November 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
November 1, 2021 at 7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025
The exuberant string orchestra, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), teams up with pianist Shai Wosner for “Bach Plus,” an innovative program that interweaves music by J. S. Bach with contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Brett Dean, and Michi Wiancko. Wosner’s “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered) are sure to complement ECCO’s “incisive, vibrant” playing (New York Times).
Find more information at https://www.musicmondays.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Marne Lucas
'Quietus' and 'Deidades'
On View: November 3 - November 21, 2021
Artist Reception: November 6, 2021 at 6:00 PM
Panel Discussion: November 10, 2021 at 6:30 PM
Collage Workshops: November 13, 14 & 20, 2021 at 1:00 PM
Kente Royal Gallery, 2373 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, New York, NY 10030
'Quietus' by Harlem artist Marne Lucas is an exhibition of black and white infrared thermal photography and collage works on paper exploring mortality, spirit, and transformation. Lucas presents Latinx artist Manuel Pecina's 'Deidades', a legacy color photography series of modern interpretations of Mesoamerican deities. The exhibition is presented at Kente Royal Gallery with an opening reception, a panel discussion, art making workshops and a sound healing closing ceremony.
Find more information at www.marnelucas.com.
Grant Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement
Una Osato
Still Sick: Stories of Long COVID
November 4, 2021 at 7:00 PM
In person: The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 & Virtual
Join award-winning and critically acclaimed Una Aya Osato and friends for their first performance of stories navigating life with Long COVID. March 2020, NYC was the epicenter of the COVID-19 global pandemic. That's when we first became sick. Thousands of New Yorkers like us who contracted COVID-19 over the last year and a half have not gotten better. We are the Long Haulers. Come hear our stories about negotiating family, work and life in this new reality, and the community we've formed to make it through.
Find more information at https://www.frigid.nyc/events/stillsick
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Jazz WaHi, Inc.
The 4th Annual Washington Heights Jazz Festival
November 4, 2021 at 8:00 PM and November 7, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Le Cheile, 839 w. 181st Street, New York, NY 10033
Jazz WaHi presents The 4th Annual Washington Heights Jazz Festival: a neighborhood-based, affordable, family-friendly event, bringing jazz to our Washington Heights neighborhood.
The Festival will be a four-day event featuring thirteen acts: sixty musicians, many from right here in the neighborhood, connecting with a local audience in local venues.
Find more information at https://jazzwahi.org/jazz-fest/
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
The Pleiades Project
A Women's Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!
November 5 & 6, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Almchemical Studios, The Lab, 104 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011
As the centennial of the 19th Amendment approached in 2020, The Pleiades Project was inspired to create a music-theater work in conversation with this milestone in American history. In the style of a turn-of-the-20th-Century vaudevillain revue, our daring Maestra Impresaria and her dynamic ensemble troupe present the stories of the trail-blazing leaders and watershed moments of the women’s suffrage movement. Through adaptations of suffrage propaganda, popular music from the Library of Congress Archive: Songs of Suffrage, and newly-commissioned songs from NYC-based composer Lacy Rose, we will showcase the breadth and diversity of this eight-decade long struggle, including the pivotal contributions of suffragists of color, who have been continually marginalized and erased from our collective re-telling of the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
Find more information at https://www.thepleiadesproject.com/live-projects/awsse/
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Kiri Avelar
Toward a Latinx Practice with ColectivXs
November 5, 2021 at 8:00pm, November 6 & 7, 2021 at 5:00 PM
Virtual
ColectivXs is proud to present “Toward a Latinx Practice” in a 3-day virtual event. Each day the work of ColectivXs presenters will feature a unique format offering engaging opportunities with their attendees through a series of pláticas, embodied stories, and oral and written reflections. “Toward a Latinx Practice” is a 90-minute interdisciplinary performance experience that weaves together myriad cultural practices in diaspora, speaking to the ways in which we identify, create, and resist as Latinx artists based in the U.S.
Find more information at https://www.colectivxs.com/
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Tami Tyree/Echoes of Our Ancestors African-American History & Song
The Frederick Douglass Continuum 2021
November 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Harlem State Office Building, Art Gallery 2nd Floor 163 W. 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
Singer-Writer-Historian Tami Tyree (Echoes of Our Ancestors African-American History & Song) leads a group of performers in a tribute to Frederick Douglass which includes spoken word, talks, footage, songs of liberation, resistance and revolution performed by jazz, blues, and gospel artists from the Harlem community. The afternoon will also include civic leaders and activists.
Find more information at https://tamiechoesofourancestors.com
Grant Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement
Performing Arts Mosaic
Open Stage
November 7, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Near the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 74th Street, outdoors
Open Stage gives aspiring and seasoned artists, from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, the opportunity to collaborate on a professional stage, in front of an equally diverse audience—celebrating community and deepening relationships between NYC’s Muslim communities and their neighbors.
