October 2022 Grantee Events

24/6: A Jewish Theater Company

TELEPHONE PLAYS
September 12 - October 3, 2022 at 12:00 PM
Section A: 3 Mondays at 12:00 PM, September 12 - October 3 (There will be no session September 26)
Section B: 3 Mondays at 12:00 PM, November 14 - November 28

Come 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 16 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.

Seniors can register for free for TELEPHONE PLAYS via DOROT's University Without Walls: Call 1-877-819-914,  E-mail uww@dorotusa.org or register online at: https://dorotusa.jotform.com/92925604466161? If these dates/times do not work, please email info@246theater.com to schedule an alternate time of performance.

Find more information at https://twentyfoursix.weebly.com/

Grant Program: UMEZ Arts Engagement 

 

Felipe Galindo

Sketching New York 1982-2022
September 22 - October 28, 2022
TIC Treasure Gallery, 61 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027

Join me this coming Thursday for the opening of my exhibition “Sketching New York 1982-2022” (Sketchbooks, collages and drawings.). Free and open to the public, everyone is welcome. Curated by Jennifer Roberts. Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15.)

Grant Programs:  Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement 

 

Jugando N Play

In My Dreams, En Mis Sueños
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, 613 West 155th Street, New York, NY 10032

Jugando N Play presents In My Dreams/En Mis Sueños: an outdoor multilingual interactive theatre piece that transports young audiences and their families into a dream world/un mundo de sueños. How can exploring our dreams together connect us to our familial and cultural past to inspire our future? 

Jugando N Play presenta In My Dreams/En Mis Sueños: una obra de teatro interactiva multilingüe al aire libre que transporta al público joven y sus familias a un mundo de sueños/un mundo de sueños. ¿Cómo explorando nuestros sueños juntos puede conectarnos con nuestro pasado familiar y cultural para inspirar nuestro futuro?

Find more information at https://www.dominicanwriters.com/event-info/9-17-22-uptown-childrens-book-fair

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Darrah Carr Dance, Inc

Céilí
September 29 - October 2, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Irish Arts Center, 726 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10019

Céilí

: house party; the practice of calling upon neighbors for an informal social visit.

: a set of group dances with predetermined spatial patterns drawn from Celtic knotwork.

Darrah Carr Dance and Seán Curran Company create a brand new dance work which explores what “céilí” can mean for dance and community in today’s world.

Find more information at https://irishartscenter.org/event/ceili-sean-curran-company-and-darrah-carr-dance

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

General Mischief Dance Theatre

General Mischief at Summer on the Hudson
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM
Solstice Bench, West 63rd Street, New York, NY 10069

General Mischief presents the culmination of our 2022 season with playful site-specific performances along the Hudson River. The show features new and expanded collaborations including "Stroll" with music by TAIKOPROJECT, "Glad" with music by the VNote Ensemble and featuring choreography by Mischief's ensemble, plus the debut of brand new work created in collaboration with Hodi Maputo Afro Swing. The performance does involve some walking for the audience, so wear comfy shoes and join the adventure!

Performances are wheelchair accessible. Please contact Trouble@GeneralMischief.com with any accessibility questions, we're happy to help!

Find more information at https://GeneralMischief.com

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Zara Lawler

Symmetrical Lives
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 11:30AM, 1PM, 3:30PM
Abby's Lawn, Fort Tryon Park, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10040

Symmetrical Lives is a site-specific music and movement installation of an innovative production of J. S. Bach’s beloved Orchestral Suite in B Minor. The music is performed by flute soloist Zara Lawler and violin soloist Maja Cerar who both dance and play at the same time, accompanied by string trio (Rebecca Fischer, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Alexis Gerlach, cello). The dance was created with choreographer C. Neil Parsons, and is an adaptation of the group’s 2021 short film, Symmetrical Lives, which premiered as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar from Home series. 

