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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20260516
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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/see-halim-flowers-paintings-at-severa
 nce-music-center-as-part-of-opera-humanities-festival/
SUMMARY:See Halim Flowers' Paintings at Severance Music Center as Part of O
 pera & Humanities Festival
DESCRIPTION:\nSat 5/16 @ 11AM-1PM\nThe Cleveland Orchestra will once again\
 , for the fourth year\, present its annual Mandel Opera &amp\; Humanities 
 Festival\, from May 15-24. And for the third year\, the festival will be a
 ccompanied by an art show in the Grand Foyer at Severance Music Center tha
 t reflects the year’s theme.\nThis year the theme is “Courage\,” and
  the show\, called It Takes Courage to Love All Unconditionally\, goes on 
 view Thursday April 9.\nIt features the Basquiat-inspired work of 45-year-
 old painter Halim Flowers\, who at the age of 16 was sentenced to two life
  terms in prison for a murder committed by an accomplice. He was released 
 after 20 years\, and went on to become a visual artist\, writer and activi
 st for justice.\n“This festival celebrates courage\, reflecting the pers
 onal journey I’ve been on for quite some time\,” says Flowers in the M
 andel Opera &amp\; Humanities Festival press release. “Many choices I ma
 de in my childhood led to consequences that were not a result of my being 
 a ‘bad kid\,’ but rather due to my inability to overcome negative peer
  influences and community pressures. This body of work represents an exten
 sion of my identity and self-worth. I had to learn to love myself\, even w
 hen society labeled me as a menace and treated me accordingly. The colors 
 in the pieces I created for this exhibition emerged organically\; they cho
 se me. I usually don’t work with earth tones or neutrals\, but this time
 \, the mediums — my tools of mass construction — were paintbrushes\, o
 il sticks\, canvas\, and fashion. The colors arrived uniquely and unexpect
 edly."\nThe show will be on view during all Cleveland Orchestra performanc
 es\, and during a free public open house Saturday May 16 @ 11am-1pm.\nGet 
 more information here.\nhalim-flowers-exhibition\n[mappress mapid="5027"]
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CATEGORIES:college,Visual Arts,----WRITERS----,Anastasia
 Pantsios,Preview,Free,RSS
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