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  1. Stand & Deliver: Education // Tell Your Friends, via Facebook + Twitter Sunday, January 31, 2010

    For those with a social media bent, a few ways additional to help us get the word out on Stand & Deliver… all 140 characters and under.

    I voted to provide innovative and affordable education to all. I voted for Stand & Deliver. http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    I’m voting for Stand & Deliver every day in February because education needs our help 7 days a week. http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    I voted for Stand & Deliver because I’ve got a big idea for improving education. How about you? http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    Vote for #CHA schools!  Vote for Stand & Deliver! http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    Support a #CHA initiative up for national honors! http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    City love is for everyone. Support #CHA, and our community schools. http://tiny.cc/standdeliver

    Posted by Administrator in Culture in Education

  2. Stand & Deliver: Education // Voting Starts Monday! Friday, January 29, 2010

    CreateHere is pleased to announce our participation in the Refresh Project, a vetting process for innovative ideas sponsored by Pepsi and GOOD. Our project is Stand & Deliver, a six-month community change process focused on improving education in Chattanooga. Awards are determined by a public vote, and polls are open February 1 through February 28.

    We’re asking anyone who supports education to get the vote out during the entire month of February! Users can vote daily for up to ten different projects, which means you can cast 28 votes for Stand & Deliver, and up to 280 votes for projects that are revitalizing communities across the country. On Monday, our application goes live, available here.

    But what’s the project? Stand & Deliver starts with the production and distribution of ground-setting documents—infographics, best practices, Stand data, and local interviews. These research pieces will be widely available in several formats, and will play a major role in engaging 1000+ people in two 24-hour citizen summits, to be held in October, 2010. During these summits, citizens will pitch potential projects, produce asset maps, connect with diverse skills sets, and act on the needs, and strengths, of local education. We’re asking for $50,000 to make this project possible.

    So, how can you get involved?

    First, vote for Stand & Deliver on Monday, and continue to do so during the entire month of February.

    Next, get out the vote. To prepare for the openings of polls on Monday, we’ll be posting customizable emails, twitter messages, and Facebook statuses to the blog all weekend long. You can use these to reach out to neighbors, co-workers, and friends.

    Finally, think big, and act accordingly. CreateHere believes all the ingredients for innovation and community renewal are already here: it’s just a matter of connecting people, ideas, and action. Help us kick-off this exciting project, and help us deliver on a promise to make our community better.

    Posted by Administrator in Culture in Education

  3. SSAWG Foodie Flicks Schedule Friday, January 22, 2010

    CreateHere showtimes:

    7:35pm The Adventures of the Big Bad Chef: John Currence, aka BIG BAD CHEF & the 2009 James Beard Award Winner for Best Chef South, takes us on a magical journey to The Bourbon Mall outside of Leland, Mississippi. Like a lot places in the Mississippi Delta, the Bourbon Mall serves hot tamales, but so far they’re the only folks we’ve found with enough guts to deep-fry them. Check your cholesterol at the door and follow the BIG BAD CHEF on a deep fried detour through the Secret South.
    RUNNING TIME: 3:00

    7:40pm Smokes and Ears: Smokes & Ears tells the story of the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. Known as “Big John’s” by its faithful customers, the Big Apple Inn’s defining duo of pig ear sandwiches and hot smoked sausage sandwiches (known as “smokes”) has kept folks coming back again and again for over 70 years, and counting.
    RUNNING TIME 20:09

    8:02pm Greenhorns: The Greenhorns is a documentary film that explores the lives of America’s young farming community—its spirit, practices, and needs.
    RUNNING TIME 13:01

    8:18pm HomeGrown: HOMEGROWN follows the Dervaes family who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. While “living off the grid”, they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a website that gets 4,000 hits a day.
    RUNNING TIME: 52:00

    green|spaces showtimes:

    7:47pm Buttermilk: It Can help: Cruze Family Dairy, located outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. Hear proprietor Earl Cruze extol the virtues of buttermilk. It might not solve all the world’s problems, but it can help!
    RUNNING TIME: 13:18

    8:02pm Hush Hoggies Hush: Tom Johnson’s praying pigs as filmed by a documentary crew in 1978.
    RUNNING TIME: 4:17

    8:08pm Fresh: FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
    RUNNING TIME: 72:00

    Posted by Jessica in Culture

  4. Art Inspires Theatre Inspires Art Thursday, January 21, 2010

    Garry Posey is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director for the Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga. He brings us this update on MIXED MEDIA, a uniquely Chattanoogan arts event.

