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 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.
 The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is honored to present WRITE TO ME a group exhibition curated by artist Carlos Donjuan. An opening reception will be held from 6 – 8 pm on Saturday, December 14 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center.
Write To Me features work from artists incorporating text in their work. As individuals, they are graffiti artists, sign painters, tattoo artists, graphic designers, and fine artists. While their materials and process differ, their exploration of various letterforms, whether as a dominant element or as creative texture, generates a conversation and unites the work in the exhibition. Curator Carlos Donjuan explains, “Imagery can be very powerful in art, but text can really drive a message across on many different levels when combined with visuals.”
Artists included in the exhibition are Arturo Donjuan, Bobby Cerda, Augustin Chavez, Emily Donjuan, Isaias Torres, Ricardo Oviedo, Karla Guardado, Lita Cruz, Miguel Donjuan, Sophia de la Rosa, Danielle Prado, Haze Soto, Hector Carmolinga, Brennen Bechtol, and Hallee Turner.
 Saturday, December 14th from 04:00-06:00 PM at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Workshop Highlights:
Explore Augusta Savage’s legacy through art, creating paper mâché Christmas ornaments with friends. Celebrate creativity!
- Refreshments provided
- Hot Cocoa Station
- Photo Booth
- Music
- Create Beautiful Ornaments
Registration $40
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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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