Celebrating the Arts in Manhattan

Manhattan Borough Arts Bash
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
6PM | VIP Reception
7PM | Performances
FREE

In 2007, the Council awarded over $320,000 in grants to 156 artists and arts organizations throughout the borough of Manhattan. The grant season will culminate on March 20th with the Manhattan Borough Arts Bash - an evening filled with music, dance, visual art, and theater.

The artists who will be featured at this year's Bash are:

Desipina & Company
(Fund For Creative Communities grantee)
Desipina & Company is a theater company striving to give a voice to South Asian, East Asian, and multi-ethnic writers. The company will present a reading of a short play from this year’s Seven.11 Convenience Theatre — an annual series that takes seven writers and develops his/her eleven-minute play, all of which take place in a convenience store.

Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS
(Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee)
Shattering stereotypes associated with body image BIGMANARTS creates performances that merge dance, media, and theater using humor, conceptual contrasts, and a keen eye towards visual detail. Performing with Keely Garfield, Lawrence Goldhuber will dance the duet Dances with Wolves (2001), which has been described as Fred and Ginger gone sour.

Mafrika Music Festival
(Fund for Creative Communities grantee)
An annual African art and culture festival in Harlem, Mafrika brings together artists and performers to represent the huge diversity of musical and artistic styles among African nations. NOOG TAABA will perform an exuberant African music and dance piece.

Sachiyo Ito & Company
(Fund for Creative Communities grantee)
For over 25 years, Sachiyo Ito & Company has been bridging East and West through artistic performances that promote Japanese culture through the arts, particularly dance. The company will be performing two short works, a Japanese classical dance and an Okinawan court dance, to offer a glimpse into the disparate styles of Japanese dance.

Shen Wei
(Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee)
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Shen Wei is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City. With his project Concubines of New York, Shen Wei has been documenting underground Chinese Opera performances, and will be showing a selection of these photographs.

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The 2007 Manhattan Borough Arts Bash is sponsored by Commerce Bank.