14 Sep Fun Things to Do in September 2020 – Week 3
Fun Things to Do in September 2020 – Week 3
Local Events
Strengthening an Arts Community During a Global Pandemic – Sept 17 | 6:15 – 8 PM | FREE
Online with Facebook Live
Moderator KGordon leads a robust discussion about emerging opportunities for performing artists during the age of Covid-19. Topics include technology, content creation, and building culture and community; and apply to all performing and teaching artists.
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Overcriminalized: Alternatives to Incarceration – Sept 17 | 7 – 9 PM | FREE
Hosted by The League of Women Voters of the CSRA and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta
THIRD THURSDAY SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM SERIES! OverCriminalized focuses on the people who find themselves being trafficked through this nation’s criminal justice system with little regard for their humanity and zero prospects for actual justice. They are victims of unwillingness to invest in solving major social problems, and the consequent handling off of that responsibility to the police, the courts, and the prisons. They are the mentally ill, the homeless, and the drug addicted. Sometimes they are all three.
DISCUSSION: Join us for a discussion of the current situation and how we might address these issues. Special Guests: Omeeka Loggins, State Court Solicitor | Jared Williams, Candidate for District Attorney | Natalie Payne, Incumbent and Candidate for District Attorney.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The League of Women Voters of the CSRA in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta Social Justice Committee, the CSRA Coalition for Immigrant Rights and ACLU People Power Augusta, GA is bringing a series of thought-provoking social justice-themed films to the CSRA in 2020.
The aim of the series is to facilitate dialogue to enhance informed communication, personal responsibility, and social responsibility. Each film screening incorporates a discussion with invited community organizers and/or experts.
NOTE: This series has been incorporated into The New Jim Crow Discussion Series. Learn more HERE.
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Adult Online Painting Session 10 Brushstrokes or Less with Tom Crowther – Sept 17 | 7 – 8:30 PM | $35
Hosted by the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art
During this session students from beginners to seasoned artists will focus on brush selection and brush strokes while creating a composition using only 10 brushstrokes or less. Learning and having a basic knowledge of what size brush to select and how much paint should be loaded on the brush will not only help while blocking in a simple composition, but will also encourage the student to be less controlled and more expressive with their brush strokes. Although this exercise is geared towards the more painterly painters, it could serve as a warm up activity or as a way to break out of formulaic and fixed habits.
Session will be led by local artist Tom Crowther. Tom recieved his BFA from Augusta State University and MFA from Radford University. Visit his website thomascrowther.com to view more of his work.
Cost: $35 (Must be a GHIA Member)
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Augusta Neat presents: Shades of Whisk[e]y – Sept 18 | 7 – 9 PM | $35
Location: Le Chat Noir | Or on Zoom!
Augusta Neat’s mission is to promote the knowledge, appreciation, and responsible consumption of whisk[e]y and share our passion throughout the CSRA region.
What to expect: $35/ticket for a curated whisk[e]y flight with education from different regions in the world. Enjoy a special cocktail creation by local mixologist All.Equal.Parts. And stay after the event for a special Improv Night by Le Chat Noir’s Schrodinger’s Cats!
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Connection: Staci Swider & Amy Hart | Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 18 – October 30, 2020
Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri, 10 AM – 5 PM | Sat by appointment only
Due to Covid-19, Gallery admission is by appointment ONLY. Please email Heather Williams at [email protected] or call 706-722-5495 to schedule a visit.
Connections: the action of linking one thing with another.
Staci Swider and Amy Hart first connected via Ciel Gallery in Charlotte, NC where they were both exhibiting members. Their work compliments each other as they are both artists who repurpose the old to create the new in colorful often unexpected ways. While Amy uses reclaimed utilitarian objects to create her three dimensional fanciful creatures, Staci uses old canvases and papers from previous works to bring her characters to life. For both women reconnecting with the past to create something new motivates their use of materials. Their new reality laced with the odd bit of whimsy that can’t help but make one smile. They create connections between the old and the new, the forgotten with the remembered, the tangible with the obscure.
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Non-Local Events
Live at the Looms – Sept 16 | 8 – 8:45 AM | FREE
To celebrate the launch of a HADEDA pop-up at the Anthropologie King’s Road Gallery, we will be collaborating with one of its artisans Coral and Hive, the ethical female-owned rug company, based just outside of Cape Town.
