Rescheduled for Sunday September 7th 5-7PM
Loul Samater and Jarod Charzewski are visiting instructors in the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. Both artists will create large scale installations made from discarded materials creating environments that evoke the questions about our use of space and the physical debris we accumulate or refuse.

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Artist and creator of international art and culture magazine Beautiful/Decay, Amir Fallah will be presenting an exhibition of new work featuring his legendary fort/terrariums!

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Rescheduled for Sunday September 7th 7PM
Southern Circuit Film Series - The 2007-2008 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of Southern Arts Federation

The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening.

In a remote village of Pakistan, Mukhtaran Mai’s life changed when she was brutally punished for a crime allegedly committed by her brother. Naqvi’s compelling documentary beautifully portrays Mai’s tragic journey and redemptive transformation.Film Trailer
Southern Circuit Film Series @ HICA

Performance artist Rajni Shah has extensive experience in choreography, theatrical performance and installation. An equally skilled writer, Shah has chronicled her thoughts and exploits and has been published in Engage Magazine, UK Arts Council on the Internet, and Juice Magazine. Some themes from her many workshops include regaining autonomy, exploring self-definition, public interventions, art as a gift, as well as research on cultural diversity. She has produced work for the Live Art Development Agency, the Performance and Debate Festival and served as artist adviser for the production "Rules and Regs: Farnham." Other key performances include "Mr. Quiver," a four-hour interactive performance in the UK's Nuffield Theater, Lancaster, and theaters in Nottingham, and Glasgow. Well received in London, Shah also has a strong performance history in the United States with several collaborations and solos: "Solo Against Violence," (Moving in the Spirit, Atlanta, GA 2001) "Upon a Blighted Star," a response to the events of September 11, 2001 using dance, text, and constructed elements (Camden Peoples Theater, London; FOCAS Festival, Lexington, KY). She has been supported by the Cultural Leadership initiative run by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and recently completed a Senior Management fellowship with Arts Council England. She holds a MA/BA with honors from the University of Cambridge in England. www.Rajnishash.com

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I relate to the project through practice with "the Burqua as Shelter", for the Burqua to be seen as shelter, as a cloth that protects and shields the wearer. It is another view, an important aspect of the burqua that many people don't see.

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Jarod Charzewski was born in Winnipeg, Canada and received his Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of Manitoba (1996) and a Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Minnesota (2005). Charzewski has been included in several solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Canada, and has lectured as a visiting artist at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN, Pitzer College in Clearmont, CA, University of Missoula, Missoula MT and at Trinity Square Video in Toronto, Ontario. The artist has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the College of Charleston since 2006.

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Samater's installation, Diving Dunce, will be in the first floor gallery of the Halsey Institute. Her work is derived from memories of growing up outside of America. She uses materials that connote parties-- balloons, glitter and party hats arranged in intimate settings that create a tension for the viewers, leaving them to question whether the party is over, or has yet to begin. This environment challenges the viewer to consider whether they are a participant or observer.

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Loul Samater and Jarod Charzewski are visiting instructors in the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. Both artists will create large scale installations made from discarded materials creating environments that evoke the questions about our use of space and the physical debris we accumulate or refuse.

online exhibit

Southern Circuit Film Series - The 2007-2008 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of Southern Arts Federation

The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening

In the summer of 2002, in a remote village of Pakistan, 30-year-old Mukhtaran Mai's life changed when the village tribal council sanctioned a punishment against her for a crime allegedly committed by her younger brother. Following the tribal custom of "honor for honor," Mai was gang-raped and then publicly paraded around as an example. Her family cowered in shame. The village shunned her. Normally, the only recourse for such a woman would be suicide. Instead, Mai set out to seek justice and shook the very core of Pakistan's decaying judicial system. Naqvi's compelling documentary beautifully portrays Mai's tragic journey and redemptive transformation into a human rights icon and a local leader for social change. "Shame" has received numerous awards, including a Television Academy Honor presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Film Trailer
Southern Circuit Film Series @ HICA

Mend: Love, Life, & Loss - Group Exhibition
curated by Mark Sloan

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This exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of the idea of mending--be it a human who is sick, a heart that is broken, or a profound grief over a death. The patch is often stronger than the original--hence the paradox. The artists in this show probe the dualities of strength/fragility, hope/despair, joy/grief, pretty/nasty, dainty/brutal, etc. using fiber as the key metaphor. Each of the ten nationally known artists employ the yoking of opposites as an expressive vehicle. All of the works in the show contain at least some sort of fiber--string, hair, thread, yarn, etc. Fiber is the central metaphor, as it is evidenced to be visibly fragile, yet through the mend, it becomes durable, and at times, indelible.

Artists:
Adrienne Antonson, Pinky Bass, Jon Coffelt, Leslie Kneisel, Nava Lubelski, Preston Orr, Susan Harbage Page, Marilyn Pappas, Mireille Vautier, Rachel Wright

Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season) and Other Experimental Ethnographies
by Ben Russell
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The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening.

Recorded in the jungle of Bendekondre, Suriname, Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season) is composed of community-generated performances, reenactments, and extemporaneous recordings of the villagers.

Membership Event

This event is an opportunity for current Halsey members, potential members, and visual arts enthusiasts in Charleston to show their support of the Halsey Institute’s continuing efforts to produce innovative contemporary art exhibitions for our cultural community.

7pm in the gallery

This will be the fourteenth year for Playwrights Tonight at the Halsey Gallery, creating an evening of entertainment through the collaborative efforts of the Halsey Gallery and Dr. Franklin Ashley's playwriting class. This event features readings from original plays written by student playwrights. Over the years, the plays first presented here have gone on to win first prize in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Workshop and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Ten Minute Play Contest. Seven of the earlier plays a have gone on to be published nationally.