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First Open House of 2011, Art Opening and Poem Reading

It is now time to show our house to the community and celebrate diversity. That is why it has a pleasingly Expression show that will open this Saturday with the opening of our house and all its facilities. Volunteers will guide visitors through the facilities of Espressione, the main art gallery, multi-purpose basement, workshop and finally the Department for visiting artists and artists in residence.

Playwrite Michael Bradford and installation artist, Diane Barcelo come to Expressiones new   lacation to share some poems and photograhs from their recent trip to the south of Spain where Michael was on a Fulbright fellowship.
 
Michael Bradford will read six poems by Spanish Master Poet Garcia Lorca. Those that With the help of Galician poet Eduardo Blanco-Amor, Lorca composed six poems with a wonderful darkness, infused with hues of gray and light blue.  “Seis Poemas Galegos.”  These are not the poems you will find on the tourist website for Northern Spain, but they are the poems you will find if you want to know the truth about a place that does not float in the imagination but rather is rooted to the reality of the earth.


In two groups of photographs, Diane Barcelo records the backrooms of the Plaza de Toros in Granada. The one set shows the infirmary for injured toreadors. The other set is the animal slaughter area. These rather clinical spaces do not betray the violence or the spectacle of the bullfiht but reveal severe, sterile and simple rooms where death is met.

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