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About the Film
In 1968, America’s first Black variety show, “SOUL!,” helmed by producer and host Ellis Haizlip, premiered on public television. The pioneering series ran for five years, cementing itself as not only a vehicle to celebrate African American artistry, community, and culture but also as a platform for political expression and a powerful force in the fight for social justice.
Mr. SOUL! portrays in exquisite detail a revolutionary time in American culture and entertainment through vibrant archival footage and interviews with numerous Black luminaries who appeared on “SOUL!,” or were impacted by it.
Nestled in Houston’s Fourth Ward is the city’s historic Freedmen’s Town, a neighborhood of formerly enslaved Black people settled post-emancipation into what would become a cultural and artistic hub, rightfully earning the Fourth Ward its title as the "Harlem of the South" in the early twentieth century. While only around 50 of the original 508 structures are still standing in the 40-block district, Freedmen’s Town remains a historical, cultural and artistic hub, and local non-profit Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is dedicated to prot
CAM Houston to showcase Slowed & Throwed exhibit this year Chron 1/21/2021
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is re-opening its S
lowed and Throwed: Records of the City Through Mutated Lenses exhibit. The exhibit originally opened in 2020 but closed due to coronavirus concerns.
The two-part interdisciplinary exhibition is centered around the legacy of the late Houston legend DJ Screw. The exhibition features unconventional photography and new media created by strategies paralleling the musical methods of the innovative DJ, according to a press release.
The exhibit will feature artwork from visual artists with close ties to the city of Houston, including, B. Anele, Rabéa Ballin, Tay Butler, Jimmy
CAMH reopens February 18 with two major exhibitions.
By
Rob Sanford
1/20/2021 at 12:30pm
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has been closed since Covid-19 struck the nation last spring, but its illustrious team of curators and staff have not sat idle. From the first major renovation in over two decades, to the launch of CAMHLAB, an artist-in-residency program established to fill the void left by pandemic-related closures of studio and performance spaces, Houstonâs second-oldest art museum went to great lengths to prepare itself for the distant day it would be able to welcome visitors again.
And that long-anticipated day has come. On February 18 CAMH will reopen its doors to the public with two exhibitions,
IMAGE CREDIT: SOUL! director Stan Latham stands with cameraman on set for the interview between Host/Producer of the TV show SOUL! Ellis Haizlip with filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback s Baaddass Song) in a scene from the film Mr. SOUL! DIRECTED BY MELISSA HAIZLIP. Photo by Chester Higgins; Courtesy of Shoes in the Bed Productions
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African Diaspora Film Club at MoAD
Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD. We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us on the second Sunday of the month for a lively discussion of t