Charlotte Street news from elsewhere.
Via The Lawrence Times
Lawrence playwright invites hometown to join conversations on maternal health outcomes
Timmia Hearn DeRoy set out to write a play about maternal morbidity that spoke to its author. Now it’s Lawrence’s turn to help workshop a play that speaks to the community.
During a series of rehearsals, staged readings and talkbacks in the coming weeks, DeRoy invites everyone to participate in a community conversation about maternal health outcomes, using as a springboard DeRoy’s 10-act play, “On-Born Children and Ghosts.”
Via KC Studio
“Read the Room,” Charlotte Street
The enduring appeal of comics dwells in the art form’s fundamental power of sequential imagery to tell any story by anyone who has something to say.
Via KC Studio
KC Public Theatre’s “The Head of Medusa” Lets a Tragic Figure Tell Her Own Story
Third annual KC Public Theatre's Theatre Lab Fest at Charlotte Street Foundation brings classic stories with fresh perspectives to the stage.
Via BroadwayWorld
Charlotte Street Launches Three-Part Guest Curator Series
Charlotte Street has announced its 2024 The Guest Curator lecture series featuring Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, MCA Chicago; and Carlos Quijon, Jr., Curator, Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia, MoMA. These curators will travel to Kansas City to give a public talk, as well as engage with local artists for studio visits.
Via KC Defender
Final Week Farewell: “Miss/They Camaraderie 2024” exhibition curated by Yashi Davalos
This is the last week to immerse yourself into Charlotte Street’s newest exhibition, Miss/They Camaraderie 2024. Curated by Charlotte Street Foundation Fellow Yashi Davalos, this innovative exhibit converges the worlds of Black beauty pageants and drag performance, offering a compelling exploration of intersectionality and identity.
Via KC Studio
“Miss/They Camaraderie 2024,” Charlotte Street Foundation
Under blinding stage lights, only one is crowned, but there is a bond backstage of shared experiences and desires. At Charlotte Street, the exhibit “Miss/They Camaraderie 2024” is filtered through the lens of a beauty pageant, homing in on themes of race, class and sexuality. Archival materials from Kansas City archives, including the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America, the Black Archives of Mid-America and the Kansas City Public Library, are interspersed with both lens-based and sculptural art.
Via The Pitch KC
Charlotte Street introduces a new art series with ‘In(SITE): Transmissions’
Charlotte Street introduces a new series, IN(SITE), that will debut Friday, Feb. 23.
The series kicks off with the performance Transmissions by artists Julia Othmer, and James T. Lundie, known collectively as The Forcefields. Transmissions will begin at 7:30pm in the Charlotte Street Stern Theater and will run for an hour and a half.
Via Missouri Arts Council
Missouri Arts Council to Honor 2024 Missouri Arts Awards Recipients
St. Louis, MO – On Wednesday, February 7, the Missouri Arts Council will honor the recipients of the 2024 Missouri Arts Awards, the state’s highest honor in the arts, at the Missouri State Capitol. The ceremony is open to the public.
Via The Pitch KC
Yashi Davalos curated Miss/They Camaraderie 2024 opens Jan. 19 at Charlotte Street
Miss/They Camaraderie 2024 is an exhibition in pageant form that will be open Jan. 19 through March 2, 2024. The show is curated by current Charlotte Street Curatorial Fellow, Yashi Davalos, and can be viewed at the Charlotte Street Gallery, 3333 Wyoming Street. There will be an opening reception at 6:00 pm on Jan. 19.