OPEN SPACES Brings Artwork, Dance & Music To Atlanta Parks & Patios This Fall

ELEVATE 2022: OPEN SPACES will happen on weekends from Friday, September 16 via Sunday, October 9 in venues all through Atlanta from Uptown and Midtown to Downtown and sure, All Round City. All competition occasions are FREE and open to the general public.

“We invite you to hitch us for ELEVATE 2022 as we discover a few of Atlanta’s most fascinating and exquisite areas this fall,” states Camille Russell Love, Government Director of the Metropolis of Atlanta’s – Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs. “Our theme is OPEN SPACES and lots of the occasions will happen outside in parks, pavilions, and quite a lot of public locations. Throughout this yr’s competition we are going to current music and dance performances, poetry readings, artistic conversations, artwork installations, and interactive experiences to have interaction with the group, have fun the wealth of artistic expertise in Atlanta, and enliven OPEN SPACES!”

Throughout ELEVATE 2022, we’ll look at the numerous meanings of OPEN SPACES. How does the concept relate to artwork and the way artists use area in composition? How do OPEN SPACES grow to be public locations?

Listed below are a few of the fabulous occasions that shall be a part of this yr’s ELEVATE Atlanta Public Artwork Pageant:

• The Sundown Carnavale is an interactive artwork expertise utilizing projection mapping expertise. The occasion will embody a efficiency by Moesha 13, an underground French icon who sings and DJs and produces a novel mix of rap and hardcore; music by Junkanoo Band; tunes from Atlanta’s hottest DJ’s together with Salah Ananse and DJ Kemit; dwell music by Djembe Jedi; carnival dancers; and efficiency artists akin to aerialists, stilt walkers and cosplayers. This indoor and out of doors occasion will happen at Ali at Lakewood, 1800 Jonesboro Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30315, September 25 from 6-11 pm.

• Atlanta Artwork Week is a brand new initiative devoted to showcasing arts and tradition and bringing consciousness to the up to date artwork scene in Atlanta, with the purpose of nurturing a stronger base for artists, artwork lovers and collectors. This yr’s occasion will encompass activations in over 20 galleries, museums, artist, and non-profit areas the place there shall be exhibitions, excursions, and panel discussions. ELEVATE: OPENS SPACES is partnering with Atlanta Artwork Week on their inaugural occasion which can happen from September 29-October 2 at numerous occasions.

• “Come Collectively,” curated by Cat Eye Artistic, will carry the town collectively for a collaborative group mural portray; a gaggle artwork exhibition that includes work by Lucy Luckovich, Erin Nicole Henry, Manic Lawd and Andrew Munoz; artist talks; artwork training lessons; and a block occasion! Occasions are all-inclusive, and immersive, and can happen of their indoor and out of doors galleries, 186 Mitchell St SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, from September 30-October 2 at numerous occasions.

• “Shade + the Physique,” options poet, professor, and quick story author Opal Moore moderating 5 achieved poets who will learn authentic poetry and interact with an Atlanta viewers in a artistic dialog. The poetry and dialogue will discover a side of science (physics) and the physicality of colour via the physique as conceptualized by artist Deanna Sirlin’s exhibition, Wavelength. The occasion shall be recorded to share on-line with a worldwide viewers. Chastain Arts Heart, 135 Chastain Park Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30342, on October 1 from 2-4 pm.

• Atlanta Freedom Bands celebrates Atlanta Satisfaction Week with a Pops within the Park live performance in our metropolis’s latest public area, Westside Park. The MetroGnomes Stage Band will kick off the live performance with swing and large band favorites, adopted by a efficiency from the AFB Shade Guard who will spin, toss, and twirl to heart-thumping music. Mixed Live performance and Marching Bands full the present with a various program together with movie music, pop tunes, marches and extra. Deliver a blanket and a picnic! Westside Park, 1660 Johnson Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, on October 2 from 3-5 pm.

• Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven’s Ninth with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The efficiency shall be simulcast in Sifly Piazza. Outside seating shall be out there, and friends are invited to carry their very own chairs, meals, and drinks. Safety shall be offered. To achieve symphony followers who cannot attend in particular person, the simulcast shall be livestreamed and made out there on-line post-concert via YouTube, social media, and the ASO’s web site. Live performance at Woodruff Artwork Heart, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, on October 8 at 8 pm.

The Metropolis of Atlanta – Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs’ imaginative and prescient is to boost the standard of life via arts and tradition, and to contribute positively to the social and financial well being of Atlanta and the area. Their mission is to advertise wealthy, various, and academic cultural experiences; nurture artists and humanities organizations; protect and defend the town’s cultural heritage; and develop Atlanta’s worldwide status. ELEVATE is a program of the Metropolis of Atlanta – Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs.

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