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Arts In My Backyard – Brooklyn – June

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:23:38 +0000

The FEAST
• When: August 27-31st, 6pm everyday
• Where: 18th Avenue between 67th Street and 75th Street, Bensonhurst
• FREE!!!

Tuesdays free at Botanical Gardens
Fridays “pay what you wish for the fish” at NY Aquarium in Coney Island
Sundays: Family day at Brooklyn Museum
Sundays: Free Williamsburg Pool Parties (schedule TBA)
Fort Greene Festival
• The Fort Greene Festival celebrates the cultures, cuisine, and artistic diversity
of Brooklyn. Hosted by Malik Yoba and Rosie Perez, the festival features
performances by hip-hop artist and actor Common.
• When: June 26th from 12pm to 10pm
• Suggested Donation: $5
• For more info, visit www.fortgreenefestival.com

FABFest
• FABfest, a month-long street festival, jumpstarts Brooklyn summertime fun,
featuring fashion shows, reggae and gospel concerts, chef demonstrations,
activities for kids, dance parties, author readings, community mural painting, and
a tribute to Michael Jackson.
• FABfest, transforms three blocks of Fulton Street into a pedestrian-friendly public
space where locals can stop, shop, party, and play while enjoying neighborhood
eats, arts, activities, fashion, and culture.
• Where: Fulton St (between Lafayette Ave and South Oxford St)
• When: June 6, 13, 20, 27th from 12pm – 6pm
• FREE!!!

Coney Island Free Films
• King Kong vs. Godzilla: July 3rd
• Planet of the Apes: July 10th
• For more info and to find more movies TBA, please visit www.coneyisland.com/
films.shtml
• FREE!!!

Grandmothers, Incorporated
Grandmothers, Incorporated’, is a comedy about four retired widows who arrive at
an isolated cabin for a weekend of peace and serenity, only to be confronted with
a notorious drug lord in distress. Chaos reigns as these amateur sleuths dispense
their unique brand of justice to the criminal in their midst.
Where: Billie Holiday Theater (1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216)
When: Running time is now through July 11. Showtimes are 8pm or weekend
3pm matinees
For tickets, call (718) 636-0918 or email to Billieholidaytheatre@yahoo.com

39th Annual International African Arts Festival
• Enjoy parades, plays, puppet shows, belly dancers, African dance, arts workshops,
martial arts demonstrations, Gospel choirs, hip-hop and reggae performers, DJ
Battle Dances and more…
• When: July 2nd to July 5th
• Where: Commodore Barry Park (M, N, B, R trains to Dekalb or 2, 3 trains to Nevins)
• To join the volunteer corp., call 718-638-6700
• FREE!!!

Celebrate Brooklyn at Prospect Park Bandshell Concerts
• June 25th – Kid Koala
• July 1st at 12pm – Mighty Sparrow
• July 11th – The Roots, Talib Kweli and more
• All concerts FREE!!! Check out the Prospect Park calendar for more updates
Panedelic Funkadelic and The Ohio Players Concert
• Where: Wingate Field
• When: July 12th at 7pm
• FREE!!!

ASE Dance Theater Collective
• When: July 13th at 10:30am
• Where: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park
• FREE!!!
Movies With A View present: Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D
• Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park
• When: July 15th at 7:30pm
• FREE!!!

SeeWe African Dance
• Seewe bridges the gaps in African music, song, dance and folklore existing in
African American culture.
• When: July 22nd from 11:30am – 12:15pm
• Where: Underwood Park
• FREE!!!

Sleeping Beauty
• Beautiful Princess Aurora and friends come to life in this updated version of the
fairytale classic reset in Central Park’s Belvedere Castle
• Where: Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater at Underwood Park
• When: July 15th at 10:30am
• FREE!!!

BAM R&B Festival at MetroTech BAM
• Victor Wooten
o When: June 24th at 12pm
• Namoi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
o When: July 15th at 12pm
• Vieux Farka Toure
o When: July 26th at 12pm
• Mighty Sparrow
o When: July 1st at 12pm

The Beach Boys & Happy Together Tour – 25th Anniversary
• Also featuring, The Turtles, Mark Lindsay, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love and
Mickey Dolenz
• Where: Asser Levy Park, Brighton Beach Brooklyn
• When: Thursday July 22nd at 7:30pm
Modest Mouse
• Where: Williamsburg Waterfront (L train to Bedford Ave)
• When: July 23rd at 6:45pm
• FREE!!!

Chrisette Michelle
Where: Wingate Field
When: July 26th at 7:30pm
FREE!!!

Nas & Damien Marley Concert
• Williamsburg Waterfront (L train to Bedford Ave)
• When: July 31st at 7pm
• FREE!!!
Aretha Franklin
• Wingate Field
• August 9th at 7:30pm
• FREE!!!

