This obituary is reposted from the United Kindom Guardian as a matter of fair use according to the copyright laws.  It is provided in the spirit of education.

Here’s a bit of information that is making the rounds of well intentioned information via email.  It’s something we each need to be aware of.  It’s a small percentage of risk but one bad egg, etc.
How many of you would believe that a Copying Machine would need a hard drive similar to what you have in your computers???
I always assumed that when you placed a document into a Copying Machine, the scan would be transferred directly to the copy paper.
Not so and this has awesome ramifications as described in the attached video of a CBS investigation.
Check it out at the below web address.  It will blow your mind and you need to tell everyone you know about this.
Makes you wonder what the people at Kinko or the US Postal Service do with their coin operated machines that some of you may use for your important documents!!!    Better to be careful than sorry!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

Book Reading & Signing of

Big Sycamore Stands Alone

with

Author Ian Record

Saturday, March 7th at 7:00 p.m.
Dinnerware Artspace
264 E. Congress
Tucson, Arizona

About the book:  In a groundbreaking debut of its New Directions in Native American Studies series, the University of Oklahoma Press announced the release of Big Sycamore Stands Alone: The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place, a trailblazing ethnohistory of the Western Apaches, a place called Aravaipa, and the event known as the Camp Grant Massacre.

Called a “powerful and moving work,” the book represents the culmination of a decade of collaborative work between author Ian Record and the San Carlos Apache Elders Cultural Advisory Council, a tribal organization which works to sustain and strengthen traditional Apache culture and knowledge for the benefit of future generations of Apaches.

Book will be available for purchase at special discount price of $32 (20% off).

Refreshments will be provided

For more info, call Wendy at 808-9237.

end of press release

I know where Aravaipa is.

It’s quite a way west of Patagonia Creek that runs through the Patagonia Mountains to the east of where I live.  The title, Big Sycamore Stands Alone,  instant called to my mind the big sycamore standing in a pulloff from the highway along patagonia creek.

Sadly, this is the best image I can find of the work that features the sycamore.  I have no idea what I have done with my source photographs.

It’s a special place to me.  I know that it must be as special to the, Chiricahuas, the Mescalero, the Tohono O’odham, and the Pasqua Yaqui.

A century and a half ago these tribes, while not friendly collaborators, roamed southeastern Arizona. They foraged not only for food and game, many foraged for the materials to make baskets and containers for daily life.

Although I have not met the author of the book, I know that the reseach backing it has the impramatur of the University of Oklahoma Press.  That alone recommends it to me.

Let’s see if I can find the whole image of the Patagonia Mountains.  It will give you some, faint, view of what this land looked like in the nineteenth century.

Sadly, my digital files and my print files are not in the same place.  They do not duplicate each other.  The best I can find this morning is this WIP, on the wall.  It does not have the fauna nor the sky.  The size and resolution are minimal.  It’s at least a glimpse.

Not one of the hotlinks appears to have transferred.  I think you will have to google.

Arts Funding, Programming and Performance Opportunities:  Take the time to review this list.  Deadlines vary.
Ringing Rocks Foundation Offers Support to Conserve Cultural and Healing Practices of Indigenous People
Cintas Foundation Announces Opening of Fellowship Competition for Artists of Cuban Lineage
National Film Preservation Foundation Offers Grants to Preserve Avant-Garde Films)First Nations

Composer Initiative Invites Applications for Common Ground Grant Program
Open Society Institute Seeks Proposals for Documentary Photography Distribution Grants
ICMA Offers Public Library Innovation Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Offers Small Grants to Libraries to Host Lincoln Exhibit
Music Matters Announces Music Education Grant Guidelines
Multi-Arts Production Fund Offers Support for New Work in Performing Arts
Big Read Offers Support for Community Reading Projects
National Museum of the American Indian Invites Applications for Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program
Blakemore Foundation Offers Support for Asian Language Study and Fine Arts Programs
Sundance Institute Accepting Entries for Documentary Fund
ASCAP Foundation Invites Entries for Young Jazz Composer Awards
NAMM Foundation Offers Funding for Music Making and Research
Nominations Invited for Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
Harry Ransom Center Seeks Applications for Research Fellowships in the Humanities
Community Leaders Invited to Apply for Preserve America Community Designation
Guitar Center Music Foundation Offers Support for Music Instruction
Princess Grace Foundation-USA Announces Availability of Applications for 2008 Awards in Theater, Playwriting, Dance, Choreography, and Film
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Arts Program Announces National Projects Fund
American Councils for International Education Offers Support for Policy Relevant Research
Meet The Composer Accepting Applications for Creative Connections
Theatre Communications Group Announces Deadlines for Career Development Programs for Theater Directors and Designers
Bush Foundation Announces Artist Fellows Program
Surdna Foundation Announces Request for Proposals for Creative Writing Residencies for Teens

