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L5P Community
Center Eclectic Home
to Atlanta Artists
Like the unique area it represents, the Little
Five Points Community Center provides a home
for a vast array of artists and activists. The
Center Ls housed in a former Atlanta city school
which is leased to WRFG Radio by the City of
Atlanta Board of Educatioa WRFG recently
attempted to exercise its option to purchase the
building, but its proposal was rejected by the
School Board. The Board has now decided to
reconsider WRFG's proposal to buy the
building, according to Joe Shifalo, executive
director of the Community Center.
A few groups located in the Center are the
Atlanta Writers Collective, Strange Apples, Inc.,
and Celeste Miller's Dance Company.
The Atlanta Writers Collective has used its
space in the Community Center since 1982 to
provide local writers with a place to work on
individual projects as well as occasionally
collaborate. Some writers who have utilized the
Collective's space are Rebecca Ranson, Cliff
Kuhn, George Mitchell, Debbie Hiers and
George King.
Projects that have either been completed or
worked on at the Collective include Debbie
Hiers' just published First book of poetry,
George Mitchell's soon to be published
documentary of the life of an Atlanta
streetwalker and drug addict, and Cliff Kuhn's
oral history of Atlanta between the two world
wars which will be published in 1989 by
University of Georgia Press.
Strange Apples, Inc. is an organization
which provides studio space for local visual
artists. This group is currently co-sponsoring a
major visual arts installation at the Georgia
Tech Student Center Art entitled "Art in the
Ozone."
"Art in the Ozone," says Edith Kelman of
Strange Apples, Inc., "is a playfully serious set
of installations." The work is an effort by nine
visual and performance artists and three
Georgia Tech research scientists to
communicate to the lay public in an
entertaining manner the problems caused by the
deterioration of the ozone layer.
Wayne Sizemore will be presenting a
performance piece on the opening day of the
installation, July 19th at 11:00 AM, in which he
addresses the use of ozone therapy in AIDS
treatment The exhibit will be open for viewing
through August 12th, Monday through
Saturday from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM.
The Celeste Miller Dance Company, a non
profit contemporary dance company, maintains
rehearsal studios in the Community Center.
The company consists of ten artists and
performs in Atlanta as well as touring around
the country. Ms. Miller also gives free
workshops most Saturday mornings which are
open to the community. In 1988 Ms. Miller
was one of three artists awarded the "Mayor's
Fellowship in the Arts" by Atlanta Mayor
Andrew Young.
Other groups located in the Community
Center are the Horizon Theatre Company,
WRFG radio station, the Community Design
Center, Inc., Campaign for a Prosperous
Georgia,-the Metro Fair Housing Authority,
Womanspace, Inc., the Atlanta Art Therapy
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While the School Board is considering
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ensure that the Little Five Points Community
Center continues to provide a haven of creativity
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-Sharon Blalock
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