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SUMMARY:Black Bottom Film Festival: Film Submission
DESCRIPTION:EMPOWERING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION THROUGH FILM \nSubmission Deadlines\nFebruary 17\, 2023\nEarlybird Deadline \nMay 19\, 2023\nRegular Deadline \nAugust 18\, 2023\nLate Deadline \nSubmit Your Film \nBlack Bottom Film Festival-August Wilson African American Cultural Center proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway\, the world’s #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests. \n\nThe August Wilson African American Cultural Center (AWAACC) is a performing arts center\, named for Pulitzer Prize winning playwright\, and Pittsburgh native\, August Wilson. Our programming focuses on exhibiting and celebrating art and expression from Black culture across the African diaspora. \nFrom age-old classics to contemporary work\, the Black Bottom Film Festival (BBFF) illuminates and celebrates African American cinema and uniqueness of Black people on film. The festival screens short and feature films rooted in the recurring themes of spirituality\, race\, family conflict\, honor\, duty and the struggle of the working-class; themes ever-present in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays. In particular\, the festival celebrates African American filmmaking pioneers and history makers. The BBFF fosters an examination of how Black filmmakers use art to inspire\, challenge\, confront\, and influence American culture. \nThe August Wilson African American Cultural Center believes that creativity is boundless. We invite you to share your creativity on film with us.
URL:https://awaacc.org/event/black-bottom-film-festival-film-submission/
CATEGORIES:Festival
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SUMMARY:Lit Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Lit Fridays is a literary-focused\, virtual salon presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center\, featuring conversations and guest performances on the last Friday* of each month at 6:00p EST via Facebook Live and Zoom Webinar. All conversations are moderated by AWAACC Literary Curator\, Jessica Lanay. \n\nAma Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude and Blood of the Air\, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Cave Canem\, Robert Rauschenberg\, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop\, Hawthornden\, Hedgebrook\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. Her recent poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books\, the New Republic\, the Best American Poetry series\, and elsewhere. Among other honors\, Codjoe has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts\, and the Jerome Foundation.
URL:https://awaacc.org/event/lit-fridays-2023-07-28/
CATEGORIES:Free,Lit Friday,Literary
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SUMMARY:Memories & Inspiration: Gallery Talk and Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The August Wilson African American Cultural Center welcomes visitors to enjoy a night of art and poetry! Join us inside the Claude Worthington Benedum Gallery for a tour of our latest exhibition Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art. The gallery talk and tour\, led by Assistant Curator Kimberly Jacobs\, will highlight the Davis’s passion for art\, desire to preserve cultural memories though collecting\, and inspire communities nationwide by touring this spectacular collection of art. Afterwards\, join acclaimed lyricist and Senior Director of Programming Orlando Watson for poetry inside the gallery\, where poets and writers of all ages are invited to share original literature directly inspired by the works on view in the exhibition\, highlighting the interdisciplinary connection between visual art and poetry. Please email Kimberly at kjacobs@awaacc.org for more information. \nAbout the Exhibition:\nComprising sixty-seven spectacular works of art\, Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art draws generously from the Davis Collection\, a treasury of artworks located in a private home in Atlanta\, Georgia\, primarily by African American artists but also featuring some works from other parts of the African diaspora. This landmark collection was assembled by Kerry and C. Betty Davis\, an ordinary working-class couple who happily sacrificed material goods and comforts in order to surround themselves with the drawings\, paintings\, prints\, and sculptures they loved. Guided by a passion for collecting and by their extensive knowledge of art\, as well as a desire to preserve cultural memories. On view June 16 – September 1\, 2023. \n6pm – Gallery Talk & Tour\n7pm – Poetry Reading
URL:https://awaacc.org/event/memories-inspiration-gallery-talk-and-poetry-reading/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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