Symmetrical Lives emerged from the pandemic experience and the artists’ desire to be together safely in a natural environment that afforded freedom of expression and room to play, and parallels the experience of many New Yorkers who sought out parks as sanctuary to counterbalance the isolation we all were feeling socially, artistically and even spiritually.

Find more information at https://zaralawler.com/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Christine Pulliam Melamed / Prelude Opera

The Magic Flute
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 4:30 PM
Our Savior’s Atonement Church,178 Bennett Ave, New York, NY 10040
Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 4:30 PM
St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, 701 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY 10040
Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 4:30 PM
Central Baptist Church, 166 West 92nd Street, New York, NY 10025
Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 4:30 PM
St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, 701 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY 10040

The Magic Flute tells the story of Tamino and Papageno as they use their musical instruments to navigate along their journey. Will they prevail against the Queen of the Night? This show is a delightful rendition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera as arranged by Roger Brunyate. Using some of the dramatic highlights, it brings this great opera to children through storytelling, humorous theater and fantastic singing.

Find more information at http://www.preludeopera.com

Grant Program: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement 

 

andPlay

andPlay (in) Conversation
Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 10:00AM
Shorakkopoch Rock, Inwood Hill Park, New York, NY 10034

Join violin/viola duo andPlay, percussionist Amy Garapic, and Second Nature Outdoors, in exploring the musical ecosystem of Inwood Hill Park!

Have you ever stopped to really listen to all the sounds in our park? The chirping birds, splashing ducks, and even the distant cars on the roads, give all our experiences in nature their own soundtracks! In this creative workshop, we will tune in to the music around us and experiment with ways that we can make our own music with natural objects, our voices, and our bodies. No musical experience required!

FREE but pre-registration required

Limited to 15 participants

Find more information at http://bit.ly/inwoodsounds

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

The Japanese Folk Dance Institute of NY

Matsuri NYC Fall Fest
Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 12:00PM
Corlears Hook Park, 397 FDR Drive, New York, NY 10002

Matsuri NYC Fall Fest celebrates Japan and NYC with an all day Japanese cultural festival, featuring traditional performing arts and fun cultural activities for the whole family! Enjoy performances by JFDINY’s own Minbuza (Japanese Folk Dance), Samurai Sword Soul (Traditional Sword Fighting), and Taiko Masala (Taiko Drumming). While in our activities area, experienced teachers will lead children in a variety of fun Japanese arts and crafts such as origami, calligraphy, kendama, and kimono dressing. The finale of the day will be the Bon Odori, a traditional Japanese Summer event where everyone joins in and dances together! Come to Matsuri NYC Fall Fest and let’s celebrate NYC!

Find more information at http://japanesefolkdance.org/matsuri-nyc-fall-fest

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Bent Duo

The Singing Garden / El Jardín Cantante
Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 10:00AM
RING Garden; Seaman Avenue, Riverside Drive, Dyckman St, New York, NY 10040

The Singing Garden is a community sound installation taking place at Inwood’s beloved RING community garden on October 2nd, 2022 (10AM-2PM). Conceived by Bent Duo, this participatory project invites our neighbors to activate the garden space with sound, creating a powerful sonic harmony that reflects our diverse and vibrant community. No musical training is required to participate and anyone is welcome to participate for as long or as short a time as they like. Bilingual (Eng/Esp) facilitators will be on hand to assist anyone who wants to take part.

Find more information at https://www.bentduo.com/singing-garden

Grant Program: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement

 

Advent Lutheran Church

Music Mondays
Monday, October 3, 2022 at 7:30PM
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025

Music Mondays presents Ruckus & Emi Ferguson: Fly the Coop. Don’t miss this performance of “the world’s only period instrument rock band” (San Francisco Classical Voice) in music by J. S. Bach that is “a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” (NY Times). Flautist Emi Ferguson of AMOC (“wonderful,” NY Times) joins for a tour of J. S. Bach’s preludes and sonatas, interlaced with selections of music by György Ligeti.

