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UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS MOCAD hosts musical, literary and artistic events throughout
the year. Check back often or contact us at info@mocadetroit.org if
you would like to be kept up to date on upcoming events. Follow MOCAD's upcoming events and announcements :
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FAMILY DAY Sunday, December 19th from 12PM to 4PM MOCAD, The School of Rock and the Family Hootenanny present Kids Rock Kids Admission: Free For this very special Family Day, three family-centric organizations get together to present a fun-filled, afternoon Holiday bonanza, fit for everyone! There will be kids crafts, musical instruments provided by MOCAD. Live music will be presented by the School of Rock kids, who will be presenting some rockin' holiday jams. Plus, all the usual wild, family-friendly good times we have expect from the Family Hootenanny. |
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FILM & PERFORMANCE December 10 - 12 at 8pm Mocad and the Burton Theatre present Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show Part 1 and Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show Part 2 Admission: $20. Tickets available at the Burton Theatre box office or click here to purchase online. Crispin Hellion Glover performs a one hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books. The images from the books are projected behind Mr. Glover during his performance. December 10 Crispin Hellion Glover has appeared in such feature films as/playing the role of: George McFly in "Back to the Future", Layne in "River's Edge" , Andy Warhol in "The Doors", Cousin Dell in "Wild at Heart", The Thin Man in "Charlie's Angels", Willard in "Willard", The Knave of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland." Crispin Hellion Glover is currently touring various cities with performances of a one hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books. The images from the books are projected behind Mr. Glover" This show is called "Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show" after his performance he presents one of his two feature films he has directed "What is it?" or "It is fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE" " After the feature there is a Q and A session and then a book signing. Click here for more information on the tour Click here for more information on the films The Burton Theater is located at 3420 Cass Avenue (at Peterboro) in Detroit. |
 
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ARTISTS TALK Saturday, December 11th at 2PM Martha Friedman: Therein Lies the Rub Admission: Free Artist Martha Friedman’s (b. 1975) sculptures are inspired by common things including food, office supplies and body parts. By enlarging the scale and focusing on details of their shape and surface, her work engages the viewer with the sculptural aspects of these everyday forms. Come and join us as Friedman presents a talk providing crucial context to her work and her ongoing installation at MOCAD, Rub. |
 Martha Friedman, Rubbers, 2010. Courtesy of Wallspace, New York and the artist |
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NOEL NIGHT
Saturday, December 4th from 5PM to 9PM The UCCA and MOCAD present the 38th Annual Noel Night with music by The Volebeats with special guest Danny Kroha Admission: Free Noel Night is an annual event presented by the UCCA, bringing together various cultural venues in the Midtown district for a night filled with craft activities, musical tidings and art, free for the whole family. On this very special evening MOCAD is proud to present music from two of Detroit’s finest musical institutions. The music begins at 6PM with former Gories and Demolition Dollrods member, Danny Kroha in a foot stompin’ solo performance. At 7PM The Volebeats will perform a breezy set of easy-going, countrified pop rock.
