Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Radical Sabbatical’ August 08 2014

The winner of MINT’s first-ever “Live Amateurs” makes his debut

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Jon Duff will exhibit Radical Sabbatical at MINT, opening tomorrow. Duff is the winner of the first-ever Live Amateurs. What is there to say about Radical Sabbatical except everything: Duff’s curiosities include both sci-fi and natural history and grapple, aesthetically, with the personal politics of incompleteness. The whole thing is a concept. It is also — happily! and somewhat surprisingly — an art show, with actual pieces of art, that you can look at. The opening reception is from 7-10 p.m. An artist talk follows on Sun., from 1-2 p.m.

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FRIDAY

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Jeremy Brown, Scott Dupree, Tom Francis, and Adam Wellborn star in Fresh Folk, opening at Kai Lin and featuring seasonably jubilant work — a smattering of different colors and techniques that can be, as the summer heats up and winds down, a relief for the eyes and the brain. There is just so much there there. With an opening reception from 7-10 p.m.

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Capture Social & Exhibition, a month-long exhibit presented by a quartet of collaborators — Ponce City Market, the Goat Farm Arts Center, the Creatives Project, and VSA arts of Georgia — will both “showcase and celebrate works created by TCP’s summer portrait workshop participants,” according to the show’s official announcement. Students from Operation P.E.A.C.E., Big Bethel AME, and others were paired with mentors and sent out into the community, where they were encouraged to interview and photograph. The goal of the summer’s program was personalization, the better for students to “capture the personal stories and intimate portraits of individuals they meet.” Opening reception starts at 6 p.m.

ALL WEEKEND

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The Pan African Film Festival returns through Sun., at the Plaza Theatre. Screenings are each afternoon and evening and spotlight several documentaries. The closing night belongs to Belle (director Amma Asante will attend), a film drawn from the real-life story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race daughter of a British navyman. Full schedule info is here; ticketing info is here. If I were to suggest just one film, it would be Friday night’s The Last Song Before the War — though the thing with festivals is that they deserve to be consumed, not sampled. Senior Staff Writer Rodney Carmichael has a deeper dive for you here.