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Hazelwood Central hosting Spring Art Show
“Purification” by Alecia Jennings is one of many student works that will be displayed at Hazelwood Central's Spring Art Show on May 15.
FROM THE NEWS WIRE:
The art department at Hazelwood Central High School will host its annual Spring Art Show on May 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Student artwork will be displayed in rooms A-227 through A-231 and in the hall.
Select works from all courses include Art and Design, Drawing, Painting, Pottery, Fibers, Crafts, Printmaking, Computer Graphics, Advanced Studio and Independent Study. The show is a great opportunity to showcase talented artists’ works from the past school year.
The Spring Art Show is free. All students, parents and district residents are welcome. Hazelwood Central is located at 15875 New Halls Ferry Road, 63031.
Cobra Starship headlining UMSL’s Mirthday
The pop band Cobra Starship will perform at UMSL on April 18.
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If you can believe Gabe Saporta, he started Cobra Starship when an introspective desert trip turned trippy with hallucinations that followed a venomous snakebite. Supposedly the snake spoke, telling the then lead singer of emo-punk band Midtown to stop taking himself so seriously.
No problem for Saporta, who initially formed Cobra Starship to record a kitschy theme song for the campy Samuel L. Jackson-led film “Snakes on a Plane.” What’s no joke is that Saporta took an apparent one-off side project with a minor soundtrack hit and turned his band of dance-rock jesters into a successful group that has churned four albums and several hit singles.
Touring behind their latest album, “Night Shades,” Cobra Starship will headline this year’s Mirthday concert April 18 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Breathe Carolina, The Ready Set and Twenty One Pilots will open the show, which will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for UMSL students and $20 for the general public.
Mirthday is UMSL’s annual springtime student celebration. The day begins with a carnival from noon to 4:30 p.m. in parking lots C and D (adjacent to the Millennium Student Center on North Campus) and ends with the concert at the Touhill.
Click here or below to view the video to Cobra Starship’s biggest hit, “You Make Me Feel …”
Get a sneak peek at the “Spanish Lake” movie
Confronting North County's history of racial tension head on, the new documentary "Spanish Lake" will be previewed on April 18.
As you may remember, NOCO fans, I wrote about the “Spanish Lake” documentary last July. That’s the film currently in production by NoCo native Phillip Andrew Morton, who is bravely tackling some very emotional and complicated issues by exploring the history of “white flight” in North County.
Morton grew up in Spanish Lake and now lives in Los Angeles, where he’s able to view St. Louis’ unique “cultural challenges” through a much broader lens. After spending the past year interviewing dozens of current and former residents, he has certainly riled up LOTS of people, but I happen to think that’s a good thing.
I hear from both sides of this saga all the time – the people who left North County and the people who stayed behind. I also hear from those who absolutely love living in NoCo, today. What I don’t get is, if you moved away, why do you feel the need to bash the place where I live, right now? And if you stayed but really wished you had left, well, that’s easy too. Go ahead and move. It’s not too late.
But to keep complaining over and over and over, blaming black people and HUD and whoever….that’s just not healthy. So let’s just pull this scab and get it over with. Yes, North County has changed. So has every other inch of the planet, because life IS change.
All we can do is learn from the mistakes of yesterday and hopefully develop better solutions for today. That’s where Morton’s film comes in.
Featuring a broad cross-section of viewpoints, from flat-out racism to an emotional stew of hopefulness, anger and malaise, the documentary uses personal stories to ultimately frame larger questions about race, class, migration patterns and government policies. It’s not quite done yet, but what you can see is a preview screening of extended clips, debuting at the Shuttered Film Fest on April 18.
Morton will be there to lead a discussion, as will producer Matt Jordan Smith. Admission is free.
“Spanish Lake” will be the first of four films presented during Open/Closed, a five-day conference focused on the problem of vacant properties in St. Louis. It will be screened Wednesday, April 18, 7:30pm, at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Boulevard. All are welcome.
NAC seeks entries for FloTown mural competition
Let this exquisite creation from Montreal inspire you. Old Town Florissant is seeking ideas for a new mural on rue St. Francois.
For at least ten years, I’ve been talking about commissioning a mural in downtown Ferguson, and I’m not the only one. We’ve kicked around lots of concepts – maybe a “ghost sign,” like an old advertisement, or perhaps something that commemorates local history. I honestly don’t care. I just know how striking a good mural can be, and that some communities even use murals to drive economic development and tourism.
That’s why I say BRAVO to Florissant Old Town Partners for teaming with the Northern Arts Council to sponsor a mural competition! Designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Valley of Flowers festival, this 12-foot x 30-foot installation will grace an exterior wall along rue St. Francois and “contribute to a lasting artistic presence on a public scale.”
All artists within a 50-mile radius of North County are invited to submit ideas, with the winner receiving a $500 prize. The general theme may be historical or contemporary but it must relate to the city of Florissant and/or the Valley of Flowers, with references to buildings, people and/or physical features.
For ideas, you may want to visit Historic Florissant. Or just think about all the great subject matter out there – the confluence, St. Ferdinand Shrine, Father DeSmet, Shoveltown, Casa Alvarez, Taille de Noyer, the old common fields, even Dick Weber!
A selection committee will judge mural submissions based upon theme, concept and overall design, and the winning design will be executed and painted by a muralist and may be modified or re-interpreted at the discretion of the selection committee. Designs become exclusive property of Old Town Partners and artists relinquish all rights to them. The tentative unveiling date is May 1, 2012, and there will be a reception honoring the designer and muralist.
If you want to submit a mural design, it should be in a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot (essentially 12″ high x 30″ wide) and saved as a JPEG, with a file size no larger than 4MB. Include a $10 entry fee per design, with a check made out to the Northern Arts Council. Also include your name and contact info.
Limit two entries per artist. DEADLINE: March 30, 2012 @ midnight. Mail submissions to: Northern Arts Council, P.O. Box 11015, Ferguson MO 63135.
By the way, check out this video of the Montreal mural being created. It should definitely provide some inspiration….
Are you getting ready for the big day? NOCO is a proud sponsor of the 3rd annual Live Well Ferguson 5K