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Talk At Ten Interview: River Is The Road Festival (Radio interview @ KRTS Marfa)
Many thanks to my friend and mentor Eileen Torpey and Bett Williams for putting on an amazing film festival in Marfa, TX. Drift 2011 was amazing and I am sorry I could not be there in person, only in artistry. At the 17:00m mark, they discuss my Videom, recorded and premiered at the Drift 2011 Film Festival. Thank you Eileen and Bett!
“Ruidosa: A Videom” was a poem that was requested and originally composed by Hakim Bellamy for DRIFT 2011.
“The River is the Road: Ruidosa Art Happening” is hosting a DRIFT Video Night on September 17, 2011 in Ruidosa, Texas. There will be a selection of video shorts by artists from the East Coast and Southwest as well as live performances by New York artists Irvin Morazan and Geoffrey Hendricks (“Headstand for Eileen—a meditation”). Sacred Heart Mission Church in Ruidosa, 7:00-8:30pm. Funding for this year’s DRIFT is provided by the Idea Fund.
DRIFT is an annual group exhibition that moves to a new location every year. The exhibition characterizes the impermanence and site-specificity of the artworks as well as the adaptive qualities of the participating artists. DRIFT highlights under represented talented artists while emphasizing the critical role of experimentation and process within conventional and unconventional exhibition spaces.
The Vortex Theatre Presents
William Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
June 3 through August 7, 2011
“Nothing says summer like the Bard!”
Aurelio Sanchez — ABQ Journal, May 29, 2011
Will Power 2, the Vortex Theatre’s 2011 Summer Shakespeare Festival, gets off to a sensational start Friday, June 3, with Romeo and Juliet, the world’s best-loved romantic tragedy. The star-crossed lovers are played by Stafford Douglas and Willow Hanson (center, photo above) with Hakim Bellamy as Friar and Laira Morgan as Nurse.
Under the direction of Ryan Jason Cook, the play is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the troubles of the heart are echoed by a civilization in violent collapse. Think Terminator Salvation and The Book of Eli, but with Shakespeare’s gorgeous verse and the passions of young love. The production is enhanced by images of this embattled world projected onto screens around the theatre.
Over the 10-week run of the festival, Romeo and Juliet will appear in revolving repertory with The Comedy of Errors and The Merchant of Venice, with four shows most weekends. Please click here for a complete schedule of Will Power 2 performances through August 7th.
June 3-August 7, 2011Romeo and Juliet in revolving repertory with
The Comedy of Errors and The Merchant of Venice
Fri-Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2pm and 7:30pmTickets are $15.00 general admission, $10 for student rush (10 minutes before curtain), and $40 for a Festival pass to all three productions. Tickets may be reserved or purchased online at www.vortexabq.org, or by calling 247-8600.
For important details on purchasing Festival passes, please click here.
2011 Revolutions launches with rhythm and rhyme by Duke City Fix
I have to confess that, with a few exceptions, I’ve never been a huge Hip-Hop fan or rap fan. I liked some early rappers from the 1980s and Arrested Development from the 1990s. Lately I’ve been listening to MC Yogi, whose album “Elephant Power” is a wonderful exploration of the stories of Hindu gods like Hanuman and Ganesh, as well as historical heroes like Mahatma Ghandi.
But Hakim Bellamyand Carlos Contreras showed me a whole different side of Hip-Hop this week.The two are spoken word artists and poetry slam champions performed “Urban Verbs: An Autobiographical Intersection of Hip-Hop & Humanity in Five Acts.” It officially kicked off the 11th Annual Revolutions International Theatre Festival, the amazing three-week event created by Albuquerque’s own Tricklock Theatre Company, that every year brings us some of the best performers from around the world, especially from fringe festivals. (read on at the link above…)
