By Chip Chandler — Digital Content Producer
In this roundup of arts news, an intimate view of war is back on view, and Amarillo Wind Ensemble opens its season.
View from the Edge of the War Zone: Vietnam, 1967-1968
A collection of photographs taken in turbulent wartime Vietnam will be on view for the second time this year beginning Friday.
View from the Edge of the War Zone: Vietnam 1967-1968, featuring photos taken by Amarillo humanitarian Mary Emeny, will hang at Chalice Abbey Center for Spirituality and the Arts, 2717 Stanley St. The exhibition, which also will include excerpts from a journal she kept during that time, will be on view through Jan. 7.
Emeny will speak at an opening reception at 7 p.m. Friday at the center. She also will be featured Thursday during an episode of Panhandle PBS's Live Here.
Emeny spent portions of that year in Vietnam, working in orphanages in Da Nang and Hue with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service organization. She also worked for the Red Cross following the Tet Offensive. In Amarillo, Emeny has worked extensively with Don Harrington Discovery Center, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center, Amarillo Habitat for Humanity and more. The exhibition previously was on view at Amarillo College's Southern Light Gallery in August and September.
"The Vietnamese people were caught in the middle, just trying to survive," Emeny said previously. "The war was the peoples' enemy, not one side or the other."
The exhibition comes during a period of extensive focus in Amarillo on the conflict, beginning with Panhandle PBS's broadcast of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's The Vietnam War this fall and concluding with the arrival of The Wall That Heals, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which will be on view Dec. 6 to 10 at John Stiff Memorial Park.
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Amarillo Wind Ensemble
A community band with more than a half-century of history behind it will open its new season with a concert entitled Traditions.
Amarillo Wind Ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at its new concert venue, The Church at Quail Creek, 801 Tascosa Road.
The concert, under the direction of Scott Beckett, will feature works by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Sebastian Bach, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Jean Sibelius, John Philip Sousa and more.
The band, which currently has about 30 members, is comprised of everyone from high school students to lawyers.
Admission is free. For information, visit amarillowinds.com or email amarillowindensemble@gmail.com.
The Fantasy Drawings of Bear Shield
Works by Amarillo College drafting major Bear Shield will be featured in the AC Common Lobby Art Gallery.
Sheild, who also has a degree from AC in graphic design, works in the fantasy milieu in ink on heavy beighe index paper.
The show will open with a 5 p.m. Thursday reception and hang through Nov. 30.
The gallery is located between the Concert Hall Theatre and the Amarillo Museum of Art on AC's Washington Street campus and is open during regular campus hours.
Chip Chandler is a digital content producer for Panhandle PBS. He can be contacted at Chip.Chandler@actx.edu, at @chipchandler1 on Twitter and on Facebook.
