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Flight Box
time and location
Saturday March 28th, 2009
at 7:30 pm		 Milwaukee Art Museum
Windhover Hall
700 Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
description
Present Music returns to Windhover Hall for a performance event that includes Kamran Ince's Flight Box, a piece originally commissioned for the opening of the Calatrava. Other odes to flight and birds, the sky, moon and stars will fly by and through this concert in works by Karen Tanaka, Henry Brant, Sebastian Currier, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Join a power to the people paper airplane flying competition, see kathryn e. martin's airplane installation and explore video installations created by DoneBestDone and the UWM Department of Visual Art.

A sample of the music:

The Flight Box Paper Airplane Flying Competition

Grand Prize: A Roundtrip Ticket anywhere Midwest Airlines flies*!!!

This competition will test your application of engineering, aerodynamics and creativity by challenging you to construct a paper airplane and compete for the longest distance flight.

Rules for Paper Airplane Contest

Making the Planes

  • Planes must be made out of a single sheet of 8 ˝” x 11” standard white copy paper. No colored paper or other type of paper may be used. (no perforated airplane book forms)
  • Part of the paper may be ripped or torn off, but scissors may not be used.
  • Nothing can be added to the paper such as tape, glue, paper clips, stickers, etc.
  • Planes may be colored or decorated (but not with stickers – see above).
  • Entries must be folded only. Entries that do not follow the above rules will be disqualified. All decisions by the referees are final.

Flying the Planes

  • Planes must be launched by hand.
  • Trials:  Each individual will be scored for the linear distance of a single flight attempt.
  • The top 5 distance fliers from trials will compete in a final fly-off.

6:00p.m. Doors open to make and test airplanes the day of the event
6:30p.m. Flight Trials Begin in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s West Galleria
7:30p.m. Flight Box Concert Begins in Windhover Hall
8:15p.m. Flight Trials and Finals Continue at Intermission

To Enter

Purchase a ticket to Present Music’s Flight Box Concert at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Saturday, March 28, 2009.  Tickets range in price from $10—$37

* Subject to restrictions and black-out dates

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