2009 Programs

2009 Programs

Saturday, January 17 2009
7:30 pm
Outside the Blues

a Forum & Concert Considering New Uses of an Old Language

7:30 pm
Panel discussion with Steve Cannon, Cooper-Moore, Elliott Sharp, Greg Tate and other guests TBA - moderated by Kurt Gottschalk

8:30 pm
Solo performances by Loren Connors, Elliott...

Sunday, January 25 2009
5:00 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-...

Monday, January 26 2009
7:30 pm
Marat/Sade

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Discussion with Michael Lardner & Members of the "Revolutions" Class

Adapted from the 1963 play by Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade is almost entirely a "play within a play." Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, now d’Hôpital Esquirol, the main story takes place on July 13, 1808,...

Tuesday, January 27 2009
7:30 pm
The Internet is Serious Business

The Internet has become an essential tool for political activism, education, employment and more, but half the city lacks a cable or DSL connection. Those of us who are online don't really understand what...

Thursday, January 29 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Our Flesh of Flames

Collages by Theodore A. Harris with Captions by Amiri Baraka

The Brecht Forum is proud to exhibit Our Flesh of Flames featuring the collages of Theodore A. Harris and the poetic captions of legendary writer and social activist Amiri Baraka.

Posed against...

Saturday, January 31 2009
9:00 pm
Carl Maguire

& Floriculture with Stephanie Griffin, John Hebert, Oscar Noriega, Dan Weiss

Acclaimed by Downtown Music Gallery as "one of the best pianists and composers to emerge from the downtown network over the past few years," Carl Maguire is active as a performer and collaborator with a...

Monday, February 2 2009
7:30 pm
Burn!

Discussion with Michael Lardner Jeremy Glick & Members of the "Revolutions" Class

A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready...

Sunday, February 8 2009
5:00 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, February 11 2009
7:30 pm
The Price of Pleasure

Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships

Discussion with Chyng Sun, Tess Fraad-Wolff & Robert Wosnitzer

Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography industry's...

Thursday, February 12 2009
7:30 pm
Colors of Resistance

Collage, Abstraction & African American Art

Theodore A. Harris, Geoffrey Jacques & Howardena Pindell

The collage emerged at the time of social reproduction of everyday life and has been a primary tool for social activists seeking to subvert the established order of capitalist logic. As part of the exhibition...

Friday, February 13 2009
7:30 pm
- 10:00 pm
Resistance in Rhyme*

Theodore A Harris & Fred Moten. Moderated by Jeremy Glick

Join us for an historic evening as painter Theodore A Harris (featured artist of Our Flesh and Flames exhibit at the Brecht Forum) is joined by critic Fred Moten. Moten, a collaborator with Harris will...

Thursday, February 19 2009
7:30 pm
The Water Front

Discussion with Lauren Hauser, Liz Miller & Leah Sapin

The award winning documentary, “The Water Front” is the story of one community fighting against the seemingly inevitable path to water privatization.

This contemporary portrait of environmental racism /...

Sunday, February 22 2009
5:00 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-...

Monday, February 23 2009
7:30 pm
Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio

Discussion with Nana Soul & U-Savior

In the controversial, original and provocative documentary Disappearing
Voices – The Decline of Black Radio,
director U-Savior Washington
takes an unprecedented look at the rise and fall of...

Thursday, February 26 2009
6:00 pm
Our Flesh of Flames

Onome Djere & Jeremiah Hosea

Join us for the closing party of Our Flesh of Flames, collages by Theodore Harris and Amiri Baraka. Featuring performances by spoken word artist Onome Djere and Jeremiah Hosea (Earthdriver)

Friday, February 27 2009
8:00 pm
Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad is a new screenplay by Adam Klasfeld based on the Beacon High School's class trip to Cuba in Spring 2005, which brought students, teachers and administrators of the New York City high...

Saturday, February 28 2009
9:00 pm
Ned Rothenberg with Mivos Quartet

Olivia De Prato, Joshua Modney, Victor Lowrie, Isabel Castellvi

Featuring solos, string quartets and clarinet quintets by Rothenberg (clarinet/bass clarinet) with Olivia De Prato (violin), Joshua Modney (violin), Victor Lowrie (viola) and Isabel Castellvi (cello).

