March 2021 Grantee Events
Experience a wide range of virtual art activities by supporting our Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement grantees and their events this month.
Advent Lutheran Church
Music Mondays
March 1, 2021 at 7:30 PM
Virtual
Music Mondays presents ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra). This event is virtual only, without a live audience. Join us on Facebook Live or YouTube. The East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), an “exciting conductorless band of strings” (New Yorker), brings its trademark luminous sound and infectious enthusiasm to a diverse and cathartic program, including Barber’s elegiac Adagio for Strings, Jessie Montgomery’s pulsating and joyous Starburst, and Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade for Strings.
Find more information at www.musicmondays.org/watch
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
East Village Poetry Salon
East Village Poetry Salon
March 13, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Virtual
Join us for our next virtual Poetry Salon with our readers Jennifer Huang, Eugenia Leigh, Nabila Lovelace, and Malcolm Tariq, and your host Cat Wei! East Village Poetry Salon is a monthly poetry reading series that centers female, queer, and trans poets of color. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Find more information at bit.ly/poetrysalon9
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
29th Street Playwrights Collective
29PWC NEW WORKS SERIES
March 16, 2021 at 7:30 PM
29PWC presents PECKING ORDER, a new play by Robin Rice as part of the Sixth Annual WHAM! Festival at Goddard Riverside Community Arts. Big City Love Story...with Hawks. The fate of a pair of red-tail hawks (with the nerve to build a nest in a ritzy apartment building in NYC) is paralleled with the fates of the building doorman and his sister. FAMILY FRIENDLY!
Directed by Zachary Rivera. Featuring Jessica Carmona, Angel Gavillan, John Perez, Isabella Martinez, Katrina Phillip, Cecilia Despres, and Gabrielle Maisels as Mary Tyler Moore.
Find more information at www.29thStreetPlaywrightsCollective.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
The Art Song Preservation Society of New York, Inc
A Season of Song Festival
Virtual
March 20, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Recognized as one of the leading performers, masterclass teachers and lecturers of African American Song repertoire, Dr. Emery Stephens (baritone), offers his extensive insight and unique philosophy on an area of music all too often neglected by artists. He will guide singers and the audience on how to interpret this genre authentically within a cultural context regardless of the performer’s racial identity. While this music is written by composers of color who have often been marginalized or not fully represented in classical music, the essence of these songs transcends the color of the performer. Dr. Stephens will offer his expert insight on how to approach the music intelligently and with empathy through creating more integrated singing communities.
March 21, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Hailed by the New York Times as a "striking mezzo soprano" and by the San Francisco Chronicle for her "electrifying sense of fearlessness," Raehann Bryce-Davis will guide singers through how to get to the heart of the musical text and dramatic interpretation. Ms. Bryce-Davis can be seen recently in a moving video released in 2020 "To The Afflicted" that speaks to the times in which we are living.
Find more information at www.ArtSongPreservationSocietyny.org
Grant Programs: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement