CSF news from elsewhere.
Via KC Studio Magazine
Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation
If there is something close to cinema withdrawal, it would be the sensation of having just returned from a trip to someplace both exotic and familiar. The Kansas City Underground Film Festival, which opened Sept. 16 and runs through Sept. 26, features 114 films, culled, says KCUFF’s director and co-founder Willy Evans, from 800 submissions requiring 400 hours of viewing by the KCUFF board. Represented are 27 countries, and 39 of the films are from filmmakers in Missouri and Kansas. The festival succeeds in presenting the familiar in its weirdness and the exotic in its commonplace.
Via Terremoto Magazine (Mexico City)
“Aftermaths” at the Charlotte Street Foundation, USA
The visual regimes of photography and film have long been accomplices to imperialist enterprises and state sanctioned-violence in rewriting the terms and tellings of history. Images, still or moving, have a way instructing us as much as they help us remember, and it is in this duality that parallel histories of dissent and oppression can be read simultaneously. Aftermaths is an exhibition bringing together artists with attachments to Latin America and the Arab world who engage photographic and filmic archives in order to unfurl the complexity of history and its visual records.
Via Hyperallergic
In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists
KANSAS CITY — Smack in the middle of flyover country and situated in the semi-industrial yet woodsy Volker neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, a shiny new beacon for community-driven arts incubation opened its doors in a former medical parts factory. The brand new, 20,000-square-foot Charlotte Street Foundation building celebrated its grand opening on June 11 and 12 with a ribbon-cutting, multiple exhibitions, and open studios. The $10 million transformation is evidence that sometimes DIY grassroots efforts can conduct multi-million dollar capital campaigns to build a state-of-the-art facility, while at the same time steadfastly holding on to an artist-driven core mission to support and catalyze a local artistic community.
Via 2mas2KC
Charlotte Street Pushes for Artist Diversity with New Grant
Arts funder Charlotte Street Foundation is widening the circle for a new grant. The group's arts funding is making a series of grants totaling $25,000 available to just Kansas City's minority groups. The amount is 50 percent of the $50,000 Cultural Producer Grant Program. While half is allotted to any applicant, the other half has been reserved for creators who identify as persons of color, members of the LGBT community or who are artists with a disability.
Via KKFI 90.1 FM
ARTSPEAK RADIO with Danna York and Amy Kligman
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes author/artist Danna York and Charlotte Street Foundation Executive/Artistic Director Amy Kligman.
Via KC Studio Magazine
“Who We Were, Who We Are, Who We Will Be,” Charlotte Street Foundation
The Charlotte Street Foundation is celebrating the grand opening of its new facilities with the exhibition: “Who We Were, Who We Are, Who We Will Be.” Featuring ten artists working in a range of mediums, the exhibition is a fitting representation of the wide range of art happening in and near Kansas City.
Via KC Studio Magazine
When/Time: New Work from Stacy Busch Presented at Charlotte Street Foundation
There’s a lot of music out there about drinking, but how much about the hard journey to sobriety and healing? Composer and performing artist Stacy Busch took on that challenge in the premiere performance of “When/Time,” presented in the Charlotte Street Foundation Black Box Theater Friday evening, one of the first performances in their new space at 3333 Wyoming Street.
Busch was named a 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist. This project, intended for 2020, was delayed due to the pandemic. With three actors and three musicians, the presentation was an amalgam of concert and theater performance, in the façade of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The work was written and directed by Kalli Siringas.
Via KC Studio Magazine
“Cyan Meeks: Phainesthai,” Charlotte Street Foundation
Long before the modern age, humans were what they were hurrying to — or advancing toward — as they adapted to, then overcame, their surroundings. Nature was there for us to visit if we required refuge from the world that we built out of the nature that we rejected. A year of enforced stillness has made us impatient to venture outside and resume that most uncreative of concepts, normalcy. But are we ready to consider whether nature is ready for our return? Kansas City artist Cyan Meek’s newest film piece, “Phainesthai,” a collaborative exhibit at the Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery, takes us outdoors but asks for our stillness.
Via Kansas City Star
‘Exciting opportunities’: Kansas City arts group opens $10 million new headquarters
For years, the Charlotte Street Foundation had to spread its artistic endeavors across six Kansas City locations, making coordination of its grant-giving and public exhibitions somewhat of a challenge.
That changes on Friday as the organization unveils a $10 million headquarters, putting all its operations under one midtown roof.
“Charlotte Street over the years has been nomadic and has all these locations all over the city. Now there’s going to be one place where everything is going to be happening,” said Cory Imig, a Kansas City visual artist who has worked with the foundation for 10 years.