{"id":50662,"date":"2013-10-12T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=50662"},"modified":"2013-10-12T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T11:55:37","slug":"the-lost-bird-project-to-be-shown-at-the-cazenovia-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=50662","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Bird Project to be shown at the Cazenovia Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lost-Bird-Project-auk-for-press_opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-50663\" alt=\"Lost-Bird-Project-auk-for-press_opt\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lost-Bird-Project-auk-for-press_opt.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lost-Bird-Project-auk-for-press_opt.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lost-Bird-Project-auk-for-press_opt-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Photo attached is a Great Auk, a bird driven to extinction in modern times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Oct. 2013) Mr. Hubbard\u2019s Salon,\u00a0the Cazenovia Public Library\u2019s discussion group, presents\u00a0The Lost Bird Project,\u00a0an inspirational film about nature, art, and remembrance.\u00a0This film by three-time Oscar nominee Deborah Dickson will be shown\u00a0on Monday, Oct. 21\u00a0at 7 p.m. in the Library Community Room.\u00a0 All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The Lost Bird Project is a film about public art, extinction, and memory.\u00a0 It is an elegy to five extinct North American birds and a thoughtful, moving, sometimes humorous, look at art and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u00a0tells the story of sculptor Todd McGrain&#8217;s quest to memorialize five birds\u2014the Heath Hen, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Great Auk, and Labrador Duck\u2014that have been driven to extinction in modern times. It documents the road-trip that McGrain and his brother-in-law, Andy Stern, take as they search for the locations where these birds were last seen in the wild and negotiate for permission to install McGrain\u2019s large bronze sculptures at these spots.<\/p>\n<p>McGrain\u2019s aim in placing the sculptures is to give presence to the birds where they are now so starkly absent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese birds are not commonly known,\u201d said McGrain, \u201cand they ought to be, because forgetting is another kind of extinction. It\u2019s such a thorough erasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is produced by Muffie Meyer, whose previous directing credits include the original Grey Gardens documentary as well as several Emmy award-winning documentaries.\u00a0The score is composed by Grammy-winner Christopher Tin.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Mr. Hubbard\u2019s Salon or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo attached is a Great Auk, a bird driven to extinction in modern times. (Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Oct. 2013) Mr. Hubbard\u2019s Salon,\u00a0the Cazenovia Public Library\u2019s discussion group, presents\u00a0The Lost Bird Project,\u00a0an inspirational film about nature, art, and remembrance.\u00a0This film by three-time Oscar nominee Deborah Dickson will be shown\u00a0on Monday, Oct. 21\u00a0at 7 p.m. in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}