Free Community Events

FEED YOUR SENSES

Plan to bring your lunch and meet your friends downtown for Feed Your Senses, the Rialto’s free Lunchtime Learning Performing Arts Series, every third Wednesday at noon in the Rialto Center Lobby. A different artist or speaker is presented each month, providing a casual and fun insider’s look at their craft. Feed Your Senses is FREE and open to the public.

LUTHER ENLOE, CLASSICAL GUITARIST Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 12 – 1 pm Possessing a distinctively resonant sound quality, lyrical phrasing, and technical finesse, classical guitarist Luther Enloe has received acclaim for the expressive command of his live performances from both concert presenters and audience members alike. As printed in the Smokey Mountain Sentinel, “Luther captivates his audience through the beauty and intensity of his performance, while he engages even those audience members who are less than fans of classical guitar.”

Luther Enloe’s programs offer an exciting variety of Spanish and Latin American masterpieces as well as contemporary works from the United States that can be appreciated by all audiences. Upcoming performance highlights include an invitation to perform at the 2020 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Guitar Festival, as well as invitations to the 2020 Rhode Island Guitar Festival and the 2020 Tiempo de Guitarras in Noto Sicily, Italy. Fall 2020 will include a performance of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the Emory University Symphony Orchestra. Luther will be releasing a new album in 2020.

JULIAN REID, PIANIST Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 12 to 1 pm Julian Reid grew up in Chicago studying classical and jazz piano at Merit School of Music’s Conservatory and playing classical, jazz and gospel piano around the city. That diverse upbringing would prepare him for a diverse career in music making. His current focus is in Black gospel and

jazz. He is an assistant music director at Kelley Chapel United Methodist Church in Decatur, GA, and a founding member of The JuJu Exchange, a genre-bending group with one foot in jazz and one foot in everything else. He has also created with Chance the Rapper, Peter CottonTale, Josephine Lee and the Chicago Children’s Choir, the Clark Atlanta University Choir, Strivers Row and Abiodun Oyewole, one of the Last Poets.

Reid holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. There he focused on Theology and the Arts under the tutelage of Drs. James Abbington, Dwight Andrews, Don Saliers and Greg Ellison. Prior to Candler, he completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Yale University, where he wrote a thesis on the political nature of jazz.

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FULTON COUNTY

Feed Your Senses is supported in part by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly (GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts), the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and 100 Peachtree.

Groups of 8 or more are encouraged to call our Feed Your Senses RSVP line at 404-413-9832 to reserve a table.

VISUAL ARTS SERIES

The Visual Arts Series includes professionally curated, bi-monthly exhibitions, showcasing visual artists whose works transform our lobby space into a wonderful gallery that is free and open for the general public to enjoy. The Visual Arts Series exhibitions feature local emerging artists who present dynamic works in photography, painting, or mixed media. Featured artists have included Julio Mejia, Susan J. Ross, Eric Waters, Shannon McCollum, Lucinda Bunnen, Cullen Washington Jr., Charles Nelson, Alex Brewer (aka Hense), Benjamin Jones, and more.