The news has been full of mask-less spring breakers rampaging in the warmer states. As I cross my fingers that these people won’t come to Ohio with a brand new COVID variant as well as a tan, I will stay masked and enjoy the many virtual arts events at my disposal.
Gateway Film Center just released a bunch of virtual screening room premiers, including:
- Food Club, available through March 25, is a Danish comedy about three lifelong girl friends who travel to Italy.
- Lapis, available through March 25, is a political satire that is making the film festival rounds.
- Wojnarowicz, available through March 25, is a documentary about David Warjnarowicz, a fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist that was at the epicenter of the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
- Kuessipan, March 26-April 1, a narrative feature set in an Innu community. Two young women struggle with friendship and identity after on falls in love with a white man.
- Shoplifters of the World, March 26-April 1, from celebrated music documentarian Stephen Kijak. After The Smiths disband, an impassioned fan hijacks a radio station and forces the DJ to play nothing but Smiths tracks for an entire night.
The Wexner Center for the Arts brings us Netta Yerushalmy. This free, performance offers a new way to experience dance in the virtual realm by documenting an unauthorized outdoor live performance at Manhattans East River Park Amphitheater on Sept. 30, 2020.
On March 27, Denison University’s theater department is offering a virtual production of the feminist comedy The Revolutionists.
Sunday at Central is offering a free, relaxing March 28 virtual event, An Afternoon of Schubert, which will intersperse poetry throughout the music performances.
Of course you can find more events (virtual and in-person) at ColumbusMakesArt.com. Stay safe out there. We are so close!
Lacey Luce is a digital strategist for the Greater Columbus Arts Council who got her first Pfizer vaccination shot last week.