2010 Programs
2010 Programs
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...
No Vietnamese Called Me N*gger / This War At Home
Speakers TBA
The Brecht Forum Uptown is proud to collaborate with two innovative groups on the New York City cinematic scene--Red Channels and Maysles Cinema--in presenting two films, ...
Double Bill: Kyoko Kitamura with Mark Lamb & ExPosed Blues Duo (Fay Victor & Anders Nilsson) meets Tomas Ulrich
Kitamura will be performing solo on...
"Body: Word, Move, Perform," is an exploration of the body through word, movement, and performance. The night features literary readings, choreographic works and short performance pieces and ends with a round...
A Tribute to Howard Zinn in Film
Brian Jones
In this installment of Red Channels, we pay tribute to the radical historian and activist Howard Zinn (1922-2010).
Zinn will be remembered by A People's History of the...
Walter Anthony Rodney
Discussion with Filmmaker Clairmont Chung
A look into the life of noted activist, Dr. Walter Rodney from birth during World War II, through the cold war, his contributions to political thought and to his shocking assassination at age 38 in Georgetown...
Women in Hip Hop
Kymbali Craig
She Got a FIERCE-Rock: Women in Hip Hop (Film/Hip Hop) wil explore how Black women navigate the terrain of Hip Hop Culutre and features a screening of the exciting new documentary "...
The Anti-Valentine Improv Show
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is using its monthly !!FreEpLaY!! performance series to riff on the exquisite...
James Baldwin & the Right to the City
Rich Blint, Kenyon Farrow & Others TBA
Take This Hammer follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American...
Performance & Reading
A staged reading of "I am a Drum" by Sybil Roberts will be presented along with short experimental pieces that resist traditional categorization of theatrical performance. Featuring Joi M. Sears, Gabriella...
Vanissa Chan. Kenneth Chan-Cruz,Majesty, Luis Henrique, Egypt Eva
Join us for a night of art and expressions from the anti-war movement.
In a society increasingly apathetic to the wars that are being waged in our name, artists Vanissa Chan and Kenneth Chan-Cruz bring...
(sisters of the rainbow)
Tara Betts, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Tonya Foster & Paloma McGregor
The concert, Ñañakuna K’uychimanta (sisters of the rainbow), is a musical, literary and dance performance that will explore the artistic expressions of women from the African Diaspora. The evening employs a...
Expressions from the Anti-War Movement
Vanissa Chan, Kenneth Chan-Cruz, Egypt Eva, Luis Henrique & Majesty,
In a society increasingly apathetic to the wars that are being waged in our name, artists Vanissa Chan and Kenneth Chan-Cruz bring a refreshing perspective to counter the pro-war norms and growing...
Performed by Brian Jones<br>Hosted by Amy Goodman
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Double Bill
Catherine Sikora Trio. Sikora on tenor & soprano saxophones, Bob Hubbard on drums, and Kevin Ray on bass.
Marco Eneidi Trio. Eneidi on alto saxophone, Albey...
Special Daylight Savings Show
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...
A Vision of Socialism
Fred Ho
Future Forward: A Vision of Socialism is a talk and short baritone sax performance by revolutionary matriarchal luddite socialist Fred Ho and a book signing for his most recent book, Wicked Theory, Naked...
The artist trio of Odinga, Kai Lumumba Barrow, and Malcolm Goff has significant threads stitching their work into a cohesive collection. Using oil and acrylic paints, wood and fabric along with everyday tools...
Kenny Lazo was brutalized by officers in the Suffolk County precinct. They took away, a father, brother, son, friend, community member and for what?
Join us for a night to raise awareness and give a...
Information Music Concert
"To describe the Earth Driver sound? Imagine the Situationists meeting the Fat Albert Gang"-
Kazembe Balagun
"Information Music" is a project development by Jeremiah...
Works by Antonio Frasconi, H.D. Gölzenleuchter, Christa Grauer, Rosalind Schneider, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Taher Shafie & Daniel Waldron<br>Performances by Miguel Frasconi, Tannis Kowalchuk & Leese Walker
Artists
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi is considered one of the foremost graphic artists living and working in the United States, mostly known for...
Neues Kabarett is pleased to present tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin in a trio with Erik Deutsch on organ and Allison Miller on drums.
Eskelin will perform a set of completely improvised music with...
This Weimar Germany film classic uses an avant-garde, fragmented narrative to tell the story of a working-class family in Berlin in 1931. Survival is difficult, with massive unemployment in the wake of the...
Saul Landau
Saul Landau will report on hismost recent trip to Cuba, and discuss his forthcoming film on the
Cuban Five.
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This Weimar Germany film classic uses an avant-garde, fragmented narrative to tell the story of a working-class family in Berlin in 1931. Survival is difficult, with massive unemployment in the wake of the...
(Mother Courage and Her Children)
Based on the noted play by Bertolt Brecht this tragic drama is set in 17th-century Europe and tells of Mutter Courage (Helene Weigel), who follows a variety of armies in the many...
Los Mas Valientes in Concert
In a celebration of their 15th anniversary, Latin jazz ensemble Los Mas Valientes plays a program of original and traditional Cuban works, including composer Rick Faulkner's new 4-movement work, "Hope Suite...
Musical Performances by Darren Chase, Jessica Goldring & Bill Solomon, plus Films of Noe Kidder
In the spirit of The Brecht Forum's current exhibition, "On Brecht," EXILKABARETT presents a new version of their work-in-progress, The Hollywood Songbook, as a combination of art songs (lieder) and...
The Art of Odinga, Kai Barrow & Malcolm Goff
The artist trio of Odinga, Kai Lumumba Barrow, and Malcolm Goff has significant threads stitching their work into a cohesive collection. Using oil and acrylic paints, wood and fabric along with everyday...
Patrizio Fariselli, Paolo Tofani, Ares Tavolazzi, Walter Paoli & Special Guests PFM's Mauro Pagani, Marco Cappelli & Others TBA
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present the historic reunion of Italian progressive rock legends, Area, almost 30 years after their break up following the death of iconic lead...
Adapted by Lewis Galantiere, Directed by Michael J. Murnin
Inspired by Greek Mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles, Anouilh's contemporary Antigone puts her life on the line for what she knows is right, and in so doing, discovers that...
Adapted by Lewis Galantiere, Directed by Michael J. Murnin
Inspired by Greek Mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles, Anouilh's contemporary Antigone puts her life on the line for what she knows is right, and in so doing, discovers that...
Adapted by Lewis Galantiere, Directed by Michael J. Murnin
Inspired by Greek Mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles, Anouilh's contemporary Antigone puts her life on the line for what she knows is right, and in so doing, discovers that...
by Bill Hollenbach
You want a Tea Party? We’ll show you a Tea Party!
Performed by: Adam Altman
Directed by John Doyle
Produced by: Iron Age Theatre (PA)
“My country is the...
by Howard Zinn
Performed by: Bob Weick
Directed by: John Doyle
Produced by: Iron Age Theatre (PA)
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its...
by Adam Klasfeld
Broadway, film and television actor Michael Graves stars as the departed Samuel L. Clemens in One Armed Man’s production of The Report of My Death.
Mark Twain said that only the dead have free...
by Joe Gilford
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Based on true events from the lives of the playwright's parents Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford, Finks...
by the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble improvises by weaving jazz, modern dance and theater together in a style called “3D Jazz.” This night they set their sights on the ancient Sophoclean drama, Antigone,...
with Jim Brochu, Joe Gilford, Julie Halpern & Steve Schalchlin. Moderated by Leonard Jacobs
Actor/writer Jim Brochu and producer Steve Schalchlin of Off-Broadway’s phenomenal solo show Zero Hour; Finks writer Joe Gilford; and ...
with The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble & The Mayhem Poets
This night combines the talents of the multi-genre improvisation artists Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and the...
by Leonard Jacobs, Liz Burke and Julie Halpern
A newly created department of “The 9.13 Project,” Works-In-Progress Administration puts theater artists back to work for their country. This developmental series invites theater companies to...
by Drew Hildebrand and john michaelrossi
Military Act(ion)s is a night of war-and-security-related one-acts. A full line-up will be announced at a later date.
Author and veteran naval officer Drew Hildebrand's...
by Isaac Rathbone
Oracle Theatre, Inc. presents an intriguing development in military technology designed to fight America’s enemies.
America is preparing for entry into the first World War. In the fields of Omaha,...
by Steven Hevey
Director Sherri Kronfeld helms a staged reading of Steven Hevey's In My Name, a New York Times-acclaimed hit of London’s West End (“a ticking, short-fused bomb of a...
Concept, Music & Lyrics by Steve Schalchlin
New World Waking!, inspired by John Lennon’s Piano, was first presented by San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and will be presented for the first time in New York at "The 9.13 Project...
Actor, storyteller and activist Vinie Burrows has given over 6,000 performances, on and off-Broadway, on television, radio and in films. While the major thrust of her life has been to carry...
Kurt Orderson
The arrival of the Dutch in the Cape in 1652 signaled the beginning of a violent and destructive process, which placed their greed for land...
Annette Rubinstein 100th Birthday Commemoration
4:00 pm - Reception & video of Annette Rubinstein
5:00 pm - Program (starting a bit late to accomodate those watching the World Cup)
“Wally Shawn’s essays are both powerful and riveting....
Michael Lardner, Matt Peterson,Rachael Rakes
"We are now moving through a very bleak period in human history - where the conjunction of Post Modernist cynicism (eliminating humanistic and critical thinking in the education system), sheer greed...
