ELEVATE Festival to Include Pride Events

This yr’s ELEVATE Atlanta competition, sponsored by the Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs, is about to be underway! Each weekend from September 16 to October 9, venues throughout Atlanta will likely be internet hosting free occasions – together with two Satisfaction occasions.

“We invite you to affix us for ELEVATE 2022 as we discover a few of Atlanta’s most fascinating and exquisite areas this fall,” states Camille Russell Love, Government Director of the Metropolis of Atlanta’s – Mayor’s Workplace of Cultural Affairs. “Our theme is OPEN SPACES and most of the occasions will happen open air in parks, pavilions, and quite a lot of public locations. Throughout this yr’s competition we’ll current music and dance performances, poetry readings, inventive conversations, artwork installations, and interactive experiences to have interaction with the group, have fun the wealth of inventive expertise in Atlanta, and enliven OPEN SPACES!”

This yr’s theme explores the which means of open areas in relation to artwork and public house.

The competition will embody a Mayor’s Satisfaction Exhibit on the Mayor’s Gallery in Metropolis Corridor, from September 16 to October 21.

The exhibition will characteristic highly effective art work by native LGBTQ artists and artwork exploring LGBTQ themes, in observance of Atlanta’s delight season. Artworks have been chosen by professionals from Atlanta’s inventive group whose mission was to increase what it means to be an artist who identifies as LGBTQ.

Featured artists embody Royce Soble, Ariela Freedman, Brandon Moultrie, Cyrus A. Nelson, Deborah Baker Steinmann, Demetri Burke, FaceGod, Inkd, Jeffrey Wilcox-Paclipan, Jesse Watts, Kelly Breedlove, LaRue Calliet, Jr., Matthew Terrell, Michael Morgan, Rolando Guzmán, SOFAHOOD, Stan Clark, StuckinnaBox, Torvoris Levar, and Keshay Jeffries. The exhibit is open Monday via Friday from 8:15am to 5pm. 

Atlanta Freedom Bands will even be having a live performance kicking off Satisfaction week on October 2 from 3pm to 5pm at Westside Park’s Nice Garden. The MetroGnomes Stage Band will kick off the live performance with swing and large band favorites, adopted by a efficiency from the AFB Coloration Guard who will spin, toss, and twirl to heart-thumping music. Mixed Live performance and Marching Bands full the present with a various program together with movie music, pop tunes, marches and extra.

Different ELEVATE occasions embody:

• The Sundown Carnavale is an interactive artwork expertise utilizing projection mapping know-how. The occasion will embody a efficiency by Moesha 13, an underground French icon who sings and DJs and produces a novel mix of rap, techno, Afro and Baile Funk; music by Junkanoo Band; tunes from Atlanta’s hottest DJs together with Salah Ananse and DJ Kemit; dwell music by Djembe Jedi; carnival dancers; and efficiency artists equivalent to aerialists, stilt walkers and cosplayers. This indoor and outside occasion will happen at Ali at Lakewood, 1800 Jonesboro Rd SE, September 25 from 6pm to 11 pm.
• Atlanta Artwork Week is a brand new initiative devoted to showcasing arts and tradition and bringing consciousness to the up to date artwork scene in Atlanta, with the purpose of nurturing a stronger base for artists, artwork lovers and collectors. This yr’s occasion will encompass activations in over 20 galleries, museums, artist, and non-profit areas the place there will likely be exhibitions, excursions, and panel discussions. ELEVATE: OPENS SPACES is partnering with Atlanta Artwork Week on their inaugural occasion which can happen from September 29 to October 2 at numerous occasions.

• “Come Collectively,” curated by Cat Eye Inventive, will carry town collectively for a collaborative group mural portray; a gaggle artwork exhibition that includes work by Lucy Luckovich, Erin Nicole Henry, Manic Lawd and Andrew Munoz; artist talks; artwork schooling courses; and a block get together! Occasions are all-inclusive and immersive and can happen of their indoor and outside galleries, 186 Mitchell St SW, from September 30 to October 2 at numerous occasions.
• “Coloration + the Physique,” options poet, professor, and brief story author Opal Moore moderating 5 achieved poets who will learn authentic poetry and interact with an Atlanta viewers in a inventive dialog. The poetry and dialogue will discover a facet of science (physics) and the physicality of coloration via the physique as conceptualized by artist Deanna Sirlin’s exhibition, Wavelength. The occasion will likely be recorded to share on-line with a worldwide viewers. Chastain Arts Heart, 135 Chastain Park Ave NW, on October 1 from 2pm to 4 pm.
• Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven’s Ninth with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The efficiency will likely be simulcast in Sifly Piazza. Out of doors seating will likely be accessible, and company are invited to carry their very own chairs, meals, and drinks. Safety will likely be offered. To succeed in symphony followers who can’t attend in individual, the simulcast will likely be livestreamed and made accessible on-line post-concert via YouTube, social media, and the ASO’s web site. Live performance at Woodruff Artwork Heart, 1280 Peachtree St NE, on October 8 at 8 pm.

For information and updates about ELEVATE 2022: OPEN SPACES, go to elevateatlart.com.