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Mix
and Mingle with BlackNLA @ The REDCAT
Join
BlackNLA.com at REDCAT for the Los Angeles premiere of Roger
Guenveur Smith's powerful performance ICELAND. Mix, mingle
and network at a pre-show reception, view the current art
exhibition and enjoy complimentary appetizers and drinks
courtesy of BlackNLA.
ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH: ICELAND
With Treva
Offutt and Marc Anthony Thompson | Los Angeles premiere
The Obie Award-winning duo of writer, director and actor
Roger Guenveur Smith and composer Marc Anthony Thompson
are joined by former Urban Bush Woman Treva Offutt to “navigate
the bloodstream” of two lovers -- a painter and a dancer
-- whose saga volcano-hops from the Arctic to the tropics
and back home to Brooklyn. Featuring soundscapes by Thompson,
this erotically-charged journey begins as “nothing
special/just love as usual” but soon negotiates fire
and ice and “bombs bursting in air/red white black
and blue.”
Smith's
widely celebrated works for the stage include A Huey P.
Newton Story, Frederick Douglass Now, Inside the Creole
Mafia and The Watts Towers Project. Among his extensive
range of screen credits are numerous collaborations with
Spike Lee in films such as Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X,
He Got Game, Summer of Sam, and the telefilm version of
A Huey P. Newton Story.
"Roger
Guenveur Smith gets it all and gets it brilliantly."
The New York Times
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ICELAND |
Purchase
your Tickets today!
Limited
number of Pre-Sale Tickets available @ $25.00
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Pre-Reception
includes complimentary drinks and appetizers*.
In addition to the mixer the gallery is currently
exhibiting: TWO LINES ALIGN: DRAWINGS AND GRAPHIC
DESIGN BY ED FELLA AND GEOFF MCFETRIDGE
Two Lines Align is an exhibition about the evolution
of graphic design in the context of massive shifts
in our visual culture. As guest curator Michael Worthington
notes in the catalogue essay, the exhibition explores
"the shifts in the perceived cultural worth [of
art and graphic design] over time...by placing Ed
Fella's and Geoff McFetridge's design careers end
to end to make one chronological line, one lineage.
While Fella's career reflects how graphic design has
historically struggled to define itself in relationship
to art, McFetridge follows a path wherein the integration
of art and design is taken for granted." Click
Here for details
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Roger
Guenveur Smith: ICELAND will run at The REDCAT March
13-16, 2008. Visit redcat.org
or call 213-237-2800
REDCAT
is located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles at 631
W. 2nd St., on the northeast corner of the Hope St. intersection.
REDCAT is housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex,
but has a separate street entrance on 2nd St. There is
convenient parking across the street, at Hope and 2nd
St.
*Complimentary drinks and appetizers available
while supplies last.
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