2007 Programs
2007 Programs
DonÕt Call Me a Saint
The tumultuous life of Dorothy Day (1897-1980), the pacifist-anarchist co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, now under consideration for canonization by the Vatican. A crusading journalist in her 20s,...
An Evening of 3 Short Films
Arlington West
Directors: Peter Dudar & Sally Marr, USA 2005. English, 60 min., Documentary.
The story of the temporary cemeteries in the sand created at Santa Barbara and other Southern...
The Life of Bayard Rustin
Best-known as the main organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Bayard Rustin spent most of his career as a peace activist and was, in fact, on leave from the staff of the War...
Join us on the 3rd Sunday of the month for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the CafŽ is Cuban rumba Ð a celebratory, sometimes raucous...
ÒImagine if Spalding Gray had filmed himself doing a monologue aboutsome of the atrocities committed by the U.S. Government over the past 35 years rather thanthe minutiae of his daily life, and youÕll have...
An Evening of Film to Support the Al Rowwad ChildrenÕs Theatre
We will present the documentary film Visit Palestine by Henry Chalfant, and two short films, Nakba and The Exam by Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour. The filmmakers will join us for a post-film...
9/11 First Responders Against War
The formation of, and actions by, Ground Zero for Peace, a group of 9/11 emergency workers who organized to oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, focusing on the 2004 trip to Afghanistan by the group's...
In 2005, Kevin Norton composed the The Aquarius Suitefor his ""Bauhaus"" quartet with Angelica Sanchez asfeatured soloist. This special Brecht Forumperformance focuses on the interaction of the pianoand the...
SaylesÕ only Spanish-language film (so far), this is the story of one manÕs belated political awakening: After his wifeÕs death, an aging doctor in an unnamed Latin American country goes on a quest for his...
The New York Writers Coalition (NYWC) provides free creative writing workshops to people from groups historically deprived of voice in society. Workshop participants have included the formerly incarcerated,...
In celebration of the birth and life of the Right Honorable Robert Nesta Marley, The Melting Pot NYC team is curating a special art exhibit, You are invited to spend an evening exploring his legacywith...
Initiated by Philip and Daniel Berrigan and other (mostly Catholic) opponents of the Vietnam War, the draft board raids of the late Õ60s and early Õ70s were an attempt to stop the U.s. Selective Service from...
Brecht Forum Commission / World Premiere
New art songs for the 21st century: spontaneous andpremeditated compositions audio machinations /meditations and explosive interludes. Dafna Naphtali(voice, live audio processing) with Briggan Krauss(baritone...
With a Screening of <i>Just Married</i>
(Bring chocolate and wine to share! Some will be provided.)
In 2003, the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment to its Nationality Law that barred Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from...
The story of the 40,000 men who rejected the war almost everyone believed inÑthe conscientious objectors of World War II. Some went to civilian camps, some went to prison; many, especially among the latter...
Join us on the 3rd Sunday of the month for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the CafŽ is Cuban rumba Ð a celebratory, sometimes raucous...
Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably...
Cuban filmmaker Angel Palacios presents images, testimonies and facts about the Venezuelan coup d'etat of April 2002, that unmask the conspiracies and plots leading up to the so-called massacre at the...
In this talk, interspersed with bits of live performance, Indian Sufi song and video clips from her work with the experimental performance collective Compagnie Faim de SiecleL (The Hunger of the Century...
Native American, African, Asian Pacific Islanders, Lation, Caribbean, Near- and Middle-Eastern Women wil show their inner and global resistance to discrimination against women (child brides, female infanticide...
12th Annual Open Poetry & Performance Benefit
Please join us for another scintillating evening of poetry, music, great food and solidarity! Benefit recipient to be announced. Previous groups have included women organizing in New York, New Orleans, Vieques...
Following the lives of two men who live on the streets of Caracas in the middle of the bosses' oil industry lockout in late 2002, this film offers a unique perspective on the Bolivarian revolutionary process....
Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviserliving in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studiedjazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since2000 she has been performing regularly in New...
Join us on the 3rd Sunday of the month for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the CafŽ is Cuban rumba Ð a celebratory, sometimes raucous...
Produced by the Center for Research into Latin American Popular Memory (MEPLA), this film reveals the contradiction between the 80 percent of Venezuelans who live in poverty and the vast potential wealth of...
Covering the period from the 1989 ""Caracazo"" to the April 2002 coup against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and beyond, this documentary examines the links between the Venezuelan Revolution and the...
Young Photographers from the Balata Refugee Camp
Outside the West Bank City of Nablus lies the Balata Refugee Camp. Home to almost 25,000 residents living on less than one square kilometer, Balata is the most densely populated refugee camp within the West...
In a city full of stories, so much goes unheard, unnoticed or untold. The writers in New York Writers CoalitionÕs (NYWC) Write Makes Might Reading Marathon describe streets weÕve never walked, faces...
The Brecht Forum is delighted by the return of MarcRibot, who will lead this 2-hour master class. Thissession is not limited to guitarists, but is open toall interested musicians.
Ribot has worked with...
