Thursday with LHPAC: Welcome home
Congratulations -- you made it home for the holidays! Now that you've hugged your favorite relatives (and avoided a few others), who else are you getting in touch with while you're at home?
The woman in the center of this photo is Lauren Dupree, who's currently a cast member of "Dreamgirls" at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. She's also an alumna of productions at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. Ten-year-old Lauren was cast in "Grease" and other LHPAC summer musicals. She later attended a performing arts high school, and became a regular cast on the BizKids public television show. Welcome home!
Did you participate in any LHPAC programs? Get back in touch and tell them which ones you were in:
- Comment on the LHPAC Facebook page
- Talk to us on the LHPAC Twitter feed
- Call the LHPAC at 206-684-4758 and talk to Jacob Galfano.
If you're an LHPAC alum, there have probably been a lot of changes since you last entered its doors.
Lauren visited the LHPAC in September 2012, and said, "There's always something going on and something for everyone, whether you like music or dance or spoken-word performances." Go find out for yourself!
EllesSAM: Eye-opening
My first impression of Elles: look how far we've come as artists...
and how much we have to say. I visited the Seattle Art Museum's mega-exhibit of women artists with the perfect companion: Anna Nasset of AOT Gallery in Port Townsend!
Since we came to see art through a feminine lens, I made us some lady goggles to celebrate. Women's art history is sorta [her] thang" from her college days. Speaking of history, here's Adrian Piper's 1988 video installation Cornered, challenging the viewer's assumptions about racial identity.
The edginess of this piece seems dated to me. Yet Jenny Holzer's text pieces from earlier in the 1980s spoke to me more effectively, possibly because viewers can't avoid issues of survival like they can avoid discussing subtle racism.
There are two halves to this exhibit: Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou and Elles: SAM -- Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists. So you'll see work from big names like Georgia O'Keeffe...
... Tamara de Lempicka...
and Frida Kahlo in one show. (The Frida piece was so tiny -- only about 11 inches high!)
When you go, make time to really explore the exhibit if you can. SAM is also featuring women artists at the SAM Gallery, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park as well. You have one month left to see it, so break out your calendar and make room for some amazing women.
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| Jenny Holzer, from The Survival Series |
When you go, make time to really explore the exhibit if you can. SAM is also featuring women artists at the SAM Gallery, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Olympic Sculpture Park as well. You have one month left to see it, so break out your calendar and make room for some amazing women.
Things to do this weekend: merry and bright
You guys would be so proud of me: I'm getting over my anti-Holiday-Atmosphere stance and putting up holiday decorations!
But if you want to see a real Seattle-style winter wonderland, head to the Green Lake Pathway of Lights. Now that's Holiday Cheer.
Every second Saturday in December, volunteers light up the water's edge with luminarias. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department provides warm drinks and treats, as well as local musicians performing live at four sites around the lake. Might want to get there early -- on this night Green Lake is about as popular as it usually is on a sunny day. Details:
WHEN: Saturday, December 8, 5pm-8pm. Feel free to bring your own lights too!
WHERE: Green Lake Park, 7201 E. Greenlake Dr. North, Seattle
COST: Free!
MORE INFO: find out the musical line-up at Pathway of Lights
If you'd rather be inside on a frosty night, head over to the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center and warm up with Afro-Peruvian rhythms. Here's a snippet from rehearsals.
Tomorrow -- and tonight! -- the de Cajon Project arts organization presents dance, music and poetry in "De Inga y Mandinga," performances celebrating mixed-race heritage from the perspective of Peruvians of African descent.
The tribute features major Peruvian artists such as singer Marina Lavalle appearing in four performances, so you have multiple chances to immerse yourself in the show. Details:
WHEN: Friday, December 7, 10:30m and 7:30pm
Saturday, December 8, 2pm and 7:30pm
WHERE: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave. S., Seattle
MORE INFO: LHPAC and de Cajon Project
And if you stop in for Expresso open mic tonight, it'll be easy for you to find your way back for de Inga y Mandinga tomorrow. Lots of opportunities to make a cold weekend merry and bright.
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| Courtesy Seattle Parks & Recreation Department |
WHEN: Saturday, December 8, 5pm-8pm. Feel free to bring your own lights too!
WHERE: Green Lake Park, 7201 E. Greenlake Dr. North, Seattle
COST: Free!
MORE INFO: find out the musical line-up at Pathway of Lights
If you'd rather be inside on a frosty night, head over to the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center and warm up with Afro-Peruvian rhythms. Here's a snippet from rehearsals.
WHEN: Friday, December 7, 10:30m and 7:30pm
Saturday, December 8, 2pm and 7:30pm
WHERE: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave. S., Seattle
MORE INFO: LHPAC and de Cajon Project
And if you stop in for Expresso open mic tonight, it'll be easy for you to find your way back for de Inga y Mandinga tomorrow. Lots of opportunities to make a cold weekend merry and bright.