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2008

December 31
Fire & Ice celebration at Town Square, fireworks downtown, and special New Year's Eve party/reception for project participants and sponsors at Anchorage Museum

2009

January 1
Work begins on Park Strip; materials delivered to site
January 2 @ 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition opening at International Gallery of Contemporary Art - design/concept boards + work by participating visual artists
January 3 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films (women in architecture)
January 4 @ 2 p.m.
Public presentation at Anchorage Museum where participants present to one another and the public their plans for their installations (10 minutes per team)
January 4 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 5 @ 5:30 p.m.
Discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to extreme architecture, the future of architecture, and architecture of emergency--for natural disasters, refugees, and portable architecture for cold-climate or extreme-climate survival and exploration
January 5-9 @ 10 a.m. - Noon
Children's program/kids' camp with Imaginarium at Anchorage Museum - science of ice, science of light, northern climates, ice sculptures + art education. Participants design their own FREEZE project. In addition: Other Science Programming, including:
  • The State of Glaciers: 50 years of receding ice and its implications
  • Floating Ice-Caps, Vanishing Ice-Caps
  • Molecular Magic of Water: Solid, Liquid, Gas; the Mysteries of a Most Un-Common Material
  • Vanishing Snow, Darker Land: Shrubs, the Arctic, and Global Climate Change
  • Frozen Future: Greenhouse Gases Trapped By Ice
  • That Sinking Feeling: Permafrost Decline and Human Habitation
  • Coastal Erosion and Seasonal Storm Intensity: Re-Locating Alaska's Indigenous Communities as Ice Declines
  • The Northwest Passage: From Fantasy to Fact In Our Lifetimes?
January 5 @ 2 p.m.
Construction tour of Anchorage Museum expansion designed by David Chipperfield for FREEZE participants
January 5 @ 5:30 p.m.
Discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to extreme architecture, the future of architecture, and architecture of emergency--for natural disasters, refugees, and portable architecture for cold-climate or extreme-climate survival and exploration
January 5 @ 7 p.m.
Flash Freeze 1: Public presentation at Anchorage Museum by visiting and local architects showing their body of work (15 minutes per firm)
January 6 @ 5:30 p.m.
Discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to extreme art, the future of art, the role of the artist in contemporary society, what artists can do to find solutions to global problems, and artistic solutions to such things as natural disasters, refugees and cold-climate or extreme-climate survival and exploration
January 6 @ 7 p.m.
Flash Freeze 2: Public presentation at Anchorage Museum by visiting artists/designers showing their body of work (15 minutes each)
January 7 @ 5:30 p.m.
Discussion group and panel discussion: Women in Art and Architecture
January 7 @ 7 p.m.
Special lecture presentations by Futurefarmers and Ana Rewakowicz
January 8 @ 1 p.m.
Public workshop at Anchorage Museum for high school students and others: Can artists and architects change the world? Creative solutions to world problems, including global warming
January 8 @ 3 p.m.
Discussion of Parks and Urban Space/launch of design competition
January 9 @ 6 p.m.
Preview/special tour and reception of projects for donors
January 10 @ 10 a.m.
Press conference/interviews with project participants on Park Strip
January 10 @ noon
Public opening of FREEZE on the Park Strip
January 10 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 11@ noon
Discussion group at International Gallery of Contemporary Art related to the role and value of the ephemeral in contemporary art and architecture
January 11 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 12 @ 5:30 p.m.
Film screenings related to northern art and architecture @ Bear Tooth Theatre + FREEZE brew?
January 14 @ 2 p.m.
Sensual Clues tour of the project site for the visually impaired and sighted with discussion of how we experience architecture, space, environment, temperature, snow, ice, etc. Tour led by Lowell Zercher of the Alaska Center for the Blind.
January 16 @ 7 p.m.
Poetry/haiku competition related to the north and FREEZE with winners published in catalogue/publication and poetry reading at the project site - partnership with the Anchorage Press?
January 17 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 17 @ 7:30 p.m.
Ice Ball - FREEZE Formal; at project site/Park Strip and Anchorage Museum
January 18 @ 2 p.m.
FREEZE performance by UAA dance department at project site
January 18 @ 3 p.m.
Presentation and discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to science of global warming
January 18 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 19 @ 6 p.m.
Workshop on arctic engineering and cold-climate construction at UAA
January 20 @ 4 p.m.
Parks competition entries revealed; workshops and discussion groups
January 25 @ 2 p.m.
Workshop at International Gallery for elementary school students on architecture, creating cardboard and paper models
January 25 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
January 26 @ 6 p.m.
Movies for your Mind at Anchorage Museum - film series of northern and/or architecture-related films
February 15 @ noon
FREEZE installations dismantled; melting/deconstruction ceremony
February 22
Closing of photography competition--best photos of FREEZE projects featured in project catalogue/publication & on web site
August 1
FREEZE publication released; event at Anchorage Museum
 
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