by Sandy | Jan 15, 2025 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Learning, Live Performance
10th Anniversary * February 7 – 28, 2025
Vision & Sound creates an educational experience and environment that broadens the understanding and appreciation of African American visual and performing arts for multigenerational and multicultural audiences. We strive to build supportive relationships to encourage cultural equity throughout Arizona and beyond – recognizing that professional American artists of African descent are too often overlooked.
Opening Reception & Celebrate Sedona
Friday, February 7, 2025, 4-6 pm
In Sedona Arts Center’s Special Exhibitions Gallery & Upper Parking Lot
15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.
Featured Artists:
Anjola Ayodele
Patricia Bohannon
Dorrell Bradford
Antoinette Cauley
Jacqueline Chanda
Michael Cunningham
Lizz Denneau
Amber Doe
Debra Edgerton
Chas Frisco
Isse Maloi
Bob Martin
Philip Gabriel Steverson
George Welch
Shoreigh Williams
~Schedule of Events and Exhibitions~
Presented by Sedona Arts Center in partnership with the ASU Center for the Study of Race & Democracy
Celebrate Black History Month and enjoy artist demonstrations, food, wine, beer and music by the Tommy Dukes Band.
Friday, February 7-28, 2025
15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336
The exhibition is on view in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.
Featuring: Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Antoinette Cauley, Jacqueline Chanda, Michael Cunningham, Amber Doe, Lizz Denneau, Debra Edgerton, Chas Frisco, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, George Welch, and Shoreigh Williams
Vision & Sound Symposium
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 8:30 am-5 pm
Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336
Featuring keynote speaker and renowned dancer, choreographer and scholar LaTasha Barnes
as well as panel discussions, performances, receptions and reflections.
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.
Global Sounds Concert
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 7-8:30 pm
Free tickets
Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, 10580 N 83rd Dr, Peoria, Arizona 85345
Enjoy a special concert by Gabriel Bey and Friends featuring Jazz, R&B and Funk.
Goodyear Jazz in the Park
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 5-8 pm
Goodyear Civic Center, 1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, Arizona 85395
Celebrate Black History month and enjoy an evening of jazz.
Goodyear Teen Workshop
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 3-5 pm
Fabric Tales – A workshop driven towards spontaneous creativity and instinctive imagination utilizing textiles.
During this workshop, participants will brainstorm, visualize, then create collage style artworks depicting characters and scenes from their imaginations with an array of fabrics provided by the artist. From scenic views of the mountains to abstract color compositions, each piece will be unique to the artist’s hand.
Participants will have the opportunity to work with pre-cut materials to create their own character, or roam freely by rummaging through curated fabrics to bring their imagined pieces to life. Click here to sign up.
Goodyear Recreation Campus, 420 S Estrella Parkway, Goodyear, Arizona 85338
(ages 12-17) with Philip Gabriel Steverson
Artist Demo with Jacqueline Chanda
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 4-6 pm
Tolleson Public Library Gallery, 9055 W. Van Buren Street, Tolleson, Arizona 85353
Visit us at the Tolleson Public Library at 3 pm on Thursday, February 20 for catered snacks and a demo from featured Vision and Sound exhibit artist Jacqueline Chanda.
Peoria Arts & Cultural Festival
Saturday, March 1, 2024, 9 am-3 pm
Old Town Peoria (Peoria/Grand Avenues)
Enjoy artist demonstrations and workshops by select artists
Exhibitions in Sedona, Goodyear, Peoria & Tolleson
Peoria Main Library
Showing through March 28, 2025
8463 W. Monroe Street, Peoria, Arizona 85345
Featuring: Anjola Ayodele, Jacqueline Chanda, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams
Sunrise Mountain Library
Showing through March 28, 2025
21109 N 98th Ave, Peoria, Arizona 85382
Featuring: Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Chanda, and Dorrell Bradford
Tolleson Public Library
Showing through March 29, 2025
9055 W. Van Buren Street, Tolleson, Arizona 85353
Featuring: Anjola Ayodele, Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Chanda,
Lizz Denneau, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams
Georgia T. Lord Library
January 30-March 30, 2025
Featuring: Dorrell Bradford, Jacqueline Chanda, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams
1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, Arizona 85395
by Sandy | Sep 6, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Live Performance
Mr. Wilson is one of my favorite playwrights. He wrote plays for every decade of the 20th century that would chronicle some part of the black experience in America. Through the use of his great ear for dialogue, Wilson was able to give us some insight into the daily life, both struggles and triumphs, of an assortment of universal characters that his audience could easily recognize. In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle that is now being recorded to be enjoyed by future generations.
