Jon Goode co-hosts + poetry, playgrounds, music, smoke, records, and neon in a cemetery

✦ Jon Goode and National Poetry Month ✦ Illumine at Oakland Cemetery ✦ Illuminating Noguchi ✦ Best Bets ✦ Yum Yum Tree ✦ Smoke at the Goat Farm ✦ Record Store Day ✦

 

Welcome to The ATL Arts Collective, powered by ArtsATL. This is your new home for stories from Atlanta’s arts scene, with reporting from ArtsATL writers, conversations with artists, and voices from across the creative community.

Each week, Kim Drobes will be joined by a rotating co-host: someone you may already know, or someone you’re about to be very glad you met.

And today...Jon Goode!

 

Photo courtesy of Jon Goode

✦ Three-time Emmy-nominated writer, performer, and poet Jon Goode joins as guest co-host. He’s the author of Black Curio and host of The Moth and Show & Tell. In honor of National Poetry Month, he shares his suggestions for open mics and explains why Poetry is so important to culture and history. 

Jon’s suggestions for poetry:

Urban Grind on Thursdays

ArtsXchange Spring Fling Poetry Slam on April 24

The Book Bird

Anything by Abyss or Georgia Me

Photo by George Gomez

✦ Beginning tomorrow, Oakland Cemetery is set to come alive with art and music. It’s the return of Illumine, a multi-sensory art experience curated by Cat Eye Creative. ArtsATL senior editor for art+design and dance, Isadora Pennington, went for a sneak peek to learn how multiple artists are transforming Atlanta’s oldest and most historic cemetery into immersive art installations. 

Photo by Steve Eberhardt, Krewe puppeteers (and their creators) Cameron & Joy Ayer.

✦If you've ever seen a river of light flowing down the Atlanta Beltline, you've seen the work of Chantelle Rytter. We talk to the artist and crew captain behind Atlanta's iconic lantern parades about how she's made the practice of turning public spaces into galleries of collective joy. She shares details on her collaboration with the High Museum for Illuminating Noguchi, an event that culminates in a glowing procession from the museum to the historic Noguchi playscape in Piedmont Park. 

Photo courtesy Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

✦ ArtsATL executive editor Shane Harrison stops by with his picks for the week’s Best Bets. Today, his mix includes a chance to catch the ASO in Piedmont Park, a feast for French film lovers, and the Black Boy Art Show. Shane’s full list of this week’s 9 essential Atlanta arts events is at ArtsATL.org.

Photo courtesy of Team Clermont

✦ Music reporter Jordan Owen talks to The Yum Yum Tree’s bassist/vocalist Andy Gish to learn what a primate, Peter Gabriel, and our city’s shifting economic tides have to do with the band’s new album, Turn Down the Noise.

Photo by Mitali Singh

✦ Arts reporter Mitali Singh visits the Goat Farm for a sneak peek at their upcoming show Smoke. It’s a live performance blending contemporary dance, performance art, and electronic pop. 

Image by mgattorna from Pixabay

✦ Record Store Day is this Saturday, and music writer, Rad/ATL founder, and the man who literally wrote the book on Atlanta’s independent record stores, Chad Radford, stops by. Chad’s the former music editor of Creative Loafing and the author of Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History. So, if you want to know which crates to dig through this Record Store Day, there’s no better guide. (Chad’s interview was cut short for time, so “Part 2” will come out as a bonus episode this Friday and includes a list of records that Chad hopes to aquire this Record Store Day)

Special thanks to today’s sponsors:

The Alliance Theatre

Soul Food Cypher 

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

The ArtsXchange

The Sun ATL

 

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Our theme music is K Michelle Dubois' Hit the Deck from her album Astral Heart, courtesy of Wicked Superb Records. 

The ATL Arts Collective is part of the Wordplay Collective podcast family. Check out our sister show, In Pieces with R Land, for conversations with artist R. Land. 

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