Experience the power, rhythm, and storytelling of Flamenco! Dancer Griset Damas-Roche of Flamenco Company of Columbus will showcase her more than 20 years as a performer and choreographer while introducing you to the instrumentalists and dancers’ interpretation of the music’s “language.”
Your toddler will love the board book All Kinds of Kindness. From bright ideas of hope to small acts of goodwill, the book helps share the message: kindness makes our world a better place. Following storytime, our youngest artists will create works of art based on the illustrations.
Saturday, February 4 at 7:00 PM and Sunday, February 5 at 2:00 PM. Join the MAC for a screening of “A Great Day in Harlem,” a documentary that visits 1958 New York and the moment 57 of the greatest jazz musicians gathered on a stoop to snap a pic. Learn how the musicians orchestrated this monumental gathering. After the documentary, immerse yourself in live music as Central Ohio jazz icon Bobby Floyd and his trio honor these featured legends with a tribute performance.
Join the MAC for a screening of “A Great Day in Harlem,” a documentary that visits 1958 New York and the moment 57 of the greatest jazz musicians gathered on a stoop to snap a pic. Learn how the musicians orchestrated this monumental gathering.
Special Valentine’s Day Performance
A tribute to the romantic songbook of Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David.
Featuring Dan Rowan, Patti Lach, and Kay Harris
For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result.
Then, something remarkable happened. A new breed of collectors emerged and, before long, they were battling to acquire any work by these new, radical artists that they could find. Amongst them was the visionary Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen. It was an extraordinary moment in art history; full of drama, intrigue and subterfuge.
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
Enjoy a night of heart-pounding African drumming and dance, by the Thiossane West African Dance Institute. Learn the origins of this art form, discover the historical significance of African dance and drum, and explore the genre that has served as the inspiration and basis for so many forms of dance and music.
A crossover between tradition and contemporary, Columbus Cultural Orchestra (CCO) starts off their season with a tribute to 1990s hip-hop. Stephen Spottswood, founder and classically trained violinist, noticed that the orchestras he played with weren’t playing his favorite hip-hop and R&B songs. CCO is an exciting new orchestra program offered to instrumentalists ages13-25 who play at least at the intermediate level. Established in 2020, the orchestra teaches developing musicians arrangements of jazz, hip-hop, and classical. Bringing back classics to the orchestral world, you can expect to hear throwbacks from SWV, Brandy, Usher, Destiny’s Child, Aaliyah and more! Look forward to creative instrumentation including vocals, drums, keyboard, and disc jockey–to form a head bopping, beat dropping innovative performance!
