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KCUR (Kansas City’s NPR Station) previews America: Now and Here

REPOSTED from KCUR’s site.

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“America: Now and Here” is a two-year national project combining poetry, theatre, film, visual arts and music. It launches Friday, May 6, in Kansas City, Missouri before traveling to Detroit in July and Chicago in October.

by Laura Spencer

Kansas City, Mo. “America: Now and Here” is a two-year national project combining poetry, theatre, film, visual arts and music. It launches Friday, May 6, in Kansas City, Missouri before traveling to Detroit in July and Chicago in October.

The goal is to start a conversation about the American experience in a new way: through ART.

America: Now and Here
May 6 – 28, 2011
Kansas City, Mo.

Launch: Friday, May 6, 2011, 7 – 9 pm with DJ Spooky
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore
Kansas City, Mo.

May 6, 5:30 – 9:00 pm — AC: KC Opening Reception
Cocoon Gallery
115 W. 18th Street
Kansas City, Mo.

KC Studio Preview

KC Studio Previews America: Now and Here’s opening in Kansas City.

America: Now and Here was also conceived as a way to foster a new civic relationship with the arts, and engage audiences who might otherwise see the arts as irrelevant to their daily lives or be disinclined to visit a museum, gallery, theater, or concert hall.

“Where art sometimes divides individuals, America: Now and Here is finding a way for art to unite us, to strengthen our nation’s communities through the shared cultural experiences that define us,” said Abby Sims Beckloff, External Affairs Director of the Mid-America Arts Alliance. “We are so pleased to be a part of this inaugural experience in Kansas City, and we can’t wait to see what great things will happen across the country as the America: Now and Here conversation grows.”

Dorothy Dunn, Director of America: Now and Here, said, “The need to engage with each other is at the very heart of our being as Americans. Art is often the shared experience that brings us together to discuss and debate, and this journey seeks to use the power of art to expand the conversation.”

Read the full Article at KC Studio

KC Star Previews America: Now and Here

Alice Thorson at the KC Star previews America: Now and Here:

The epicenter of May First Fridays is the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, where the New York-based “America: Now and Here” project will present events that aim to initiate a conversation about America.

It’s a mammoth production, involving local and national artists, poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians. There’s also an emerging artist exhibit at the Cocoon Gallery and a performance by DJ Spooky during Friday’s opening festivities. The Leedy-Voulkos gallery is at 2012 Baltimore Ave. For specifics, go tohttp://kansascity.americanowandhere.org.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/04/2847137/first-friday-america-now-and-here.html#ixzz1Lya3wHm2