BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//LMCC - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:LMCC X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lmcc.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for LMCC REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T223000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T175220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T175220Z UID:10000089-1719086400-1719095400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:THICK WAKE – Leslie Cuyjet DESCRIPTION:June 20-22\, 8-10:30pm\nBlack Gotham Experience\nFREE\, Drop-In \nLeslie Cuyjet examines systemic barriers for Black access to swimming amidst her own upbringing with swim lessons and competitions\, in a new video installation. Layered projections of a silhouetted swimmer mimic the comfort of being submerged and ask audiences to reflect\, witness and consider place\, history and privilege. \nPerformer: Leslie Cuyjet\nVideo Design: Matthew Deinhart\nVideographer: Richard Martin\nAdministration: Leslie Cuyjet\, Inc. \nLeslie Cuyjet is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Leslie Cuyjet is presented as part of the 2024 River to River Festival\, with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. \nTHICK WAVE is supported by Black Gotham Experience. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/thick-wake-leslie-cuyjet/2024-06-22/ LOCATION:Black Gotham Experience CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LeslieCuyjet_3_Kyle-Knodell_1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T174439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T174439Z UID:10000085-1719082800-1719086400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:whale fall abyss – mayfield brooks DESCRIPTION:Accompanied by electronic cellist\, Dorothy Carlos\, and performer Camilo Restrepo \nJune 19-22\, 7pm\nTall Ship Wavertree\nat the South Street Seaport Museum\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: Please note that visiting Wavertree includes climbing up a few stairs\, walking up an angled gangway\, and then down a few stairs onto the deck. Access to the lower decks is by stairs; access to the upper deck is by steep ladder-like stairs. This site is not wheelchair accessible. \nChoreographer mayfield brooks presents two works–whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree\, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships and whale fall reckoning in the Upper Gallery of The Arts Center at Governors Island. Using found objects\, sound\, light\, movement and projection\, brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale. \nBoth presentations are a culmination of brooks’ project Whale Fall\, originally commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and virtually premiered as an experimental dance film in 2021 during the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. When Whale Fall (the film) premiered brooks wrote\, “This project was born out of a desire to sit with grief and rage in a world that discards too much and consumes too much. As a result\, the bodies of whales and the bodies of Black folk seem to have a kinship in how they have been both targeted\, hunted and consumed since the transatlantic slave trade. I have also come to know that some slave ships were used as whaling vessels.” In this present moment of continued environmental destruction caused by war and accelerated global warming\, brooks is asking\, “What light reaches us? What darkness welcomes the reckoning?” \nAfter four years of rigorous research and numerous iterations\, brooks’s ever evolving project Whale Fall continues to decompose itself. This iteration lives as a call to the wild parts of ourselves\, a denouement to complacent attitudes towards death and decay. How are we entangled in the ruse of romance with our compulsion to consume and our dependence on war machines? Why do we continue to kill? How can the whale fall reorient us to face our own mortality with more compassion? brooks considers the whale fall as a reckoning. They imagine their ancestor’s bones mingling with whale bones beckoning us to embrace interspecies care and relation beyond the human. Perhaps we can save the whales\, ourselves\, and the planet if we simply decompose. \nPerformers: mayfield brooks\, performer; Dorothy Carlos\, electric cellist; Camilo Restrepo\, performer \nmayfield brooks is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whale-fall-abyss-mayfield-brooks/2024-06-22/ LOCATION:Tall Ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport Museum CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mayfieldbrooks_5_CherylynnTsushima_051-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T175531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T175531Z UID:10000090-1719061200-1719068400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Party as Participation Hosted by Elisabeth Smolarz DESCRIPTION:June 22\, 1-3pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Cafe\nFREE (RSVP Requested)\nDrop-Ins welcome and encouraged \nAccessibility: The Arts Center Cafe and all ferries to Governors Island are wheelchair accessible. Further accessibility and health & safety information can be found here. \nCelebrate LMCC’s 50th anniversary as Manhattan’s Arts Council and our legacy of fostering vibrant creative communities! Party as Participation is the final installment of Party as Performance\, a series of festivities hosted by an LMCC alumni artist who specializes in the art of bringing people together. \nElisabeth Smolarz (Arts Center Residency ’12) will present ice cream flavors inspired by her experiences during her 2012 artist residency on Governors Island. These flavors will celebrate the friendships and artist communities she formed during that time\, as well as the distinctive features of the island itself\, such as the weeping willow tree\, the lavender fields\, and the beloved Governors Island sheep: Flour\, Sam\, Evening\, Chad\, and Philip Aries. The tasting event will offer a culinary journey blending elements of childhood nostalgia\, art\, and nature. \nAllergy Note: Ice cream will contain dairy products. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/party-as-participation-hosted-by-elisabeth-smolarz/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4-IceCreamWindow_PhotoViaKarlssonwilkerWebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T223000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T175220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T175220Z UID:10000088-1719000000-1719009000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:THICK WAKE – Leslie Cuyjet DESCRIPTION:June 20-22\, 8-10:30pm\nBlack Gotham Experience\nFREE\, Drop-In \nLeslie Cuyjet examines systemic barriers for Black access to swimming amidst her own upbringing with swim lessons and competitions\, in a new video installation. Layered projections of a silhouetted swimmer mimic the comfort of being submerged and ask audiences to reflect\, witness and consider place\, history and privilege. \nPerformer: Leslie Cuyjet\nVideo Design: Matthew Deinhart\nVideographer: Richard Martin\nAdministration: Leslie Cuyjet\, Inc. \nLeslie Cuyjet is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Leslie Cuyjet is presented as part of the 2024 River to River Festival\, with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. \nTHICK WAVE is supported by Black Gotham Experience. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/thick-wake-leslie-cuyjet/2024-06-21/ LOCATION:Black Gotham Experience CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LeslieCuyjet_3_Kyle-Knodell_1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T174439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T174439Z UID:10000084-1718996400-1719000000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:whale fall abyss – mayfield brooks DESCRIPTION:Accompanied by electronic cellist\, Dorothy Carlos\, and performer Camilo Restrepo \nJune 19-22\, 7pm\nTall Ship Wavertree\nat the South Street Seaport Museum\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: Please note that visiting Wavertree includes climbing up a few stairs\, walking up an angled gangway\, and then down a few stairs onto the deck. Access to the lower decks is by stairs; access to the upper deck is by steep ladder-like stairs. This site is not wheelchair accessible. \nChoreographer mayfield brooks presents two works–whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree\, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships and whale fall reckoning in the Upper Gallery of The Arts Center at Governors Island. Using found objects\, sound\, light\, movement and projection\, brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale. \nBoth presentations are a culmination of brooks’ project Whale Fall\, originally commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and virtually premiered as an experimental dance film in 2021 during the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. When Whale Fall (the film) premiered brooks wrote\, “This project was born out of a desire to sit with grief and rage in a world that discards too much and consumes too much. As a result\, the bodies of whales and the bodies of Black folk seem to have a kinship in how they have been both targeted\, hunted and consumed since the transatlantic slave trade. I have also come to know that some slave ships were used as whaling vessels.” In this present moment of continued environmental destruction caused by war and accelerated global warming\, brooks is asking\, “What light reaches us? What darkness welcomes the reckoning?” \nAfter four years of rigorous research and numerous iterations\, brooks’s ever evolving project Whale Fall continues to decompose itself. This iteration lives as a call to the wild parts of ourselves\, a denouement to complacent attitudes towards death and decay. How are we entangled in the ruse of romance with our compulsion to consume and our dependence on war machines? Why do we continue to kill? How can the whale fall reorient us to face our own mortality with more compassion? brooks considers the whale fall as a reckoning. They imagine their ancestor’s bones mingling with whale bones beckoning us to embrace interspecies care and relation beyond the human. Perhaps we can save the whales\, ourselves\, and the planet if we simply decompose. \nPerformers: mayfield brooks\, performer; Dorothy Carlos\, electric cellist; Camilo Restrepo\, performer \nmayfield brooks is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whale-fall-abyss-mayfield-brooks/2024-06-21/ LOCATION:Tall Ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport Museum CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mayfieldbrooks_5_CherylynnTsushima_051-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T223000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T175220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T175220Z UID:10000087-1718913600-1718922600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:THICK WAKE – Leslie Cuyjet DESCRIPTION:June 20-22\, 8-10:30pm\nBlack Gotham Experience\nFREE\, Drop-In \nLeslie Cuyjet examines systemic barriers for Black access to swimming amidst her own upbringing with swim lessons and competitions\, in a new video installation. Layered projections of a silhouetted swimmer mimic the comfort of being submerged and ask audiences to reflect\, witness and consider place\, history and privilege. \nPerformer: Leslie Cuyjet\nVideo Design: Matthew Deinhart\nVideographer: Richard Martin\nAdministration: Leslie Cuyjet\, Inc. \nLeslie Cuyjet is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Leslie Cuyjet is presented as part of the 2024 River to River Festival\, with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. \nTHICK WAVE is supported by Black Gotham Experience. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/thick-wake-leslie-cuyjet/2024-06-20/ LOCATION:Black Gotham Experience CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/LeslieCuyjet_3_Kyle-Knodell_1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T210000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T174853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T174853Z UID:10000086-1718913600-1718917200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Tremor – Samita Sinha DESCRIPTION:June 20\, 8pm\nFederal Hall\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: Federal Hall National Memorial is fully accessible to wheelchair users. Ramp access is available through the rear entrance at 15 Pine Street. An elevator provides access to the upper and lower levels of the building. \nThis special iteration of Samita Sinha’s Tremor is performed in duet with Cecilia Vicuña. Presented in the resonant space of Federal Hall\, Sinha and Vicuña infuse their vibrations and lineages into the dense history and monumentality of the site\, opening other ways of sensing\, knowing\, being\, and being together. Their vocalizations are spatialized live by sound designer Daniel Neumann\, within a visual design by architect Sunil Bald. \nTremor is an emergent and iterative performance and practice. Tremor was co-commissioned by Western Front and Danspace Project\, and has been presented at MCA Chicago. Collaborators in previous iterations include Ash Fure\, Okwui Okpokwasili\, Sunder Ganglani\, Darrell Jones\, James Proudfoot\, and Sarai Frazier. Their contributions have shaped what Tremor is and how it now grows. \nPerformers: Samita Sinha and Cecilia Vicuña\nVisual Design: Sunil Bald\nSound Design: Daniel Neumann \nSamita Sinha is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with the National Parks Service. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/tremor-samita-sinha/ LOCATION:Federal Hall CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SamitaSinha_3_RachelKeane_-13-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T174439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T174439Z UID:10000083-1718910000-1718913600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:whale fall abyss – mayfield brooks DESCRIPTION:Accompanied by electronic cellist\, Dorothy Carlos\, and performer Camilo Restrepo \nJune 19-22\, 7pm\nTall Ship Wavertree\nat the South Street Seaport Museum\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: Please note that visiting Wavertree includes climbing up a few stairs\, walking up an angled gangway\, and then down a few stairs onto the deck. Access to the lower decks is by stairs; access to the upper deck is by steep ladder-like stairs. This site is not wheelchair accessible. \nChoreographer mayfield brooks presents two works–whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree\, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships and whale fall reckoning in the Upper Gallery of The Arts Center at Governors Island. Using found objects\, sound\, light\, movement and projection\, brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale. \nBoth presentations are a culmination of brooks’ project Whale Fall\, originally commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and virtually premiered as an experimental dance film in 2021 during the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. When Whale Fall (the film) premiered brooks wrote\, “This project was born out of a desire to sit with grief and rage in a world that discards too much and consumes too much. As a result\, the bodies of whales and the bodies of Black folk seem to have a kinship in how they have been both targeted\, hunted and consumed since the transatlantic slave trade. I have also come to know that some slave ships were used as whaling vessels.” In this present moment of continued environmental destruction caused by war and accelerated global warming\, brooks is asking\, “What light reaches us? What darkness welcomes the reckoning?” \nAfter four years of rigorous research and numerous iterations\, brooks’s ever evolving project Whale Fall continues to decompose itself. This iteration lives as a call to the wild parts of ourselves\, a denouement to complacent attitudes towards death and decay. How are we entangled in the ruse of romance with our compulsion to consume and our dependence on war machines? Why do we continue to kill? How can the whale fall reorient us to face our own mortality with more compassion? brooks considers the whale fall as a reckoning. They imagine their ancestor’s bones mingling with whale bones beckoning us to embrace interspecies care and relation beyond the human. Perhaps we can save the whales\, ourselves\, and the planet if we simply decompose. \nPerformers: mayfield brooks\, performer; Dorothy Carlos\, electric cellist; Camilo Restrepo\, performer \nmayfield brooks is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whale-fall-abyss-mayfield-brooks/2024-06-20/ LOCATION:Tall Ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport Museum CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mayfieldbrooks_5_CherylynnTsushima_051-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T174439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T174439Z UID:10000082-1718823600-1718827200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:whale fall abyss – mayfield brooks DESCRIPTION:Accompanied by electronic cellist\, Dorothy Carlos\, and performer Camilo Restrepo \nJune 19-22\, 7pm\nTall Ship Wavertree\nat the South Street Seaport Museum\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: Please note that visiting Wavertree includes climbing up a few stairs\, walking up an angled gangway\, and then down a few stairs onto the deck. Access to the lower decks is by stairs; access to the upper deck is by steep ladder-like stairs. This site is not wheelchair accessible. \nChoreographer mayfield brooks presents two works–whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree\, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships and whale fall reckoning in the Upper Gallery of The Arts Center at Governors Island. Using found objects\, sound\, light\, movement and projection\, brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale. \nBoth presentations are a culmination of brooks’ project Whale Fall\, originally commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and virtually premiered as an experimental dance film in 2021 during the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. When Whale Fall (the film) premiered brooks wrote\, “This project was born out of a desire to sit with grief and rage in a world that discards too much and consumes too much. As a result\, the bodies of whales and the bodies of Black folk seem to have a kinship in how they have been both targeted\, hunted and consumed since the transatlantic slave trade. I have also come to know that some slave ships were used as whaling vessels.” In this present moment of continued environmental destruction caused by war and accelerated global warming\, brooks is asking\, “What light reaches us? What darkness welcomes the reckoning?” \nAfter four years of rigorous research and numerous iterations\, brooks’s ever evolving project Whale Fall continues to decompose itself. This iteration lives as a call to the wild parts of ourselves\, a denouement to complacent attitudes towards death and decay. How are we entangled in the ruse of romance with our compulsion to consume and our dependence on war machines? Why do we continue to kill? How can the whale fall reorient us to face our own mortality with more compassion? brooks considers the whale fall as a reckoning. They imagine their ancestor’s bones mingling with whale bones beckoning us to embrace interspecies care and relation beyond the human. Perhaps we can save the whales\, ourselves\, and the planet if we simply decompose. \nPerformers: mayfield brooks\, performer; Dorothy Carlos\, electric cellist; Camilo Restrepo\, performer \nmayfield brooks is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whale-fall-abyss-mayfield-brooks/2024-06-19/ LOCATION:Tall Ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport Museum CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mayfieldbrooks_5_CherylynnTsushima_051-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T172825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T172825Z UID:10000080-1718560800-1718564400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:South Cove Song – John P. Hastings DESCRIPTION:June 16\, 4pm & 6pm\nSouth Cove\, Battery Park City\nFREE\, Drop-In \nSouth Cove Song is a site-specific music performance\, featuring a brass ensemble\, centered on the past(s)\, present(s)\, and future(s) of Lower Manhattan. The human interaction with the natural landscape and the built environment is questioned\, reframed\, and reassembled through sonic interventions in South Cove Park. \nPerformers: John P. Hastings; Aaron Meicht\, Music Director & Trumpet; 12-Piece Ensemble\, TILT Brass \nPresented in partnership with partnership with Battery Park City Authority. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/south-cove-song-john-p-hastings/2024-06-16/2/ LOCATION:South Cove\, Battery Park City CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forest-Song-3-Hunter-Canning-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T172825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T172825Z UID:10000079-1718553600-1718557200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:South Cove Song – John P. Hastings DESCRIPTION:June 16\, 4pm & 6pm\nSouth Cove\, Battery Park City\nFREE\, Drop-In \nSouth Cove Song is a site-specific music performance\, featuring a brass ensemble\, centered on the past(s)\, present(s)\, and future(s) of Lower Manhattan. The human interaction with the natural landscape and the built environment is questioned\, reframed\, and reassembled through sonic interventions in South Cove Park. \nPerformers: John P. Hastings; Aaron Meicht\, Music Director & Trumpet; 12-Piece Ensemble\, TILT Brass \nPresented in partnership with partnership with Battery Park City Authority. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/south-cove-song-john-p-hastings/2024-06-16/1/ LOCATION:South Cove\, Battery Park City CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forest-Song-3-Hunter-Canning-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240616T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T171210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T171210Z UID:10000077-1718539200-1718557200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:LMCC's Workspace Open Studios DESCRIPTION:Workspace 2023-24 Residency Cohort\nJune 15 & 16\, 12-5pm\n101 Greenwich Street\nFREE (RSVP Requested)\nDrop-Ins welcome and encouraged \nAccessibility: The building entrance is ADA/wheelchair accessible. Visitors would access the building by coming in from the Trinity Street side and enter the building by badging into the swing doors (not the revolving doors). A ramp is located near the corner of Rector and Trinity. \nOpen Studios offers a glimpse into the creative process and artistic development of LMCC’s Workspace artists-in-residence. Members of the public are invited into the studios of 11 multidisciplinary artists to learn about their practices and experience a wide range of artistic works in progress\, from theater based work to sculpture\, painting\, film\, photography\, and more. Held at the culmination of this nine-months program\, guests can engage in conversation with artists in their studios and experience live performances (readings\, screenings\, workshops and more). Daily event schedule to come! \nCurrent Workspace 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence: Francheska Alcántara\, Blanka Amezkua\, Lucas Baisch\, Elvira Clayton\, Francisco Donoso\, SaraNoa Mark\, Miriam Simun\, Corinne Spencer\, Alex Strada\, Cici Wu\, and Jessica Lagunas (On-Site Assistant\, Workspace ’22-23). \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! \nClick here to learn more about the Workspace residency program and our 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence. URL:https://lmcc.net/events/lmccs-workspace-open-studios-2/2024-06-16/ LOCATION:Workspace Studios at 101 Greenwich Street\, 2 