Experience Art
Throughout 2008, the Woodruff Arts Center and its divisions – the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art and Young Audiences – and the National Black Arts Festival will host a wide range of performances, events and activities celebrating the Civil Rights Movement and challenging us to reflect upon what it means to be an American today.
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February 11, 2008 -
| Woodruff Arts Center | Film scholar Matthew Bernstein will lead a film series, Screening a Lynching, that explores how Hollywood has dealt with the controversial subject of the Leo Frank case. | |
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April 13, 2008 -
| High Museum | Experience a variety of cultures and artistic traditions together during Second Sundays at the High, every second Sunday of the month. Buy Tickets Now | |
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June 7, 2008 -
| High Museum | Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, this exhibition is the most comprehensive art museum exhibition devoted to the photography of the Civil Rights Movement in more than two decades. Comprising approximately 130 photographs... Buy Tickets Now | |
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June 7, 2008 -
| High Museum | This exhibition will premiere newly commissioned and recent works, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and its ongoing relevance, from seven emerging artists and collectives. It will present painting, sculpture... Buy Tickets Now | |
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August 21, 2008Talk and Talk Back: Gallery Talk with Nadine Robinson | High Museum | Join Nadine Robinson for a gallery discussion focusing on her use of minimalist aesthetics, sound, and scale in her powerful large-scale installation work. | |
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August 21, 2008Art in the City/ The Black List | High Museum | Some of today’s most fascinating and influential African-Americans share their stories and insights into the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in the US. | |
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August 29, 2008 -
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| Two plays. One cast. A rare event not to be missed. With a voice that is passionate and profound, and a vision that continues to uplift a generation,... |
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September 4, 2008Talk 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. |
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September 18, 2008Talk 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. |
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September 25, 2008Bearing 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... |
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October 2, 2008Time 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... |
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October 4, 2008Jazz: 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 1, 2008 -
| Young Audiences | Young Audiences will provide eighty-eight performances of their programs, The Boy Who Would be King by Theatre Gael and Marian Anderson: The Voice That Challenged a Nation by Capitol Cty Opera to Title I schools throughout the Metro Atlanta area... | |
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January 4, 2008 -
| High Museum | This Martin Luther King Jr. memorial installation of five photographs includes the civil rights leader in action and previews a much larger exhibition of Civil Rights photography titled "Road to Freedom,"... | |
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January 9, 2008 -
| Alliance Theatre |
| The same team that brought you the award-winning Jelly's Last Jam, brings Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies to the Alliance Stage. |
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January 16, 2008The 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, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits... |
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January 17, 2008The King Concert Celebration | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's A King Celebration has earned an international reputation as America's official musical tribute to the slain civil rights leader. Forover 15 years... | |
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February 6, 2008 -
| Alliance Theatre |
| In a dizzyingly poetic tale of difficult choices, profound relationships and sweeping emotions, young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney tells the story of Oya... |
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March 1, 2008 -
| Woodruff Arts Center | Courage is an award-winning, groundbreaking exhibition that tells the story of Rev. J.A. De Laine and other brave citizens of Clarendon County, South Carolina. Most of these citizens were outside the traditional power structure, without wealth and often had little classroom education. | |
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March 5, 2008 -
| Woodruff Arts Center | Civil War-era jockey-slave Simon Cato uses his wit, grit, and athletic skills to blaze his own course to freedom; with humor and honesty, this play up-ends stereotypes to illuminate a little-known piece of American history and celebrate the power of the human spirit against all odds. | |
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April 4, 2008Atlanta Reads King | National Black Arts Festival | The National Black Arts Festival commemorates the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King with Atlanta Reads King: A Commemorative Project of the National Black Arts Festival. | |
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May 3, 2008 -
| High Museum | A dynamic new body of work by Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright, "Young Americans" is a portraiture project exploring the attitudes and opinions of young Americans (18-25 years old) toward their nation and their identity as Americans. Buy Tickets Now | |
