2012 Programs
2012 Programs
2nd Annual "Revisiting the Revolutionary Martin Luther King"
You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucie Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change...
Part 1: Blackberry Curve
Marietta Hedges, Matt Higgins, Terry Runnels, Kevin Scott and Alyssa Simon
"We Live in Financial Times" is a play by Julia Lee Barclay and directed by Rik Walter; featuring Marietta Hedges*, Matt Higgins, Terry Runnels, Kevin Scott and Alyssa Simon*
A darkly funny...
Writer Gordon Gilbert with A Large Cast of Characters
This production addresses issues of the elderly in our society in the context of an entertaining story.
The Characters and Readers (in order of appearance)
Our narrator:...
Come watch a screening of Guy Debord's classic film based on his 1967 book of the same title--the Situationist International (SI) text that informed and motivated the French Revolution of May/June 1968....
Poetry & Drawings by Heather Spears
There will be a reading, "Poets for Peace in Palestine" followed by a screeniing of the documentary, "Drawn from the Fire, Children of the Intifada."The program will end with a Q&A with Ms. Spears and a...
Thomas Wirth
To kick off Black History Month and to celebrate what would have been Langston Hughes' 110th Birthday, we hold a special screening of Issac Julien's Looking for Langston. Less of a biopic, than a...
Existence is Resistance & Nana Dankwa present: “Hip Hop Is Bigger Than The Occupation” – A documentary about a ten day journey of artists traveling through Palestine, teaching and performing Non Violent...
Sun Ra's Space is the Place
This Afro-Futuristic yarn features philosopher and Jazz pioneer Sun Ra and his Myth Science Orchestra. Summoned from Outer Space to save the Black race, this film is a meditation on slavery, cooptation and...
Body Ecology Performance Ensemble, Denae Hannah (dance), Mahogany Browne (poetry), Kamilah Aisha Moon (poetry), Maritri Garrett (music)
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...An Evening of Poetry & Politics with Ewuare X Osayande
Ewuare X. Osayande
Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate of...
Our Expansion in Consciousness
Curated by the Groundfloor Collective (Sophia Dawson, Lehna Huie, Casey Johanna, Alexandria Lust)
The “Ladies First 2012" art exhibition at the Brecht...
Michael Lardner
The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The film won the...
Binahkaye Joy (dance), Piper Yvonne Anderson (theater arts), Una Karim (video arts), Malaika Adero (lit. reading), Bon Secours Community Works (theater arts), Tonya Hegamin, Samantha Thornhill & Company (theater arts)
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
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A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the...
Kimani Fowlin (dance), Phakiso Collins (dance), Carmen Mojica (theater arts), 1st Generation Nigerian Project (theater arts), Dominique Morisseau (lit. reading), Delandria Mills (music)
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts. Women...
Curated and organized by Casey Johanna (Ground Floor Collective)
Concluding our Black History look at Afro-Futurism, the Brecht Forum and the Groundfloor Collective are proud to present two experimental films.
Child of Resistance(Haile Gerima, 1972, 36 minutes...
Discussion with Filmmaker Nizar Abboud
Filmed from land and air traveling 4,000 km inside Libya--from Tripoli to Ghat in the south and returning through the Akakus mountains, Germa, Wadi Ashati up to Liptis Magna in North Western Libay, ...
Special Forum on Global Women’s Empowerment
Panelists: Paloma McGregor, Aimee Cox, Imani Uzuri, Kayhan Irani, Anusha Mehar, Dayanara Marte. Moderator: Shani Jamila. Special performance by Imani Uzuri
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...Everybody Loves Harvard
Verita$ critically examines Harvard’s historical role and its global impact. The film’s director describes Harvard¹s traditional character in three key words: rich, white, and male. The documentary...
The Berlin Years 1984-1992
Tina Campt, Ika Hugel Marshall & Dagmar Schultz
The Brecht Forum, The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Audre Lorde Project and The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies(CLAGS-CUNY) are proud to sponsor the NY premiere of Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992....
