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Lower East Side Arts and Events Roundup
Zachary Wagner’s tattoo. Missoula, Montana. 2019. Image @Tailyr Irvine Right here are some of the gatherings on our radar this week: The Nationwide Museum of the American Indian is web hosting a dialogue with photojournalists Donovan Quintero (Navajo), Tailyr Irvine (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), and Russel Albert Daniels (Diné descent and Ho-Chunk descent) on Saturday, February 4 at 1pm, titled, Fresh new Concentration on Native American Pictures. The photographers’ is effective are showcased in the museum’s current exhibition, Developing Tales: Indigenous Photographers in the Field. They produce: “A growing amount of specialist Indigenous American photographers are capturing advanced, nuanced, and persuasive views of what it suggests to be Indigenous in…
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West Side arts organization reeling after leader Jon Veal dies at 30
Jon Veal was, if nothing at all else, generous. He had a way of producing people smile and, when people spoke, providing them his full attention. Veal, who assisted start an group that aimed to change Chicago as a result of artwork, died suddenly very last 7 days owing to problems from cardiac arrest, according to his loved ones. The corporation he assisted discovered, alt_ Chicago — pronounced “Alt Space” — declared his dying Tuesday. He was 30. “It was so unexpected,” said Jordan Campbell, a near close friend of Veal’s and co-founder of the arts group. “There ended up just so lots of issues that we were planning.” Veal’s…
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Johnny Depp, Will Smith Expose Darker Side of Movie Stardom
The latest act in the pretty public unraveling of Johnny Depp began past week in a courtroom in northern Virginia, pulling back again the curtain on the secretive environment of celebrity enablers and hangers-on. Depp is suing his ex-wife, Amber Read, for $50 million for describing herself as a “public determine representing domestic abuse” in a 2018 Washington Post belief piece. That revived allegations she manufactured when the few divorced in 2016 — about which they experienced every single promised to continue to be silent — and in Depp’s view the general public characterization could not go unchallenged. But following Depp missing a similar case in London in 2020, his…
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From Poetry to Photography Iowans With Disabilities Show Creative Side / Public News Service
“Worlds Imagined” is the theme of this year’s campaign for Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month – which is March. Iowans with disabilities and their advocates hope the public pays more attention to their creative work. The campaign is about promoting the everyday contributions of those with disabilities, they say, and how communities can be inclusive in helping them achieve goals. Des Moines author Diane Glass, who was born with spina bifida, said she hopes her latest collection of poetry resonates on two key fronts. “I think that this creative approach can hopefully give people with disabilities some differing perspective on their situation,” said Glass, “and can help the larger public understand…
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Entertainment News Roundup: K-pop band BTS to take extended break ahead of March concert; Spielberg brings life-long fandom to reimagined ‘West Side Story’ and more
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. K-pop band BTS to take extended break ahead of March concert South Korean superstar pop band BTS will take an “extended period of rest” following U.S. appearances this month before returning to the stage in Seoul in March, the group’s management company said. Bighit Music, the group’s management company, said in a statement on Sunday that the musicians would take a break over the holidays and prepare for a concert and new album that will start a “new chapter.” Spielberg brings life-long fandom to reimagined ‘West Side Story’ Steven Spielberg has been remaking classic musical “West…
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