DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody is holding its annual month-long celebration of creative installations, events and organizations that enrich the community. The city recognizes Dunwoody Arts & Culture Month in October in conjunction with the national observance. The city says it’s looking to highlight cultural partners and raise Dunwoody’s profile in the region. Mayor Lynn Deutsch…

October 3, 2024   ·   0 Comments Festival was held on September 28 By ZACHARY ROMAN Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The grounds of the Caledon East Community Complex were a lively place last Saturday.  On September 28, the Town of Caledon hosted the Caledon Creative Arts Festival in Caledon East. It was the third iteration of…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Using their wheelchairs, artists Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson demonstrated movements they will showcase during a performance at Zoellner Arts Center. Sheppard and Lawson are part of the disability arts ensemble, Kinetic Light, whose work is made by and for disabled people. Scenographer Michael Maag is also a member. The pair led…

Zalika Abdul-Azim, Ascension Device I (for meditations on arrival), 2022, Wood, aluminum, polypropylene ropes, spoked wheels, and electric gear motors, 78 x 168 inches (overall dimensions) ARTNOIR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing equity and visibility for artists, curators, and cultural producers of color, and Sotheby’s have announced the recipients of the 2024 Jar of Love Fund for…

Playwright Oliver Mayer’s “The Man in the Maze” imagines a parallel historical narrative to the murderous conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his soldiers. “It’s about a man who comes to the Americas as the same time as Cortes,” explained Maria Patrice Amon, producer of the Latinx New Play Festival, opening Friday at La…

Elsewhere in undulating architecture … The long-planned Africatown Plaza makes its debut this weekend with an open house, tours and live entertainment (Oct. 5, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.).  A combined effort of Africatown Community Land Trust and Community Roots Housing, the seven-story affordable-housing complex is the result of years of community planning — with…

Last night I saw Megalopolis, and I’m still working through it. What an odd, sweeping, often ridiculous, often magnificent, bizarre film. The best way I can describe it, is if Shakespeare and Jacques Tati had a child, that child took Ancient History as an outside subject at Uni, took a few experimental drugs and then…

The title “Corpses, Fools and Monsters” came about in a conversation between trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay in the online cinema journal Reverse Shot. The two have a regular column called “Body Talk,” in which they discuss trans issues in mainstream movies, coming to the sad conclusion that “for the…

Retiree Kong So has quite a strong opinion of her daughter’s tattoos. Advertisement “She would always say they’re pretty, but I disagree. I think large tattoos look too masculine and I don’t know why she likes this kind of stuff,” she says, referring to the image of a large snake that crawls up the 26-year-old’s…