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Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo will honor 2020 winners at virtual ceremony
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The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo will honor the winners of the 2020 Community Arts Awards in a virtual ceremony on April 14, 2021. (Photo provided to MLive from Arts Council)
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KALAMAZOO, MI The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo announced Tuesday that its previously postponed 2020 Community Arts Awards celebration is going virtual.
Initially scheduled to be held in-person at the Wellspring Theater on Dec. 1, the celebration will now take place virtually at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, premiering live on the Arts Council’s website.
The virtual celebration will feature speeches from award recipients and their nominators, as well as performances by Face Off Theatre Company, Farmers Alley Theatre, Jingqui Liu, Kalamazoo Chinese Academy, Kalamazoo West African Drummers, Last Gasp Collective and Rootead Youth Dance Company.
In years past, Kalamazooâs Chinese New Year Gala has been a way of bringing the community together to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This year, the gala has transitioned to an online format.
The annual Lunar New Year celebration aired on WMU Internationalâs Youtube channel on Friday, Feb. 5 and brought together a community distanced by the pandemic.Â
âWe had an opportunity to involve alum from out of state and in China,â said Dr. Ying Zeng of WMUâs Haenicke Institute, who helped organize this event.
The ala started with video of students greeting other members of the community in the Kalamazoo area. It featured collaboration with WMU, Kalamazoo Public Schools and the Kalamazoo Chinese Academy.Â