The Green Salon Short Film Festival returns Saturday August 26 with new shorts by local filmmakers. The outdoor event begins at 7PM, films begin approximately at 8PM. Host Roy Anthony Shabla welcomes everyone to this free event at his Studio GalleRoy, 11210 Greenstone Ave, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670.
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The Downey City Council approved a renewal of the Arts in Public Places funding that supports Stay Gallery’s downtown lease. The gallery provides an open, public community center for the arts in Downey, featuring exhibits of local artists, events for the Downey Unified School District, classes, and more. The Downey Arts Coalition will also be more involved in bringing programming to the gallery in the years to come.
To read more about the decision, visit The Downey Patriot:
Saturday April 8th, 8 pm
Downey Theater
8435 Firestone Blvd., Downey
Benjamin began studying cello at the age of six. In his early teens, as a first place winner of multiple Chicago area competitions, he performed concertos by Saint-Saens, Shostakovich, Hindemith, and Haydn. Benjamin received his Bachelors of Music from the Colburn Conservatory of Music where he studied with Ronald Leonard. He completed a Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree in cello performance. He is a recipient of the USC Music Faculty Endowed Scholarship and studies with Ralph Kirshbaum.
Downey Arts Coalition and Downey Symphony are proud to accept submissions for our April 8th group show, “Earth Recycled.” The deadline to submit is Sunday March 26th. The art will be on display at the Downey Theatre on April 8th, during the Downey Symphony concert.
Oftentimes we are more focused on the latest technology, current events, going through life at a fast pace, hence forgetting to “smell the roses,” and in doing so, we inadvertently overlook the damage we cause our Mother Earth.
Artwork must be regarding ecology, conservation, recycling, pollution, Earth/Nature appreciation, and/or made from recycled items. Inspire caring and respect for our Mother Earth through your art.
Selected artists will be featured in the Symphony concert program, with your contact information, and will be publicly recognized from the stage.
Email curator Andrew Hernandez at: andrewh@www.downeyarts.org
1. Jpeg of artwork
2. Title, Medium and Size
3. Short description, one sentence, of relation to theme.
Friends of the Downey Symphony—
We’ll be presenting a very special concert on Saturday, January 28, in the Downey Theatre. Concert-goers have asked for piano and vocal music and to hear again some of the great young musicians who have performed in recent years. In response, instead of an orchestral concert, we’re presenting three dazzling musicians. They’ll be performing a range of pieces by Debussy, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, and work by Spanish and Latin composers, including Ravel, Piazzolla, Granada, and Ginestra. Please join us for a great evening!
Downey Arts Coalition presents “Dreamscapes,” a group art show of local and established Southern California artists, in the lobby of the Downey Theatre. Come early to experience this exploration of our mind’s eye as we translate our dreams to the visual arts. Curated by Eloise Ball.
Read more about the show at The Downey Patriot.
Ticket Pricing
GOLD – Orchestra Rows C through L – Balcony Rows BB through DD – $35.00
SILVER – Orchestra Rows A, B, M, N, O – Balcony Rows AA, EE, FF – $30.00
STUDENT – Silver section seats with current student I.D. – $10.00
Click here to purchase individual tickets for any of our concerts, or call (562) 861-8211.
For more information, please visit us at www.downeysymphony.org or call at (562) 403-2944.
Roy Anthony Shabla – Downey artist, poet, and filmmaker – is the first ever Artist-in-Residence at Stay Gallery from December 5th to January 28th, 2017. Shabla is a recognized painter and Stay Gallery, near the corner of Downey Avenue and Firestone Boulevard, will be his studio and exhibition space for the next two months.
Shabla is a late Abstract Expressionist and will be painting eighteen foot canvases – the largest the gallery has shown – as well as assembling junk sculptures and hosting evenings of films on art. The public is encouraged to visit.
Roy Anthony Shabla is Director of Collections for Downey Museum of Art and sits on the Advisory Board of Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts. His films are represented by Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He will be the featured artist at LACDA in January.
Shabla will perform Travels with my Rant, a poetry-and-improvised-music event comparing life in Downey to life in Paris, for Poetry Matters – a Downey Arts Coalition monthly poetry gathering at Stay Gallery – on January 19th. Local Downey musicians Josue Quiquivix, Andrew Ariza, and Gabriel Armenta will back him.
Shabla hosts a monthly cultural event, the green salon – a gathering of artists, poets, musicians, and other creative people – which will happen in January at Stay Gallery on Saturday the 28th. The gathering will also serve as an after-party for Downey Symphony which is performing that night.
Abstract Expressionism is the important American movement in art which shifted cultural focus from Paris to New York. It was supported by the CIA during the Cold War as a contrast to the Soviet Union’s Social Realism, demonstrating the artistic freedom of the West to the world. The most recognizable Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Shabla will show films about these artists during his residency. Follow Stay Gallery on facebook or Instagram for more information.
Local educators are encouraged to schedule field trips to the gallery to visit and workshop with Shabla. See staygallery.org to start the process.
A Community Day when the public is invited to collaborate on a painting with Shabla is planned for Saturday, December 17th, beginning at 11am. Plan to get your hands dirty!
As the first Artist-in-Residence at Stay Gallery, Roy Anthony Shabla intends to create large abstract paintings to enthrall the cultural enthusiast and also expose the community to an important American art form. Come participate in this historic event.
DREAMSCAPES
“You journeyed in joy and despair
Before you encountered lies and old age
Love made you suffer at twenty at thirty
I’ve lived like a fool and wasted my time
You no longer dare to look at your hands and now I feel like crying
Over you over the one I love over everything that has scared you.”
― Guillaume Appollinaire, Zone
(Translated by David Lehman)
Sponsor: Downey Arts Coalition and Downey Symphony
Where: Downey Civic Theater, 8435 Firestone Blvd., Downey, CA 90241
When: Saturday, January 28, 2017 – 6:30 p.m.
Duration: Thru Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Theme: Dreamscapes
Parameters: All Medias, Mixed Medias, All Sizes, Self- Contained. Artwork must be regarding theme.
Fee: $5 per selected art piece
Submission Deadline: Sunday, January 15, 2017, Midnight
Dreamscapes: Take us into a surreal world, where your imagination is set free and reality is tweaked. A place free from conscious rational control, which may lead you to whimsical places, or to your darkest fears.
Selected artists will be featured in the Symphony concert program, with your contact information, will be publicly recognized from the stage, and will have the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets to the evening’s performance.
For consideration, please submit images, with a one sentence description, of your artwork via email to Eloisa Ball at ej@www.downeyarts.org.
Those chosen will be sent an artist’s information packet explaining details about delivery and retrieval.
This Sunday, DAC’s own Carolina Del Toro has curated a new show of work around “the Day of the Dead” for the Dia De Los Metros festival at the Downey Theatre. Come upstairs and enjoy the art exhibit in the lobby of the theatre.
Full press release follows:
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