Rolando Chang Barrero Guest Speaker at Give Miami Day for Florida Justice Center

Rolando Chang Barrero Guest Speaker Give Miami Day for Florida Justice Center

Starting at 9am and ending at 9pm, we will be
broadcasting LIVE from the CIC in Miami for a 12-hour livestream.

Tune in throughout the day as we raise awareness for the barriers faced by justice-involved people and raise funds to help provide FREE legal services throughout Miami-Dade County. 

Donate at GiveMiamiDay.org/FLJC

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WATCH LIVESTREAM at 1PM 
Discussion of the challenges faced by returning citizens from jail and prison with
Rolando Barrero and Jonathan Bleiweiss
November 18, 202 at 1 PM

Our livestream will include guest speakers, Miami trivia, special cocktails by the Mexican Mixologist, a smoked pork
Cuban sandwich recipe by
BaconCartel’s Chef Jeffrey Schlissel,

The Box Gallery curator, Rolando Chang Barrero

and plenty of surprises! It is sure to be a day of fun, education, and philanthropy as we try to reach our fundraising goal of $60k.

Join the livestream by visiting any of our Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube or on our homepage at FLJC.org starting at 9am.

Please share this link with your friends, family, and coworkers as we make this Give Miami Day our most successful one yet.

We encourage you to provide a contribution of any size as we try to make a meaningful change in our community. Your giving will go to expanding FLJC’s legal services and providing holistic care to more people in Miami.

Donate at GiveMiamiDay.org/FLJC

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Join Me in Making a Change with Florida Justice Center

I am proud to be the Community Relations Manager at Florida Justice Center. I'm asking you to support this revolutionary organization that is changing lives in Miami this #GiveMiamiDay

As the only nonprofit legal aid organization serving Miami that’s dedicated to providing free holistic legal and social services, FLJC stands for what I believe in: justice, equality, and second chances.

My personal goal is to raise $2,500 to aid returning citizens. By giving you're supporting programs that help Miamians get better jobs and get back on their feet.

Last year, FLJC touched the lives of 153 people, but so far in 2021 we've already served over 2,000 people! In 2022, Our goal is to reach over 4,000 people and to increase the number of legal clinics in the Miami community.

Thank you for supporting me and this very important cause.

-Michelle Damone

https://www.givemiamiday.org/fundraise/17389/join-me-in-supporting-florida-justice-center

9AM – Coffee Talk with Alex and Jonathan: Discussion of Give Miami Day, FLJC, and the day to come

10AM – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Natalie Robinson Bruner of Glad Ed Solutions: Discussion of unconscious bias

10:30AM – George Floyd Movement Retrospective and Look Forward with Melba Pearson, Esq.

10:50AM – Miami Beach Ordinance Criminalizing Recording of Police: Discussion with Alex Saiz and our client Bree.

11:00AM – Immigration topics with Jessenia Rosales, Esq., Alex Saiz, Esq., and William Sanchez, Esq.: Effects of a conviction on immigration status and the importance of identification documents

11:20AM – Temas de inmigración con Jessenia Rosales, Esq., Alex Saiz, Esq., Y William Sanchez, Esq .: Efectos de una condena en el estado migratorio y la importancia de los documentos de identificación

12:00PM – Chef Jeffrey Schlissel of BaconCartel shows how to make a Smoked Pork Cuban Sandwich followed by relaxing music, trivia, and a discussion of the news.

12:50PM – Know Your Rights: Protesting

1PM – Discussion of the challenges faced by returning citizens from jail and prison with Rolando Barrero and Jonathan Bleiweiss

1:45PM – Know Your Rights: Traffic Stops

2PM – Representative Matt Willhite provides legislative updates and discusses issues of concern to Floridians

3PM – History of Cubans in Miami

3:30PM – Know Your Rights: If Immigration Arrests You with Gina Fraga

4PM – Know Your Rights: What To Do If You’re Arrested

5PM – Give Miami Day Cocktail #1 with Mexican Mixologist

5:05PM – Criminal law’s disproportionate affect on the Transgender community

5:25PM – History of Gay Miami

6PM – Give Miami Day Cocktail #2 with Mexican Mixologist

6:05PM – Discussion of Cannabis Topics, Sponsored by Green Thumb Industries

7PM – Give Miami Day Cocktail #3 with Mexican Mixologist

7:05PM – Discusión sobre temas de cannabis

8PM – Give Miami Day Cocktail #4 with Mexican Mixologist

8:05PM – Wrapping up the day and what’s next

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The Box Gallery Exhibition Blank Slate: Domenic Esposito on cover of Mondo Italiano!

