Art In FLUX Harlem presents ECHOES: A Time to Keep & A Time to Let Go Opening: Friday, November 9th, 2012 (6-9PM) Harlem, New York City

                                                                              

Official Website: www.artinfluxharlem.com

    

ECHOES
Opens NOV. 9th, 2012 6-9pm
A dual-gallery exhibition in which artists reveal the importance of the spiritual power of Africa by retaining elements of the traditional world and yet creating a new contemporary vision. Through visual art, film, photography, dance, and spoken word, artists proclaim a cultural heritage while they explore, celebrate, play, question, challenge or protest diverse issues. The exhibition, spreading in two inter-connected spaces, illustrates the importance of past histories and conveys the vital significance of African traditions in the diaspora.

Opening Night Special Events

Spoken Word: Hisham Tawfiq, Ebbe Bassey, Tara Mhella, Gena Bardwell

Percussion Performance:  Mark Manczuk
Dance Interpretation:  Ntifafa Akoko Tete-Rosenthal
Instrumental music:  Hasan Bakr and Kevin Nathaniel Hylton
DJ Mix: Jeremiah Kpoh

EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Alberte Bernier, Beatrice Lebreton, Carlos DeMedeiros, Dougba Caranda-Martin, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Geraldine Gaines, Ibou Ndoye, J W Ford, Lance Johnson, Leonardo Benzant, Makeba Rainey, Nyugen Smith, Tara Mhella, Toni Thomas, and Trish Mayo. 

PRODUCTION TEAM
Beatrice Lebreton, Curator
Ibou Ndoye, Curator
Ebbe Bassey, Filmmaker
Belynda M'baye, Production Manager

This exhibit, reflective of the mission of Art In FLUX Harlem, was created through a collaborative effort among artists.  The idea of the exhibit was sparked by a curatorial proposal presented by Beatrice Lebreton, and Ibou Ndoye.  The two were introduced to filmmaker Ebbe Bassey whose film, Siri Oko Fo (Mending Fences), inspired the artworks presented in the “Time to Let Go” gallery.  Belynda M’baye came on board as the production manager for the opening night reception and coordinated dance, music and spoken word - all responses to the artworks and the film.

LOCATION:
Art In FLUX Harlem
1961 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Ave) @ 118th Street

Harlem, New York City

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GALLERY HOURS:
Wed - Sat:  noon to 7pm
Sun:  noon to 5pm

www.artinfluxharlem.com

CALLING ALL DANCERS & OTHERS---- Auditions for Ramp to Paradise 2At The Kumble Theater (LIU Brooklyn Campus)Tues, October 2nd & Wed, October 3rd, 2012

                             

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THELMA HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
PRESENTS
A RAMP TO PARADISE 2

HOLDING AUDITIONS AND CASTING
ALL ROLES FOR PRODUCTION OF
A RAMP TO PARADISE 2
In Tribute to THE PARADISE GARAGE

Walter Rutledge
choreographer/director
Alex Smith, Jr.
Executive Producer

 

OCTOBER 2nd & 3rd, 2012
5PM- 8PM
at the
KUMBLE THEATER
(Long Island University

Downtown Brooklyn Campus)
 

WE ARE CASTING ALL ROLES

FOR THIS NEW MULTI MEDIA DANCE/THEATRE PRODUCTION

OF THE LEGENDARY UNDERGROUND DANCE CLUB

WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Trained dancers (ballet, modern, jazz, pointe and partnering)
"Old Way" Vogue Artists
Couples who Hustle
TS Girls who walk runway and face
Boyz with Bodies
And a Grace Jones impersonator

All are welcome to audition.

Dancers, please come ready to dance.

All others come prepared to show your talent.

For more info contact
Walter Rutledge at 917 744 2601 or
 walt_rutledge[at]yahoo.com

The 41st Annual International African Arts Festival: "BAADENYYA" (Since 1971) June 30th - July 4th, 2012 9AM - 9PM Daily (Rain or Shine) Bklyn, NYC

                              

WOW! This is so historic! Can you believe this awesome Africentric event had first started in 1971???

"BAADENYYA" in the African Swahili language means "Brotherhood & Sisterhood" and it is so INCREDIBLE that International African Arts Festival has endured the test of time. 

- ROD

 Official Website: iaafestival.org

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The 41st Annual International African Arts Festival will take place during Saturday, June 30th thru Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 at Commodore Barry Park (Navy Street, between Park and Flushing Avenues, on the border between Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene) rain or shine.

The 5-day annual arts and crafts festival includes an African Marketplace, dance and music performances, and fashion shows. The festival is dedicated to the preservation of art forms, traditions, and cultures of Africa and its diaspora.

