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How to Get Started Update
Dare to think aloud in front of a live audience and your favorite literary celebrities!
In honor of John Cage's centennial, PEN festival and Symphony Space join forces with the John Cage Trust and Slought Foundation to revive for the first time ever in New York, John Cage's 1989 work How To Get Started--a collaborative experiment that explores improvisation and the origin of ideas. In the piece, Cage took the stage with ten note cards, shuffled the deck and spoke 'off the cuff' for no more than three minutes on each idea. His monologue was recorded in collaboration with engineers and looped back as the next card was addressed, creating a complex acoustic layering of his ideas.
In this daylong 'happening' on Friday, May 4th, from 11:00am-9:00pm, minds from across the arts -- including Etgar Keret, David Harrington (Kronos Quartet), Aleksandar Hemon, Sonia Sanchez -- perform their own realizations at Symphony Space in New York City. As an audience member, you are also invited to contribute your own thoughts to the official archive of How to Get Started through a lottery selection (here to download instructions).
Before you come, visit howtogetstarted.org or the permanent installation at Slought in Philadelphia.
To purchase tickets for the events at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street) in New York City:
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7369-how-to-get-started
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Slought Foundation ('Sl-aw-t') is a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia that engages the public in dialogue about cultural and socio-political change. We collaborate with a range of partners including artists, communities, universities, and governments to encourage cultural inclusiveness and social activism. Culture means more than preservation or presentation to us; it means the exchange of ideas, the creation of concepts.
From Kwame Anthony Appiah to Helene Cixous, Werner Herzog to Kazuyo Sejima, our programs feature today's visionaries in conversation about the role of the artist in society, and the potential transformation of social and political structures. In 2010, 450+ hours of recordings from these programs, available online, were downloaded over 125,000 times by visitors from 100 countries. Browse the archives, or view select programs.
View our calendar of public programs, sign up for the newsletter, or listen to an introduction about the organization by Aaron Levy:
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Public programs include How to Get Started, an interactive installation with the John Cage Trust
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