Saving Our Cultural Capital:
The Challenges Facing Independent Venues and Artists in Manhattan
Saturday, June 7th, 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Wolman Hall, 64 West 11th Street

A symposium hosted by The Tank, Milano The New School For Management and Urban Policy, and Fractured Atlas, in cooperation with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

Co-hosted by Collective Unconscious, chashama, The Field and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

New York City is a world-renowned cultural destination: from big-budget Broadway shows to dance performances in small Brooklyn lofts to Chelsea gallery openings. The performing arts drive the city's economy and tourism and give New York the cultural texture that makes it a uniquely dynamic environment.

As cost-of-living and real estate prices continue to rise, can young artists and small venues still call Manhattan home? New York – and Manhattan, in particular – cannot lose the energy brought by these individuals and organizations, and the higher-market entertainment industry in the city relies on their innovations…but can we still make New York work for the emerging arts? This event will bring together city officials, arts professionals, business representatives, advocates and freelancers for an afternoon of conversation about solutions to the challenges facing independent venues and emerging artists in Manhattan.

This event is FREE and open to
artists, advocates, policy-makers, foundation representatives
& everyone committed to keeping Manhattan the cultural capital of the world.

Saturday, June 7th, 2:00pm – 5:30pm
Wolman Hall, The New School, 64 West 11th Street
Program:
2:00pm: Doors open
2:30pm: Keynote speech by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer
3:00pm – 4:30pm: Panel discussion on the challenges facing independent venues and artists in Manhattan, followed by a Q&A session
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Livable New York Services Fair and Happy Hour with complimentary drinks, highlighting the resources available to freelance artists and small organizations including healthcare, accounting and law services. Featured organizations include:
• The Actors Fund
• ArtBusiness Initiative/Seedco Financial
• Arts & Business Council of New York
• Fractured Atlas
• New York City Performing Arts Spaces
• Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

RSVP: Rachel@thetanknyc.org
More information: http://www.thetanknyc.org/culturalcapital

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Lisa Bateman

Arbor Vitae
(what we want was free)

Installation
(Rooftop, Premier Veal Building)

MORE INFO

*555 West Street (off West Side Highway 2 blocks north of W. 12th) @ Gansevoort St. NYC

May 25-June 13th 2008

*kindly sponsored by the Manhattan Community Art Fund and the Pratt Institute Faculty Fund
special thanks to: The City of New York, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Chad Bolton, curator Sandra Skurvida, Jeffrey Manzer from the NYC Economic Development Corporation, Pablo Narvaez, Jon Day and Florent Restaurant.

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The Bronx Museum of the Arts is now accepting on-line applications for the fall 2008/spring 2009 semesters. Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) marks The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ ongoing commitment to provide professional development opportunities to emerging artists in the greater New York metropolitan area. AIM comprises a twelve-week seminar program offered annually in the fall and the spring. Classes meet on Tuesday evenings 6 - 8 p.m. Enrollment is limited to 18 artists per semester. The program culminates with an annual group exhibition and accompanying catalogue. AIM sessions provide information, instruction, and professional guidance by addressing areas of practical concern to artists, such as curatorial practice, copyright law, exhibition and public art opportunities, gallery representation, grants writing, income taxes, and marketing. A core set of workshops is annually enhanced by a number of guest speakers including artists, collectors, critics, curators, dealers, lawyers, and accountants. Only online applications for the fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters will be considered. Applications must be received no later than June 30, 2008. For more information and to apply on-line please visit: http://www.bronxmuseum.org/aim.html AIM is generously supported by the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, and Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

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(Image: Tom Moody)

LoVid will be doing a performance/screening/presentation at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan this coming Monday, May 19. They will be showing single channel work and performances including a new performance called Video Fingerprints that uses the electrical signals from several people's bodies to create live video and sound. we're quite excited to include signals from friends (listed below) who we expect to have interesting electricity flowing in them.

LoVid: Wirefull
Monday, May 19 @ 7pm
MoMA Theater 2
11 West 53 Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.
Manhattan

With body electricity by special guests:
eteam
Hanna Fushihara Aron
Marisa Olson
Michael J. Schumacher
Sabrina Gschwandtner
Thomas Beard
Bengala

see: MoMA Calendar

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The Actors Fund is launching a new program specifically geared toward the dance community, called The Dancers’ Resource. The program will address the unique situations dancers face because of the physically demanding nature of their work coupled with the significant financial challenges of earning a living in dance.

The Dancers’ Resource will offer seminars specifically designed for dancers, serve as a “support system” and will offer groups for dancers dealing with injuries or other health concerns. The Dancers’ Resource will have an online component to link dancers’ to additional resources and to create an online community for dancers. The program will also address mental health issues including eating disorders, substance abuse, depression and other clinical areas.