Coney Island Air Show
• Aerial demonstration performance by Thunderbirds. Their performances usually
yield millions, so don’t miss out!
• When: August 28th and August 29th, Time: TBA

Arts in My Backyard- Brooklyn – May

admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:57:58 +0000

Brooklyn has one of the most exciting and diverse summer event schedules in all of the 5 boroughs. Brooklyn is absolutely filled with FREE things to do all summer long. Attend the Fort Greene festival, Wingate Field concerts, free movies at Brooklyn Bridge park and Williamsburg Waterfront pool parties and shows and so much more!

Let’s Crack Some Eggs

Errol Grimes Dance Group presents:
Wednesday • MARCH 17 • 7:30PM
Thursday • MARCH 18 • 7:30PM
Friday • MARCH 19 • 7:30PM
Saturday • MARCH 20 • 7:30PM
Sunday • MARCH 21 • 3PM
Let’s Crack Some Eggs is dance theater at its best! Through elements of West Indian folk culture Eggs weaves a story of a Caribbean man living in the Diaspora, embracing childhood memories as a way to come to terms with the fracture of migration.
Tickets: $15 for adults $10 – students and seniors

Twelfth Night by William Shakespear

Presented by LIU Dept. of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre

Tuesday • MARCH 30 • 7:30PM
Saturday • MARCH 31 • 7:30PM
Thursday • APRIL 1 • 7:30PM
Friday • APRIL 2 • 7:30PM
Saturday • APRIL 3 • 7:30PM

“Love given sought is good, but given unsought is better”. So states Olivia in William Shakespeare’s delightful comedy, Twelfth Night, where the characters are pursuing, or being pursued as, objects of love. In order to win love they’ll do anything, even dress like the opposite gender! In this LIU version, the play will be set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Great music, hilarious disguises, mistaken identity, and love triangles create a high class, high stakes game where anything can happen! As they say in New Orleans, Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!)

Tickets: $15; $10 students and seniors with ID

L.I.U. Brooklyn Campus Dance Department presents:

Dance Department Spring Concert

Friday • APRIL 16 • 7:30PM
Saturday • APRIL 17 • 2PM & 8PM
Sunday • APRIL 18 • 3PM

The Brooklyn campus Dance majors perform an exciting program of modern dance works choreographed by guest artists and dance majors. Guest artists include Monica Bill Barnes and a restaging of Shelter, an Urban Bush Women piece choreographed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and restaged by Maria Bauman.
Tickets: $15, $12 – students and senior citizens

L.I.U. New Media Art and Performance presents:

M.F.A Thesis Concert
Friday • APRIL 23 • 7:30PM
Saturday • APRIL 24 • 7:30PM

New Media Arts and Performance students meld the digital with live performance in a cutting-edge evening of student works.
Tickets: $5

L.I.U., Music Department presents:
Two-day Music Presentation
Wednesday • APRIL 28 • 7PM
Thursday • APRIL 29 • 1PM

The Long Island University Music Department presents a two-day music presentation featuring jazz performances by their talented students. Also on Friday, April 30, there will be a Solo Vocal Jazz Workshop at 1PM.
Tickets: Free admission

Hip Hop Hybrids of Brooklyn

Thursday April 15th • 9pm-midnight
Public Assembly
70 North 6th St (Williamsburg)

Dance and music showcase curated by young Brooklyn musicians and producers spotlighting hip hop artists, including Tah Phrum Duh Bush and others.

As you like It by William Shakespeare

Featured January 12 – March 13 at BAM;
30 Lafeyette Avenue, Brooklyn NY o Tickets start at $20,
visit or call tickets@BAM.org / 718.636.4100 x1 for more information

Impact Broadway – Spotlight

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:55:35 +0000

Hello, my name is Katrina Mackey and I’m a senior at McKinney Highschool of the Arts in Brooklyn New York. I got involved with Impact Broadway in my junior year when Ms. Donna came to our school with several of her colleagues and introduced the concept. In short they explained to me and other founding members that the youth and minority community arent exposed to all Broadway has to offer. They conveyed many messages but the one that stuck with me was that the arts should be appreciated by people of all types because not only is it entertaining but the people who help make Broadway shows possible care about what we the youth think. Once upon a time the intellect of minorities was a joke and today sometimes the genius of our youth is over looked. They write us off as playful thrill seekers without a passion for the writing, dancing, music and drama that make Broadway sparkle. Impact Broadway challenges the youth while giving us a platform to stand up and speak out so that this classic tradition of theatre can live on and prosper. Its because of Impact Broadway that I’ve gotten to speak to actors about what it’s like to make it, see “In the Heights” and appreciate a world right in my home, I never knew existed. As an aspiring actress I’ve been very small minded about what a performance can do for people because although I love the stage I’m also hungry for fame. Impact Broadway’s programs shut me up and made me appreciate even more the field of fine arts, and a gift like this one is priceless.

Eternally thankful,
Katrina Mackey, McKinney Highschool 2010
Founding Member of the McKinney Highschool Impact Broadway Theater Club

Brooklyn – Medgar Evers

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:38:16 +0000

Medgar Evers is an amazing institution where the arts though not necessarily incorporated in their academic platform, flourishes on an extremely organic level and reaches the attention of some really big wigs in the international theater scene. Such is the case of Impact Broadway Collegiate Advisor, Thomas Bradshaw.

