The Atlanta Dialogue :: Conversations

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Come hear what featured artists have to say about their work – or participate in one of The Atlanta Dialogue’s “Talk and Talk Back” conversations with artists, poets, scholars and activists.

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	September 4, 2008 Talk and Talk Back: Gallery Talk with Hank Willis Thomas	High Museum	Join Hank Willis Thomas as he leads a dialogue focusing on identity and image in his work.
	September 13, 2008 August Wilson Full Circle: Gem of the Ocean & Radio Golf	Woodruff Arts Center	Join the Alliance Theatre for a special August Wilson Full Circle - Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean - Conversation after the performance...
	September 18, 2008 Talk and Talk Back: Gallery Talk with Adam Pendleton	High Museum	Join Adam Pendleton as he leads a gallery discussion focusing on works in his Black Dada series.
	September 25, 2008 Bearing Witness: Photography and the Civil Rights Movement	High Museum	The High Museum of Art's Curator of Photography, Julian Cox, will talk about his research methods and the curatorial framework that underpins the exhibition...
	October 2, 2008 Time will Tell: An Evening with Danny Lyon	High Museum	One of the most important photographers of the civil rights movement, Danny Lyon, will discuss his experiences as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's...
	October 4, 2008 Jazz: The Sound of Freedom and Resistance	High Museum	Join composer, producer, and artist-in-residence Dwight Andrews as he invokes the contributions of jazz musicians whose music captures the hopes...
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	January 16, 2008 The Honeydripper Film and Conversation	Woodruff Arts Center	1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man...
	January 26, 2008 Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies	Alliance Theatre	The Alliance Theatre champions Ellington for expressing, through their musical genius, a reality of American culture that deepens, sculpts, and inspires the world-at-large...
	February 4, 2008 Tarell McCraney: "Influences on My Work"	Alliance Theatre	The 2007 Winner of the Alliance Theatre Kendeda graduate playwriting competition, Tarell Alvin McCraney, will discuss the influences on his work as a playwright...
	February 16, 2008 Book Signing and Panel Discussion: A Conversation with David C. Driskell	High Museum	Artist, educator, historian, curator, and humanitarian, David Driskell will talk with Michael Harris, the High's Curator of African American Art, and Julie McGee, author of David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar. They will discuss Driskell's southern upbringing...
	June 7, 2008 Daughters of Men: Portraits of African-American Women and Their Fathers	High Museum	Author Rachel Vassel will be joined by a circle of African-American women whose compelling personal essays are featured in her book. The panel will offer an intimate look ...
	June 12, 2008 The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation	High Museum	Discussion on how the nation's press came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century.
	June 19, 2008 Talk and Talk Back Gallery Discussion	High Museum	Join artist Jefferson Pinder as he leads a gallery discussion focusing on his new video work featured in the After 1968 exhibition.
	June 28, 2008 Memories from the Movement: Panel Discussion	High Museum	Join Civil Rights heroes including Congressman John Lewis, Ambassador Andrew Young, activist Dorothy Cotton, introduced by High Curator Julian Cox for an afternoon of remembrances and dialogue around the contributions of the courageous champions of justice who struggled to make equality a reality for all.
	June 29, 2008 Voices of Freedom	High Museum	Americas civil rights movement found its strength in the people who took to the streets to support it. Voices of Freedom re-visits several key events and places shaped by Americas great nonviolent revolution.
	July 3, 2008 Talk and Talk Back Gallery Discussion - Sam Mahone	High Museum	Join activist Sam Mahone as he leads a gallery discussion focusing on works in the Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement,
	July 15, 2008 Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, opening reception and conversation	National Black Arts Festival
	July 17, 2008 Talk and Talk Back Gallery Discussion- Otabenga	High Museum	Join artists Otabenga Jones & Associates as they lead a gallery discussion inspired by their ongoing educational art collaboration.
	July 18, 2008 Creatively Speaking with Judith Jamison	National Black Arts Festival	Ms. Jamison will sit down with Pearl Cleage to discuss her journey from Primary Dancer to Artistic Director of one of the most celebrated contemporary dance companies in the world
	July 18, 2008 Panel Discussion - Otabenga and AFRICOBRA	High Museum	Featuring After 1968 artists Otabenga Jones & Associates and AFRICOBRA...
	July 19, 2008 "I Have a Dream" Collision Project	Alliance Theatre	The teenage participants in the 2008 Collision Project will dialogue about the themes and issues of the American civil rights movement, and its effect on their lives and our current society...
	July 20, 2008 Creatively Speaking with Dr. Cornel West	National Black Arts Festival	Princeton professor Cornel West is described as an "intellectual provocateur" outside of academia because of with lectures, television and film appearances and his spoken-word CDs...
	July 20, 2008 Creatively Speaking with Alice Walker	National Black Arts Festival	Pulitzer Prize winning short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist, Alice Walker joins playwright Pearl Cleage for a very special Creatively Speaking. Ms. Cleage will explore Walker's work...
	July 24, 2008 Gallery Talk: Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright	High Museum	Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright will explore the collaborative process behind her Young Americans portraiture project.
	July 25, 2008 Driskell Prize Lecture: Xaviera Simmons	High Museum	Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons is the 2008 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History...
	July 27, 2008 Pan African Film Festival: Africa Unite	Woodruff Arts Center	In commemoration of Bob Marleys 60th birthday, three generations of Marleys took part in a landmark event in Ethiopia. With the ultimate purpose of inspiring the youth of Africa to unite for the future ...