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Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art show, hosts a nightly program at the Oceanfront organized by Creative Time. Sited in an environment designed by Phu Hoang Office and Rachely Rotem Studio the pavilion uses two types of rope – reflective and phosphorescent – to create a diverse and interactive environment of open-air structures that sway and glow in the night. The 2010 Oceanfront Nights program features four cities at the forefront of today's artistic experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration: Detroit, Mexico City, Berlin, and Glasgow. Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time invited four organizations to partner on creating the program – the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, 032c in Berlin, and Tramway in Glasgow. From December 1 to December 4, each night will spotlight one city with film, music, video, performance and more. For more information visit http://www.oceanfrontnights.com |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, November 21st from 12PM to 4PM Dance Your Pants with Hardcore Detroit Admission: Free Enjoy an energetic and fun filled afternoon at this break-dancing workshop led by local dance troop, Hardcore Detroit. Hardcore Detroit was established in 2001 to provide urban dance entertainment for the city of Detroit and beyond and has successfully done so with professional appearances at the DIA, with the Detroit Pistons and on BET's Hip Hop Music Awards. They will be leading two 1hour workshops at 1PM and at 2PM with related craft activities run by MOCAD before and after each workshop. |
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FILM
Saturday, November 20th at 8PM The Ann Arbor Film Festival and MOCAD present Shadowbox Cinema II Admission: Free
MOCAD is proud to pair up with the Ann Arbor Film Festival for the second year to screen a group of film shorts, hand-picked for this program by the AAFF and MOCAD. Wild and crazy, short and sweet, and everything in between, this film festival promises to be the fun, frolicking side of the art house experience. |
  The Commoners - Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, Troy, NY  Elfmädchen - Mirka Morales, San Francisco, CA  The Collagist - Amy Lockhart, Montreal, Canada |
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FILM
Saturday, November 13th at 8PM The Ann Arbor Film Festival Experimental Export edition (92 min.) Admission: Free
This program features new avant-garde and experimental films from established and emerging
North American makers. Several works creatively document landscapes, including Sleeping
Bear, Scene 32 and Laura Kraning's portrait of Hollywood's last drive-in theater, Vineland. Daichi
Saito's Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, won the AAFF "Best of Festival" award with gorgeously
textured hand-processed 35mm and a visceral soundtrack. Handcrafted animation is masterfully
represented by several artists, including a puzzle piece treatise by Martha Colburn and a
meditation on the effects of cancer by Karen Aqua. Continuing his exploration into machinima
and multiplayer game sampling, avant-garde icon Phil Solomon presents his newest work Still
Raining, Still Dreaming. |
 Twist of Fate by Karen Aqua  Sleeping Bear by Jack Cronin  Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis by Daichi Saito  Still Raining, Still Dreaming by Phil Solomon |
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MUSIC
Friday, November 5th at 8PM BURNT SUGAR presents TWO OR THREE THINGS SHE KNOW ABOUT WILD. A Primer In How Sisters Freely Conduct Themselves in The D Featuring Mazz Swift and Latasha Nevada Diggs on violin,vocals and EFX Greg Tate on laptop,guitars+baton, Jared Michael Nickerson on bass and The Next Detroit Harmolodic Arkestra (Joel Peterson, Duminie Deporres, James "the Blackman" Harris, Skeeter CR Shelton and more) Admission: $8.00 all ages DETROIT – On November 5th, 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will introduce Burnt Sugar to Detroit. Burnt Sugar is an improvising, experimental jazz/funk/soul orchestra conducted by Greg Tate out of New York City. On this special occasion they will be accompanied by some of Detroit's finest players, hand-picked just for this performance to perform as a group with the Burnt Sugar crew. About Burnt Sugar Greg Tate - Conductor/Electric guitar Latasha N. Nevada Diggs - Effected Vocals & Soundscapes Jared Michael Nickerson - Electric Bass Mazz Swift – Violin & Vocals About the Detroit Players: “The Blackman” - DJ Duminie Deporres – Guitar Michael Carey – Multi woodwind player Djallo Djakate – Drummer Joel Peterson – Acoustic Bass Skeeter Shelton – Saxophone |
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Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 8pm HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY: Blood 'n Kittens Admission: $10 at the door, $20 without costume Blood 'n Kittens is the third annual Halloween dance party hosted by MOCAD's young professionals auxiliary committee, the New Wave, as a fundraiser for the Museum. This year's party promises to be the bloodiest (and cutest) one yet! Entertainment provided by Macho City / Disco Secret DJ's Also Featuring: Cash bar Prizes for "Cutest" "Bloodiest" and "Best Group" Costumes! Disclaimer: No Kittens will be harmed in the production of this Halloween party |
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LECTURE
The Penny Stamps lecture series and MOCAD present Friday, October 22nd at 7PM Matthew Ritchie Admission: Free
Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England in 1964, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, and attended Boston University. His artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie's encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judaeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles. Ritchie's paintings, installations, and narrative threads delineate the universe's formation as well as the attempts and limits of human consciousness to comprehend its vastness. Ritchie's work deals explicitly with the idea of information being 'on the surface', and information is also the subject of his work. Although often described as a painter, Ritchie creates works on paper, prints, light-box drawings, floor-to-wall installations, freestanding sculpture, web sites, and short stories which tie his sprawling works together into a narrative structure. Drawing is central to his work. He scans his drawings into the computer so that images can be blown up, taken apart, made smaller or three-dimensional, re-shaped, transformed into digital games, or given to someone else to execute. One ongoing work that Ritchie calls an endless drawing contains everything he has drawn before. Ritchie's work has been shown in one-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; MASS MoCA; SFMoMA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. His work was also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (1997), Sydney Biennale (2002), and São Paulo Bienale (2004). |
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READING
Poetry reading at MOCAD curated by Barry Schwabksy Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 7PM David-Baptiste Chirot and Lara Glenum Admission: Free David-Baptiste Chirot is an eccentric artist and writer, currently residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His creative output combines visual and audio collage, chalk and charcoal rubbings and intense prose, examining contemporary art, society and politics in his own, highly individualistic style. Lara Glenum, if she were to be understood solely through her work, is a gothic southern belle bathed in slime and ichor, a withering creature, reaching with tendrils into the penumbra. The darkest sensibilities are explored in Glenum's poetic deconstructions, in which illogic and senselessness straddle the horrific otherworldly, 'creature-feature' worlds of David Cronenberg and H.P. Lovecraft. |
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OPENING RECEPTION
Childhelp, SMOCA and MOCAD present Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 from 6PM to 9PM Healing Expressions Admission: Free
Healing Expressions is an exhibition showcasing artwork by children who have been abused or have experienced traumatic events. The 44 pieces included in the exhibit were painted at the Childhelp Advocacy Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition is set up to convey the progression of the children throughout their collective healing process. We invite you to join us to view this truly special collection. The Healing Expressions exhibition runs through Sunday, October 24th. |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, October 17th, 2010 from 12PM to 4PM Beware for your children!: Soft scrap Halloween costumes with Sarah Lapinski Admission: Free For this special Halloween Family Day, you and your family can create the ultimate creepy / cute costumes out of fabric and recycled materials under the tutelage of local fashion designer & artist, Sarah Lapinski of WOUND Menswear. |
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PANEL
Thursday, October 14th at 7PM Reclaim, Rethink, Reuse: Active models in the use of neglected land in Detroit Admission: Free
The purpose of this panel discussion is not to produce an ideal or optimal plan, but to discuss a series of distinct alternatives to use, reuse and cultivate abandoned, unused and forsaken land and buildings. Representatives from several groups and organizations working to present new models for the use, reuse and restructuring of urban spaces will be on hand to discuss their own projects and the possibilities for the future in Detroit.
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WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 9th from 12PM to 5PM NYFA, MOCAD, CCS and ArtServe present "Realize Your Vision: Artist Toolkit" with Rory Golden Admission: $10 for the day includes a handouts packet and hospitality; register and pay through NYFA’s website. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Program Officer Rory Golden will present “Realize Your Vision: Artist Toolkit” a workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit on Saturday, October 9th from 12 noon to 5pm. Golden, along with Cezanne Charles of ArtServe Michigan will be available that morning for one-on-one consultations with artists. NYFA’s presentations and workshops are geared to individual artists across disciplines - visual, performing, literary artists and filmmakers are all encouraged to attend the events. To schedule a free NYFA presentation or low-fee workshop or consultations through your organization contact: rgolden@nyfa.org ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Realize Your Vision: Artist Toolkit The workshop is offered by the New York Foundation for the Arts in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit – MOCAD, ArtServe Michigan, and College for Creative Studies. The workshop is for artists across disciplines, including visual, literary, film, theatre, dance/performance, new media and other artists. Participant Supply List: Calculator, one or two page current resume, a