St. Louis Arts Coverage by Jeremy Goodwin

Goldie Taylor faced many obstacles while growing up in East St. Louis and St. Ann but followed a thirst for learning to a successful career as a writer. She’ll discuss her memoir, “The Love You Save,” at the Ethical Society of St. Louis with one of the teachers who inspired her years ago.

Composer James Lee III’s “Visions of Cahokia” is inspired by the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois, once one of the largest Native American settlements in North America. St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gives the world premiere of the piece this weekend at Powell Hall.

Indigo K. Sams will become president and CEO of the Center for Creative Arts in February, after 17 years with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis, where she is a vice president.

The HEAL Center for the Arts, a nonprofit in Grand Center focused on music education, won a $75,000 grant from the Lewis Music Prize. The organization’s leader plans to hire more visiting artists and serve more students.

As the last of the 2022 performances and exhibitions wrap up, a handful of trends and takeaways have crystallized over the past year and lay a path forward for where the St. Louis arts scene is headed.

Shacko and Akim’s debut album, “As Long As You're Mine,” includes Afrobeat, contemporary R&B and other influences. The brothers moved to St. Louis eight years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Jazz vocalist Denise Thimes will perform Christmas songs and other favorites when she plays Jazz St. Louis on Wednesday and Thursday.

Kalaija Mallery, the new artistic director of the Luminary in St. Louis, wants the Cherokee Street art gallery to be a social hub for the neighborhood.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis will produce three short operas by artists of color who seek to expand the boundaries of American opera by incorporating new sounds and stories. A community panel of artists, most of whom work outside the opera field, selected the pieces.

At Literary Death Match, writers compete in a competitive, humor-centric reading series. After more than 500 such events across the country (and the world), the event finally makes its way to St. Louis on Nov. 10.