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| Robert Zverina:
Select Works | Community &
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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
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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 2007 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 |
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Car-Free
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