ART: Question Bridge: Black Males - Jan. 27-March 10, 2012

Question Bridge: Black Males

Gallery at Chastain

135 W. Wieuca Road, NW

Atlanta, GA 30342

Internationally acclaimed artists Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, and Bayate Ross Smith present Question Bridge: Black Males, a transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine black male identity in America.  Through video meditated question and answer exchange, diverse members of these demographic groups bridge economic, political, geographic, and generational divisions.  This exhibition will be represented with video and photography by artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, Bayate Ross Smith, and Kambui Olujimi.  Question Bridge is presented by City Gallery at Chastain.   This series of questions asked by black males of varying ages opens the trailer for Question Bridge: Black Males, a "transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine Black male identity in America." Directed by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Atlanta-based artist and producer Kamal Sinclair, Question Bridge was filmed across America, including Oakland, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, over the last four years. Beginning Jan. 27, the Chastain Arts Center will host a video installation to exhibit the work.

EVENT: Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival - March 3, 2012

Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival Atlanta, GA

Mar 3, 2012 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Saturday

Atlantic Station

1380 Atlantic Drive

Atlanta, GA 30363

Join us at the festival for a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy an ALL-YOU-CARE –TO-TASTE sampling of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and LIVE music all day. We have over 60 beers and 40 bourbons for your sampling pleasure! 

EVENT: Art of Wine & Dine - Loca Luna - Starting Jan. 11, 2012

Loca Luna Restaurant

836 Juniper Street Suite B

Atlanta, GA 30308

$15.99 Bottomless Wine (per person).

Live Music.

 Featured art pieces and wine from around the world.

This event repeats weekly on Wednesdays until May 29, 2013

link: Art of Wine & Dine

MUSIC: Anthony David at Loews Hotel - Jan. 19, 2012

Anthony David

WCLK Conversations & Cocktails 

 w/WCLK 91.9FM Rene Miller

January 19, 2012

at

Loews Atlanta Hotel
1065 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

Link: http://www.purposerecords.com/2012/01/anthony-david-atlwclk/

4evermore - Anthony David

DANCE: Alvin Ailey Feb. 16-19, 2012

Alvin Ailey Dance Company

Link: http://www.alvinailey.org/atlanta

HOLIDAY EVENT: Holiday Gardens Lights (I'm in!) - until Jan. 7, 2012

Holiday Garden Lights

at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

Experience a dazzling extravaganza featuring nearly 1 million lights crafted into displays inspired by nature. Highlights include a galaxy of stars in the woodlands; whimsical bees, butterflies, and other lighted pollinators in the Edible Garden; and 200 show-stopping, color-changing topiary forms choreographed to holiday music on the Great Lawn.

This intown experience features elegant, traditional elements such as wrapped trees and cones up to 30-feet-tall. Staying true to the Garden’s history of blockbuster art exhibitions, the show design emphasizes stunning, innovative, and artistic light installations as well as fun, whimsical elements.

In addition, the Garden is decked in holiday favorites such as an 18-foot poinsettia tree, holiday displays of unusual plant material (tillandsias, bromeliads, alternathera), and, of course, hundreds of poinsettias!

“It’s going to be a joyful, exhilarating outdoor experience – and so much more fun than being smooshed up against your relatives peering out car windows,” said Mary Pat Matheson, the Garden’s executive director.


For more info: http://www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org/

VIDEO: Life is a Dance

When I saw this, I knew I had to share it. True dance is the merging of mind, body, spirit, and this video is a beautiful visual of such expression. Enjoy! (Now, where are my dancing shoes?)

Ian Eastwood - So Beautiful (Musiq Soulchild)