5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust) on February 9, 2021 at 6:00 am
Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile ground for artistic exploration is anything but in hibernation. Opened in 2015 thanks to the efforts of attorney and organist Kevin Dolan and composer Paola Prestini, the former sawdust-factory-turned-contemporary-music-haven has just announced its Winter/Spring 2021 season, featuring a cornucopia of creative work from a stylistically rich cohort of composers, choreographers, poets, instrumentalists, dancers, and filmmakers.
Furthering its mission as an incubator for young artists’ careers, a new partnership with New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation joins National Sawdust’s stellar lineup of fellowship programs, including the Hildegard Commission and the BluePrint Fellowship; and Beth Morrison Projects returns thi
Paris Gibson Square is hosting a virtual conversation about art and music
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Posted at 9:39 AM, Jan 20, 2021
and last updated 2021-01-20 11:39:38-05
The Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls is going virtual to bring the gallery to your home.
The museum has partnered with the Cascade County String Quartet to bring you several mediums of art in the exhibit titled A Thoughtful Response.
Museum director Sarah Justice explained, The beauty of this is participants will be able to share their thoughts. There s never a wrong answer and then other people will get to see the insights of how other people might view things, because the way you see it might be completely different than another person. So it s a really interesting discussion and people get a lot out of it,â
MLK/FBI
1625 N. Las Palmas Blvd., Hollywood
Using newly discovered and declassified files, Sam Pollard s documentary uncovers the extent of the FBI s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr. The film also sheds light on the government s history of targeting Black activists. Capacity is limited. Tickets and refreshments must be purchased in advance. FM radio is required for audio.
Jurassic Quest is a dinosaur drive-through adventure for the entire family at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. (Jurassic Quest)
Friday, Jan. 15 - Sunday, Jan. 31
Jurassic Quest Dino Drive Thru
Rose Bowl Stadium
1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena
The touring dinosaur exhibit makes the first of three stops in Southern California. Guests can check out 70 photorealistic baby dinos, T-Rexes and other species while listening to an audio tour from the comfort of their vehicles. The quest heads to Costa Mesa and Pomona in February.
Forced online, an opera festival searches for intimacy
Alexi Murdoch in Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists, part of the Prototype Festival. The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut. Pierre-Alain Giraud via The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The annual Prototype festival of new opera and music theater thrives on intimacy. Its chamber-scale offerings often politically charged, emotionally brutal and just plain loud vibrate the viscera. Prototype has become known for screaming, moaning works like Angels Bone and Prism, which both went on to win Pulitzer Prizes and were clench-your-jaw immersions in suffering, put on in tiny theaters that magnified their effect.
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At the close of a catastrophic year in the performing arts, the annual ritual of cobbling together a list of highlights takes on a woeful cast. To begin with, I saw only three in-person events after mid-March. Although I watched dozens of performances online, sitting at my desk day after day lent the experiences a sense of sameness, of solipsism. The power of joining an audience resides in yoking your individuality to a collective, however temporary or disparate. In our electronic watchtowers, we seem to command a wide landscape, but ultimately we rarely leave the cocoon of the self. The COVID-19 year has trapped us all the more completely in the digital bubbles from which we so often long to break out. In a related development, the tech monopolies that already control too much of the cultural landscape have tightened their grip.