Visual artist, poet, and playwright Charles Blackwell pays homage to the lively San Francisco jazz culture with Blackwell’s Black Hawk: Painting, Poetry, Performance Art, a multimedia happening inspired by jazz music’s spirit of invention and collaboration. Informed by the Bohemian mash-ups and after hours jam sessions of the ‘40s and ‘50s, as well as by Blackwell’s nearly two decades of creating art at the Hospitality House Community Arts Program, Blackwell’s Black Hawk integrates the artist’s poetry and painting practices with a small jazz ensemble featuring musicians David Byrd (sax), Russell Brown (guitar), Ollie Dudek (bass), and the dancer Andreína Maldonado. Responding to and providing visual accompaniment to the live music, Blackwell stages an up-close and semi-improvised encounter with jazz music and jazz musicians, subject matter central to both his visual art and his poetry practice.

Tenderloin Museum is honored to host Blackwell’s work across several mediums–painting, poetry, and performance–as part of TLM’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series, generously funded by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Blackwell’s Black Hawk is an in-person event and space will be limited; vaccination and booster (if eligible) will be required to attend, as will mask wearing.

Free | Suggested donation of $10.

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