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Happening every first Friday of the month,!!FreEpLay!! is an evening of improvised performance. Strike Anywhere’s ensemble of dancers, musicians and actors riff on a different...
Performing Symphony of Souls
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present Jason Kao Hwang’s improvising string orchestraSpontaneous River performing his composition, ...
A Multimedia Show by Sabine Berendse & Paul Clements with live Eisler Music
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was one of the most fascinating and controversial German composers of the twentieth century....
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Happening every first Friday of the month,!!FreEpLay!! is an evening of improvised performance. Strike Anywhere’s ensemble of dancers, musicians and actors riff on a different...
A Film by Saul Landau with Commentary by Michael S. Smith
In April 1961, the CIA sent a force of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government. This resulted in the Bay of Pigs Fiasco. Fifty years later, a new documentary shows that US-backed violence against Cuba...
Noga Ashkenazi, Safiya Bandele, Carol Jochnowitz, Ray Korona, Ralph Nazareth, Marlon Peterson & Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
What is it like to be a prisoner in this country? Repressive laws lead to inhuman punishments for men and women including teens. "Abolish all prisons?" as Angela Davis advocated. This night is an attempt to...
Curated by Ras Moshe featuring: Bill Cole-Sona, Hojok, Didgeridoo, Ras Moshe, Adesanya Akinyele, Larry Roland, Tor Yochai Snyder, Dave Ross & Ngoma Hill. Post-concert conversation with Kazembe Balagun
In the tradition of the downtown loft music scene, The Music Now Series is a monthly showcase of advanced music, organized by Ras Moshe.
6pm
May 19th Ensemble with Bill Cole-Sona,...
Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio
Neues Kabarett presents Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio performing 'O Padreterno nun e` mercante ca pava o' sabbato – the world premiere of a new suite of compositions--featuring: Marco Cappelli (guitar), Ken...
Discussion with Gladys Marel Garcia-Perez
Gladys Marel Garcia-Perez, a participant in the Cuban Revolution, is a historian and has published numerous books on the history of the revolution. We will also show a 30 minute video "Wisdom of the Heart...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
An Evening of Performance, Jazz and Improv
The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is an inter-disciplinary ensemble theater that has been generating original performance pieces since 1997. The permanent ensemble is comprised of some of N.Y.C.’s...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
The Play by Arthur Miller, starring Rebecca Balmer, William Barry, Peter Guaraci, Kalen J. Hall, Katie Labahn, Valerie O'Hara, Tony Plamieri, Brennan Vickery & Nilla Watkins
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced, themes that thread...
A Potpourri of New Music mixing Bali, Java, Egypt and downtown New York
Barbara Benary, David Demnitz, Daniel Goode, Jody Kruskal,
Skip LaPlante, Laura Liben and David Simons
Gamelan Son of Lion, New York's new music gamelan, presents a collection of this year's experiments mixing instruments of Indonesia with downtown music and sounds of Bali, Java and elsewhere on the globe....
Introduced by Milton Allimadi
Ousmane Sembène’s film Xala, based on his novel of the same name, begins at the moment tha French colonials are “leaving” to make way for their African replacements. Their departure is more symbolic...
Introduced by Renee Conly
Director Luis Buñuel, who had been in exile in Mexico, was invited back to Spain by Franco to make a film. Buñuel agreed and made Viridiana as a way ridiculing or critizing the 'charity' afforded...
The Politics of Presence
Rosa Naparstek
"How our emotional landscapes form the personal and political roots of the world we create”
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A full-day screening program organized with the...
Tomer Heymann's documentary is a revealing glimpse into one society's population of outcasts: transgender Filipinos, who are among a group of international guest workers filling critical gaps in the Israeli...
The Brecht Forum stands with everyone to make radical left spaces accessible, especially for small children and parents. Join us for a special fundraiser film screening of Richard Pryor’s classic Bustin...