Rector Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WorkspaceOpenStudios_2_JulietaCervantes_rr23_OpenStudios_Workspace_24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T173708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T173708Z UID:10000081-1718478000-1718481600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:whale fall reckoning – mayfield brooks DESCRIPTION:Accompanied by electronic cellist\, Dorothy Carlos\, and performer Camilo Restrepo \nInstallation Activation\nJune 15\, 7pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Upper Gallery\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nInstallation\nJune 15\, 2-9pm\nJune 16\, 21 & 23\, 12-5pm\nJune 22\, 12-9pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Upper Gallery\nFREE\, Drop-In \nAccessibility: The Upper Gallery can be accessed by elevator via the lower cafe space or stairs. All ferries to Governors Island are wheelchair accessible. Further accessibility information can be found here. \nChoreographer mayfield brooks presents two works–whale fall abyss in the cargo hold of the Tall Ship Wavertree\, calling up ghosts and ancestors from the intersecting histories of whalers and slave ships and whale fall reckoning in the Upper Gallery of The Arts Center at Governors Island. Using found objects\, sound\, light\, movement and projection\, brooks conjures an abyssal underwater world that transforms the formerly munitions storage warehouse into an imagined site of the decomposed whale. \nBoth presentations are a culmination of brooks’ project Whale Fall\, originally commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and virtually premiered as an experimental dance film in 2021 during the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. When Whale Fall (the film) premiered brooks wrote\, “This project was born out of a desire to sit with grief and rage in a world that discards too much and consumes too much. As a result\, the bodies of whales and the bodies of Black folk seem to have a kinship in how they have been both targeted\, hunted and consumed since the transatlantic slave trade. I have also come to know that some slave ships were used as whaling vessels.” In this present moment of continued environmental destruction caused by war and accelerated global warming\, brooks is asking\, “What light reaches us? What darkness welcomes the reckoning?” \nAfter four years of rigorous research and numerous iterations\, brooks’s ever evolving project Whale Fall continues to decompose itself. This iteration lives as a call to the wild parts of ourselves\, a denouement to complacent attitudes towards death and decay. How are we entangled in the ruse of romance with our compulsion to consume and our dependence on war machines? Why do we continue to kill? How can the whale fall reorient us to face our own mortality with more compassion? brooks considers the whale fall as a reckoning. They imagine their ancestor’s bones mingling with whale bones beckoning us to embrace interspecies care and relation beyond the human. Perhaps we can save the whales\, ourselves\, and the planet if we simply decompose. \nPerformers mayfield brooks\, performer; Dorothy Carlos\, electric cellist; Camilo Restrepo\, performer \nPlease note Installation contents involve loud sounds and video containing moments of nudity. \nmayfield brooks is part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whale-fall-reckoning-mayfield-brooks/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mayfieldbrooks_12_Robbie-Sweeny_small.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T171941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T160732Z UID:10000078-1718470800-1718478000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Love for New York’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop Organized in partnership with Billion Oyster Project DESCRIPTION:June 15\, 2-5pm\nNolan Park\, Governors Island\nRain location: The Arts Center at Governors Island\, Studio A4\nFREE\, Drop-In \nAccessibility: All Governors Island ferries and the grounds of the island\, are wheelchair accessible. Additional accessibility information is available on the Trust for Governors Island website. \nInspired by the often overlooked experiences of African-American maritime workers – Love for NY’s Waterways: Stories from the Stoop is a Moth-style storytelling and open mic event that celebrates the legacy of the African-American water stewards of New York. \nThe Stoop Stories event aims to celebrate Juneteenth\, while raising awareness about the Billion Oyster Project and highlighting the rich history of New York’s waterfront. Stoop Stories revolves around the intertwining narratives of the New York waterfront\, environmental activism\, cultural heritage\, and personal experiences. Through the diverse perspectives of our storytellers\, we aim to weave together a tapestry of stories that illuminate the past\, present\, and future of our city’s maritime landscape\, celebrating its resilience and diversity. We ground this event in the experiences and perspectives of individuals of color and indigenous water stewards but welcome everyone to share stories about their relationship to NY waterways. \nThrough the power of storytelling\, we seek to encourage more people to explore the maritime industry and view New York Harbor as a shared recreational space\, fostering a sense of community and connection to our ‘commons.’ \nPresented in partnership with Billion Oyster Project. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/love-for-new-yorks-waterways-stories-from-the-stoop-organized-in-partnership-with-billion-oyster-project/ LOCATION:Nolan Park\, Governors Island CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hydroids-may-2023-02197.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T171210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T171210Z UID:10000076-1718452800-1718470800@lmcc.net SUMMARY:LMCC's Workspace Open Studios DESCRIPTION:Workspace 2023-24 Residency Cohort\nJune 15 & 16\, 12-5pm\n101 Greenwich Street\nFREE (RSVP Requested)\nDrop-Ins welcome and encouraged \nAccessibility: The building entrance is ADA/wheelchair accessible. Visitors would access the building by coming in from the Trinity Street side and enter the building by badging into the swing doors (not the revolving doors). A ramp is located near the corner of Rector and Trinity. \nOpen Studios offers a glimpse into the creative process and artistic development of LMCC’s Workspace artists-in-residence. Members of the public are invited into the studios of 11 multidisciplinary artists to learn about their practices and experience a wide range of artistic works in progress\, from theater based work to sculpture\, painting\, film\, photography\, and more. Held at the culmination of this nine-months program\, guests can engage in conversation with artists in their studios and experience live performances (readings\, screenings\, workshops and more). Daily event schedule to come! \nCurrent Workspace 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence: Francheska Alcántara\, Blanka Amezkua\, Lucas Baisch\, Elvira Clayton\, Francisco Donoso\, SaraNoa Mark\, Miriam Simun\, Corinne Spencer\, Alex Strada\, Cici Wu\, and Jessica Lagunas (On-Site Assistant\, Workspace ’22-23). \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! \nClick here to learn more about the Workspace residency program and our 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence. URL:https://lmcc.net/events/lmccs-workspace-open-studios-2/2024-06-15/ LOCATION:Workspace Studios at 101 Greenwich Street\, 2 Rector Street\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WorkspaceOpenStudios_2_JulietaCervantes_rr23_OpenStudios_Workspace_24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T160258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T170053Z UID:10000074-1718391600-1718395200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:lil BLK – NIC Kay DESCRIPTION:June 13\, 7pm\nThe Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: The Center is wheelchair accessible via a ramp on the front end of the building and the performance is located in a ground floor space. \nJune 14\, 7:30pm\nThe Monster Bar\nFREE (Reservation Requested)\nNote: This performance is 21+. \nAccessibility: Please note that The Monster Bar is not wheelchair accessible and the audience will have to navigate a narrow stairway to the lower level. \nlil BLK invites you into a deeply personal exploration of Black and queer identity through the lens of NIC Kay’s lived experiences. This live experimental solo performance delves into moments of pain\, loss\, and the quest for healing. Set against the backdrop of a twenty-year shift in public attitude toward the LGBTQ community\, everchanging queer cultures\, and the evolving and reimagined landscape of the dancefloor–NIC Kay’s narrative unfolds with raw honesty and vulnerability\, inviting reflection and connection with the audience. Prepare to be immersed in a journey that is equal parts intimate\, thought-provoking\, and deeply human. \nEmbark on a journey with lil BLK’24! This River to River presentation of NIC Kay’s first solo work will be a reimagined version of lil BLK\, which debuted at Links Hall in Chicago in 2015. Trace lil BLK’s path from the prestigious 2018 American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center\, New York\, to its feature in the OTV’s (opentv) Bronx Cunt Tour\, and captivating performances at AfroPunk Atlanta 2016\, Creating Change Conference 2016\, Buddies in Bad Times\, Dixon Place\, and beyond. Engage with the captivating narrative using #lilBLK. \n“Profoundly personal and heart-achingly familiar.” – Maura NGUYỄN Donohue\, culturebot \n“To be unmoved by Kay’s work is to fail to understand not only its relevance to current events\, but the power\, significance and breath it provides a swelling push for Black\, trans and queer freedom.” – Benji Hart\, radical faggot \nPerformer & Designer: NIC Kay \nNIC Kay is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center) and The Monster Bar. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/lil-blk-nic-kay-2/ LOCATION:The Monster Bar\, 80 Grove Street\, New York\, 10014\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NICKay_Photo2_JuneCanedo-de-Souza_small.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T170724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T170724Z UID:10000075-1718380800-1718388000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:PlaceHolder – Kayla Hamilton and Kate Speer DESCRIPTION:Installation\nJune 15\, 2-7pm\nJune 16\, 21-23\, 12-5pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Cafe\nFREE\, Drop-In \n\nInstallation Activation\nJune 14\, 4pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Cafe\nFREE\, Drop-In \nAccessibility: The Arts Center Cafe and all ferries to Governors Island are wheelchair accessible. Further accessibility and health & safety information can be found here. \nKayla Hamilton and Kate Speer share an installation in dialogue with their performance project PlaceHolder–a collaboratively made experience that exposes how perception actualizes and strips identities. The installation will take up the themes of the performance project\, which asks guests to consider the ways they meet\, engage and “see” others. The installation draws attention to perception and perspective and the frequent disconnect between how we want to be perceived and how outside forces (people\, society\, strangers) impact perception. \nPerformers: Kayla Hamilton\, Instigator & Performer; Kate Speer\, Instigator & Performer; Azure Osborne-Lee\, Audio Describer & Performer; Tess Dworman\, Audio Describer & Performer\nDesigner: Sammie Amachree\nAdministration: Ellen Chenoweth\nDramaturg: Stephanie Acosta \nWith thanks to: Nicole J. Caruth\, Louise Martorano\, Crystal U. Davis\, Jesse Phillips Fein\, Simone Browne\, Molly Roy\, and everyone who has participated in showings and shared feedback on the experience. \nKayla Hamilton is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/placeholder-kayla-hamilton-and-kate-speer/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KaylaHamiltonandKateSpeer_3_Jonathan-Hsu-edited-by-Kate-Speer_Placeholder.