2013 Programs
2013 Programs
Introduced by Peter Schulman
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank, a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a...
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...
In 1984, poet/activist/lesbian Audre Lorde went to Germany for treatment of cancer. Her years there not only marked a resurgence of her written work (The Cancer Journals) but also the development of a...
Curated by Ras Moshe
Music Now! continues in the fierece political jazz tradition of Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Archie Shepp. Curated by Ras Moshe, this monthly series presents the most cutting edge musicians in New York City...
featuring: Marco Cappelli (guitar), Ken Filiano (bass), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)
Marco Cappelli Acoustic Trio performing 'O Padreterno nun e` mercante ca pava o' sabbato – an encore presentation of a new suite of compositions.
featuring: Marco Cappelli (guitar), Ken Filiano (bass),...
A Special Post Sandy Benefit for Warren Smith
Jason Hwang'e Edge, The Roy Campbell/Henry Grimes/Andrew Lamb/Newman Baker/Syd Smart/Warren Smith Sextet, Larry Roland & JD Parran, Warren Smith/Bill Cole/Andrew Lamb Trio, Ras Mosh'e Music Now! with Charles Galye/Matt Lavelle/Tor Snyder, Thurman Barker, Karl Berger, Andrew Drury, Will Connell/Tomas Ulrich/Anders Nilsson Trio, Cheryl Pyle/John Pietaro/Gerry Gibbs Trio, Dick Griffin & Francois Grillot, William Trigg, Zane Massey, The Red Microphone, and featuring Warren's Composers Workshop Ensemble.
Jazz, New Music and Free Improv musicians perform in a special fundraiser to help beloved percussionist, composer, teacher Warren Smith rebuild his priceless percussion collection lost to Hurricane Sandy’s...
(Rough Cut)
Directors Madhuri Mohindar & Vaishali Sinha with Special Guest Robert Nickelsberg
My Kashmir is a film about being young in Kashmir, India, one of the most contentious and militarized regions in the world. For two college students Javaid and Iqbal, a childhood rife with curfews,...
"The Black Clown" and "Jesse B. Simple Alive In Harlem" "Good Morning Revolution"
Visual Artist Renaldo Davidson & Anthony Thompson AKA Adeagbo Mwai Mudo with Special Guest Poet Sandra Clark- Special Talk back with Randy Weston
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"The Black Clown" and "Jesse B. Simple Alive In Harlem"
Visual Artist Renaldo Davidson & Anthony Thompson AKA Adeagbo Mwai Mudo with Special Guest Poet Sandra Clark
Kicking off Black History Month 2013, Anthony Thompson Adeagbo and Renaldo Davidson’s new artistic collaboration Langston Hughes’-The Black Clown Exhibition is inspired by Hughes’ "The Black Clown"...
"The Black Clown" and "Jesse B. Simple Alive In Harlem"
Visual Artist Renaldo Davidson & Anthony Thompson AKA Adeagbo Mwai Mudo with Special Guest Poet Sandra Clark
Kicking off Black History Month 2013, Anthony Thompson Adeagbo and Renaldo Davidson’s new artistic collaboration Langston Hughes’-The Black Clown Exhibition is inspired by Hughes’ "The Black Clown"...
Shaun Lin,Luke Aidge Patterson,Linda Tigani
2012 saw an upsurge in protests against the NYPD's policy of "stop and frisk.", a tactic aimed at criminalizing Black and Brown youth. These protests were augmented by the use...
Introduced by Kazembe Balagun
Fraternity and sorority members clash with the other students at a historically black university in this politically charged musical from director Spike Lee. Dap (Laurence Fishburne) is a politically...
Impunity, Elections & Resistance
Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique
Based on personal testimonies, Frozen Happines recounts the struggle of a mother and her children to gain the freedom of their husband and father. Falsely charged with the assassination of New York-...
Oded Tzur & Ritin Mitta
Saxophonist Oded Tzur is rapidly gaining international acclaim for his groundbreaking musical work. He is considered by many to be the first
saxophonist in the world to have developed a complete...
In celebration of International Working Women's Day and Women's History Month, the Brecht Forum presents a rare screening of Yolande Du Art's Angela, A Portrait of a Revolutionary. Produced in 1972, the film...
Discussion with Peter Schulman
The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s Federal Republic of Germany. The main character, Katharina Blum, is an...
Kali. Z. Fasteau, Ron McBee & J.D. Parran
Neues Kabarett is proud to present multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, theorist and musicologist, Kali. Z. Fasteau in an evening of her new music, a world premiere. She will perform on piano, voice,...
