A spectacular group of artistic voices take the stage. Together these creative voices dance out loud.
Mar 15 - Mar 23
A spectacular group of artistic voices take the stage. Together these creative voices dance out loud.
Being Michelle follows the astonishing journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration and abuse under unimaginable circumstances by a system that refused to accommodate her needs as a deaf person with autism. Michelle’s trajectory changed when she met Kim Law, a blind volunteer life coach who teaches classes to people in prison. Today, outside of prison, Kim and Michelle are doing the difficult work of unraveling Michelle’s history, of telling the story of Michelle’s traumatic childhood and her adverse experiences in the criminal justice system. With the support of Kim, Michelle realizes her own voice and strength. Throughout the film Michelle’s artwork provides her own depiction of the trauma she survived as well as a means to her recovery.
Ultimately, Being Michelle is a story of redemption. It is about the bonds between women committed to thriving in a broken system, who are forging a path to healing that can only come through facing the truth and communicating it, together.
This event is held in collaboration with Art Possible as part of the Reelabilities Film Festival.
Urban Arts Space is excited to announce the theme for March’s Artist Commune: Portable Paradise. We invite artists to radically explore the idea of paradise in a pop-up exhibition. Questions that shape this theme: Who are the architects of Paradise? Who is on the margins in dominant ideas of Paradise? Who is invited? Who gets the authority to name what Paradise is like? How do you get there? Shaped but not limited by these questions, we’re asking artists to create work that engages the metaphysical, tangible, and personal to re-imagine Paradise.
The objective of this exhibition is to showcase a diverse range of interpretations of Paradise through various artistic mediums. We aim to create a space that challenges the way our unique identities and socioeconomic positions shape our concept of Paradise.
then I’m speaking of my grandmother
who told me to carry it always
on my person, concealed, so
no one else would know but me.”
— Roger Robinson, “A Portable Paradise”
This evening event at Urban Arts Space—7–9 PM on Friday, April 5—will feature readings by high school and college students, along with their instructors, from Arts IMPACT Middle School, Bexley High School, Otterbein University, Denison University, and The Ohio State University. These students and staff members will have participated in writing workshops with Columbus-based poet-educator Peter Kahn and acclaimed Black-British writer Roger Robinson, winner of the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize.
Come hear work from burgeoning student writers who will share the stage with local poets Cynthia Amoah and Ajanaé Dawkins, along with Roger Robinson as the headliner. Time permitting, there will be a Q&A.
The 2024 OhioHealth Capital City Half & Quarter Marathon and Columbus Promise 5K will be held on Saturday, April 27!
The “Best Tour Of Columbus On Two Feet” will again feature a distance for everybody: OhioHealth Capital City Half Marathon (13.1 miles), OhioHealth Quarter Marathon (6.55 miles) and the Columbus Promise 5K (3.1 miles).
All races begin and end on S. High Street adjacent to the John F. Wolfe Columbus Commons in downtown Columbus.
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