Time: 2024-07-23
A Delray event brings a bit of Wynwood to Old School Square , the Boynton Night Market lights up the night , and the Norton opens a climate change - inspired video series . Plus , Art & Jazz and more in your week ahead.
WEDNESDAY
What : Art & Jazz on the Avenue
Where : East Atlantic Avenue , downtown Delray Beach
When : 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Cost : Free
This week marks the final Art & Jazz event for the next three months , with Atlantic Avenue from Swinton to Northeast Fifth a bustle of music and art making , childrens activities , pop - up vendors and street dining . Delrays DDA is going all out for this midsummer fete , adding a fourth spot for live music . If there is a main stage , its probably Tin Roof , which welcomes jazz artist Nikki Kidd at 5:30 p.m. and veteran lock rockers Spider Cherry at 7:30.
This weekend marks only the second - annual Delray Walls Mural Fest , but last years inaugural event was so successful that Delray Walls already feels like a community stapleand a reminder of the citys unique regional status as a haven for the arts . Beginning on Friday night , street artists from throughout the tri - county area will begin painting murals set up on large wooden panels in the park , and continue throughout Saturday ; attendees can observe their progress and even contribute to certain audience - interactive murals . The evenings also feature live music , including a free concert Friday with SoFla feel - good reggae progenitors Spred the Dub and openers Bad Apple Brass Band and steel drummer Brian Haddis.
Its always great to see a homegrown project flourish . The new play Seeking began in 2022 as a staged reading at the Broward Center , and it returns two years later for this world - premiere production . Darius V. Daughtry , whose arts - and - culture nonprofit Art Prevails produced the play , wrote Seeking , which features an all - Black cast and a lead character based at least partially on Daughtrys own experiences . This protagonist is an aspiring musician who stands to receive a financial windfall upon the death of his absent father.
Among todays political tumult , we do nt hear enough about climate changeeven as 2024 may rank as the hottest year on record . For artists that do tackle the subject , the challenge has always been to depict the immediate stakes of a slow - moving crisis . Surroundings , a video series divided into three parts that collectively span four months , aims to illustrate the ways human - caused climate disruption affects the fragile stability of the Earth and its embattled flora and fauna . This weekend , visit to experience the first of the three videos , Donna Conlons From the Ashes , a stirringly high - definition exploration of a hummingbird in extreme close - up . This video runs through Sept. 22.
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