Art House Event!

Jessica Dodd
March 31st - April 19th, 2007
7-11pm

Art House presents Jessica Dodd. Jessica is a photography major at Savannah College of Art and Design. Using photography, Jessic stimulates an unsettling childhood with small-scale sets and porcelain dolls.

111 New Street, Suite B (East Decatur Station)
www.arthousecoop.com

Toco Hills Artist Market

Stop by the Toco Hills Shopping Center and check out works by 15 artists in the annual
Toco Hill Artist Market.

The market will feature paintings, photography, ceramics, jewelry, woodwork, etc. Many of the participating artists will be featured in the upcoming Decatur Arts Festival!

Saturday, March 31, 2007
9-5pm
Toco Hills Shopping Center

Cash Bash!

Theatre Decatur invites you to its annual fundraiser the Cash Bash!

On Saturday, March 31st, the fundraiser will take place at the old Wachovia Building at 315 Ponce de Leon to celebrate Theatre Decatur!

Make your reservations today by calling 404.373.3904 or email info@theatredecatur.com
Tickets are $20
Attire is Black Tie Optional

If you are unable to attend, you may still support the theatre by way of donations.

Hope to see you there!

Saturday

Last day of Impressed at Vinson Gallery

• Last day of Vinson Gallery's Impressed Exhibition featuring works by M.C. Escher, Anne Desmet, Fernando Feijoo, Gary Goodman and Chris Pig, 404.370.1720
  
• 2-5pm: Eddie's Attic hosts a Partial Capo workshop, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents the Partial Capo DVD Release Party with Don Conoscenti and Randall Williams, 404.377.4976
  

Friday

Jennifer Daniels performs at Eddie's

• 7pm: Eddie's Attic presents Ben Wakeman, family-friendly music with warm vocals and strong harmonies that fans of James Taylor and David Wilcox will like, 404.377.4976
• 9:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents long time Attic favorite Jennifer Daniels, 404.377.4976
  

Thursday

Noam Chomsky

• 7:30pm: Indie Coffee and Books presents Indie Movie Night featuring Noam Chomsky: rebel without a pause. MIT professor and respected political analyst Noam Chomsky speaks his mind on sober issues including the U.S. war on terrorism, anti-American sentiment, media manipulation, the after-effects of 9/11, and social activism at high-profile gatherings. The film also features interviews with his wife, activits, fans and critics, and examines the truths and myths surrounding the anti-capitalist and longtime advocate of liberty and justice, 404.378.7110
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic hosts the CD Release with Sodajerk and Little Country Giants, 404.377.4976
  

Wednesday

Java Monkey hosts its weekly Wednesday Bluegrass
8:30pm
404.378.5002

Tuesday

• 7:15pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents Earl & Merle Black at the Decatur Library. Earl (Rice University) and Merle (Emory University) are two of the most knowledgeable experts on Southern politics (Politics and Society in the South, The Rise of Southern Republicans). They discuss growing political divisiveness in their revealing new book, Divided American: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics. They argue that neither party can claim majority status, and that the race for the White House now rests on a handful of states in the Midwest, 404.370.8450
• 7:30pm: Eddie's Attic hosts Comedy Night, 404.377.4976
  

Sunday

Aethelred the Unready at Theatre Decatur

• 2pm: Theatre Decatur presents Aethelred the Unready. A new historical tragicomedy by Atlanta's premier local playwright Marki Shalloe about the reign of England's king, Aethelred, 404.373.5311
• 5pm: The Clairmont Presbyterian Church presents the Georgia Festival Chorus. The chorus has sung much of the world's greatest choral literature since 1987. With the Cobb Symphony Orchestra, they have performed the Mozart Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Schubert's Mass in G. The chorus has performed concerts in many churches and cathedrals in Atlanta, London, Vienna and Salzburg, 404.634.3355
• 7pm: Eddie's Attic presents Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: Java Monkey hosts its Java Monkey Speaks Poetry open mic hosted by Kodac Harrison, 404.378.5002
  

