Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:00
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Danielle Brown and Margaret Bacon
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Fillmore
Hamilton Recreation Center, located at Geary and Steiner Streets, is due to re-open March 6. The pool, tennis courts, playground and meeting room hosts a number of senior, adult, youth and children’s programs. The anticipated opening is Saturday, March 6.
Parents and guardians of public school students can learn about options to participate in Round 2 of the amended list, wait pool and appeal process from 6 to 8 p.m. March 18 at John Muir Elementary School, 380 Webster St. at Oak Street. Placement Center counselors and Parents for Public Schools enrollment coaches and ambassadors will be available to answer questions. Round 2 applications also will be distributed at the event.
Cultural Odyssey in association with the African American Art & Culture Complex – AAACC – presents the 30th Anniversary Festival of New Works through March 14. The theater run features The Breach and The Medea Project’s “Dancing with the Clown of Love” (a collaboration with the Women’s HIV Program), as well as “The Love Project.” For more information, visit www.culturalodyssey.org.
AAACC also has three exhibits running through the month of March.
• At Sargeant Johnson Gallery-Third Floor Gallery, “One Year Later…A Community Photographic Exhibit of the 56th Presidential Inauguration” highlights, celebrates and gives a first-hand perspective on what it was like to be in Washington, D.C., at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Contributing photographers are Kimberly Brandon, London Breed, Mona Brooks, Harrison Chastang, Rameen Gassery, Amber Hughes, Geoffrey King, Dr. Ellee Koss, Nijla Mumin, David Onek, and Dr. Leslee Stradford. And, contributing painters are DaveSG, Chaz Guest, James Gayles, and Nannette Harris. The exhibit runs through March 21.
• “Art of Living Black: The Vibrancy of Color,” which runs through May 28, is an exhibition featuring emerging and established artists. Each year, three artists are selected to receive the Jan Hart-Schuyers Artistic Achievement Award in memory of artist/activists Jan Hart-Schuyers and Rae Louise Hayward, who together created a venue that paved the way for a new generation of artists to share their work. The exhibit is in SJG-Hall of Culture Gallery.
• In the Sargeant Johnson Gallery on the first floor, “The Breach: Photolution” runs through the end of March. Photolution is a story narrated by images, sketches, watercolors and writings of an artistic relationship and collaboration of renowned San Francisco artists, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor as seen through the eyes of photographers Lorraine Capparell and Lars Speyer. The exhibit features the work of Elizabeth Carter, Ajuan Mance, Bernadette Robertson, Hilda Robinson, Karin Turner, Shawn Weeden.
AAACC is located at 762 Fulton St. Gallery hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, call (415) 922-2049 or info@aaacc.org.
From March 7 through April 30, The Jazz Heritage Center and the Lush Life Gallery present John Nichols, Machiko Asada and the students of Sensei Tsutomou Tomita in honor of Jazz and The Art of Japan. The exhibit coincides with Japantown’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival in April.
The Lush Life Gallery is open from 6 to 11 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and on Monday and Tuesday by appointment. The center lobby exhibits are free and open every day from noon to 11 p.m.
Also in March, the center will host a fundraiser entitled, “Wild Women of Song: Great Gal Composers of the Jazz Era” featuring Pamela Rose. The Jazz Heritage Center is located at 1320/1330 Fillmore St. For more information, call (415) 255-7745 or email info@jazzheritagecenter.org.
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