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ART: Dino Dinco is an independent curator, filmmaker, theater director and multidisciplinary artist. Dinco recently completed a year long residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) as Performance Art Curator (2011 - 2012). He also curated two concurrent annual fundraising events at LACE, GUTTED 2010 AND 2011, in which he focused on how multiple generations of performance artists speak from, about and to the body.

For this series, Dinco will lead an immersive, instructional, hands on workshop. Students will perform an array of actions and "exercises" to think about the intent of constructing performance as well as awareness of the image when making performance. Between exercises, there will be an open dialogue and critique about the experience. Along the way, Dinco also talk about his own experiences with making and curating performance and the modalities of different artists.

• http://vimeo.com/dinodinco
• http://www.homeboyfilms.com/

CalArts, Butler Building 4

CRITICAL STUDIES: This fall, road warriors Davy and Peter Rothbart are hurtling your way on FOUND Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Tour, which celebrates the release of Davy’s book of personal essays, My Heart is an Idiot, Peter’s new album, and a brand-new issue of FOUND. The Rothbart Brothers are hopping back in the tour van, FOUND treasures in tow, for an epic cross-country romp, with stops in 37 states and 75 cities!

At each exhilarating show, Davy (FOUND’s plucky point guard) will share the latest magnificent and mesmerizing finds that’ve landed in the mailbox here at FOUND HQ, plus outrageous tales from his new book and his work on public radio's "This American Life," while Peter (FOUND’s international heartthrob) will dazzle with beautiful, haunting, and hilarious songs based on FOUND notes. Come on out and join us!

Davy Rothbart is the creator of FOUND Magazine, a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of the story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ and Grantland, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. His forthcoming book of personal essays is called My Heart is an Idiot, out in September, 2012, from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Los Angeles, California.

Peter Rothbart is an award-winning songwriter, and the frontman for folk/rock group The Poem Adept. His third solo album, First Sun, will be released in fall 2012, and his music was featured in McSweeney's Wholphin DVD and the 2012 documentary film Mister Rogers & Me. He is also an editor at FOUND Magazine, and the executive director of the urban gardening organization We Patch.  He lives in Seattle, Washington.

“Davy and Peter Rothbart are utterly engaging performers!”
 —The Los Angeles Times