short artist statement, bio or other written support materials for your work, pens, pencil with eraser, notebook or sketchbook, sweater or seat pad (optional, for comfort), an open mind - willingness to listen, to take on new thinking, and to get in action. ABOUT DOCTOR’S HOURS ON THE ROAD: ONE ON ONE CONSULTATIONS Rory Golden brings his own unique flavor to Doctor’s Hours on the Road. His one-on-one coaching sessions leave you with new ways of considering familiar problems, concerns, or blocks in your studio practice or career. The Creative Many Individual Consultations are made possible through a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, supporting ArtServe's statewide professional practice opportunities for artists and creative practitioners. TO REGISTER FOR A CONSULTATION WITH RORY GOLDEN: Click on the link and follow the instructions: http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=717&fid=1&sid=76 TO REGISTER FOR A CONSULTATION WITH CEZANNE CHARLES: Click on the link and follow the instructions: http://www.artservemichigan.org/index.php?q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=15 ABOUT NYFA The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) was founded in 1971 with the mission to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. Each year NYFA awards close to $1 million to individual artists and small organizations. Our NYFA Learning programs serve thousands of artists through workshops, panel discussions, and individual mentoring on topics ranging from grant writing and budgeting to creating an artist portfolio and audience development. Our Fiscal Sponsorship program is one of the largest and most established in the country and helps artists and organizations raise and manage over $3 million annually. Finally, our website, NYFA.org, received over 4.4 million unique visits last year and contains in-depth information about more that 8,000 opportunities and resources for artists in all disciplines. For more information about the New York Foundation for the Arts see www.nyfa.org ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Charles is Co-Director of rootoftwo, a hybrid art and design collaborative practice, exhibiting in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan and online. Their recent work THR_33 (Teahouse for Robots) was recently part of the exhibition Trouble in Paradise: Medi(t)ations on Survival at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. The project was also featured on Dezeen. She has contributed to publications and critical texts exploring art, design and new technology and was a Juror and member of the curatorial committee for BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life an exhibition of international artists held as part of the SIGGRAPH annual conference in New Orleans (2009). She was also the co-curator of Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders, a 2006 art, design and technology exhibition, commissioning 4 new works and presenting a further 11 works by international artists, designers and architects.    
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MUSIC Friday, October 1st at 8PM Santiparro with Legendary Creatures and special guests Hiss Admission: Free
Alan "Santiparro" Scheurman has cultivated a rich history for himself. With his most recent persona he has incorporated elements of folk music with electronic experiments to conjure stripped down tribal visions of a new brand of pop music. Legendary Creatures craft a similarly folksy sound, rooted in classic country and composerly indie pop. HISS are a Detroit/ Ann Arbor-based psyche-rock group featuring past and present members of Dabenport, the Baptist Church and the Detroit Cobras. |
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MUSIC
Saturday, September 25th from 6PM-1AM New Music Detroit and MOCAD present Strange Beautiful Music IV Admission: $8.00 all ages New Music Detroit is a contemporary music collective comprised of young, highly accomplished area musicians, including several members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, dedicated to performing dynamic works from the late 20th Century. Strange Beautiful Music is their annual new music festival featuring a broad cross section of avant-garde music, from electronics-based free compositions and "noise", to new and classic staples of experimental chamber music from around the world. This year's festival, produced in collaboration with MOCAD, will present new works performed by New Music Detroit, alongside special presentations of works by Frank Pahl's Scavenger Quartet, Apetechnology, Virgil Moorefield and Terry Dame and Electric Junkyard Gamelan. |
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OPENING RECEPTION
A major new public art commission launches in Detroit Saturday, September 25th at 12PM Mike Kelley: Giving Back to the Community or Home Invasion Admission: Free
An outdoor event to celebrate Detroit's community spirit and christen Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead as it sets off for its maiden voyage. The celebration kicks off at 12PM with opening remarks by John Sinclair and others. |
 Mike Kelley, Mobile Homestead, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Corine Vermeulen. |
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FAMILY DAY
Sunday, September 19th from 12PM to 4PM Re-Imagining Cities in Space with Graem Whyte Admission: Free
Join artist Graem Whyte in an architectural building workshop inspired by the theoretical
architect Yona Friedman. In his drawings and writings, Friedman imagined ideal cities and
