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Tues. Aug. 22, 2023: Emerging into the Week with Care

image courtesy of annca from Pixabay.com Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Waxing Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron Retrograde Mercury turns retrograde tomorrow Sunny and pleasant. Today would have been my father’s birthday. He died in 1972, but I still remember days like this. Griddle’s surgery is on Thursday. Please donate what you can or share the link on any and all social…

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Study

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 3/16/15

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they let me put MCYT art in my senior exhibition?! (REAL NOT CLICKBAIT?!?)

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Black Ensemble Theater Presents...

Black Ensemble Theater announces new musical revue

2024 Season of Affirmation with

HITT RECORDS

Written and Directed by Daryl D. Brooks

Black Ensemble Theater announces new musical revue

2024 Season of Affirmation with

HITT RECORDS

Written and Directed by Daryl D. Brooks

December 21, 2024 – january, 2025

Chicago, IL— Black Ensemble Theater’s Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor announces the world premiere musical revue as part of the 2024 Season of Affirmation: Protection – Hitt Records, written and directed by Black Ensemble Theater’s Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks.Hitt Records, replacing the previously announced A Gamble on Huff: The Story of Gamble and Huff, runs December 21, 2024 – January 26, 2025, at the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago. The press opening is Sunday, December 29, 2024, at 3:00pm.

Join James and Charles Hitt at their vintage record shop, Hitt Records, CDs and Tapes, as they school their nephew and customers on their vast knowledge of music. Together they show that music has no limits but there is nothing new under the sun.  Featuring hits from Curtis Mayfield, Phil Collins, Alexander O’Neil, Shalamar, Sister Sledge, The Brothers Johnson, Bob Marley, and many more! 

The cast of Hitt Records includes: Lyle Miller, Dennis Dent, Michael Lunder, Vincent Jordan, Rhonda Preston, Qiana McNary, DeVaughn Loman, Dwight Neal, Trequon Tate, Jaitee Thomas, Britt Edwards and Destin Warner.

The creative team is Jackie Taylor (Executive Producer), Daryl D. Brooks (Writer/Director/Producing Managing Director), Robert Reddrick (Music Director), Christopher Chase Carter (Choreographer), Denise Karczewski (Set/Light Designer), Evelyn Danner (Costume Designer), Sean Alvarez (Sound Designer), DJ Douglass (Projection Designer), and Harrison Ornelas (Technical Director).

Under the music direction of Robert Reddrick, the band includes: Adam Sherrod (keys), Eric Troy (keys), Myron Cherry (drums), Oscar Brown, Jr. (bass/band leader), Charles "Chip" Dubose (guitar)

Dawon Washington (saxophone), Antwan Washington (trumpet), and Bill McFarland (trombone).

Tickets for Hitt Records are available at www.blackensemble.org, (773) 769-4451 and at the Black Ensemble Theater Box Office, 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago. Performances are Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $56.50-$66.50 (fees included). Valet parking is available for $13 (cash only).

The 5-Play Card

Black Ensemble Theatre’s 5-Play Card is a digital ticket package unlike any other. At a cost of $225, buying a 5-Play Card saves $20 off each individual ticket, giving an average of $45 a ticket as opposed to our standard $65 ticket price. One of the greatest perks of the 5-Play Card is its flexibility – use the five tickets any way you want! You can: bring five people to one show, treat yourself to five different shows, or use the 5-Play Card in any ticket number combination until all five tickets are spent.

The 5-Play Card is good for 18 months and becomes active immediately after purchasing. If you buy multiple 5-Play Card packages, please note that a maximum of five tickets can be redeemed on a single show date. 

FACT SHEET

Title: Hitt Records

Written and

Directed by: Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks

Cast: Lyle Miller, Dennis Dent, Michael Lunder, Vincent Jordan, Rhonda Preston, Qiana McNary, DeVaughn Loman, Dwight Neal, Trequon Tate, Jaitee Thomas, Britt Edwards, Destin Warner

Artistic Team: Jackie Taylor (Executive Producer), Daryl D. Brooks (Writer/Director) Robert Reddrick (Music Director), Christopher Chase Carter (Choreographer), Denise Karczewski (Set/Light Designer), Evelyn Danner (Costume Designer), Sean Alvarez (Sound Designer), DJ Douglass (Projection Designer), Harrison Ornelas (Technical Director).

Band: Adam Sherrod (keys), Eric Troy (keys), Myron Cherry (drums), Oscar Brown, Jr. (bass/band leader), Charles "Chip" Dubose (guitar)

Dawon Washington (saxophone), Antwan Washington (trumpet), and Bill McFarland (trombone).

