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Saturday, July 27, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Artist Market – July 2024
Occurring on the last Saturday of every month, Charlotte Street will host a pop-up vendor market featuring a curated selection of Kansas City’s creative entrepreneurs. Visitors are invited to explore a breadth of offerings for sale, from ceramics to books, wearables, prints, and more. In July we will have offerings from Jaylen Goode, Green House Print Space, Adrian Halpern, Alyx Jacobs, Nina Littrell, Mariah Markt, Chelsea Smith, Sean Tiller, and Rebecca Vaughan. We will have FREE popsicles from Palacana and DJ Brother Neves will be playing upbeat tunes.Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Spirit in Sonic Art: AMDUAT
Join us for the debut of the new series, Spirit in Sonic Art, produced by Rev. Dwight Frizzell. An exploration of sound as medium, Spirit in Sonic Art will occur four times this fall at Charlotte Street. The first iteration, Spirit in Sonic Art: AMDUAT, is on August 1 at 7:00 PM and will explore the Sun-God Ra’s transformative journey through the underworld based on the world’s first graphic novel from Ancient Egypt, 1470 BCE, performed by Myth-Science Ensemble.
Saturday, August 3, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Movement Lab – August 2024
Movement Lab is a free guided movement workshop for dancers, dance enthusiasts, movers, and shakers of all levels. No experience is required! This program is in partnership with Kostas, founded by past Charlotte Street Studio Resident Haley Kostas. Can’t make it to Movement Lab? Join us next time on the following Saturdays at 1:00-3:00 PM: September 7 October 5 November 2
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 from 6:00-8:00 PM
Timbre Arts Writing Incubator: Exhibition Review
Interested in writing your first exhibition review? Learn about the basic components of a review from writing to editing to publication. As a prerequisite for this workshop, participants will select a local exhibition to visit and review.Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 6:00-7:00 PM
The Guest Curator: Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Join us for an in-depth curatorial lecture with Carlos Quijon, Jr. on his curatorial practice on Thursday, August 15. Quijon is an active writer and scholar, who works between Manila and New York. He was recently a Curator-in-Residence at ISCP in New York. With his recent experience as a curator for the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Carlos will articulate his experience of working on the biennale, as well as speak about his research interests as a C-MAP Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art. Contemporary artists working in Kansas City who would like to be considered for a studio visit with Carlos Quijon, Jr. may submit a request by sending these materials: a short artist bio (around 150-200 words), website of your work, and 3-5 images of current work to [email protected]. We will schedule the studio visits for Friday, August 16. ABOUT Carlos Quijon Jr. Quijon (b. 1989) is an art historian, critic, and curator based between Manila and New York. He is the C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He has written exhibition reviews for publications such as e-flux,Frieze, Artforum. His essays are part of the books Writing Presently (Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019) and From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making: China and Southeast Asia (Sternberg Press, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Weiss Publications, 2022). In 2017, he was a research resident in Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and a fellow of the Transcuratorial Academy both in Berlin and Mumbai. He was a curatorial resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (funded by the Asian Cultural Council) in 2023 and the Singapore Art Museum in 2024. He curated Courses of Action in Hong Kong in 2019, co-curated Minor Infelicities in Seoul in 2020, and the traveling exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War in Singapore (2021), Manila (2021-2), and Busan (2022). He curated the ongoing traveling exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms(2022-). He is the curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2024.Saturday, August 17, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Sketchbook Club – August 2024
Sketchbook Club is a no-barriers drawing club for participants of all ages and abilities, led by Amy Kligman. Mixed media materials and snacks are provided in this low-pressure making environment. Participants are welcome to use Charlotte Street’s collaborative sketchbooks or bring their own! Can't make it to this Sketchbook Club? Join us next time on the following Saturdays from 1:00-3:00 PM: Septemeber 21 November 16
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 from 7:30-9:00 PM
EMAS Presents: Smith & Jessen
August's EMAS Presents features Omaha duo Phil Smith and Kyle Jessen. Kyle Jessen is a free improvising saxophonist based out of Omaha, NE. Jessen has been recognized by Byron Coley in The Wire magazine for his sound having “traces of Chicago (via Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell) as well as Euro-style tongue action and an occasional sweetness” and “a very sweet way of blending edge-acridity with non-blaring melodicism”. However, his more recent work has dropped the “occasional sweetness” and “non-blaring melodicism”, in favor of utilizing a more sound based approach. He frequently collaborates with drummer/percussionist, Phill Smith (under the name Smith & Jessen). You can listen to his releases on Relative Pitch Records, Soundholes, and Gertrude Tapes. Phill Smith is a drummer, improviser, composer, and software engineer living in Omaha, NE. His musical approach utilizes open improvisation, extended techniques, and real time software systems to generate spontaneous sound worlds, all filtered through the influence of the new music, free improvisation, and avant-rock traditions. He makes up half of the duo Smith & Jessen (with saxophonist Kyle Jessen) and has performed with Damon Smith, Daniel Wyche, Stacey Barelos, Bob Bucko Jr, Seth Andrew Davis, and Kate In, as well as at festivals such as Omaha Under the Radar, 80/35, Petfest, Mission Creek, and Omaha Noisefest.ABOUT EMAS PRESENTS
EMAS Presents is an experimental and improvised music series curated by Seth Andrew Davis + Evan Verploegh. An extension of the collective Extemporaneous Music & Arts Society, EMAS Presents highlights local, national, and international music practitioners to grow Kansas City’s improvised music community. Can’t make it to this EMAS Presents? Join us for the last EMAS Presents of the year on November 13 from 7:30–9:00 PM.Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Spirit in Sonic Art: BRIDGE
Spirit in Sonic Art returns for Spirit in Sonic Art: BRIDGE, on September 5 at 7:00 PM and will explore a Missouri River bridge as instrument with lap-steel soloist William Dye, metal percussion construction by Allan Winkler and the gongs and voice of Allaudin Ottinger. Produced by Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Spirit of Sonic Art is an exploration of sound as medium, and will occur two more times this fall at Charlotte Street.Thursday, October 3, 2024 | Workshop at 4:00 PM | Performance at 7:00 PM
Spirit in Sonic Art: HELIOPHONIE
Spirit in Sonic Art returns for Spirit in Sonic Art: HELIOPHONIE, on October 3 at 7:00 PM and will immerse the audience in pulsing tones from inside the sun in this ritual performance based on current helio-seismology. KC’s Myth-Science Ensemble is joined by artists from Bloomington, Indiana including Norbert Herber on reeds and Tony Brewer on Foley. There will also be a Special Foley in Music Workshop by Tony Brewer at 4:00 PM before the performance. Produced by Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Spirit of Sonic Art is an exploration of sound as medium, and will occur one more time this fall at Charlotte Street.
Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 7:00-11:00 PM
2024 Gala
Join us at Charlotte Street’s 2024 Gala - Wonder Worlds on Saturday, October 19!Proceeds benefit Charlotte Street’s work to center our region’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers, connecting artists to each other and our community.
Charlotte Street is stepping into a peculiar landscape of duplicates and disorientation at this year’s Gala—inviting you into alternate universes filled with fantastical discoveries and uncanny experiences. Sponsors will begin the evening at our VIP Studio Pre-Party where guests will enjoy drinks and appetizers with fellow supporters and have the opportunity to be costumed and styled by Kansas City’s premiere designers and makeup artists. Guests will then transport into the main event, featuring a wildly creative immersive experience that includes installations and performances by local artists, only-at-Charlotte-Street interactive elements, and an array of creative food and drinks.