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240514T160058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T160058Z UID:10000073-1718305200-1718308800@lmcc.net SUMMARY:lil BLK – NIC Kay DESCRIPTION:June 13\, 7pm\nThe Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: The Center is wheelchair accessible via a ramp on the front end of the building and the performance is located in a ground floor space. \nJune 14\, 7:30pm\nThe Monster Bar\nFREE (Reservation Requested)\nNote: This performance is 21+. \nAccessibility: Please note that The Monster Bar is not wheelchair accessible and the audience will have to navigate a narrow stairway to the lower level. \nlil BLK invites you into a deeply personal exploration of Black and queer identity through the lens of NIC Kay’s lived experiences. This live experimental solo performance delves into moments of pain\, loss\, and the quest for healing. Set against the backdrop of a twenty-year shift in public attitude toward the LGBTQ community\, everchanging queer cultures\, and the evolving and reimagined landscape of the dancefloor–NIC Kay’s narrative unfolds with raw honesty and vulnerability\, inviting reflection and connection with the audience. Prepare to be immersed in a journey that is equal parts intimate\, thought-provoking\, and deeply human. \nEmbark on a journey with lil BLK’24! This River to River presentation of NIC Kay’s first solo work will be a reimagined version of lil BLK\, which debuted at Links Hall in Chicago in 2015. Trace lil BLK’s path from the prestigious 2018 American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center\, New York\, to its feature in the OTV’s (opentv) Bronx Cunt Tour\, and captivating performances at AfroPunk Atlanta 2016\, Creating Change Conference 2016\, Buddies in Bad Times\, Dixon Place\, and beyond. Engage with the captivating narrative using #lilBLK. \n“Profoundly personal and heart-achingly familiar.” – Maura NGUYỄN Donohue\, culturebot \n“To be unmoved by Kay’s work is to fail to understand not only its relevance to current events\, but the power\, significance and breath it provides a swelling push for Black\, trans and queer freedom.” – Benji Hart\, radical faggot \nPerformer & Designer: NIC Kay \nNIC Kay is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nPresented in partnership with The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center) and The Monster Bar. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/lil-blk-nic-kay/ LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 W 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NICKay_Photo2_JuneCanedo-de-Souza_small.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240506T181538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T174211Z UID:10000070-1717956000-1717963200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:The (chrysalis) Archives – jaamil olawale kosoko DESCRIPTION:Installation Activation\nJune 9\, 6pm\nExhibition\nJune 7-9\, 12-5pm\nJune 14 & 16\, 12-5pm\nJune 15\, 2-7pm\nJune 21-23\, 12-5pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Lower Gallery \nAccessibility: The Lower Gallery is ground floor and fully wheelchair accessible. \nMultidisciplinary artist jaamil olawale kosoko presents an exhibition incorporating video installation\, photographic imagery\, sculpture\, and performance in the Lower Gallery at The Arts Center at Governors Island as part of their evolving visual performance practice that combines Black and queer theoretical\, literary and spiritual lineages with biographical and bodily knowledge. The exhibition will incorporate past works including the film Chameleon (A Visual Album)\, three-channel video and installation Syllabus for Black Love\, as well as photo and documentation of past performances. The multi-media installation will include a performance activation titled (chrysalis: activation 1)—a hybrid media performance work that integrates sculpture\, moving image\, original poetry\, and emergent choreographic strategies prompted by the audience. The work examines concepts of metamorphosis\, intergenerational knowledge\, blood memory\, negative space\, and the environmental grief that lingers in the aftermath of the living gesture. \nPerformers: jaamil olawale kosoko\, Black Maij\, Everett-Asis Saunders\nPerformance Doula: Song Tucker\nLighting Design: LD DeArmon\nCreative Producer: Michelle Daly \njaamil olawale kosoko is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/the-chrysalis-archives-jaamil-olawale-kosoko/2024-06-09/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jaamilolawalekosoko_Photo2_CourtesyoftheArtist.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240508T175856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T204938Z UID:10000072-1717952400-1717956000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Fallacies – Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett DESCRIPTION:Performance\nJune 8-9\, 7pm\nRockefeller Park\nFREE\, Drop-In \nWorkshop\nJune 9\, 5pm\nRockefeller Park\nFREE\, Drop-In \nFallacies blurs the lines between original source and personal interpretation\, constructing dance from a dancer’s perspective. Distorting referential choreography to reveal new patterns and physical possibilities\, the piece materializes as a Rorschach test of dance. When the movement is stripped down\, what do you see? By rendering movement through the lens of its performers\, Fallacies makes invisible embodied histories visible. \nIn addition to performances June 8 and 9\, audiences are invited to join a workshop with Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett at 5pm on Sunday\, June 9 to learn movement from Fallacies\, gaining insight into the piece’s various original sources before seeing the performance that evening. \nChoreography: Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett in collaboration with the performers \nPresented in partnership with Battery Park City Authority. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/fallacies-nattie-trogdon-hollis-bartlett/2024-06-09/ LOCATION:Rockefeller Park\, Battery Park City CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Nattie-Trogdon-Hollis-Bartlett_4_Whitney.Browne_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240508T175856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T204938Z UID:10000071-1717873200-1717876800@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Fallacies – Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett DESCRIPTION:Performance\nJune 8-9\, 7pm\nRockefeller Park\nFREE\, Drop-In \nWorkshop\nJune 9\, 5pm\nRockefeller Park\nFREE\, Drop-In \nFallacies blurs the lines between original source and personal interpretation\, constructing dance from a dancer’s perspective. Distorting referential choreography to reveal new patterns and physical possibilities\, the piece materializes as a Rorschach test of dance. When the movement is stripped down\, what do you see? By rendering movement through the lens of its performers\, Fallacies makes invisible embodied histories visible. \nIn addition to performances June 8 and 9\, audiences are invited to join a workshop with Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett at 5pm on Sunday\, June 9 to learn movement from Fallacies\, gaining insight into the piece’s various original sources before seeing the performance that evening. \nChoreography: Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett in collaboration with the performers \nPresented in partnership with Battery Park City Authority. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/fallacies-nattie-trogdon-hollis-bartlett/2024-06-08/ LOCATION:Rockefeller Park\, Battery Park City CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Nattie-Trogdon-Hollis-Bartlett_4_Whitney.Browne_1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240508T172259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T172928Z UID:10000069-1717862400-1717866000@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Whole body in my ear – Jesi Cook DESCRIPTION:June 8\, 1pm & 4pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Upper Gallery\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: The Upper Gallery can be accessed by elevator via the lower cafe space or stairs. \nWhole body in my ear is a performance in which sound and body emerge as one fluid and dynamic textural form. The work sees performers splice and patch text\, movement\, and sound scores in creating new languages and porous realities. This endurance-based auditory fantasy pushes toward dissonance\, using it as a means to explore and amplify otherness. The scores build\, heighten\, and erode an ouroboric circuit—with patterns repeating\, leaking\, and breaking apart throughout a shifting sculptural landscape. \nPerformers: Jesi Cook\, Ayano Elson\, Amelia Heintzelman\, Mina Nishimura\nLive Sound Mixing: Jeff Aaron Bryant\nLighting Design: Daniele Sarti \nJesi Cook is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whole-body-in-my-ear-jesi-cook/2024-06-08/2/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4_credit_-Daniele-Sarti-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240608T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240508T172259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T172928Z UID:10000068-1717851600-1717855200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Whole body in my ear – Jesi Cook DESCRIPTION:June 8\, 1pm & 4pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Upper Gallery\nFREE (Reservation Requested) \nAccessibility: The Upper Gallery can be accessed by elevator via the lower cafe space or stairs. \nWhole body in my ear is a performance in which sound and body emerge as one fluid and dynamic textural form. The work sees performers splice and patch text\, movement\, and sound scores in creating new languages and porous realities. This endurance-based auditory fantasy pushes toward dissonance\, using it as a means to explore and amplify otherness. The scores build\, heighten\, and erode an ouroboric circuit—with patterns repeating\, leaking\, and breaking apart throughout a shifting sculptural landscape. \nPerformers: Jesi Cook\, Ayano Elson\, Amelia Heintzelman\, Mina Nishimura\nLive Sound Mixing: Jeff Aaron Bryant\nLighting Design: Daniele Sarti \nJesi Cook is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/whole-body-in-my-ear-jesi-cook/2024-06-08/1/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4_credit_-Daniele-Sarti-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240430T192726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T172844Z UID:10000064-1717779600-1717783200@lmcc.net SUMMARY:THE POWER OF THE BOUNCE - Miguel Gutierrez DESCRIPTION:June 7\, 5pm\nRain Date: June 8\, 1pm\n28 Liberty Street\nFREE\, Drop-In\nParticipants are encouraged to wear fun and celebratory clothing. Get ready to dance! \nAccessibility: This performance will be accessible via a wide staircase and ramp from Pine Street to the south of the Plaza. \nMiguel Gutierrez presents an interactive\, high-energy dance performance complete with group choreography\, aerobics\, and costumes. Come in costume and learn the famous “Aerobicon” dance that Miguel created to Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon” in 2000. Way before TikTok\, this dance was a viral hit in the early days of YouTube that was then recreated by people all over the world in duos\, small groups\, and giant crowds. Miguel will revive this dance and create a powerful public spectacle reminiscent of the cardiovascularly challenging and spiritually charged but now defunct DEEP AEROBICS technique that he taught and disseminated for ten years. This participatory spectacle questions how we keep moving amidst the chaos of everyday life exuberant joy\, and systemic injustice. \n“Aerobicon” was originally created in collaboration with performer Howie Rigberg. It is performed to Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon.” Miguel Gutierrez is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/the-power-of-the-bounce-miguel-gutierrez/ LOCATION:28 Liberty CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Miguel-Gutierrez_3_InesSebalj_DEEP_Gothenburg_5.2014_005-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240506T181538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T174211Z UID:10000066-1717761600-1717779600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:The (chrysalis) Archives – jaamil olawale kosoko DESCRIPTION:Installation Activation\nJune 9\, 6pm\nExhibition\nJune 7-9\, 12-5pm\nJune 14 & 16\, 12-5pm\nJune 15\, 2-7pm\nJune 21-23\, 12-5pm\nThe Arts Center at Governors Island\, Lower Gallery \nAccessibility: The Lower Gallery is ground floor and fully wheelchair accessible. \nMultidisciplinary artist jaamil olawale kosoko presents an exhibition incorporating video installation\, photographic imagery\, sculpture\, and performance in the Lower Gallery at The Arts Center at Governors Island as part of their evolving visual performance practice that combines Black and queer theoretical\, literary and spiritual lineages with biographical and bodily knowledge. The exhibition will incorporate past works including the film Chameleon (A Visual Album)\, three-channel video and installation Syllabus for Black Love\, as well as photo and documentation of past performances. The multi-media installation will include a performance activation titled (chrysalis: activation 1)—a hybrid media performance work that integrates sculpture\, moving image\, original poetry\, and emergent choreographic strategies prompted by the audience. The work examines concepts of metamorphosis\, intergenerational knowledge\, blood memory\, negative space\, and the environmental grief that lingers in the aftermath of the living gesture. \nPerformers: jaamil olawale kosoko\, Black Maij\, Everett-Asis Saunders\nPerformance Doula: Song Tucker\nLighting Design: LD DeArmon\nCreative Producer: Michelle Daly \njaamil olawale kosoko is an artist-in-residence with LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development Program supported\, in part\, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \nAll River To River Festival events tickets go live on May 21! \nLearn more here! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/the-chrysalis-archives-jaamil-olawale-kosoko/2024-06-07/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:River To River Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jaamilolawalekosoko_Photo2_CourtesyoftheArtist.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240430T191825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240506T172142Z UID:10000063-1716037200-1716044400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Party as Performance: YACKEZ DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with us as we mark LMCC’s 50th anniversary as Manhattan’s Arts Council and our legacy of fostering vibrant creative communities! You’re invited to Party as Performance\, a series of special gatherings at The Arts Center at Governors Island! \nach event is hosted by LMCC alumni artists and offers a unique atmosphere\, energy\, and community\, all delving into themes of Practice\, Process\, and Participation. We kick off the series on March 28 with Party as Process\, a listening and dance party with YiuYiu 瑶瑶 of Chinatown Records. Then\, on May 18\, immerse yourself in Party as Practice with host Yackez (Larissa & Jon Velez-Jackson) during our Arts Center Residency Open Studios. Finally\, join us for Party as Participation in June\, hosted by Elisabeth Smolarz\, as we mark the conclusion of the 2024 River To River Festival and our Extended Life residency program. \nIs sitting together a party? Is dancing? Is hot tub? Is drum circle? Talking? Imbibing while vibing? Can party transform itself? Can we rest together? Yackez is throwing a party. They’ll coax a party into being. A matinee party. A laugh out loud party. A party with beverages. Swaying in the corners party. Come join them on the island known as Paggank by the Lenape. RSVP here for free tickets! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/party-as-performance-yackez/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/videostill_co_Yackez2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240430T210425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T193905Z UID:10000065-1716033600-1716051600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:Arts Center Residency Open Studios DESCRIPTION:Join us for Open Studios at The Arts Center at Governors Island on May 18\, 2024. Engage directly with resident artists & curatorial fellows in their studios\, and learn about their diverse practices. RSVP here for free tickets! \nThis event is free and open to all. \nArtists in Residence:\n\nYasmeen Abdallah (@86cherrycherry) \nDahlia Bloomstone (@the_dancr_next_door) \nHedwig Brouckaert (@hedwig_brouckaert) \nGraciela Cassel (@graciela_cassel) \nYanira Castro (@acanarytorsi) \nbinbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa (@binbinfactory) \nRichard Grunn #urbanoscircus \nGrace Lynne Haynes (@bygracelynne) \nGrace Jahng Lee (@gsobrenome) \nFable Jones (@fable_jones) \nGeorgia Lale (@georgia_lale_studio) \nMeaghan Elyse (@meaghan_elyse) \nJohn Maria Gutierrez (@johnmariagutierrez) \nAnna Ting Möller (@annatingmoller) \nBonita Oliver AKA French Leave \nAmi Park (@iam__ami_) \nYin Ming Wong (@yinming_) \nYitian Yan (@yitian_yan) \nErica Shires\, On-Site Assistant (2023 Alum) (@erica_shires) \nCuratorial Fellows: \nKiara Cristina Ventura (@kiara_cristina+ @processa.art) \nMeghana Karnik (@storefrontpsychic) \n\n  \nEVENT SCHEDULE: \n1PM\nA4\nErica Shires\nData Ghosts\nVideo screening\, 30 min\n“Data Ghosts is an experimental video using images I made with a microscope\, wet-plate photography\, lumen prints\, and digital video. I then combined the old media with emerging 3D and AI software\, examining the ongoing evolution of visual language. \nStoryline: Cyanobotanists are experimenting with historical photographic processes and artificial intelligence trained in natural history archives to encode\, reanimate\, and virtually recreate the biodiversity of species that have gone extinct due to climate change.” \n@erica_shires\, https://www.ericashires.com/ \n  \n1:30PM\nA4\nGraciela Cassel\nWe Are Rivers\nVideo screening\, 30 min\n“We Are Rivers” is a documentary film that highlights the significance of rivers in our lives and communities. The film features on-location interviews that showcase the emotional attachment people have to rivers. These interviews include local residents\, volunteers\, ship captains\, and students who emphasize the need to preserve waterways for future generations. \nStories by: Gabriela Allen Scott Allen Debra Baratta Alex Blair Clarke Denis Cody Ann Herrmann George Resnov Francisco Reyes Frank Schwall Michael Smith Howard Sugarman Robina Tagliaferrow Marcelo Troche Kenny Williams Karl Wills Directed by Graciela Cassel Music: AIERT ERKOREKA dancer: LAUREN MARIE JAEGER cinematography: OXANA ONIPKO and MICHAEL ECKELS sound designer: WALDER MARTINEZ voice over: JUSTIN MYLES WALKER SPECIAL THANKS CAPTAIN CHRIS CULLEN-ISLAND CURRENT III PAUL GARCIA. HARBOR SCHOOL WE ARE RIVERS WAS CREATED WITH THE SUPPORT OF A GRANT FROM NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS \n@graciela_cassel\, https://www.gracielacassel.com \n  \n2PM\nA4\nDahlia Bloomstone\nBLUE SUGARY MONEY II\nVideo Game Performance Lecture\, 30 min\nDahlia Bloomstone’s video game performance lecture\, Blue Sugary Money II\, is interspersed with eating and sharing edible currency\, dance\, live omnichord sound stitched together with diaristic video and 3D fish animations\, monologues written on labor\, mutual aid\, economic dependence\, and desirability politics\, and a consumptive musical mnemonic.\n@the_dancr_next_door\, https://www.dahliabloomstone.com/ \n  \n2:45PM\nA4\nRichard Grunn with Sheridan Grunn\nLa Schiuma\nPerformance\, 15 min\nPerformance of a foam-constructed body puppet that discovers the dangers of technology.\n#urbanoscircus\, www.richardgrunn.com \n  \n3:00PM\nA2\nMeghana Karnik\nListening Session: Hope is a discipline\nListening Session\, 1-hour \n“Please join LMCC Curatorial Fellow\, Meghana Karnik\, and ISCP Curator-in-Residence\, Eugene Hannah Park for a listening session of their in-process vinyl record\, Hope is a discipline\, named after their collective curatorial research. The exhibition opens to the public at LMCC’s Arts Center on Governor’s Island July 20 – September 29\, 2024. \n“”Hope is a discipline”” is both an exhibition and network\, inhabiting Mariame Kaba’s concept of hope: a “hope” that is neither just a feeling\, nor horizon\, but a project of communal labor. As the curators research how to curate a process (aligned with socially-engaged artistic practices) the project blurs the lines between facilitator and participant; archive and event. Rehearsing a poetics of assembly with artists\, audiences\, and peers\, they organize “commoning” experiences with thought partners interested in the questions such as: How do we make places? How do we attend to solidarities? Can friendship create structural change? \nTheir vinyl record carries the sounds\, traces\, and marginalia from the first iteration of Hope is a discipline\, which took place at de Appel Amsterdam\, and the project’s aftermath in Cuba. \nHope is a discipline is curated by: Meghana Karnik (LMCC\, New York)\, Eugene Hannah Park (ISCP\, New York / South Korea)\, Marina Christodoulidou (de Appel\, Amsterdam)\, & Billy Fowo (SAVVY Contemporary\, Berlin)”\n@storefrontpsychic\, storefrontpsychic.com URL:https://lmcc.net/events/arts-center-residency-open-studios/ LOCATION:The Arts Center at Governors Island\, 110 Andes Road\, New York\, NY\, 10004\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/408773026_18407390467035312_5026610071527969719_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240601 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240508T164511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T164511Z UID:10000067-1714521600-1717199999@lmcc.net SUMMARY:May 2024 Grantee Events DESCRIPTION:Experience a wide range of art activities by supporting our Creative Engagement\, Creative Learning\, and UMEZ Arts Engagement grantees and their events this month. \nGregory Mills\nCreating Art from the Heart\nMay 4\, 11\, 18\, 2024 at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM\nAdam C. Powell Building\, 163 West 125 Street\, New York\, NY 10027\nJune 5\, 12\, 2024 at 1:00 PM\nAbstract Art Exhibition: July 12\, 2024 at 1:00 PM \nAll welcome to create and explore art sessions. Art with curators (prerequisite of basics 1-3). All participants create two art canvases\, one to take home and one to donate to the Art Exhibition. Enjoy hands-on learning and create original abstract art on canvases! \nIntroduction abstract and sewing artmaking\nConceptual Ideas\nPaint and Canvas utilizations\nColor theory\nDesign Elements\nTextures and canvas appliques\nsewing juxtaposing techniques\nCreative Conversations\nSocial Connections\nAbstract Art Exhibition \nGrant Program: Creative Learning \nBarrio Independent Productions\nFrenzy Fest 2024\nMay 1 – 24\, 2024\nVirtual Screenings\nMay 17 – 19 & May 24 – 26\nTheater Presentations: Friday & Saturday 7:00 PM\, Sunday 3:00 PM\nEl Barrio’s Artspace PS109\, 215 East 99 Street\, New York\, NY 10029 \n Frenzy-Fest is a Psychological Bilingual Theatrical-Short-Film Festival\, intended to raise awareness and reduce stigma on issues of mental health and promote cultural exchange through artistic expression featuring online and at theater. Frenzy-Fest incorporates post-show discussions\, giving the audience a voice in creating an empathetic bridge while shifting perceptions. \nThe films will be running online from May 1st to May 24 (www.bip-nyc.com) and the plays will be presented at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 on May 17\, 18\, 19\, 24\, 25\, and 26. \nFind more information at: https://www.bip-nyc.com \nGrant Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement \nThe Harlem Stories Project\, Inc\nHarlemQuest\nThursday\, May 2nd\, 2024 at 6:30 PM\nKIPP Infinity Middle School\, 625 West 133rd Street\, 2nd