Goodbye/Hello

I am retiring this blog (fredjoiner.wordpress.com), because I have a new one over at fredjoiner.com, it is still a work in progress but bear with me as I get things together. I have one new post up…it is a piece that i was thinking about since i previewed the Mel Bochner exhibit at the National Gallery of Art here in DC.

I hope that you will follow me over to my new space fredjoiner.com.

 

 

DC:ART:Around My Way: Rhymes With Opera Concert, Lisa McCarty & Louie Palu’s exhibits!

Rhymes With Opera This Saturday, December 3rd at 1pm @ Honfleur Gallery Saturday’s program includes "KETAMYTH," a tripped out tale of ketamine and the near-death experience; a musical setting of "Goblin Market," the Christina Rossetti poem about two sisters seduced by goblins; "Numbers/Dates" (sadness, despair, disgust, contempt), an exploration of emotions and the voice. "KETAMYTH" composed by Ruby Fulton with words by Baynard Woods. "KETAMYTH" directed by Britt Olsen-Ecker, performed by RWO (Elisabeth Halliday and Bonnie Lander, sopranos; Robert Maril, baritone; George Lam, conductor and violin; Ruby Fulton, accordion and laptop). "Goblin Market" composed by Douglas Buchanan and "Numbers/Dates" by Thomas Limbert. Concert is free and open to the public. Preview the band at: www.rhymeswithopera.org This concert is funded by the NEA. Honfleur Gallery 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE Washington DC, 20020 contact: 202.580.5972 M O R E A R T N E W S T H I S W E E K * The Gallery at Vivid Solutions current exhibit, Some Account of Lacock Abbey by photographer Lisa McCarty, ends December 16th. * Photographer Louie Palu’s current exhibit, The Fighting Season, is also on display at Honfleur Gallery until Dec 16th. * Blank Space SE: 1922 MLK Jr. Ave. S.E. Washington, DC. Creative Content Artisans Style Group Holiday Pop-Up Event Dec 9, 3-8pm, Dec 10-11, 11am-7pm & Dec 14-18, 11am-7pm Millee Spears of Khismet Wearable Art, Charita Powell of Amazulu & Chaya Designs, Stef N’ Ty and Nicole Summers will all be there! Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab, Blank Space SE & The Hive are all projects of ARCH Development Corp. www.honfleurgallery.com | www.archdevelopment.org | www.vividsolutionsdc.com www.blankSPACEse.com | www.thedchive.com

DC:ART:Around My Way: Anacostia FotoweekDC: Join us on Wednesday 11/2 & start FotoweekDC early!

Louie Palu : The Fighting Season Opening Reception & Artist Talk: open pre-FotoweekDC, November 2nd, 6-8pm Exhibit Dates: November 2 – December 16 An in-depth retrospective of the conflict in Southern Afghanistan photographed over five years. When prompted on the impetus for his travels to Afghanistan Palu answered, “When I started covering the war in 2006 it had become a forgotten conflict, many people today still don’t know where Kandahar is, let alone that it is in Afghanistan.” Excerpts of video and Louie’s diaries made on the front lines will also be featured in the gallery. Lisa McCarty: Some Account of Lacock Abbey Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, November 5th, from 2-5pm Exhibit Dates: Open Now! October 15 – December 16 Lisa McCarty exhibits photographs taken at Lacock Abbey, the home of William Henry Fox Talbot. Both site and subject of the first photographic negative, the Abbey is hallowed ground in the history of photography and became a point of pilgrimage for McCarty. Opening Reception: November 2nd, 5-7pm Photographers: Mark Doxey, Paddy Kelly and Jane Butler ARCH Artists in Residency Program is hosting three Northern Irish photographers as part of an on-going cultural exchange between with Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast Exposed. As part of their two month stay, the three selected artists for this program; Mark Doxey, Jane Butler and Paddy Kelley have integrated themselves into the Anacostia community, culminating in a group exhibition at Blank Space SE. (ARCH’s residency program is funded, in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.) Historic Anacostia also has a new public art installation that is on display for the next year. Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab printed twenty photo panels that are part of the Ward 8 Business Distrcit Beautification Project and installed on Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE. The photo panels are sponsored by DC Department of Housing and Community Development and Four Points LLC. Artists involved with this project are: Marlon Norman, Renee Woodward, Melani Douglass, Luis Peralta, Tendani Mpulubusi El, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Jonathan French, Bruce McNeil, Deborah Terry, David Garber, Ozy Mandais, Nikki Tomeko Peele, Ashley Boyd, Andrea Hope, Shannon Holloway and Amber Robles-Gordon. Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab,Blank Space SE & The Hive are all projects of ARCH Development Corp. www.honfleurgallery.com | www.archdevelopment.org | www.vividsolutionsdc.com www.blankSPACEse.com | www.thedchive.com

DC:ART:JAZZ:Thinking About Jazz – Nina Simone & Civil Rights, 10/29, 1-3pm

THINKING ABOUT JAZZ A regular conversation about the meaning and significance of jazz in our time Nina Simone & Civil Rights Saturday, October 29th, 1-3pm Westminster Church 400 I Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 Free Admission Nadine Cohodas, author of Princess Noire, The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone, joins us again for an in-depth look at Nina Simone’s impact on the Civil Rights movement. Nadine will share more vintage footage of Nina and pertinent excerpts from her wonderful biography of this powerful figure in jazz history. Nina’s powerful presence, bold lyrics and eloquent music made her a figure many sought out as a leader of the jazz community in defining the essence of race and power relations during this important time in our nation’s history. As always, Thinking About Jazz is a free event with a warm welcome, stimulating conversation, refreshments and door prizes. Please join us! Presented by Southwest Renaissance Development Corporation 400 I Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024 202.484.7700

Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art

Please join Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change and Provisions Library for an evening with author Kellie Jones, who will read and discuss her book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art on Saturday, October 15th, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Busboys and Poets (5331 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781).

A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers, absorbed in Black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, Eyeminded reveals Jones’s role in bringing attention to the work of African-American, African, Latin-American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kellie Jones Flier 10-15-11.pdf

DC:ART: Around M Way: 10.8.11 GoGo Poetry Reading this Saturday & 10.15.11 TedxWDC in Anacostia!

* * * * *TEDxWDC – October 15th The Creative City – Creativity, Entrepreneurship & Innovation In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWDC, where x=independently organized TED event. Tickets are available online through EventBrite. (Or you may purchase tickets with a code to get a discount. Use this code PresentersDiscount) TEDxWDC will be held at an innovative warehouse space in Anacostia. The theme of our TEDx event is The Creative City: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Our audience will consist of individuals highly interested in creative ideas, collaboration and movements here in the Washington D.C. area. TEDxWDC is an extension of the Center for the Creative Economy, which is a new non-profit cultural start up dedicated to promoting communication between the creative economic clusters in the city of Washington, D.C. Check out the website for the list of inspiring speakers: www.tedxwdc.com ARCH Development Corporation has partnered with TEDxWDC for this event in Anacostia! Honfleur Gallery, The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab, Blank Space SE & The Hive are all projects of ARCH Development Corp. www.honfleurgallery.com | www.archdevelopment.org | www.vividsolutionsdc.com www.blankSPACEse.com | www.thedchive.com

Happy Birthday Trane (Repost from Sept 23, 2008)

Anyone who knows me how important John Coltrane is to me. On his birthday I am always pushed to think about what it means to be an artist and how to “be a force for good”.
Rather than try to wax further poetic about it I am going to link you to a little blog i wrote and to a website that published one of my poems about Trane.
I hope it is inspiring….

Everyday Citizen :A freestyle first meditation on “being a force for good” on Trane’s 81st birthday (done in one take)

All About Jazz: Trane’s Blues @ Nagasaki

DC:POETRY: Gunpowder + A Match by Ernesto Mercer

I hate to be posting this in such a drive-by impersonal way, but the the information is more important than my musings about it…I will at some later point tell you how import Ernesto has been to me and to DC.POETRY.MUSIC.CULTURE.LIFE.ETC….

If you know like I know,  in these austere economic times you (we) will all need some Gunpowder + A Match… see info below…get on it!!!

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Gunpowder + A Match, poems by Ernesto Mercer

It’s a limited run from outbackintheshack + Carolina Jones Ink

It’s a nice sized plate of poems: $10 if I see ya. (+ $2 s&h if not)

Pre-ordering begins today.

Paypal for Carolina Jones Ink : kitamaldicion@gmail.com.

I’m very excited about this & thank you all for your support. All the good to yall.

I’ll have something nifty w/ some pictures closer to 09-01-11.

Malembe + Peace
ernesto

DC:ART:HISTORY:CULTURE: Wash Post Features the African American Civil War Memorial & Museum’s Grand Opening Celebration

Grand Opening Celebration!

The African American Civil War Museum is back in the business of telling the stories of slaves’ and freed blacks’ participation in that conflict. The museum, which first opened in 1999 with about 700 square feet, has moved across Vermont Avenue to 5,000 square feet in a former school building. The $5 million move and renovation, funded by the city, will be celebrated with three days of activities, ending with a ribbon-cutting July 18.

The museum now fits into the school gymnasium, which gives it high ceilings and a gleaming wooden stage. Arranged in one room are thematically organized panels with reproductions of illustrations and documents and some original objects that are used to tell stories from the war.

In addition to its exhibits, the museum provides space for other cultural activities.

Read the rest of the Washington Post article!

Register now for the Grand Opening Celebration (Saturday, July 16 – Monday, July 18, 2011)!

DC:ART: Aug 5th – Oct 7th 2011, (Un)Lock It: the Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket by Thomas Sayers Ellis

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