Events' Realm

This Saturday, from noon to 8 pm, KNM will host an Art Market. Come out and get some items off your Christmas gift list. All Covid Protocols will be observed.

8 Hillcrest Avenue

KNM Art Market

Pop Up Shop, Toy & Goodie Bag Giveaway, Prizes, Live Music, Fashion Show, Food, Toy & Clothes Drive, Unique Vendors & More

Atlanta

United States

3440 Oakcliff Rd

CMG Studios

Winter Wonderland Pop Up Shop & Toy Drive

Christmas is days away but this year Santa has a bigger problem than having to take the Covid precautions- the list is missing!

Dallas

300 Reunion Boulevard

Reunion Tower Lawn

Help Santa Save Christmas Escape Room Package 2020 Dallas

We are so excited to welcome Kailua Moon to the Town Center of Mililani Centerstage for our December Mililani Jam!

Mililani

95-1249 Meheula Pkwy

Town Center of Mililani

Mililani Jam ft. Kailua Moon

"Tis the Season" is a pop-up art show that showcases local visual artists while helping families in need during the holiday season.

493 Nelson St SW

Atlantucky Brewing

TIS THE SEASON | ARTSHOW x TOY DRIVE

Caroline thinks she has it all figured out. She has the job, money, and huge house, but does she REALLY have it all? Come watch this brand new, original take on A Christmas Carol written by some of our young adults.

Mesquite

2528 Oates Dr

Connection Pointe Church Mesquite

A Christmas Caroline: A Christmas Drama Connection Pointe Church Mesquite

“A pop-soul superwoman…confidence and mastery.” – The New York Times “(Henry) can sell a power ballad as well as Whitney, Diana and Patti.”– Jazz Times “The vocal love child of Whitney Houston and Sarah Vaughan."– Miami Herald

Online

NICOLE HENRY announces her EIGHTH ANNUAL WINTER CONCERT

Kimberly Chmura

NICOLE HENRY announces her EIGHTH ANNUAL WINTER CONCERT
"I Sing Because I'm Happy"
ONLINE from PINECREST GARDENS
SATURDAY DECEMBER 19, 2020 AT 8 PM EST (USA)

To benefit the Miami Music Project
MC Laura Jennings

“A pop-soul superwoman…confidence and mastery.” – The New York Times

Acclaimed jazz recording artist Nicole Henry will premiere her virtual concert "I Sing Because I'm Happy” on Saturday, December 19th at 8pm EST.  This 8th Annual Winter Concert, which is supported by presenting sponsor Savage Ticket and benefits Miami Music Project, a 501(c)(3) will be filmed outdoors at Pinecrest Gardens in Miami and will provide a safe, front-row seat to this six-camera, 8-piece band concert experience.

Artist Nicole Henry possesses dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance. Her passionate, soulful voice and heart-felt charisma have earned her a Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance," three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan jazz albums, and rave reviews worldwide. She has headlined stages in 20 countries with her band and has also recorded and performed with jazz greats Kirk Whalum, Gerald Clayton, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra and Michael Feinstein. 

Henry will celebrate the season of faith, joy and hope by sharing what inspires her to be happy in spite of the obvious challenges of the day.  “I chose the theme, ‘I Sing Because I'm Happy’ because it’s been a year of uncertainty, loss and isolation, and we must make a conscious effort to stay connected with our happiness…collectively.”  The concert will be hosted by award-winning TV personality Laurie Jennings and will feature a range of jazz, soul, pop, inspirational and holiday classics.  Only one ticket is needed for each household and all ticket buyers will have the opportunity to watch through Dec. 26, 2020. General admission tickets are $35 and VIP tickets are $75, which include a Pre-Concert Virtual Backstage Experience, Encore Performances, a Post-Concert Zoom Meet & Greet and an Official “Nicole Henry 8th Annual Winter Concert” Beach Bag (U.S. only).  Tickets are now on sale at:  https://buytickets.at/nicolehenry
  
The benefitting non-profit organization, Miami Music Project provides free music lessons and instruments to over 850 students annually.  These students come from underserved communities in Miami-Dade County and with support of Miami Music Project, 100% of the graduates from this 11-year old organization have all gone on to college with scholarships.

Media contact:
Kimberly Chmura
KCC Productions
+1 (305) 332-2623

Nicole Hanry

https://buytickets.at/nicolehenry

Ocala

2426 E Silver Springs Blvd

Charlie Horse | Ocala

Ugly Sweater Party

The Scream Machine Band has been rocking the biggest and best events throughout Tampa Bay for the past 10 years!