...

Saturday, March 7 2009
7:30 pm
Ocean Ana Rising Presents: Refuge and Resistance

In January, 2005, Ocean Ana Rising produced the creation of a private mixed media installation which commemorated the lives of survivors and victims of domestic violence. In March, 2009, these same artists--...

Sunday, March 8 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
SEKONSA! Jazz

[img_assist|nid=2484|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=250|height=344]A dynamic all-female ensemble drawing upon traditional Caribbean music, jazz and blues

6-8 pm
Pauline Jean,...

Monday, March 9 2009
7:30 pm
Afghan Women

A History of Struggle

Discussion with Filmmaker Kathleen Foster, Fawzia Afzal Khan & Fahima Vorgetts

Crafts Sale: 7:00 pm

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...

Saturday, March 14 2009
9:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra

Premiere of Tammen's new, open-form composition for the Third Eye Orchestra and live electronics fusing contemporary classical elements with minimal music.

featuring

Jason Hwang, David Soldier -...

Monday, March 16 2009
8:00 pm
Seven Jewish Children

Kathleen Chalfant, Brian Jones, Daren Kelly, Ellen McLaughlin, Una Aya Osato & Brian Pickett

In memory of Rachel Corrie and the children of Gaza, Theaters Against War and Rachel's Words invite you to the first New York reading of Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill. The evening will also...

Tuesday, March 17 2009
7:30 pm
Poetry of Resistance

Remembering the casualties of Iraq, Afghanistan, & Palestine

This event is organized in response to the following appeal to poets, writern and all creative artists:
From Poets Gathered March 20-23 2008
at “Split This Rock” Poetry Festival, Washington DC...

Friday, March 20 2009
6:30 pm
The Mist

Discussion with Filmmaker Maryam Habbibian & Kathleen Foster

In spite of the social limitations imposed by the Islamic regime, Iran today is alive with youthful energy. With over seventy percent of the population under 40 years of age, a new culture of art, literature,...

Sunday, March 22 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Bomba y Plena with SAMBUMBIA

This newly-formed group takes its inspiration from the colloquial term "sambumbia" -- a mixture of elements that lend unique flavor to a dish. This is a perfect description of the Afro-Puerto Rican traditions...

Thursday, March 26 2009
7:00 pm
QBC Fades of Black Women Showcase

Queer Black Cinema presents the 4th Annual Fades of Black Womyn Film Showcase 2009. Come celebrate with Queer Black Cinema as we honor and pay tribute to Black Hall of Fame Filmmaker, (Campbell X formerly...

Friday, March 27 2009
7:30 pm
Juggling Gender & Still Juggling

with Tami Gold & Jennifer Miller

[img_assist|nid=2375|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=150|height=182]Join us for an exciting evening with:
• Screening of the new video Still Juggling (with Jennifer Miller 15 years later)...

Sunday, March 29 2009
7:00 pm
Refuge and Resistance

Ocean Ana Rising

How do we live at home when it can often be a mortally dangerous space? How do we make and maintain home when it is so often a space of both refuge and resistance? How do we reclaim and celebrate home despite...

Saturday, April 4 2009
4:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Signs of the Times

Paintings by Francisco Verastegui

Living and working in Oaxaca,...

Sunday, April 5 2009
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-...

Monday, April 6 2009
7:15 pm
El Viaje Hacia El Mar - A Trip Toward the Ocean

RECEPTION AT 6:30

The birth place of writer Eduardo Galeano and home to a thriving folk and rock scene, Uruguay is a small country with enormous cultural output. In anticipation of Uruguay's...

Monday, April 13 2009
7:15 pm
La Matinee-The Matinee

RECEPTION AT 6:30

The protagonists of this documentary are the veterans of Murga (a traditional musical and theatrical performance at Montevideo carnival). In 2004, they got together again to...

Tuesday, April 14 2009
7:30 pm
Venezuela

Revolution from the Inside Out

Discussion with Filmmaker Clifton Ross

Clifton Ross will show his film, "Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out" (2008, PM Press), a critical look at the Bolivarian Process drawn mostly from the experiences of the participants themselves. In the...

Sunday, April 19 2009
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-...

Monday, April 20 2009
7:15 pm
La Perrera--The Dog Pound

RECEPTION AT 6:30

Desperate and unfortunate, lazy and hesitant, David, a 25-year-old guy, has failed as a student and lost the scholarship which supported him in the capital city. To get it back...

Wednesday, April 22 2009
7:30 pm
Corazón de Fabrica/Heart of the Factory

Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito

Zanon/...

Wednesday, April 22 2009
7:30 pm
Corazón de Fabrica/Heart of the Factory

Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito

Zanon/...

Thursday, April 23 2009
7:30 pm
100 Poems for 100 Days

Kahlil Almustafa

The beginning of this year marked the historic election of Barack Obama. A Black president is something I never thought I would see. Like most of us, so many conflicting thoughts and emotions went through me....

Monday, April 27 2009
7:15 pm
Plumas al Cielo -- Feathers to the Sky & Por Esos Ojos - For These Eyes

RECEPTION AT 6:30

PLUMAS AL CIELO – FEATHERS TO THE SKY details a forgotten town in Latin America, where Tamara, a nine year old girl, has to walk many miles a day selling feathers...

Friday, May 1 2009
6:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Walking the Winding Streets of Havana

Street Photographs 2008

Photography by Ana Ratner & Jacob Ratner

It has been fifty years since Fidel arrived in Havana to meet the enormous crowd that awaited him in the streets, but today the city looks largely unchanged, simply a bit more weathered from the spray of the...

Saturday, May 2 2009
6:30 pm
- 9:00 pm
We Are Gaza

Connecting the Dots Between Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir & Pakistan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Faheed Bitar, Miriam Cooke, Nawal El Saadawi, Kathleen Foster, Remi Kanazi, Bruce Lawrence, Brant Lyon, Barbara Nimri Aziz, Michael Schwartz, Roger Sedarat, Miriam Stanley, Carmela Tal Baron & Others TBA

Join us for an evening of documentary film, music, poetry, personal narratives and discussion with:

Saturday, May 2 2009
9:00 pm
Jazz Meets The Near East Festival: Mohammad Kundos and MOCHILA - CD Release of "Green Bullets"

A We Are Gaza Concert

Mohammad Kundos & MOCHILA

Join our friends at Alwan for the Arts as celebrate the release of Green Bullets by Mohammad Kundos and MOCHILA.

Mohammad Kundos - 'Oud and Arabic Percussion
and featuring
Eric...

Sunday, May 3 2009
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-...

Saturday, May 9 2009
9:00 pm
Marc Ribot & Ensemble Dissonanzen with Special Guests

Scelsi Morning

Neues Kabarett is delighted to help kick off a week-long, city-wide retrospective celebrating one of our favorite guitarists, and to welcome the fantastic Ensemble Dissonanzen from Italy!

featuring...

Sunday, May 10 2009
4:00 pm
The Ängsudden Song Cycle

MuKha & the Angsudden Ensemble

MuKha and the Angsudden Ensemble present “The Ängsudden Song Cycle” featuring an eight member chamber group, led by Michael McGinnis (saxophones/clarinets), perform music written to a series of ink paintings...

Monday, May 11 2009
8:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Ensemble Dissonanzen

Neues Kabarett is delighted to present a special evening with Italy's acclaimed Ensemble Dissonanzen performing an evening of early music and avant-garde improvisation.

The starting point is the music...

Friday, May 15 2009
8:00 pm
Hercules Comes Back

This reading of a one act play by Nina Howes and directed by Gloria Zelaya, explores the impact of Depleted Uranium (DU) * on the lives of a young couple. When Nick, a survivor of Desert Storm, realizes he was...

Saturday, May 16 2009
6:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Annual Roses & Bread Performance

Benefit for the New Jersey 4

Annual Roses and Bread- performance slam benefiting the New Jersey 4 -for childcare, to perform or to reserve tickets please call 212-748-9829 (women and trans only)

Friday, May 22 2009
12:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Marc Ribot's Music Anarch-atory

The Music Anarch-atory doesn’t presuppose the existence of a canonized body of knowledge which must be transmitted, but creates a space where students can ask how their own projects/practice/concerns relate to...

Friday, May 22 2009
7:30 pm
El Salvador: I Want My People to Live

Seventeen years after laying down their weapons to become a peaceful political party, the former guerillas of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won a resounding victory this March in El...

Monday, May 25 2009
7:00 pm
A Memorial Tribute to Augusto Boal & an Evening of Theater of the Oppressed with Julian Boal

in a Performance/Demonstration of Forum Theater

With Assistance of Members of his Intensive Master Workshop at the Brecht Forum

This Performance/Demonstration will take place at the Assembly Hall of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue at West 120 Street (one block west of Broadway), Manhattan.

A major memorial...

Friday, June 26 2009
8:00 pm
3 by Dario 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.

In addition to conventional theater...

Friday, June 26 2009
8:00 pm
3 by Dario 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.

In addition to conventional theater...

Saturday, July 4 2009
6:00 pm
4th on Fire!

A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine

Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego

[img_assist|nid=2859|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=424|height=275]Join your favorite revolutionaries and rebel rousers for a rousting anti-July 4th celebration and concert.

Concert! Cookout...

Saturday, July 4 2009
6:00 pm
4th on Fire!

A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine

Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego

[img_assist|nid=2859|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=424|height=275]Join your favorite revolutionaries and rebel rousers for a rousting anti-July 4th celebration and concert.

Concert! Cookout...

Tuesday, July 7 2009
7:30 pm
Mother Ourselves

Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Community Building

Ebony Noelle Golden & Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ebony Noelle Golden present an interactive performance and writing workshop about the poetic process of community building. Using the poetry and theory of black lesbian feminist...

Tuesday, July 7 2009
7:30 pm
Mother Ourselves

Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Community Building

Ebony Noelle Golden & Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ebony Noelle Golden present an interactive performance and writing workshop about the poetic process of community building. Using the poetry and theory of black lesbian feminist...

Wednesday, July 8 2009
6:30 pm
- 9:30 pm
FAMILIES NOW!

Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH @ 730PM:
Families Now!
Working class and LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession.
Brecht Forum
451 West Street in Manhattan

As if it wasn't hard enough...

Wednesday, July 8 2009
6:30 pm
- 9:30 pm
FAMILIES NOW!

Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH @ 730PM:
Families Now!
Working class and LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession.
Brecht Forum
451 West Street in Manhattan

As if it wasn't hard enough...

Thursday, July 9 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
The Art of Palestinian Children

The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition, co-sponsored by Adalah-NY (www.adalahny.org) and the Middle East Committee of The WESPAC Foundation (...

Thursday, July 9 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
The Art of Palestinian Children

The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition, co-sponsored by Adalah-NY (www.adalahny.org) and the Middle East Committee of The WESPAC Foundation (...

Monday, July 20 2009
7:30 pm
Broadway Boogie Woogie: A City Unfinished

Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Live Music by COMA

7:30

New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market | Dir. James Blair Smith | 1903 | 2 min

Skyscrapers of New York City from the North River | Dir. James Blair Smith, 1903 | 3 min

...
Monday, July 20 2009
7:30 pm
Broadway Boogie Woogie: A City Unfinished

Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Live Music by COMA

7:30

New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market | Dir. James Blair Smith | 1903 | 2 min

Skyscrapers of New York City from the North River | Dir. James Blair Smith, 1903 | 3 min

...
Wednesday, July 22 2009
6:30 pm
Offstage Forum

Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities.

Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. Is all lost? Just as in Octavia Butler's post-apocalyptic futures, there are many groups of people today whose seemingly dis-utopic work actually serve a hopeful...

Wednesday, July 22 2009
6:30 pm
Offstage Forum

Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities.

Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. Is all lost? Just as in Octavia Butler's post-apocalyptic futures, there are many groups of people today whose seemingly dis-utopic work actually serve a hopeful...

Wednesday, July 22 2009
7:30 pm
The Cold Dialectic

Brecht on British Television

The Brecht Forum celebrates the genius of Bertolt Brecht with two rarely seen Brecht performances on British television, including Lotte Lenya singing from her husband's (Kurt Weill)song book and the Alan...

Wednesday, July 22 2009
7:30 pm
The Cold Dialectic

Brecht on British Television

The Brecht Forum celebrates the genius of Bertolt Brecht with two rarely seen Brecht performances on British television, including Lotte Lenya singing from her husband's (Kurt Weill)song book and the Alan...

Monday, July 27 2009
7:30 pm
The Beginning of the Cold Season

Mediated Iran

Discussion with Leili Kashani

Our Visual Liberation film series continues looking at Iran through the prism of historical films and documentaries. Leili Kashani will conduct an after film Q and A.

Iran | Dir. Kenneth Richter...

Monday, July 27 2009
7:30 pm
The Beginning of the Cold Season

Mediated Iran

Discussion with Leili Kashani

Our Visual Liberation film series continues looking at Iran through the prism of historical films and documentaries. Leili Kashani will conduct an after film Q and A.

Iran | Dir. Kenneth Richter...

Tuesday, July 28 2009
7:30 pm
The Apocrypha: Anger and Disappointment

Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films

Tonight we present two groundbreaking works of fames Italian communist director Pier Paolo Pasolini. La Rabbia is a personal mediation on politics; Seeking Locations in Palestine details...

Tuesday, July 28 2009
7:30 pm
The Apocrypha: Anger and Disappointment

Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films

Tonight we present two groundbreaking works of fames Italian communist director Pier Paolo Pasolini. La Rabbia is a personal mediation on politics; Seeking Locations in Palestine details...

Saturday, August 1 2009
6:00 pm
Necropolis

City of the Dead

The Alternative Arts Association presents NECROPOLIS, city of the dead, a multimedia arts production of epic proportion. Over 30 artists from all backgrounds will come together to explore the metaphoric...

Saturday, August 1 2009
6:00 pm
Necropolis

City of the Dead

The Alternative Arts Association presents NECROPOLIS, city of the dead, a multimedia arts production of epic proportion. Over 30 artists from all backgrounds will come together to explore the metaphoric...

Monday, August 3 2009
7:30 pm
Bridges and Tunnels: Art and Efficiency

Discussion with Peter Derrick, Marty Goodman, Manny Kirchheimer, Steve Lambert, Cassim Shepard, Jon Zazove

New York's vaulted train system is the envy of the world and the thermometer of the changes in the city. Tonight's program focuses on the history of the New York City transit system and the relation to race,...

Monday, August 3 2009
7:30 pm
Bridges and Tunnels: Art and Efficiency

Discussion with Peter Derrick, Marty Goodman, Manny Kirchheimer, Steve Lambert, Cassim Shepard, Jon Zazove

New York's vaulted train system is the envy of the world and the thermometer of the changes in the city. Tonight's program focuses on the history of the New York City transit system and the relation to race,...

Wednesday, August 5 2009
7:30 pm
Buffalo Soldiers

African-Americans & US Militarism

The Negro Soldier | Dir. Stuart Heisler | 1944 | 43 min

No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger | Dir. David Loeb Weiss | 1968 | 68 min Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell

Wednesday, August 5 2009
7:30 pm
Buffalo Soldiers

African-Americans & US Militarism

The Negro Soldier | Dir. Stuart Heisler | 1944 | 43 min

No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger | Dir. David Loeb Weiss | 1968 | 68 min

Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell

Thursday, August 6 2009
7:30 pm
- 9:30 pm
Introduction to Poetry for Social Activists

A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer

Steve Bloom

Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political ...

Thursday, August 6 2009
7:30 pm
- 9:30 pm
Introduction to Poetry for Social Activists

A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer

Steve Bloom

Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political ...

Monday, August 10 2009
7:30 pm
(In)Tangible Cultural Heritage

Oral Histories - Moore and Patterson

Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison | People's Communication Network | 1973 | 63 min
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words | Dir. Louis Massiah | 2002 |18 min

...

Wednesday, August 12 2009
7:30 pm
Occupied Territories, the Space Race, and the Public Domain

3 Short Films

Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Teri Tynes

Join us for a film/discussion on gentrification and urban planning through the lens of rare documentaries.

For the Living | Dirs. Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer | 1949 | 21 min

Sunday...

Wednesday, August 12 2009
7:30 pm
Occupied Territories, the Space Race, and the Public Domain

3 Short Films

Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Teri Tynes

Join us for a film/discussion on gentrification and urban planning through the lens of rare documentaries.

For the Living | Dirs. Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer | 1949 | 21 min

Sunday...

Monday, August 17 2009
7:30 pm
On the Juche Idea

North Korean Propaganda, Theirs and Ours

The Crime of Korea | US Army Signal Corps | 1950, 15 min
The Parade of the Korean People's Army | DPRK | 2002 | 30 min
Always Working Together for the People | DPRK | ca. 1993...

Monday, August 17 2009
7:30 pm
Dear Mandela

The South African Shack Dwellers Movement

Mazwi Nzimande

The city of Durban, South Africa, has promised to ‘eradicate the slums’ by 2010 in time for the Soccer World Cup and is evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint. ‘Dear Mandela’ is a feature...

Wednesday, August 19 2009
7:30 pm
The Unbreakable Promise

South Africa & the First Black Precedents

Discussion with Reverend Mavuso Mbhekiseni & Mazwi Nzimande

The Life and Death of Steve Biko | World in Action | 1977 | 25 min
A Savage War of Peace | Video News Service| 1993 | 50 min
Dear Mandela | Dirs. Dara Kell & Christopher...

Tuesday, August 25 2009
7:30 pm
Historical Memory

The Library in 1956

Discussion with Members of Radical Reference

Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) | Dir. Alain Resnais |1956 |21 min

Storm Center | Dir. Daniel Taradash | 1956 | 86 min

Tuesday, August 25 2009
7:30 pm
Historical Memory

The Library in 1956

Discussion with Members of Radical Reference

Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) | Dir. Alain Resnais |1956 |21 min

Storm Center | Dir. Daniel Taradash | 1956 | 86 min

Wednesday, August 26 2009
7:30 pm
The Greatest Threat

Black Panthers 68-71

Huey!| Dir. Sally Pugh| 1968 | 86 min
Bobby Seale | Newsreel| 1969 | 15 min
Black Panthers in Chicago| Videofreex| 1969 | 24 min
The Death of a Revolutionary |...

Monday, August 31 2009
7:30 pm
Dialogue, Debates, Dilemmas: History in Black and White

Talking History| Dir. HO Nazareth| 1983 | 56 min

Featuring CLR James with EP Thompson

How Does it Go with the Black Movement?| Firing Line| 1973| 56 min

Huey P Newton Debates...

Wednesday, September 2 2009
7:30 pm
Reclaimation: Organized Housing in NYC

Break and Enter (Rompiendo Puertas)| Newsreel | 1970 | 42 min

At Home in Utopia | Michal Goldman| 2008| 57 min

Thursday, September 10 2009
7:30 pm
The Banality of Disaster: Mapping Materialism

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire| various newsreels| 1946 | 12 min
A Tale of Two Cities | Army-Navy Screen Magazine| 1946| 56 min
Night and Fog | Alain Resnais| 1955|32 min...

Friday, September 11 2009
7:30 pm
Palabras Verdaderas – Words of Truth

Words of Truth searches for the keys of this illustrious citizen of Montevideo -Mario Benedetti- in his life and especially in his poetry. Here is a man who has had to face various periods in exile yet...

Tuesday, September 15 2009
7:30 pm
Joya (Jewel)

Bitter comedy about a couple in their thirties living an uncertain life. The main character (who smokes marijuana cigarrettes all day) and his wife live between Montevideo -the capital city- and Piriápolis. It...

Thursday, September 17 2009
7:00 pm
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story and Her Songs on a Rugged Road To Freedom

Featuring Mzuri Moyo

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Mzuri Moyo brings the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer to The Riverside Church as...

Friday, September 18 2009
7:00 pm
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story and Her Songs on a Rugged Road To Freedom

Featuring Mzuri Moyo

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Mzuri Moyo brings the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer to The Riverside Church as...

Friday, September 18 2009
9:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Okkyung Lee: New Works

with Liberty Ellman, Ches Smith & Skuli Sverrisson

Okkyung Lee - cello
Liberty Ellman - guitar
Ches Smith - drums
Skuli Sverrisson - bass

Tuesday, September 22 2009
7:30 pm
Acratas (Anarchist)

A sensitive reconstruction of the Anarchist movement in the River Plate area, and specifically in the city of Montevideo during the first third of the XX Century. To build this documentary Virginia Martinez...

Tuesday, September 29 2009
7:30 pm
Matar A Todos- Kill Them All

When democracy starts to impose itself over the weakened Latin American dictatorships, a man flees through the forest of a Uruguayan seaside resort. He is from Chile and hides at a police station of the town....

Monday, October 5 2009
6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Mask Parade

Amir Bey

...

Monday, October 12 2009
7:30 pm
Labor & Lacan

Stanley Aronowitz, Slavoj Zizek & the Public Sphere

Stanley Aronowitz Reads the New York Times: A Timely Look at Labor | Paper Tiger TV | 1983 | 28 min

United Victorian Workers | Dara Greenwald | 2006 | 6 min

Liebe Dien Symptom...

Saturday, October 17 2009
9:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Laura Andel

Premieres and New Works for Large Ensemble

with Thomas Buckner, Taylor Ho Bynum, Gamelan Son of Lion ensemble (Barbara Benary, Lisa Karrer, Skip LaPlante, Denman Maroney, David Simons), Carl McGuire & Shoko Nagai

Neues Kabarett is pleased to present New York-based, Argentinean composer and conductor Laura Andel. She will premiere new works that balance composition, textural improvisation, and compositional conducting,...

Tuesday, October 20 2009
7:30 pm
Poetry of Resistance

Solidarity with Workers & Communities In Struggle<br>
Special Tribute to the Strikers of Stella D'Oro

With Poets of the Activist Poets Roundtable

Monday, October 26 2009
7:30 pm
Development, Displacement, Leisure

Capital & Community Interests

This is the first in a series of screenings we are doing to highlight some of the programming done uptown at the Maysles Cinema. The first two films in this program come from a series they did, "Rent Control:...

Tuesday, October 27 2009
7:30 pm
The Price of Sugar

Discussion with Filmmaker Bill Haney

On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations...

Friday, October 30 2009
6:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Mask Parade

Masks by Amir Bey<br>with Performance by SYNERGY Sight and Sound

Mixed media sculptor and curator Amir Bey is presenting an exhibition of one of his favorite areas, the mask. A variety of media and approaches of over 70 masks will be presented, including plaster, copper...

Sunday, November 1 2009
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-...

Sunday, November 8 2009
7:30 pm
FreePlay Sundays

Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble

“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media experience – a ‘happening’ in which art leaps off the wall and into the...

Saturday, November 14 2009
8:00 pm
Workforce/Forcedwork

Panoply Performance Laboratory

Workforce/Forcedwork documents the emotional and physical patterns of American workers and uses them to map connections between private, personal experience and public, political structures. Using multi...

Sunday, November 15 2009
1:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
Frente Amplio:

A Cultural Celebration of the Uruguayan Left

Join us for a celebration for the Frente Amplio, the "Broad Front"of the Uruguayan left. The Frente Amplio has secured the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Now we are getting...

Friday, November 20 2009
7:30 pm
Fordham SDS

Discussion with Filmmaker Bert Schultz & Others TBA<br>Moderated by Mark Naison

The 60s on campus are often portrayed as an idyll of peace and love, punctuated by Ivy League antiwar mad bombers. Lost to this narrative are the gritty struggles against capitalism and the Vietnam War waged...

Sunday, November 22 2009
7:00 pm
Shakespeare on Wheels

Monologues by Tony Palmieri

Prior to his accident in 1994 which left him in a wheelchair, Tony performed Off Broadway in community theaters and on cable TV playing such roles as the drug pusher in Hatfull of Rain and Henry Higgins...

Saturday, December 5 2009
8:00 pm
Dionysian Circuit

Gilbert Galindo, John Glover, John McGill, Darien Shulman, ai ensemble, MIVOS Quartet & Possible Special Guests

Dionysian Circuit brings you a continuous musical and visual experience of alternating live instrumentalists, singers, electronic music artists, DJ sets, video artists, dancers, and lighting design that are...

Sunday, December 6 2009
6:00 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-...

Sunday, December 13 2009
7:30 pm
FreePlay Sundays

Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble

“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media experience – a ‘happening’ in which art leaps off the wall and into the...