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SUMMARY:Workshop: From Memory to Sinema
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOPFROM MEMORY TO SINEMASaturday\, August 22nd | 1:00pm – 4:00pm \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\n$25 | Sustaining Member (with Special Passcode)$35 | General RegistrationPartial scholarships available by request to info@surelsplace.org \n\n\n\nThe 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 brief written exercise\, turning a vivid personal memory into one or two concise sentences. Using pencils\, index cards\, and colored markers\, each participant sketches three images (a beginning\, a middle\, and an end) that capture the memory’s arc. A group discussion follows on how framing\, scale\, and negative space shape emotional tone. In the second hour participants refine their panels\, add single line captions for dialogue or sound\, and place the cards on a communal Story Wall so individual narratives can converse. The final hour is devoted to a walk-through of the wall where each storyteller narrates their sequence and receives guided feedback on clarity\, pacing\, and sensory detail. Everyone departs with a concise visual blueprint that can seed a short film\, graphic narrative\, or written vignette while highlighting shared themes of place\, identity\, and transformation. \n\n\n\nAges 16 and up \n\n\n\nNote: “Sinema” is “cinema” in Haitian Creole and al’ikens Plancher’s artistic brand.  \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY: \n\n\n\nal’ikens Plancher is a writer-director from Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. He began high school at 12 and college at 16\, turning away from a possible diplomatic career to pursue his childhood dream of filmmaking and represent his country through his art.His work spans television and film\, including The Chi (Showtime) and Yellowstone (Paramount)\, and award-winning shorts such as Remnants (HBO Best Short Film)\, Konpa (Tribeca Film Festival)\, and Boat People (Oscar®-qualified).He has spoken at the University of California\, Irvine; Florida International University; Florida Atlantic University; and the Latin American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. His work is supported by Tribeca Studios\, SFFILM Rainin Grant\, Ragdale\, NALIP\, the Wolfsonian\, Oolite Arts\, Third Horizon\, Surel’s Place\, and is a Creative Capital Awards Finalist.His other interests are spirituality\, relationships\, and food. \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/workshop-from-memory-to-sinema/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Reading: Boat People
DESCRIPTION:READINGBOAT PEOPLEThursday\, August 27th | 7:30pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\n$10  |  General Admissionfree  |  Surel’s Place Sustaining Members (with Special Passcode) \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS!\n\n\n\n\nat The Creative Space: 121 E 34th Street in Garden City \n\n\n\nal’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 followed by a moderated discussion that links the film’s historical events to current debates on migration\, belonging\, and civic responsibility. \n\n\n\nCAST:Cassan Francois……….MarieJodeen Revere…………Dr. Talia ClarkLyonel Denis…………….PierreJean-Pierre Vertus……LouisJodi Eichelberger……..TomGordon Reinhart……….The Brigadier GeneralAbigail Wells…………….Narrator \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY: \n\n\n\nal’ikens Plancher is a writer-director from Port-au-Prince\, Haiti. He began high school at 12 and college at 16\, turning away from a possible diplomatic career to pursue his childhood dream of filmmaking and represent his country through his art.His work spans television and film\, including The Chi (Showtime) and Yellowstone (Paramount)\, and award-winning shorts such as Remnants (HBO Best Short Film)\, Konpa (Tribeca Film Festival)\, and Boat People (Oscar®-qualified).He has spoken at the University of California\, Irvine; Florida International University; Florida Atlantic University; and the Latin American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh. His work is supported by Tribeca Studios\, SFFILM Rainin Grant\, Ragdale\, NALIP\, the Wolfsonian\, Oolite Arts\, Third Horizon\, Surel’s Place\, and is a Creative Capital Awards Finalist.His other interests are spirituality\, relationships\, and food. \n\n\n\nThis programming is supported in part by Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/reading-boat-people/
LOCATION:The Creative Space\, 121 E 34th Street\, Garden City\, 83714
CATEGORIES:Final Event,Reading
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SUMMARY:Art Spark
DESCRIPTION:COMMUNITY ART PARTYART SPARKSaturday\, August 29th | 11:00am – 7:00pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nat Kleiner Park: 1900 N. Records Ave. in Meridian \n\n\n\nSurel’s Place will be a participating arts organization at the annual Community Art Party: Art Spark! Visit us at the Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park in Meridian for a full-day celebration featuring live music from regional and local bands; tasty eats and drinks; hands-on art stations\, murals\, and chalk art battles; community art booths & artist showcases; and featured dance\, music\, and theater performances. Come say hi while enjoying art\, music\, food\, and fun!
