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It is against this backdrop that Elevate 2020 brings to Atlanta’s Historic West End its signature, community-building blend of visual arts, performance and cultural events. Through the lens of artists, thought leaders, creatives and others we celebrate one of Atlanta’s oldest communities and explore the issues of inequity and injustice which will continue to plague us as a city, state and nation until radical change occurs.
As a sign of the times, Elevate 2020 will be 99% digital this year, allowing patrons to experience and engage from their homes or on the go through their mobile devices. Equally as exciting is the opportunity to not only speak to our targeted West End audiences but a broader audience that exists beyond our borders. Digitally presented programs will be pre-recorded and presented live according to the festival schedule.
SUNDAY/ OCTOBER 4, 2020
MONDAY/ OCTOBER 5, 2020
Welcome to the West End highlights the past, present and future of the historic community. Three murals will be installed.. One mural honors the late Civil Rights leader, Rev. James Orange. Another celebrates the contributions of women activists and a third visually amplifies the work of immigrants as first responders and frontline workers. The programming for the day begins with a peek into the process of mural-making through interviews and up-close views of the muralists work. The broadcast day continues with storyteller Mama Koku, filmmaker Melissa Alexander, visual artist Shanequa Gay, historian Skip Mason and West End Tours telling the story of the West End from various viewpoints. Award winning authors Pearl Cleage and Tayari Jones engage in a conversation with Gail O’Neill discussing how the West End has often become another character in their novels
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TUESDAY/ OCTOBER 6, 2020
WEDNESDAY/ OCTOBER 7, 2020
Grab your popcorn and settle in for a day of Films of Consciousness. These films were chosen to illustrate that many of the issues we face in communities across Atlanta, in the South and in this country are not new. They are old regurgitated tropes that we have the power to change. Films include Race: The Power of An Illusion, Dirt and Deeds in Mississippi, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket and Homecoming, a film about Black farmers. Our closing film is John Lewis: Good Trouble
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THURSDAY/ OCTOBER 8, 2020
FRIDAY/ OCTOBER 9, 2020Songs of Freedom have always moved people through the streets and into change. Musicians Henry Conerway, Tony Hightower, Kenny Banks, Jr., Julie Dexter and Michael Murani take on the challenge of using these songs to inspire audiences here and everywhere to exercise their right to vote.
SATURDAY/ OCTOBER 10, 2020With a renewed consciousness has come a renewed interest in supporting Black entrepreneurs and small businesses. Saturday’s focus is on Black business in the West End. Giving Them The Business is a series of panel discussions around entrepreneurism, Black owned farms in the West End, the history of Black businesses in the West End and the business of art. Additionally there will be children’s programming and a self-guided public art tour through the West End. Elevate 2020 closes with musical performances by Gritz and Jelly Butter and Kebbi Williams’ Wolf Pack.
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