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The
first reality filmmakers? Alan and Susan Raymond in
the 1970s.
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Art
Beat
1973
REVISITED If you were around in the 1970s, you probably remember
the groundbreaking PBS TV documentary program An American
Family. It followed the daily lives of the upper-middle-class
Loud family in prosperous Santa Barbara, Calif. Were they
happy all the time? Nyet! It was proto-reality TV at its most
wrenching, as America watched the parents divorce and the
son come out of the closet. On Oct. 19 at 8 PM, Time &
Space Limited (434 Columbia St., Hudson) will host the
documentarians who made that groundbreaking show, Alan
and Susan Raymond, for a program they’re calling 1973:
Nervous Breakdown. The Raymonds will introduce an episode
of the series; author Andreas Killen, who penned the
social history 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol
and the Birth of Post-Sixties America, will also speak.
General admission is $10; TSL members and students pay $7.50.
For more info, call 822-8448.
AN
ARTS-IN-EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY The Saratoga County Arts Council
has $17,160 available for artist residencies in Saratoga and
Washington County schools. This is part of a “statewide effort
to provide local support for widespread participation in arts
education” called the Arts in Education/Local Capacity
Building Initiative (AIE/LCB). The grants are from $500
to $2,000 for “partnerships involving at least (3) contacts
between the artist or cultural organization and the students,”
and are to be used in 2008. The deadline for applications
is Nov. 12. To download an application, visit www.saratoga-arts.org.
There will be grant-application workshops at the Whitehall
Free Library at 4 PM on Oct. 28, and at the Saratoga
County Arts Council at 5:30 PM on Oct. 29. For more info,
call regrant administrator Leigh Ollman at 584-4132.
IDEAS? CHECK! VOLUNTEERS? WORKING ON IT The good folks at
the Capital District Federation of Ideas—they’re just
down the block, in fact, from Metroland World Headquarters
on Albany’s Madison Avenue, so we can sorta vouch for them—have
been busy with art exhibits and movie nights and crafting
and anal health lectures and such. They are reaching out for
more participation, though. They need the following: “someone
to take better care of the library”; “someone to be in charge
of kids’ programs”; “someone who wants to organize spelling
bees”; “someone who wants to organize more potlucks”; “someone
who wants to be in charge of live music shows”; “someone who
wants to be in charge of fundraising”; and “someone who wants
to be in charge of ‘membership’.” In other words, they need
you and you and you and you and you. For more information,
visit www.federationofideas.org.
—Shawn
Stone
sstone@metroland.net
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