Saturday

Working hard at Duckbill Studios

• 6-10pm: Duckbill Studios for Glassblowing invites everyone to their spring Open House at 3172 Ponce de Leon Ave. Glass demonstrations. Admission is free. Bring friends and family, 404.460.2791
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Ellis Paul and Chuck Pyle, 404.377.4976
• 10pm: Academy Theatre presents 14 year old singer/dancer/actress Chandler Converse , who makes her cabaret debut, sotryteller Audrey Galex offers "A Piece for Peace," and saxophonist Eugene IV teams with keyboardist Derrill "D-Lux" Pruitt. Where? Academy Theater's Late Night Saturday, 404.583.1270

Friday

M Butterfly at Onstage Atlanta

• 10am: Agnes Scott College hosts a public reading by Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, 404.471.6000
• 11am - 5pm: Emory's Visual Arts Building & Gallery hosts Atlanta artists, Aguilera and Bailey, as they presents their installation on Black and Cuban baseball leagues, 404.727.6515
• 7pm: MudFire hosts a free artist lecture and slide show inconjunction with the Molding a Playful Depth, a workshop with Lisa Orr. Lisa leads a two-day demonstration of hand-built pottery forming with molds, sprigs, slip trailing and using a variety of finishing techniques to achieve incredible surface depth and complexity. The workshop is March 24-25, $125 fee, class size 35. Please call 404.377.8033 for more information.
• 7pm: Eddie's Attic presents Hackensaw Boys with Michelle Malone, 404.377.4976
• 7:30pm: Emory's White Hall 208 hosts Finding Home: Film Screening and Discussion,. The Emory Psychoanalytic Institue presents its annual movie series, "Movie Mania," beginning January 2007. This screening if followed by a lecture by George Ganaway, M.D., 404.727.6123
• 8pm: Onstage Atlanta presents M Butterfly, a brilliant theatrical tour de force which, in its Broadway production, became an immediate critical and popular success. Drawn from real life events, involving the strange tale of a French diplomat who carried on a twenty-year relationship with a Chinese opera star without being aware that his "perfect woman" was really a man. The play becomes a powerful metaphor for the exploration of deeper themes; the preception of Eastern culture by the West and the persistent romanticism which clouds and inhibits the perception, 404.897.1802
• 9:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents a late show with Hackensaw Boys and Michelle Malone, 404.377.4976
  

Thursday

Yusef Komunyakaa

Suzan-Lori Parks

• 4pm: Agnes Scott College hosts a public reading by Yusef Komunyakaa, 404.471.6000
• 8pm: Agnes Scott College hosts a public reading by Suzan-Lori Parks, 404.471.6000
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Uncle Earl, 404.377.4976
  

Wednesday

• 7:30pm: Emory's White Hall 208 will be showing Wild Strawberries. Released the same year as The Seventh Seal, this film further cemented Bergman's reputation with its elaborate use of dreams to represent the emotional crisis of an aging professor traveling to another town to receive an award. Its bitter representation of married life suggests the influence of August Strindberg, whose works Bergman often staged in the theater. Victor Sjöström, who plays the lead role, was one of the foremost directors of silent Swedish cinema, 404.727.6123
• 8:30pm: Java Monkey hosts its weekely Wednesday Bluegrass, 404.378.5002
  

Tuesday

Georgia Center for the Book presents Dana White and Matthew Bernstein. These two veteran historians of the South will examine the topic of "Segregated Cinema in Atlanta" in a special lecture, part of the new Georiga in the Twentieth Century series. The program is jointly presented by the Center for Georgia Studies at Georgia College ans State University at Milledgeville and the University of Georgia Press.
7:15pm at the Decatur Library
404.370.8450

Apologies

Dearest Decatur Arts Alliance Blog Readers,

I apologize for the lack of posts lately. I've been sick for the past week, unable to make it in to the office where my reliable Arts in Decatur March Calendar is saved on my computer. Needless to say, I'm back and am eager to blog. In fact, I'll have six new posts up before you can say "The Decatur Arts Alliance rocks!"

