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4/30/2020

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Lyndsay Urquhart

1/16/2020

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Lyndsay Urquhart from Sydney, Australia and of Koori lineage becomes the new director of the project, Black Swans, an opera poem © . Lyndsay takes on a leadership role in fulfilling a re-imagination of the work, — having been envisioned as an international conversation and collaboration on the image of the swan and its value and significance for peoples of the world. Welcome and thank you Lyndsay!

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2019 BOLD II FESTIVAL

5/3/2019

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Martina was an invited Speaker for the 2019 BOLD II FESTIVAL where she delivered her talk, "BLACK SWANS: An International Invitation and Collaboration"

"...The Black Swans work, however, is not finished; it has only begun. As an international collaboration, conversation, and invitation, Black Swans is poised to be re-imagined by Australian artists,—indigenous and non-indigenous, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike. Only then will the scope of its values yield and its vision be fulfilled. The black swan has found its belonging to and among us. The question is: how do we belong to the black swan?..."
"BLACK SWANS: An International Invitation and Collaboration"
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The Black Swans USA/Reno Cast

11/14/2018

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Black Swans on the Radio

11/9/2018

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BLACK SWANS PROJECT

10/17/2018

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Door opens at 7:15 pm /Door closes at 7:30 pm.
Reserved Seats: $64.  
Paid Reservations Only
NO LATE SEATING


Thursday Performance
​October 18

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Friday Performance
October 19

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Location:
The Lighthouse/Studio 5 O 2

Riverside Artist Lofts
17 S. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89501
*located in Reno’s downtown arts district

Swan song
Article By Jessica Santina

Consider the swan. Associated with grace and beauty, it’s also thought of thanks to Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Ugly Duckling” as that which at first is ugly but transforms into something unexpectedly beautiful...
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Tahoe TV Interview with L.Martina Young on Black Swans Event

10/10/2018

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ABOUT BLACK SWANS PROJECT

8/28/2018

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Black Swans, an opera poem© is envisioned as an international community and collaborative project. Multidimensional and interdisciplinary in scope, this performance installation weaves personal and cultural heritage stories inspired by the significance of the black swan. Aesthetically, Black Swans integrates the visual expansiveness of an opera with the intimacy and depth found in the poem form.
 
            Artist-scholar L. Martina Young imagines the black swan image as a bridging and unifying symbol. She explores how diverse cultural and human narratives relate to the significance of the black swan and how those narratives inform and interact with one another—culturally, ecologically, and aesthetically. As a humanitarian, Ms. Young hopes to identify not only real and imagined qualities evoked by the image, but also to address the modern ecological challenges endangering the species itself. Ms. Young’s approach constitutes a creative process and artistic product that is capable of yielding ways and possibilities for critical conversation, healing, and reconciliation among peoples and cultures in our modern times.
 
            Most significantly, Black Swans’ content evolves as it reflects the living stories, poetries, dance, and musics of the people involved in re-imagining and performing the work: indigenous and non-indigenous, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike. When we can locate and retrieve something of ourselves in one another’s stories, we deepen our connections. Currently, U.S.—based artists are developing an excerpt of the work for a 2018 October performance relevant to their lives and cultures. 
            Black Swans, an opera poem© is a site of inquiry. It is also a universal symbol that beckons global consideration, response, and active engagement. The final outcome of this work is exemplified by the image audiences are left with: a constructed and illuminated installation of the celestial stars forming the Cygnus (Swan) constellation.
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A Human Work

8/27/2018

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Eva Fernandez

1/11/2018

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Eva Fernandez was born in Toronto, Canada and lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. She completed a Master of Arts at Edith Cowan University in 2002 and has been a practising artist for over two decades, working across digital based media and installation. She has had six solo exhibitions and been invited to exhibit in several group shows nationally including, Girls on Film and Mix Tape at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Transient States at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and more recently at the National Gallery of Victoria and Adelaide.

Fernandez’s practice is essentially concerned with the exploration and negotiation of the space which she inhabits in context to its complex histories and the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism.

Fernandez’s investigates her own cultural inheritance in her  current work focusing on cultural dislocation, as she negotiates her pluralistic identity in context to contemporary issues of global displacement and Spanish Diaspora in the 20th century.

As the child of post Spanish Civil War migrants, Fernandez’s family, like many others, were displaced and left with a fragmented history. By carefully delving into the disremembered spaces of her past, Fernandez has been able to unearth narratives in order to evoke images to piece together fragments of a shattered, emotional and forgotten past. Drawing on these fragments, her works embodies the traces, voices and memories from the past that are blended and embedded with reference to Spanish art and history.
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This project has been funded, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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    • The SWAN Lectures
    • Her story
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