The Berwick sponsors AND recommends AND enjoys Bitter Melon - May 7

Come celebrate the nutritional, culinary, and creative possibilities of Bitter Melon with the National Bitter Melon Council on Sunday, May 7, in Cambridge.

Goya Honoring Day, originating in Okinawa, Japan, is a special day to recognize Bitter Melon as a featured product of that tropical island (“Goya” is the term for Bitter Melon in Okinawa dialect.) In Japan, Goya Day is celebrated on May 8th because the Japanese pronunciation of the date “May” and “8” sounds the same as “Go-Ya”. Because of the time difference between Boston and Japan our celebration will occur on May 7th, which is actually May 8th in Okinawa.

Bitter Melon Honoring Day Highlights include:

Friday, May 5, 7 – 9:00 PM: Bitterware Party: Sweet Stories, Bitter Flavors
Hosted by Lisa Davis and Janice Sutton

Start the weekend off at the Bitterware Party, hosted by Midwest regional Bitter Melon ambassador and NBMC board member Janice Sutton. The evening will include Bitter Melon hors d’oeuvres, tea, and conversation about the emotional and physical health benefits of Bitter Melon.

Sunday, May 7 Bitter Melon Honoring Day
290 Main Street (Kendall Square), Cambridge

12 – 4:30 PM: Bitter Melon Cook-off
Five visiting chefs will create a unique Bitter Melon dish before your very eyes!

4:30 ­ 5:30 PM: NBMC Annual Meeting
Join the staff, board and friends of the NBMC for it Annual Meeting, where
we will celebrate our past year¹s accomplishments and give a taste of the
exciting events to come in the summer of 2006.

5:30 – 9:00 PM: Goya Celebration Banquet
Gather for an evening of food, drink, and song to celebrate Goya Honoring Day. The banquet will include 10 different courses of Bitter Melon, from drinks to soup to a dessert and aperitif! *Space is limited! Contact the NBMC to reserve a seat at the banquet table info@bittermelon.org

Goya Honoring Day is hosted by Spurse and the Cambridge Arts Council as part of The Public Table, a provisional restaurant of The Collective for the Finding of the Commons, a project of the CAC initiative Public Art/Moving Site.

All projects of the NBMC are generously supported by the LEF Foundation and the Berwick Research Institute.

The Berwick Announces 2006 PAI Resident John Ewing

The Berwick Research Institute is excited to announce John Ewing as the 2006
recipient of the Public Art Incubator Residency

From May through August, artist John Ewing will embark on the development of Virtual Street Corners, a project that will use video conferencing technology to explore the city of Boston and the various boundaries its residents navigate ­ physical, social, and psychological. By using cameras, microphones, and large-scale video displays to create reconstructed street corners around Boston, the project will offer residents and passers-by portals of sight and sound between disparate neighborhoods and across social and geographical lines. Ewing plans to use the residency period to develop the video portal devices, connect with residents and community members in potential installation sites, and explore ways to use the technology as a tool for interactivity and dialogue.

John Ewing is a digital media artist and muralist who creates public art with an emphasis on community participation and social justice. He spent two years in El Salvador with an international development organization, using the arts to organize and inspire dialogue about human rights. Other work includes projects in Nicaragua, Uruguay and Cuba, as well as various cities in the U.S. Local projects include Symphony of a City, which portrayed Boston from 8 different perspectives by installing "headcams" on residents and projecting the resulting video footage on city hall and streaming it on the web www.symphonyofacity.org.

Currently he is an MFA candidate at Rhode Island School of Design and directs HUMAN, a Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project in Dorchester that teaches art to incarcerated girls.

Welcome John!

AIR Alums Devil Music at the MFA Tomorrow

Performing a Live Soundtrack to the Rare Silent Western:
BIG STAKES

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
465 Huntington Ave

SATURDAY APRIL 15TH 7:30 SHARP
Tickets 12$ regular admission
10$ members


ACTION-ROMANCE-DEADLY LIZARDS-MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS-&-THE KKK

In Big Stakes, J.B. Warner stars as a Texas gentleman who falls for a Mexican girl and tries to win her from a dashing rival the Mexican General, in a contest involving Mexican jumping beans. When his new love rejects him, he returns home just in time to save his blonde hometown girl from a Ku Klux Klan leader who questions her "purity."

The film's somewhat liberal attitude toward race is in stark contrast to D.W. Griffiths A Birth of a Nation, 1920, and the exciting climax could have been intended as a subtle criticism of Griffith's landmark epic. This movie is filled with action, romance, humor, and many other staples of early Western’s; i.e. bar fights, horse chases, and shoot outs.

For more info about the film and the Devil Music Ensemble, please visit www.devilmusic.org

AIR Artist Kelly Sherman

AIR Artist Kelly Sherman Investigates
Wedding Seating Arrangements:
Manifestations of (Dis)harmony

What: Artist Talk
When: Wednesday, April 12 7:00
Where: The Berwick Studios, 14 Palmer Street Roxbury

Kelly Sherman’s social research projects break down poetic, nostalgic and romantic actions to their elemental components: a love letter becomes an exercise in sentence construction; hopeful wish lists, specimens for calculated examination. During her AIR residency, Sherman will analyze how complex family relationships are confronted and mediated via seating arrangements. Using weddings as her venue, she will further challenge her interest in how an issue so practical in nature can both produce and assuage emotional tension and conflict.