Drawing inspiration from foremothers as varied as Agnes Martin, Jane Jacobs, Maria Sibylla Merian, grandmothers, and the countless unnamed women who history has anonymized—four distinguished writers explore topics of gender, art, depression, and grief. Poet Victoria Chang’s new collection With My Back to the World engages the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression. How do we see and how are we seen? Daniela Naomi Molnar’s debut collection Chorus weaves voices of women scientists, poets, sociologists, artists, and activists whose indomitable lives offer lessons for our time. These poets will be joined in conversation by award-winning poet Amy Gerstler and author and literary curator Louise Steinman. |
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PEN World Voices Festival: To Our Foremothers: Love, Grief and How Art Sustains Us
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AAPI LATINX: HIDDEN INTERNMENT: THE ART SHIBAYAMA STORY
Join us for a film screening of Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story, a film about the lesser-known history of the Japanese-Latin American internment through the life story of Art Shibayama, who, at 13, was taken from Peru on March 22, 1944, and interned in Crystal City Texas for two years. Despite this internment, Art was denied redress equal to that provided to Japanese Americans. $10, RSVP at website
Film Series: Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film
The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and…
Girl From the North Country
It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life, and hope. Girl From the North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs by Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before. Tuesdays – Saturdays – 8:00 p.m. Saturday – 2:00 p.m. Sunday 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. For more information, please visit: northcountrytour.com
Beethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre
Dudamel conducts, in collaboration with the Deaf West Theatre, an innovative production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, created for both deaf and hearing audiences. A story told through the composer’s music sung by hearing vocalists accompanied by the expressive gestural poetry of sign language by deaf actors. Don’t miss this innovative performance, May 16 and May 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. For more information and tickets, click here.
Ghost Waltz
This is the story of an Indigenous musician whose works have been attributed to Europeans. It is a mix of music, magic, drama, passion, spirituality, and dance in a celebration that explores people of color’s lives during the late 19th century Americas and their ghostlike impact on our lives today. Thursdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 4:00 p.m. Check the website for ticket prices