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Le Flash opened to an excited Atlanta for its second year of light-based installation works, gallery showings and street performance art. The event kicked off Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s month of showings, lectures, and art events.

Le Flash’s biggest crowd-pleaser was an intricate street performance work. Bright balloons carried by black-clad improvising dancers melded with dancers from Lauri Stallings’ new company gloATL as they traversed the streets through a massive following crowd.

See more photos from Le Flash.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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Hey, there. We know you’re feeling down, maybe a little out. (We’re right there with ya some days.) So, we thought it’d help to point out that 2008 hasn’t been a complete loss. As a matter of fact, Atlanta achieved a lot this year in the way of the arts. Here, CL theater critic Curt Holman and visual arts critic Cinqué Hicks take a look back to recall some of their favorite moments. (more…)

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Local grassroots arts organization Idea Capital has tapped Shana Robbins, Jason Kofke and Rory Golden as its fall 2008 awards recipients. Robbins will receive a cool grand, and Kofke and Golden will get $500 and $250, respectively, to pursue experimental art projects.

From today’s press release:

Ms. Robbins will use the cash to fund a multi-media performance-based work
dealing with the “Monstrous Feminine,” while Mr. Kofke has proposed a city-wide
street art campaign titled “Everything Will Be OK,” which includes both permitted
and guerilla art tactics. Mr. Golden will create a fictional visual narrative
installation titled “You Think I Can Eat All That Chicken Here?” which includes a
150-year-old ex-slave, food addiction, and an extreme religious conversion.

Idea Capital was founded by Susan Todd-Raque, Stuart Keeler, Pam Rogers, Louise Shaw, and Cinqué Hicks “to encourage experimentation and investigation with funds designed to give artists permission
to pursue new ideas.” Visit the group’s website for more info on membership, donations and future grants. See examples of their art below.

Full disclosure: Hicks is CL’s freelance visual arts critic.

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1) Comedian Daniel Tosh drops by the Tabernacle.

2) The Latin American Film Festival continues at the High Museum of Art with a screening of The 12 Labors.

3) Castleberry Hill hosts Le Flash, an evening of free public and performance art.

4) The Weir opens at Onstage Atlanta.

5) CunninLynguists play Lenny’s Bar.

(Photo courtesy Daniel Tosh)

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