floor\, Auditorium\, New York\, NY 10027 \nHarlemQuest is the very first original production put on by The Harlem Stories Project- where Harlem kids tell Harlem stories. HarlemQuest takes place inside of a video game based in Harlem. All characters (besides Morgan) live within the game itself. The characters and stories and landscape of the world are derived from interviews (conducted in 2023 and early 2024) with the current cast. The show is 30 minutes long with no intermission. \nFind more information at https://www.theharlemstoriesproject.org/events \nGrant Program: Creative Learning \nThe Faraway Nearby\nFrom This Blanket\nSaturday\, May 4\, 2024 at 1:30 PM\nPrint Center New York\, 535 West 24th Street\, New York\, NY 10011 \nIn this collaborative performance inspired by Marie Watt’s sculpture Blanket Stories: Great Grandmother\, Pandemic\, Daybreak (2021)\, Kyoung eun Kang and sooim lee will explore cultural heritage\, memory\, and individual and collective experiences. Kang and Lee—participants in the curatorial project The Faraway Nearby—will use pitch\, breath\, movement\, and silence to weave a narrative that resonates with themes of family\, care\, and resilience. Organized by Jiyeon Paik. \nFind more information at: https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/calling-back-calling-forward \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nEarth Matter NY\nHeritage Farm Cyanotype Workshop Series\nMay 5\, June 16\, July 14\, and September 15\, 2024 at 1:00 PM\nGovernors Island\, Earth Matter NY\, 758 Enright Road\, New York\, NY 10004 \nThis workshop series will teach basic cyanotype printing on paper and fabric\, featuring plants and natural pigments cultivated at Earth Matter Soil Start Farms’ Heritage Beds. These four sessions will occur May 5\, June 16\, July 14\, and September 15\, 2024\, so that a cohort of 15-20 participants of all ages can make art with organic material throughout its life cycle from decomposition to seedling to early growth to maturity to seed again. Take home art every single session! What to expect: \nFamily-friendly hands-on farming and composting activities including harvesting of fresh and decomposing organic specimens. Digging into the dirt is encouraged in this art-making class! \nHosted at Earth Matter’s Soil Start Farm and Compost Learning Center on Governors Island. \nRound-trip ferry tickets are included. Educators: \nBryen Pittner\, Farm Artist & Facilitator\, Earth Matter \nBrian Buckley\, Artist & Facilitator \nFind more information at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heritage-farm-cyanotype-workshop-series-tickets-872742725987?aff=oddtdtcreator \nGrant program: Creative Learning \n24/6: A Jewish Theater Company\nTELEPHONE PLAYS 2024\nMondays\, May 6 – June 3\, 2024 at 12:00 PM\nTelephone \nCome enjoy a short one-person\, uplifting and comedic play followed by a conversation with 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company’s Artistic Director. During COVID\, the effects of social isolation have been acutely felt by senior citizens and those who are housebound. In response\, 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company has commissioned a diverse group of over 20 playwrights to write 10 minute plays which are performed live over the telephone to seniors and those who are housebound. Each Monday at noon a different play will be performed via DOROT’s University Without Walls. \nFind more information at: https://twentyfoursix.weebly.com/ \nGrant Programs: Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement \nWashington Heights Community Choir\nWashington Heights Community Choir Spring Concert\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2024 at 7:00 PM\nFort Washington Collegiate Church\, 729 West 181st Street\, New York\, NY\, 10033 \nUsher in spring with a free concert featuring living and local composers along with old uncommon works that are sure to become new favorites. Select composers include Rosephanye Powell\, Ysaÿe Barnwell\, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\, and local musician Micah Young. The concert will also feature a special guest appearance by student singers from the Washington Heights Choir School! Unable to join in person? The event will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. Please visit our website to learn more about the program. Hope to see you there! \nFind more information at: https://www.washingtonheightschoir.org/spring-concert-2024/ \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nJermaine Rowe\nThe Legend of the Rolling Calf\nFriday\, May 17\, 2024 at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM\nLaMama Galleria (47 Great Jones St\, 4th floor) \nTHE LEGEND OF THE ROLLING CALF is a folkloric tale set in Jamaica that follows the souls of the enslaved duppies (ghosts) awaiting a portal to return to life. The reading will be produced by the TEAM and feature Karl Williams*\, Oneika Phillips*\, Shayne Powell*\, Sifiso Mabena*\, Remington Allen\, Ricardo G. Barrett\, Dan’yelle Williamson*\, Amanda Bailey*\, and Rodney Nelson. Teisha Duncan will be the Director\, and Jerome Morris will be the Musical Director. *Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association \nFind more information at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSch7ZlWcTtpQnEokvoBXKwzO6i2ZpCMHWxTAr44k1DVSF2HYw/viewform \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nAlexis Mendoza\nREALITY OF PLACEMENT\nSaturday\, May 18\, 2024 at 12:00 PM\nHouse #18 Nolan Park\, Governors Island\, New York \nThis project is focusing on issues related to geographical displacement and environmental gentrification\, two interconnected phenomena that have gained significant attention in recent years due to their profound impact on communities and the environment. Geographical displacement refers to the forced relocation of individuals and communities from their original habitats\, often due to various socioeconomic factors. On the other hand\, environmental gentrification is the process whereby the improvement of urban environments and amenities inadvertently leads to the displacement of low-income residents as property values and costs of living rise. This photography project explores the intricate relationship between geographical displacement and environmental gentrification\, highlighting their causes\, effects\, and potential solutions. The primary goal of “Reality of Placement” is to bridge the gap between social consciousness and artistic expression. \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nKehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum\nGreek Jewish Festival\nSunday\, May 19\, 2024 at 12:00 PM\n280 Broome Street\, New York\, NY 10002 \nJoin the Greek Jewish Festival on Sunday May 19 to celebrate the unique Romaniote and Sephardic heritage of the Jews of Greece! Experience a feast for the senses including authentic kosher Greek foods and homemade Greek pastries\, traditional dance performances with live Greek and Sephardic music\, an outdoor marketplace full of vendors\, arts and educational activities for kids\, Sephardic cooking demonstrations\, and much more! \nFind more information at: https://www.GreekJewishFestival.com \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nChristopher Bell\nEast Harlem Historian\nThursday\, May 23\, 2024 at 6:00 PM\nEl Barrio’s ArtSpace\, 215 East 99th Street New York\, NY 10029 \nFind more information at: https://www.facebook.com/ElBarriosArtspace \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nMichael Jacobsohn\nNew Plaza Cinema Presents Short Films by New York Filmmakers\nFriday\, May 24\, 2024 at 7:00 PM\nNew Plaza Cinema\, Macaulay Honors College\, 35 W 67th St\, New York\, NY 10023\nTuesday\, May 28\, 2024 at 1:00 PM \nNYC Short Film Showcase at New Plaza Cinema On Friday\, May 24 at 7 pm. come and view 9 short films by New York Filmmakers. The screening will be held at New Plaza Cinema\, which is located at Macaulay Honors College\, 35 W 67th St\, New York\, NY 10023. Get additional information and order your tickets at: https://newplazacinema.org/coming-soon/ This is a list of the films and the filmmakers who will be screening their films: The Monolith by Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr; The Gallerist by Adam H. Holoubek; Perros Sin Amor/Loveless Dogs by Christina Soto; Nothing Will Ever Be the Same; Lunch Date by Donnie Banks; IMPLOSIONS by Lisa Sherman; We Just Clicked by Mary Wojcik; The Boys Of Late Summer by Roger Hendricks Simon\, Pedro Padilla\, and Davis Northern. \nFind more information at: https://newplazacinema.org/coming-soon/ \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \nJesse Obremski\nObremski/Works at Arts on Site\nThursday\, May 30\, 2024 at 6:30 PM\nFriday\, May 31\, 2024 at 8:30 PM\nArts on Site\, 12 St. Marks Place\, New York\, NY 10003 \nThis inaugural full evening season with FOUR performances at Arts on Site will include the electrifyingly fierce Light-Print\, powerfully quiet In-Visible\, and the world premiere of GAMAN\, all works by Obremski/Works’s award-winningFounder/Director/Choreographer Jesse Obremski. In addition\, Obremski/Works 2024 VOYAGER Fellow Hoyori Maruo will showcase a world premiere as well. The works will be performed by an incredibly exciting\, deeply grounded\, and breathtakingly colorful group of artists of AAPI descent\, an artist of indigenous descent\, and international artists from Australia\, Taiwan\, and Japan. \nFind more information at: https://www.artsonsite.org/tickets \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement URL:https://lmcc.net/events/may-2024-grantee-events/ CATEGORIES:Grantee Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/4_Copy-of-In-Visible_SG_Image_3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20240123T202235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T224528Z UID:10000062-1713204000-1713218400@lmcc.net SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Gala DESCRIPTION:This year LMCC celebrates its Golden Anniversary with you\, our circle of artists\, supporters\, and friends! Save the date for our 50th anniversary gala at the Conrad on April 15th. Stay tuned for more details! URL:https://lmcc.net/events/50th-anniversary-gala/ LOCATION:Conrad New York Downtown\, 102 North End Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10282 CATEGORIES:Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/LMCC-50Years-Logo-Gold-Webpage-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T152756 CREATED:20231205T200447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T200556Z UID:10000061-1701763200-1701795600@lmcc.net SUMMARY:December 2023 Grantee Events DESCRIPTION:Experience a wide range of art activities by supporting our Creative Engagement\, Creative Learning and UMEZ Arts Engagement grantees and their events this month. \nLearn more here! \n–\nWADE \nWADEintoACTIVISM Festival\nDecember 1 & 2 2023 at 6:30 and 8:30 PM\nArts on Site\, 12 St. Marks Place\,  New York\, NY\, 10003 \nSunday\, December 3\, 2023 at 2:30 PM\nPeridance Center\, 126 East 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003 \nMonday\, December 4\, 2023 at 6:00 PM\nArts on Site\, 12 St. Marks Place\,  New York\, NY\, 10003 \nTuesday\, December 5\, 2023 at 6:00 PM\nLa Sala De Pepe\, 73 Avenue C\, New York\, NY\, 10009 \nWednesday\, December 6\, 2023 at 6:00 PM\nNYU Tisch Dance\, 111 Second Avenue\, New York\, NY 10003 \nThursday\, December 7\, 2023 at 6:30 PM\nPaul Taylor Studios\, 551 Grand Street\, New York\, NY 10002 \nDecember 8 & 9\, 2023 at 6:30 and 8:30 PM\nArts on Site\, 12 St. Marks Place\,  New York\, NY\, 10003 \nSunday\, December 10\, 2023 at 4:00 pm\nThe Tank\, 312 W 36th St.