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15/7/2013

Biennial of the Americas

Different venues, Denver

June 12, 2013 – Denver – July 16-19, 2013, the Biennial of the Americas will host an international festival of ideas, art, and culture focused exclusively on the Americas – a dynamic region from Canada to Chile, celebrated right here in the Rocky Mountains.

Beginning today, the Biennial of the Americas is pleased to offer advanced ticketing on all ticketed events and announce a preview of confirmed free events and community-wide arts and cultural celebrations during the kick-off week. The 2013 Biennial will promote action and inspire critical thinking through a combination of innovative workshops, world-class symposia, clínicas, art exhibitions, and cultural programming. The Biennial’s primary program will dedicate four full days to the overall theme of Unleashing Human Potential: Reinventing Communities, Business, and Education.

Symposia: Welcoming international leaders to the Mile High City, Denver invites the public to four nightly symposia at The Buell Theater where renowned journalists including Tina Brown, Arianna Huffington and Patricia Janiot will moderate insightful and informative conversations with experts such as John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Global, Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, and Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, that explore a variety of critical issues impacting and shaping life in the Americas. These discussions promise to be inspirational as they engage leaders from diverse sectors and regions and center around the following topics.

July 16 – Inaugural Forum: Unleashing Human Potential

July 17 – Reinventing Communities and How We Live

July 18 – Reinventing Business As Usual

July 19 – Reinventing Education for the Global Market

Please visit www.biennialoftheamericas.org for a complete list of speakers and topic areas. Tickets are $50 Adults, $25 Seniors, Military, Students, Children and can be purchased by visiting www.ticketswest.com.

Draft Urbanism: From July 16th to September 2nd, the Biennial of the Americas will host Draft Urbanism to immerse the city with free public events highlighting art, architecture, film, and performance across the Americas. Draft Urbanism brings together artists and architects from across the Americas to examine the evolving relationship we have with our cities, acknowledging and embracing that urban space is inherently in flux. Four large-scale architecture installations will address site-specific urban challenges and key planning issues presently facing downtown Denver, while artwork and text will be exhibited on billboards and signage throughout the area, temporarily refashioning the city as one giant exhibition.

Curated by Cortney Lane Stell, First Draft examines the relation between the artistic process and drafting. Featuring the work of twenty-two Colorado artists, the exhibition highlights the role of the artist as an investigator of new or unfamiliar ideas and forms. In this sense, a draft, rather than being a stage on the way to a final version, is a completed work of art in itself, representing a paused moment within an artist’s exploratory practice.

In today’s world, nothing is final – everything is a draft of a draft. Our computers, phones, and cars are newer models of older ones; the programs and software we use everyday exist as one version of many; we watch remakes of movies and listen to covers, remixes, and samples. Even the word draft, itself, lacks specificity or finality. It can refer to things as different as a preliminary sketch, a compulsory recruitment of military service, or a wisp of cool air.

As the name implies, Draft Urbanism takes on this plural and incomplete condition and explores how the multiplicity of meanings within the urban environment could be articulated by some of the Americas’ most talented artists and architects. Dispelling the assumption that drafts are unformed, incomplete versions of a final state, Draft Urbanism proposes the unknown and amorphous as the most vital moments for strange, unexpected ideas to take hold.

Draft Urbanism also pays homage to Denver’s long tradition of brewing and explores how beer explicitly connects individual experience with larger citywide systems. In 1859, Denver’s first city government was established in a saloon on Larimer Street called The Apollo Hall; Adolph Coors founded his brewing company in 1873, and today it is home to the largest single brewing facility in the world; Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper made his way into state politics through the success of his brewery, the Wynkoop Brewing Company; Colorado brews more beer and has more craft breweries per capita than any other state in the U.S.

Brewing, distributing, selling and, of course, drinking of beer is deeply woven into Colorado’s social and economic fabric. What we drink, where we drink and with whom we are drinking, reflects and shapes the way our cities behave and the way we behave in our cities, as beer explicitly connects individual experience with larger citywide systems.

With more than 20 craft breweries in the Denver area, and more than 100 breweries in Colorado, brewing has become not only a socio-economic organizer, it has also become a unique and sophisticated cultural keystone for the Centennial State. Denverites don’t take beer lightly; for many, it is an item of civic, social and cultural import. Ultimately, Draft Urbanism is a celebration of the diverse ways the urban future could be addressed through the arts, while maintaining a deep understanding and respect for the city’s rich, fluid history.

