The MAG has brought back Isaac Julien’s video installation, “Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass,” available to view for a limited time online.
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Finger Lakes Opera’s Young Artists adapt to virtual performances
For Finger Lakes Opera’s Young Artists Robin Steitz and Jongwon Choi, performing opera virtually has been both challenging and beneficial.
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Calendar preview: Looking up
This week’s preview highlights the action in the sky from day to night, and live music on the ground, from Baroque to noise.
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Film review: ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day’
The Virtual Little Theatre has added the excellent, glowingly restored 1959 doc “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” to its lineup of streaming films.
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ART TALK | ‘Centering Black Women: A Conversation About Art and Organizing’
Thursday’s live-streamed talk will address the importance of fore-fronting Black women’s voices in both art and political organizing.
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Calendar preview: Sun power
This week, the sun shines on sunflower fields, African lions, craft beer, classic festivals, and timely, important conversations.
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EXHIBITION-LECTURE | ‘Commemorating the Ratification of the 19th Amendment’
Eastman Museum will present a lecture to accompany its current History of Photography installation that commemorates the 19th Amendment.
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THEATER | ‘Pygmalion Once and Again!’
Longing and love are valid at every age. ‘Pygmalion Once and Again!’ is the same classic Shaw production twice, with two sets of actors.
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Calendar preview: Summer stretch
With outdoor activities for all the senses, this week’s events let us explore and expand connection through physical (and social) movements.
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MAG’s Clothesline Festival goes virtual
The Memorial Art Gallery’s Clothesline Festival will be online-only, but has expanded from a weekend to a week
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Baobab Cultural Center to close
The African history and Black cultural hub in NOTA has provided valued community programming for decades, but will not be reopening post-COVID.
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Calendar preview: Power on
This week presents ways to participate in the power of social justice movements, and activate our own, with protest poetry and film screenings, youth performances, history lessons, and more.
