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SOMArts

January 4 - January 25, 2013

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Speak Your Peace "Seeing Peace" by Betty Nobue Kano
Opening reception January 4, 6-9pm The opening reception on Friday, January 4, 2013, 6–9pm, free admission, features live non-violence-themed music by Brotha Chaz Walker and the Peaceful Vibes as well as a poetry performance by Iranian-born visual and literary artist Nathera Mawla depicting sexuality and identity from a Persian female’s perspective. Closing reception January 24, 6-9pm The closing reception for Speak Your Peace (January 24th, 6-9 pm) features a tour of the gallery at 6:30 pm by curator Justin Hoover. Hoover will also moderate a 7pm discussion featuring Tressa Berman, founder of the Institute for Inter-Cultural Practice, and featured artist Richard Kamler. The discussion will focus Kamler’s project “Seeing Peace” and his legacy as a Bay Area artist and activist. SOMArts Cultural Center presents Life and Death: A Community Conversation on Capital Punishment. Moderated by Laura Magnani, Assistant Regional Director of American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco, confirmed panelists include Frances Luster, who lost her son in an execution-style homicide in San Francisco in 1990, and a representative from Death Penalty Focus, a nonprofit organization working for alternatives to the death penalty. Life and Death accompanies SOMArts' exhibition Speak Your Peace, open January 4 through 24, 2013 curated by SOMArts’ Curator & Gallery Director Justin Hoover. The exhibition brings together Bay Area-based painters, digital, video and installation artists ranging in age, ethnicity and nationality to explore intercultural communication and social justice and propose new iconographies of peace through visual art.