Upcoming in March 2007

Friday, March 9, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reading of new play by Bulgarian playwright and director Ivan Kovatchev based on Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat.

March 13 through Saturday, April 7, 2007
Exhibit titled "Mostly Burmese Mugs" featuring “mostly anonymous, ethnically ambiguous” portraits and ceramics by artist and poet Kyi May Kaung. Provocative captions written by historian Bijan Bayne accompany the artwork.

Friday, March 16, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for Kyi May Kaung

Friday, March 30, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Trunk show of wearable art jackets handmade by Kyi May Kaung with Asian fabrics and modeled by café neighbors and regulars.

April 6, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Who is it? Art as a Mirror of Pre-Judgment, a discussion of identity and the tendency to categorize by "race," with writer and historian Bijan C. Bayne with invited guest, filmmaker and cultural anthropologist J. Tomiko Anders

Donate Musical Instrument

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007 from 10am-noon.
Drop off used and new instruments at Kefa Cafe, Silver Spring
For concert April 27 featuring homeless musicians, produced by Riverocks Chamber Players

Poet Anne Becker to Read at Riverby Books

on Capitol Hill with Kathi Wolfe, Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Riverby Books, 417 East Capitol St., SE, 202/543-4342
Anne and Kathi's work often centers on the body, health, and historical figures.

Art Reception with Live Music

Friday, Feb. 23, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St. in downtown Silver Spring

Art reception for Mame and Diana N’Diaye

Free and open to the public
With live music by special guest singer Diane Cameron, presented by Spirit of Wellness.

Exhibit: Mame and Diana N'Diaye

Elementals: Spirit, Place, Family
Mame and Diana N’Diaye
February 13 through March 10, 2007
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St., downtown Silver Spring

Digital reproductions of original pen and ink, abstract prints using digitally altered maps, and art quilt

Image copyright, Mame N'Diaye 2007

Reception: Friday, Feb. 23, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Working mainly in pen and ink, 25-year-old Mame has been making art since she was a little girl, encouraged by her mother, Diana. She derives her themes from mystical, fantasy worlds. The current collection features linear pen and ink images that she calls "Elementals," which suggest themes of fire, water, earth, and spirit. Mame, who has Asperger's syndrome and bipolar disorder, uses art as a place to share her dreams. Mame received an Award of Excellence from VSA arts in 2004. She says, "Art gives power and protection It's a third eye and if you use it wisely it can tell you what life is all about." Diana N'Diaye is a fiber artist, jewelry designer, and a folklorist at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Her quilted hangings and digital prints are inspired by folktales, childhood memories, maps, and events in the world. Exhibit co-sponsored by Empowered Women International. www.ewint.org

Reception is open to the public.

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Poetry Reading: Woman. Body. Love.

Woman. Body. Love.
Friday, Feb. 16, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St., downtown Silver Spring, MD

Women poets explore the many aspects of love, from bliss to the heart's conflicts. Hosted by Anne Becker and featuring Virginia Bell, Denise Denize, and Maria Velazquez.

ANNE BECKER is the author of The Transmutation Notebooks, and teaches creative writing and Writing the Body, a workshop for those who have experienced chronic or life-threatening illness at The Writer's Center. Her chapbook, The Good Body, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2007.

DONNA DENIZE is the author of the poetry chapbook, "The Lover's Voice" (1997) and a book of poems, "Broken Like Job" (2005). She served two years on The Folger Poetry Board and was also one of eight invited teachers for The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s eight part mini-series, In Search of the Novel. She currently teaches literature at St. Albans School for Boys.

VIRGINIA BELL’s poem "No Pope" appeared in the Spring 2006 Wartime issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. On March 6, she will be a featured reader in the Takoma DC library Poetry Series. An adjunct professor with the English Department at Georgetown University, she has published scholarly articles on Eduardo Galeano and Leslie Marmon Silko. A stay-at-home parent of two young children, she lives in Takoma Park.

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Note from Marty Hindel

Dear Friends,


The Ocio Jazz duet (myself and guitarist Mark Caruso) will be at Kefa Cafe in Silver Spring, MD, this Friday, February 9, 2007, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. No cover charge.

I'm excited about the intimate feeling in this tiny little cafe that literally seats about 20, as well as the chance to do some duet work with Mark for the first time since our debut gig back in September. Kefa's address is below.

If you like the local community feel, a cozy atmosphere and creative surroundings, Kefa is the place. Come enjoy a cup of organic coffee, a pastry and live jazz, and combine your trip with dinner at one of Silver Spring's many fine restaurants during Silver Spring Restaurant Week. (Details below)

For more information on Kefa, visit:

http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/spring.php?pid=53

For more information about Ocio, our sound, and our schedule, visit:

www.myspace.com/ociomusic


Hope to see you Friday! Marty

Live Jazz Before Dinner Friday

Come by before or after dinner in downtown Silver Spring during restaurant week.

Friday, February 9
6:30 to 8:30pm
LIVE MUSIC: Ocio Jazz, quartet led by Marty Hindel
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St.

Ocio is a Washington, D.C.-area jazz quartet with a varied repertoire that includes everything from Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk to John Coltrane and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Formed in September 2006, Ocio performs at venues throughout the Washington area. “Ocio” means leisure time. For further information, visit www.myspace.com/ociomusic or contact Marty Hindel by phone (301-587-3109) or e-mail (mhindel@gmail.com).

No cover.

Outsider Artist Alvin Thomas

Art for the People's website has a page with the artist's photograph, more info on him, on the participants in art classes at Community Vision Day Shelter in Silver Spring, and a newspaper feature article on the organization's founder, Alice Sims.