Keep up the great work Michele.

The cozy Bulletin Board Cafe

Institute 193 transformed its gallery into a public gathering place on Dec. 10, offering the space to whoever wanted to use it for discussions, posting notices, and general hanging out — a project called the Bulletin Board Café. According to the project flier:

The Bulletin Board Café at Institute 193 is an installation and social tool that encourages dialogue amongst individuals, local art communities and other groups with diverging interests. It is foremost, a place to exchange information locally. Bulletin boards are constantly being relocated to dedicated URLS, which propose an international public. In order to determine where technology might be best deployed is to address local needs. We must find situations where individual members of local communities are actively trying to find, connect, and share information with one another.

We wanted to spend some time down there, as participants and observers, but [insert lame excuse here]. Finally, with just 2 days left, a visit to this creative space was made. Phillip March Jones, the bossman at I-193, offered some intense discussion of art and our community and shared the postcard image he sent to his mother directly upon arriving in Paris to study. Phillip is one interesting guy.

As for the bulletin board, it was adorned with dollar bills, business cards, promotional notices, bar receipts, collages done by Joseph Hillenmeyer in his college days, sketches, poetry by Red Mile President Joe Costa, good humor, poignant reminders, private announcements, intimate celebrations… a fascinating visual collection of our community.

Pieces of the Bulletin Board

It’s too bad the holidays and the snow and the cold and the [insert other lame excuses here] kept us from enjoying more of the BBC, but we’re very excited to see Bruce Burris’s show We Will Someday Someday We Will, which opens Jan. 14, 6-9pm, down at I-193.