Sister Stella
This documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo, who produced the seminal documentary on the Cuban 5 "Mission Against Terror", exposes the story behind the lock up of 75 "independent" jhournalists,...
The Politics of Presence
The Hoodudes
Four veteran musicians, whose collective credits read like a 'Who's Who' of music, decided in 2005--just months before the Katrina disaster--to collaborate over their mutual love of the particular style of R...
Screening & Discussion with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr
"You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolutionary" was the mantle of late Black Panther Party(BPP) leader Fred Hampton. Leader of the Illinois chapter of the BPP, originated of the...
Introduced by Nancy Holmstrom & Richard Smith
Lucky Luciano is about the man who started the largest international crime organization in history. Beginning with Luciano’s repatriation from the United States to Italy in 1946 after 10 years in jail for...
Migrante International Documentary, Migrante International, 30 mins, 2009
Each day 4,000 Filipinos leave the country in order to find work abroad. This film details the story of migrants living and...
Two Stages, Two Days, Two Boroughs
Jennie Litt & David Alpher, Steve Bloom, Nick Gianni Evolution, Cheryl Pyle & Nicolas Letmas Letman-Bertinovic, Ras Moshe, Radio Noir, Karl Berger & Ingrid Sertso & Co., Crystal Shipp, Upsurge!
Friday August 17, 17 Frost Theatre of the Arts (Williamsburg, Bklyn) and Saturday August 18, the Brecht Forum (Greenwich Village).
The 2012 edition of The Dissident Arts Festival will feature a wide...
The Learning
Hosted by Andres Zambrano Bravo
Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a...
Documenting the Year of the 99%
Occupying Photography: Documenting The Year of the 99%
Marking the first anniversary of the occupation of Wall Street, the Brecht Forum is proud to host "Occupying Photography: Documenting The Year...
Introduced by Charity Scribner
The Merchant of Four Seasons tells the story of Hans, a fruit peddler, whose choice of career upsets his bourgeois family. The film explores many of Fassbinder's major themes, including...
A Special Screening of South of the Border
As part of our ongoing efforts to educate about Cuba, the Cuban 5 and the Cuban political system, The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 is hosting this film screening as part of "Free the Cuban 5...
Featuring Sonny Simmons (alto sax, English horn), Michael Marcus (reeds), John Austria (piano), Rashaan Carter (bass), Jay Rosen (drums).
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present The Cosmosamatics returning from their European summer tour for a rare New York City performance.
The Cosmosamatics were formed in 2000, but are the fruit of a...
A Photo Essay & Soundscape by Siyaka Taylor-Lewis
The men in the exhibit are from diverse origins that include the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. The commonality they share is that despite their diverse skin tone(s) and/or countries of origin,...
Discussion with Directors Eron Davidson and Ana Nogueira
There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience of Apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. Roadmap to Apartheid explores in detail the apartheid comparison as it is used in the...
Introduced by the Brecht Forum's Revolutions Study Group
France in 1719 was in decline after the successful rule of Louis XIV, with the largest population in Europe in the midst of unrest, rising poverty, and widespread violence with frequent conscription of...
Steve Bloom
If you write or are interested in writing poetry and would like to exchange thoughts with other socially-conscious poets, this monthly workshop may be a good place for you. All welcome, so come in and try it...
Strike Anywhere Master Class Series
Nolan Kennedy & Leese Walker
Strike Anywhere's Artistic Director, Leese Walker will teach a workshop in Soundpainting. Soundpainting is the live composing sign language for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists working...
Solo Project with Mazz Swift
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present Mazz Swift performing as her renowned solo act - MazzMuse.
On this night, Swift plans to perform the world premiere of a new composition, "The Desert Can Be...
The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan
A New Play by Joe Martin/ Directed by Adrian Roman
A play on the life of the young Sufi woman, of Indian extraction, who emerged as the heroine of the French Resistance known as “Madeleine”—a devotee of nonviolence and one of the most highly honored heroes...
