1st Thursday Stuff & Free Plays at Angels Gate

So the Chamber's been trying to put some life back into 1st Thursday, so I'm back to saying that it may be worth checking out. They fired the individual who was running the disaster of a "street fair" and efforts are being made to pull the event back from the cliff that it was heading over.

I'm really not sure what's going on elsewhere, but husband of AGCC Studio Artist Phoebe Nickell, Lowell Nickell, Studio Artist Ailene Shibata and former Studio Artist Paul Carmichael have an opening at The Loft. I've been a huge, huge fan of Paul Carmichael's work for years and years and he rarely shows, so this is a great chance to see it. Lowell Nickel had a beautiful diptych in this year's On Site at the Gate and Ailene Shibata is back in the swing of painting after recovering from a nasty back injury.

Up at Angels Gate, we're hosting 2 performances this 1st Thursday, at 6:30 & 8:30 PM. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day for a year, and we're presenting seven of them (they're short, they only take about 1 hour to perform) this Thursday in Building H. These plays are being performed all over the country, but we can enjoy them right in our own backyard. It's free, and if you're planning on going downtown for 1st Thursday, you can check out the 6:30 show before you make your way down there.