The Shorts of Santiago Alaverez and Saul Landau
Andrew King, Adan Esteban
To open the 2010 Visual Liberation Film Festival, Brecht Forum and Red Channels are proud to present the films of Santiago Alvarez and Saul Landau, two kindred spirits who...
Theater Transgression
Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone is resurrected by Brooklyn-based queer, gender-queer and transgender performance collective Theater Transgression.
"She's clearly the fierce daughter of a fierce...
An Event Marking the 86th Anniversary of James Baldwin's Birth
Alexis Birdsong, Farah Jasmine Griffin & Ajamu Sankofa. Moderated by Rich Blint
This striking documentary charting the post-civil rights return of James Baldwin to cities of struggle in the South begins with a central question posed by the author: “What has happened to those people? What...
Sneak Peek at the International Fringe Festival
The Brecht Forum allows you a sneaky peek into FringeNYC 2010, the oldest and largest edgy...
In Celebration of PM Press' publication of Two Notions: Two Works by C.L.R. James and The Paul Goodman Reader, tonight's program features rare interview between CLR James and E.P. Thompson ...
Policing Dissent: Part 1
Red Squad turns the lens on the notorious undercover police agency responsible for spying on political dissidents. The award-winning documentary was a student project of Suchler brothers under the...
A documentary about Bolivian migration to the United States
Leonardo de la Torre Ávila
Using interviews, documentary and features, the lives of four Black women are examined.
Walter Rodney and the Poetics of Revolution on Film
Lincoln Van Slutyman
"The Terror and the Time is a breathtaking film, one that is so complex in its imagery — so poetic in fact — that I find it difficult to conjure up in words. Images appear first as simple denotation...
Join us for the opening of the first annual Black August Arts Show, co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). This year's art show and auction will benefit political prisoners and prisoners of...
Policing Dissent: Part 2
Social unrest in the United States hit a boiling point on September 9, 1971, when inmates at Attica State Prison--after months of protesting inhumane living conditions--revolted, seizing part of the prison and...
It was a milestone of film activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members...
The ongoing reconstruction of New Orleans has laid bare key urban issues, including affordable housing, immigration, urban redevelopment and economic displacement. The Land of Opportunity project is proud to...
Marx--Eisenstein--Das Kapital
Kluge"s News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx - Eisenstein - Das Kapital focuses on a plan envisaged by the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, that never got off the ground. In 1927, he had the...
Rebellion in Real Time
Mayday (Black Panther) | Newsreel, 15 min | 1969
New Haven | Abbie Hoffman and the National Guard | Videofreex | 1970 | 23 min
Mayday Realtime | Videofreex | 1971 | 60 min
TOTAL RUNNING TIME...
A Community Jazz Project for Political Prisoners
Join as we celebrate the closing of the Black August Arts show, with a live performance by Music Now.
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...
SEED by Radha Blank questions the current state of child welfare in America and how our children survive when they are neglected and abused. Come join us for...
Discussion led by Matt Micka
Lindsay Anderson's film "IF..." is set in an English boarding school. HIs "everyman" character, Mick Travis, is played by Malcolm Mcdowell in his first screen role. Travis, in his junior year, rebels against...
In light of the recent epidemic of queer youth suicides Co-Op Theatre East and the Brecht Forum bring you "Documentary: A Suicide Narrative", a play that deals with the themes...
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...
Discussion led by Marty Kirchner
"Tout va bien" is set in 1972, i.e. four years after the events of 1968 in Paris. President De Gaulle and his successor president Pompidou had rolled back the would-be revolution and the political right wing...
Wadada Leo Smith (Trumpet), Angelica Sanchez (Piano), John Lindberg, (Bass), James Kamal Jones (Drums)
The Brecht Forum is delighted to partner with the Brooklyn Public Library to present Wadada Leo...
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...
Now, in the midst of right-wing fear-mongering and teabag hysteria, progressive artists speak out for social justice. The Dissident Arts Festival, now in its fifth year, is a...
Global Warning (yes that"s "warning" with an "n.")
Sara Goudarzi, Louis Reyes Rivera, Lamont Steptoe & Others TBA
There will be a limited open mike. Sign-up from 7:00 to 7:30 pm...
Psychiatry in Russia|Dir. Albert Maysles|1957| 14 minutes
Letter from Siberia|Chris...
Discussion led by Luhuna Carvalho
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary follows the evolution of the radical social movement that followed the April 24, 1974, military coup in...
Discussion led by Luhuna Carvalho
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary follows the evolution of the radical social movement that followed the April 24, 1974, military coup in...
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...
It's that time of year again! Come celebrate another amazing year here at the Brecht Forum as we invite all of our fellow students, teachers, artists and community members over for our annual Holiday Party....
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-...
Discussion led by Rachael Rakes
The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the youth protests would finally take form in the world. In this...
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-...