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Flushing Town Hall today announced the selected films to be honored at this year s Crazy Talented Asians & Friends animation shorts showcase, Celebrating APA Heritage Month, Frame by Frame, a YouTube livestream event on Saturday, May 29th at 6:00 PM (EDT). The evening program also features live conversation with the artists to share their stories. Flushing Town Hall is excited to continue promoting works by young and emerging Asian-heritage artists with the return of Crazy Talented Asians & Friends. Asian/Asian American artists and their stories need to be heard and cherished, especially in these times, says Ellen Kodadek, Flushing Town Hall s Executive & Artistic Director. We have been a strong advocate of arts equity since 1979, supporting local, immigrant, national, and international artists. We develop partnerships and collaborations to bring people together by presenting arts and culture from around the world. Highlighting Asian/Asian American perspectives and talen
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WILLIAMSBURG William & Mary will honor Anthony Kennedy, retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Faith Ringgold, renowned artist, writer, teacher and lecturer, during its Commencement weekend May 21-23.
The university recently awarded the two with honorary degrees. Due to COVID precautions, both received their degrees during private events ahead of Commencement weekend and recorded brief remarks for graduates and families. Their remarks will be shared at the university’s six outdoor ceremonies at Zable Stadium.
Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court in 2018 after serving 30 years on the nation’s highest court. Kennedy took senior status on the Supreme Court. In that capacity, he continues to work in his chambers on many matters. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and took his seat on Feb. 18, 1988. Ringgold is renowned for her mixed media work in painting, sculpture, fabric and performance.
American sitcom star, Bob Hearts Abishola, on Glo-sponsored African Voices
Published 7 May 2021
FOLAKE Olowofoyeku, a popular actress on an American hilarious sitcom television series, Bob Hearts Abishola, is one of the guests on this week’s African Voices Changemakers on CNN International.
The 30-minute programme sponsored by telecommunications service provider, Globacom, will also host South African singer, Makhadzi, who is fondly addressed as the ‘Queen of Limpopo’ by her teeming fans.
Olowofoyeku, who also plays music under the moniker, The Folake, was born in 1983 in Lagos, Nigeria.
She relocated to the United States in 2001 and bagged a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the City College of New York.
Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2021 Jazz Awards Winners
Ron Carter and Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.by BWW News Desk
Master musician and educator Ron Carter, often credited as jazz s most recorded bassist, and author Kevin Whitehead, long-running jazz critic on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, have won Lifetime Achievement Awards in the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, announced today.
As trending in the greater jazz community, creative women earned significant recognition: Composer-orchestra leader Maria Schneider, whose album Data Lords (ArtistShare) is Record of the Year, and drummer-producer educator Terri Lyne Carrington, Jazz Musician of the Year, won multiple awards. Women prevailed in several other instrumentalists categories, too.
Democrats are accused of abusing earmarked funding to spend BILLIONS of tax dollars on woke projects including a $436M yoga retreat in New Jersey and $1M for cultural placemaking in LA
A decade-long ban on controversial earmarks - which allow funding for House members personal projects - has just been overturned
Since then Democrats and Republicans have flooded the House with funding requests
Funding requests include $4million for a science center, $407K for Native American arthritis, $436K for a yoga retreat and $250k for the Michelle Obama library
Sen Pat Toomey said the projects were incredibly abusive , and used by Democrats to buy votes