Friday Intelli-date Night in Silver Spring

According to a story the week before last in the Washington Post, the trend (at least in New York City) is "intellidating" -- couples meeting at the public library, museums, and galleries for lectures and debates on politics, art, and humanities. Evidently, intelligence is the new sexy. For your next date, consider:

Friday, May 4 Kefa Cafe
963 Bonifant St. in downtown Silver Spring
6:30pm to 8:00pm

Start your intellectual-cultural date night with a Coffeehouse Chat on art, politics, and culture in our neighborhood with Congressman Albert Wynn and Gaines Clore Wynn. He's a Member of Congress; she's a painter with a studio in Mt. Rainier and a leadership volunteer with community-based arts and social service organizations. We'll ask them about their (literal) marriage of politics and the arts, her artwork, and their thoughts about the exploding cultural community in Silver Spring.

Afterwards, you could continue your date and drive over to Mayorga to check out Ocio Quartet, featuring Silver Spring reed player and JAG lawyer Marty Hindel, who played Space 7:10 earlier this year. Ocio Quartet will play until 9:30 p.m. No cover charge. www.myspace.com/ociomusic

Mayorga Coffee Factory

8040 Georgia Ave

Silver Spring, MD, 20910

301-562-9090

(Free valet parking next to the restaurant)

Dance, yes Dance in Space 7:10

placeDISplace, a solo dance by Gretchen Dunn

Friday, April 29, 6:30-8:30 pm

Meet, greet, and eat, 6:30-7:00 pm
Performance around 7:10 pm

With music by contemporary Hungarian composer Balázs Temesvári. The dance “came from the idea of women's role in making a place for home, wherever that might be.” Gretchen Dunn has been dancing intermittently all her life and wishes to thank Nancy Havlik, Naoko Maeshiba, Ed Tyler, Helen Rea, the Fieldwork, Rudolf Laban, Tzveta Kassabova and Zoltán Nagy. Presented by Dr. Kaung’s Salon.

Hanging Patricia's Show

Join us and meet Patricia Zannie at the reception:
Friday, April 20, 2007, 6:30 to 8:30pm

Photographs by Nancy Coviello.

Welcome Artist and Instructor Patricia Zannie

Light and Landscape: recent collages by Patricia Zannie

Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
April 10 through May 5, 2007
Exhibit open during cafe hours.

Meet the Artist Reception
Friday, April 20, 6:30-8:30 pm

Patricia exhibits locally and teaches in the School of Art + Design at Montgomery College, including a class this fall titled “Light and Landscape.” With her students, Patricia hopes to awaken their spirits and inspire artistic rebellion. She says that today most artists select either total abstraction or the traditional system of perspective. “What I do is combine them in the same piece of art. Keeping some of the assumptions in the traditional approach to the illusion of space, I intersperse two-dimensional patterns. It's great fun. That's what I pass on the my students--the joy of illusion.” The process works, because her students’ work is exhibited regularly in juried shows.

A new member of the Foundry Gallery, Patricia has long been associated with Rockville Art League, receiving numerous awards for mixed media. Patricia's original style marries strong design with the creative impulse. Using snips of magazine and other papers as if they were paint, she integrates, melds, and blends them with ink, marker, oil pastel, watercolor, and she says, “even spit.” Patricia will have a solo show at the Glenview Mansion in Rockville in September 2007. The current exhibit at Space 7:10 will be her first solo exhibit.

Artist Kyi May Kaung Profiled in Asian Fortune

Article in Asian Fortune magazine profiles Kyi and her Space 7:10 exhibit "Mostly Burmese Mugs."

Space 7:10 Featured on Public Radio

For those who missed it, here is a bit from the lead-in to the March 23 interview on Metro Connection:

"Tucked away, off to the side of the front room at Silver Spring's Kefa Cafe, it's a narrow wedge that seems crowded, even with just six chairs set up. It's not exactly a walk-in closet but it's not the Kennedy Center either. The room is known as Space 7:10. And it provides a stage for a wealth of local art, dance, music and poetry that rarely makes it into the city's biggest venues." —David Furst, WAMU's Metro Connection