Micro Memoirs

Micro Memoir Workshop led by Elizabeth Klein to “get out your feelings, share your history and be heard!”

The workshop began with getting in touch with the process of writing, zoning in on a moment, recognizing our feelings. Micro Memoir is an elastic hybrid structure of writing in which the writer zones in one particular moment. The Micro allows for blurring of boundaries of traditional genres. While the integrity of truth-telling remains, the format can shift from creative non-fiction to poetic form or infusion of information to support the story, quotes or dialogue.

Materials for the workshop included pens, paper or a journal. We each brought a memory, past observation or image that we wanted to explore. The workshop consisted of warm up exercises, 15 minutes of writing time and then sharing of our experiences.

Elizabeth Klein is a Clinical Professor in the Special Education Behavior Disorders program at CUNY -Hunter College. Elizabeth coordinates the District 75 cohort of Teaching Fellows and teaches courses in reading and writing education, classroom management and behavior disorders.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends.

For more info or to RSVP for meetup link please email DaydeDada@yahoo.com

Day de Dada Micro Memoirs Workshop with Elizabeth Klein

Sock Puppet Burlesque

At the Sock Puppet Burlesque on 2/21/21 we made Sock Puppets and used them to make a group performance video. The puppets were quick simple ones, just adding eyes to socks, or more complicated ones with wigs, brains, and accessories. We each had one minute to animate our sock puppet with dialogue, songs, music, or sounds.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends.

RSVP to get the meetup link. DaydeDada@yahoo.com 

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Prognosticator Laboratory

Day de Dada 3rd Sunday Online Monthly Meetup

Day de Dada Prognosticator Laboratory – Sun, 1/17/ 21   4pm est

What creative projects are you planning for 2021?
Let get together and hear what’s coming up for everyone.

Need help or suggestions, feed back?
Or maybe you don’t have any plans and need some inspiration?

This is your chance to share and collaborate.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends. RSVP to get the meetup link. DaydeDada@yahoo.com 

Go to the Day de Dada Facebook page or click here to learn more

4th Anual Day de Dada Holiday Party

Secret Santa gifts were exchanged at the 4th Annual Day de Dada Holiday Party on 12/20/20.

Absurd, surreal, and funny gifts were enjoyed and performed.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends.

See more pictures at facebook.com/DaydeDada

Participating Artists:

Jennifer Weigel

Mary Campbell

Meg Graham

Leslie Lowe

Bibiana Padilla Maltos

Barbara Lubliner

Sarah Sarai

Viv De Dada

Mark Semanchik

Larry Schwabacher

Melinka Berengolc

Catherine Mehrl Bennett

Elizabeth Klein

Day de Dada MASK querade Event

November 15, 2020 – Day de Dada MASK querade

Part of Day de Dada 3rd Sundays – 4pm, Monthly Meetup, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends.

This month we wore our original masks, whatever you consider a mask to be – top, bottom, full face or ??

Participating Artists:

Tamara Wydham
Jennifer Weigel
Mary Campbell
S.A. Griffin
Meg Graham
Leslie Lowe
Bibiana Padilla Maltos
Barbara Lubliner
Cathi Schwalbe
Sarah Sarai
Viv De Dada
Catherine Mehrl Bennett
Brand Stifter

See more Dada Masks at digitaldadadigidol.co.uk – celebrating the influence of the DADA art movement on artists today.

Day de Dada MASK querade

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 AT 4 PM EST – 5:30 PM EST

Day de Dada MASK querade Meet Up

Transform your identity! Surprise us!

This month we will meet up wearing our original masks, and that means whatever you consider a mask to be – top, bottom, full face or ?? Please arrive at the online meetup wearing your mask and stay masked until we have the big reveal. Everyone will have a chance to talk about their process and/or inspiration, or do a short (1-2 minute) performance inspired by the mask.

We were motivated to do this meetup to create some Dada masks to submit to the NEW CELF Digital Dada archives. We will supply info for how to get images of your Dada mask(s) onto their website as well as ours.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Dada friends. RSVP to get the meetup link. DaydeDada@yahoo.com

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DADA “TZARA” Zine Workshop

10/18/20 Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Day de Dada friends.

Learn methods to create a simple zine out of one sheet of paper and work on it during our get together.We are suggesting creation of a Dada “TZARA**” zine, where you will fill your new blank zine layout with images and words you randomly pull from available magazines or other printed matter.

Maggie Buford* will show us 2 simple ways to make our zine and then we will have about 20 minutes to work on it. You will need magazines or something to pull images and words, scissors, glue, and 4 sheets of letter size paper (81/2” x 11”) Then we will have some time to share and chit chat.*Maggie Buford is a fiber artist and poet. She founded SIZL (a zine collective) that has received a DCA Art Fund Grant from Staten Island ArtsIn 1920,

**Tristan Tzara gave the following instruction on how To Make a Dadaist Poem: Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out each of the words and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Take out each cutting one after the other. Use in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Day de Dada friends.

See more pictures of the finished zines.

“Imagination Generator”

The first Day de Dada monthly meetup “Imagination Generator” was on 9/20/20. The workshop was a chance for participants to experiment with their process and inspiration. Three words were randomly selected and then the participants created work inspired by those words. 

Here are some images from work created from the workshop, the words for these pieces are “Skeleton, Lace, Nurse”

Barbara Lubliner

Meg Graham

Mary Campbell

Margaret Chase

Bibiana Padilla Maltos

Elizabeth Klein

Day de Dada Imagination Generator – Sun, 9/20/20

Day de Dada Imagination Generator: Sun, 9/20/20 at 4pm

Spontaneous creative development exercise to free your brain, experiment, percolate. Look at your projects in a new way and add a twist.

In this online meetup you will get 3 words and 3 minutes to generate your drawing, poetry, dance, music or performance score.

We will do it 10 times, then have some time for sharing, questions and chatting.

Be prepared with 10 pieces of paper and drawing or writing tools, camera or whatever you need to record your new inspirations.

Part of the Day de Dada 3rd Sundays- 4pm, Monthly Meetups, short sessions to play and see your Day de Dada friends.

RSVP to get the meetup link. DaydeDada@yahoo.com

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Day de Dada Performance Art Collective – join us for Dada/ Fluxus spontaneous and experimental performance art pieces with audience participation and interaction. Daydedada.com

Fluxfest 2020 with Hotel Dada