Official Grand Opening and Industry Homecoming Celebration
The CSRA African American
Arts Alliance will be hosting a Grand Opening Celebration on October 22nd.
The black-tie red-carpet affair begins at 6:30pm and
will be held at the newly opened Kroc Center in downtown Augusta.
Our goal with this and
all of our activities is to encourage promotion, patronage and investment
in the arts by building bridges across the cultural community locally
and throughout the country. The theme for this year is “the CSRA in the
1940’s and the then expanding context of the Harlem Renaissance.” The celebrations will include visual arts presentations and special
performances by a variety of performers currently living in the CSRA and home-grown
celebrities living abroad.
Help us…get the word out to the arts and entertainment
professionals within your circle, who happen to be living abroad and those
currently working in the area. We would like to invite all to be a part of this
annual celebration surrounding the cultural progress and achievement within the
CSRA.
Special Announcements
During the event we will
announce the recipient of our 2011-2012 Artist-in-Residence and our Poet Laureate
for the inaugural year. More detail and specifics will be coming soon.
For more information contact:
Kia Faulk: Special Events Coordinator
Artist-in-Residence
The CSRA African American
Arts Alliance is launching an Artist-in-Residence Program. The goal of the program
is to support a visual artist for one-year on projects that increase
accessibility, awareness and participation in the visual arts throughout the
CSRA with special considerations for under-served communities.
We invite individual artists
to submit applications for our Artist-In-Residence Program. Some detail is
listed below, additional information available upon request.
- The selected visual artist will chronicle a
year of current events/issues/of the CSRA African American community
through visual art.
- The work will be published quarterly in the
Arts Alliance newsletter and periodic exhibitions will be scheduled to
showcase completed work and in support of the mission, vision and values
of the organization.
- At the completion of the term, the Executive
Board will determine which piece (s) of art will be purchased to become a
part of the permanent collection of the CSRA African American Arts
Alliance.
For more information or if you would like to be
considered, contact:
Khafre Kugichakalia Abif: Program Coordinator
CSRA African American Arts Alliance Poet
Laureate
The CSRA African American
Arts Alliance is seeking a local literary artist to serve as Poet Laureate. The
person selected will serve as a public advocate for the appreciation and
advancement of the literary arts in the Central Savannah River Area. The goal
of the program is to support the literary artist for one-year on projects that
increase awareness and participation in the literature throughout the CSRA with
special considerations for under-served communities.
We invite individual artists
to submit applications for consideration. Some detail is listed below,
additional information available upon request.
·
The selected candidate will
chronicle the year of current events / issues / milestones of the CSRA African
American community through original prose, poetry and essays.
·
Completed
works will be published quarterly in the Arts Alliance newsletter and periodic
public presentations will be scheduled.
·
At the
completion of the term The Executive Board will compile the collection of
writing into a volume to become a part of permanent literary collection of the
CSRA African American Arts Alliance.
For more information or if you would like to be
considered, contact:
Khafre Kugichakalia Abif: Program Coordinator
Arts Databases / Directory
To support cultural progress
in the CSRA, we are building databases of arts and entertainment professionals
across all arts disciplines throughout the CSRA. The listing will include
visual and performing artists; cultural and historical sites; social and
advocacy agencies and other related industry-centric listings.
Upon completion, we hope
this will be a great resource for other groups to have increased knowledge and
understanding of the depth and breadth of talent that exist within our
community that can be incorporated into the growing cultural fabric and
economic progress of the area.
For more information, contact:
Joey Traina: Community Outreach &
Communications Coordinator
A Comprehensive Cultural Timeline
We have begun to build a
complete timeline of the cultural evolution of the CSRA. Our goal is to go back
to the founding of this area by the British as trading post (and a line of
defense against the Spanish and French) to develop a list the arts and
entertainment milestones, people, events and cultural activities from that
period to the modern era. We will begin
to populate our timelines with information, images and anecdotes that we know
and can confirm. As a point of initiation our work will begin in the 1730’s.
This is a long-term
project, but frequent progress reports will be made. We encourage local arts
& entertainment professionals and agencies throughout the area to use this
information to inform and inspire new works of art as well as in support of
advocacy initiatives.
To support this project or to get more
information, contact:
Wayne O'Bryant: Historian / Cultural Research
Project Coordinator
1st Friday Event - - Monthly Artist
Gathering
Friday September 2nd, 6pm – 9pm.
Continuing our monthly
tradition, we will be hosting our industry gathering on Friday September 2nd
from 6-9pm at 601 Broad Street. Each month a kaleidoscope of creative minds come
together to inspire, encourage, partner and promote each other and our industry
as a whole…we look forward to seeing you with us.
Blue Bistro Theater will
have a special live performance in support of the CSRA African American Arts
Alliance.
Special note…don’t let
the name fool ya, we are visionary in our thinking and we do not allow race,
religion, sexual orientation, age or gender hinder what we are doing. We are
not respecters of people and hope as a body to bring out the best in all of us.
For organizational contact:
