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Installation focuses on images of Belle Glade



La Roseada, a steamboat, once plied the canals between West Palm Beach and the Glades communities. COURTESY PHOTO

La Roseada, a steamboat, once plied the canals between West Palm Beach and the Glades communities. COURTESY PHOTO

Award-winning artist Sofia Valiente has gifted downtown West Palm Beach with a new art installation just west of the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

“Foreverglades” is a photography exhibit focused on life in The Glades, housed in a replica of La Roseada, a 1920 steamboat that once docked in the Stub Canal Turning Basin in Howard Park. For the past five years, Ms. Valiente has lived in the heart of Belle Glade, memorializing the “last frontier” of the United States. Visitors will learn about the history of Belle Glade and its pioneers from Ms. Valiente’s vibrant photographs. The exhibition is free and open to the public Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 29. For more information visit www.downtownwpb.com/foreverglades/.

Rock out for the Bahamas 

Many of our neighbors to the east still haven’t recovered from the devastation that Hurricane Dorian left in her wake as she trashed the Bahamas.

DiVinyl Intervention: A Classic Rock Benefit for the Bahamas brings a handful of outstanding tribute artists to Wellington Amphitheater at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15. Artists include Michael Buble Tribute, All Heart (Heart Tribute), Crystal Visions of Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin Tribute, Turnstiles (Billy Joel Tribute), The Long Run (the Ultimate Eagles Tribute), The Boss Project (A Bruce Springsteen Tribute) and stand-up comedian Michael Panzeca. Food trucks will be onsite. Tickets are $17.31 to $36.16 at www.eventbrite.com. The show is free for age 12 and younger. The amphitheater is at 12150 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington.

Rich Rosenthal, Will Penenori and chef Adam Brown at a previous Teddy Bear Brunch at The Cooper in Palm Beach Gardens. PHOTO BY ANNA SHEPPARD

Rich Rosenthal, Will Penenori and chef Adam Brown at a previous Teddy Bear Brunch at The Cooper in Palm Beach Gardens. PHOTO BY ANNA SHEPPARD

For info about the concert, email bossprojectband@gmail.com.

Movie night at the Light

The Jupiter Lighthouse & Museum is getting into the spirit of the holidays with an outdoor screening of the classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Lighthouse, 500 Captain Armour’s Way, Jupiter. Bring your beach chairs or blankets (maybe both!). The gift shop has meaningful items for anyone on your list. Food and drink vendors will be onsite. Tickets are $5, available online at www.jupiterlighthouse.org.

Lady Lunn, Elizabeth Lunn and Josephine Lunn attend a Teddy Bear Brunch at The Cooper.

Lady Lunn, Elizabeth Lunn and Josephine Lunn attend a Teddy Bear Brunch at The Cooper.

Have brunch with a bear 

The Cooper will host its second annual Teddy Bear Brunch for kids age 12 and younger from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 14. Kids get child-friendly music and characters, a sweets bar with candy, popcorn, and cupcakes and a special keepsake Cooper teddy bear to take home. Adults can enjoy mimosas, bloody Marys and farm-to-table brunch favorites. Guests are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy to be donated to Place of Hope, a nonprofit that provides both emergency and long-term, family-style foster care.

Brunch is $50 for adults, $40 for age 12 and younger, inclusive, at www.eventbrite.com.

Appetite for photos?

The work of award-winning photojournalist Libby Volgyes is on display in “Faces of Food,” an exhibition at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County through Jan. 18.

If her work looks familiar, it may be from her years shooting all manner of subjects for The Palm Beach Post. Ms. Volgyes now owns LibbyVision, a food photography studio where she creates beautiful and unusual work.

“Faces of Food” is a photographic exploration of the men and women who create, cook and prepare food in South Florida’s restaurants and eateries. Her images of chefs and bartenders, brewers and farmers, and pastry artists and sommeliers capture the passion that is the undercurrent of the food business. Ms. Volgyes exhibited her work earlier this year at the Food Photo Festival in Vejle, Denmark.

The Cultural Council is at 601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. For info, visit libbyvision.com or call the Cultural Council at 561-471-2901 or www.palmbeachculture.com.

For the love of blue

Candice Rodriquez-Adams has opened a popup studio and gallery in Old Northwood, where dozens of other artists have gravitated over the last several years, and the Venezuelan-American specials in cyanotypes.

Sometimes called camera-less photography, a cyanotype is a photographic printing process that uses sunlight to produces a cyan-blue print. The process never made it to the mainstream as a reproduction process, except to make copies of architectural plans: blueprints.

Making of a cyanotype requires two chemicals — ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide — and the printing method is so simple, Martha Stewart has a project online and you can buy the chemical easily in kits online.

Ms. Rodriquez-Adams has created a “study of nature” using leaves as stencils combining her love of printmaking (she has a BFA in prints and books from Siena Heights University in Michigan) with her love of nature (she’s a master gardener and volunteer at the butterfly garden at Mounts Botanical Garden.

The gallery is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and during Northwood Village Art Night Out held the last Friday of every month. For more information, call 313-244-8282 or visit www.candicheart.com. ¦

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