Via Zoom, guests will get the chance to view an exclusive virtual tour of the factory and to meet head weaver, Nazeema Solomons. We hope to give guests an insight into African craft and the beauty of its process.
This event is free to attend but you will have the option to give a voluntary donation to registered charity The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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When in the Renaissance, eat as the artists ate – Sept 17 | 2 – 3 PM | $30
Hosted by Curious Appetite Travel
Curious about the iconic artists of the Renaissance and how they feasted? Curious Appetite’s team of specialized guides will be leading an hour session discussing just this!
This will be a one-hour Florence-focused food history session held in English to learn about the Renaissance’s most valuable artists, their celebrated masterpieces, what they ate, what feast parties were like during the Renaissance and how the food choices explain their personalities. The artists discussed will range from Botticelli, Caravaggio, Brunelleschi Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Pontormo. There will be time throughout to interactively share questions and comments!
HOW IT WORKS: This online session is scheduled on Thursdays 8pm Italy time, or 11am PST/2pm ET. If the time works in your end of the world- you’re invited!
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Atlas Obscura: Dino 101 – Sept 18 | 9 – 10 PM | $7 – $10
Attention dinosaur nerds and science stans! Join Dustin Growick, host of the YouTube channel The Dinosaur Show, and leader of Atlas Obscura’s Dinos and Dunes in the Colorado Desert trip, and Kristina Gustovich, middle school teacher, geologist, improviser, and museum megastan, for an interactive, adults-only dinosaur party.
Each live, Friday night session of Dino 101 will have a different adult-focused, dinosaur-inspired theme, replete with a bingo board drinking game.
Since we’ll be participating from the safety of our homes, drinking and drawing and learning is very encouraged! Grab your favorite pens and/or colored pencils, because the very first thing we’ll do is intro the Dino of the Day. At the end of the adventure we’ll zoom around the room viewing your tipsy paleoart masterpieces. Next, it’s time for everyone’s favorite game, Dino or Not a Dino?!, in which we’ll put your dinosaur knowledge AND bullshit detector to the test. We’ll then mix in a mini-scavenger hunt and some interactive and irreverent paleontology trivia (e.g. Did T. rex have feathers?, Which Jurassic Park movie was the worst?, How big was a Brontosaurus member?)
Part party, part class, 100% adventure—come nerd out with the Dino 101 quaranteam as we prove why dinosaurs are the greatest group of animals to ever walk the face of the Earth.
September 18: Dinosaur Brains & Intelligence: Which dinosaur was the smartest? Which was the dumbest? Corvid expert Dr. Kaeli Swift (@corvidresearch) joins us to talk bird, dinosaur, and human intelligence as we discuss how we could possibly measure the smarts of animals who literally haven’t had brains for millions of years.
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Louvre Museum Live Interactive Virtual Tour – Sept 19 | 11 AM – 12 PM | $15
Join your expert Parisian guide on a virtual exploration of the Louvre Museum with a live chat and Q&A with your guide.
What is a Virtual Guided Tour? It is not virtual reality. It is a licensed guide led webinar packed with photos, videos, polls and a fully interactive chat function which makes this anything but a lecture video. There is also a live Q&A at the end satisfying all your questions about the Louvre and Paris. Whether you’ve never been abroad or spent every summer in France, enjoy this exciting, interactive experience from the comfort of your home.
This 60 minute online virtual tour of the Louvre includes:
-Licensed Expert in Louvre Art and History
-Tour the Louvre on this virtual experience
-Ask any questions you want in live Q&A
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Art Institute of Chicago: Impressionism Tour – FREE Livestream Program – Sept 19 | 7:30 – 9:10 PM
Hosted by Washington DC History & Culture
Travel with us to the Art Institute of Chicago for a virtual/online tour of their amazing Impressionism collection hosted by an independent art expert.
Some of the artists we will be discussing include: Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Frédéric Bazille, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Eva Gonzalès, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Alfred Sisley, and many more!
Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organization Washington, DC History & Culture. Robert earned an art history degree from the University of Michigan, spent the first two years of his career at the Detroit Institute of Arts and has visited several dozen art museums throughout the world.
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