Sincerely,

The Decatur Arts Alliance Blogger

P.S.: Feel free to leave a comment or let me know of any events I might be leaving out.

Tuesday

Cadillac Sky

Eddie's Attic presents
Cadillac Sky and the Lovell Sisters

Show Time: 8pm, Doors: 6:30pm
404.377.4976

Monday

Indie Coffee and Books
hosts Cafe Scientifique Series: Responding to Climate Change.
By Dr. Dave Tan, GA Tech and Dr. Ari Elson, Emory University,
this is a joint program of the Fernbank Museum, Emory and GA Tech.
7pm
404.378.7110

Creative Fine Art Hosts Artists Xplosion

Painting by Artists Xplosion participant, Corey Barksdale

Creative Fine Art hosts Artists Xplosion, a fine art show in Atlanta on March 16, 2007. Come out and enjoy a night of beautiful art and live jazz!
6pm - until
Southern Mills Warehouse
585 Wells Street
(blocks away from the Castleberry Hill Art District)

The Artists Xplosion will feature over 30 outstanding artists from the region. Freekin Bekin, a well-known jazz band will perform throughout the evening. Refreshments will be served.

For more information please visit the website at www.atlanta-artist-event.com or contact Corey Barksdale at 404.312.8864, barksdalecorey@hotmail.com

Sunday

The Delany Sisters

• 10am-5pm: Last day to see Domains of Wonder exhibit at the Carlos Museum, featuring 126 paintings from India drawn from one of the largest and most important collections of South Asian paintings, 404.727.4282
• 2pm: Theatre Decatur's last performance of Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, 404.373.3904
• 7pm: Eddie's Attic presents John Gorka, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: Java Monkey hosts its Java Monkey Speaks Poetry Open Mic hosted by Kodac Harrison, 404.378.5002
• 9:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents John Gorka, 404.377.4976

Saturday

at Foundation One Studios

• 10am-5pm: Last day to see Emory's Visual Arts Building and Gallery's Collectage: Transcribing Oral Memory by Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier. Marshall Linnenmeier uses photography along with cross-cultural mythology to examine and define human beings whose presence she finds compelling. Her images are distinguished by a lyrical approach to text as art and a knowing sense of color as a point of accentuation in altered photographic images, 404.727.6315
• 11am-6pm: Last day to see Tindel Michi La Calaveras Pop at Foundation One Studios. Tindel Michi will transform the once dangerous skull icon and render it a new pop image makover. One of a kind Dunny's Limited edition collectables will be available, 404.806.0925
• 12p,-8pm: Last day to see David Eichelberger's work at MudFire, 404.377.8033
• 7pm: Eddie's Attic presents Bobby Yany with The Phoenix Ouartet opening, 404.377.4976
• 9:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents Bobby Yang with Y O U opening, 404.377.4976
• 10:30pm: Academy Theatre's Late Night Saturdays presents Broadway A to Z, an anthology of the best of show music starring Ingenue's Amada Leigh Pickard, the spoof of FM drive time radio John and Jamie in the Morning, and Pushcart Prize nominated poet Collin Keely, 404.583.1270
  

Friday

Justin Earle

Eddie's Attic presents Shawn Mullins with Justin Earle opening the late show, 7pm and 9:30pm, 404.377.4976

Thursday

Shawn Mullins

• 7:15pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents Robert Crais at Decatur Library. Bestselling author (The Two Minute Rule, Indigo Slam, The Forgotten Man) Crais' intense new thriller, The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel, will delight his many fans and win new readers. It's nonstop action as former Marine, LAPD officer and mercenary Joe Pike is hired to protect a young woman from a mysterious killer. Critics are already calling the new book Crais' best, "a stunningly emotional thriller," 404.370.8450
• 7:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents Shawn Mullins and Friends, 404.377.4976
  