Discussion with filmmaker Kathleen Foster with Shahid Comrade & Lynne Stewart
The film chronicles the post-911 racial profiling, large scale round ups, detentions and mass deportations of Arab, Muslim and South Asian men as part of the governmentÕs ÒWar on Terrorism,Ó framing the plight...
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission<br>Duo with Rashied Ali
Henry Grimes (acoustic bass and violin) and RashiedAli (drums). This new Brecht Forum-commissioned pieceis based on one of Grimes' poems that will appear inhis upcoming book Signs Along the Road. Grimes...
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission<br>Solo Drumset & Percussion with Visual Art by Makoto Fujimura
Susie Ibarra, percussionist and composer has performedsoutheast Asian gong music, jazz, avant-garde,improvised and solo concert works. She has performedwith many great artists such as John Zorn, DaveDouglas,...
Philippine Gong and Drum Music Workshop
A 2-hour workshop limited to 15 percussion students.The class will explore Folkloric Kulintang Gong Musicand bring these instruments into modern applicationson the drumset and percussion. Practice...
An All-Queer Reading Hosted by Tamiko Beyer
The New York Writers Coalition (NYWC) provides free creative writing workshops to people from groups historically deprived of voice in society. Workshop participants have included the formerly incarcerated,...
+ El Golpe -- The Assault
Discussion with Filmmakers Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique
Through personal testimonials, Land, Rain and Fire examines the origins of social discontent in Oaxaca and documents its transformation into a pacific democratic insurgency. What began as a teachersÕ...
An Evening of Songs & Poems by Bertolt Brecht
With Barbara Barnes, Chris Carlson, Ellen Davidson, Gene Glickman, Mara Goodman, Sam Levine, Don Raphael, Marie Robinson, Sarah Safford, Martha Siegel & Ben Silver
Sarah Safford, dancer/puppeteer, and Sam Levine, tap dancer
Mara Goodman, contralto, and Ellen Davidson, soprano
with singers Chris Carlson, Don Raphael, Marie Robinson, Ben Silverand Gene Glickman...
Paintings by Political Prisoner Tom Manning
Can't Jail the Spirit exhibits Manning's paintings of political prisoners, freedom fighters, the earth and people struggling against oppression. For his actions, Tom Manning became a political prisoner...
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission
Matana Roberts explores her Choctaw, Cherokee and Chickasaw heritage in a mixed media performance piece entitled ""Trail of Tear."" This is a new chapter in her ongoing musical blood narrative - Coin Coin...
Join us on the 3rd Sunday of the month for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the CafŽ is Cuban rumba Ð a celebratory, sometimes raucous...
Patricia Foulkrod's unflinching documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans-- ordinary men and women who heeded the call for...
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission
""Unbroken"" with Louie Belogenis (tenor saxophone),Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) and Kenny Wollesen,(drums)
Forum on Political Prisoners
Speakers TBA
The closing celebration for the month-long exhibit Can't Jail the Spirit : Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning will feature a discussion and update on political prisoner Leonard PeltierÕs 30 year...
Written & Performed by Margo Lee Sherman
Margo Lee ShermanÕs compelling new solo performance is based on the actual words of contemporary American soldiers who have served in Iraq. Through a series of fragments and vignettes composed of quotes from...
Ollin Imagination
Anti-War Expressions is a Latino response to the Iraq war. It is a play combining poetry, spoken word and music to convey the horrific effects of war on communities in the United States and abroad. The...
Ollin Imagination
Anti-War Expressions is a Latino response to the Iraq war. It is a play combining poetry, spoken word and music to convey the horrific effects of war on communities in the United States and abroad. The...
Radical Interventions in the Public Sphere
Cynthia Copeland, Beka Economopoulos, Jason James, Alan Moore, & Gregory Sholette <br> Moderator: Lisa Maya Knauer
Videos: 6:30 ‰ÛÒ 7:30 pm
Panel: 7:30 ‰ÛÒ 9:00 pm followed by a Soiree
Light refreshments will be served.
Although we live in grim times, artists are continuing to provide provocative,...
Promises follows the journey of one of the filmmakers, Israeli-American B.Z. Goldberg. B.Z. travels to a Palestinian refugee camp and to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and to the more familiar...
Celebrate Summer w/ Avant-Jazz on the Loading Dock!!
Featuring Matt Lavelle (trumpet), Eric Mingus (bass and voice), Ras Moshe (tenor sax), Anders Nillson (electric guitar), Dave Ross (electric guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor sax), Fay Victor (voice) and more....
Discussion with Filmmaker Damian Lopez
Compromiso Cumplido is the first of a two-part documentary about the human rights violations during the current conflict in Oaxaca. The flim documents human rights violations committed by Governor...
The Black Panther Party Library
Ashanti Alston, S.E. Anderson, Roz Payne & Others TBA
Friday: 7:30 - 10:00 pm
Saturday: Noon - 5:30 pm
Sunday: Noon - 5:30 pm
Join us for an entire screening (with breaks for discussion) of Roz Payne‰Ûªs 12-hour film compilation from her own...
