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What: Art Show — free event– fundraiser

When: February 7-13th, 2011

Grand Celebration / Reading/ Music: Sat. Feb. 12th from 5-10pm. No RSVP necessary!

Beverage and appetizers Friday 11 & Saturday 12. 


Other hours: Starting Feb. 7th: M-Th 9a-5p, F 9a-10p, Sat 5p-10p, Su 1-4

Where: The Consulate of El Salvador, 2332 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Georgetown, WDC

More info: latinhoodshow, tresraices.com 301-910-8952

Curated by Ronald Chacón

Latines / Latin hood

A collective of 13 DC-based artists share their vision of what it means to live, feel, grow and evolve as latinos … coming into a new reality and a new life, in a place where the language is different, the flavors different and everything takes shape differently. Here and there at once. Your self-identity and present reality in a state of conflict.

Latines/ latinhood: Translate it as a step first and a process that follows, a need to assimilate to speak, to understand in order to explain, to become another while still anchored in your essential self, all part of the process. Thirteen artists, adopted by DC, adapted to DC yet still living in the shadow of Cervantes. First mere steps, then a process, Latines/ latinhood gives testimony to the experience of what they’ve seen, heard, touched, felt – translated and transposed through word, photography, painting, music and installation. Latines, latinidad … or the certainty that to understand again is to rearrange your world.

Participating, artists include: Elva Lovos, Lázaro Batista, Francisco Rosario, Mauricio López, Ronald Chacón, Iván Mendizábal, Luis Peralta, Wilfredo Valladares, Katya Miranda y Alberto Roblest. Saturday reception poetry readings by Quique Avilés, Sami Miranda & Iván Mendizábal, with music by Pepe González.

The exhibition opens February 7th and runs through February 13th in the General Consultate of El Salvador in Georgetown. Forty percent of sales from the exhibition are directed to the Fondo Solidario para los Salvadoreños en el Exterior, FOSSALEX” or the Solidarity Fund for El Salvadorans Living in the Exterior, a non-profit whose mission is to help families with repatriation or funeral expenses of departed family members passing in the DC Metro area.

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FEBRUARY 2011 FILM EVENTS Killer of Sheep Sunday, February 13 at 2:00 p.m. Director in person One of only a few contemporary filmmakers to be honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, the Maya Deren Award of the American Film Institute, and Howard University’s Paul Robeson Award for outstanding achievement, Charles Burnett introduces a program of his work, including early short films and the feature Killer of Sheep. (Charles Burnett, 1977, 81 minutes) Films are shown in the East Building Auditorium, 4th Street at Constitution Avenue NW. There is no charge for admission but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Doors open approximately 30 minutes before each show time. Programs are subject to change. For more information call (202) 842-6799, e-mail film-department or visit www.nga.gov/programs/film/ Join us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Watch our videos on ArtBabble

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The Black Exhibition

THE BLACK EXHIBITION
Black-infinite, endless, and like the universe, completely uncontainable!
The Charles Sumner School, Museum and Archives
1201 – 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Opening reception: Thursday, February 10, 2011 Time: 6-9 p.m.

	Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD Museum of Art expansion will provide a permanent home for the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies http://www.scad.edu/museum/
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On Savannah’s Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the SCAD Museum of Art is creating a home for one of the most significant collections of African American art at any museum in the United States. Savannah native and retired surgeon Dr. Walter O. Evans hopes to foster a greater awareness of and appreciation for the contributions of African Americans to the global art community through his donation to SCAD of major works by some of the greatest African American artists. The 27 million USD expansion of the SCAD Museum of Art will include the creation of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, as well as space for all the collections and exhibitions of the museum. For Dr. Evans, the reasons to establish a permanent home in Savannah for his collection are deeply personal. "My mother still lives here. Savannah is my home. I want children here to learn from my collection, to see themselves represented on gallery walls. I also envisioned my collection living at an institution that would not only respect and appreciate the works, but that would also create meaningful educational components around the works. I’m fortunate that such a place exists in Savannah: SCAD." When Dr. Evans and his wife, Linda, approached SCAD in 2005 with the idea of donating some of their artistic and cultural treasures to the university, SCAD President Paula Wallace didn’t hesitate. "I immediately said, ‘yes, yes, yes.’ It is not only a tremendous honor that Walter and Linda have entrusted SCAD with their cherished collection, but the opportunities for SCAD students, and students worldwide, to study such important and historical works of African American art are priceless." Upon the expected fall 2011 completion of the restoration of the 1853 freight depot of the Central of Georgia Railroad, the new SCAD Museum of Art will feature an additional 65,000 square feet of gallery, museum and educational space, including the Evans Center, classrooms and a 250-seat theater. Currently, all of the historic brick walls are stabilized with steel beams and repointed by masons with historic mortar, concrete has been poured for most of both floors, the ground has been leveled, a metal roof covers the second floor, and work on the tower has begun. "It feels good to watch the progress of the museum expansion," said Dr. Evans, who regularly tours the construction site. "SCAD has a long history of restoring buildings carefully, meticulously, on time and on budget. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished museum." From the Evans Center and SCAD’s prominent collections to the building’s design itself, the SCAD Museum of Art is poised to become one of the most important artistic and cultural centers in the country. SCAD: The University for Creative Careers The Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution that offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in 43 majors. Visit scad.edu.

