Nate’s North Coast Notes • National Black Political Convention | “The Wandering” | Healing through Abstraction? | Virtual Wine Tasting coming to Karamu

By Nathan E. Paige

‘Nationtime’ – Cleveland Cinematheque Virtual Theater (Screens through November 12)

The Cleveland Cinematheque Virtual Theatre
presents streamings of “Nationtime,” a long-lost nonfiction
film covering the National Black Political Convention
 of 1972. (Kino Marquee Films)

This long-lost nonfiction film covers the National Black Political Convention of 1972, when 10,000 Black politicians, activists and artists convened in Gary, IN, to forge a national unity platform in advance of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions. The delegates included a wide array of political thinkers and cultural celebrities—from Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, poet Amiri Baraka, and PUSH founder Jesse Jackson to Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Dick Gregory, and Isaac Hayes. Civil rights advocate and Black nationalist Queen Mother Moore argued for reparations. Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte narrate this film. From the director of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. Click here to purchase. You have 5 days to watch the film after purchasing.

Experience “The Wandering,” the Maelstrom Arts Collaborative’s latest production, running through Sunday, November 1.

“The Wandering” at Maelstrom Collaborative (Through November 1)

“The Wandering,” the current production at Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, is steeped in mystery and designed in such a way that only one person can experience it at a time (or two, if from the same household). “The Wandering” takes place after a catastrophic accident in what could be Anytown. The audience is thrust into a dream shared by the entire town, and they wander through the dream world as it unfolds. “It’s similar to a guided haunted house experience,” says MCA connectivity director Marcia Custer. Remaining performances are Friday at 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 7 p.m. There’s also a late show on Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.  Maelstrom Collaborative Arts is located at 5403 Detroit Rd [44102].  Click here for more information.

Hernease Davis is an abstract artist who will speak during the next Desktop Dialogues event
Wednesday, November 4 at noon. (Photo credit: Eugene Foster)

Desktop Dialogues: ‘Healing Through Abstraction’ at Cleveland Museum of Art (November 4)

On Wednesday, November 4 at noon join CMA Manager of Collection & Exhibition Programs Andrew Cappetta and visual artist Hernease Davis for a conversation on Davis’s abstract photo-based images, installations, and weavings, which she describes as surfaces for “expression, meditation, anger, rest” and “quiet spaces of self-care.” This is the latest in a series of “Desktop Dialogues” presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cappetta and Davis address the question: Can the expressive possibilities of abstract art help one heal from trauma?  Together they also discuss the work of artists that have inspired Davis’s own move from representation to abstraction, including Sam Gilliam, Mark Rothko, and Lorna Simpson. 

Karamu House’s new networking group, the Young Professional Council, will hold a virtual wine tasting Thursday, November 12.

Karamu House Virtual Wine Tasting (Thursday, November 12)

Are you a young professional, ages 22-35? Then, NOW is the time to join Karamu's new Young Professionals Council + register for its first event, a Virtual Wine Tasting (in partnership with  Flight Cleveland), Thursday, November 12 at 6PM. Please register by October 30. Learn more: https://buff.ly/2Tiyobm

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