The Riverwest Artists Association (RAA) presents
the 19th Annual Riverwest Artwalk
October 4 & 5, 2003
From Noon until 5
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news and reviews.
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Growing Nation’s Positive Vibe
by Tom Durkin
Kwame “One 2″ Green, a founding member and manager of the Milwaukee-based band Growing Nation, points out that “the Nation believes that the energy you give off, you get back.” At a live performance by Growing Nation, it is evident that many music fans are feeding off this energy.
Posted inMusic & Events
Upcoming Programs on School of the Americas
Two programs coming up about the formerly named School of the Americas (S.O.A.) in Ft. Benning, Ga., which trains mainly Latin Americans in terrorist type tactics that have been used by graduates who have tortured, raped, and killed nuns & priests, labor unionists, and other human rights activists in Central & South America for decades…
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Performance Art Exhibition Showcases Riverwest Talent
by Jeremy Berg
Performance art differs most of all from any associated discipline in that its very nature changes with the circumstances of any given night (which is one reason that performance art frequently involves audience participation). Unlike theater, a performance art piece, while it may contain planned elements, can never be written down and done by others because “it is live, it is personal.”
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The Weather Underground 10/3
“The Weather Underground” opens Friday, October 3rd for a one week run
at the Times Cinema, 5906 W. Vliet St., Milwaukee. Showtimes are 7:00 and
9:00 nightly; 3:30, 7 & 9:00 Saturday and Sunday.
The most radical of all the groups formed in protest of the war in Vietnam, Weather Man was also media-savvy, and its spokespeople–who were almost without exception young and photogenic–were always in search of the perfect media moment. It’s hard to believe that these college students were anything more than poster children for the Resistance, yet many in their ranks were deadly in their idealistic fervor.
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