Artists making art right now is truly a blessing: Seattle poet, playwright, performer, and artist Anastacia-Reneé will present
(Don t be Absurd) Alice in Parts at the Frye Art Museum, running from January 30 to April 25. Grounded in the Black feminist and womanist tradition, Anastacia-Reneé explores gentrification and its detrimental effects on the body in the show, through the eyes of her character Alice Metropolis. The immersive installation allows viewers to walk through Alice s home, which we can t quite do just yet due to COVID restrictions. Instead, the Frye will host a virtual celebration and special performance this Saturday from 5-6:30pm. Viewers can expect a virtual tour of the show and a choreopoem inspired by Alice, read by seven artists and poets.
Fozia Yasin
Conservations around cinema may sound absurd, even heartless, at
a place like Kashmir. There is one defunct cinema hall, a few meters from the
park where the Valley’s Half Widows organise their monthly sit-in for years
now. The faces are familiar to the passersby. And all they can do is move on as
they recite a silent prayer!
US-based Kashmir-born film director and screenwriter Danish
Renzu went ahead to make a film around the fortitude of these women.
Set in the turbulent 90s and amidst heavy militarization of
Kashmir, Renzu’s Half Widow is the story of a newly-wed Kashmiri
Seattle s indie movie theater scene hangs on by a reel
âWe were just flat out closed. Nobody. Nothingâ said Jeff Brien, managing partner at
Faraway Entertainment. They operate eight theaters in western Washington, including the Admiral in West Seattle and Varsity in the University District.
Except for a few weeks in June, movie theaters are been shut down since March with little or no revenue, and theyâre running on fumes.
Justin Pritchett, the new managing director of the
Ark Lodge Cinemain Columbia City said, âThe clock has run out. We re depending on (rent) moratorium to allow us to stay in house a little longer.â
Seattle businesses, non-profits hope for some of that federal stimulus money
Few people know everything that s in the new federal stimulus bill yet, but local businesses and non-profits hope there s something in it for them.
All over the greater Seattle area, businesses, non-profits and cultural institutions are holding out hope that the stimulus will help them survive through the end of the pandemic.
The bill revives the the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), for example, which helps businesses keep their staff employed.
Cori Myka plans to apply for some of that PPP money. She runs the
Orca Swim School in South Seattle, which helps people get over their fear of water. It does this by coaching them in small groups in a swimming pool heated to 94 degrees.
In the USA, âCinema Italian Styleâ unspools as a virtual edition
Notturno, Italyâs candidate for the Oscars
Notturno by Gianfranco Rosi
Italian cinema can be seen in the entire United States from today, Thursday 10 December, for one week, with Cinema Italian Style, the programme organised and promoted by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà which has chosen not to close and, thanks to its collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival, relaunches with a special online edition dedicated to Federico Fellini in the year of his centenary.
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Until 17 December, the annual meeting of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle transforms itself into an edition available in the entire expanse of the United States, giving the selected films the opportunity to be seen on a fundamental territory of the global market.