Arts

If I’d ever stopped to think about it, I might have figured out what dance and drawing have in common. The similarity is not immediately apparent, but both art forms depend on composition, line, rhythm, focus, creativity, and an understanding of spatial relationships. Moreover, you don’t have to be an expert to enjoy dancing or drawing, or "Dance/Draw," the latest exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).

99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the #OccupyBoston movement, as told in their own words.

Each Sunday Open Media Boston will post stories from #OccupyBoston collected by the 99 VoicesProject.

Here is the photo set for Week 1

“The Guard” (shouldn’t that be, The Garda?) is a terrific Irish film that showcases Brendan Gleeson, a wry and splendid actor who plays a small time village cop, Sergeant Gerry Boyle. (The film was a critical and popular hit in Ireland.) When three drug traffickers make their way to his area, he suddenly has to deal with the rather up-tight FBI agent Wendell Everett played with fitting cultural confusion by Don Cheadle.

Come share your energies at the 5th monthly Peña Rebelde at the encuentro 5 movement space on September 10th at 7 p.m., a gathering of souls in verse and rebellion. Gabrilla Ballard-Thakore, a recent transplant to Boston from New Orleans, will share her singer-songwriter creations. Gabrilla's music, an imaginative hybrid of her musical inspirations--from Bob Marley to Nina Simone - will delve into where she comes from and where she's going, not only as a musician, but as an activist and mother.