Find more information at https://www.musicmondays.org

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Ben Arthur

SongWriter: Jean Hanff Korelitz + Warren Zanes
Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at 9:00PM
The Porch, 750A Street Nicholas Ave, New York, NY 10031

Bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz reads an excerpt from her new novel, "The Latecomer," and songwriters Warren Zanes and Ben Arthur perform songs written in response.

Find more information at https://www.facebook.com/events/802153207604754

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Richard Grunn

Good Medicine
Friday, October 7, 2022 at 7:00PM
Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036

Good Medicine is an interactive satire on the American medicine show through the centuries. The story is about three characters: Reverend Beauford T. Jones, Dr. Chester C. Braman, and Kurt Candleman, Spiritual Advisor and Master Guru. They all exist in different periods of history and are trying to sell their philosophies and products for health. The show exposes the similarities between the characters even though they are from different centuries showing that today we have the same snake oil salesmen as in the 19th century, with absurd products which claim to heal and cure.

Find more information at http://www.unitedsolo.org

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Richarda Abrams

BETHUNE: Our Black Velvet Rose
October 7 - October 23, 2022 at 7:00PM
Theaterlab, 357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018 (between 9th and 10th Avenue)

What begins as a school class visit to Washington D.C. to the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall to see the famous statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune turns into a college student getting more than she bargained for as Bethune’s statue comes to life and transports them both back through time to 1884 and beyond.

Performances:

Oct 7-8, 7pm; PREVIEWS

Oct 9, 2pm* Opening with Reception

Oct 11-15, 7pm; Oct 16, 2pm*

Oct 18-23, 7pm

Run is 105 minutes, with an intermission

*indicates post-show talk back

COVID 19: Boosters and KN95 masks are required to enter the venue. Masks will also be available at the door. The safety of our audience and artists is a priority. Thank you for helping us keep Theaterlab a safe space for everyone.

Find more information at https://www.theaterlabnyc.com/bethune-our-black-velvet-rose-oct-7-oct-23-2022/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Te Ao Mana

Mana Manahata 2022
October 9 - October 10, 2022 at 12:00PM
20 Randall's Island Park, field behind Icahn Stadium, New York, NY 10035

MANA MANAHATA 2022 is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary Pacific Island heritage event that celebrates ancestry and seeks to unify the Pacific Island and native and indigenous communities in New York City and internationally. The event will take place on October 9-10, 2022, in conjunction with the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration, which is a 24 hour lineup of native artists, dancers, speakers, activists, cultural bearers, vendors, and craftsmen. The festivities include: interactive and immersive cultural activities, island craft workshops, dance lessons, lei making tutorials, drumming lecture demonstrations, and artisanal booths.

Find more information at https://www.heivanyc.com/mana-manahata

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Coopdanza, Inc

MNI Indigenous Festival of Dance and Media Arts
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM
John Jay College, 524 W 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 5:30PM
La Nacional, 239 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011

An evening of live Dance and Music and Video Dance and Media Arts: (5:30 to 6:30 pm) featuring the winners of our Open Call: Jessica Michal, Sandra Lamouche (Cree/Nehiyaw) and Maria Fernanda Noboa: Video dance and Nicole Emmons (Potawatomi Nation) in Media Arts, plus a selection of Festival SIE. At 6:30 Spoken word and traditional indigenous flute by Mixashawn Rozie (Algonquian) At 7pm the world premiere of 'Staunch' created by Donna Ahmadi, a guest choreographer invited to MNI Festival. “How do women of color relate to the culture of their ancestors through water? This dance moves between three sites—the struggle to secure universal access to safe, clean water; the waters of human reproduction; and the tragedies in which water dominates, destroys and submerges.”

At 7:30 the Jamming of Indigenous musicians and educators: William Ruiz, drummer (Taino) and Mixashawn Rozie (Algonquian) on saxophone. This is a free event!