    Thomas Spake and I, both SpringBoard graduates, have teamed up to present an evening of original art, visual and performance. I approached Spake in the fall of 2009 with an idea I had for a project, a project that I thought would bridge the gap between the artists and audiences of different artistic disciplines. The premise was create a piece of art, use elements of that art to create original plays, then orchestrate plays and the piece of art into an evening an theatre.

    Tomas was instantly interested in the project. His interest set us on task to put together a unique performance unlike Chattanooga—and dare I say most of the Southeast—has seen before. Tomas used the month of October to design the art piece, working in his medium of metal and glass. Once he had completed the design, he put together three short documents discussing his actual process for constructing the piece, his inspiration for the piece and then an artist’s statement about the piece. With those three documents and a sketch of the piece, I then contracted four out of town playwrights to each write a short play based on one of those four elements, without any knowledge of the other three. The playwrights took the month of November to complete a first draft.

    In December, the Ensemble Theatre company convened with the four rough drafts in hand and filmed a reading of each script. Accompanied with feedback from the readings and the actors, the playwrights took the rest of the month formulating final drafts of the plays. Once the new drafts arrived, I realized that I could take this project one step further by involving four more visual artists to create a piece based on each of the four plays. Just like the original piece from Thomas, all four of these pieces will also become part of the staging in some special and unique way. Creating a project that is cyclically inspirational among different disciplines of creative expression.
    As January speeds into February, the shows have been cast and are in the midst of rehearsals and the art pieces are in various levels of completion.

    As I finish out this post, I wanted to introduce you all to fifteen artists involved:

    Visual Artists:
    Thomas Spake, Chandra Morgan, Matt Dutton, Shaun LaRose, Cathy Collier

    Playwrights:
    Derek Van Barham (IL), Rob Smith (IL), Anthony Garcia-Copian (NC), Peter Macklin (NY)

    Theatre Artists:
    Garry Lee Posey, John Thomas Cecil, Ryan Laskowski, Mark Edward Murray, Christy Gallo, Brenda Schwab, Ellen Poole

    We have named the project MIXED MEDIA, as we are truly mixing artistic media.  Stay tuned for another blog post about performance dates and times and an introduction to the work. Chattanooga becomes more creative when we work together. I can honestly say that this project has endeared me even more to our amazing and supportive community of artists.

    Posted by Administrator in Arts in Culture

  5. Mountain Music Folk School is on the Map Wednesday, January 20, 2010

    Jessica Martin is a senior fellow at CreateHere, and an aspiring Mandolin player. She sends us this update on the Mountain Music Folk School.

    In less than one year, Mountain Music Folk School (MMFS) founders Matt Evans and Christie Burns have laid groundwork for the preservation, perpetuation, and promotion of folk music in Chattanooga. By way of innovation, alternative thinking, and love for the music, Christie and Matt have established themselves as entrepreneurs and artists in our community.

    Since the inception of MMFS in 2009—aided by a MakeWork grant—the program has completed a successful first semester of classes, landed a brick and mortar space on the North Shore, and revitalized the breadth of energy surrounding folk music in Chattanooga.

    After helping administer MakeWork grants for two years, it has become apparent to me that there is certainly no lack of talent in our city. And along with many other projects and initiatives that were born out of the grant program, this is one worth mentioning and even getting involved in. 

    The beauty that lies in the MMFS model is that it’s all about participation and collaboration. Classes are held in group sessions and not only embrace the music itself, but there is a strong emphasis on collective knowledge and experimentation.

    Fortunately, whether you’ve signed up for the next semester of classes or are just scoping out the scene, it matters not; the group is holding an event to honor past, present and future students this Sunday, January 24 from 1 PM to 4 PM at Barking Legs, so join the party, bring a friend and bring an instrument!

    Posted by Administrator in Arts in Culture

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