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"Up 86" guest curator series continues with poet, musician, and emcee Shirlette Ammons

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Performances

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    Shirlette Ammons, a Black woman with natural hair cut into a fade, sits on stool in a library row wearing jeans, a grey t-shirt with rolled sleeves, black scarf, and black framed glasses. She smiles lightly at the camera.
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    FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 8 PM: Shirlette Ammons is a Durham, North Carolina-based poet, musician, emcee, and film creative whose highly collaborative work defies genre and interrogates her own relationships to gender, Blackness, and Southernness.

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    Sonny Miles, a Black man with medium length twists and a full beard, wears a white button down t-shirt and a silver hoop nose ring in one nostril. He sits and holds an acoustic guitar. Behind him are draped two pieces of fabric, one heavier, possibly red velvet, and one thinner, a light green sheer fabric. He looks towards the camera with a neutral expression, lips slightly parted.
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    FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 8 PM: Citing gospel, funk, and neo-soul as his biggest influences, Winston-Salem singer and multi-instrumentalist Sonny Miles fuses catchy, relatable lyrics with soulful compositions to create a unique sound.

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    A black and white photograph of the destroyed Coventry Cathedral after an air raid.
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    SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 4 PM: Opera Roanoke, Blacksburg Master Chorale, Virginia Tech Choirs, and the Georgia Boy Choir come together for a production of Benjamin Britten’s "War Requiem."

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Exhibitions

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    Conor McGrady's "Mountain Series," 2018-2022 (detail); gouache on paper; 22 x 32 inches. This black and white art work features large white mountains set against a stark black background, with small and scattered pine trees in foothills in the foreground.
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    ONGOING: These works have been produced in the context of the ongoing tension between the desire for openness and fluidity on the one hand, and the ringfencing of nation states and territories as ideological enclosures, with an increase in barriers to mobility and migration on the other.

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    Anne Samat's "Follow Your Heart Wholeheartedly 2" installed at the Moss Arts Center.
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    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16-SATURDAY, APRIL 22: Malaysian artist Anne Samat meticulously juxtaposes beadwork and traditional South Asian weaving techniques with common items.

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    Yanira Collado's "Zafa/ A Spellworking of Temporal Geometry" installed at the Moss Arts Center.
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    THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16-SATURDAY, APRIL 22: Yanira Collado explores the ideas of migration, reliquary, and memory through construction and ritual.

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