Sat 8/14 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Arts Prize (CAP) Goes Live… again! CAP winners team up for a free multimedia performance exploring the African-American experience on Sat 8/14.
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The three preeminent artists – Johnny Coleman (CAP winner 2003), sculptor and sound installation artist, Dianne McIntyre (CAP winner 2006), internationally renowned, multi-talented dancer, choreographer, and theater artist, and celebrated poet and incipient novelist Bernard Matambo – will offer a sweeping gesture to present to others the bequeathed gifts of their African descended peoples. The artists will provide reflections upon the pain, immeasurable cost, unspeakable beauty, and strength given to them by the priceless legacy of their African and African-American ancestry.
Through dance, the spoken word, sound design, and created environments evocative of various locations and historical traumas, the performance places the viewer contemporaneously within the continuum of the African and African-American heritage. The audience will directly participate in this hour-long event as they move through different physical spaces where they will experience meditations on the great crossing and the “railroad of bones” under the Atlantic ocean, the historic and ongoing moves necessary for Africans and African-Americans to find their right place, and the location of Cleveland as a final place to which to cleave.
Sounds way cool.
The Sculpture Center — 1834 East 123rd St., off Euclid Ave.
[The Scuplture Center’s Euclid Ave. Gallery pictured. Expect this space to be fully transformed.]
http://www.SculptureCenter.org