Miranda July

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This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) She wrote, directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011) and wrote and directed Kajillionaire (2020). She has authored a book of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007); a collection of nonfiction short stories, It Chooses You (2011); and the novel The First Bad Man (2015). Miranda July Introduces the Miranda (2014) – advertisement for a handbag designed by July and Welcome Companions. With music by JD Samson. Higgins, Keenan (March 18, 2019). "Uniqlo UT Heads to London for SS19 'Wear Your World' Campaign". The Source . Retrieved August 1, 2019.

She changed her last name to "July" when she was 15, after a character (based on her) in a story by her high school best friend, Johanna Fateman. She changed her name legally in her early 20s. [5] a b Yuri Ono (designer) (2009). "Hello". Learningtoloveyoumore.com. Miranda July; Harrell Fletcher . Retrieved June 27, 2012.

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Michael Morris & James Lingwood, Co – Directors of Artangel, said: “Artists continually lead Artangel into uncharted territory so we are delighted to be collaborating with Miranda July in joining forces with four faith – based charities on the third floor of Selfridges. Our shop within a shop, like London itself, is proudly open to the world.”The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in the heart of the East End teaches meditation, mindfulness, and yoga through daily classes, courses and retreats. Our aim is to help people from all walks of life lead more fulfilling lives, reach their highest potential and alleviate suffering in the world. Buddhists practice non – violence and believe our minds determine how we respond to our experience. We provide practical tools so that people can change their minds and develop greater wisdom and compassion for responding creatively to the world. The Centre offers an oasis of calm in the midst of busy urban life and is very much part of the local, diverse landscape in Tower Hamlets. Through its innovative mindfulness program, the LBC reaches out to people living with stress, pain, depression, and addiction. We also run events for families, carers, schools, and professionals as well as arts happenings. Many of our activities are by donation and teachers give their time and skills voluntarily for the benefit of others. She relocated to Portland, Oregon, [13] and took up performance art, or "one woman shows". [14] Her performances were successful; she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old. [15] In an interview for the Tate, she explains that she still tries to practice performance, partially due to its stark differences from film making, such as its live audience or how "present" it is in comparison. [16] Portland is also where she began participating in the riot grrrl scene that was beginning to grow in the early 1990s. [5] But the 40-year-old July has a horror of being pigeonholed. Until that point, she had been making a name for herself as a performance artist, crafting multimedia installations she referred to as “live movies” which she took to venues across the globe, including the ICA in London. In between Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future, July began to incorporate some of the oddball avant-garde things she had done in theater performance into her films, some of which was easier to swallow on stage but not on screen, such as the talking cat in The Future, [16] which she was later criticized for by viewers.

Her short video The Amateurist (1998) [36] features a dowdy researcher examining, via her own video monitor, a stereotypical "beautiful woman"; July plays both roles. [37] A lengthier video, the 27-minute Nest of Tens (2000), juxtaposes four unrelated scenarios in which "seemingly everyday people go about acting completely normal while demonstrating distinct abnormality". [36] Nest of Tens has been placed in the permanent online collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [38] Miranda July's exciting and wild novel The First Bad Man begins deeply, absurdly funny, gets increasingly twisted and strange, and then ends quietly, urgently heartfelt. It is a novel about aging, about motherhood, about sex, about weird wounded women--yes--but it is really a novel about the desperate possibility in all of us to love and be loved. The First Bad Man is like no other novel you will read this year (or any other year).”

Islamic Relief is an international aid and d development charity that aims to alleviate the suffering of the world’s poorest people in more than 30 countries, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. As well as responding to disasters and emergencies, Islamic Relief promotes sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities – regardless of race, religion or gender. In its 33 – year history, Islamic Relief has helped more than 110m people across the world. Islamic Relief is one of the 13 UK charities that form the DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee).

Czudaj, Antje. Miranda July's Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism; Columbia University Press, 2016. Lovely writing is interspersed with outer-space levels of strange…yet gradually this catalog of the grotesque builds into something beautiful, and this deeply odd book abruptly becomes transcendent. It feels like being on a plane when it takes off—all that rattling, speed, and oil, and then suddenly: airborne.”

Spitalfields Crypt Trust (SCT) is an East London charity providing practical help for people recovering from complex drug and alcohol addictions. They provide homes, therapy, productive activity and a supportive community to help people to avoid relapses and lead healthier, happier lives. Kaufman, Anthony (April 20, 2001). "Interview: Wayne Wang Journeys to "The Center of the World" ". IndieWire. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. It won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award on September 24, 2007. [68] In The New York Times, Sheelah Kolhatkar gave the collection a mixed review: "A handful of these stories are sweet and revealing, although in many cases the attempt to create 'art' is too self-conscious, and the effort comes off as pointlessly strange." [67] Olsen, Mark (January 21, 2011). "Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July looks into 'The Future' ". Los Angeles Times.