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Free Semi-Outdoor Space in Bed-Stuy!
Posted by Emily Bowles, on April 19, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: performance space, free space, brooklyn

Via our friends at the Brooklyn Arts Council:

 

SUPERFRONT BK is accepting proposals from local non-profits, community groups, arts programs, or other civic-minded groups that could use a semi-outdoor space this summer. The 1,000 sq ft space is located behind a storefront on Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and will be free to the chosen organization.

 

SUPERFRONT will orchestrate the design and construction of this temporary space in the beginning of July for the winning organization’s use, and the space will open to the public from July 9 through August 15, 2010.
 

Deadline for entries: May 8, 2010.  For more information, click here.

Community Forum on the Ohio Theatre
Posted by David Johnston, on April 19, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: community boards, new york innovative theater foundation, league of independent theater, off-off broadway

The Ohio Theatre, home to Soho Think Tank, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb and many others, is slated to close its doors forever at the end of August.  The following message is from Paul Bargetto and our friends at the New York Innovative Theater Foundation and the League of Independent Theater about upcoming community forums - ways you can get involved if you care about the state of Off Off Broadway theatre:

The League of Independent Theater and the Innovative Theatre Foundation will co-sponsor The Community Forum on the Ohio Theatre. The event will begin at 6:30pm at the Ohio Theatre located at 66 Wooster Street in Soho, NY. After two years of negotiation, two lease extensions, and a 29-year history as an indispensable pillar of the downtown theatre scene, the Ohio Theatre must close the doors at its Wooster Street space forever on August 31, 2010.

The April 26th event will reunite local elected officials and members of the independent theatre community in an open forum to discuss solutions to the real estate crises affecting small theaters and the progress and momentum that has been made over the past year - specifically with regard to the tax abatement proposal currently before the Community Boards. In addition, there will be a discussion as to what steps can be taken to secure the remaining venues within the sector and help locate a new home for the Ohio Theatre.

Members of the community are invited to attend and are strongly encouraged to share their ideas regarding these issues. A list of speakers and more details will be posted at http://www.SohoThinkTank.org as they become available. The event will be streamed live at http://www.nyitawards.com/live beginning at 6:30pm on April 26th.

Academy Award winning actress, Olympia Dukakis encourages community participation saying, "It is so important to protect the cultural capital of New York City. Institutions like the Ohio Theatre, which for 3 decades has served this community and has been the home for many artists, needs the support of the city and the community. We must work together to preserve the remaining spaces and help develop new ones."

The Community Forum on the Ohio Theatre is a follow up to the Public Forum on Small to Midsized Theatres that was hosted by Manhattan Community Boards 1-5 at The Players Club in February 2009. The lack and gradual loss of adequate, affordable performance space was a key theme of that event. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer challenged attendees to hold their elected officials to a higher standard and provide them with a road map of what is needed to keep small to midsized theaters and performing arts companies in NYC alive.

The closure of the Ohio is the most recent example of a distressing trend affecting small to midsized performing arts venues throughout New York City. According to a study conducted by the Innovative Theatre Foundation, in recent years Off-Off-Broadway (OOB) has seen over 25% of their theaters either torn down to make way for new developments, or repurposed into non-performance spaces. With a number of theaters currently facing the same prospect, the urgency to find a solution to this growing problem has intensified.

 

The Winners!: The 2010 Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program
Posted by Emily Bowles, on April 14, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: musicians' residencies

Six New York City-based composers have been chosen as winners of the 2010 Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program.  The winners will each receive use of suitable composition and rehearsal space in one of three cultural facilities for a three-month period, as well as a stipend.

 

The 2010 winners of the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program and their host facilities are:


Florence E. Smith Community Center, Corona, Queens:


Joseph Di Ponio takes an eclectic approach to “spectral” music, exploring the diverse possibilities of sound as well as issues of aural history, time and temporality.  He divides his work between acoustic and electronic composition, and has composed music for theatre, art installations and silent films. During his residency, Mr. Di Ponio plans to work on two projects: a commission for Queens-based Lost Dog New Music Ensemble employing non-traditional ways of playing the flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano; and a piece for piano and live electronics that will process and experiment with the residual sounds made in the act of playing a piano.


Composer-performer Evan Mazunik has produced work for jazz band and various solo instruments as well as interdisciplinary works for theatre, dance and film.  Fluent in Soundpainting, a sign language for live composition, he is composer/director of ZAHA, an experimental chamber ensemble, and plays accordion throughout the New York City area.  Mr. Mazunik plans to use his time in residence to compose Trigger’s Broom, an emergent suite for chamber ensemble.  This concert work will incorporate Soundpainting, graphic scores, structured improvisation and traditional notation, producing an open-form, multi-movement suite.  He also plans to lead a hands-on masterclass/workshop demonstrating the multidisciplinary uses of Soundpainting.


Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, Queens:


A Yamaha Piano Artist whose work is grounded in classical composition, Steven Rosenhaus also plays mandolin and guitar and is influenced by folk music, blues, country and rock.  He has written works for the U.S. Navy Band, Carson City Symphony, and Meridian String Quartet, among others, as well as music and lyrics for several shows, including Critic (1988) and Free-the-Music.Com (2001).  During his time in residence, Mr. Rosenhaus will be working on three commissions: a piece for the New York Repertory Orchestra, a chamber work for the New York Chapter of Music Teachers National Association, and a work for the U.S. Navy CNE Band stationed in Naples, Italy.


A jazz pianist and composer with three albums to her credit, Helen Sung synthesizes facets of her experience into her music.  An Asian-American raised in the South, trained in classical piano and violin, and later drawn to jazz, she creates music that defies easy categorization.  Her compositions embrace unusual structures, experimental song forms, various grooves and rhythms, and unconventional sources of inspiration.  Ms. Sung will use her residency to develop a new project entitled Sung With Words.  It features a vocalist and jazz piano trio performing original compositions as “settings” for poems by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Friend and former NEA chairman Dan Gioia.


Turtle Bay Music School, Manhattan:

 

Judith Sainte Croix performs global folk and contemporary music with the Sonora Trio, and plays a wide array of instruments, including piano, synthesizer, and flutes and drums indigenous to the Americas.  Her sound palette often explores contrasts — driving rhythms and lyrical passages, ancient and futuristic sounds, and rough and refined forms of sound — and her compositions frequently express themes of social and environmental awareness.  During her time in residence, Ms. Sainte Croix plans to complete a suite of pieces for the Sonora Trio based on her experiences in Costa Rica, as well as rehearse and develop her opera, The Vine of the Soul.


Octavio Vazquez strives to approach classical composition in a way that is at once experimental, eclectic and sober.  He has been commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Guernica Project, Fulbright Foundation, Barrie Foundation, and Meet the Composer, among others.  Mr. Vazquez will use his residency to work on a multi-movement piece for cello and piano that will premiere at Turtle Bay.  The piece will incorporate themes by 16th-century Spanish composer-organist Antonio de Cabezòn and traditional Sephardic melodies, providing an in-depth exploration of the expressive possibilities of the cello-piano pairing.


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Applicants were judged on their composer’s statement, project proposal, and two samples of their music.  Winners were selected based on the artistic merit and quality of their proposed project or work in progress.  Participating as panel judges were Vivian Fung, Steven Hitt, Min Xiao-Fen, Gayle Morgan, and Samita Sinha.

 

Funding for this residency program comes from Con Edison, The Amphion Foundation, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the Reed Foundation, and individuals.  NYC Performing Arts Spaces developed and administers the program, which debuted in 2009 with three residencies at Flushing Town Hall, Queens.

 

For more information, contact David Johnston at david.johnston@fracturedatlas.org.

NYFA Artist Boot Camp
Posted by David Johnston, on April 14, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: nyfa

From our friends at the New York Foundation for the Arts: 

 

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is now accepting applications for the “Artist as Entrepreneur” Boot Camp. Applications are due on April 26 and classes begin June 12, 2010. The Boot Camp will provide artists working in all disciplines (literary, media, performing and visual) with the business skills they need to further their artistic careers. There is no charge for participation.

The Boot Camp begins on June 12 and will take place over 5 day-long sessions at NYFA’s office at 20 Jay Street in DUMBO. Participating artists can expect the sessions to spark goals and help to define concrete steps to building a business plan that can lead to financial security.

The Boot Camp is open to artists and members of creative teams working all disciplines. They must be residents of New York City and have internet access. The application is due on April 26 and is currently available on NYFA’s website.

 

For questions, please contact Peter Cobb at pcobb@nyfa.org or Felicity Hogan at Clearning@nyfa.org.

 

Coming Attractions
Posted by Emily Bowles, on April 12, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: musicians' residency

In just a day or so, we'll be announcing the winners and panelists of our next round of Con Edison Musicians' Residents.  This year, composers will be in residence at Flushing Town Hall, Turtle Bay Music School and Florence E. Smith Community Center.  Watch this blog and our e-blast for announcements. 

 

WHA?  You don't get our e-blast, "PAS/pace?"  Fix that right now.

 

Want to know more about this program?  You're in luck.  On April 25 at 2 PM, Matthew Schickele, one of last summer's residents, will give an open workshop of his new chamber opera, Marymere.  It'll be in the gorgeous gallery space at Flushing Town Hall, and admission is free.  Check it out.

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