Space 7:10 Schedule June-December 2007

Schedule __So Far__ for June—December 2007
(as of May 22)
All events at Space 7:10
963 Bonifant St. in downtown Silver Spring

Photo by Kyi May Kaung
J. Tomiko Anders, Tom Thomas, Mary Thomas

JUNE
June 5 through July 7
Exhibit: Artwork by Ka Lai Lou, Avian Anderson, and Sohee Oh, students of the Visual Art Center, Albert Einstein High School. Co-sponsored by Alchemy www.artandalchemy.com

Friday, June 8, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for Visual Art Center students

Friday, June 15, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Live Music and Text performed by cellist Kit Mason and poet-musician Greta Ehrig

Friday, June 22, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Performance by the movement company, DanceAntonini: “Café Crumble Cake,” a blend of movement phrases, structured improvisation, visual props, and a mixture of music scores.

JULY - AUGUST
Friday, July 6, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Ocio Jazz
www.ociojazz.com

July 10 through August 11
Photographs by Nancy Coviello: Images of Italy

Friday, July 13, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for Nancy Coviello

August 10, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Essence Pierce, whose work with Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma based in Baltimore was featured in the February issue of O: The Oprah Magazine. www.astt.org

August 14 through September 1
Paintings by Matewos Legesse

August 17, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for Matewos Legesse

August 24, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Meena A. Nayak to read from her new novel, Endless Rain (Penguin), which is set in Kashmir. Meena teaches Creative Writing and Mythology at Northern Virginia Community College.

August 31, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: Kyi May Kaung reads from her new dramatic monologue “With or Without Womb.”


SEPTEMBER
September 4 through October 6, 2007
Empowered Women International Group Show, www.ewint.org

September 7, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for EWI Artists

September 14, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: A discussion of Robin Hood interspersed with several songs led by Stephen D. Winick, a writer and editor at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.

September 28, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: A discussion with Elaine Kessler about the work of Women's Education Project in Uganda.


OCTOBER
October 5, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Live Music: Hurricane Howie Feinstein, Louisiana roots music

October 9 through November 12, 2007
Claire Ackerman: Reading Faces, ink, watercolor, and collage portraits

October 12, 6:3 to 8:30pm
Reception for Claire Ackerman


NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
November 13, 2007 – January 4, 2008
Kanchan Balse and Laurie Breen, paintings and collages

November 16, 6:30 to 8:30pm (tentative)
Awards Reception, Space 7:10 at Kefa Café Poet in Residence

December 7
Reception for Kanchan Balse and Laurie Breen

About Space 7:10 and Kefa Café
Founded in 2004 by artist Tom Block, Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe offers a small gallery, a salon series, an intimate performance space. Amy Kincaid, an artist and consultant to nonprofits on fundraising and management, currently curates the space. Kyi Kaung, a poet and a political economist with an interest in international literature, activism and art, organizes and facilitates the ongoing Dr. Kaung’s Salon. Kefa Cafe owners Lene and Abeba Tsegaye have created a friendly atmosphere, strong sense of community, and successful small business. The cafe’s menu includes organic, free trade gourmet coffees, gelato, quiche, soup, sandwiches, and pastries.

Mon-Thu: 7am-6pm Fri: 7am-9pm Sat: 8am-5pm

IMPACT Silver Spring Gives Kefa Cafe and Space 7:10 Community Award

As reported in the Silver Spring Penguin:

"A schoolmaster, a PTA mom, a pair of artists and two coffee-brewing sisters received kudos from the community at Thursday night’s Impact Awards ceremony.

"More than 200 people streamed through a crowded NOAA exhibit hall on East-West Highway to recognize the civic contributions of Richard Crump (above), Emie Mercier Cadet, artists Tom Block and Amy Kincaid, and sisters Lene and Abeba Tsegaye. Each received an award from Impact Silver Spring, a civic organization..."

In this picture (taken by painter Nihal Kececi), Abeba is thanking the artists who have presented work, the people who invite the artists and presenters, and all the customers who have come to experience the art, performance, and salon talks. I am up next to speak, looking over her shoulder at her speaking notes and realizing she's saying everything I had planned to say. —Amy

Listening to Songs from Tin Pan Alley Era

at last Friday's Space 7:10 event. Photo by Kyi May Kaung.

What is 7:10, anyway?

The name of our gallery space didn't come from the size of the room 7x10. I'm not at all sure the room is, in fact, that large! The name didn't come from the time 7:10...or not exactly.

Tom Block, whose idea it was to create the alternative art space within Lene and Abeba Tsegay's friendly cafe, noticed something odd about the Ethiopian clock hanging on the wall. Although it works, in the sense that the long wooden arm ticks, the time never changes. The time is always set at 7:10.

On Friday evenings, when we showcase artists, writers, performers, and activists, we have stumbled into a pattern of beginning the show right about 7:10pm. We like for folks to come before that to meet, greet, and eat.

The Music of Tin Pan Alley

May 18, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Salon: A Taste of Tin Pan Alley
Novelist and playwright Leon Levenson will discuss, play selections, and sing (a bit).

During the years of roughly 1885 through the 1930s, and some scholars say, even into the 1950s, musical tastes evolved dramatically. The great popularity of the sentimental lovesong was increasingly challenged by a growing interest in jazz and then rock and roll. Leon will discuss this evolution and invite discussion of the changing life styles and values that it represented. Along the way, he will share some of the music of greats such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and others as performed by artists such as Bessie Smith, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Billy Eckstine, and Mel Torme.

Leon Levenson is a retired English teacher and technical writer who now writes plays. His current projects focus on plays that combine drama and dance.

Evocative Photographs of Everyday Moments

Exhibit: Edges of Everyday Experience
Photographs by Emily Deisroth
May 8 through June 4, 2007
Open during cafe hours

Space 7:10 at Kefa Café
963 Bonifant St., Silver Spring, MD
301-589-9337

Reception: Friday, May 25, 6:30-8:30 pm

Write-Ups on Modern Dance at Space 7:10

And people were skeptical that it could be done:

Choreographer and dancer Gretchen Dunn writes about her experience on DC Dance Blog
Kyi May Kaung writes about it of the dance