Participants:
Absolute Vitality, Julieta Aranda, Gustavo Artigas, Sofia Borges, Pia Camil, Corina Copp, Denver Beer Co., Douglas Coupland, Simon Critchley, Ricardo Domeneck, Jeromie Dorrance, Travis Egedy, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, James Franco, Cyprien Gaillard, Liam Gillick, Daniel Jackson, Jason Lazarus, June14 (Sam Chermayeff, Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge), Suwon Lee, Laurel Nakadate, Tom Noel, Dmitri Obergfell, Jennifer Osborne, Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi, Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen), plan:b (Federico Mesa, Felipe Mesa), Jon Rafman, Zach Reini, Steve Rowell, Isabella Rozendaal, Kate Sansom, Alex Schweder, Jeremy Shaw, Michael Snow, Timur Si-Qin, Erdem Taşdelen, Amalia Ulman, Kandis Williams, David Zink Yi, and Mario Zoots.

Draft Urbanism will additionally present a satellite exhibition of Denver artists at the McNichols Building in Civic Center Park, called First Draft. Curated by associate curator Cortney Stell.

First Draft

Curated by Cortney Lane Stell, First Draft examines the relation between the artistic process and drafting. Featuring the work of twenty-two Colorado artists, the exhibition highlights the role of the artist as an investigator of new or unfamiliar ideas and forms. In this sense, a draft, rather than being a stage on the way to a final version, is a completed work of art in itself, representing a paused moment within an artist’s exploratory practice.

Artists: Theresa Anderson, Nicole Banowetz, Tyler Beard, Amber Cobb, Brandon Bultman, Jaime Carrejo, Devon Dikeou, Brian Evans, Tobias Fike and Matthew Harris, Ian Fisher, Chase Folsom, Carlos Frésquez, Tsehai Johnson, Conor King, Laura Merage, Adam Milner, Alicia Ordal, Gretchen Marie Schaefer, Laura Shill, Gary Sweeney, Shawn Taylor, and Rebecca Vaughan.

McNichols Building Civic Center Park
144 West Colfax (corner of West Colfax and Bannock)
Thursdays – Sundays, 10 am – 5 pm

Evening Festivals: Finally, the Biennial of the Americas will also host free evening cultural festivals at Civic Center Park during its inaugural week to encourage patrons to experience the diversity of the Americas through food, fun, music and more.

July 18th, Mexico Night – La Noche de Mexico
The Mexican Cultural Center Denver, Consulate General of Mexico in Denver, and the Denver Film Society will present a free public festival to celebrate Mexico in Denver’s Civic Center Park. The night will be filled with free family activities, live performances of traditional dances representative of Mexico, traditional food, and finally, a special film presentation of Bajo la Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) from the Denver Film Society.

July 19th, Denver Night
Denver Night is a unique evening of music and art in Denver’s Civic Center Park, including an eclectic concert of folk, classical, jazz, rock and avant-garde music in additional video art, sculpture, and dance.

“We are proud to host the 2013 Biennial of the Americas,” said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. “These leaders in politics, business and art from around the Americas will give attendees an unprecedented week of energy, intellect and culture.”

Building on the success of the event in 2010, the Biennial is pleased to have the support of institutions such as The Nature Conservancy, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Mile High United Way, among others, as intellectual partners. In addition, the Biennial is working closely with the Mexican and Canadian consulates to bring an international audience and flavor to each of the Biennial’s programs. Major sponsors include Liberty Global, CH2M HILL, Duke Energy, DaVita, U.S. Bank, The Fries Family Foundation, The Anschutz Foundation, Boettcher Foundation, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Comcast, Ernst & Young, US Bank, Morgridge Family Foundation, among others. The Biennial is bringing together community leaders, business experts, exceptional artists, innovative companies, and creative institutions to initiate both a dialogue and celebration that recognize the shared challenges, successes and unique opportunities for collaboration and exchange in communities throughout the Americas. Additional confirmed speakers during the Biennial include: Duke Energy CEO, Jim Rogers; The Nature Conservancy’s Chief Scientist Peter Kareiva; Former CEO of Panama Canal Authority Alberto Aleman Zubieta; Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan; Governor John Hickenlooper; Carolos Urrutia, Colombian Ambassador to the U.S; Steve Williams, CEO, Suncor Energy; Julie Katzman, Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank; Danilo Santos de Miranda, Director, Serviço Social de Comércio; José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States; Daphne Koller, Co-Founder, Coursera; Jean Case, CEO of Case Foundation; Mark Udall, U.S. Senator; Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, and John Hendricks, founder and Chairman of The Discovery Channel.

About the Biennial of the Americas
First envisioned by then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in 2010, the Biennial of the Americas is an international festival of ideas, art and culture hosted in Denver, Colorado, that provides a nonpartisan platform for leaders in business, government, civil society, and the arts to convene and examine the significant issues impacting life in the Americas.
For more information, visit www.biennialoftheamericas.org, follow us on Facebook at Platform 5280, Biennial of the Americas or on Twitter at @TheBiennial.

Press Contact:
Regan Petersen
Fitzgerald Petersen for the Biennial of the Americas
Regan@fitzgeraldpetersen.com

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