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Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse :: Art's Birthday 2025
Audiovisual performance streaming live from Instant Places, Edmonton Alberta Canada.

The Network is Eternal->>> Global hub for Art's Birthday celebrations is at artsbirthday.net

Excerpts from LiveStream January 17, 2025 : 8PM-9PM GMT

Robert Filliou first proposed "Art's Birthday" in 1963. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on January 17 to be precise, Art was born. Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. He also proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. Art's Birthday was first publicly celebrated in 1973 in Auchen, Germany and at the same time in Paris, France.

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