San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Bach, Steamrollers, Barrio Art Crawl And Live Rock
Speaker 1: 00:00 Happening this weekend, we have art made by construction equipment, a virtual Baroque concert, several art opening receptions, and the Barrio art crawl and a final week of a play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr's final night. Joining me is KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dickson Evans with all the details. Welcome Julia. Speaker 2: 00:20 Hi Jane. Thanks for having me. So first Speaker 1: 00:23 We have an art exhibition created by a steamroller. Tell us about Mesa college, art galleries, heavy duty exhibition. Speaker 2: 00:30 I love how analog and, and virtual this whole project is. It all started by giving 16 artists, big wooden boards for them to design a woodcut on. Um, some of them cut, some burned their designs into place, and then they all gathered in the college parking lot to ink the boards, and then they lay cloth on top and literally drove a steam roller over them, transferring the design onto the cloth. And now they've hung each of these canvases on the chain link fence around the parking lot on the Mesa college campus. And it opens this afternoon with a drive in drive through reception and the first 200 visitors we'll even get a set of small art cards of the prints. And then the exhibition will be on view in the lot during that campuses open public hours for about a month Speaker 1: 01:18 Heavy duty, a steam roller printmaking exhibition opens today in Mesa college parking lot, one from two to five and will be viewable Monday through Friday from 10 to 4:00 PM through June 4th. Okay. Next from the use of non-digital machinery in visual art to the use of traditional Baroque musical instruments, what does Bach Collegium San Diego have to offer this weekend? Speaker 2: 01:43 Collegium is known for using period instruments to create these really authentic performances of classical works. And this is their final offering from this very strange virtual season for them. It's called Bach and his rivals the exciting music scene drama of Leipzig in 1722 it's the year that Bach Telemann and Grosvenor were all competing for a job. It was the highly sought after role of Thomas Kantor, the music director of the famed St. Thomas Church and bought collegiate and will perform works by each of these composers as a sort of pretend fantasy audition. And one of the compositions is this piece by Bach. I'm going to bust out my German here. They're new than Lieben got Speaker 3: 02:46 [inaudible] Speaker 2: 02:46 All of the works they'll perform. They're all Baroque, but they really show off the wide range of moods and styles inside the era. I think a lot of us have this idea that Baroque equals pantsy harpsichord music, but there is more it, and yes, buck eventually got the gig, Speaker 1: 03:02 Right buck and his rivals streams on demand beginning Saturday at 5:00 PM through June 30th and art opening receptions are back. Saturday is the monthly Barrio art crawl with three art exhibitions alone in the bread and salt complex. Tell us about these and how this will work with COVID restrictions. There's three Speaker 2: 03:24 Art opening receptions and pop-up events in the bread and salt complex. And all of these will be masks required indoors, and they'll also be keeping an eye on capacity, but it's really great to have events and, and receptions to go to first Neil Kendricks, we'll open a solo show called mirror mirror lights, camera dreams in the main bread and salt gallery space. That's a series of experimental short films and projections. These are all dedicated to the memory of his father and they're going to be shown together for the first time. The gallery is even installed these rows of vintage theater seats to set the mood as well. And then at the adjacent Athenaeum art center, flora wilds will install her large scale sculptural work made of repurposed clothing. It's called false neutrals, fake naturals, and that's previously been installed, modified undocumented in different environments throughout the state and we're next and also best practice gallery just moved into a new space at bread and salt. And the inaugural exhibition in their new space is work by three B collective. That's a Los Angeles based collective of six artists. And they're working in painting sculpture video and a site-specific mural. And as a bonus, don't miss Tatiana or T's Rubio's newly completed massive stop the spread mural. That's on the side of the silo tower, viewable outdoors. So if you're not quite ready for indoor events, this is a piece of art you can even see from interstate Speaker 1: 04:56 Five, three new exhibitions, and one outdoor mural can be viewed at bread and salt gallery during the Barrio art crawl event, Saturday from five to 8:00 PM. And in the theater world, roust abouts theater company has paired up with American history theater and type-A to present a play about Martin Luther King Jr's last night. Tell us about the mountaintop. This is Speaker 2: 05:20 It's a fictionalized account and it's based of course, in the history of that exact day. It's a 2019 play by Katori hall and local director. Candace crystal has brought this to local audiences in the form of this filmed stage production. It features a single setting, a room at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, and just two characters, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the brilliant Kamay who is a housekeeper at the hotel, she gets sort of inadvertently roped into this transformative exchange with Dr. King. And one of the great things about this script is the way it allows heroes like Dr. King to have Speaker 1: 05:58 Flaws. I recently spoke with director Candace crystal, and I loved what she had to say about this here's Candace crystal. Speaker 4: 06:05 One thing that our dramaturg Kimberly King and I discussed in depth was this deification of our heroes, Dr. King was put on this pedestal and it was a situation where any wrong Dr. King did was magnified because of who he was. And I think it's really important as a community that we realized even our leaders will have flocks. It's not his job for me to hold him in this highest steam. He did his job. He pushed the movement forward, and that Speaker 1: 06:34 Adds the mountain top director, Candace crystal, the play streams on demand on Saturdays and Sundays through May 16th for details on these and more arts events go to kpbs.org/arts, where you can also sign up for Julia's weekly KPBS arts newsletter. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Julia. Thanks. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend.