Find more information at www.pamosaic.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Mike Freeman
Hell's Kitchen Soul Sauce
November 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM
149 W 46th Street 3rd Floor
A continuation of Freeman’s 2019 concerts Latin Music in Hell’s Kitchen, A History, this series of Latin Jazz/salsa concerts will again highlight the 30-plus-year history of the Latin music record business in Hell's Kitchen. Freeman will also pay tribute to the late legendary percussionist Ray Mantilla. 2021 coincides with the 100th anniversary of the invention of the vibraphone and Freeman marks this year by celebrating his 40 years of making music in NYC. Featuring special guest: Renowned bongocero/singer Jose Mangual Jr.
Find more information at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hells-kitchen-soul-sauce-tickets-201711493507
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Transforma Theatre
Science in Theatre Festival
November 12, 13 & 14, 2021 at 7:00 PM
The Cell Theatre, 338 west 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
Science in Theatre Festival is a three day event where we present three new science-themed plays and new technologies. Each night we present a fully staged theatrical work, followed by talk backs, science presentations in the style of TED talks, and panels consisting of scientists and artists. During the day we will host different innovation technology brands who will be presenting their latest inventions that are multi-purposed and can be used in the arts- such as 3-D printing, haptics, EEG devices, wearables, biodata sensors, AI and more.
Find more information at https://www.transformatheatre.com/festival
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Music From The Sole / Leonardo Sandoval & Gregory Richardson
Partido
November 12 & 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM
Harlem Stage, 150 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031
Harlem Stage presents the world premiere of "Partido" by tap dance and live music company Music From The Sole. This collaboration between choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and multi-instrumentalist Gregory Richardson explores the convergence of percussive dance and live music with contemporary African-American and Afro-Brazilian culture. Featuring a diverse group of six tap dancers and a three-piece band (piano, saxophone, and bass) that invites the dancers to play percussion instruments at times, "Partido" hopes to convey tap’s essence as a crossing point for Black dance and music, especially in Harlem — a central place in tap history.
Find more information at https://www.harlemstage.org/events-list/2021/11/12/musicfromthesole-partido
Grant Program: Creative Engagement and UMEZ Arts Engagement
The Gatekeepers Collective, Inc.
Learning to Love Theatrical Narratives
November 12 & 13, 2021 at 7:00 PM
The Lesbian & Gay Community Center, 201 W. 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
In collaboration with award-winning playwright Donja R. Love and dramaturg Stevie Walker-Webb The Gatekeepers Collective (TGC) has curated an intergenerational development process in which narrative theatrical works reflecting stories of self-acceptance as a rite of passage on the way to Queer/same-gender love have been created. Four young Queer African American playwrights, Xavier Clark, Timothy DuWhite, T.J. Lewis, and Michael Allen Harris have been partnered with older same-gender loving (SGL) men in dialogue about their respective journeys from varying degrees of invisibility and self-denial to self-acceptance and love are reflected in One-Acts plays they have crafted. The plays will be read, two each evening, by professional actors under the direction of LA Williams and John-Martin Green.
Find more information at: www.thegatekeeperscollective.com
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Christine Pulliam Melamed & Prelude Opera
Papageno at the Library, a recital of songs and arias.
November 20, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Cabrini Shrine, 701 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY 10040
Opera singers will sing songs and arias connected to children's books as Papageno explores the library. Selections include the Cat duet, Hansel and Gretel, the Doll aria and Song to the Moon.
Find more information at www.preludeopera.com
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
New Women New Yorkers
Stories That Move Us: Celebrating the stories of immigrant women
November 13, 2021 at 2:00 PM
All People’s Garden, 293 East 3rd St, New York, NY 10009
Join us for a magical afternoon in the East Village to discover and celebrate the voices of extraordinary immigrant women making New York City their home. Storytellers are graduates of The Moth Community Program.
Find more information at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-that-move-us-celebrating-the-stories-of-immigrant-women-tickets-195108533877
Grant Program: Creative Learning
The India Center
Laxmi Aers Festival
November 7 - November 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Virtual
Rukminee Beepath will teach participants traditional Indian Folk songs which are sung during special occasions like the birth of a child, wedding ceremonies, and more.
Find more information at http://theindiacenter.org/
Grant Program: Creative Learning
Ensemble Decipher
Ensemble Decipher Performs at Alchemical Laboratory
November 19th, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Alchemical Theatre Laboratory Studio One, 104 West 14th Street, New York City, NY 10011.
The technologically focused music group Ensemble Decipher performs a concert of new and recent works by Darian Donovan Thomas, Mari Kimura and others. The concert will feature a guest performance by Mari Kimura of her work KISMET, written specifically for Ensemble Decipher and solo violin. The concert will also feature a world premiere of Darian Donovan Thomas' Modernized Memorists.
