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FTC Comedy Presents: Linda Stogner
Friday, November 15, 2024
at 8:00 PM at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Join us at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center for FTC Comedy presents a night of with Linda Stogner.
“Her mind is cracked - very funny!” – Joan Rivers
Emmy-award winner, Linda Stogner, is a true original with a unique comedy style. Her zany imagination, storytelling skills and unusual point of view have earned her many comedy honors including her own Dry Bar Comedy Special, “Linda Stogner; Welcome to My Planet,” Funniest Comic in Texas, Funniest Female Comedian in the Heartland andFinalist in the The Funniest Woman in America Contest. The comedian/filmmaker has appeared in the Emmy Award winning PBS/ABC television series, “Life 360.” She has also appeared in American Network’s LOL Comedy Special and The Joan Rivers Comedy Special.
She has performed at comedy festivals and competitions around the country including the prestigious HBO’s Women in Comedy Festivaland Laughing Skull Comedy Festival. She was a semi-finalist in both the Seattle International Comedy Competition and the Boston Comedy Festival and a finalist in the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Linda has worked with Dave Chappelle, Arsenio Hall, Kathleen Madigan, Brian Regan, Ryan Hamilton, Elayne Boosler, Bruce Bruce, Bill Maher, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Reep and Joan Rivers.
Also featured on this show are Kenny Lee and Fonzo Crow!
 Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me
Saturday, December 7, 2024, from 2:00-6:00PM
at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Saturday, December 7, 2024, from 2:00-6:00PM the Oak Cliff Cultural Center will screen the Red Reminds Me... series with Spacy (microcinema), hold a discussion between Tamera Garrett* and Yolanda Bell, and host a collective grief process engagement with Ofelia Alvarenga. In addition, there will be a mobile STD testing station by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me…, a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Red Reminds Me… will feature newly commissioned videos by Gian Cruz (Philippines), Milko Delgado (Panama), Imani Harrington (USA), David Oscar Harvey (USA), Mariana Iacono and Juan De La Mar (Argentina/Colombia), Nixie (Belgium), Vasilios Papapitsios (USA).
Through the red ribbon and other visuals, HIV and AIDS has been long associated with the color red and its connotations—blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites viewers to consider a complex range of images and feelings surrounding HIV, from eroticism and intimacy, mothering and kinship, luck and chance, memory and haunting. The commissioned artists deploy parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to build a new vocabulary for representing HIV today.
The title is drawn from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist, poet, and long-term survivor with HIV, who writes: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me…to be free.” * Linking “red” to freedom, Jennings flips the usual connotations of the color and offers a new way of thinking about the complexity of living with HIV. Just as a prism bends and refracts light, Red Reminds Me…, expands the emotional spectrum of living with HIV. It shows us that while grief, tragedy, and anger define parts of the epidemic, the full picture contains deeper, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory feelings.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
*Jennings recites this poem in the video Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, created by Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes for Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging.
*Garrett was featured in the video Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV, created by Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes for Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging.
 I DON’T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE | MOM (Brooke Chaney)
October 5 – November 15, 2024
LAST WEEK TO SEE THIS EXHIBITION
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is honored to present I DON’T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE a solo exhibition by MOM (Brooke Chaney) with a reception from 6 – 8 pm on Saturday, October 5.
MOM (Brooke Chaney) is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas, who has been actively creating since 2020. With a BFA in Fibers from the University of North Texas, Chaney draws deeply on their background in textile surface design processes, including screen printing, vector drawing, and heat transfer vinyl. This experience informs their approach to painting, where layers of flat, opaque shapes shift in color, temperature, and saturation to create punchy and surreal depictions of nature.
In I DON’T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE, Chaney uses vibrant colors, abstract forms, and dimensional elements to construct landscapes that evoke dreams, memories, and parallel realities—spaces where past, present, and future converge. These imagined landscapes exist as contemplative spaces, a space to pause and reflect on themes of personal narrative and the transient nature of time. Inspired by feelings of temporal displacement, I DON’T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE examines the relationship between linear and cyclical time, questioning how these concepts shape our perception of life and encouraging viewers to discover their own narratives within them.
As a professional artist, MOM (Brooke Chaney) has created art for numerous national brands, annually participated in local community engagement efforts, and co-founded the award-winning artist co-op and studio, TRADE Oak Cliff. Chaney’s work has been featured throughout DFW including in the 2024 AURORA Art Quest, the Creative Arts Center, 500X Gallery, and Pencil on Paper Gallery. Chaney’s mural is currently on view in Meow Wolf’s latest immersive art experience The Real Unreal in Grapevine, TX.
The artist presented a gallery talk on November 9, 2024, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM in the OC3 Gallery at Oak Cliff Cultural Center, which is now available on our YouTube channel.
For more information about the artist, please visit their website. madexmom.com
SWAN STRINGS AT OC3
TUESDAYS AT 6:30 PM * & SATURDAYS AT 11:00 AM 2024
Swan Strings Music Program is a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to provide free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services to North Texan individuals without access.
Questions? Contact Swan Strings at programs@swanstrings.com
* Thursday lessons will be moved to Tuesdays starting in November
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
223 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Phone: 214-670-3777
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