Yvette Norwood-Tiger: Round Midnight â Songs in the Key of Bebop Tour
Jun 11, 2021 8:00 PM to
10:00 PM
May 12, 2021
Yvette Norwood-Tiger: Round Midnight â Songs in the Key of Bebop Tour
International touring vocalist and GRAMMY member, Yvette Norwood-Tiger will pay tribute to bebop â a sub-genre of jazz composed and performed by jazz greats such as Dizzy Gilespie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and others.
Yvette Norwood-Tiger, vocalist, songwriter, vocal coach, recording artist and The Recording Academy (GRAMMY) voting member, is a Detroit, Michigan native who hails from a family of musicians, including a father who played guitar and a mother who played drums. Yvette is the founder and director of the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival Organization. Yvetteâs general repertoire includes jazz standards, bebop, and Latin jazz. She performs with vocally clean and pure interpretations of the great American Songbook, while emphasizing intonation and storytelling
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), and Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (PBALille) have each developed programs in recent years specifically for people with autism and other neurodiverse conditions. The three institutions, all of which are members of the FRAME (FRench American Museum Exchange) network, have combined their expertise to create a Guide for Welcoming Museum Visitors with Autism Spectrum Disorder, a free digital publication.Â
As agents of change, inclusion and social cohesion, the museums in the FRAME network are deeply committed to providing equal access to their collections for all audiences through targeted programs for visitors with special needs. To close Autism Awareness Month (in April), FRAME, the DMA, MMFA and PBALille are releasing this guide to help museums around the world make the arts and the museum experience accessible to people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a group with few museum programs that are tailored to it
Apollo. The exhibition, currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, is scheduled to run until 6 June.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, a split emerged between European architects about how the reconstruction of cities might best be realised: several northern European architects, among them the Dutchman Aldo van Eyck, advocated for building that took into account human patterns of association within new and specifically designed forms; the other attitude, represented by an Italian, Ernesto Rogers, called for understanding of the significance of the historical centre, and for architecture alert to its meaning. One branch wished to make a new future; the other wished to create a continuous present. It’s a divide that’s evident in ‘Art on Display 1949–1969’, an exhibition curated by Penelope Curtis and Dirk van den Heuvel that restages the paradigmatic work of those architects who influenced museum design in the period: in Italy, Franco Albini and Franca Helg, an
UC Davis Lecture Series in Design Is April 22
by Jeffrey Day, College of Letters and Science
April 07, 2021
A designer whose 3D design creations have included costume collaborations for the
Black Panther movie, ready-to-wear fashions and other projects will be the featured speaker for the University of California, Davis, Alberini Family Speakers Series in April.
Julia Koerner, who is at the forefront of 3D printing and sustainable design, will give a presentation titled “Models and Models” on Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m. Register here for Koerner’s online presentation.
Koerner collaborated with Ruth E. Carter, costume designer for
Black Panther, to create the 3D-printed crown and shoulder piece worn by the character Queen Ramonda, played by Angela Bassett. The movie won a 2019 Academy Award for costume design.