New England Foundation for the Arts: National Native Artist Exchange, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, provides travel grants for Native artists residing in any of the 50 United States to visit different regions of the country so that they may exchange artistic knowledge and skills to teach, learn, and collaborate in traditional and/or contemporary Native art forms. Travel grants of up to $1,500 will be awarded based on budgets appropriate to the scope of travel. Requests must be received no later than two calendar months prior to the departure date of the proposed trip. Visit the website listed above to review the program guidelines. Travel Grants for Native Artists up to $1,500 www.nefa.org/grantprog/nativearts/nativeartistexchange.html

July 30-August 2
Will present workshops, fiesta & concerts at The University of Arizona School of Music & the UA Centennial Hall July 30-August 2, 2008. Music & Dance Workshops will be hosted at The University of Arizona School of Music: Flamenco, Salsa, Hip Hop, Folklorico, Mariachi, Tejano, Guitar Trio, Classical Flamenco Guitar, Zumba and Voice. This year’s mariachi workshops will be directed by Jose Hernandez from Mariachi Sol De Mexico. VIVA FIESTA will be held in front of UA Centennial Hall on Saturday, August 2 from 3pm to 6pm. The AHS will conduct a Storycorps program at the fiesta, modeled on National Public Radio’s oral history project of that name, where the attendees can reminisce about how music and dance has influenced them in their everyday lives. Authentic Mexican and Spanish food and drink will also be available at the Fiesta.“VIVA ARIZONA!” 100 Years of Hispanic Musical Memories CONCERT at the University of Arizona Centennial Hall Saturday August 2,  2008 at 7:00pm. A Musical and Dance Production- showcasing the History and Evolution of Tucson’s Hispanic Musical Heritage. Featuring: Special Guest Jose Hernandez and Mariachi Sol de Mexico, IMAS,Hermanos Perez Trio, Olga Flores, Viva Orchestra under the direction of Jesse Tovar, the Viva Arizona Dancers and much more. Tickets available at the UA Centennial Hall Box Office 1020 E. University Blvd. (520) 621-3341 For more information you can visit www.vivaazworkshops.com

The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress announces a new pilot program that will train members of indigenous communities to document their own cultural traditions, archive this heritage for future generations, and undertake the task of protecting their intellectual property rights to these recordings and the traditions they document. The project is a collaboration among the AFC, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University in North Carolina, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-095.html

deadline September 30
Open to all artists living in Arizona, California Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. For the exhibition of the Art of Democracy posters we will be show original print posters, e.g. screen prints or other traditional printmaking. Submit unframed and the Union Gallery will mount in a uniform way. These posters will not be returned. and/or for the Political Art original prints is the primary focus, but we will also accept a variety of work in different media as well. For artists exhibiting original work (who will want it returned) we will need to have an exhibition application. Download it here or at the website.

http://www.union.arizona.edu/csil/gallery/exhibiting.php deadline September 30. Artists who would like to submit are encouraged to contact Holly Brown at brownhb@email.arizona.edu or at the gallery, 520-621-6142.

a national women’s art exhibition – deadline August 1
Sponsored by the Oakland Community College Womencenter, Farmington Hills, Mi., From Our Perspective is accepting digital entries, with a deadline of August 1st. This juried exhibit will feature women artists and will include two- and three-dimensional works of art.  The Juror, Susan Goethel Cambell, lives and works in Detroit, Mi. and has work in many public and private collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The New York Public Library, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Toledo Museum of Art and The University of Michigan Special Collections Library. Fee: $25 for up to 3 works. Awards: Best of Show $800.00, President’s Award $250.00 and a Purchase Prize of $250.00 (for smaller pieces).  To view full prospectus, and to upload images online, go to www.oaklandcc.edu/womencenter/artshow.htm.  Exhibit runs Sept. 18-Oct. 10 2008.  Please contact Arlene Frank with any questions at womenart@oaklandcc.edu

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has issued an RFP for this substantial grants program. Grants of $200,000 to $600,000 will support programs that “utilize the arts to engage civil society – particularly youth and diverse and underserved populations – and that foster linkages and build partnerships between U.S. and overseas nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and local communities.” Project themes are limited to: 1) Mixed Visual Artistic Mediums: Cultural Exchange between American Indigenous and Minority Artists and Indigenous and Afro-Latino Artists from Latin and Central America; and 2) Mixed Visual Artistic Mediums: Cultural Exchange between American Women Artists and Women Artists from Africa and/or the Middle East. Applications, due May 22, must be made through nonprofit organizations or institutions of higher education. www.communityarts.net/apinews/archivefiles/2008/04/grants_for_arts.php