Rhythmix Cultural Works will be awarding three East Bay residents with the Golden Gear Award for their outstanding contributions to the Bay Area arts community.
The awards will be given to Mi’Chelle Fredrick for visual art, Terri Odabi for performance art and Lorrie Murry for art education. Fredrick, an Alameda native, received her award for her water color paintings, along with colored pencil, graphite, mixed media and photography work.
Alameda Civic Ballet (ACB) was selected to receive an Artsfund Grant from the Alameda County Arts Commission. These grants become available for non-profit arts groups every two years. Best known for its annual production of The Nutcracker ballet, the ACB also received an Artsfund grant in 2009 and 2011.
The Artsfund program promotes the development of Alameda County as a center for arts innovation and promotes the county’s arts organizations. The program awarded $72,000 in unrestricted grants to 38 organizations this year.
Join Girls Inc. next Thursday, July 31, for the Fourth Annual Eureka!thon, an event showcasing the accomplishments and work completed by teens in Girls Inc. of the Island City’s Eureka! Teen Achievement Program. The event will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St.
Island City Opera opens its inaugural season next Saturday, Aug. 2 with a 2 p.m. free concert in Franklin Park on the 1400 block of San Antonio Avenue. The event will feature a range of favorite arias, duets and ensembles.
Just this past spring, Island City Opera was founded earlier this year to bring great opera to Alameda, support the ambitions of promising and established performers and encourage a love of the art of opera.
Members of a study group at the Home of Truth are sponsoring “Island Heart Fest,” a dinner and concert to raise funds for the Midway Shelter and the Home of Truth Building Fund. The event takes place this Saturday, July 26, at the Home of Truth, 1300 Grand St. The Home of Truth was founded by Annie and Harriet Rix more than 100 years ago, so study group members thought it was important to donate some of the proceeds from the event to a women’s shelter Dinner will start at 6 p.m. in the rear courtyard. The concert and sing-along will start at 7 p.m. in the main building.
