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35th Annual Black Arts Festival held in Kalamazoo Hundreds came out to celebrate local creatives in Kalamazoo. and last updated 2021-07-10 23:21:35-04 KALAMAZOO, Mich. â A long-held tradition returned to Kalamazoo this weekend, after COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel it last year. The Black Arts Festival brought hundreds of people together to celebrate local creatives. Paintings, jewelry, music, food and more filled Arcadia Creek during the 35th Annual Black Arts Festival. âI kind of really see my art as a form of social change,â says artist Maya James, who put her prints on display, with each one trying to picture positivity. ....
Credit Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo Bianca Washington-Ciungan, Director of Programs at the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, says the Arts Council s new Art Hop app was created in hopes that it could provide a green alternative to the printed guides. It s actually a website that will function as an app when saved to the home screen of your smartphone (it won t be found in your smartphone s app store). Credit Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo May 7 is the second month of having the Art Hop in-person after a year of online Art Hops during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it s twice as big as April s event. Artists will be stationed on Bates Alley, the Kalamazooo Mall, in front of the State Theatre, and at Kalamazoo Defender, housed in the Comerica Bank building on S. Rose St. That s where 22 year-old Maya James, an artist garnering national attention, will show her work from 6 - 8 pm during Art Hop. Cara Lieurance spoke to Washington-Ciungan and James for a preview. ....
Last night saw the top five of Drag Race UK battle it out to get into the semi-final of the competition, and battle truly is the only word to describe what went down. It was a battle of the bitches. In short: Lawrence, A’Whora and Ellie had the biggest row over performance ordering in history whilst Tayce and Bimini watched from the sidelines. Quite frankly, the amount of drama that went down in this episode was more than the rest of the entire season put together – seriously, it was worse than Ru’s H&M meltdown. So if you’re looking for an outlet to channel all your rage after last night’s episode, read these 23 tweets. ....
Locus magazine’s February 2021 issue, the list is a consensus by the Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and critics of genre fiction and non-fiction editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; Locus reviewers Liz Bourke, Alex Brown, Karen Burnham, Katharine Coldiron, Paul Di Filippo, Amy Goldschlager , Paula Guran, Rich Horton, Maya James, John Langan, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Ian Mond, Colleen Mondor, Tim Pratt, Elsa Sjunneson, Gary K. Wolfe, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro; Bob Blough; critics and authors Gwenda Bond, James Bradley, Niall Harrison, Paul Kincaid, Cheryl Morgan, Adam Roberts, and Graham Sleight. Art books were compiled with help from Arnie Fenner, Karen Haber, and senior editor Francesca Myman. Short fiction recommendations had input from editors and reviewers Rachel S. Cordasco, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Vanessa Fogg, Maria Haskins, Charles Payseur, Nisi Shawl, TG Shenoy, Sheree Renée ....
Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, Sheila Williams, ed. (MIT Press 978-0-26253-925-8, 240pp, $19.95, tp) September 2020. Artificial intelligence, genome tampering (eugenics), sex bots, and other forms of technology descend upon the middle class in Entanglements Asimov’s. Originally launched in 2011 by MIT Technology Review, Twelve Tomorrows is an annual anthology series that explores the role of technology in near and far futures. This year each author has written an original story revolving around the central theme of relationships, or “entanglements” as made infamous by Jada Pinkett Smith and Twitter memes. In these carefully constructed worlds, entanglements are built, destroyed, and sustained with AI and tech that serve as neutral forces, even if utilized by villainous tropes (greedy scientists, fundamentalist groups, ambitious women, etc.). As Sheila Williams’s introduction promises, technology might fill in the weaknesses ....