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Lecture Series: The Last Songs of the Glaciers w/ Julia Calfee

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Join us as Julia Calfee presents us with a multimedia approach to the issue of global warming.

Julia has recorded over 200 sounds of ice and glaciers melting away and taken over 800 photographs. These recordings (songs) are sometimes astonishing with helicopter-like sound and rhythms reminiscent of beating drums. The photos are often abstract emphasizing the natural universal forms found in the nature of the high Alpine valleys and mountains. These elements have been combined with video for this presentation which includes a film about the process.

Julia Calfee, multi-media artist, photographer, writer and animator has spent most of her professional life living and working in Europe and Asia. She majored in journalism at NYU and studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her first book on the subject of artists and their studios was published by Miro Foundation in 1995.

From 1996 to 2002, she focused on Mongolia, where she led a caravan to bring medicine to remote areas. During this time she also documented life in Mongolian prisons for a relief organization, and photographed the blight of poverty in Ulan Bator. Over these years she also took photographs of traditional reindeer herders in the north, particularly one female shaman.

In 2003, the book Spirits and Ghosts: Journeys Through Mongolia was published by PowerHouse Books, New York. This book explores the transitions and changes in Mongolia since 1996, touching upon the obstinate ritual and beliefs of this country still steeped in the murkiness of the post-Communist era.

From 2003 until 2008 Julia Calfee has been living mainly in New York City's Hotel Chelsea, where she documented the state of mind that has existed in that unique place - the legendary residence for artists, writers and musicians. This long term project has become a well acclaimed book published by powerHouse Books New York in 2008.

„The Last Songs of the Glaciers“, her project on global warming, was exhibited in Switzerland during the Art Basel Fair 2010 and at "The Verbier Green Pioneering Summit" (VGPS) 2010. Two videos have been produced on this project, one by Swiss Television for swissinfo.ch in English and German and the other for the Copenhagen Summit by Radio Free Europe as well as a catalogue titled Vanishing Glaciers.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index/Glaciers_last_songs.html?cid=7639728
http://www.rferl.org/content/The_Last_Song_Of_A_Glacier/1900778.html
http://http://www.juliacalfee.com/

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No Charge

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$20

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$5 w/ ID

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