St. Petersburg

16 2nd St N

Ringside Cafe

St. Pete's 80's Rockin' Christmas Party - Ringside Cafe'!

Get the squad together and get to Sunrise Lanes for Galactic Bowling every Saturday! Enjoy all-you-can-bowl and shoes for just $16 a person starting at 10 PM!

Saint Petersburg

6393 9th Street North

Sunrise Lanes

Galactic Saturdays at Sunrise Lanes

Big Birthday Celebration for I AM LEGACI | Black and Gold Affair

Lithonia, GA

8002 Rockbridge Rd

Glow Bar Atlanta

SANCTION DATE: December 19, 2020 PLACE: Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center TIME: All weigh-ins will occur 2 hours prior to

Savannah

7232 Varnedoe Dr

Anderson Cohen Weightlifting Center

Jingle Barbells Weightlifting Championships

Have you always wanted to learn Chess? Here is your chance! Join the Jamaica Chess Federation's free, fun, and interactive Online Workshop. Beginners session runs from 9 am to 12 noon and the Intermediate session is from 1 pm to 4 pm. Visit their website,

Jamaica Chess Federation Online Chess Workshop

On December 19, Junior Chamber International will host a blood drive under the theme, Give Blood, Give Life. It will take place at the Kiwanis Collection Centre, Barbican Road.

The Kiwanis Collection Centre

Give Blood, Give Life

This will be a professional event! This event will feature realtors, wine experts, skin/hair experts, local retailors, and many others.

Irving

223 West Las Colinas Boulevard

Marriott Dallas Las Colinas

Holiday Shopping Expo

**_Presented by New York Academy of Art with Southampton Arts Center_**

**Curators:** David Kratz and Stephanie Roach

**Editor:** Emma Gilbey Keller

**Note to Visitors:** _2020 Vision_, by design, presents multiple artists’ perspectives and observations on all that has occurred in our society over the past year. Please use your discretion when visiting with children due to some mature content.

**Can’t visit in person? Click on the image below for a 360 degree virtual tour!**

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##### Tim Okamura; _Everybody VS Injustice_, 2020; Oil and Acrylic on Canvas; 90” x 88”

The pain, loss and uncertainty of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The awakening cry for social justice following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and many others.

The unnerving possibility of global recession.

2020 has already experienced seismic events that are shifting values and shaping our choices as citizens and as creators.

Artists and writers are always the antennae of our society, all the more so at a time as challenging as this one. They have an opportunity—some might say, a duty—to interpret this moment and imagine the world not only as it is, but also as it could be.

This is the guiding challenge of the group exhibition, **2020 Vision**. We asked artists, writers, and creative thinkers to consider three questions of critical importance: Our lives will never be the same, but what will change look like? What do we want to keep as we rebuild? And what must we guard against?

We invited these creators to express what they saw, what they felt, and what they experienced during this time of pause and reassessment, upheaval and risk, and anxiety and uncertainty.

It is our hope that **2020 Vision** marks one of many beginnings in the necessary process of ‘post-traumatic growth’ and positive change for our society and our world.

**Artists:** John Alexander, Scott Avett, Mary Ellen Bartley, Amy Bennett, Tim Buckley, Tawny Chatmon, Kate Clark, Taha Clayton, Monica Cook, Shiqing Deng, Vincent Desiderio, Peter Drake, Richard Dupont, Eric Fischl, Audrey Flack, Natalie Frank, Elizabeth Glaessner, Ramiro Gomez, Andrae Green, Matthew Hansel, Candace Hill, Nir Hod, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Rashid Johnson, Kurt Kauper, Cédric Klapisch, Adam Lupton, Steve Mumford, Tim Okamura, Clifford Owens, Adam Pendleton, Luján Pérez Hernández, Jean-Pierre Roy, Bastienne Schmidt, Krista Louise Smith, Pamela Sztybel, Phillip Thomas, Justin Wadlington, Chris Wilson, Frank Wimberley, Alexi Worth, Jiannan Wu

**Writers:** Curtis Bashaw, Thomas Dyja, idreamofcovid.com, Keionna Jackson, Julia Jordan, David Kamp, Emma Gilbey Keller, J. Kenji López-Alt, Bernard Lumpkin, Vivek Murthy, Wendy Olsoff, Paine the Poet, Sarah Paley, Steve Porcaro, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Stephen Roach, Brooke Shields, Douglas Unis

**Insurance Sponsor:**

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**GALLERY HOURS:**

Wednesday-Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM (Open Labor Day, Monday, 9/7)