Schedule: December 21, 2024 – January 26, 2025

Previews: December 21 at 8pm, December 22 at 3pm 

and December 28 at 8pm

Regular run: January 3-26, 2025 

Fridays at 8pm

Saturdays at 3pm and 8pm

Sundays at 3pm

Press Opening: Sunday, December 29, 2024, at 3:00pm

Location: Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street, Chicago

Valet parking is available for $13 (cash only).

Tickets: $56.50-$66.50 (fees included)

Box Office: The Box Office is located at 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago.

(773) 769-4451; www.blackensemble.org

Black Ensemble Theater   

Founded in 1976, by the phenomenal producer, playwright and actress Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater is the only African American theater located in the culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse north side Uptown community. Through its Four Play Season of Excellence, The Black Ensemble Theater dazzles audiences locally, nationally, and internationally with outstanding original musicals that are entertaining, educational, and uplifting. The Black Ensemble Theater has produced more than 100 productions and employed over 5,000 artists.  

  

The mission of the Black Ensemble Theater Company is to eradicate racism and its devastating effects upon society through the theater arts and community engagement.  For more information on the Black Ensemble Theater Company, visit www.BlackEnsembleTheater.org or call 773-769-4451.  

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Site-specific installation at the Lunder Arts Center in Cambridge, MA

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Latest for The Wall Street Journal

While Canada is experiencing a record outbreak of fires, land managers across the American West are taking advantage of unseasonably cool, moist weather to burn as much grass and other fuel as they can before the region’s fire season kicks into high gear in late summer and the fall.

“If we can do projects like this in the summer, we can reduce fuel going into the fall,” said Zeke Lunder, a wildfire consultant based in Chico.

The aim of the prescribed burns is to rob natural infernos of the combustible material that has stoked the megafires that have ravaged communities in the region in recent years.

The U.S. West is getting a breather from years of drought following an unusually wet winter. As of June 16, fires have blackened 644,918 acres in the U.S., a little more than half the 10-year average of 1.1 million acres at the same point in time, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

The precipitation means there is less chance of large wildfires at high elevations where snow is still melting, but potentially more explosive ones at low elevations where a lot of grass and brush has grown. (Jim Carlton).

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Theaster Gates at Gagosian 555 West 24th Street, New York

September 10, 2020

THEASTER GATES Black Vessel October 10–December 19, 2020 555 West 24th Street, New York __________ I always find myself returning to the vessel. It is part of the intellectual life force of my practice and it precedes all other forms of making. —Theaster Gates Gagosian is pleased to present Black Vessel, Theaster Gates’s first-ever solo exhibition in New York. Gates’s oeuvre is among the most conceptually and materially rich in contemporary art, anchored equally in the canons of art history and the racial ideology of the Black diaspora. Through an art practice predicated on cultural reclamation and social empowerment, Gates exchanges and recharges objects and ideas, creating a cyclical ecosystem of renewal. Traversing a broad range of media, from painting, sculpture, sound, and performance to the processes of salvaging, archiving, and space making, he delivers penetrating social commentary on labor, material, spiritual capital, and commodity, within a close examination of the urban condition. With potent synergies of material and meaning, Gates promotes the vessel as a container of the concrete, the symbolic, and the spiritual—a metaphor for embodied existence and a means by which to gather communities together in time and space. For Gates, who trained as a potter, the ceramic vessel is a universal object of ritual significance. In a new series of unique large-scale works in glazed and fired clay, he unites ancient traditions with modernist aesthetics, drawing elective affinities between Eastern, Western, and African techne.