This concert is part of Ensemble Decipher's SUNY PACC Prize tour of New York State, and will feature additional selections from their unique, technologically inflected repertoire.
Find more information at ensembledecipher.com/sunypacc/
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Karen Oughtred & Spica Wobbe "Inseparable"
3 Live performances:
November 19, 2021 at 8:00 PM
St John's Lutheran Church, 81 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014
November 29, 2021 at 2:30 PM
Sirovich Center For Balanced Living, 331 E 12th St, New York, NY 10003
November 12, 2021 at 7:00 PM (Virtual Performance)
Puppetry Artists, Spica and Karen interviewed 6 extraordinary elders who are
representative of New York’s resilience, vibrancy and uniqueness. Their remarkable
stories, woven together, are retold through Object and Shadow Theater. “Inseparable”,
explores our common humanity through the transformative lens of these individuals.
Based on interviews with Julie Azuma, Nicky Paraiso, Mee Mee Chin, Agosto
Machado, Margaret Yuen and Eung Ho Park.
Find more information at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inseparable-tickets-202094338607?fbclid=IwAR1R6gTI_QWNRCmT18z8aQ7eBH-e6gQgp7NiOc1BIC4nzh3hJgs0q6AO4ZY
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Melodia Women's Choir of NYC
Sun, Moon and Stars - a live concert by Melodia Women's Choir of NYC
November 21, 2021 at 4:00 PM & December 18, 2021 at 8:00 PM (Virtual)
Holy Apostles, 296 Ninth Avenue, NY, NY 10001
Melodia returns to the concert stage for the first time in two years in a concert celebrating the universe as a constant force and source of wonder. Music for treble voices, piano, flute and strings. Conducted by Cynthia Powell with an all-female chamber ensemble.
Find more information at melodiawomenschoirNYC.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
ANDPLAY INC
andPlay (in) Conversation
November 21, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Virtual
The third season of "andPlay (in) conversation," a free virtual series, explores the intimate experience of creating art as a duo. The third event this year invites Big Dog Little Dog, violinist/composer Jessie Montgomery and bassist/songwriter Eleonore Oppenheim, to discuss their approach to creating collaborative music, and the ways that their training in classical music, jazz, and improvisation have influenced their artistic identities. Musical performances will be shared by both andPlay and Big Dog Little Dog.
Find more information at http://andplayduo.com/andplayinconversation
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Barrio Independent Productions
Frenzy Short Film Fest
November 12 - 21, 2021
Virtual
Frenzy short-film festival is an initiative focusing on the social and psychological vulnerabilities of individuals and communities at large. All shorts must revolve around some “frenzy” episode (a phase in which excitement seems to lead us to unconsciousness, and that can become negative when control is lost, or behavior transgresses what society considers “normal”).
The audience will have the opportunity to watch the films during those 10 days, twenty-four hours a day, free of charge.
Find more information at https://www.bip-nyc.com/frenzy-short-film-fest-2021/
Grant Program: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement
Coopdanza
Kiwe.Uaque en el SuR and Aq'ab'al, a circulation project in New York
November 28th, 2021 at 4:00 PM
La Nacional: Spanish Benevolent Society. 239 W 14th Street, New York, NY, 10011.
A hybrid live in person event, a combination of the projection of 45 minutes of Kiwe.Uaque from the South in HD to an audience on screen alternating with Indigenous dancers and musicians, during the celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Live artists are representing Indigenous communities in New York from the Tuscarora Tribe: Patrick Little Wolf Brooks, from the Taino Borikua Culture: Will Ruiz and from the Mexika Nation: Atl Tlachinolli. Additional screenings of Aq'ab'al and Kiwe.Uaque from the South happened in partnership with the NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs during the Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in NYC and will happen next Friday November 26th on Native American heritage Day at 7pm.
Find out more at www.coopdanzainc.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
National Queer Theater
LUCIÉRNAGAS
November 12 - 30, 2021
The 14th St Y, 344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003
The National Queer Theater is presenting LUCIÉRNAGAS by Javier Rivera DeBruin, directed by Carlos Armesto. A semi-finalist for the 2019 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award, Luciérnagas is a story about heritage, legacy, and forgiveness. Get 40% off your tickets using code "NQTFRIENDS"
Find more information at https://www.nationalqueertheater.org
Grant Program: Creative Engagement
Cecile Chong
El Dorado
November 2021 - August 2022
The New Forty Niners is a public art installation traveling to each of the five boroughs of New York City. The installation pays tribute to the 49% of NYC households that speak a language other than English. 100 colored “guagua” sculptures, 49 painted gold, 8 to 24 inches tall. In this fifth and final iteration the sculptures are arranged on 17 colored planks representing the 17 UN sustainability goals.
Find more information at http://cecilechong.com/el-dorado.html
Grant Program: Creative Engagement