The Box Gallery is finally back on track and opening to the public with much care and safety measures! 

Artist + Social Activist Domenic Esposito tackles mental health in new series of works to be shown at The Box Gallery kicks off with a national roundtable discussion with mental health leaders.

Artist and social activist Domenic Esposito to exhibit new work this 

March at the Box Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida 



Press Preview March 6, 2021 7PM  |  VIP Reception March 13, 2021 7 PM  |  Artist Talk March 20, 2021 7 PM 

The Box Gallery
Blank Slate Fine Art Exhibition

Roundtable national discussion on mental health leaders and Press Preview: 

March 6, 2021, 7-9 PM

Reception: 

March 13, 2021, 7-10 PM

Artist Talk: 

March 20, 2021, 7-9 PM

Contact: 

Rolando Chang Barrero

PalmBeachFineArtGallery@gmail.com
 
Other images and interviews are available upon request. 

West Palm Beach, FL 01-22-2021--Domenic Esposito will be showing his new series of artwork entitled Blank Slate, along with select pieces of his signature work addressing the Opioid Crisis, at the socially conscious Box Gallery in West Palm Beach's “Cultural Corridor.” 

The exhibit will be curated by The Box Gallery owner and curator Rolando Chang Barrero. 

Esposito's new series titled "Blank Slate" represents the artist's reflections upon current times and the era of fear, depression, and loneliness experienced in the "new normal." Esposito explores the isolation of those living with mental illness and those suffering from substance abuse whose challenges have been exacerbated and laid bare.  
All the figures depicted in Blank Slate are hooded; their faces are either totally or partially hidden from view. Many pieces contrast bronze patinas with painted backgrounds illuminating the hooded figures' hidden, inner world, alluding to the wearer's identity. Through the combination of two and three-dimensional media, the artworks push the hooded subject into our visceral space creating conflict between the figure's desire to be hidden and the viewer's own incompatible impulses to ignore, expose and understand. 
 
The Blank Slate Exhibition will open with a reception on on March 6th and continue through March 29, 2021. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 p.m. or by appointment.

www.TheBoxGallery.Info

PalmBeachFineArtGallery@gmail.com

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Blast from the Past: SunSentinel XS Magazine: Don Shearer, Purvis Young and Roly Chang share similar Vibe...

I was pleasantly surprised to when Sandra Schulman forwarded this image

of a 1993 cover story about Don Shearer, "The Angel Man", for the SunSentinel's XS
magazine that included a snippet which stated:

 "Simple evanescent work. with a gothic, mythic quality.

 This kind of art is the underbelly of Florida's bright, sunshiny image. Other artists like Overtown's Purvis Young and Miami's Roly Chang are creating art with similar vibe."
-Sandra Schulman, XS Magazine

More than a  quarter of a century has past since the artists, promoters, restauranteurs, drag queens, fashion models, and DJ's hit the well documented scene Miami Beach Scene that emerged in the late 80's and continues to flourish today throughout South Florida.

With the assistance of well versed writers, cultural documentarians;
Sandra Schulman, Louis Canales, and artist Don Shearer who will lead a presentation at The Box Gallery on the
Art Scene of the American Riviera
in conjunction with

The Don Shearer Exhibition

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which opens with a grand reception on
October 14, 2016 at

The Box Gallery

811 Belvedere Road

West Palm Beach, Florida 33405
www.TheBoxGallery.Info

For VIP tickets links: VIP Reception October 14, 2016 : VIP Tickets

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Palm Beach Post Today! Is Belvedere Road the new “cultural corridor” of West Palm Beach?

The Palm Beach Post

Is Belvedere Road the new “cultural corridor” of West Palm Beach?

By Barbara Marshall-Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

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The christening party for what Barrerro and his partners hope will be Palm Beach County’s newest arts district starts Friday with three days of events behind the fresh white facade of Barrerro’s 4,000-square-foot Box Gallery.

The All-Florida Exhibition includes work of about 30 artists from all over the world who now live in Florida. Saturday night’s event will include six hours of live music, films and performance art. Sunday, curators, artists and arts administrators from around the country will present conversations about the state of the arts in South Florida.