The Dancers’ Resource program was founded by Actors Fund Trustee Bebe Neuwirth. “Now there is somewhere dancers can go to safely and confidentially address their unique and complicated challenges,” said Neuwirth.

The initiative grew out of Neuwirth’s personal experience as a dancer. “Last year I had hip replacement surgery,” said Neuwirth. “It came after several years of physical therapy, arthroscopic surgery, and excruciating pain. Add to that the emotional stress of not being able to dance and not wanting people to know about my condition - and I think you understand what that prison is like. After the replacement I recognized how extremely lucky I was to have a great doctor and great support from the few people with whom I shared my secret. And so I’d like to create a support system for other dancers.”

Dancers’ Resource social worker Alice Vienneau, who spent 25 years on stage as a musical theatre performer before getting her social work degree, understands the unique challenges faced by performers. “My job is to pay attention to the specific needs of dancers,” she said. “The Dancers’ Resource will focus specifically on the needs of dancers and offer a gateway into The Fund.”

The Dancers’ Resource is just one of dozens of lifesaving programs provided by The Actors Fund. From the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, AIDS services and the Health Insurance Resource Center to employment training, healthcare and housing, The Actors Fund is meeting the very real needs of the performing arts and entertainment community.

For more information about The Dancers’ Resource and other programs offered by The Fund, call 212.221.7300 or visit www.actorsfund.org .

Healing
the
Dancer

An Annual Seminar

Please join us for the second annual Healing the Dancer seminar hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, founder of The Dancers’ Resource program of The Actors Fund, and featuring David Parsons of Parsons Dance Company as key-note speaker. A panel of experts will address the unique needs of the dance community, offering information and resources for obtaining health insurance and health care, nutrition, injury prevention, financial wellness, and more.

When: Thursday, May 15th Time: 3 -7 pm

Where: The New 42nd Street Studios, 229 West 42nd Street

Contact: Alice Vienneau, 212.221.7301 ext. 261 or avienneau@actorsfund.org

Presenters:

NUTRITION AND INJURY PREVENTION

Sandra Foschi, Nutritionist and physical therapist

Daniel White, DC, Chiropractor and former dancer

EMOTIONAL WELLBEING/MENTAL HEALTH

Donna Fish, LCSW, Psychotherapist and former dancer

Bradley Jones, LCSW, Psychotherapist and former dancer

FINANCIAL WELLNESS

Amanda Clayman, LMSW, Social Worker for Financial Wellness Program at The Actors Fund

Annette Lieberman, Psychotherapist and Author of The Money Mirror.

To register, please email avienneau@actorsfund.org, or call 212.221.7300 ext. 261.

This seminar is FREE and open to professional dancers and those who serve them.

Sponsored by The Actors Fund, AGMA, Career Transition For Dancers, Dance Magazine, Dancers Responding to AIDS, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Field, The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, New York Foundation for the Arts for the Arts, AGMA and Dancers Responding to AIDS.

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The Experimental Television Center is pleased to announce Finishing Funds 2008.

Finishing Funds provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation, computer‑based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances, interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web. We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works. Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate students are not eligible. The application requires a project description, resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project. Selection is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year. Announcement is made in early June.

The program is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by mediaThe foundation.

Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2008

Guidelines and applications are available on the web at: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/ in the ETC News Section and the Grants area or by mail or email.

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Chamber Music America Accepting Applications for the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project
Application deadline: February 28th, 2008

A program of Chamber Music America, the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project New Works: Creation and Presentation Program ( http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/gr_jazz.html ) provides funds to composer-led jazz ensembles for the creation and presentation of original music in the jazz idiom. The program is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

The program supports the creation and performance of new compositions by established ensembles with a documented performance history. The program also recognizes ensemble members and their individual and collective contributions to the compositional process. Professional jazz ensembles that are led by a composer/performer or are cooperatively run are eligible. Only one member of an ensemble may be the designated composer on an application.

To be eligible, the ensemble must:
be an Organization-level member of Chamber Music America;
perform original music that includes improvisation as an integral aspect of its composition and performance;
have a demonstrated and documented history of performing together with an ongoing core of musicians;
have given a minimum of ten public performances within the past two years;
range in size from two to ten members;
and be based in the U.S.
The composer must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Grants of up to $15,000 each are available for ensembles ranging from two to ten members.

Over 100 commissions have been awarded to jazz ensembles through this program since 2000. Past grantees include: Greg Osby, Jovino Santos-Neto, Jane Ira Bloom, Don Byron, and many others.

For complete grant program guidelines and information on CMA membership, visit the CMA website at www.chamber-music.org or contact Susan Dadian at sdadian@chamber-music.org.