Find more information at https://www.coopdanzainc.org/mnifestival

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Alvin Eng

25 Years After the Hong Kong Handover: NYC Chinese American Artists Respond in Images, Words & Music
Friday, October 14, 2022 from7:00-9:00PM
Church Street School of Music & Art Performance Space, 41 White St, New York, NY 1001

In this year, the 25th Anniversary year of the “Hong Kong Handover” from Great Britain back to China, Chinese American artists will gather in Manhattan––the isle that Hong Kong has been most compared to through the years––to explore Hong Kong’s relationship with and impact on NYC’s Chinese American community…through images (moving and still), words (spoken and sung) and music. The goal is to create a safe space to share and process personal experience as well as the historic precedents that planted the seeds of anti-Asian American laws and biases that have been festering in this country since Asians first arrived. Participating artists: Chen Yi & Zhou Long (symphonic composition via video); Alvin Eng (acoustic punk raconteur); Nina Kuo (painting); Lorin Roser (video art/installation); Sammy Yuen (artist/illustrator); and Xu Xi 許素細 (novelist/essayist, longtime HK chronicler).

This is a free event, please RSVP by emailing sage@churchstreetschool.o

Find more information at https://www.facebook.com/events/850271543006452

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Pedro Giraudo

Hispanic Heritage Month: Tango @Westbeth Artists Housing
Friday, October 14, 2022 at 6:00PM
Westbeth Community Room, 55 Bethune Street, New Nork, NY 10014

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the Latin GRAMMY Awarded Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet at the iconic Westbeth Artists Housing. The project includes three free concerts outlining the history of tango: traditional tango, tango nuevo and contemporary tango presented as a chamber music concert performed by a virtuoso ensemble.

Find more information at https://www.facebook.com/events/782515796215935/782515809549267/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Courtney's Stars of Tomorrow

No Forgotten Voices
Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:00PM
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023

After a highly praised appearance at the 2021 Opera in the Park concert, Cecilia Tucker returns to Courtney’s Stars of Tomorrow for the first of two No Forgotten Voices recitals. Her lyric soprano voice has filled the most prominent concert halls and venues, including Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Apollo. Simply put, she is no stranger to the concert stage. Be swept away by a program that reflects Tucker’s stylistic versatility and her immutable, soaring voice.

Find more information at http://www.cstarsoftomorrow.com/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement 

 

eGALitarian Brass

eGALitarian Brass goes Electric
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 8:00PM
Opera America Rehearsal Hall 330 Seventh Avenue 7th floor, New York, NY 10001

This concert will feature new music for brass quintet and brass quintet w electronics. New premieres include music by Chloe Rowlands, Lillian Yee, Shanyse Strickland, deadmau5, Nina Shekhar, and Melissa Muñoz. We will also be performing music by Hildegard of Bingen, Gene Pritsker, and Joan Tower at this concert. 

Find more information at http://www.egalitarianbrass.com/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Natu Camara

HARLEM MEET AFRICA- THE SONGS OF HOPE AND HEALING
Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 3:00PM
Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, 18 Mt Morris Park W, New York, NY 10027

For the past two years, the world has endured loneliness through the pandemic. More than ever, it’s essential to bring light into people’s lives. Harlem is a historical neighborhood where Africans, African Americans, and everyone from across the globe live side by side. While it is still trending as a fun place to go, Harlem has been labeled as inaccessible or unsavory for decades. It’s time for a change. Our goal is to have ALL of New York experience Harlem’s culture, beauty, diversity, LOVE and community through the healing power of music.

We’re staging a FREE concert of powerful music and delivering a warm invitation to join us for:

“Harlem Meet Africa” featuring Natu Camara and her exciting Afro-Rock and soul band.