Wednesday

Bluegrass at Java Monkey

• 8pm: Eddie's Attic presents Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken, 404.377.4976
• 8:30pm: Java Monkey hosts its weekly Wednesday Bluegrass, 404.378.5002
  

Tuesday

See DuoAtL at Emory

• 7:15pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents James M. McPherson at the Decatur Library. The nation's preeminent Civil War historian, Pulitzer Prize-winner James McPherson, visits to discuss his new book, The Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. It is a work of great but accessible scholarship that examines the war and the people who endured it. McPherson is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolutionand many other prize-winning volumes, 404.370.8450
• 8pm: DuoATL: Brian Luckett and Nicole Randall perform at Emory's Schwartz Center. Emory guitar teacher Brian Luckett and flutist Nicole Randall explore the wealth of music from the 20th and 21st centuries written for this pairing while creating new additions to the repertoire through commissions and original works, 404.727.5050
  

Monday

Georgia Center for the Book presents Jon Clinch at the Decatur Library. Clinch's masterly debut novel Finn is being hailed by critics as one of th emost exciting literary books of recent years. It tells the remarkable, brutal story of Huckleberry Finn's father, one of the most notorious characters in American literature. Clinch's writing is "thunderously powerful, imbued with lyricism," and you won't want to miss his only major Atlanta appearance, 7:15pm, Decatur Library, 404.370.3070

Sunday

Eddie's Attic presents
Jonathan Byrd
and Disappear Fear
7pm, 404.377.4976

Saturday

Tommy Womack performs at Decatur CD and Eddies Attic

• Last day of Impressed, an exhibition of original prints at the Vinson Gallery, 404.370.1720
• 2pm: Tommy Womack will give an in-store performance at Decatur CD with beer provided by Twains, 404.371.9090
• 7-11pm: Art House presents Sara Elands: Fashion Designer. Elands is a student at GA State University. Through her designs she develops a sense of style using a feminine attitude. She creates everything from beautiful dress to practical purses,
  404.377.7050
• 8pm: Eddie's Attic hosts the CD release of Tommy Womack and Friends and Raising Appalachia, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: John Bigham performs at Emory's Schwartz Center. American tenor and Emory voice faculty member John Bigham has established a reputation for versatility and excellence across a wide spectrum of operactic and concert repertoire, 404.727.5050
• 8pm: Voices of Inner Strength perform at Emory's Cannon Chapel, 404.727.5050
  

Friday

Burning River Brass performs at Emory

• Noon: Emory's Carlos Museum presents Emory's Young Artists, this annual program features some of the most talented students from the Emory Music Department, 404.727.4282
• 6:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents Bain Mattox, Tin Cup Prophette and Lindsay Mac, 404.377.4976
• 8pm: Burning River Brass (BRB) performs at Emory's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. BRB has been dazzling audiences since 1996 with power and virtuosity, harmonious blend and consistently stirring performances. Composed of twelve of the finest brass and percussion players in the country, BRB is an ensemble on fire. Since 1999, they have released three CDs, all of which have been praised for their energy, sound and style, 404.727.5050
  

Thursday

Editor of Public Space, Brigid Hughes will be at Decatur Library

• 2:30pm: The Arts at Emory present Perspectives on Performance: Burning River Brass at Emory's Schwartz Center. The dazzling group of brass and percussion players known at Burning River Brass leads a lecture/demonstration, 404.727.5050
• 7pm: Blake Gutherie will play at Decatur CD with beer provided by Twains, 404.371.9090
• 7:15pm: Georgia Center for the Book presents A Literary Evening featuring Brigid Hughes, former editor of The Paris Review and now editing the independent literary magazine, Public Space. She'll be joined by a quartet of distinguished writers including Jamaican born poet Kwame Davis, author Aaron Petrovich and poets Jillian Weise and Alex Lemon, 404.370.3070
• 9:30pm: Eddie's Attic presents Gary Pfaff and John Pringle, 404.377.4976