The Alexandria Singers - LLA's Newest Performing Arts Partner

Living Legends of Alexandria is delighted to have been invited to exhibit the 2012 Legend Portraits at the June 8-9 concert of the Alexandria Singers.

The Alexandria Singers will present "Red Carpet Pops" on June 8th at 7:30 p.m. and June 9th at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Alexandria, 2932 King Street.

Join the DC area’s premier pops chorus as they set out to see who will win the coveted “Blue Alex” award! The Spring show allows the Singers to entertain audiences with a fun-filled story featuring song, dance, staging, and costumes. Audiences will be treated to quality arrangements of a variety of American popular music -- from jazz to swing, to Broadway, to today's top hits -- comparable with what one would find in places like the Kennedy Center or in New York!  Three showtimes available! 

For tickets visit: www.AlexandriaSingers.com OR e-mail: tickets@alexandriasingers.com (please include "Red Carpet Pops" in the subject line.)

Living Legends/Alexandria Speaks

Two of Alexandria's Living Legends, Carolyn Griffin (2007-08), and Jon Liss (2010) were interviewed by students in the Alexandria Speaks class led by T.C. Williams High School teacher Todd Koren.  The assembly program was facilitated by Shawn Thorpe, Academic Principal on Assignment, Center for the Arts K-12 and Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, Filmmaker and Alexandria Commission of the Arts Commissioner.

 

Carolyn Griffin, producing artistic director, MetroStage

Jon Liss, Director, Virginia New Majority

Alexandria Speaks was created by Superintendent Morton Sherman as an opportunity to capture the human side of Alexandria's history.  Dr. Sherman opened the program with a video, Voices of Alexandria, featuring Fred Day, the first African American chairman of a public school board in Virginia.  Day was named a Living Legend of Alexandria in 2007-08.

Dr. Morton Sherman opened the program.

Nina Tisara, director of Living Legends of Alexandria said her hope in bringing the program to T.C. is to help the students understand that "history is not only the past, it is happening now and that Alexandria's Living Legends are part of a interwoven tapestry of movements that includes integration, women's rights, housing and economic issues.  By introducing Alexandria's Living Legends to the students, we are demonstrating that individual people can and do make a difference."
 
As part of the program, students had the opportunity to express interest in internships with Living Legends and MetroStage.  For information on internship opportunities, contact AlexandriaLegends@ninatisara.com.

Photos by Nina Tisara/Living Legends of Alexandria

Alexandria Speaks / Living Legends of Alexandria

Living Legends Carolyn Griffin and Jon Liss will participate in a program to introduce the Living Legends project to students at T.C. Williams High School.  Living Legends is working toward combining aspects of the project with the Alexandria Speaks class at T.C.

 

The program is scheduled for Friday, May 18, 9:30 - 10:15 a.m.  Griffin will speak on MetroStage and bringing professional theater to Alexandria; Liss will speak on Tenants United and the New Majority.  

 

2007 Living Legend of Alexandria Carolyn Griffin.  Photo by Nina Tisara

2011 Living Legend of Alexandria Jon Liss.  Photo by  Steven Halperson

Two  videos  created by the Alexandria Speaks class will be shown and following the interviews of the Legends, the students will have the opportunity to ask questions.

The program was facilitated by Shawn Thorpe, Center for the Arts K-12, Alexandria City Public Schools.

 

 

FLASH!
Living Legends of Alexandria will screen some of our past year's videos in this year's Artomatic on Thursday, June 14, 7-9 p.m. 

 

We'll be showing: 

(1) The Art of Photojournalism

(2) Living Legends of Alexandria - 2008-09 Interview Highlights

(3) Living Legends of Alexandria - 2010 Interview Highlights

 

If you haven't seen these videos, now's the time.  And if you have seen them, come anyway.  Let's have a party! 

 

Please come and invite your friends.  It's a great opportunity to spread the word about Living Legends.

 

About Artomatic

Artomatic 2012 (Artomatic.org) is an annual multi-week (May18-June24), multimedia arts event held in the DC area.  This year's location is:  851 S. Bell Street, Arlington, VA (Adjacent to Crystal city Metro).  The Film room is located on the 4th floor.

 

Artomatic creates community, builds audience and expands economic development by transforming available space into a playground for artistic expression. Unjuried events showcase creative work in visual art, music, film, performance, and fashion. Artomatic is a non-profit organization headed by a volunteer Board of Directors and is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Artomatic 2012 opens to the public on Friday,
May 18 at 6:00pm
Wednesdays and Thursdays: noon – 10 pm
Fridays and Saturdays: noon – 1 am
Sundays: noon – 5 pm
Closed  Mondays and Tuesdays
Artomatic's Closing Night will be Saturday, June 23rd.

 

 

Info:   AlexandriaLegends@ninatisara.com or 703-625-2330.