What’s Your Elephant Art Exhibition: July 15- August 12 2017

Opening Night + Performance: Saturday, July 15th  |  6pm-11pm

Admission:  FREE & Open to the Public

#whatsyourelephant is a movement using the arts to create provocative conversations around the unspoken. It includes visual and performing arts, creative community building, hands-on projects, workshops and events.
What’s Your Elephant — (The Elephant in the Room) is an idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or otherwise unaddressed. The purpose of this exhibit is to provide a safe place for issues and topics that are normally hidden from public view. Through visual and performance art, the artists participating in this event will share secrets and taboos, discussing openly to find solutions for individual and collective emancipation. Attendees are invited to enter the ‘Confessional’, an interactive safe space installation to share their ‘elephant’.

What’s Your Elephant will be hosted by 1310 Gallery residents Niki Lopez, visual artist, & designer, and Alana DaCosta, singer/songwriter.

• Niki Lopez
• Alana DaCosta,
• AJ Grossman
• Ana Rossi
• Cheryl Brown
• Macarena Zilveti
• Mila Hajjar
• Cesca Veo
• Lubos Tuzinsky
• Chire Regans,
• Jose Silva
• Yudelka Tavera
• Zeal Harris
• Anya Nadal
• Artists for Black Lives Matter collective
• SunServe Youth (Community partner WYE workshop entries)

July 15th opening night performances include:

• Alana DaCosta
• Profound Breath
• We’re Weird,
• Adejare A. McMillan
• Venus Rising

Feature performance by Venus Rising! Venus Rising is a multi-ethnic women’s drum and dance ensemble dedicated to creating works that uplift and inspire.

Community Partner: SunServe- SunServe is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social services agency serving the LGBTQ community in South Florida.  Mission: Recognizing that the entire LGBTQ community has the right to quality care, our mission is to provide critical life assistance and professional mental health services with an emphasis on economically disadvantaged, marginalized youth and senior adults in the greater South Florida metropolitan area.

Sponsors include:  Broward Cultural Division, Niki Lopez Creative, Very GTV,  KR8tiVE Uprising, Crown Wine, Sideways Confections, Itals Vegan, Hemplade and the 1310 Gallery.

Funding for this project is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council.

1310 Gallery is an artist-run collective that offers over 2400 square feet of exhibition space split into 3 levels, and housed within ArtSpace’s live/work facility, Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts. 1310 Gallery rotates art exhibitions monthly and also hosts performances and workshops. 2013 Broward New Times “Best Art Gallery of the Year”.   The gallery is open by appointment in addition to the Opening & Closing receptions. For further information please call 305-975-6262.

Opening exhibition RSVP: https://whatsyourelephantjuly2017.eventbrite.com  

Events Schedule:

Mon. July 10, 3pm-5pm  (private event) – ‘What’s Your Elephant’ Community workshop at SunServe

Sat. July 15,  6-11PM – Opening Night + Performance

Sat. July 29, 7-10PM – Thou Art Woman – LGBTQ Open Mic + Poetry

Thur. August 3, 7-9PM  #WhatsYourElephant – WYE Artists’ Talk & Panel- RSVP

Wed. August 9, 7:30-9:30PM Short Film Screening & Discussion:Meet the 1310 Bandits

• Deep Within
• Souvenir

Sat. August 12 WYE Community Workshop: 3-5:30PM, Soft Closing: 6-8 PM RSVP