This document provides information about the 2015-2016 theme for the International Community of Arts (ICA) called "Burning Light". It introduces the starter committee for the theme and notes that the theme was inspired by it being the International Year of Light in 2015. It then provides various considerations and ideas for how different areas of the school like academics, arts, outdoor activities, and marketing could explore and integrate the theme of light into the curriculum and community events throughout the year.

1. ICA Light
2015-2016 Theme

2. Burning
IAA 2012: Kristin McFadden
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(music as you entered)

3. Starter committee:
Niki Conraths Lange
Beth Gourley
David Griffith
Sacha Inoue
Kristal Lowes
Michael Mittelstaedt
Clyde Sheets
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4. Genesis of theme and
part of global
conversation:
2015 InternationalYear
of Light

6. https://vimeo.com/65532699
Flash Point by Colin Campbell

7. The Secret in the Wings.Theater Arts 2014

8. The Secret in the Wings.Theater Arts 2014

9. The Secret in the Wings.Theater Arts 2014

10. Dear Theo
Faculty Recital
• John Bragle
• Timothy Wallace
by Ben Moore

11. The Secret in the Wings.Theater Arts 2014

12. The Secret in the Wings.Theater Arts 2014

13. Wolf Emulation by Brittany Burton (http://olioolio.org/)

14. Sleeping Beauty, Dance Department, 2014

15. Sleeping Beauty, Dance Department, 2014

16. http://olioolio.org/

17. Sleeping Beauty, Dance Department, 2014

18. Sleeping Beauty, Dance Department, 2014

19. https://vimeo.com/87738929
Through the Columns by Su Wan Kim
projection mapping
https://vimeo.com/87738929

20. Considerations

21. • Connect the theme to the faculty speaker
at Opening Convocation in Sept. Get the
theme out in front of everyone from the
start. Do something dramatic with lighting
at Opening Convocation. (e.g., fireworks,
ritual of floating paper boats with candles
on lake, etc.)

22. • Topics for Intermester? New courses?
Community meeting topics?

23. • Outdoor activities at night when we can be
outdoors. Stars? Moon?

24. • Apply to all the divisions: arts and
academics; how does each discipline teach
light? how is light used for each of the arts?
Integrate into curriculum.

25. • All school: one text or essay or book —
something we all read? One movie we all
see?

26. • Festivals/Rituals—solstice, diwali, festival of
lanterns, loi krathong, fireworks…

27. • Issues of dark-vs-light
• Issues of blindness, being blinded, truth

28. • What is the metaphor, culture, substance of
light?

29. • MPA: 10th year celebration (magic lantern)

30. • Marketing: everyone wear white, e.g., dinner
on the lawn

31. • Comp.Arts: social justice; shedding light and
connecting to unlikely topics that people
shy away from e.g., water, climate change,
mobility, literacy, race

32. • Connect with consortium schools for a
simultaneous activity

33. • Invited speakers, presenters?

35. Be a part of the conversation…
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diigo: icalight
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