“Rolando was a huge force in making the arts more alive,” said Debbie Coles-Dobay, Boynton Beach’s public art manager. “He’s very clever and very creative. He’s an excellent curator. He will look at the trends, meet many different artists, look at what’s happening in world and decide what will attract people.”

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The Box Gallery

811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, Florida 33405

www.theBOXgallery.info

Grand  Opening Weekend | June 3-5, 2016

Friday, June 3, 2016 | 7 to 11 p.m.
"All-Florida Exhibition Opening" 

Saturday, June 4,2016 | 5 to 11 p.m.
“Projections and Performances”with live music, performance art, films and video

Sunday, June 5, 2016 | 3-5 p.m.
“State of the Arts Presentations"

In Today's New Times! World AIDS Day...and Exhibition Essay

VisualAIDS.org

TUESDAY, December 1, 2015

WEDNESDAY, December 2, 2015

Directions to Compass

COMPASS Community Center

Address: 201 N Dixie Hwy, Lake Worth, FL 33460
Phone:(561) 533-9699

Exhibition Essay by Steve Ellman

A Day With(out) Art Revisited

It was an age of exploration, the '70s, in our lives and in our art. Idols lay shattered in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, and flowers bloomed in the rubble. In our innocence, sex seemed like a gift without price, and maybe it was, for a time. Inevitably, artists, whose job it is to “make it new,” drank deep of those pleasures. And in the '80s, when the plague arrived, artists swelled the ranks of the doomed.

The art world’s fallen include just a few major names, for AIDs was a disease of the young and one of its peculiar cruelties was to cut careers short. What riches might have been will never be known, but the works of the virus’s best-known prey point to a lost bounty of beauty and innovation. 

Maybe the most emblematic of those darkened stars were Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, fixtures of the age’s night life — the clubs, the drugs, the erotomania —  which energy fueled their visions: Mapplethorpe with photography of severe and unflinching grace, Haring with a language of uniquely radiant hieroglyphs.

Others gone too soon were less well-known but of signal aesthetic importance. Photographer Peter Hujar left indelible portraits of art world comrades and luminaries like Susan Sontag and Diana Vreeland; Hujar’s lover, David Wojnarowicz, brought a blazing surrealism to film and other media, often in the cause of AIDS activism; Félix González-Torres was similarly driven, building on the methods of Minimalism and Conceptual Art to create sculpture and installations around themes of love and death. In Canada, the collective known as General Idea found subversive beauty and humor in pieces drawn on the materials of mass culture and, toward the end, the images and objects of medical treatment itself.

There are others, of course, too many to describe here, the greater part of that lost generation well-catalogued at the visual AIDS artist registry at visualaids.org.  AIDS is, by some accounts, now conquered, though to the extent that is so, it was not without a mighty struggle not just against a virus, but against ignorance and fear. As we mourn our losses, and the art that might have been, let us honor the dead with continued resistance to those evils of the spirit.

-Steve Ellman

In Today's New Times:

Curator, Rolando Chang Barrero, will be working with Compass Community Center this year on the A Day With(out) art Revisited Exhibition. The exhibit will run concurrently during the yearly presentation of the NAMES Project Quilt Installation. Each year, Compass Community Center hosts the largest display of rotating panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of World AIDS Day in South Florida. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest folk art exhibit in the world. 

This year, we invite you to join us in honoring World AIDS Day during our two week celebration beginning December 1st, with A Day Without Art, the International Day of Mourning and Action in response to the AIDS crisis. Arts organizations, museums, and galleries participate in this international movement by shrouding pieces of art and replacing them with information about HIV prevention and local resources. For more information about this campaign and the origins of Day With(out) Art, please visit www.visuala ids.org. 

World AIDS Day serves as a platform to increase awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to inspire positive action through education, testing, and standing in solidarity with those affected by the virus. HIV/AIDS has had a major impact locally and globally: 35 Million people worldwide are currently living with HIV/AIDS Over 1.2 Million people in the U .S. are living with HIV; almost 1 in 8 are unaware of their infection 8,197 people are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Palm Beach County 5,897 newly diagnosed HIV infections in Florida in 2014.

We look forward to collaborating with local artists, arts organizations, museums, galleries, art enthusiasts, and our community to commemorate World AIDS Day like never before. 

Con't.....WORLD AIDS DAY 

For complete details go to Compass World AIDS Day

Other press: 

Artists Donate In Record Numbers

Aids Memorial Quilt Coming to Compass

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