Earthdriver.org in conjunction with the Brecht Forum is thrilled to introduce a new music series. The debut performance of this series will feature the high-powered trio, of Bassist/Vocalist Jeremiah Hosea,...
(The Guerilla Fighter)
Discussion with Renee Conly
A university activist on the run from the police finds sanctuary through Party connections in the apartment of an attractive female ad executive who shelters him....
15th Anniversary Birthday Bash
The Tours Soundpainting Orchestra
The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble was founded in 1997 in NYC by Artistic/Producing Director, Leese Walker. Its mission is to promote empathy, free-thinking and greater social awareness through...
Featuring Rashaan Carter, Michael Marcus, Aruan Ortiz, Jay Rosen & Charles Taylor
Neues Kabarett is pleased to present Michael Marcus and his quintet, Magic Door, one of several projects led by the veteran multi-reedist. Featuring: Michael Marcus (clarinet), Aruan Ortiz (piano/electric...
Jordan Baker Caldwell, Jose Castillo, Sophia Dawson, Ebony Noelle Golden, Lehna Huie, Caitlin Meissner, Glenford Nuñez, Jabari Owens-Bailey & Try Harder NYC
The Artist DIY (do it yourself) Workshop aims to empower artists by providing them a space to share their unique artistic paths and experiences with one another. In doing so, participants will learn a number...
A New Music Series Featuring Paul Josephs/ Yako 440 & Baba Israel
Earthdriver.org in conjunction with the Brecht Forum is thrilled to introduce a new music series, A Sunday Salon. Tonight's performance will feature Paul Joseph and Metrosonics, with an acoustic set by Baba...
Discussion with Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
In March 2009 Continental Tire announced it was closing its plant near Paris. The 1200 workers suddenly facing a jobless future decided...
Andrew Courtney
Photographer Andrew Courtney presents a photo-documentary exhibit of the little known African Palestinian community whose lives and history are centered in the heart of the old city Jerusalem.
The...
An Interactive Workshop on Rethinking History, Reclaiming Space & Passing It On
Student Community Action Tours
City planners make maps. Seasoned experts give tours. It doesn't have to be this way! Through counter-tourism, people investigate the grassroots life and history of their...
Our Festival is scheduled between the 100th anniversary of the success of the "Bread and Roses" strike in Lawrence, MA. the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a rallying point for organizing...
Mercedes Figeroas (saxophones), Tony Larokko (saxophones, percussion), Fred Berryhill (djembe, percussion), Bopa "King" Carre (dongas, percussion), Nick Gianni (bass), Dan Tepfer (Keyboards), Kenny Wolleson (drums)
The Black Butterflies are individuals who come together from different cultural, ethnical, and geological backgrounds, brought together by spirit to elevate the listener to a higher plain of consciousness...
A tribute to Jayne Cortez
Althea SullyCole, Mariposa,Bern Nix Quartet with Matt Lavelle-Reggie Sylvester & Francois Grillot, Patricia Spears Jone & Jason Kao Hwang-, Bill Cole, Warren Smith, Joe Dale, Shanya Dulberger, Lisette Santiago, Ras Moshe
Live performance of jazz and poetry in honor of Afro-surrealist pioneer and activist Jayne Cortez
Lineup:
3:30
Althea SullyCole-Kora
4:00
Mariposa-Poetry
Ras-...
This Memorial Day weekend we are giving the drummer some! Alex Alexander is a multi dimesional percussionist who has performed with the likes of Chaka Khan, Eminen and Bernie Worell. Stepped in Latin,...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
In 2006, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play. Few plays have had a similar impact globally on social norms and conditions due to its critical...
A Film by Ken Loach
Discussion with Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East...
A Potpourri of New Music Mixing Bali, Java, Egypt & Downtown New York
Gamelan Son of Lion
NOTE: This event is POSTPONED. Watch for a...
Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman
SoCorpo is a vocal duo comprised of Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman, whose music stretches the possibilities of the human voice and bridges gaps between contemporary new music, jazz, folk &...
Sica, a friend of the Brecht Forum since its first days, has been active creating visual art for over forty years. Sica works in several mediums: oil painting, ceramics and metal sculpture. She also uses a...
Neues Kabarett presents: The Richard Bliwas Quartet
featuring: Richard Bliwas (piano), Daniel Carter (tenor saxophone), Ben Scher (guitar/bass), Jerrold Kavanagh (drums)...
