Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/hack the canon performance

Sign Up via Outreach Dashboard In collaboration with Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism, Barnard College Library is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around women, LGBTQIA folks, and folks of color in performance. When we say performance, we are thinking broadly, encompassing theatre, dance, film, comedy, performance art, spoken word poetry, and more. As with all of Barnard’s edit-a-thons, we invite you to work on whatever pages you wish.

This edit-a-thon will teach the fundamentals of creating and editing in Wikipedia and increase access to scholarship in the fields of performance for underrepresented groups. By “hacking the canon,” we aim to correct the omission of women artists, including LGBTQIA artists, and artists of color from the art historical record, scholarship, and general knowledge. This event is open to everyone, including the non-Barnard community. Identification is not required. Please join us! There will be free pizza!

Event Information

 * Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018
 * Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
 * Location: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY, LeFrak Center (in Barnard Hall), Lab Room 113
 * Subway: to 116th Street station
 * Bus: buses
 * Directions: Directions to Barnard
 * Wifi: There is wifi access, and we will give you the log in details on-site.
 * Hashtag: #wikiwomenshistory #noweditingAF #hackthecanonbarnard
 * Who can attend: Open to all Barnard Students, Staff, and Faculty. Open to the public with RSVP.
 * What to bring: Please bring your laptop. There will be a limited number of computers available.
 * Create an account: If you haven't created a Wikipedia Account, please do so follow our Instructions

When you have an account, paste this into your User Page. See your User name above the page.

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People

 * Vera Mantero (fr)
 * Aileen Passloff
 * Judith Dunn (dance)
 * Eleo Pomare (stub)
 * Lola Yberri (stub)
 * Ella Lola (stub)
 * Virginia Johnson, founding company member, prima ballerina, and later, artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
 * Helene Weigel, artistic director of Berliner Ensemble and Bertolt Brecht's wife. Article needs citations and cleanup
 * Judith Shatin (stub)
 * Dada Masilo (stub)
 * Hughes Allison (playwright)
 * Gaye Taylor Upsmith
 * Michelle_Cruz_Gonzales (musician) (has multiple issues)

Organizations

 * Judson Dance Theater (stub)
 * Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance (stub)
 * Katherine Dunham Company (stub)
 * New Dramatists (stub)

Events

 * Dance Uptown
 * New York International Fringe Festival (stub)

Other

 * dance activism
 * salsa needs cleaning up of wording
 * Chitlin' Circuit needs citations
 * Mazeppa (play) (see Adah Isaacs Menken)

Compiled Lists

 * Black Lunch Table
 * American Women Dramatists and Playwrights

Resources
Editing Wikipedia
 * Wiki Markup Cheatsheet
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
 * WP:Notability (people)
 * How to create a Wikipedia entries that will stick
 * Some things to think about regarding zine makers and others creating outside the traditional canon to defend including them
 * Seminality
 * Print run
 * Longevity
 * Notoriety

Wikipedia's Principles
 * Five Pillars
 * Assume Good Faith
 * Be Bold

Available at Barnard

 * Columbia Libraries Catalog (CLIO)
 * Barnard Guide to Dance Resources
 * Barnard Guide to Music Resources
 * Barnard Guide to Theatre Resources
 * Barnard Guide to Art History Resources
 * Oxford Art Online
 * ARTBibliographies Modern
 * Art & Architecture Source

Free/Open Resources

 * Bibliography of the History of Art and RILA
 * Brooklyn Museum, Feminist Art Base
 * Getty Research Portal
 * Heresies Magazine PDF Archive (Heretic Film Project) and Archive.org
 * Metropolitan Museum, Heilbrunn Timeline of the History of Art
 * National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clara Database

Suggested Sources for Specific Articles/Edits

 * Barnes, Clive. "Experimental Dance Uptown Opens at Columbia." New York Times (1923-Current file), Sep 23, 1975, pp. 30, ProQuest, http://ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/120582222?accountid=10226.
 * Lepecki, André, "The melancholic influence of the postcolonial spectral: Vera mantero summoning Josephine Baker." Blackening Europe : The African American Presence, edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/columbia/detail.action?docID=1074959.
 * Bauer, Bojana. The makings of production and practice of the self in choreography: the case of Vera Mantero and guests. Performance research 13.1 01 Mar 2008: 15-22. Taylor & Francis. 16 Mar 2018.
 * Lepecki, André. Historical Dust and the Ground of Violence Colonial Memory in a Dance by Vera Mantero. Performance research 8.2 Jan 2003: 46-54. Taylor & Francis. 16 Mar 2018.
 * Weinman, Sarah. "The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel." The New Republic, Dec 8, 2015, https://newrepublic.com/article/124468/case-disappearing-black-detective-novel (for Hughes Allison)
 * Page on the Alexander Street Press database "Black Drama" for Hughes Allison's play "The Trial of Dr. Beck."