Media Advisory: Art Performance Suggests How to Survive the Current Economic Mess

Reporters are invited to stop into Nobody's Gallery, 1121 Elmwood Ave., today (Tuesday, July 28, 2009) from 8-8:30 p.m. to catch a demonstration of how to use live-feed video to survive the economic downturn by panhandling in two locations at once.

The performance piece, "Double Your Money," is by Ron Douglas, a graduate student in the University at Buffalo Department of Media Study.

It will be presented as one of the 500 events being held as part of the Infringement Buffalo Festival, which runs July 23-Aug. 2 in more than 40 venues in or around Allentown.

Douglas also is the producer of the film "We Need Food Not Bombs," which documents the Buffalo chapter of the 30 year-old international movement "Food Not Bombs," and is at work on a video documentary of the Massachusetts Avenue Project's "Growing Green Program."

He is also preparing a film with the Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County that will document the impact of the controversial 19th-20th century Native American boarding schools, including the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, which operated on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation from 1855 to 1957.

Press arrangements: Patricia Donovan in the Office of University Communications at 645-4602, and Ron Douglas onsite.