Arturo Sandoval and David Ondrik reflecting on their experiences with how farming has positively impacted people by reconnecting them with origins and growth. They will discuss the importance of farms in our communities as sustenance for our bodies, minds and souls. FREE

LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ, www.alvaradourbanfarm.com

INFO: 516 ARTS, 505-242-1445, www.516arts.org

location in case of rain: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ

SAT, JULY 23, 2pm

Littleglobe presents

Coal: a MuSICalJoin Littleglobe for a musical storytelling and interactive workshop for all ages with Molly Sturges. The story is a fable about an ordinary boy who goes on an extraordinary journey after meeting Coal, a firerock that contains both creation and destruction within her. It is followed by a participatory workshop that adds audience voices to this work-in-progress as part of a collective dialogue. FREE

locATion: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW, Downtown ABQ

INFO: Littleglobe, 505-660-9473, www.littleglobe.org

THU, AUGUST 11, 7pm

The Harwood Art Center presents

hoW-To...Celebrate The Harwood Art Center’s newest poetry anthology titled How-To: Multiple Perspectives on Creating a Garden, a Life, Relationships and Community. Using the metaphor of a garden for community, How-to... offers poets’ reflections on life, relationships and the development of community, from start to sustainability. Gather with select contributors, including Margaret Randall and Tony Mares, amidst the buzzing life of Downtown Albuquerque’s new Alvarado Urban Farm. FREE

LOCATION: Alvarado Urban Farm, 2nd & Silver, Downtown ABQ

INFO: 505-242-6367, www.harwoodartcenter.org

location in case of rain: 516 ARTS, 516 central SW, Downtown ABQ

more info: WWW.516arTS.orGEVENTS

OUTDOOR YOUTH PERFORMANCE

SANTA FE TALK

PANEL DISCUSSION

OUTDOOR PANEL DISCUSSION

PERFORMANCE / WORKSHOP OUTDOOR POETRY READING

STAGED READING

David Ondrik, October Hoophouse, 2010, archival pigment ink print

Meow Wolf, The Due Return, 2011, installation in progress at CCA

Roberta Price, Setting Up for Party Celebrating Completion of Dome Structure, Red Rocker Commune, Huerfano Valley, Colorado, 1970

MON - THU, AUGUST 1–4, 6pm

The Guild Cinema & 516 ARTS present

ToGeTherThis exemplary, lively and provocative Swedish comedy is set in a hippie commune in the mid 1970s Sweden, where the hippie ethic was an article of faith. The action takes place almost entirely within the rambling and ramshackle suburban house named Tillsammans, which means “together” in Swedish.

TICKETS: $5 students/seniors, $7 general

LOCATION: The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central NE nob hill, ABQ

INFO: 505-255-1848, www.guildcinema.com

SUN, JULY 31, 9pm

Basement Films, 516 ARTS & DAT present

raNdoM luNaCyThis special outdoor screening follows THE FLYING NEUTRINOS, a family band of self-taught Dixieland musicians led by the radically itinerant Poppa Neutrino on a quest for pure freedom. They were homeless by choice, and documented their lives with an old HI-8 camera, capturing adventures that range from a stint in a Mexican circus to pitting a scrap raft against the Atlantic Ocean. Down and out never looked so rich. FREE

locATion: Alvarado urban Farm, Downtown ABQ

INFO: 505-242-1445, www.basementfilms.org

MON - THU, AUGUST 1–4, 4:15 & 8:15pm

The Guild Cinema & 516 ARTS present

CoMMuNeFeaturing narration by Peter Coyote and music by prolific avant musician Elliot Sharp, Commune is a feature documentary that explores an audacious premise: that being together in the wilderness will help create revolutionary movement in the rest of society.

