‘Arts’ Archives
Takuskanskan “something moving” The something is Life Life’s Power A Common Redman”'s Power, moving.
Bockley Gallery is pleased announce an exhibition of work by Francis Yellow. Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 6 to 9 pm Exhibition: June 2 through June 30, 2012 Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, Noon to 5 pm Bockley Gallery, 2123 W 21st Street (west of Lake of the Isles, near Franklin) Minneapolis
OPENING: PHOTOGRAPHY INSTALLATION OUTDOORS & FULLY PUBLIC
Photographs Taken of People in East Phillips Neighborhood, MPLS. Saturday, May 12th 6pm Phillips Garden 2646 Cedar Ave So $5-10 Suggested Donation Ten extraordinary photographs will be unveiled in East Phillips Neighborhood on May 12th. Photographer Amanda Spencer spent the summer of 2011 meeting the people of East Phillips Neighborhood, interviewing them and taking their pictures. Her project SEEING PHILLIPS & SEEKING UNDERSTANDING uncovers the daily lives, celebrations, and quiet diversity of an inner city neighborhood. The fully public installation within East Phillips will have a gala opening with dancers from the East Phillips Nepali community. The display on the front lawn of Phillips Garden, 2646 Cedar Ave. So., will run for 2 months. As an emerging young artist in Minneapolis, Amanda Spencer focuses on cultural, social and personal identity. Beginning with the nerve-wracking moment last April when she got out of her car in an [...]
Sing Your Song
Sing Your Song ***** (2011) Documentary /S2BN Films Cast: Harry Belafonte (himself), Leadbelly (himself), Sidney Poitier (himself), Fran Scott Attaway (himself), Marge Champion (herself). Running time:105 minutes. Director: Susan Rostock. “Sing Your Song” is produced by Harry Belafonte”'s youngest daughter, Gina, a stupendous documentary on the living African American legend, Harry Belafonte at age 84. “Sing Your Song” is one of those overdue documentaries for which one can breathe a sigh of relief that the subject of the documentary is still living. The handsome, yellow-toned Mr.Belafonte as the years of the civil rights movement rolls on would meet such giants as the actor-orator-activist -singer Paul Robeson, actor Sidney Poitier, singer-actor Sammy Davis Jr., actress Shelly Winters and singer-Afro-centric woman Nina Simone. (more…)