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Tidal Basin Review will host a reading at the Thurgood Marshall Center, 1816 12th Street N.W., Washington, DC 20009. No charge. Donations welcomed. Featuring Reginald Dwayne Betts, Iman Byfield, Ching-In Chen, Michela Costello, DéLana R.A. Dameron, Kyle Dargan, Elizabeth Fogle, Brian Gilmore, and Douglas Kearney. Music by DJ AJ and refreshments to follow.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and the father of a young son. He is the author of the memoir A Question of Freedom and the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm.

Iman Byfield is an MFA-Poetry candidate at Chicago State University. She works as an editorial assistant at Third World Press, and is a poetry editor for 95Notes literary magazine. Her work has appeared in the Garland Court Review and Eight Magazine, a student publication.

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Ching-In is a member of Save Our Chinatown Committee, which is focused on preserving the historical Riverside Chinatown.

Michela Costello is a poet and teacher in Washington, DC. She is currently an adjunct professor of English and Education. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Glasgow Review, Wanderlust and Poetryfish, among others.

DéLana R.A. Dameron is the author of How God Ends Us selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Award winner. She currently resides in New York City.

Kyle Dargan is the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine and an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at American University. His most recent collection is Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis (UGA, 2010). His first collection, The Listening, was awarded the 2003 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and his second, Bouquet of Hungers, won a 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

Elizabeth Fogle writes poems very much rooted in place and myth and though she is no longer living in the Carolinas or near the Atlantic, she continues to write about the places and people that haunted her as a child. She currently teaches in the English program at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College and lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Brian Gilmore is Poet, public interest lawyer; two books: elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem, (Third World Press 1993); Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington (Karibu Books 2001), columnist, The Progressive Media Project, contributing writer: Ebony Magazine (online); Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2001, 2003; Cave Canem fellow 1997; Pushcart Prize nominee 2007.

Poet/Performer/Librettist Douglas Kearney’s work has been featured in many fine publications and venues in print, in-the-flesh and digital code. His first full-length collection of poems, Fear, Some, was published in 2006 (Red Hen Press). His second manuscript, The Black Automaton, was a National Poetry Series selection (Fence). He lives in the Valley with his family.

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Wednesday, January 26 at 6:30 pm Point of Contact ~Panel discussion
Phillips Collection/Center for the Study of Modern Art
1600 21st St., NW, Washington, DC

Participants discuss the Latino American artist experience of confronting social landscapes of today, the desire to communicate information and knowledge in an effort to spur social progress, and how arts and culture are an essential connection point in the processes of change in conjunction with the exhibition What’s on your mind? at the World Bank, curated by Edgar Endress. A particular emphasis in the discussion will be on the role of institutions, the act of participation, change, and resistance.

Participants include: Evangelina Elizondo, assistant curator, World Bank; Tania Aedo, artist and director, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Gustavo Romano, artist and curator of the Media Lab at the Centro Cultural de Espaňa, Buenos Aires; and Edgar Endress, artist and professor, George Mason University School of Art, Virginia. In collaboration with Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Thursday, January 27th
The World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW
5:00 to 6:30 pm ~ Art Talk and Presention
6:30 to 8:30 ~ Opening Reception
See attached invitation for details.

What’s on your mind? Narratives of the Counterfeit Persona:a ground-breaking exhibition opening Thursday 1/27 at World Bank headquarters. It features work by thirty-two Latin American media artists, curated by artist Edgar Endress.
~5pm to 6:30 pm Art Talk and Presention
~6:30 to 8:30 Opening Reception

The American Poetry Museum is co-hosting this event in conjunction with The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) 2011 Conference. Hosted by Amanda Johnston, Cave Canem Fellow, this will be an exciting evening! Over 20 Cave Canem fellows raise the roof & raise funds for Cave Canem, North America’s home for Black poetry. Several of those featured for this event are supporters of and have been a part of the INTERSECTIONS poetry reading series.

Featuring E.J. Antonio, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Remica Bingham-Risher, Derrick Brown, Erica Doyle, Jonterri Gadson, Yalonda JD Green, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Niki Herd, Randall Horton, Linda Susan Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Brandon Johnson, Bettina Judd, Rickey Laurentiis, Robin Lewis, January Gill O’Neil, Iain Pollock, Nicole Sealey & Wendy S. Walters.