May: A Chile Month

It's hard to believe but next weekend is the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival and the start of a month long party. This year's honored country is Chile. If you've been checking in on any of the blogs in the Chilean blog list on the sidebar then you may know a little more about Chile and some of the bloggers living there. I'd like to thank Sara at La Gringuita Diaries again for her emails, comments and Chilean blog links she's passed along. There are a whole lot of Chile themed events coming up but today I'm going to focus on art.

Currently the The Dixon Gallery and Gardens has an exhibit of "Chilean Art in the Sixties" showing through May 31st. At the Brooks Museum the "Chilean Life on Canvas" exhibition runs May 1st - May 31st. "The Life of Pablo Neruda" exhibit is showing at the central library May 1st - May 31st. "Crowds in the Shadows" a photography exhibit of important events in Chilean civil rights history will run May 1st - May 31st at the National Civil Rights Museum. There are several other exhibits that will be showing through May; go to the MIM website to see more information and the complete listing; http://www.memphisinmay.org/

Memphis in May flags of some of the past honored countries displayed on the Civic Center Plaza downtown. Chile's flag:

image from http://www.mapsofworld.com/flags/chile-flag.html

And while I was down there I took some random photos of Civic Center Plaza: