2008 Programs

2008 Programs

Thursday, October 30 2008
6:00 pm
1st Annual Queer Black Cinema International Film & Music Festival

Since 2006, Queer Black Cinema® (QBC) has produced a monthly film series at the Audre Lorde Project and The LGBT Community Center respectively for all to appreciate the intellectuality and fervency of Black...

Saturday, November 1 2008
9:00 pm
Connie Crothers

with Ken Filiano, Roger Mancuso & Richard Tabnik

Quartets and Duets: original works, free improvisation and some favorite standards. Featuring Crothers on piano with Richard Tabnik on alto saxophone, Ken Filiano on bass and Roger Mancuso on drums.

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Friday, November 7 2008
5:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Common Threads

Artists in Spite of Retail

The Retail Action Project (RAP) presents a multi-media art exhibit displaying the creative visions of NYC retail workers. Common Threads draws community attention to the workplace injustices experienced...

Sunday, November 9 2008
5:00 pm
Afro-Latino Cafe

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-...

Monday, November 10 2008
7:30 pm
City of Water

Speakers TBA

Wednesday, November 12 2008
7:00 pm
Enemy Alien

The Fight to Free Palestinian Activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti

Discussion with Konrad Aderer, Sharin Chiorazzo,Jane Guskin, Shane Kadidal, David Wilson,

Enemy Alien, a first-person documentary, offers a gripping inside view of the fight to free Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a gentle but indomitable Palestinian-born human rights activist whose...

Saturday, November 15 2008
8:00 pm
Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz

Ollin Imagination

Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz is a Latino response to the Iraq War. It is a performance combining poetry, spoken word, music, and theater to convey the horrific effects of war on communities...

Sunday, November 16 2008
2:00 pm
Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz

Ollin Imagination

Ollin Imagination's Bruised MangOs: Rhythmic Ammunition por la Paz is a Latino response to the Iraq War. It is a performance combining poetry, spoken word, music, and theater to convey the horrific effects of...

Sunday, November 16 2008
7:00 pm
Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me & the World

Gina Athena Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse weaves spokenword with vodou chants in this one-woman performance to addresses issues of social (in)justice, her intersectional identities, spirituality and her rage at the dehumanization of...

Monday, November 17 2008
7:00 pm
Truth 2 Power

Radical Urban Cinema

Urban guerilla films from Truth 2 Power, a progressive filmmakers collective based in NYC. Come see our latest work and find out how you can support or be involved in our upcoming Youth Cinema Project.

Friday, November 21 2008
8:00 pm
- 12:00 pm
Filberto Rios Film Festival: La Operacion

This documentary brings to the foreground the problem of widespread
sterilization among Puerto Rican women through the use of personal testimony, newsreels, and government propaganda excerpts. The...

Saturday, November 22 2008
8:00 pm
3 BY FO

1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli

Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri

Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature...

Saturday, November 22 2008
8:00 pm
Copy of 3 BY FO

1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli

Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri

Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature...

Thursday, December 4 2008
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Just Seeds

Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a community of artists who believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. They are a decentralized and...

Friday, December 5 2008
8:00 pm
Unending Present, Unending Past

Written & Performed by Fawzia Afzal-Khan & Bina Sharif

This is a dramatically poignant, and at times hilarious play, written and performed by two leading Pakistani-American women writers, performers and cultural activists. It weaves together their memories and...

Saturday, December 6 2008
9:00 pm
Shahzad Ismaily

Neues Kabarett is delighted to present the premiere of new works by Shahzad Ismaily, with solo compositions for electric guitar, moog synthesizer, banjo, percussion and electric bass, and collaborative pieces...

Sunday, December 7 2008
2:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Shahzad Ismaily Workshop

In this workshop, Shahzad Ismaily will teach methods of scoring text, dance and painting that he has culminated through the past five years of collaborating with various artists across formal boundaries. He...

Sunday, December 7 2008
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Afro-Latino Cafe

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-...

Wednesday, December 10 2008
7:30 pm
Shoot Me While I'm Happy

Jane Goldberg & Friends: Charley Borden, Claudia Rahardjanato & Sarah Safford

Join Jane Goldberg to celebrate her new book, Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories from the Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side (with foreword by the late Gregory Hines).

In addition to a short...

Thursday, December 11 2008
8:00 pm
Confronting Chekov

The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...

Friday, December 12 2008
8:00 pm
Confronting Chekov

The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...

Saturday, December 13 2008
8:00 pm
Confronting Chekov

The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...

Sunday, December 14 2008
8:00 pm
Confronting Chekov

The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective, who in previous years have brought you festivals of new plays inspired by Artaud and Brecht, is continuing this year with Confronting Chekov, the Collective's 4th...

Monday, December 15 2008
7:30 pm
What Have I Done To Deserve This?

Caitlin Gianniny and Cathy Mooses, members of the Brecht Forum Artists in
Residence Collective (BF-ARC) will be curating a presentation of *Pedro
Almodóvar's *film *What Have I Done To Deserve This...