Creative Spirits: Yesterday and Today
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this issue: February 22, 2008
- Blind
Boys of Alabama
- ArtsDay LA
- Themed
Picks: Reviewing (and Making) History
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 Blind Boys of Alabama. Spreading the spirit and energy of pure soul gospel
music over the past 60 years, founding members Clarence Fountain and
Jimmy Carter are joined by more recent arrivals on a mission to expand
the audience for traditional soul-gospel singing while incorporating
contemporary songs and innovative arrangements into their hallowed
style. March 7th.
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 ArtsDay LA. Sample the high level and diversity of professional
training offered by the UCLA Extension Department of the Arts. This
free event offers aspiring designers, writers, filmmakers, and artists
an opportunity to immerse themselves in the subject matter, creative
processes, current issues, and potential career paths of six major arts
fields. March 8th.
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Did You Know?
The
first text message may have been upside down numbers that could be read
as word and sounds, sent from a beeper.
-wikipedia.org
Check
out Read Me! Text in Art at
the Armory Center for the Arts. Exhibition closes this
weekend on February 24th.
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Shows for 1/2 Price!
Theater – Music – Dance
 Visit LAStageTIX.com for ½
price tickets and a list of shows playing in greater Los Angeles. |
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Picks: Reviewing (and Making) History |
| 80th Anniversary St. Francis Dam Disaster
Lecture and Tour
March 8th-9th
1:00pm
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St. Francis Dam collapsed in 1928, sending a wall of water rushing
through San Francisquito Canyon and the Santa Clara River canyons.
Commemorates the second-worst natural disaster in California history
and its aftermath. |
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| Griots in the Gallery, Ananse the Spider
March 9
7:00pm
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griot Michael D. McCarty to hear tales of Ananse, the well-known
trickster folk hero from Ghana. The final program in the
Fowler’s winter storytelling series offered in conjunction
with Visual Griots of Mali. | |
| Exhibition Walkthrough - One Way or Another:
Asian American Art Now
March 9th
11:30am
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together artists who challenge and extend the category of Asian
American art. The artists and their works characterize the freedom to
choose, manipulate and reinvent different languages and issues, defying
a definitive conception of Asian American art. |
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