Avenue A - by David Steen

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Comic Book Day 2023, taking place on Saturday, May 6, from 10 am to 2 pm. Comic Book Day will consist of cartooning demonstrations for participants of all ages, including free workshops (registration is required). Attendees will have the opportunity to pick up a free comic book showcasing Beck Center instructors' and students' work and participate in activities and view booths throughout Beck's lobby.

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille Records' best-selling artist and longtime advocate for music by Black composers, performs a program of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and violin and piano by Black composers of the 20th and 21st centuries on Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers, her newest Cedille Records album.