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Louie Palu : The Fighting Season
DC:ART:JAZZ:Thinking About Jazz – Nina Simone & Civil Rights, 10/29, 1-3pm
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Nadine Cohodas, author of Princess Noire, The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, joins us again for an in-depth look at Nina Simone’s impact on the Civil Rights movement. Nadine will share more vintage footage of Nina and pertinent excerpts from her wonderful biography of this powerful figure in jazz history. Nina’s powerful presence, bold lyrics and eloquent music made her a figure many sought out as a leader of the jazz community in defining the essence of race and power relations during this important time in our nation’s history. As always, Thinking About Jazz is a free event with a warm welcome, stimulating conversation, refreshments and door prizes. Please join us!
Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
Please join Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change and Provisions Library for an evening with author Kellie Jones, who will read and discuss her book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art on Saturday, October 15th, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Busboys and Poets (5331 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781).
A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers, absorbed in Black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, Eyeminded reveals Jones’s role in bringing attention to the work of African-American, African, Latin-American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices.
This event is free and open to the public.
10.15.2011, 6-7:30pm Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones
Please join Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change and Provisions Library for an evening with author Kellie Jones, who will read and discuss her book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art on Saturday, October 15th, from 6-7:30p.m. at Busboys and Poets (5331 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781).
A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers, absorbed in Black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, Eyeminded reveals Jones’s role in bringing attention to the work of African-American, African, Latin-American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices.
This event is free and open to the public.
Clic k here for more info –>Kellie Jones Flier 10-15-11
DC:ART: Around M Way: 10.8.11 GoGo Poetry Reading this Saturday & 10.15.11 TedxWDC in Anacostia!
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* * * * *TEDxWDC – October 15th
Free Jazz with Butch Warren & Freddie Redd and new art by Gustavo Diaz Sosa & NBC’s Antoine Sanfuentes
Honfleur reopens this Friday, September 30th, at 7pm with new works by Gustavo DÃaz Sosa.
Gustavo DÃaz Sosa graduated in Cuba with the golden title in 2002. He has since moved to Spain, exhibiting widely, invited as a resident artist at Arteleku in San Sebastian, and settled in the outskirts of Madrid, where he lives and works today. More recently Gustavo returned to Habana, Cuba for a solo exhibition at the Gallery, Kingdom of This World. Honfleur Gallery has been working with Gustavo since 2009 and is pleased to present never before seem mixed media works on canvas and six new charcoal works on paper.
 photo by Antoine Sanfuentes
Starting at 8pm, THE CONNECTION, a free jazz performance by Butch Warren & Freddie Redd accompanied by a photographic slide show by Antoine Sanfuentes. A poetry reading by local DC poet, Fred Joiner, will also happen in between sets.
An evening of jazz and art with two legendary jazz musicians, Freddie Redd pairs up with Butch Warren to play hard bop jazz…known for his piece “The Connection,” these two connect an era and an art form. Born in 1939, Butch Warren began his career as a jazz bassist at the ripe age of 14. Early on, the bassist worked locally in the Washington, DC, area, most notably with Stuff Smith. Warren was in great demand for club work and appeared on many recordings, particularly dates for the Blue Note label led by Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Stanley Turrentine, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, and Dorham. He was a member of Thelonious Monk’s quartet from 1963-1964 and then moved back to Washington, DC, where he worked on a television show from 1965-1966. Antoine Sanfuentes is the Washington DC Bureau Chief for NBC news that has been documenting Butch Warren’s recent life history. His photographs chronicle Butch Warren’s come back. After four legendary years recording for blue note records in New York (1960-1964), Butch Warren spent decades off the music scene only re appearing briefly to disappear again. These photographs document his struggle as a jazz musician and an artist.
This performance is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts
Both events are free and open to the public.
For more details: 202.580.597 and www.honfleurgallery.com
1241 Good Hope Road SE Washington DC 20020
Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab, Blank Space SE & The Hive are all projects of ARCH Development Corp.
www.honfleurgallery.com   |    www.archdevelopment.org |  www.vividsolutionsdc.com www.blankSPACEse.com  |   www.thedchive.com
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Happy Birthday Trane (Repost from Sept 23, 2008)
Anyone who knows me how important John Coltrane is to me. On his birthday I am always pushed to think about what it means to be an artist and how to “be a force for good”.
Rather than try to wax further poetic about it I am going to link you to a little blog i wrote and to a website that published one of my poems about Trane.
I hope it is inspiring….
DC:POETRY: Gunpowder + A Match by Ernesto Mercer
I hate to be posting this in such a drive-by impersonal way, but the the information is more important than my musings about it…I will at some later point tell you how import Ernesto has been to me and to DC.POETRY.MUSIC.CULTURE.LIFE.ETC….
If you know like I know, in these austere economic times you (we) will all need some Gunpowder + A Match… see info below…get on it!!!
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Gunpowder + A Match, poems by Ernesto Mercer
It’s a limited run from outbackintheshack + Carolina Jones Ink
It’s a nice sized plate of poems: $10 if I see ya. (+ $2 s&h if not)
Pre-ordering begins today.
Paypal for Carolina Jones Ink : kitamaldicion@gmail.com.
I’m very excited about this & thank you all for your support. All the good to yall.
I’ll have something nifty w/ some pictures closer to 09-01-11.
Malembe + Peace
ernesto
DC:ART:HISTORY:CULTURE: Wash Post Features the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum’s Grand Opening Celebration
Grand Opening Celebration!
The African American Civil War Museum is back in the business of telling the stories of slaves’ and freed blacks’ participation in that conflict. The museum, which first opened in 1999 with about 700 square feet, has moved across Vermont Avenue to 5,000 square feet in a former school building. The $5 million move and renovation, funded by the city, will be celebrated with three days of activities, ending with a ribbon-cutting July 18.
The museum now fits into the school gymnasium, which gives it high ceilings and a gleaming wooden stage. Arranged in one room are thematically organized panels with reproductions of illustrations and documents and some original objects that are used to tell stories from the war.
In addition to its exhibits, the museum provides space for other cultural activities.
Read the rest of the Washington Post article!
Register now for the Grand Opening Celebration (Saturday, July 16 – Monday, July 18, 2011)!
DC:ART: Aug 5th – Oct 7th 2011, (Un)Lock It: the Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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