Banana Day, Feb.21, from Anna Banana

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

This arrived some time ago but best to blog it on Banana Day!

Anna Banana sent a sheet of fun banana artistamps,

and a copy of the latest "Banana Rag".

There is going to be another exhibit and workshop with 

"45 Years of Fooling around with Anna Banana"

Here is a post that Ruud made at the Bananas group...

you lucky people who can get to New York:

from Joel Cohen
9 hrs · New York, NY, United States

Please repost this to anybody who would be interested and ask them to repost also.
45 Years of of Fooling Around with A Banana: A Retrospective of Anna Banana's* Interactive Art
at Pratt Institute Library, 3rd Floor, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY (subway directions below)

Opening March 3, 2016 6 - 8PM includes
Anna Banana Artist Talk in Conversation with Martha Wilson (reception will follow)
This exhibition will run at least through all of March

And Connect with artists around the world in Anna Banana’s

CELEBRATION OF MAILART WORKSHOP
by creating responses to 200 works sent to her
PASSING THE FLAME exhibition at the
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2 - 5PM
Pratt Library - 3rd floor hall
Maximum 30 so come early

Bring your own: scissors, exacto/cutting matt
glue stick, recycle ephemera, rubber stamps
pencil crayons or postage, what have you!
We’ll supply envelopes.
Anna brings Artistamps & Rubber stamps
and the mailart from around the world

A New York Correspondance School Dinner, all welcome, will follow this FridayWorksop at a
Local Brooklyn Restaurant to be announced. For more info on this contact [e-mail]

*Anna Banana has been organizing and producing inter-active events, both live and through the mails since 1972. She is committed to actively engaging the public by making them part of the show/action. For example, the 1975 and 1980 Banana Olympics staged in San Francisco and Surrey, BC is a parody of the olympic games, with "foolish" race events such as the Bureaucrats' Marathon, the "flip & catch" banana event, etc. Members of the public participated as the "athletes."
Postcards and later letter size sheets with a drawing of a bare tree were sent to her mail-art network, with the instruction: "Leaf out this tree with banana stickers," resulting in over 150 responses from mail artists in the USA, Canada, Europe and South America.
Parody and humor are the mainstay of her work, whether performance, public events or mailart. She began this approach to art as the Town Fool of Victoria, BC in 1971 and continues today as Dr. Anna Freud Banana of the Specific Research Institute, moving from physical comedy to more ironic humor.

How to get there:
Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Ave, in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn,NY
is best reached by subway. Take the G train (front car) to the Clinton-Washington station. Use Washington Avenue exit. On Washington, walk one block north to DeKalb Avenue. Turn right onto DeKalb and proceed one block to Hall Street/Saint James to the corner gate of the Pratt campus. The Library is the Red brick building in front of the entrance.
There is no campus parking for guests, if you come by car, you'll have to park in the neighborhood around the campus, which may be difficult.