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LIBERATION FORUM
Friday, August 25th from 4:30 – 6 PM
Screening of the short film In the Sky’s Wild Noise about Walter Rodney author of the essential work How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and a 15-minute post screening Q&A.
Free and open to the public.
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Filling in the GAPS
PANEL DISCUSSION AND DANCE DEMONSTRATIONS
presented by ORIZON
Saturday, August 26, 1 - 3 PM
We are Fostering Community by standing up and sharing who YOU are around the world:
WHY: To bridge the gaps of history, knowledge and understanding intergenerationally and internationally. We look back so we can move forward with more ease and awareness.
WHAT: Panel discussion about personal stories and observations through movement, dance, music, race, racial history, immigration/migration. Education by communication in sharing one’s truth of culture without suppressing another.
Hosted by Micaela Guitterez-Tillet of Orizon and Obiora Asiama of Dallas Afro Fusion/Dance Community and featuring 5 reputable DALLAS/FT. WORTH residents “Filling in the GAPS" is supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture.
We DANCE to connect, communicate (talk with not over) to educate & LISTEN to understand without judgement to create growth with our community "WORLD" together. UNIDOS POR SIEMPRE 🙌🏾 United Forever with a purpose.
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RIGHT 2 WRITE
POETRY SLAM FESTIVAL
Saturday, September 2, 11 AM - 10 PM
The Right 2 Write Poetry Slam Festival is a one-day poetry festival in Dallas filled with writing workshops, documentary film screening, a story slam, haiku battle, all culminating in one fun filled evening of a grand slam event and live afterparty. The events will occur in three separate venues in Oak Cliff. There will be 15 competitors battling it out for $1800 total in cash prize money.
1st Place- $1,000 2nd Place- $500 3rd Place- $100 Registration Returned
$150 prize for both the story slam and haiku battle winners!
Register to compete or attend.
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MENDING GARDENS:
THE AGED NEW
A Collaborative Project
by the Black Mari and Abby Bagby
Thursday, September 7, 7 - 10 PM
Community is made up of collaboration and exchanging of ideas, of spending time together not only to share resources but to share joy and stories. In this, we build each other up and remind ourselves that this is how we are meant to exist. We believe in being in physical space together and putting our hands to the work, experiencing life through touch. We believe in breaking down hierarchies and celebrating collective engagement, using art to further those ideals.
mending gardens: the aged new is a collaboration between the Black Mari, Abby Bagby and residents of Dallas. Through organic creation and tactile activity, any who chose to participate added their skills and narrative to two textile-based works, thereby generating a conversation that takes the work far past what either individual artist could've created alone.
The artworks engage the longstanding historical arts of weaving and garment-making, disciplines widely known to be communal practices. Keeping true to anticapitalist and collectivist ideals, the participants aren't required or expected to display "talent" of any kind, instead to use their unique background and abilities to approach each piece in a way that feels natural to them. Every artist is equally credited for their contribution, each voice being as important as the next within the final product.
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LADIES RHYTHM RETREAT
Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 10 AM -1 PM
Join Jennifer Gonzales at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center in a judgement free zone as she teaches us basic steps and choreographed dances of Bachata and Salsa culminating in a dance party to show off our new moves.
Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes in colors that celebrate Hispanic/Latin/Latino Heritage Month, Mexican Independence Day, and National Dance Day and shoes that allow sliding and gliding across the dance floor.
Learn more about Jennifer Gonzales' upcoming classes and events by joining her email list here.
Free and open to the public.
Space is limited...sign up before it fills up.
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ON VIEW IN THE OC3 GALLERY
 Antonio Lechuga | Artist Talk & Cobija Art Workshop
August 26, 5:00 – 5:30 PM
Antonio Lechuga will talk about his newest work in his solo exhibition “Structures of Softness” currently on view through September 2, 2023 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center. Antonio will lead a Cobija Art Workshop immediately following the talk. Seating for the workshop is limited.
 Romulo Martinez
For Good or Bad
September 9 - October 7, 2023
Reception: September 9, 6 – 8 pm
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is pleased to present artist Romulo Martinez’ For Good or Bad opening on September 9 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm.
Venezuelan born artist Romulo Martinez incorporates various mixed media techniques including painting, collage, and serigraphy to create two and three-dimensional artworks that represent human emotion through allegorical narratives with color playing a key conceptual role. Often playful and surreal, Martinez’ work seeks to connect the viewer to their own emotions and human experience thereby infusing the work with new narrative and conceptual content.
In For Good or Bad Martinez’ newest body of work continues his exploration into the complexity of human experience where emotion and thinking coincide to guide one’s personal narrative. While the objects and elements in his work are sourced from his own self-discovery, their existence in the everyday allows the viewer to connect through a collective narrative of human existence while offering a perspective different from their own.
Romulo Martinez is a Venezuelan artist residing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas. Martinez has a degree in Fine Arts, Mention in Painting, from the University of Zulia and a Master’s in Artistic Production, Artistic Practice specialty, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
He has several awards and artistic recognitions, and 12 solo exhibitions in leading museums, cultural institutions and private galleries, including the most recent Reflejos held at Daisha Board Gallery – Dallas. His work has been exhibited in more than 70 collective exhibitions, festivals, and art salons internationally including Maracaibo, Caracas, Valencia, Maracay, Barcelona, Trujillo and Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá-Colombia, Valencia-Spain, Aruba, City of Singapore-Singapore, Lima-Peru, and within the United States in Miami, Dallas, Frisco, Coppell, Denton, Plano and Fort Worth.
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
223 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday
12 PM - 6 PM
Phone: 214-670-3777
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