We Are Water Set to Make Waves in Downtown Bridgeport on August 9th

Aug. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- In this fifth installment of Downtown Bridgeport's City Canvases FREE public art projection installation, we present Yves Wilson with "We Are Water" projecting on 1330 Main Street in Downtown Bridgeport at 8:30/9 pm on August 9th. Join the celebratory launch of Wilson's work with multiple types of infused flavored waters, interpretive dance and witness the connection in a larger than life screening with what we as humans have with the world's most valuable resource--water.

Wilson's, “We Are Water" is an interpretation of our connection to the most powerful resource on earth.  Dancer and performer Katrese Weaver will be interpreting this connection through interpretive dance inspired by African, modern, and jazz traditions.  A Read’s Artspace resident, Yves Wilson and his visual effects team, seeks to explore our strengths and vulnerabilities as people which is especially true for residents of coastal communities like Bridgeport and its neighbors who are intimately connected to changes in the climate both physically and mentally.  Electronic music producer and percussionist Cuban B will be providing the sound scape to the visuals on opening night.  "We Are Water" will be shown Thursday August 9th through Tuesday August 14th from 9-11 pm.

City Canvases Bridgeport is a twelve-week, large-scale, video projection program that will highlight week-long, digital shorts by twelve Connecticut artists/filmmakers. Based on the theme of Change, the short videos will be looped and projected on key buildings in Downtown Bridgeport throughout the summer. The videos may be live-action, animated, or abstract films. This public art program will feature artists from throughout Connecticut, including Dustin DeMilio as well as Holly Danger, ES Barraza, Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Shawn Corvino and Peter Konsterlie, Adger Cowans, Mary Jo Lombardo, Lauri MacLean and Lisa Seidenberg, Joe Malfettone, Lori Petchers and Faith Baum, Ernst Weber, and Yves Wilson. City Canvases is a creative placemaking initiative to further the growth and vitality of Bridgeport’s arts and cultural sectors and the City’s creative economy. Bridgeport is one of four cities in Connecticut to receive a pilot-program Creative Placemaking grant and one of seven cities in Connecticut to be awarded a City Canvases grant by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts. Partners in the program are the City of Bridgeport, the Downtown Special Services District (DSSD), the Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council (BACC), and the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County (CAFC).