Discussion with Peter Schulman
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend...
Written by: August Wilson, Directed by:DeMone
Harold Loomis took to the road with his young daughter to find his wife and on the journey he discovers his song that leads him to his life.
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Written by: August Wilson, Directed by:DeMone
Harold Loomis took to the road with his young daughter to find his wife and on the journey he discovers his song that leads him to his life.
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Written by: August Wilson, Directed by:DeMone
Harold Loomis took to the road with his young daughter to find his wife and on the journey he discovers his song that leads him to his life.
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Neues Kabarett is proud to present multi-instrumentist, composer, producer, and theorist/musicologist, Kali. Z. Fasteau in an evening of her new music, a world premiere. She will perform on piano, voice,...
Elephant Run District is presenting three rarely-performed short plays, two of which required the creation of a special contract from the publishing company Samuel...
Box Wave & Digital Diaspora
Earthdriver is back with their regular Music Salon Series at the Brecht Forum featuring the exciting music of Box Wave & Digital Diaspora this evening evening.
For more about please check out:...
GASLAND PART II shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film demonstrates that the gas industry’s...
(This is the last disc in the 7-part series, Have You Heard from Johannesburg, a documentary about the global anti-apartheid movement.)
Diving into the heart of the conflict, South...
A Night of Short Films
SPLIT ENDS, I FEEL WONDERFUL by Akosua Adoma Owusu
A woman attaches hair piece, black women in hair salons get their hair plaited; and a woman models on a yellow turban. Eccentric...
Morgan Delt (played by David Warner) is a failed artist and son of left parents who own a fish and chips shop in downmarket London. The film starts off when his haute bourgeois wife Leonie (played by Vanessa...
Written by Nambi E. Kelly
Gang violence. Gun violence. And in the middle of it all, is loss of life and a community in pain desperately searching for answers.
Join us for a Community Conversation immediately following the...
The Life of Bayard Rustin
During his 60-year career as an activist, organizer and "troublemaker," Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi's...
Jeena Yi, Micah Stock, Andrew Zox, John Gordon, Wei Yi Lin, Chris Tyler & Ari Rodriguez
A patriotic and utterly sincere drone pilot and his wife are detained by the federal government and held indefinitely in government custody without a conviction or a trial after one of the President’s...
Jeena Yi, Micah Stock, Andrew Zox, John Gordon, Wei Yi Lin, Chris Tyler & Ari Rodriguez
A patriotic and utterly sincere drone pilot and his wife are detained by the federal government and held indefinitely in government custody without a conviction or a trial after one of the President’s...
Featuring Roy Campbell, Unconspicuous Meeting, Steve Dalachinsky, Randy Credico, Tesla Colis, Sosala, The Red Microphone, Obi Kaye, Sana Shabazz, The Dissident Arts Orchestra & Others
The annual Dissident Arts Festival, a celebration of revolutionary Free Jazz, New Music, Poetry and Film, returns to Greenwich Village’s Brecht Forum for the fourth consecutive year. Our event this year...
Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
The documentary centers around the theory put forward by many, and most recently by Michelle Alexander (who appears in the movie), that mass incarceration has become "The New Jim Crow." That is, since the...
Written by Lewis H. Lapham, this film explores America’s most taboo topic: class, seeking to answer the question, "Does America have a ruling class?" Its producers consider it the first "dramatic-documentary...
Discussion with Dennis Broe
Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama which tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre.
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling...
with
Bill Cole, Warren Smith, Joe Daley, Althea Sully Cole, Kora Shayna Dulberger, Ras Moshe, & Lisette Santiago
Yes sisters and brothers, its change time again and that change entails a new location.
The Brecht is now located in Brooklyn! Within the complex called The Commons on Atlantic Ave. The classes.....
"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...
With Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez and Adrien Brody
Bread and Roses’ tagline hints at the ending: “The balance of power is about to change.” With subtitles in English and Spanish,...
Eric Walton
Premiere of Occupy the Pipeline's new video by Eric Walton will be followed by a discussion about new media, activism, and the future of renewable energy in America. Join us to get to know other people...
Sisters and brothers. The conscious sounds...classes...conversations continue at The Brecht's new Brooklyn location:
"Holiday Music" with The Red Microphone
John Pietaro-Vibes/Percussion...
A screening of Guy Debord's classic film based on his 1967 book of the same title. Debord was a key figure in the Situationist International (SI), a group that played an important role in catalyzing the May...