Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century
Clarke Mackey will present and discuss ideas from his book Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century
at the Fixt Point Studio, 1550 Queen St. West in Parkdale
Clarke Mackey's new book reexamines contemporary culture and challenges many widely held assumptions. He argues that, besides popular mass culture and the high culture of the elites, there is a third category of cultural activity that is old as human society itself but is seldom discussed: vernacular culture. Activities in this category include conversation between friends, social gatherings and rituals, play and participatory sports, informal storytelling, musical jam sessions, cooking and gardening, homemade architecture, and street festivals. In this talk, Mackey proposes that a simple, conscious emphasis on practicing and celebrating such activities at the expense of passive, consumer culture would have far-reaching beneficial effects on all aspects of human life in the new millennium.
AND the launch of a new Jumblies publication: Out of Place – collected essays by Jumblies artists, interns and colleagues. The first issue includes essays by Elizabeth Rucker, Michael Burtt, Diana Tso, Eric Schwindt and Maggie Hutcheson, and the second issue (to be published in fall 2010) will include essays by Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Leah Houston and others. For more info. contact: info@jumbliestheatre.org 416-203-8428
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