For more information, visit: www.iaafestival.org or connect on Facebook.

 

About The International African Arts Festival...

The International African Arts Festival began in 1971 as the African Street Carnival, a PTA’s block party fundraiser for an independent school in Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with local entertainers, about 20 arts and crafts vendors, along with food prepared by the parents. Almost 2,000 people came to the event and it was a success. The International African Arts Festival (IAAF) has been part of the Brooklyn’s cultural landscape for 40 years. Each year a committed team of Board members, consultants, part-time seasonal staff and volunteers, work together to transform a city park into an outdoor African cultural oasis that celebrates traditional and contemporary expression of various African cultural art forms.

         

THPAC's 36th Season SOULS OF OUR FEET: PEOPLE OF COLOR DANCE FESTIVAL June 17th, 19th, & 20th, 2012 @ 7:00PM Kumble Theater in Bklyn (NYC)

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Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center

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THELMA HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (THPAC)

Presents

The 36th Season (2012)

SOULS OF OUR FEET:
PEOPLE OF COLOR DANCE FESTIVAL
With A Special Re-Creation Of "Tilt" By George Faison

The 36th Season (2012) Runs

June 17th, 19th & 20th, 2012
At The Kumble Theater
At Long Island University, Brooklyn
7:00PM

BUY TICKETS (Kumble Theater)

(May 15, 2012 – New York) – Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC), in association with the Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn celebrates its 36th season of astounding performances with the Souls of Our Feet: People of Color Dance Festival June 17 at 7pm, and June 19, 20 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15/$12 (students and seniors) and may be purchased at the Kumble Theater box office, 718-488-1624, and online at www.kumbletheater.org. Special ticket sale price of $10 before June 17.

The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center is proud to announce a special re-creation of Tilt by renowned Tony and Emmy Award winning choreographer and director George Faison. Originally choreographed for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1975 Tilt foreshadowed the end of pinball machines and the coming age of video games. The work features the music of Labelle and Ashford & Simpson. This revival for THPAC will introduce a whole new audience to this masterwork.

The season will also include choreographer and former Hamburg Ballet principal dancer Francesca Harper, rising dance powerhouse Sidra Bell; three emerging “Dance Sons of Brooklyn” Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Expressions Dance, Malcolm Low & Jamal Jackson Dance Company; the fast-rising dance company from Philadelphia, Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble; and making their first time appearance in THPAC series DANCE IQUAIL. THPAC's annual dance festival has become the must-see dance event not only for Brooklyn dance enthusiasts, but also for the entire city. The anxiously anticipated festival has earned a reputation for showcasing established, emerging and new choreographers and dance companies.

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About Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC)...
The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC) was founded 36 years ago to support the creative ideas of choreographers and dance companies of color.  Our mission is to offer performance opportunities to artists so they can share their work with diverse communities, furnish rehearsal and "incubation" space for choreographers and dancers, and serve as a bridge between artists and the community.

Over the years, THPAC has supported and attracted emerging and established dance artists of color who seek out the organization’s experimental, yet historically aware environment. THPAC has become a viable institution for communities that have traditionally celebrated and reflected on their social and cultural issues through the rituals of music, dance, literature, and performance.

THPAC’s founder Larry Phillips began working as a dance therapist in Brooklyn at a community center that sponsored children's education and support programs for single parents attending New York Technical College.  The programs were the forerunner of THPAC. In 1977, he renamed the organization after his deceased but renowned and highly influential teacher, Thelma Hill. Ms. Hill is remembered as a positive force in the dance world of New York City and beyond. She also danced with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the historically significant New York Negro Ballet Company.  She was a member of the dance faculty at the American Dance Festival and devoted herself to teaching dance most notably at the Clark Center. She died tragically in a fire in November 1977 but her passion in nurturing talent lives on in the organization that proudly bears her name. For more information visit http://www.thelmahill.com/

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About Alex Smith

Alex Smith was appointed Executive Director by the THPAC board in 1995 and later Executive Chairman. Under his tutelage and passionate commitment over 150 artists have been presented in performance including Ron Brown, Valerie Winborne, George Faison, Louis Johnson, Marlies Yearby, and Fred Benjamin, seven new programming formats have been added, and THPAC’s annual Life Time Achievement Awards, whose recipients include Louis Johnson, George Faison, Ella Thompson Moore, Dianne McIntrye, Fred Benjamin, and Kathy Grant and Dudley Williams, were established.

THE REEL BLACK SAME GENDER LOVING FILMOGRAPHY RESOURCE Part II of III: REEL Productions Featuring Black & Latino SGL Persons or Characters(20)

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