\, New York\, NY 10018 \nWADEintoACTIVISM is a performing arts festival calling for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls and presenting work by female and historically underrepresented artists and community masterclasses and panels with feminist allies surrounding gender-based violence. WADE Dance INC. is joining the Global 16 Days Campaign\, launched by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) and feminists from around the world running from November 25th (the International Day Against Violence on Women) through December 10th (Human Rights Day). All Panels\, Dance Playgrounds\, and Community Masterclasses are free with advanced RSVP. All Arts on Site performances are $30.00/ticket. Attend an opening or closing night reception with the artists by making a cash or Venmo donation in the amount of $20.00 or higher. To pay cash\, please pay at the door at the start of the event. \nFind more information at: www.wadedance.org/wia \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nThe Fantastic Experimental Latino Theater inc \nThe Golden Year Theater\nDecember 1 – 3\, 2023 at 7:00 PM and 2:00 PM\nThe Clemente\, 2nd floor\, 107 Suffolk St. New York\, NY 10002 \nThe Golden Year Theater” A series of short plays celebrating the legacy of artists of this generation. Plays full of touching moments as well as moments that make you laugh. \nGrant Programs: Creative Engagement  \n– \nJosué Pérez \nGuitarrazón\nFriday\, December 1\, 2023 at 8:00 pm\nNational Opera Center\, 330 Seventh Avenue\, New York\, NY 10001 \nThursday\, November 16\, 2023 at 6:00 PM\nLeonovich Gallery\, 706 Sixth Avenue\, New York\, NY 10010 \nGuitarist/Composer Josué Pérez unlocks the guitar’s inner logic to create a magical evening of GUITARRAZÓN. Experience the nuanced textures of the instrument in settings for guitar solo\, duo\, and ensemble with voice\, cello and flute. Soprano Alexandra Filipe\, tenor Alejandro Olmeda\, cellist Jeanne Fox\, flutist Kana Miyamoto\, and guitarist Lisa Spraragen join Mr. Pérez onstage at the National Opera Center. \nFind more information at: https://www.lisayjosueguitar.com \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nClutch Productions\, Inc. \nThe Inheritance of a Long-Term Fault\nFriday\, December 1\, 2023 to Saturday\, December 23\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nTheatre Row\, 410 West 42nd Street\, New York\, NY 10036 \nA new play by Mêlisa Annis and directed by Vanessa Morosco. While presenting the keynote at a high-profile conference\, Me\, a successful geologist in her field\, asks her peers: what is our creation story? The Inheritance of a Long-Term Fault takes an explosive look at the generational impact of societal structures created by colonialism\, and how these original sins continue to shape our world today; physically\, linguistically\, spatially\, and spiritually. Interrelated scenes over space and time reveal the friction between what Me wants and what she’s inherited. Only a tectonic shift will allow her to hear the echoes from a mythological past\, and explore new possibilities of what comes next. \nFind more information at: https://bfany.org/theatre-row/shows/the-inheritance-of-a-long-term-fault/  \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \n– \nAssociation for the Development of Vocal Artistry and Neighborhood Cultural Enrichment \nAngelitos Negros (Little Black Angels)\nSaturday\, December 2\, 2023 at 7:30 PM\nAdvent Lutheran Church\, 2504 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10025 \nMORE Opera presents “Angelitos Negros” a concert of songs\, opera excerpts\, Spanish folk music\, and Spirituals featuring world premiere compositions and arrangements by Dr. Patricio Molina\, composer and pianist on Saturday\, December 2\, 2023 at 7:30 PM at Advent Lutheran Church\, 2504 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10025. The program includes an original dramatic narrative celebrating African American and Latino musical traditions. Dr. Molina conducts MORE Opera soloists and an intergenerational community chorus from the pianoforte.  \nFind more information at https://www.moreopera.com/angelitos-negros and @moreopera on Instagram and FaceBook \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nNUNU Radio Productions \nNzinga’s Children\nSaturday\, December 2\, 2023 at 7:00 pm\nSaturday\, December 9\, 2023 at 7:00 pm\nVIRTUAL \nNUNU Radio presents a drama presentation of NZINGA’S CHILDREN.This phenomenal period piece is a story about a young\, beautiful\, hardworking\, determined\, African-American woman who not only struggles for a better and prosperous life but also struggles for a helpmate or partner who is equally willing to pursue and share her dreams of prosperity. During this young woman’s struggles\, she receives an unsuspecting visit from five grandmothers — that is\, five grandmothers from her ancestral bloodline. These grandmothers have come with some stern advice for this young woman. The question is: Will she take heed to the advice of her ancestors or simply dismiss their invaluable words of wisdom in pursuit of a self-entitled life? \nFind more information at:  \nDecember 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGe9CYy1HMM \nDecember 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRRC_anyMpY \nGrant program: UMEZ Arts Engagement  \n– \nLeonardo Suarez Paz’s PIAZZOLLA 100 \nHer TANGO\nSaturday\, December 2\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nThe Chapel of the Good Shepherd\, 543 Main Street\, New York\, NY 10044 \nThree iconic instruments of Tango – violin\, guitar\, and bandoneon and members of Nuevo Tango Ballet address the genre’s essence and evolution through a contemporary\, multidisciplinary narrative\, creating “Her TANGO\,” an intimate portrait of a genre through the female gaze. The performance features the music of Astor Piazzolla and Leonardo Suarez Paz & the poetry of Horacio Ferrer. Soloists Leonardo Suarez-Paz (violin & voice)\, Rodolfo Zanetti (bandoneon)\, and Gabriel Hermida (guitar) and the dancers of Nuevo Tango Ballet – Olga Suarez Paz\, Caitlyn Casson\, Laura Izquierdo Jurado & Héloïse Ponsonnet. This program is bilingual (English/Spanish). \nThe concert includes a special\, concurrent visual art exhibit with works by Argentine-born and New York-based abstract painter\, Susana Aldanondo. \nFind more information at: https://www.suarezpaztango.com/her-tango.html \nGrant program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nFIKI \nBelated FELAbration at the Shrine NYC\nSunday\, December 3\, 2023 at 4:30 PM\nShrine World Music Venue NYC\, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd\, New York\, NY 10030 \nBelated FELAbration will serve as the first series of music celebrating the life of Nigeria’s foremost musical icon FELA KUTI to be held at SHRINE NYC. Rising Afropop artist\, FIKI will be performing along with special guests. \nFind more information at: www.eventbrite.com/e/belated-felabration-tickets-761916030357 \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nAlice Klugherz \nTwo Fairytale Rants\, a Dance-ical beyond Grimm\nSunday\, December 3\, 2023 at 3:00 PM\nArts on Site\, 12 Saint Marks Place\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY 10003 \nAn older “Rapunzel Rants” about her love-search and confusion with the super-connected disconnect of the modern world. Plagued by memory loss and kept from spiraling off script by her stage manager she asks “What keeps me in the Tower?” The locks have rusted open and the witch is dead. In “Mami\, El Ogre\, y Pedrito”\, (Mommy\, the Ogre and little Pedro) Pedro interrupts Bruno Bettelheim’s analysis of Jack and the Beanstalk with his own life in Puerto Rico and the US. He moves away from Bettelheim’s Eurocentric conclusions to find answers and questions from his own culture. \nFind more information at: https://www.artsonsite.org/tickets  \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement \n– \nFriends of the Erben Organ \nVictorian Carol Sing-Along with Two 19th Century Pipe Organs!\nWednesday\, December 6\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nBasilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral\, 261 Mott Street\, New York\, NY 10012 \nJoin us for a merry evening of Victorian-era carols\, and seasonal music and readings. After the carol sing\, carols+tour ticket holders are invited to join us upstairs for a tour of the historic Erben organ with the Director of Music\, Jared Lamenzo. Some selections on the evening’s program were performed on Christmas 1868\, when the Erben organ was first heard. * Festive treats and libations are included with the Victorian Carol Sing! \n * 19th-century attire\, while not required\, is strongly encouraged! \n * Special guests: Award-winning youth choir\, Konzertchor Rutheneum from Gera\, Germany! The Konzertchor Rutheneum Gera is a mixed choir of 55 students plus their Director\, Christian Frank\, and accomplished organist Benjamin Stielau. \nFind more information at: https://bit.ly/erbencarols23 \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nThe Cramer Quartet \nThe Cramer Quartet Presents Haydn: Dialogues + UCC Harlo\nThursday\, December 7\, 2023 at 7:30 PM\nAlchemical Studios\, 12th floor\, 50 West 17th Street\, New York\, NY 10011 \nJoin the Cramer Quartet\, a period instrument string quartet that combines the world of historically informed performance with commissioned works exploring and expanding the sound world of gut strings on December 7\, where we’ll perform 30 mengstaße\, by inti figgis-vizueta alongside Haydn’s Op. 71 No. 2 string quartet as part of the latest chapter of Haydn: Dialogues\, a multi-year cycle combining Haydn’s 68 string quartets with sixteen new commissions by composers of marginalized identities. The program also feature a set by UCC Harlo with selections from her albums United\, Topos\, and unreleased music. UCC Harlo “reworks her own performances of medieval\, Renaissance\, and baroque music or begins from scratch\, infiltrating hauntological new-age ambience with liturgical choral riffs\, off-the-cuff recordings\, and fur-soft ASMR vocals.” Stay after the concert and chat with us and other attendees over a glass of wine or makgeolli\, a Korean unfiltered rice beer from our sponsor Màkku! \nFind more information at: https://grpm.us/tjL-gw \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nMakam New York\, Inc. \nPearl Beneath the Sea “Makam Meets Blues”\nFriday\, December 8\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nThe National Jazz Museum in Harlem\, 58 West 129th Street\, New York\, NY 10027 \nThe Turkish makam system and the blues originating in the United States are strategies for constructing\, composing\, and performing melodies. Surfacing from the depths of centuries-old cultural memory\, the sounds of these two traditions are all around us\, often outside of their formal practice. Though they have distinct qualities and meanings\, these master musicians reveal qualities that make them not only similar but universal. \nFind more information at: www.makamnewyork.org \nGrants Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement and Creative Engagement  \n– \nLa Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña\, Inc. \nSchomburg: The Manuscript\nFriday\, December 8\, 2023 at 7:30 PM \nSaturday\, December 9\, 2023 at 4:00 PM\n215 East 99 Street (lower level)\, New York\, NY 10029  \nWorld Premiere of Schomburg: The Manuscript by Antonio Bones \nThis theatrical production is inspired by the life and events of Puerto Rican historian\, writer\, researcher\, and activist Arturo Alfonso Schomburg who spent his life collecting materials demonstrating the accomplishments of the African diaspora and the scope of Black history. \nFind more information at: https://www.lacasapr.nyc  \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nFour Seas Players\, Inc. \nThere Is Always Sunshine On The Stage\nSaturday\, December 9\, 2023 at 3:00 PM\nSunday\, December 10\, 2023 at 3:00 PM\nFriday\, December 15\, 2023 at 8:00 PM\nSaturday\, December 16\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nSunday\, December 17\, 2023 at 3:00 PM\nHenry Street Settlement – Abrons Arts Center – Underground Theater – 466 Grand Street\, New York\, NY 10002 \nThe Four Seas Players closes their 54th season with an original play written by Patrick Lee. The production is directed also by Patrick Lee with an ensemble cast\, to be performed in Chinese and English with subtitles. The Sunshine Theater Group is on a quest for the perfect play to commemorate their 50th anniversary — possibly their final performance due to financial challenges. Life’s diversity brings forth a variety of narratives from different individuals\, but yet their unique tales ultimately converge toward a collective story – “The People’s” story. Often overlooked even within the AAPI community\, these stories need to continue living. This play aims to celebrate and preserve the plurality of humanity. Centered on authenticity and cultural stewardship\, the play embodies a sense of hopefulness. By re-telling these stories genuinely\, their narratives can be reclaimed from time and history’s erasure\, ensuring the people are heard and respected. \nFind more information at: https://fourseasplayers.org \nGrant program: Creative Engagement \n– \nSHEBA \nMENAT (Middle Eastern\, North African\, and Turkic) Cultural Immersion Experience\nSunday\, December 10\, 2023 at 7:00 PM\nSecret Room\, 707 8th Avenue\, New York\, NY 10036 \n SHEBA Presents: A Night of Music\, Dance\, and Culture in the Heart of NYC! Live Middle Eastern and North African Music by Afrah Band (@afrahevents) Bellydance Performances by SHEBA Instructors and Special Guests Sunday\, December 10th – 6:30pm Doors Open \n – 7:00pm Drum Circle (drums provided\, or bring your own!) \n – 7:30pm Show Begins Secret Room \n 707 8th Ave\, NYC \n(Between 44th & 45th Streets) For reservations\, text 917-740-5059 Dancers: – SHEBA Instructors: Katherine Perez\, Salit\, Ti Gi\, Suleima – Guests: Kaeshi Chai\, Elizabeth Khard & Co. – SHEBA Students: Aracelis Roman\, Christine Valentin\, Daria Nadarajah\, Diana Tenenbaum\, Dolma Sherpa\, Francesca Minardi\, Jade Owhadi\, Jasleen Ashta\, Maria Silva\, Olivia Dzumaga\, Patricia Mims\, Phalyn Williams\, Regina Nicosia\, Rima Sawaya\, Sneha Madimi\, Tiana Croce\, Yasemin Akkaya\, Zahraa Tounsi \n – SHEBA Troupe: Alliyah Williams\, Autumn Fore\, Esra Erdogan\, Katherine Perez Campos\, Pelin Qaulben\, Sharon Twickler\, Suleima \n – Luana Andre \n – Selda Cortes \n – Sharon Twickler  \n Sponsored by LMCC \nFind more information at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-arabic-music-and-belly-dance-show-tickets-752960835127?aff=oddtdtcreator \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nGerardo Morantes\, Ambiente Artistico / Artistic Environments \nFinal Exhibition: Collaging Stories\nSunday\, December 10\, 2023 at 2:30 PM\n141 West 73rd Street\, New York\, NY 10023 (Enter through “the annex”) \nJoin us for an in-person event where Project Find residents that participated in Artistic Environment”s collage program exhibit their final pieces! Participants will exhibit works that explores the program’s essential question: How can life experiences inspire us to create art? Participants will garner lessons on collage techniques to investigate their past in connection to their present\, and represent stories through collage techniques. Mark your calendars and get ready to listen and see some unbelievable life stories! Date: Sunday\, December 10 · Time: 12- 1 pm: Event opening performance by musicians of The Julliard School. 1pm- 3pm: Exhibition reception by Project Find Students and Artistic Environments. \nFind more information at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/final-exhibition-collaging-stories-tickets-758973238387?aff=oddtdtcreator \nGrant Program: Creative Learning \n– \nVoices From War \nWriting & Reading War Stories – A Writing Workshop for Veterans\nSunday\, December 10\, 2023 at 5:00 PM\nVirtual \nVoices From War invites you to join us for our 2023 WINTER SHOWCASE\, a Reading and Virtual Reception featuring writing from our workshops this year! TICKETS are FREE – RSVP on Eventbrite Come hear excerpts from new memoir\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry from 2023 . . . . We hope you will join us for an evening of community and writing\, veterans’ stories\, family members’ experiences\, times of war and conflict\, and times looking for peace\, making sense through narrative. FEATURING writers from NYC\, and further away\, in our 2023 Manhattan workshops (Writing & Reading War Stories – A Writing Workshop for Veterans / 14th St Y) and our Spring 2023 Bronx workshops (Craft of War Writing / Morris Park Library). Instructors: SIOBHAN ADCOCK & DUNCAN MURRELL (Manhattan – 2023) JEREMY WARNEKE (Bronx – Spring 2023) Director: Kara Krauze VoicesFromWar.org A wonderful opportunity to hear directly from veterans and family members — come honor their stories! \nFind more information at: Voices From War WINTER SHOWCASE 2023 – Public Reading of New Work Tickets\, Sun\, Dec 10\, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite \nGrant Program: Creative Learning \n– \nChristine Toy Johnson \nA LITTLE MORE BLUE\nMonday\, December 11\, 2023 at 7:00 pm\nRiverside Theatre\, 91 Claremont Avenue\, New York\, NY 10027 \nMoongate Productions presents a one-night only performance of “A Little More Blue”\, the award winning solo play with music written and performed by Christine Toy Johnson on Monday\, December 11\, 2023 at 7 pm at the Riverside Theatre\, 91 Claremont Avenue in NYC. Directed by Bruce Johnson\, the play features songs by Christine Toy Johnson and Bobby Cronin with Lisa Liu on the guitar. Running time is 70 minutes. Winner of the 2022 Inaugural Alvin Epstein Memorial Prize for Solo Performance\, A LITTLE MORE BLUE is about an Asian American woman who discovers how much her father’s lifelong quest to be an “All American guy” has galvanized her own journey to make fighting for his dream one of her own. Admission is free. RSVPs are kindly requested. This presentation is funded\, in part\, by a grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone\, as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. \nFind more information at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-little-more-blue-written-performed-by-christine-toy-johnson-tickets-678445146697?aff=oddtdtcreator \nGrant Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement \n– \nKeoni Movement Arts \nEngaging Persons with Special Needs and Disabilities through Contemporary Dance\nThursday. December 14\, 2023 to Friday\, December 15\, 2023 at 5:30 PM\nCameo Studios\, 307 West 43rd St\, Studio A\, New York\, NY 10036 \nFind more information at: https://www.keonimovementarts.org/creative-learning-dance-project-2023 \nGrant program: Creative Learning  \n– \nDarrah Carr Dance \nCéilí: Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance\nDecember 14 –  16\, 2023 at 8:00 PM\nSaturday\, December 16\, 2023 at 3:00 PM\nSunday\, December 17\, 2023 at 7:00 pm\nIrish Arts Center\, 726 11th Avenue\, New York\, NY 10019 \nA collaboration by Darrah Carr Dance and Seán Curran Company\, Céilí merges contemporary choreography with Irish tradition for a joyful new interpretation of Irish social dance. Score and live music by “top-notch fiddle-and-guitar duo” (New York Times) Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna. \nFind more information at: https://irishartscenter.org/event/ceili-sean-curran-company-and-darrah-carr-dance-2023  \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nMitamu \nBe the cyborg\nThursday\, December 14\, 2023 at 7:30 PM\nManhattan School of Music\, Miller Recital Hall\, 130 Claremont Ave\, New York\, NY 10027 \n“be the cyborg” is a musical performance that invites and transports the listener to a not-so-distant future. The future in which we are broadcasting from is haunted by ubiquitous codification and commercialization of a reality not so different from our own. The project incorporates ideas of Asian Futurism as a tool to create narratives around the Asian diaspora as well as reimagine a decolonized future. The songs pay homage to jazz\, house\, and other contemporary styles to provoke questions centered on dystopia\, hyper consumerism\, and decolonization \nFind more information at: https://mitamu.com/events/2023/12/14/be-the-cyborg-nyc-premiere \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nBorn Dancing\, Inc.  \nRevisiting\nDecember 15 & 16\, 2023 at 7:30 PM\nNew York Live Arts\, 219 West 19th street\, New York\, NY 10011 \nBorn Dancing will revisit some of its existing work and present them with a twist; some with different performers\, others with a different version of the music or added new choreography. We will present Stillpoint (about shifting into calmness and healing)\, On the Way to School (Inspired by a documentary by Pascal Plisson about four children from Kenya\, Argentina\, Morocco\, and India traveling great distances to school)\, and crowd-favorite Phantom Ring along with a few other beloved pieces and a new work. Joining our cast are students from P94M@340 and P811 Mickey Mantle School. \nFind more information at: https://newyorklivearts.org/event/independent-works-revisiting \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nProtestra \nCommunity Chords: String Orchestra Music from Around the World\nSaturday\, December 16\, 2023 at 2:00 PM\nSt. Paul’s German Church\, 315 W. 22nd Street\, New York\, NY 10011\nSunday\, December 17\, 2023 at 2:00 PM\nThird Street Music School\, 235 E. 11th Street\, New York\, NY 10003 \nJoin PROTESTRA for a family-friendly\, multicultural holiday celebration with strings! In a creative twist on a traditional holiday concert\, “Community Chords: String Orchestra Music from Around the World” celebrates the season of giving and togetherness with string orchestra repertoire from composers representing a variety of cultures. Featuring works by Teresa Carreño\, Jessie Montgomery\, and Fela Sowande\, plus a world premiere by Chinese-Canadian composer (and friend of PROTESTRA) Vincent Ho. Our community partner for this event is EVLovesNYC\, a food kitchen that has prepared weekly meals for the food insecure since 2020. We encourage concert attendees to bring the following items for donation to EVLovesNYC: toiletries\, clothing\, nonperishable food items\, holiday cookies\, and toys. This is a family-friendly program—all are welcome! Children 12 and under may attend free of charge; discounts are available for students (13–college senior) and senior citizens (65+). Visit www.protestra.org/upcoming-events for more information and to purchase tickets. \nFind more information at: https://www.protestra.org/upcoming-events \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nGamelan Kusuma Laras \nKlenèngan – Gamelan Kusuma Laras (Classical Javanese Music Jam)\nSaturday\, December 16\, 2023 at 4:00 PM\nIndonesian Consulate\, 5 East 68th Street\, New York\, NY 10065 \nAn informal music event in Java\, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam session\, often arranged by a family for a special event\, typically lasting until late at night. Guests come and go as they wish\, quietly chat with other audience members\, and immerse themselves in a transporting evening of music that draws from the Javanese classical repertoire. \nFind more information at: https://kusumalaras.org/events/ \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  \n– \nMiguel Aparicio \nNew Latin Vibe\nWednesday\, December 20\, 2023 at 6:00 PM\n14th St. Union Square Subway Station \nMiguel Aparicio brings a modern Latin sound to Manhattan’s Union Square Station( above N/Q/R line) while locals and tourists commute to their destinations. What makes the experience new and unique is the percussion kit he will be playing\, it’s called “multi-percussion”\, including Timbales\, Congas\, and a drum set merged together as one kit. Typically Latin music such as Salsa\, does not include a drum set\, so the inclusion of the drumset and the use of instruments that typically are played by three musicians\, creates a fresh take at percussion of Latin popular dance music. The use of this kit and the knowledge to play it explores the forefront of latin popular dance music. \nFind more information at: https://fb.me/1RSPpuhBHAnVR0c \nGrant Program: Creative Engagement  URL:https://lmcc.net/events/december-2023-grantee-events/ CATEGORIES:Grantee Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lmcc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1_Carmen_Women_Endurance__Panel_Discussion_2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR