Juneteenth celebrations in Denver have a long-standing history, dating back to around 1968. Juneteenth Music Festival executive director Norman Harris explained the history of Juneteenth in Denver as being a product of a large migration of people from Texas to Colorado. Five Points has been the center of celebration for many years, but now it is moving out into the whole city.
“Juneteenth has always been a piece of trying to establish justice, and we’ve seen so many folks galvanize from all different walks of life, all different colors — probably one of the most beautiful things that the world has seen in these last couple of weeks,” he said. “That’s been born out of a lot of tragedy, a lot of pain that us African American people have experienced, but what the Juneteenth celebration is, is it’s an example of how we have transformed our tragedy into triumph.”
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The art is up and the titles, bios, and stories behind the work will soon follow. All by Friday May 28… but please note: “Meet the Artist” is Sat 29, the Upcycle Journal workshop is June 6, and a closing reception with both artists is in the works. This show includes Susan Smereka’s Far from Black and White and Sabrina Fadial’s Endangered Beauty.
Transition: Turning the Wheel, the Art of Becoming.
We are at a time of transition, we are turning the wheel, but from what and to where? We are at a time of transition from the blinders of history, the horse blinders that close out the broader view allowing in only the pre-selected perspective. How can we turn the wheel of existence to meet a fuller future? How can we handle the lever to transform the world defined by pain, abuse, hate, and loneliness?
Transition is like the grey matter between black and white, the zone that is more complex than one thing or the other…. And when it comes to the shift between winter and summer, spring, it looks more like an effusion of colour. We also think of transition as threshold, but perhaps it is a bigger, broader place between one existence and another, a condition of impermanence.
For the complete essay: https://green-tara.squarespace.com/events-and-workshops/transition?p
By the end of May, the Gallery will have a new show up. This will be the first of the 2021 series Transition, Transmigration, Transmission, and Transcendence. The first Gallery show opens May 28 and runs through July 4th and features Susan Smereka's new work Far from Black and White along with Endangered Beauty, fire work, by Sabrina Fadial. Hours for all shows will be during Kraemer & Kin's normal hours of operation (F, S, S 12noon to 6pm; please verify days & times with them) or contact me for private appointments.
Also not to be missed: Susan Smereka is offering an Upcycle Journal Workshop at the Gallery on Sunday, June 6th. Please sign up online or by sending me an email. Details: 10am to 3pm, with 1 hour for lunch on your own. $35, incl. materials. 8 persons max.
new work by Susan Smereka
As the ice goes out and the mountains snows flow into Lake Champlain, our thoughts turn to warmer seasons and planning for summer fun in our active watershed. We also know that the cyanobacteria blooms in & around North Hero were bad last year and so appreciate the work LLC has done to educate us on this condition. This lake that joins us holds both our past and our future. How we cherish this place and build healing strategies will take all of us, working together, at multiple levels.
Nebi: Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water
We have added this 10min. film (below) thanks to the chiefs and members of the Nulhegan, Missisquoi, and Elnu Bands of the Abenaki Nation, and Peregrine Productions, Lake Champlain Committee (LLC), Lake Champlain Sea Grant and UVM Extension.
Great Ice days are here finally as a “mini-fest” for locals — this means skating and skiing with Covid-safety rules , i.e., no big group activities like bonfire, fireworks, or vendors. Some of us have been to Knights Island twice already to check out the ice and snow conditions. There is a small oval and a hockey rink. And it looks like the Over & Back ski to Knights Island will Sunday for some of us — it will be the sunnier day of another cold weekend. Added fun is the First-year Anniversary of Kraemer & Kin, brewery and tasting room at GreenTARA.
We are held in time and place, not only by winter and the beauty that surrounds us, but by the transitions in our political and social environments. We are well aware of new hopes in our government and rising trust of vaccines, but still it will take all of us to believe in our better selves to have these scattered seeds sprout into solidly rooted plants.
Transition: Turning the Wheel thru Time and Place
Turning the wheel, we rotate, change view, transform from chrysalis to butterfly, we transition from formation, from immanent being into active flying beauty. Turning the wheel, we rotate, change direction, transform from enclosed to free, transition from afraid into wing-spread strength, rising into air, layer upon layer, for the long-journey ahead.
Green Tara // Green Terra // Terra Firma // Firmament // Earth Goddess // Gaia // Goddess of Enlightenment