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/art-spark/
LOCATION:Idaho
CATEGORIES:Community Participation,Special Event
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SUMMARY:OPENING RECEPTION: Illuminated by Fire
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITIONILLUMINATED BY FIRE \n\n\n\nOPENING RECEPTIONThursday\, September 24th | 5:30pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nGALLERY HOURSFriday\, September 25th  |  by appointment (send request to info@surelsplace.org)Saturday\, September 26th  |  10:00am – 1:00pmSunday\, September 27th  |  10:00am – 1:00pm \n\n\n\nFIRST FRIDAY ART AND STUDIO STROLLFriday\, October 2nd | 5:30pm – 9:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nA ceramics exhibition bringing together local talent and international works from the Surel’s Place private collection. \n\n\n\nFEATURING WORKS BY:Kelly CoxRolland FletcherLaurie GoldsteinEric MullisAngela NeiwertSamuel L PadenAda YoelsClementine Zenner
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/illuminated-by-fire/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:OPEN HOURS: Illuminated by Fire
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITIONILLUMINATED BY FIRE \n\n\n\nOPENING RECEPTIONThursday\, September 24th | 5:30pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nGALLERY HOURSFriday\, September 25th  |  by appointment (send request to info@surelsplace.org)Saturday\, September 26th  |  10:00am – 1:00pmSunday\, September 27th  |  10:00am – 1:00pm \n\n\n\nFIRST FRIDAY ART AND STUDIO STROLLFriday\, October 2nd | 5:30pm – 9:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nA ceramics exhibition bringing together local talent and international works from the Surel’s Place private collection. \n\n\n\nFEATURING WORKS BY:Kelly CoxRolland FletcherLaurie GoldsteinEric MullisAngela NeiwertSamuel L PadenAda YoelsClementine Zenner
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/open-hours-illumnated-by-fire/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20260927T100000
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SUMMARY:OPEN HOURS: Illuminated by Fire
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITIONILLUMINATED BY FIRE \n\n\n\nOPENING RECEPTIONThursday\, September 24th | 5:30pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nGALLERY HOURSFriday\, September 25th  |  by appointment (send request to info@surelsplace.org)Saturday\, September 26th  |  10:00am – 1:00pmSunday\, September 27th  |  10:00am – 1:00pm \n\n\n\nFIRST FRIDAY ART AND STUDIO STROLLFriday\, October 2nd | 5:30pm – 9:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nA ceramics exhibition bringing together local talent and international works from the Surel’s Place private collection. \n\n\n\nFEATURING WORKS BY:Kelly CoxRolland FletcherLaurie GoldsteinEric MullisAngela NeiwertSamuel L PadenAda YoelsClementine Zenner
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/open-hours-illuminated-by-fire/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20261002T173000
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SUMMARY:First Friday Art & Studio Stroll
DESCRIPTION:LIVE-WORK-CREATE DISTRICTFIRST FRIDAY ART & STUDIO STROLLFriday\, October 2nd | 5:30pm – 9:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nGarden 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. \n\n\n\nOur October First Friday specially features the 5-Year Anniversary of Illuminated! where local artists project artwork throughout the District\, lighting up the night from 7:30pm – 9:30pm. Illuminated! offers immersive experiences from artists of all different backgrounds who produce projection and light art for the public to navigate through and explore. \n\n\n\nILLUMINATED! ARTISTS:MJ AVILA-POPEROLAND BECERRAJUSTIN BLAUCHCHRIS CALLORCWI 2D ART CLASS*CWI ART CLUB*CWI ART CLASS*RYAN DONAHUE & BRENTON VIERTEL as:ULTRAPLASTIKGORAN FAZIL*WILLOW SEXTONWILLOW WELLSMEGAN WHITE* \n\n\n\nORGANIZED BY:JOSEPH HASKIN* \n\n\n\n* COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHOfaculty\, students\, and alumni \n\n\n\nAlso experience the Open Studio Scramble from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Travel around to the 6 holes and avoid artistic barriers to getting your ball in the hole. Then bring your card back to Illuminated! at Surel’s Place\, and hold it under the black light to see if you won a prize! \n\n\n\nLOCATIONS FOR MINI GOLF:Surel’s Place – 212 E 33rd StreetsPacePort – 121 E 33rd StreetOldspeak / Visual Arts Collective (grassy patch off of Osage near 36th street)Door #3 – 413 East 37th StreetHoldover House- 3338 N Carr StreetCreate Gallery and Frames (back parking) – 3520 W Chinden \n\n\n\nStarbelly Dancers will also be performing this First Friday. \n\n\n\nMore information about the next First Friday\, is available at The LWC District First Friday Event Page on Facebook. \n\n\n\nSPONSORED BY: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2026 Illuminated! is sponsored by the College of Western Idaho. \n\n\n\nTHE FIRST FRIDAY SEASON IS ALSO SPONSORED BY: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee below to view an interactive Google map of the First Friday participating venues.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/first-friday-art-studio-stroll-11/
LOCATION:Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, Idaho\, 83714
