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Zverina: Select Works
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BIKES
ARE
BEAUTIFUL!
A
one-night celebration of bicycle
culture
SATURDAY APRIL 10, 2010
Hosted by Viking Fire Foundry
Bikes
might not solve all the world's
problems but they won't cause
more. This indoor/outdoor event
featured a bike art show, a
workshop where a bike-powered
blender was built (and put to
immediate use), free
silkscreening, DJs Dr.
Rich Lehl and Port-a-Party,
and The
Hungry
March Band. The unexpected
highlight was the spontaneous
sculptural arrangement of the
scores of bicycles which people
rode to the event.
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NEW
YEAR'S RESOVOLUTION -
Party with a Purpose
This alternative New
Year's Eve 2007 celebration
aimed to empower and inspire
people to work for positive
change in 2008 through a
combination of art, music, and
activism. 250 people attended
the information exchange, free
workshops, Clinton Fearon live
reggae concert, and political
art show displaying the work
of Evan Blackwell, Jack Daws,
Steven Luke Hanson, Chris
Jordan, Sarah Kavage, Rich
Lehl, and Mike Magrath. The Agitprop
Poster Challenge dared
people to create and
disseminate posters
bringing attention to topics of
their choosing. |
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Lead
Editor
/ Art Director - Carbusters
Magazine (Issues 28 - 31) 2006
- 2007
Hired as interim editor for 32-page
"quarterly journal of the global
carfree movement" while on a visit to
Czech Republic, was hired to continue
editing magazine remotely upon return
to Seattle. Wrote and solicited
articles, edited, did lay-out,
proofread, sold ads, promoted--all of
which led to increase in subscriptions
and the magazine's first profitable
year ever. |
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| Hired
in November 2006 to breathe some life
into the moribund cellar space at
Seattle's Alibi Room,
transformed the small venue into a
plug-and-play multimedia performance
space (with technical assistance from
the sure-handed Dave Benham) and for 8
months booked 3-4 nights of live and dj
music, film screenings, and a variety of
offbeat performances, including avant
garde music, free jazz, stand-up comedy,
microtheater, and the world's first a
capella karaoke. Click sample
posters for enlargements. |
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| Seattle
International Underground Experimental
Film Festival (SIUEFF), Priceless
Works Gallery, February 2005
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Curatorial
collaboration with Brent Watanabe. In
addition to matinees of Robert Zverina Short
Films, four special events took
place over two weekends:
Friday February 18 2005 8 pm
ANIMATION RATION
Saturday February 19 2005 8 pm
HOME MOVIE INVITATIONAL
Friday February 25 2005 8 pm
BYOP (Bring Your Own Projector)
A passle of participants presented a
pandemonium of unprogrammed slide,
digital, and film projections.
Saturday February 26 2005 8 pm
AV/IN (Abstract Video/Improv Noise)
Drew Demeter and Eric Lanzillotta
performed live noise accompaniment to
abstract video mixing by Robert Zverina
and Brent Watanabe. |
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Car-Free
Seattle, August 24 2002
"Dozens of bikers zipped through the
city yesterday, dressed in T-shirts that
read "Cars Kill," "Be Nice," and "Why
Not?," spreading the word that being
car-free can be carefree. "Car-Free
Seattle Day," a grass-roots effort aimed
at reducing the city's dependence on the
automobile, is in only its second year.
But this year's event had new
ammunition: a proclamation from Mayor
Greg Nickels declaring yesterday
Car-Free Seattle Day."
[ Times
article | Carfree Guide ] |
Highlights:
Citywide
bike ride, block parties, street
theater.
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Car-Free
Fremont, September 16 2001,
Seattle
[First North American Carfree day;
co-organized with Sarah Kavage]
Alternative Transportation
Education, Fremont Style
by Julie Reinhardt
Sunday, September 16 [2001] kicks off
the first ever Car-Free Fremont.
Whether you are celebrating a day of
independence from cars, or you just
want to have fun without looking both
ways before you cross the street, the
day is filled with revelry from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. Activities range from the
creative Artbike Rally and Bike
Decoration workshop, to educational
panels on car-free living, to the
downright goofy belly dancing couples'
workshop. Though technically belly
dancing is not a form of
transportation, it is sans vehicle and
much more fun than the morning
commute.
The focus for this event is not just
about reducing our use of cars, said
co-organizer Sarah Kavage, it's also
about creating community and "having
fun together in a space that is
typically filled up with cars...huge
boxes of metal speeding through the
streets."...
[Seattle
Press Article | Photos | Car-Free Day How-to] |
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