News Source: OCA AtlantaThe Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) announces the recipients for the 2020-2021 Contracts for Arts Services (CAS) awards. Each year, CAS awards general operating and project support to non-profit arts and community organizations, as well as project support to individual artists based and producing work in the City of Atlanta. The program, initiated in 1982 to support Atlanta’s thriving arts community, awards annual contracts related to the production, creation, presentation, exhibition, and managerial support of artistic and cultural services in the City of Atlanta. “In the last ten years, the City of Atlanta has increased the annual investment in the individuals and organizations that work each day to improve the quality of life in our city through the arts,” said Camille Russell Love, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. “We are extremely pleased with both the quality and breadth of arts programs and projects we’ll be helping to put on throughout the City of Atlanta as a result of this highly competitive process.” During the fiscal year 2021, the City of Atlanta, through the Contracts for Arts Services program, will provide municipal support for the arts totaling over $1.7 million to 13 individual artists, 76 arts organizations, and 14 community and neighborhood organizations in the city of Atlanta. MORE ABOUT CONTRACTS FOR ARTS SERVICESThe Contracts for Arts Services (CAS) program is the City of Atlanta’s means of granting public funding to the arts. CAS awards contracts related to the production, creation, presentation, exhibition and management of artistic and cultural services in the city of Atlanta. The program recognizes that the presence of artists and non-profit organizations involved in the arts are critical to Atlanta’s cultural vitality. (READ MORE HERE) KEYWORDS Atlanta Public Art - Atlanta - Atlanta Community Art - Atlanta Beltline - arts organizations in atlanta - office of cultural affairs grants - atlanta office of cultural affairs - atlanta beltline art - art in atlanta - jermaine sain - when we speak tv - art walls in atlanta - arts services - public art - public arts program READERS OF THIS ARTICLE ALSO ENJOYEDMeet Ziggy Warfield, Event Director and Creator of Jazz In the Alley
The Black American Music Association (BAM) and the Georgia Entertainment Caucus (GEC) has announced the formation of the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame (WOF) which will be installed in downtown Atlanta starting in January 2021. The WOF will reside on the sidewalks of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Northside Drive, 1 AMB Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30313. KEYWORDS Walk of Fame - Martin Luther King Jr - Black American Musicians - black music - Black American Music Association - Georgia Entertainment Caucus - Atlanta - Black Music Walk of Fame - walk of fame - atlanta music - african americans - Catherine Brewton - Jermaine Sain - When We Speak TV - Martin Luther King Jr Drive - historic Atlanta - music in atlanta - black musicians READERS OF THIS ARTICLE ALSO ENJOYEDThe National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) President and CEO H. Beecher Hicks III and Mayor David Briley signed lease that officially gives the museum control over the space the museum will occupy at Fifth and Broadway. We had so much fun speaking with Rhonda Ross and she was super cool and down to earth! We feel so blessed for this opportunity and hope that this interview inspires you!!!! During the Black Music Honors, Yolanda Adams was presented the Gospel Music Icon Award and received a beautiful musical tribute from Jekayln Carr, Kelly Price, and Le'Andria Johnson. We had the pleasure of speaking with Yolanda Adams, during the red carpet event.
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“We want this year’s ELEVATE festival to be a platform for dialogue about important issues, provide resources for activism, and help set a course for positive change,” states Camille Russell Love, Executive Director of the City of Atlanta - Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. “For the first time, the festival enters the digital space. We invite people to join us for virtual events including visual art experiences, dance, poetry, lively conversations, film screenings, musical performances and more. All of the events are free.” |
• Mural installations honoring civil rights leader Reverend James Orange and Black women activists from the West End community.
• An online and in person voter registration event at the West End MARTA station.
• A conversation with New York Times best-selling authors Pearl Cleage and Tayari Jones, who frequently feature Atlanta’s West End community in their work.
• The opening of Hammonds House Museum’s exhibition Elements of A Revolution.
• A conversation between the executive directors of Atlanta Contemporary and Les Abattoirs/Toulouse to discuss challenges of promoting art during COVID-19, issues of gender equality and racism in their field. Since 1974 Atlanta and Toulouse have been Sister Cities.
• A screening of the stirring new documentary, “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” an intimate account of the legendary U.S. Representative’s life, legacy, and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism.
• An Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance of Lazarus created by acclaimed hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris. The ballet connects the past and the present in a powerful work that addresses racial inequities America faced when Mr. Ailey founded his dance company in 1958 and still faces today.
• Renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems, in collaboration with SCAD, will launch RESIST COVID/TAKE 6, a public art initiative raising critical heath awareness about COVID-19 and the ways racial inequities have manifested in the pandemic.
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Jazz in the Alley is a live outdoor music concert series that features some of the best and talented jazz artists from Atlanta and surrounding cities. Brought to life in the summer of 2013 by Saxophonist Eric Thomas and Event Coordinator, Ziggy Warfield, JITA was created to be a platform for all jazz artists for exposure in sharing their music to the cities of Georgia and to keep the art of jazz alive within our communities. The City of Norcross is an annual proud sponsor and host, along with annual sponsors and supporters that help to make this free jazz concert series a success for the past 5 years and counting. |
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