Joining Natu will be THE WAITERS OF HAPPINESS, the popular Harlem Funk and R&B dance band, along with the HARLEM DRUMLINE, led by Master Drummer Mamadou from Burkina Faso. Also bringing joy to this festive event will be professional drummers and percussionists from Guinea, Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso, local school dance groups and several talented artists representing the soul of Africa and Harlem. This is a homegrown event entirely self funded so we need help to fund it. We want to keep the show free for all in the New York Area.

Find more information at https://www.natucamara.com/events/harlem-meet-africa-the-songs-of-hope-and-healing

Grant Program: Creative Engagement & UMEZ Arts Engagement

 

Banana Boat Productions

Mamma Decemba
October 19-October 30, 2022 at 7:30PM
18 Mt Morris Park West, New York, NY 10027

An older, feisty, and proud Jamaican woman living in England contemplates a return to the Jamaica of her youth. Her reflections on her life and her life-long relationships are universal and instantly recognizable, and they will leave you laughing, crying, and everything in between.

"An aching slice of life runs aground" British Guardian.

Find more information at http://www.bananaboatproductions.org

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Michael Moss

Family Threads/Music and Dance
October 22, 2022 at 7:30PM
St. John's in the Village, 218 West 11 Street, NY, NY 10014

Michael and Judith Moss join forces to present a music and dance concert infused with the history of the Holocaust and the spirit and remembrance of family members. Michael Moss conducts Bows and Judith Moss dances her solo Undocumented/Crossing Borders. Ensemble musicians: Trina Basu, Jake Charkey, Ratzo Harris, Rosi Hertlein, Alexandra Honigsberg, Jon Kass, Alexis Marcelo, Lenny Mims, Sana Nagano, Liz Taub. 

Reservations (646)-396-7802. Tickets $20 cash only  at the door. 

Find more information at http://www.stjvny.org/arts-upcoming

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

Jazz Choreography Enterprises, Inc.

JCE Jazz Dance Project
Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:00PM
KnJ Theater at Peridance, 126 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003

Jazz Choreography Enterprises, Inc., presents The JCE Jazz Dance Project on April 23-24th, 2022, celebrating 15 years of its semiannual dance concert devoted exclusively to jazz. Through this in-person show, people of all ages can enjoy a variety of jazz styles and see first-hand JCE’s mission to promote the creation of original jazz dance in concert form. A talkback with the choreographers follows the April 24th performance.

Since 2007, Artistic Directors Marian Hyun and Merete Muenter have presented 149 emerging and established choreographers and 1109 dancers from the U.S., Japan, South Africa, and Europe. Not only has JCE supported jazz choreographers over the past 15 years, but they have worked to make jazz dance education accessible for people of all levels and ages. The performances will be presented at The KnJ Theater at Peridance. The theater is located at 126 East 13th Street.

Find more information at https://www.jazzchoreography.com/project/october-2022/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 

The Children's Institute of Fashion Arts

Fashion Arts Workshop October 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:00PM
38 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001, USA Suite 145

The Fashion Arts Workshop culminates in a fashion show where student-participants style and model their own creations.

Find more information at http://www.thecifa.org/fashionshow

Grant Program: Creative Learning

 

Turkish and International Music Ensemble

Turkish Tunes in Manhattan: Ballrooms of Istanbul
Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:00PM
Oculus Center at the World Trade Center. 185 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007

During the early days of the Turkish Republic, in the 1920s, the sounds of Tango, Waltz and Foxtrot started filling the ballrooms and music halls of cities across Anatolia. Turkish songwriters started producing their own compositions in these genres, starting a musical tradition that still continues today. The concert will take the audience on a nostalgic journey to the Ballrooms of Istanbul, showcasing the richness of Turkish contributions to these genres. The concert also marks an important date for our Turkish heritage, commemorating the 99th anniversary of the Republic of Turkiye on October 29, 2022. In addition to presenting Turkish music to New Yorkers, we will be able to celebrate our cultural heritage with them.

Find more information at http://www.timeusa.org

Grant Program:  Creative Engagement