The performers of DANCE Lansing: A Community Dance Project perform monthly at MICA Gallery. This month, the dancers will react to Hal Gould’s “Seeing Rectangular” exhibit and explore the artists work through movement. After the performance there will be an open discussion with the dancers and choreographers.
The goal of DANCE Lansing Community Dance Project is to build a diverse community of dancers to enrich the creative performance and development opportunities for area choreographers and dancers, and to increase audience appreciation and understanding of modern and contemporary dance. The partners this program are Happendance and Lansing Community College Performing Arts with Associates Everett High School Dance Program, Greater Lansing Academy of Dance, Greater Lansing Ballet Company, MICA Gallery, MSU Department of Theatre, and MSU Orchesis Dance.
Provided with funding support from Downtown Lansing, Inc., City of Lansing, Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, and National Endowment for the Arts.
Please join us at MICA Gallery to celebrate the photography of Hal Gould, a photographer and photojournalist.
Gould will be exhibiting bodies of work that explore aging, prison life and musicians that traveled and performed here in the Lansing area. Gould has a lifetime of experience as a photographer and journalist, his work tells a story through portraiture. Gould also develops his own film using various techniques to tell the story of the subject.
The photo essays that will be included in this show are:
“On the Streets” – homeless people in Tucson Az.
“Florence State Prison” – a federal /state prison in Florence Az. – also where German U-Boat crews were kept during WWII and the movie “Stir Crazy” with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was filmed.
“Squatters Camp” in Senora ,Mexico
“The Entertainers”
“Ladies of the Manor” – a nursing home in Northville Mich.
This opening reception is part of the Arts Council of Greater Lansing‘s Arts Night Out. The artist will be in attendance and light refreshments will be served.
Join the Facebook event here.
You’re invited to the November meeting of the poetry club where the members will write, discuss poetry and end with an open mic!
Lansing Poetry Club is the longest running poetry club in the Lansing area. This group of writers, poets and poetry lovers meet on the third Sunday of every month at MICA Gallery to write and discuss poetry.
There is always an open mic and these meetings are free and open to the public.