Terry Dame, Kali Fasteau, Cooper-Moore, Melissa Moore & Bradford Reed
3:00 pm - Instrument-making workshops led by Cooper-Moore, Melissa Moore and Kali Fasteau
Participants in Melissa Moore's workshop will learn to make contact-microphones. Kali Z. Fasteau will lead...
Discussion with Filmmaker Ricardo Bacallao
An evening of short films by Ricardo Bacallao, a recent graduate of Cuba's Instituto Superior de Arte Works include A Short Radiography of Hip Hop in Cuba and The Maji-Maji Readings, which looks...
with Live Rumba Performance
Join us for this feature-length documentary on Cuban Rumba followed discussion with director Elio Ruiz and a live rumba performance.
Discussion Leader TBA
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents...
An Evening of Performances by Old & New ‰ÛÏBlack Fires‰Û
Autum Ashante, Gail Burton, Khalil Al Mustafa & Others TBA
Black Fire, first published in 1968, is considered one of the seminal works of the period. It presents more than 180 selections from 75 writers. Edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, the contributor...
Eric Anderson
The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans
Discussion Leader TBA
In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last year. He examines why residents had to leave, what really...
A Series of Paintings by Richard Bonomo
These group portraits represent a biologist‰Ûªs exploration of the diversity of our species and a search for humaneness.
New Works for Violin and Piano
with Mark Feldman
""That her music is as aesthetically beautiful as it is strange and mysterious is only further testament to her prowess as a composer"" ~ All Music Guide
Pianist and composer Syvlie...
Discussion with Filmmaker Kathleen Foster
Afghan Women: A History of Struggle captures the resilience and courage of women who risk their lives on a daily basis to stand up for their rights. The film examines the drafting of the Afghan Women's...
Sr. Clare Marie Therese, ICM
Sr. Clare Marie Therese, who lives and works in a Dalit community in Tamilnadu, India, will show the documentary film Shit, which depicts the deplorable conditions faced by manual scavengers of human...
A Play by Sean Huze
Performed by Peace Works Group Theatre International
We are most pleased to present the New York City Premier of The Sand Storm: Stories From the Front written by former Marine and Iraq veteran Sean Huze. With acclaimed productions in Hollywood and The...
A Play by John DiFusco
Performed by Peace Works Group Theatre International
To accompany Sean Huze‰Ûªs powerful play from Iraq on September 19, we are most pleased to also present a revival of Tracers, the signature play from the jungle quagmire of Vietnam. Tracers...
Readings by ""The Little Reverend"" & Others TBA
Join us for an evening of music, dancing and readings as we celebrate the publication of Pedro Pietri‰Ûªs book-length poem about children and war, If You Can Sleep, You‰Ûªre Heartless.
Discussion with Filmmaker Kevin Keating
‰ÛÏNothing less than a full frontal assault on the civic deification of Rudolph W. Giuliani.‰Û
- The New York Times, April 12, 2006
Kevin Keating‰Ûªs chilling documentary examines Giuliani...
With Andrew Bemkey, Roy Campbell, Jr., Ken Filiano & Michael T.A. Thompson. Movement by Amon Bey
""You can hear the soft nurturing quality in SacoYasuma's compositional style... It serves her well!Her culture comes through loud & clear in her use ofspecific metaphors: Wind, Rain, Calm, Moon, Liquid...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
This session is not limited to guitarists, but is open to all interested musicians.Pre-registration is required.
Performances on November 1, 3, 4, 16 & 17 @ 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and...
Performances on November 1, 3, 4, 16 & 17 @ 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and...
Performances on November 1, 3, 4, 16 & 17 @ 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and...
Curated by L2EL Arts
The unimagined evolution and status of many politicized cultures continues to inspire multimedia artists throughout the world. The CENSORSHIP show presents the work of New York City and international artists...
Marco Cappelli, Jennifer Choi & Vong Pak
Featuring the world premiere of the Brecht Forum-commissioned Improbaile for violin, guitar and korean percussion by Marco Cappelli, and other works by this exciting musical collective.
Jennifer...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Readings of poetry and prose. Readers will include participants in the New York Writers CoalitionÕs (NYWC) creative writing workshops giving voice to unheard members of society. The Writing Aloud reading...
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Guided by media critic Norman SolomonÕs meticulous research and tough-minded analysis, War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media...
Performances on November 1, 3, 4, 16 & 17 @ 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and...
Performances on November 1, 3, 4, 16 & 17 @ 8:00 pm
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective presents the premiere of short and original one-acts inspired by Bertolt Brecht and interspersed with songs and...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Featuring the world premiere of the Brecht Forum-commissioned Causing a Tiger
Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice) - Shahzad Ismaily (percussion, guitar, bass) -Matthias Bossi (percussion, piano)
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Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Directed by acclaimed Dutch director Paul Binnerts
Shows on Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8:30pm
Brecht's prophetic 1926 classic MAN IS MAN follows the transformation of Galy Gay from a naive and ignorant porter in Colonial British India into a vicious...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...