February 14th, 2021 in Podcast. Closed
The following is a review of Meklit Hadero’s recent on screen performance and lecture at the University of Washington s Meany Hall courtesy of the University s student newspaper, The Daily. (Photo by Tessa Shimizu)
Meklit nourishes us through her music in Meany Center performance and lecture
Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero’s joy is infectious. Listeners are enveloped in her warmth, even with the barrier of an electronic screen, and can’t help but feel a sense of peace while she talks and sings. Meklit invites us into her culture, and we never feel like an outsider. She is a natural storyteller who shared intimate cultural traditions in her Meany on Screen performance and lecture: “How Music Connects Us: Belonging, Wellbeing, and Sonic Lineage.”
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Amy Seiwert s Imagery More Love Now is a new improvisational event with Imagery artist Shania Rasmussen, trumpeter Darren Johnston, and visual artist and poet Adrian Arias. Feb 14, 4pm PT, Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/2938679926376373/
Ballet22
Premiere of a new dance film by Joshua Stanton with the Oakland dance company. $10 and up. Feb. 12-14. https://www.ballet22.com
Bechtel Fest 8
Chicago s Broken Nose Theatre company presents a series of online plays; the annual festival of new short plays features an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men; free, thru March 26. https://brokennosetheatre.com/
Anne Schrager February 11, 2021Updated: February 16, 2021, 7:11 am
Each year Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day are kissing cousins on the calendar.
The federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February celebrates our first president, George Washington, and all the presidents who’ve led our country. San Francisco’s City Hall typically celebrates the holiday by illuminating the building in red, white and blue. The schedule varies from year to year, but look up and see if you can catch it if you’re driving around the area after dark.
This year’s three-day weekend also celebrates the start of Lunar New Year (Feb. 12) and love’s holiday on Feb. 14, with long-standing traditions such as San Francisco Beer Week shifting toward virtual and safe, social distanced options. The Chronicle Wine Competition’s Public Tasting event, usually held over the long weekend, will not take place this year but the annual wine competition is on track and awards are set
7 Photobooks That Consider Black Lives and Artistic Visions
From Carrie Mae Weems and Ming Smith to “Black Is Beautiful” and “The New Black Vanguard,” here are essential Aperture publications for our moment.
Kwame Brathwaite,
A school for one of the many modeling groups that had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s, ca. 1966
Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Featured - February 11, 2021
Carrie Mae Weems,
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Copublished by Aperture and Peabody Museum Press
To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty men and women of African descent who were enslaved in South Carolina. Photographed by Joseph T. Zealy for Harvard University professor Louis Agassiz in 1850, the images were rediscovered at Harvard’s Peabody Museu