IAF - Call for Volunteers

[talkstowolves]

Last year, I participated in a marvelous exercise in interstitiality: an auction of remarkable jewelry inspired by stories collected in Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writings. Through the alchemy of word and imagination and raw materials, Mia crafted evocative poem-pendants, Elizabeth Genco knotted intoxicating skeins of glittering black beads, Helen Pilinovsky invoked a terror of rats in black stick pearls, and so many others conceived of and brought into the world so many shiny things. Even I found myself moving to select beads, thread wire, and execute in necklace form the tale of a girl and her lost brothers.

This fall will see the publication of Interfictions 2 and, with it, another fundraising event for the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Once more, they are putting out the call for creators to donate liminal art so that such art -- visual, aural, whatever wondrous creations fall through the cracks of easily codified existence -- can continue to be fostered. A self-fulfilling dream.

Right now, they're looking for volunteers to help run this fundraising event smoothly. They need project managers, web assistants, photographers, and more. Check out this post by Tempest Bradford (coordinator extraordinaire and excellent contributor to the maiden voyage of Interfictions) and see if you can't lend a hand. And thank you if you do!

N.B. The painting to the left is by Alex Myers and was chosen by the IAF to be the cover for Interfictions 2. It is entitled "e" and is part of his art as commodity series.

Comments

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

No, no, you understood me perfectly the first time. More soon on all this, but didn't want you to worry. It means a lot that IAF resonates with you! The perfect place to begin.

Thanks for mentioning "Sound & Spirit." I"m not making new shows currently, but it continues to air on some stations weekly, and over 100 shows are available at the website:

http://www.wgbh.org/pages/pri/spirit/alphabetical.html

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the link! I remember listening to an episode that explored the Kalevala and being fascinated. Now I can enjoy it and others again.

I hope you don't mind if I friend your journal, at least so I'm not impinging on talkstowolves's journal entry anymore. :)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, I loved that Kalevala show a lot - and it's actually Part 1 of 2 we did - I think the other is called "Out of Finland" and has tons of joikking. Enjoy.

I'm delighted you're friending my journal. All are welcome.

[talkstowolves.livejournal.com]

Hee. I didn't mind!

[talkstowolves.livejournal.com]

Oh my... I never realized that you hosted Sound & Spirit! I wasn't a regular listener, but I remember stumbling across "Surviving Survival" many years ago. I was in a very dark place at that time and listening to that program was part of the impetus that got me into counseling and allowed me to purge several demons.

What a connected world. And thank you, Ellen, for once helping to provide me with a guiding voice in the darkness.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

That show meant a great deal to me - esp. "Surviving Survival," which I waited years until I felt I had the right material to produce. It is very good to know it meant something to you, and came at the right time. I hear lots of stories like this. There is real magic to radio.