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Open Studios
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SUMMARY:Boise Open Studio Tour: AIR Eli Craven
DESCRIPTION:BOSCO BOISE OPEN STUDIO TOURELI CRAVENOctober 10th | 10:00am – 6:00pmfree \n\n\n\n\nSurel’s Place honors the legacy of artist Surel Mitchell (a founding member of BOSCO) by offering her home and studio to artists of promise\, and of renown\, for month-long residencies and professionally supported art events. In this inspiring live/work space\, artists of all disciplines are given time and freedom to reflect\, create\, and share their work with the community. This year\, Surel’s Place celebrates it’s 15th season\, and will have Eli Craven in residence during the BOSCO Open Studios Tour. \n\n\n\n\nBoise Open Studios Collective Organization features over 125 Treasure Valley artists working in painting\, sculpture\, photography\, ceramics\, printmaking\, jewelry\, textiles\, mosaic\, collage\, assemblage\, digital images\, and glass. Our main event\, the Open Studios Tour\, occurs during the first two weekends of October each year\, with half of the artists opening their studios on the first weekend and the rest on the second. This event aims to enhance public understanding of the artistic process\, foster connections\, and build community.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/boise-open-studio-tour-air-eli-craven/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Studios
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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP: FOUND FAMILIES
DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOPFOUND FAMILIESSaturday\, October 17th | 1:00pm – 4:00pm$45 \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nThis collage workshop with Artist-in-Residence Eli Craven focuses on re-interpreting family image archives through alterations and combinations with additional found and made materials. We explore family photography and portraiture\, the meanings they carry\, and how we can transform them through these added materials. You may use additional materials such as thread\, fabric\, papers\, documents\, wood\, mirrors\, metals\, etc. As we create collages and tell stories\, we will also discuss the meaning behind the combinations of these materials and how images change over time. \n\n\n\nYou are encouraged to bring some of your own materials to work with: copies and test strips\, in addition to originals of photographs intended to use in the workshop. A variety of found photographic images and various sources will also be available. \n\n\n\nPartial scholarships available by request to info@surelsplace.org. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nAlthough currently based in Indiana\, Eli Craven was raised in Idaho. “Returning to Idaho for this project feels appropriate given the origins of my relationship to photography and a return to the subject matter of my childhood\,” Eli says. In his childhood home\, magazines and movies were censored\, select films and TV shows were forbidden\, sexuality and death were seldom discussed. The power images hold was discovered through scrutinizing forbidden magazine collections\, daytime soap operas\, and movies. The impetus of his practice resides in this desire to see\, only to discover nothing shocking. Instead\, seemingly mundane imagery is isolated and fragmented\, presenting a narrative exploring the image’s role in processes of socialization. \n\n\n\nEli left Idaho with a BFA in photography from Boise State back in 2011. He went on to pursue an MFA in photography at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Purdue University\, his work has been widely exhibited and published. Most recently his work has been exhibited at Kant Gallery in Copenhagen\, Denmark; KlompChing Gallery in Brooklyn\, New York; and at the Blue Sky\, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/workshop-found-families/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Exhibit & Art Talk: A PLEA FOR TENDERNESS
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT & ART TALKA PLEA FOR TENDERNESSThursday\, October 29th | 7:00pm – 8:30pmfree \n\n\n\nIn this project Eli Craven aims to position the viewer as a collaborator or partner in the physical experience of the work. Viewers are invited to alter photographic compositions through a series of kinetic elements and reflective materials\, including sliding wood panels\, hinged doors\, and movable peepholes. The viewer must engage and activate the framing components to reveal the photographic image\, potentially provoking the desire to see what is hidden within. Participation is integral to this project\, with entire scenes rendered incomplete without the viewer’s touch and imagination filling the gaps and visualizing what lies beneath the surface of the photograph\, or behind the veil. \n\n\n\nAlthough the works exist within the canon of photography\, they are sculptural objects that utilize the photograph as part of their construction. Eli’s work started with an obsession for photography and its materials and that fixation remains at the core of his practice.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/exhibit-art-talk-a-plea-for-tenderness/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition and Artist Talk
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