Tickets are sold out for just about all the live performances at the tiny Greene Space Theatre in NYC, however, the plays can be viewed online via webcast. I thoroughly enjoyed “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” a few days ago. True, the actors sit in seats in front of microphones, but they were so good and August Wilson’s stories are so compelling, that the imagination kicks in and provides the scenery and action. (For those of you not old enough to remember, we did this during radio programs all the time back in the day:)
“The Piano Lesson” is next on Monday 9/9/13 at 7PM EDT. The Greene Space site has a calendar of events, actor lists, etc.
August Wilson’s American Century Cycle
The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY
BTW – the recordings are done in the order that the plays were written, not in chronological order as listed above
by Bob Martin | Jan 2, 2013 | Art, Film, Live Performance, music, Theater
Picky, Picky, Picky is how I describe much of the conversation surrounding the 2012 release of Les Misérables. The noise is that the movie is not the (Musical) play and that of the director’s choice to shoot and record the actors singing live on camera, (no lip syncing) making some viewers uncomfortable. Too bad.
There have been over ten theatrical or movie interpretations of Les Miserables and not one of them was the original story. Critics and some viewers wasted their time in not seeing this movie production as something new vs. comparing it to what they had already seen and knew. It’s OK not to like this film, but dislike it because it’s a movie you don’t like and not because it is not the play.
Les Miserables 2012 is an original piece of art, a spectacular movie, beautifully staged, acted and in most cases well sung. If your thought is that the Broadway musical is the only experience you want to remember or have then don’t see this film. It is different and special in its own way.
by Bob Martin | Dec 14, 2012 | Art, Concerts, Events, Live Performance
Milton is inviting you to
‘The Party’
Come and let there be an experience of a wonderful event . .
Portrait of Jazz
full of fun, dancing, laughter and genuine enjoyment!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Prescott Jazz Society has continued this
Birthday-Christmas event through
the years offering the best in entertainment.
* This year you may review videos of ‘Prescott Jazz Legends’,
enjoy dining choices from a great American Buffet,
listen to a top-shelf Jazz Quartet featuring vocalist & pianist Steve Sandner
w/Ray Carter and drummer Jesse Yarbrough w/myself, Milt Cannon.
* Cocktails, dinner and concert will be from 3:00 – 7:00 pm.
* For the first time ever there will be dancing from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with
the disco band FUNK FREQUENCY (a very very exciting dance band).
* Also for the first time there will be the auctioning of a ‘Portrait of Jazz’.
(handsome adornment for the wall of any home or office)
Milt Cannon and Bob Martin’s Birthday.
The artwork has been donated to the Society by the gifted Phoenix, AZ
artist Bob S. Martin who will attend and also celebrate
the same birthdate as myself. Milton is inviting you to
‘The Party’
Come and let there be an experience of a wonderful event . .
full of fun, dancing, laughter and genuine enjoyment!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Prescott Jazz Society has continued this
Birthday-Christmas event through
the years offering the best in entertainment.
* This year you may review videos of ‘Prescott Jazz Legends’,
enjoy dining choices from a great American Buffet,
listen to a top-shelf Jazz Quartet featuring vocalist & pianist Steve Sandner
w/Ray Carter and drummer Jesse Yarbrough w/myself, Milt Cannon.
* Cocktails, dinner and concert will be from 3:00 – 7:00 pm.
* For the first time ever there will be dancing from 6:00 – 8:00 pm with
the disco band FUNK FREQUENCY (a very very exciting dance band).
* Also for the first time there will be the auctioning of a ‘Portrait of Jazz’.
(handsome adornment for the wall of any home or office)
The artwork has been donated to the Society by the gifted Phoenix, AZ
artist Bob S. Martin who will attend and also celebrate
the same birthdate as myself.
* Pricing: the Prescott Jazz Society remains true to our history of
offering you the maximum for the barest minimum.
$45.00 pp (reservation only- membership discount applies)
ADVANCE V. I. P. is only $38.00 pp (until Dec., 1)
(comes w/preferred seating with table service)
General Admission: $25.00 pp (no dinner; no table service)
* Please call now! (928) 237-7908 for early reservation
HASSAYAMPA INN~MARINA, 122 E.GURLEY ST., PRESCOTT, AZ
* Pricing: the Prescott Jazz Society remains true to our history of
offering you the maximum for the barest minimum.
$45.00 pp (reservation only- membership discount applies)
ADVANCE V. I. P. is only $38.00 pp (until Dec., 1)
(comes w/preferred seating with table service)
General Admission: $25.00 pp (no dinner; no table service)
* Please call now! (928) 237-7908 for early reservation
HASSAYAMPA INN~MARINA, 122 E.GURLEY ST., PRESCOTT, AZ
50 years ago Duke Ellington and his band were invited to perform his concert along with the Trinity Cathedral Choir at the Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona. Last night I got to see an extraordinary and delightful performance in celebration of that event, performed by the Phoenix Chorale and the Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center Jazz Ensemble.