Using black bricks custom-made from reconstituted materials, Gates has dramatically transformed the gallery into a resonant vessel for shared experience. An elegiac sound installation scored by the Black Monks—Gates’s renowned experimental music ensemble whose references range from Southern gospel blues to John Cage—further activates and sacralizes the space. Inspired by his father’s occupation as a roofer, in 2012 Gates began fusing together sections of torch down and finishing the resulting compositions with enamel paint and tar. For Black Vessel, he has produced a suite of “tar paintings” on a newly imposing scale, some in modulated white, others blocked out in bold, contrasting colors. Just as postwar artists set themselves apart from gestural abstraction by utilizing mass-produced industrial materials and techniques in place of paint and canvas, Gates has imbued abstract painting with new form and meaning, first with the Civil Tapestries that charge Minimalist language with the stuff of racial injustice, and now in raw, elegant, and powerful works that employ the signifying materials and labor methodologies of rigorous building technology. Throughout his career, Gates has rescued vast collections of Black cultural artifacts—music, books, images, photographs—housing them in restored and repurposed buildings in Chicago, or setting them in circulation throughout the world’s museums. For the Spine works, of which Walking Prayer (2018) is a key example, Gates took periodicals from the legendary Black-owned Johnson Publishing Company—which produced such magazines as Negro Digest (later named Black World) to promote and celebrate Black life—bound them into volumes, and arranged them side by side on running shelves. From one spine to the next, and the next, gilt-embossed titles form a hallowed and poetic invocation, thus proposing the library as a processional and meditative tool and the gallery as a latent warehouse of emotional and spiritual devices. Theaster Gates was born in Chicago, where he lives and works. Public collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Tate, London. Solo museum exhibitions and projects include An Epitaph for Civil Rights, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011–12); Processions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2016–19); True Value, Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016); Black Archive, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2016); How to Build a House Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2016); The Minor Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2017); Black Madonna, Kunstmuseum Basel (2018, traveled to Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany); Black Image Corporation, Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2018–19, traveled to Gropius Bau, Berlin); Amalgam, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019, traveled to Tate Liverpool, England); Assembly Hall, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2019); and Black Chapel, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019­–20). He participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2010); Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); the 56th Biennale di Venezia (2015); and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015 and 2019). Gates is the founder and executive director of Rebuild Foundation, a nonprofit platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation that supports artists and strengthens communities through free arts programming and innovative cultural amenities in Chicago’s South Side. Rebuild’s work is informed by three core values: Black people matter; Black spaces matter; and Black objects matter. Gates is the recipient of international honors including the Artes Mundi Prize (2015), the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2017), the Nasher Prize (2018), and the Crystal Award (2020). He was artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, in 2018–19 and is currently distinguished visiting artist and director of artist initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. _____ Theaster Gates, Flag Sketch, 2020, industrial oil-based enamel, rubber torch down, wood, and copper nails, 72 × 72 inches (182.9 × 182.9 cm) © Theaster Gates

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Lesley University Lunder Arts Center by Bruner/Cott Architects https://arcnct.co/38YYOEr

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More Jon Snow highlights include: •Jon Selfie •Jon with Ghost •Robb Stark •A Very Nice Jon Stark #jonsnow #ghost #robbstark #costume #halloween #halloweencostume #gameofthrones #kitharrington (at Lunder Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4TfLnZlYkL/?igshid=1nsdgvc59y1v1

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Tadao Ando, Lunder Center at Stone Hill #2008Architecture Williamstown, MA “I want to create intense yet quiet buildings where the voice of their creator can be heard, and to realize spaces ... that promote conversations with natural materials, where one can feel light, air, and rain,” says architect Tadao Ando, designer of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Since its completion in 2008, the Lunder Center at Stone Hill has fulfilled all of Ando’s goals. Conceived as a sanctuary in the woods to be discovered at the end of a winding path, the Lunder Center is a contemplative retreat with two small galleries and a seasonal café that affords magnificent views of the Taconic Range, the Green Mountains, and Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts... The Lunder Center at Stone Hill's steel and concrete block construction is partially clad with red cedar boards that are weathering to a soft gray, complementing the concrete that was poured into forms lined with pine boards etched with acid to accentuate the pattern of the grain.' The Clark http://ift.tt/2lIWe0s Photography Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism. Flickr http://ift.tt/2lc9Uy5

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A collection of #streetart and graphics from #Perú are on display around the Lunder Arts Center at Lesley University through October 13. . . Originally used to promote musical events in the 1980’s, #Chicha has been revived by a new generation of artists with a bold color palette that pays homage to the Andean culture . . “Revolución Chicha” features work by #Amapolay, Familia Gutierrez, LU.CU.MA., #Monky, #NaciónChicha, #MoisésSants and #ElliotTupac (at Lunder Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3TOLSEl91o/?igshid=hjjt9pwbb536

[emilyhurstpritchett]

I am very excited to be exhibiting in Cambridge Arts' Open Studios this fall! I will for sure post more updates as the event approaches, but for now I can tell you that I'll be displaying art and probably CREATING some art at the Lunder Arts Center at Lesley University! If you’re in the Boston area, come check it out!

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Study

Cambridge, Massachusetts - 4/1/15

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i'm so proud of my talented and artistic friends!!!! (at Lunder Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw-pc1sH1Ck/?igshid=1q7s4jx22rp8h

[higherlearningtvshow]

Black Ensemble Theater!

Black Ensemble Theater announces new musical revue

2024 Season of Affirmation with

HITT RECORDS

Written and Directed by Daryl D. Brooks

December 21, 2024 – january, 2025

Chicago, IL— Black Ensemble Theater’s Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor announces the world premiere musical revue as part of the 2024 Season of Affirmation: Protection – Hitt Records, written and directed by Black Ensemble Theater’s Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks.Hitt Records, replacing the previously announced A Gamble on Huff: The Story of Gamble and Huff, runs December 21, 2024 – January 26, 2025, at the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago. The press opening is Sunday, December 29, 2024, at 3:00pm.