TICKETS: $5 students/seniors, $7 general

LOCATION: The Guild Cinema, 3405 Central NE nob hill, ABQ

INFO: 505-255-1848, www.guildcinema.com

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 6–8PM

Music with Michael Gallagher & Jerry Page

jUNE 4 – AUGUST 27

july 30 – August 4FILM SERIES

516 ARTS • EXHIBITIONS

WorldS ouTSIde ThIS oNeCurated by erin elder

Worlds Outside This One features a group of emerging international artists and innovators responding to the legacy of homesteading, squatting, hermitage and fort building. It addresses the urge for momentary acts of self-determination, showcasing hand-hewn spaces in the gallery and interactive experiences, as well as blueprints, shelters, journals and maps. This exhibition illuminates the productive tension between Do-It-Yourself autonomy and shared notions of Utopia. Many of the featured artists are also architects, philosophers, entrepreneurs, urban planners, economists and community builders.

aCroSS The GreaT dIvIde Photographs by roberta Price

Across the Great Divide is a solo exhibition of Roberta Price’s photographic memoir of the back-to-the-land movement in the late 1960s and 70s, which serves as a point of departure for examining the place of autonomy and community. The exhibition is in conjunction with the release of her book Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture (UNM Press, 2010). It features a photographic archive of hippies, communes, architecture, countercultural luminaries and events in the Southwest in the late 1960s and 70s. Her photographs capture the hope, optimism and utopian promise that fueled that period. The exhibition is curated by Mary Anne Redding, Curator of Photography, New Mexico History Museum, and is part of a national exhibition tour organized by 516 ARTS in partnership with The Museum at Bethel Woods, nY.

516 ARTS presents concurrent, related exhibitions, both of which are meditations on creating shelter, seeking space and exploring unlimited possibilities.

Above: Swimming Cities, Rafts Adriatic, 2009, c-print, courtesy Tod Seelie

Meow Wolf, The Due Return, 2011, installation in progress at CCA

Roberta Price, Setting Up for Party Celebrating Completion of Dome Structure, Red Rocker Commune, Huerfano Valley, Colorado, 1970

Justin Bagley

Amy Balkin

Michelle Blade

Building a Nation

Siraj Izhar

Jed Lind

Elysa Lozano for

Autonomous Organization

Mary Mattingly

Travis Meinolf

Meow Wolf

Jay Nelson

N55

Mia Nussbaum

David Ondrik

Stephanie Smith

Swimming Cities

David Wilson

Harriet Beinfeld, Yeshi Neuman Nurses Allegra Brucker & Emma Neuman, Black Bear Ranch Commune, 1981location in case of rain: Re-Source, 112 Gold SW

abouT 516 arTS516 Central Avenue SW • 505-242-1445 • open Tue – Sat, 12-5pmwww.516arts.org

516 ARTS is an independent, nonprofit arts and education organization, which operates a museum-style gallery in the center of Downtown Albuquerque. 516 ARTS offers adventurous programs that address current issues in world culture, that inspire curiosity, dialogue, risk-taking and creative experimentation, showcasing a mix of established, emerging, local, national and international artists. Programs include innovative and interdisciplinary exhibitions, events and educational activities in a variety of art forms. Our mission is to forge connections between art and audiences, and our vision is to be an active partner in developing the cultural landscape of Albuquerque and new Mexico. our values are inquiry, diversity, collaboration and accessibility.

ACroSS The greAT divide • WorldS ouTSide ThiS one

at 516 ARTS • June 4 – August 27 • opening June 4, 6–8pm

abouT The alvarado urbaN farMwww.alvaradourbanfarm.com

The Alvarado Urban Farm is located in the Heart of the Alvarado Transportation District at the Green Commons site on Silver Avenue between First and Second Streets. This demonstration project is a unique collaboration of commercial and community farms, weekday farmer’s market, Petanque/Bocce courts, entertainment and education. This Historic District Improvement Company, LLC initiative is made possible by a temporary licensing agreement with the city of Albuquerque and Romero Rose, LLC. The project will be managed by the Downtown Action Team as an extension of the Downtown Growers Market.

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Roberta Price, Dome at Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado, June 1969

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