Thomas Bradshaw is an Assistant Professor of Mass Communications and 2009 Guggenheim-award-winning playwright and has received a rave New York Times theater review for his off-Broadway stage play, The Bereaved. The Times praised this latest entree in the award-winning playwright’s canon, and said Bradshaw “has proved in play after play that he has a confident vision of the theater that is his own.” for more info please go to http://www.cuny.edu/news/newsreleases_p=4359.html or www.impactbroadway.com for the full story.

On the other side of town, in East New York you can always check out the modern spin on an age old tale. Unto Us is an updated version of the nativity story based on a Hip-Hop aesthetic. The show written by a teen for teens, celebrates its 10th year anniversary and consists of a 140 member casts. A must see… I mean who ever knew you could see Joseph do the “jerk” in the middle of Time Square? For more info: www.spcbc.com or http://vimeo.com/2220505

IB Schools – Brooklyn

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:39:28 +0000

Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School

School Bio:

Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School in Canarsie, Brooklyn was founded in September 2007 in partnership with Vital Theatre Company. The school offers students the opportunity to study theatre from grades 9-12 while also pursuing their regents or Advanced Regents Diploma. Vital Teaching Artists offer 4-12 week residencies that integrate theatre arts into the core academic curriculum in order to fully engage students while simultaneously building self esteem and teaching the skills necessary for creative expression. Theatre Arts integration includes Math/Technical Theatre, Living Environment/Playwrighting, ELA and Theatre Electives support through visiting Guest Artists.
Now in its fourth year, BTAHS offers two student production opportunities per grade, plus one all school musical. Field trips to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, membership in clubs like Impact Broadway and student-run dance club, art club and glee club round out the vibrant BTAHS community.

Interesting facts about Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School’s theater program, class and/or
students who have worked in song, dance or theater:

1) The Fall Drama production was 1984 and Principal Good’s face was the face used in the Big Brother posters.

2) Senior Jared Finley was first place winner in the National August Wilson Competition on Broadway and was offered a scholarship to Point Park College.

3) Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz just granted Brooklyn Theatre Arts $750,000 to renovate their dilapidated auditorium and bring in state of the art technical equipment. Renovation should be complete by September 2011.

Current Impact Broadway students:

Akeem Adams

Jared Findlay
Shaquil Mortley

Eddine Sampson

Ledonna Peters

Melissa King

Jelani Knight

Hadiya Cambridge

Alberto Aguilar

Elijah Hardisongayle

Chernice Miller

Adama Jackson

Bria Martinez

Takeya Campbell

Rafael Sochakov

Rolanda Matthews
Perry Angoy

Sheri Dunn

Jemima Williams
Tiana Salcedo

Ashley Zaragoza

Jahsean Callendar

Yisa Durosinmi

Troy Deweever

Shanygne Gomez

Shayanne Arthur

Impact Broadway Teacher:

Kelli Buck, Living Environment Teacher

School principal:

Principal Joshua Good
Vital Theatre Arts Partner Linda Ames Key

School contact information:

6565 Flatlands Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11236
718-968-1072
fax 718-968-1065
www.btahs.org (site pending)

Brooklyn – Susan McKinney Secondary School of the Arts

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:24:46 +0000

IB Brooklyn High School: Susan McKinney Secondary School of the Arts
Faculty/Administrative Contact: Darren Persons
IB Brooklyn College: Medger Evers College
Faculty/Administrative Contacts: Brenda Greene, Elendar Barnes, Thomas Bradshaw

Did you know that in the incredibly diverse borough of Brooklyn there are mummies from Egypt in the permanent collection at the recently renovated Brooklyn Museum of Art? When is the last time you dropped by the museum’s popular First Saturday event to catch a concert, dance performance, sit for a film screening or partake of great food? Did you know there is a devoted shuttle called the Heart of Brooklyn that makes stops at all of the major cultural spots: Botanical Garden, the Prospect Park Marketplace, the shops up and down Flatbush and even the Brooklyn Library?

Have you heard about the Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert series at Wingate Field? Every Monday from July 13th – August 24 you can enjoy artists such as Keysha Cole, Lyle Jennings and Jazmine Sullivan are all on the roster. Go to the http://www.brooklynconcerts.com/mlk.html for full schedule. If concerts are your thing that you should also check out Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009 season at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Still FREE and all performances are rain or shine so go to the briconline.org website. Also, Prospect Park has a whole menu of summer activity going on.

But most of all, we want you to check out local theaters like the Billy Holiday Theater at Restoration Plaza on Fulton or the tribute to the legendary Dreamland amusement park in Coney Island. Brooklyn is definitely on fire this summer!

Key websites for Brooklyn happenings:
www.visitbrooklyn.org (official tourism site),
www.celebratebrooklyn.org,
www.heartofbrooklyn.org,
www.prospectpark.org,
www.mocada.org,
www.purelements.org,
www.enricocarusomuseum.com,
www.brooklynconcerts.com,
www.coneyislandusa.com.