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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 1, 2006
Contacts:
Mara Littman, Cambridge Arts Council
617-349-4382 or
mlittman@cambridgema.gov
Elyse Becker, ImprovBoston
617-576-1253 or
elyse@improvboston.com
The Cambridge Arts Council, ImprovBoston, and
the Inman Square Business Association
are making a big deal of small and wonderful things in Inman Square with
Inman Square Goes Elizabethan! Shakespeare in
Vellucci Park
Thursday, August 17, 2006
(Rain Date: Thursday, August 24)
Location: Vellucci Plaza at the corner of Cambridge and Hampshire streets in Cambridge’s Inman Square
Cambridge, MA – The Cambridge Arts Council, ImprovBoston, and the Inman Square Business Association are making a big deal about all the small and wonderful things happening in Inman Square’s little Vellucci Plaza. Join artists, merchants, and neighbors for an evening of entertainment, shopping, and dining, and see what the big deal is all about. Bring your lawn chair!
Inman Square Goes Elizabethan! Shakespeare in Vellucci Park features an array of free entertainment including big laughs with improvised Shakespearean comedy performed by ImprovBoston, and “the biggest little documentary you ever saw” about Michael Oatman’s investigation of the world of model making. Also on the scene will be the
Institute of Infinitely Small Things, who have taken their mobile mapping unit all around Cambridge this summer, inviting the public to rename places, both big and small, for the publication of a new map of “The City Formerly Known as Cambridge.” The evening will feature live musical performances, and restaurant and Inman Square Business Association shops will be open late.
Schedule of Events (All events are free and located in Vellucci Plaza, unless otherwise noted.)
3pm & 5:30pm: Screening of Michael Oatman’s documentary,
Model Citizens: A Miniature Epic
Location: ImprovBoston, 1253 Cambridge Street.
6-8pm: Musical performances and Inman Square Vendors
8-9pm: ImprovBoston presents “The Robert Cycle,” an improvised Shakespearean comedy extravaganza
For more information, call the Cambridge Arts Council at
617-349-4380.
Michael Oatman’s Model Citizens: A Miniature Epic
ImprovBoston, 3pm and 5:30pm screenings
The Cambridge Arts Council presents a feature-length documentary by Michael Oatman, Model Citizens: A Miniature Epic, recounting his investigation of the world in miniature. Oatman looks inside 25 studios, attics, basements, museums and kitchen tables -- places where model makers create, think about, look at, and sometimes destroy their painstakingly detailed handiwork. This documentary was produced as the final component of Oatman’s Model Citizens project for the tri-state traveling public art project Public Art/Moving Site, which Americans for the Arts recently named as one of the TOP 20 projects completed in the public art field for the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review.
The Robert Cycle, an improvised Shakespearean comedy
Vellucci Plaza, 8-9pm
ImprovBoston presents a free, outdoor performance of their newest production,
The Robert Cycle, which chronicles the histories of nine kings, Robert I through Robert IX in a parallel British universe, presented in Shakespearean style. Sure to enthrall fans of Shakespeare as well as those who fell asleep in their 9th grade English class alike, The Robert Cycle features highly skilled, highly comic actors who together create a fanciful, funny, fantastical world where kings and queens cavort with serfs, squires, and soldiers. For information about upcoming performances at ImprovBoston on Fridays at 8pm through September 1, visit www.improvboston.com or call
617-576 1253.
The Institute of Infinitely Small Things
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a collaboration of local artists, continues its series of public renaming expeditions, in each of Cambridge’s 13 neighborhoods to allow residents the opportunity to rename the streets, squares, public spaces, and parks of the city of Cambridge. This project studies the economic, political, and cultural interests that inspire place names, resulting in the publication of a new map The City Formerly Known As Cambridge. Visit their booth in from of the
East Cambridge Savings Bank on Cambridge Street in Inman Square. www.ikatun.com/institute/rename.
Vellucci Plaza
Vellucci Plaza is also a work of art in itself! In accordance with the city’s Public Art/Percent for Art program, one percent of construction costs for capital investments is designated to support the inclusion of integrated, site responsive public art. For Vellucci Plaza, artists Jock Reynolds and Suzanne Hellmuth served as lead designers in the 2004 landscape design. For more information, please visit www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/public_progress_3.html.
Cambridge Arts Council Mission Statement
The Cambridge Arts Council exists to ensure that the arts remain vital for people living, working and visiting Cambridge.
Inman Street Business Association Participants
1369 Coffeehouse, Boutique Fabulous, Cambridge Savings Bank, East Cambridge Savings Bank, ImprovBoston,
Inman Square Artists Collective, Irving House / Harding House Bed & Breakfasts, Ole Mexican Grill, and
Weekly Dig
Sponsors
Cambridge Arts Council, Inman Square Business Association, ImprovBoston, and The Weekly Dig.
DIRECTIONS TO INMAN SQUARE’S VELLUCCI PLAZA:
Directions via MBTA: Take the MBTA Red Line to Central Square. At street level walk north on Prospect Street through 4 sets of lights. Turn left on Cambridge Street, ImprovBoston is on the right hand side. To reach Vellucci Plaza, continue walking on Cambridge Street to Hampshire Street. Vellucci Plaza is at the intersection of Cambridge and Hampshire streets. You can also take the #69 bus from Harvard Square to Prospect Street.
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