by the Reportero’s staff
Eldergivers en la Biblioteca Central de S.F. y Migdalia Valdés
Exhibition of original artwork from ELDERGIVERS program on view at S.F. Main Library.
A remarkable display of original art created by elders, most of whom only recently discovered their artistic talents, will be on view in the Jewett Gallery at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St., from Jan. 9 to Feb. 28, 2010.
The participants in the gallery show reflect an ethnic and cultural mosaic of African American, Asian, Filipino, American Indian, Hispanic and Caucasian seniors, ranging in age from early 60s to 102 who have found fresh meaning in life and a new way of expressing themselves through the visual arts.
Celebrating Art with Elders showcases exquisite watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels, crayon, pen & ink and pencil drawings, and collages created by elders who reside in long-term care facilities around the Bay Area.
The show is sponsored by the Library, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and ELDERGIVERS, a nonprofit organization committed to reconnecting the isolated elderly with the community at large.
ELDERGIVERS is now in its 18th year of offering art classes to seniors in residential facilities.
For many of the class participants, learning color theory, composition and perspective becomes a revelation. “I’d like to live to 100. I’m finally doing now what I should have done years ago,” said artist Charles Crookston, 80.
Starting on Jan. 9-Feb. 28, 2010.
Bad Days Made Beautiful
“Bad Days Made Beautiful” by Bay Area photographer, Migdalia Valdes.
These sublime and unusual photographs are made without the use of a camera.
“Bad Days Made Beautiful is a body of work that comes from within the larger framework of my lifelong project titled Every Day in Black and White. With Every Day, I have made a commitment to photograph every day using my old Rolleiflex and film. This project has become a photographic essay of what we see and think about, remember and forget, laugh at and sometimes walk by, a story of time, shifting culture, social change and memory; a poetic documentary of contemporary urban life.
Reception will be held through March 20.
In Search of Beethoven
In Search of Beethoven addresses the romantic myth that Beethoven was a heroic, tormented figure battling to overcome his tragic fate, struck down by deafness, who searched for his ‘immortal beloved’ but remained unmarried. It delves beyond the image of the tortured, cantankerous, unhinged personality, to reveal someone quite different and far more interesting.
In Search of Beethoven brings together the world’s leading performers and experts on Beethoven to reveal new insights into this legendary composer. The line-up of performers and interviewees includes Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Frans Brüggen, Ronald Brautigam, Hélène Grimaud, Vadim Repin, Janine Jansen, Paul Lewis, Lars Vogt, and Emanuel Ax among others. The film is narrated by Juliet Stevenson and young RSC actor David Dawson.
A film at the Bay Model located at 2100 Bridgeway in Sausalito on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 @ 6 p.m. For more info call 415-381-4123.