Join James and Charles Hitt at their vintage record shop, Hitt Records, CDs and Tapes, as they school their nephew and customers on their vast knowledge of music. Together they show that music has no limits but there is nothing new under the sun.  Featuring hits from Curtis Mayfield, Phil Collins, Alexander O’Neil, Shalamar, Sister Sledge, The Brothers Johnson, Bob Marley, and many more! 

The cast of Hitt Records includes: Lyle Miller, Dennis Dent, Michael Lunder, Vincent Jordan, Rhonda Preston, Qiana McNary, DeVaughn Loman, Dwight Neal, Trequon Tate, Jaitee Thomas, Britt Edwards and Destin Warner.

The creative team is Jackie Taylor (Executive Producer), Daryl D. Brooks (Writer/Director/Producing Managing Director), Robert Reddrick (Music Director), Christopher Chase Carter (Choreographer), Denise Karczewski (Set/Light Designer), Evelyn Danner (Costume Designer), Sean Alvarez (Sound Designer), DJ Douglass (Projection Designer), and Harrison Ornelas (Technical Director).

Under the music direction of Robert Reddrick, the band includes: Adam Sherrod (keys), Eric Troy (keys), Myron Cherry (drums), Oscar Brown, Jr. (bass/band leader), Charles "Chip" Dubose (guitar)

Dawon Washington (saxophone), Antwan Washington (trumpet), and Bill McFarland (trombone).

Tickets for Hitt Records are available at www.blackensemble.org, (773) 769-4451 and at the Black Ensemble Theater Box Office, 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago. Performances are Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $56.50-$66.50 (fees included). Valet parking is available for $13 (cash only).

The 5-Play Card

Black Ensemble Theatre’s 5-Play Card is a digital ticket package unlike any other. At a cost of $225, buying a 5-Play Card saves $20 off each individual ticket, giving an average of $45 a ticket as opposed to our standard $65 ticket price. One of the greatest perks of the 5-Play Card is its flexibility – use the five tickets any way you want! You can: bring five people to one show, treat yourself to five different shows, or use the 5-Play Card in any ticket number combination until all five tickets are spent.

The 5-Play Card is good for 18 months and becomes active immediately after purchasing. If you buy multiple 5-Play Card packages, please note that a maximum of five tickets can be redeemed on a single show date. 

FACT SHEET

Title: Hitt Records

Written and

Directed by: Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks

Cast: Lyle Miller, Dennis Dent, Michael Lunder, Vincent Jordan, Rhonda Preston, Qiana McNary, DeVaughn Loman, Dwight Neal, Trequon Tate, Jaitee Thomas, Britt Edwards, Destin Warner

Artistic Team: Jackie Taylor (Executive Producer), Daryl D. Brooks (Writer/Director) Robert Reddrick (Music Director), Christopher Chase Carter (Choreographer), Denise Karczewski (Set/Light Designer), Evelyn Danner (Costume Designer), Sean Alvarez (Sound Designer), DJ Douglass (Projection Designer), Harrison Ornelas (Technical Director).

Band: Adam Sherrod (keys), Eric Troy (keys), Myron Cherry (drums), Oscar Brown, Jr. (bass/band leader), Charles "Chip" Dubose (guitar)

Dawon Washington (saxophone), Antwan Washington (trumpet), and Bill McFarland (trombone).

Schedule: December 21, 2024 – January 26, 2025

Previews: December 21 at 8pm, December 22 at 3pm 

and December 28 at 8pm

Regular run: January 3-26, 2025 

Fridays at 8pm

Saturdays at 3pm and 8pm

Sundays at 3pm

Press Opening: Sunday, December 29, 2024, at 3:00pm

Location: Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street, Chicago

Valet parking is available for $13 (cash only).

Tickets: $56.50-$66.50 (fees included)

Box Office: The Box Office is located at 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago.

(773) 769-4451; www.blackensemble.org

Black Ensemble Theater   

Founded in 1976, by the phenomenal producer, playwright and actress Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater is the only African American theater located in the culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse north side Uptown community. Through its Four Play Season of Excellence, The Black Ensemble Theater dazzles audiences locally, nationally, and internationally with outstanding original musicals that are entertaining, educational, and uplifting. The Black Ensemble Theater has produced more than 100 productions and employed over 5,000 artists.  

  

The mission of the Black Ensemble Theater Company is to eradicate racism and its devastating effects upon society through the theater arts and community engagement.  For more information on the Black Ensemble Theater Company, visit www.BlackEnsembleTheater.org or call 773-769-4451.  

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Okay Kyle’s #gouache brushes are pretty good. Taking part in @studiohoffmann ‘s #letsbefriendsdraw #artchallenge #digitalpainting #dog #bigheads (at Lunder Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwniMM4lse0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=152v8sgntn3gi