defined the structures in them as transformable and transportable. Let yourself be inspired by
the works exhibited in Spatial Cities and design your own architectural creation. Collaborate
with Whyte and other drop-in participants to create a mobile architectural environment using
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FILM & MUSIC
Friday, September 17th at 8PM MOCAD and Burton Theater present Extreme Animals: Music is a Question with No Answer Admission: $5.00 all ages Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman (Extreme Animals, Paper Rad, You Can't Do That on Television) present a mash-up of live music, video, staged theatrics, and global meltdowns. They choreograph a disjunctive array of live shredding, extreme feedback, youtube bombardment, ecstatic dance moves, and sunday morning cartoons. Their newest performance delves into the world of tween culture and the current obsession with the infinite hall of mirrors known as "forever young". Performers sell their soul Paganini-style to become vampires cursed to bleed all over their instruments for all time. Jacob Ciocci is an artist and current eyebeam fellow notably regarded as one third of the American art collective Paper Rad; prolific producer of music, installations, websites, and animations. David Wightman is completing a PHD in music composition at UCSD where he is a lecturer of pop music studies. Some of his many music projects include Fortress of Amplitude, Powdered Wigs, and Chariots of Fire. Together Jacob and David form like Voltron in the high-NRG electronic music band Extreme Animals and have toured the country every summer for the past 8 years presenting their music, videos, and art. This is MOCAD's first collaboration with one of Detroit's most exciting new art houses, the Burton Theater. The Burton Theater is located at 3420 Cass Avenue (at Peterboro) in Detroit. |
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LECTURE
Thursday, September 16th at 7PM Dan Pitera: Architecture and the performance of everyday life Admission: Free Executive Director: Detroit Collaborative Design Center, Dan Pitera presents an informative talk contextualizing and analyzing the career and work of renegade architect and Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism participating artist, Yona Friedman. |
 Yona Friedman, Ville spatiale, 1959-1960. Photography: François Lauginie. Collection Frac Centre. |
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CURATOR’S TALK
Saturday, September 11th at 2PM Admission: Free
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MUSIC The legendary German group NEU! released only 3 albums between 1972 and 1975, but these albums had an influence wildly disproportionate to their modest commercial success; praised by and influential to David Bowie, Hawkwind, Iggy Pop, DEVO, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Autechre, Radiohead, U2, Wilco, Primal Scream, and beyond. In May 2010 Gronland Records will release a box including these three LP’s and an incredible batch of bonus material. Also this year will be the first live presentation of this music in more than 35 years as ‘Hallogallo 2010.’ Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger first came to the public’s attention shredding Hendrix-toned riffs and pounding monotonous, tom-heavy beats in a particularly psychedelic 1971 version of Kraftwerk. The pair left after 6 months to form NEU! and took with them their tandem musical language that would go on to have a far-reaching influence. Dinger’s propulsive beat is often cited as the quintessential motorik drumming, while Rother’s guitar playing made something new from a variety of influences: The timbres were of rock music, but the melodic sense was something else- the scales were bittersweet and very European, accompanied by a Middle-Eastern style open-string drone. The trio of Rother, Dinger, and producer Conny Plank created a cohesive universe where straightforward tones and melodies intermarried with heavily processed elements, where reality could turn itself inside-out or stretch out seemingly forever. Rother and Dinger parted ways after the third NEU! album. Rother concentrated on his collaboration with Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) as Harmonia, and starting in 1977, released a series of solo records. Dinger began a new project called La Dusseldorf. The pair regrouped in 1985/86 but were never able to complete another album to their mutual satisfaction. In 2008 Klaus Dinger passed away. Regarding the NEU! box set, Rother says: It was my aim to present Klaus Dinger´s musical strengths and visions just as much as my own ideas. All during the emotional process of reworking our album Klaus was on my mind and I contemplated what he would think about my decisions. I was very relieved and moved to hear from his heir Miki Yui that she was pleased with the result presented with the album NEU!´86." Inspired by revisiting these recordings, Rother has invited a group of musicians to visit the NEU! universe with him for a series of live performances: ‘Hallogallo 2010’ consists of Michael Rother with Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan. They will perform a limited number of concerts this year. This group will perform NEU! music and selections from Rother’s work with Harmonia and his solo albums. Steve Shelley is best known for drumming in Sonic Youth since 1985. He has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, the Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Tom Verlaine, Mike Watt, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others. |
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