Freedom of Expression with Fashion
Models and students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts participated in the second annual Freedom of Expression Fashion show last week. The show is coordinated by the Fashion and Beauty Communications Milestone and was organized around the Newhouse School’s year-long theme of celebrating the First Amendment.
Local media personality George Kilpatrick began offering a podcast of his New Inspiration for the Nation show this week. I look forward to listening since I often miss the initial broadcast (on Sundays).
Six Chasing Seven, the folk-soul collective from Southern Virginia, may be the best band I’ve seen this year. 6C7 operates comfortably on several levels: they can move the crowd with a high-energy style, or they can smooth it out with an inspirational message that’s easy like a Sunday morning. The band formed in 2003 and has recorded with Boyd Tinsley and Robert Randolph.
They will return to Syracuse in a few weeks to play Funk ‘n Waffles.
Jason Moran, a jazz artist asks the question: “Can I make you dance, and can I make you throw up at the same time?” Watch him work.
Byron Hurt
About this time last year we saw Byron Hurt’s film “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes.” The filmmaker and anti-sexist advocate (pictured above) recently came to Syracuse to discuss his film during a film festival at the Community Folk Art Center. We asked him if he got any backlash from the film and what was the genesis for the project.