EXHIBIT & ART TALKPENITENTSaturday, July 11th | 7:00pm – 8:30pm free Artist-in-Residence Camilla Taylor focused their residency on a series of drawings referring to the myth of St. Mary of Egypt. She is depicted covered in her own hair after decades of an ascetic life wandering through the desert. Presumably, even her clothes disintegrated. Rather […]
LIVE-WORK-CREATE DISTRICTFIRST FRIDAY ART & STUDIO STROLLFriday, August 7th | 5:30pm - 8:30pm free Garden City’s Surel L. Mitchell Live-Work-Create District is lively with artists, art studios, and businesses year-round, but especially during free First Friday events. It's a great way to explore the local art scene, with exhibitions, readings, and performances at various locations. […]
WORKSHOPFROM MEMORY TO SINEMASaturday, August 22nd | 1:00pm – 4:00pm $25 | Sustaining Member (with Special Passcode)$35 | General RegistrationPartial scholarships available by request to info@surelsplace.org The session opens with a two minute excerpt from artist-in-residence al’ikens Plancher's Boat People proof of concept to show how lived experience can be distilled into cinematic language. Participants then complete a […]
READINGBOAT PEOPLEThursday, August 27th | 7:00pm - 8:30pm free al'ikens Plancher's residency will conclude with a public staged reading of pivotal scenes from the newly revised draft of Boat People, performed by local actors. It explores the forgotten history of Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo Bay in the 1990s. The reading will run about 20-25 minutes and be […]