The Passion of Noor Inayat Khan
A New Play by Joe Martin/ Directed by Adrian Roman
A play on the life of the young Sufi woman, of Indian extraction, who emerged as the heroine of the French Resistance known as “Madeleine”—a devotee of nonviolence and one of the most highly honored heroes...
From Pablo Neruda to Louis Reyes Rivera
An Evening of Spoken Word Poetry and Music
The Brecht Forum and the National Writers Union have come together to celebrate the life and work of Pablo Neruda and Luís Reyes Rivera, two great poets with different styles yet united by their connection...
By Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day examines a group of artists and
activists struggling against the rise of fascism in...
Annual Benefit Party for the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Join the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble for an evening of Mexican fingerfoods, live music, international performances by Teatro Foro Mexico & the Tours Soundpainting Orchestra (France), a silent...
Sueños Perdidos (Lost Dreams) & Veneno de mi Suegra (The Poison of my Mother in Law)
Presented by the Women of Teatro Foro Mexico
The members of Teatro Foro Mexico are not professional actors; rather they are women with a story to tell. They are all from the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, a region with a high incidence of migration. The...
Film Portraits of LGBTQ Dominican Experiences
Carlos Rodriguez
Steve Bloom
If you write or are interested in writing poetry and would like to exchange thoughts with other socially-conscious poets, this monthly workshop may be a good place for you. All welcome, so come in and try it...
Film Screening and Discussion
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent between six and 13 years in prison before a serial...
Film Screening & Discussion
The Brecht Forum, along with Cinema Conservancy and Film Forum are proud to welcome a restored 35mm print of the civil rights classic Nothing But A Man. Join the Brecht Forum for a special screening that...
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...
& a Selected Short
Introduced by Rachel Rakes
First shown on 7 April 1933, Zero for Conduct was subsequently banned in France until 15 February 1946. The film draws extensively on director Jean Vigo's boarding school experiences to depict a...
Leading up to the Urban Uprising: Re-Imagining The City Conference, Right to the City Alliance, Front Group and The Brecht Forum are organizing a special screening and discussion "Urban Uprising: A Right to...
Come watch a screening of Guy Debord's classic film based on his 1967 book of the same title—the Situationist International (SI) text that informed and motivated the French Revolution of May/June 1968. Using...
Yes, sisters and brothers. The holiday sounds of Hans Eisler,Brecht and Original Red Microphone Music...coming your way.
"Holiday Music" with
The Red Microphone
John Pietaro-Vibes/...
Walter Rodney on Film
Renee Conly, Jeremy Glick, Kristin Moriah, Lewanne Jones
"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...
Strike Anywhere's Artistic Director, Leese Walker will teach a workshop in Soundpainting. SOUNDPAINTING is the live composing sign language for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists working...
Featuring:Will Connell (alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute), Chris Forbes (piano), Larry Roland (bass), Thurman Barker (drums)
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present the Will Connell quartet on December 8th. This quartet focuses on the multi-reedist’s own compositions and consists of Connell (alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute...
Introduced by Matthew Micka
Pyaasa tells the story of struggling poet, trying to make his works known in post-independence India, and a prostitute with a heart of gold who eventually helps him get his poems published. ...
Steve Bloom
If you write or are interested in writing poetry and would like to exchange thoughts with other socially-conscious poets, this monthly workshop may be a good place for you. All welcome, so come in and try it...
A Night of Video Dispatches from the Front Lines of Spain, Greece & Portugal
Brandon Jourdan & Marianne Maeckelbergh
Since the dawn of the most recent crisis of capitalism in 2008, there have been uprisings all over the globe. Around the world, advocates for a different world and different social relations have engaged in ...
South of the Border
Lenny Foster
Join us for our ¡Cuba 101 Winter Film! As part of our efforts to educate the NYC community about Cuba, the Cuban 5, and other national liberation struggles, the Project will be hosting a screening of South...
Curated by Ras Moshe
Continuing in the tradition of the loft jazz scene(i.e.- Studio Rivbea and...