From Manhattan Community Board 4's Theater Task Force:
This Wednesday, February 3rd, at the Fulton Center Auditorium, 119 Ninth Avenue (between 17th and 18th Streets), Manhattan Community Board 4 is going to consider a letter written by its Theater Task Force for passage.
At 6:30, on that evening, members of the public are invited to sign-up for a public session at which they will be given two minutes to speak on any topic that interests them.
Any member of the public, who resides or works (or performs) within the confines of Community District 4, 14th Street to 59th, 8th Avenue to the Hudson River, is invited to attend.
If you are a theater artist, who supports the tax credit initiative that the unprecedented alliance of Community Board Arts related committees are developing, we need your support at that meeting.
We need you there to speak up on its behalf.
The chances of the passage of the CB4 Theater Task Forces letter (pasted below for your review) which informs our elected officials of the Community Board alliance formed to support small to mid-sized non-profit performing arts organizations, and in addition, asks for their consideration of an innovative tax credit proposal to help us reduce the crisis confronting the independent theater sector, can only benefit from your presence and participation at this public session.
Community Board 5 will be meeting at the First Alliance Church
127 West 26th Street, 2nd floor, at 6 p.m., on February 11, 2010.
Your support at that meeting, if you are an artist that lives or works in that district, 14th Street to 59th, from Lexington Avenue to Eighth
Avenue) is just as necessary and useful.
As other Community Boards bring this resolution (or letter) up for a vote, we will let you know of the time, date and place of their respective meetings.
Please make every effort to attend if you can.
Visit NYITA's blog for the full CB4 Theater Task Force letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn:
For those musicians and composers in your life, taking up space in your apartment with their noise-making... steer them to our Con Edision Musicians' Residency: Composition Program, which is currently taking applications. We're putting six composers in residence in three facilites; Turtle Bay Music School, Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens and Flushing Town Hall in historic Flushing. (Site of the Flushing Remonstrance. You've never heard of it? Click here and find out.)
Many thanks to the Clyde Fitch Report and American Opera Projects for the shout outs.
In other news...if you haven't already seen it, check out the New York Innovative Theater Foundation's latest study, a ground-breaking demographic survey of Off Off Broadway artists.
Dance/NYC is hosting their first ever mid-season symposium, February 5 & 6. (You can register for it at the link on our Dance Service Organizations' Calendar. Jut click on "February.") If you're a dancer, choreographer, dance producer, or administrator, check out this gathering where you'll learn more on current trends, insurance, marketing, technologies and leadership issues.
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Guidelines and applications are up for the next round of Con Edison Musicians' Residencies: Composition Program. This time around, we're partnering with the City of New York Department for the Aging to offer residencies at the Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens. In addition, we're continuing our partnership with the terrific Flushing Town Hall. Composers based outside of Queens can apply for Turtle Bay Music School. The deadline is February 26.