AXELROD FILMS AND CONCERTS THAT MATTER
CAN THE ARTS CHANGE US?
Axelrod Salutes BLACK and LGBTQ + LIVES...in
Film and Song...and Action
“Change will not
come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We
are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
The Axelrod Film Festival continues this week with three films that
celebrate the alliance between the Black and Jewish communities. THEY AIN’T READY FOR
ME, featuring Tamar Menasseh, a young Black rabbinical student from Chicago, JOACHIM
PRINZ: I SHALL NOT BE SILENT, and SHARED LEGACIES: The African-American Jewish
Civil Rights Alliance.
Subscribe to all three for $18–a portion of
your donation goes to CCHANGE (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education) and Equal Justice
Initiative.
Last Thursday our Anne & Sheldon Vogel Virtual Concert Series presented TO BE FREE: THE SOUND OF NINA SIMONE, one of America’s great Black
singer-songwriters and most influential civil rights activists. The concert
featured Amma Osei (who played Nina on
Broadway in Rock of Ages) and JaQuita May, celebrated recording artist who’s been compared to
Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, plus cameos from American Idol’s Melinda Doolittle and Fredi Walker-Browne (Broadway’s original cast of Rent), under the music direction
of pianist Darnell White. If you missed the concert, you can view it
here: VIEW THE CONCERT
HERE
Special thanks to Remember Jones and his team for co-producing this ongoing
summer series. Your continued support helps us to continue hiring artists,
musicians and technicians to bring quality entertainment “live” to you in your
homes...and backyards! A portion of your donation goes to The Loveland Foundation, empowering Black girls and women in our
communities.
This Thursday
evening tune in to hear up-and-coming singer-songwriter JOEY CONTRERAS, at the piano, joined by three
fantastic vocalists: Brian Russell Carey, Mia Gerachis and Stevi Incremona. Joey has become one of
the theater world’s “songwriters to watch,” having written original works for
Lincoln Center, Disney and various regional theaters around the country.
If you’re unfamiliar with the songs of Joey
Contreras, check out one of his most popular songs “Love Me, Love Me Not."
VIEW
THE VIDEO
A portion of your donations this Thursday will go to Encircle, resource centers for LGBTQ+ Youth and Families
based in Utah with national outreach programs.
See you Thursday on
Facebook Live
(on the Axelrod's and
Remember Jones's pages).