**9/10-12/27:** Thursday-Sunday, 12-5 PM

**David Kratz**

David Kratz is a painter and the President of the New York Academy of Art. In 2008, he received an MFA from the Academy, where he focused on figurative art and won the Vasari Prize for best-in-show painting at the MFA Thesis exhibition. Kratz has shown in group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, Lodge Gallery and Sotheby’s, and at Eden Rock Gallery in St. Barth. Prior to attending the Academy, Kratz was the founder and CEO of Magnet Communications, a leading public relations firm. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston University School of Law, Kratz has served on the boards of Citymeals-on-Wheels, the Lifelines Center, and the New Group, as well as helping to found One Day’s Pay. He became president of the Academy in 2009, and since then developed a new strategic plan, spearheaded a facilities renovation and expansion, overseen the Academy’s accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and organized some of the most successful fundraising events the Academy has seen.

**Stephanie Roach**

Stephanie Roach has been the director of The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, since the institution’s founding in 2008, where she has developed and overseen more than sixty exhibitions with a range of guest curators, including those by Lisa Dennison, Jim Hodges, and Shaquille O’Neal, as well as in-house exhibitions featuring over six hundred established and emerging international artists. At FLAG, Roach curated One, Another (2011) and Space Between (2015), a co-curated exhibition with Louis Grachos. She is currently an Institutional Advisor for the Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize and was on the jury panel for the New York Academy of Art Seventh Annual Summer Exhibition in 2013. She has been a member of the Leadership Circle at The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania since 2009 and a member of the Contemporary Circle at The Jewish Museum, New York, since 2016. Roach graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

**Emma Gilbey Keller**

Emma Gilbey Keller is an author and a journalist. She has written two books, _The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went From Career to Family and Back Again_ (2008) and _The Lady: The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela_ (1994). She has been a contributing writer and a columnist for The Guardian, and her work has appeared in Slate, Vanity Fair and The New York Times among other publications. She lives in Southampton with her husband, Bill Keller.

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111 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013 212.966-0300

ABOUT NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART

Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, the New York Academy of Art is a not-for-profit educational and cultural institution which combines intensive technical training in drawing, painting and sculpture with active critical discourse. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques and encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art. Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.

[nyaa.edu](http://www.nyaa.edu) @NewYorkAcademyOfArt

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25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, NY 11968 631.283.0967

Southampton Arts Center has become a hub for arts and culture on the East End with over 50,000 visitors, five exhibitions and 200+ programs and events in 2019 alone. The broad programming is delivered year-round through an impressive array of partners including New York Academy of Art, International Center of Photography, 92Y, Hamptons International Film Festival, Blue Sphere Foundation, Mountainfilm on Tour, the Watermill Center, and many more. With the recent upgrade of the theater, including state-of-the-art audio and video equipment, lighting and new seating, Southampton Arts Center has expanded its breadth of programming to include first-run films, theatrical performances and concerts.

Southampton Arts Center is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to serve our East End community as a hub for arts and culture while preserving and activating the iconic building and grounds of 25 Jobs Lane for future generations.

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Other images:

Peter Drake; _Arrival_, 2017; Acrylic on Canvas; 56” x 75.5”

Taha Clayton; _Eco-Spirituality_, 2020; Oil on Wood Panel; 36” x 48”

Tim Buckley; _Cursed Gazebo,_ 2017; Acrylic and Oil on Canvas; 48″ x 58″

Matthew Hansel; _7pm Window Sills_, 2020; Oil and Flashe on Canvas; 92″ x 54″

Cover: Tim Okamura; _Everybody VS Injustice_, 2020; Oil and Acrylic on Canvas; 90” x 88”

### Organizer

New York Academy of Art

Phone: (212) 966-0300

Website: [Visit website](http://www.nyaa.edu)

Events

In the morning

Jingle Barbells Weightlifting Championships

Jamaica Chess Federation Online Chess Workshop

Give Blood, Give Life

Holiday Shopping Expo

2020 VISION

In the afternoon

KNM Art Market

Winter Wonderland Pop Up Shop & Toy Drive

Help Santa Save Christmas Escape Room Package 2020 Dallas

Mililani Jam ft. Kailua Moon

TIS THE SEASON | ARTSHOW x TOY DRIVE

In the evening

A Christmas Caroline: A Christmas Drama Connection Pointe Church Mesquite

NICOLE HENRY announces her EIGHTH ANNUAL WINTER CONCERT

NICOLE HENRY announces her EIGHTH ANNUAL WINTER CONCERT

Ugly Sweater Party

St. Pete's 80's Rockin' Christmas Party - Ringside Cafe'!

Galactic Saturdays at Sunrise Lanes

Big Birthday Celebration for I AM LEGACI | Black and Gold Affair