Mardi Gras 360 Degrees Photo Workshop 2009

<p>Please join us in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and also let your friends, students, interns, colleagues know about this workshop...we still have a few places open...hurry up and enroll!<br /> <br /> Mardi Gras 360 Degrees Photo Workshop:<br /> <br /> Feb. 19th - 25th, 2009, in NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana.<br /> <br /> Donna Ferrato and Debbie Fleming Caffery will be joining our "king" Alan Chin, Lori Waselchuk, and Andy Levin, with more special guests to come! We are completing arrangements to hold the workshop at the Alliance Francais on 1519 Jackson Avenue just off St. Charles Avenue.<br /> <br /> Contact Info:<br /> <br /> Email: AlanSChin@yahoo.com<br /> Website: http://www.mardigras360degrees.org<br /> Location: New Orleans, LA<br /> <br /> Our Preliminary Schedule looks like this:<br /> <br /> February 19th:<br /> Students arrive and we have our initial slideshow in which you show selection of your work. Students will be encourage to develop coherent stories or themes that will be the basis of their work in the following days. In the evening the teachers will formally present their work in a public screening.<br /> <br /> February 20th-23rd:<br /> Each morning students will meet with their group leaders for individual classes, going over work as it is created, and editing images daily. We have an arrangement to hold the workshops this year at the Alliance Francais which is located just off the main parade route on St Charles Avenue.<br /> <br /> February 25th:<br /> The day after Mardi Gras, the work will be edited for a public presentation and a closing soiree.<br /> <br /> 2008 was the inaugural year for the Mardi Gras 360 Degree Photo Workshop. We had 27 students and a terrific faculty that included Stanley Greene, Lori Waselchuk, Karen Mullarkey, Alan Chin, Chris Usher, and Jeremy Lange. Sessions where held at the McKenna Museum for African-American Art. Our closing slideshow and exhibit was at the Jazz and Heritage Foundation Gallery.</p>

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