Target 4: The Arts
November 2020 Newsletter
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated ®
Psi Gamma Omega Chapter
PGO Virtual Sip and Paint
Save the date! We will have a remote painting event Friday, December 11 at 7:00 p.m. as a way of expressing creativity and practicing self-care. Soror Beth Leigh will lead us in virtual creativity and relaxation! It you are interested in participating, please email Soror Marlo Walston at marlowalston@gmail.com.
Treasured Pearls Book Club
We are back! The Treasured Pearls Book Club will resume meetings next month with a discussion of Trevor Noah's Born A Crime. We will meet on Sunday, December 13th at 3:00 p.m. The Daily Show host comically shares his stories of growing up in Africa during apartheid. Further information on the book and meeting details are forthcoming.
Patriotism and Black Americans
This 2008 NPR Talk of the Nation discussion about Black patriotism and using a number of poets and poetry from the Harlem Renaissance seems just as timely now as then.
A Reading of Langston Hughes' "Let American Be America Again."
Local AND Virtual Arts Events
26th Annual Orange County Artists Virtual Art Tour
October 26 - November 30
Online Arts Events in Orange County
https://www.orangehistorync.org/events
November 6
First Fridays Online at UNC-Chapel Hill
Featuring Underrepresented Voices
https://music.unc.edu/event/first-fridays-online-3/
November 19
The Spark with Tift Merritt and Wynton Marsalis
https://carolinaperformingarts.org/events/the-spark-with-tift-merritt-wynton-marsalis/
November 27
Last Fridays - Hillsborough Art Walk
Spotify Playlists and Performance Recordings
A Performance of the Black Nativity by Langston Hughes
and some of the original cast recording from Broadway
Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science. Waiting Game. Motéma Music, 2019. https://open.spotify.com/album/6lNjGEiDCIb1Zy7FU0yQR3?autoplay=true
McBride, Christian. The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons. Mack Avenue, 2020.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6sxsZhMo8LBx3IIcqhtR13
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xkiidctjQouqdcHRibeik
Online Museum Tours
Google Arts & Culture has teamed with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world to bring virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.
Take a trip in time to the Harlem Renaissance! Check out these virtual exhibits from the comfort of your couch.
Podcasts
The Harlem Renaissance
The Black Arts Movement
Other Podcasts
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