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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Speaker Series with Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Raymond Bobgan\, and Uzuri Asad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Executive Artistic Director of the Cleveland Public Theater Raymond Bobgan\, and APLR artist Uzuri Asad.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required for the Zoom link.\n\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nAbout Daniel Gray-Kontar\nDaniel Gray-Kontar is a poet\, teacher\, youth mentor\, rapper\, journalist\, and education activist. He has worked as an advocate for social transformation in the city of Cleveland for more than 25 years. Gray-Kontar is an education consultant for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; writer-in-residence at MOCA Cleveland; the former chair of the Literary Arts Department at the Cleveland School of the Arts; and a former graduate school fellow at UC Berkeley’s College of Education. His work in arts education has been showcased on PBS Newshour\, The UK Guardian\, NPR\, and The Christian Science Monitor\, among other news media outlets. Gray-Kontar has lectured at universities\, public schools\, arts organizations and scholarly conferences across the US. His Ted Talk discussing youth leadership in public school education has affected the ways public school administrators think about the inclusion of youth and their families in the process of re-making school cultures and curricula.\n\nAbout Uzuri Asad\nOriginally from Cleveland\, Ohio\, Uzuri Asad now lives and works in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis as part of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist in Public Life Residency program. She’s a singer\, dancer\, choreographer\, and jewelry-maker. Formally trained in West African dance and contemporary movement\, her art is guided by lived experiences and her cultural upbringing. Her style is a unique blend of fluid\, free flowing\, yet intentional movements. For Asad\, dance is a sacred means of individual expression that lives and breathes through her.
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CATEGORIES:conference,Downtown Indy,Film,Garfield Park
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