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May 4, 2008Maya Angelou's Tribute | Woodruff Arts Center | Join us for a celebration of poet Dr. Maya Angelou's 80th birthday celebration. This evening will be a star-studded evening of entertainment for the world renowned poet. | |
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May 19, 2008JADA - Urban Film Festival | Woodruff Arts Center | "Jada" is the story of a young woman whose life is thrown into a spin when her husband is killed in a questionable car accident. Her once prosperous middle-class lifestyle comes crashing down when the insurance company calls the accident a suicide and doesn't pay on the policy. | |
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June 7, 2008Daughters of Men: Portraits of African-American Women and Their Fathers | High Museum |
| 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 at black fatherhood and the numerous ways fathers have a lasting impact on their daughters’ lives. Buy Tickets Now |
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June 12, 2008The 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. Buy Tickets Now |
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June 15, 2008Target Free Family Fun Day: Fabulous Fathers - Celebrating Everyday Dads and History's Heroes | High Museum | Invite your dad to visit the High for a fun filled day with his favorite person - you! Collage a beautiful card to document this special day and tell your dad just how much you love him. | |
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June 19, 2008Talk and Talk Back Gallery Discussion | High Museum |
| Jefferson Pinder, born 1970, is a visual and performance artist who primarily uses video to examine the subjectivity of being an African American in an increasingly fragmented contemporary society. Pinder describes his art ... Buy Tickets Now |
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June 28, 2008Memories 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. Buy Tickets Now |
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June 28, 2008 -
| Alliance Theatre | A Solo Writing Intensive with Adilah Barnes the Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival that has produced well over 400 solo artists from around the world. Buy Tickets Now | |
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June 29, 2008Voices 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. This ... |
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July 3, 2008Talk 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... |
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July 13, 2008 -
| Woodruff Arts Center | A scalding, uplifting masterpiece about faith and family, the gulf between men and women, and fathers and sons. Buy Tickets Now | |
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July 15, 2008 -
| National Black Arts Festival |
| The 40th anniversary of the tragic death of Reverend Martin Luther King and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement marks the city of Atlanta and the National Black Arts Festival in 2008. In keeping with the spirit of the time... |
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July 17, 2008Talk 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. |
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July 18, 2008Friday Jazz | High Museum | Held on the third Friday of every month, Friday Jazz includes live musical performances in the Robinson Atrium of the Stent Family Wing, art-making activities... Buy Tickets Now | |
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July 18, 2008Dance Beyond the Steps: Alvin Ailey | National Black Arts Festival |
| The 2008 Festival launches with a special screening of Dance Beyond the Steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to kick off a three day celebration of Alvin Ailey Artistic Director, Judith Jamison. Buy Tickets Now |
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July 19, 2008"I Have a Dream" Collision Project | Alliance Theatre |
| The Collision Project consists of a new play "devised" by a group of high school students (specially selected though interviews) working with a nationally renowned playwright, Rosemary Newcott: Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth... |
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July 20, 2008Creatively 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... Buy Tickets Now |
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July 20, 2008Creatively 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 and examine a creative vision rooted in... Buy Tickets Now |
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July 23, 2008Ebb and Flow: The Next Generation of Poets Speak | National Black Arts Festival | The 2008 edition of Ebb and Flow asks 13-18 year old poets to reflect on freedom, struggle and humanitarianism at home and abroad. Curated by performance artist, Cocktails of E Period... | |
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July 24, 2008Gallery 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. |
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July 25, 2008Driskell 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... |
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July 27, 2008ASO Ebenezer Concert | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | The summer of 2008 will be the 10th season for the ASO/NBAF collaborative performance at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church performances conducted by Music Director Robert Spano feature... | |
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July 27, 2008Pan African Film Festival: Africa Unite | National Black Arts Festival |
| In commemoration of Bob Marley’s 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 of the continent, the events included a symposium Buy Tickets Now |
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August 7, 2008Talk and Talk Back: Spoken Word by Tanya Mitchell | High Museum | Join community activist and spoken word poet Tanya Cecelia Mitchell as she shares the voices of some of her favorite African American poets including Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Kahlil Gibran and others. | |
