Tonight and Next Few Fridays

DISCUSSION
Friday, September 29, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Kyi May Kaung leads an open discussion of the historical Buddha. Dr. Kaung is a Silver Spring-based artist, activist, poet, and political economist and originally from Burma.

MUSIC
Friday, October 6, 7 p.m.
Jazz trumpeter Michael Thomas celebrates the release of It Is What It Is, a new CD by the Michael Thomas Quintet.

ART OPENING
Friday, October 13, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Opening reception for Russian-Israeli painter Regina Margarita Barker-Barzel. Barker-Barzel. Exhibit co-sponsored by Empowered Women International.

DANCE
Friday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Turkish modern dancer, writer, and healer Bikem Ozturk, performs a site-specific, structured improvisation titled “Limits are the Sky.” The dance is about courage, joy, and mindfully living a full life within limits.

Bikem Ozturk was born in Istanbul in 1966. She studied ballet as a child, and at 23, participated with Zeynep Gunsur in the first dance theater project of Green Grapes. Since moving to the United States in 1993, she has been dancing in Liz Lerman Dance Exchange classes and projects. Bikem has been a student of Zen since 1991 and her practice is mindfulness in everyday life.

MUSIC
Friday, Oct 27, 6:30-8 p.m.
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Lisa Null hosts an open a cappella ballad sing. Lisa Null is a singer and folklorist who has performed in festivals and concerts throughout North America and Great Britain including Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Of all the songs she sings, none are more precious to her than the old story songs passed on for centuries through oral tradition. She will be singing some of her favorites, mostly old but also a few newer ones created in the old style. Come to listen, to sing on refrains, or to share a few of your favorites. Because of Halloween, ghostly ballads are particularly welcome. Co-sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington.

Open Studio and Mixed Media Class

Marilyn Banner was one of the first artists to show work at Space 7:10. She's hosting an open studio and art sale, as part of the "Harvest Moon Over Howard Avenue" celebration.

4233C Howard Avenue in Kensington MD
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
October 6,7,8 from 1-5 pm

Includes framed and unframed work from series including Angels and Messengers, Rainforest Memories, Scenes of Childhood, Music Memory, and a new series called Rhythm. A cornucopia of art for $10–$10,000!

And she's teaching a new class at Montgomery College School of Art and Design (probably begins this week!):

Beyond the Still Life: Incorporating Personal, Social, or Political Issues in Your Art
Bring a blank journal sketch-book 5.5"x8.5" or 8.5"x11", pencil, and pen to the first class.

Live Jazz at Kefa

Friday, October 6, 7-8:30 p.m.
Jazz trumpeter Michael Thomas celebrates the release of It Is What It Is, a new CD by the Michael Thomas Quintet.

Michael Thomas has played with Betty Carter, Keter Betts, Jimmy Heath, Houston Person, Larry Willis, Shirley Scott, Slide Hampton, Buck Hill, Webster Young, Gary Bartz, Joe Williams, and others. He hosted jam sessions at HR-57 (Center for the Preservation of Jazz and Blues) for three years and does jazz education seminars with Nasar Abadey. Living in the DC/Maryland area since 1993, the Las Vegas native performs regularly with his Quintet and with the Tootsie Gripper's Jazz Vespers Ensemble.

Influenced by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Stanley Turntine, and Freddie Hubbard, the group plays music rooted in the rich and passionate tradition of jazz.

Buddha Talk

Dr. Kaung's Salon

Space 7-10

Kefa Cafe

963 Bonifant St.

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Friday, Sept. 29th, 6.30 PM to 8 PM

Kyi May Kaung: The Historic Buddha.

Gautama Buddha was an Indian prince of a small city state and lived over 2500 years ago. After an early life of luxury, he saw the four great signs -- left his wife and child and set out on a spiritual search that would culminate in his Enlightenment under the banyan tree.

Born and brought up in Burma, in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism, Kyi May will discuss the importance of the concept of karma and practice in Buddhism.

Within walking distance of Silver Spring metro red line and free parking on Wayne Av. and Bonifant St.

Further info: kolorama@yahoo.com or space710.kefacafe@gmail.com

Documentary in Development by Bijan Bayne

Friday, Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m.

Historian Bijan C. Bayne will present information and analysis on the practice of exhibiting people of color as exotics and savages, the subject of his new film-in-progress, “Show People.”

Find out more about the author of Sky Kings: Black Pioneers of Professional Basketball at www.bbayne.com

Local Filmaker Screens Rough Cut on Identity

Report on a Space 7:10 event, August 18, during which we presented a rough cut of a new documentary featuring young multiracial-multicultural adults and their thoughts on identity, family, and geography.

The documentary-in-progress, titled Mergence, was presented at Space 7:10 to an audience of cafe patrons, interview participants, their spouses, partners, and friends with the film's director and producer, J. Tomiko Anders.

Anders, who is herself multiracial (and a Silver Spring resident), collected personal narratives from adults ages 20 to 40, raised throughout the United States as well as the India, United Kingdom, Tunisia. Participants to date identify at least two or more identities among Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, White, Black, German, Jewish, Guamanian, Irish, Scotch, American Indian, and Arab.

"We all grew up thinking our experiences are unique and isolated," says Anders. "Sometimes they are. But the documentary shows that there are others with similar experiences-- however distinct, however difficult-- that can relate to one another within a larger context."

"As a resident of Silver Spring-- arguably Montgomery County's own center of diversity-- it was important for us to be here," notes Anders. "This multicultural meeting spot invites community and discussion."

Currently available as a 37-minute unedited "rough cut", Mergence distills over 30 hours of interview footage drawn from a decade of research into issues affecting multiracial adults.

Anders is currently securing resources and assistance for additional interviews, non-interview footage, post-production work, and distribution towards a finished product over the next few months.

Cajun, Zydeco, Etc. Music Event

Sept. 8, Fri., 7:00 pm
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St.
Silver Spring, MD

Live Music: “Hurricane” Howie Feinstein
Keyboard, accordion, a little singing, plus background on the cultural roots of Louisiana roots music

Event is free and open to the public.