Speak Your Peace opening reception January 4, 2013

SOMArts Cultural Center presents Speak Your Peace, a group exhibition January 4 through 24, 2013 curated by SOMArts’ Curator & Gallery Director Justin Hoover. Opening with a reception on Friday, January 4, 2013, 6–9pm, the exhibition brings together Bay Area-based painters, digital, video and installation artists ranging in age, ethnicity and nationality to explore intercultural communication and social justice and propose new iconographies of peace through visual art.

The opening reception on Friday, January 4, 2013, 6–9pm, free admission, features live non-violence-themed music by Brotha Chaz Walker and the Peaceful Vibes as well as a poetry performance by Iranian-born visual and literary artist Nathera Mawla depicting sexuality and identity from a Persian female’s perspective.

Official Website: http://www.somarts.org/peaceopens