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Concubines of New York
photography & installation by Shen Wei
January 28 - February 22, 2008

CAAC Gallery 456
456 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Tel. 212-431-9740
Gallery Hours: M-F, 12 PM - 6 PM

www.shenphoto.com

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Milk-n-Honey, a new multimedia piece about the pleasures and politics of eating -- featuring song, dance, video, and food.  Created from interviews with farmers, flavor chemists, migrant workers, advertising execs, chefs, waiters, diabetics, and regular people who eat.  

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FAR FIELD ARTIST RESIDENCIES Fall 2007
Field Artist Residencies offer free space to artists who work in the disciplines of dance, theater, music, text, performance art, and interdisciplinary forms. These residencies seek to supply artists with the resources to allow them to delve fully into the creative process without anxiety about the cost of their explorations.
To learn more visit www.thefield.org

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The Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) program was started by the Japan Foundation
to promote Japanese performing arts in the United States. PAJ supports
the initiatives taken by U.S. nonprofit organizations to expose geographically
diverse American audiences to Japanese performing arts, and encourages
collaborations between Japanese and American artists.

The Japan Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for fiscal year
2008-2009. The Touring Grant assists the presentation of Japanese
performing arts in the U.S. and Canada, emphasizing locations outside
major metropolitan areas, and the Collaboration Grant allows collaborating
artists to create new works with the potential to develop into a touring project.
PAJ will fund up to 50% of the project costs.

Applications are due by October 29, 2007 for projects taking place between
April 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009. Visit the Japan Foundation New York
Office's website (www.jfny.org/jfny_paj.html) for guidelines and
application
form.

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The 2007 SAJA Convention and Job Fair will take place July 12-15 at Columbia University and the City University of New York.

3rdi NY organizes day-long Super Workshop: Making Documentary Films, at the 2007 SAJA Conference. The workshop will explore two aspects of developing a documentary idea: making a trailer and writing a treatment.
Click http://www.sajaconvention.org/ for more details!

Workshop Details
Date: Thursday, July 12
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Location: CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; 3rd Floor, 230 West 41st
Street btw 7th and 8th avenues, Room TBA
Open to Non-Members, but Pre -Registration Required.
To register: www.sajaconvention.org
Cost is from $100 - $140 for entire 3-day SAJA convention

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JOB POSTING: New Vic Teaching Artist
(Part Time Seasonal Employment)

The New Victory Theater is New York City’s first and only professional theater dedicated to presenting high quality performing arts productions, at affordable ticket prices, for young people and families. Intrinsic to the New Vic mission is a close synergy between the Theater’s performance and arts education programming. The theater is committed to creating ever-widening avenues of opportunity for Pre K – 12th grade students, their families and teachers to grow professionally and personally in and through the arts. This commitment is realized through the three, core elements of its Education Programs: Education Membership, Performances and Classroom Workshops, New Vic / New 42 Youth Corps and New Vic Studio: Workshops for Families. We serve the greater New York area with participating schools / community based organizations from through out the city, Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Qualifications
Required:
➢ Demonstratable skills and professional experience in the performing arts (i.e. various genres and styles of dance, music, theater, puppetry, circus arts, etc.)
➢ Teaching experience, previous work in NYC public schools a plus
➢ Experience working with diverse populations and grade levels
➢ Commitment to expanding teaching skills through New Vic professional development, cooperative curriculum planning, reflection and feedback.
➢ College degree

Desired:
➢ Able to teach in languages other than English, including American Sign Language
➢ Experience with special populations
➢ Experience with early childhood populations
➢ Experience with English Language Learners

Application Materials:

1. A Cover letter explaining your approach to teaching and/or the philosophy that informs your work as both an artist and a teacher.

2. A Resume demonstrating your experience as both an artist and a teacher.

3. A 45 minute Pre-performance classroom lesson plan inspired by one of the following productions from the New Vic’s 2006 - 2007 Season: Rennie Harris’ NY Legends of Hip-Hop; Little Donkey; Circus Oz; Lifeboat; Macbeth; Ragamala.

Plans must be age-appropriate, experiential and designed to highlight your particular
artistry, classroom experience and approach to school-based work. Season and program
details available at http://www.newvictory.org/educationSchoolTools.m

Application Deadline: Monday June 11, 2007

Submit application materials by mail, fax or email to:
The New Victory Theater
229 W. 42nd Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Attn: Education Department
FAX: (646) 562-0188
education@new42.org

Auditions will be held in late June 2007 for the 2007-2008 Season.

EOE
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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The Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA) and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) are proud to join forces to provide a unique conference filled with informative workshops, panel discussions, interactive projects, and performing arts presentations that highlight several key issues in Arts-in-education. Sessions will bring together several experts, professionals and advocates in the field.

This conference celebrates the skills, talents, presence, and the necessity of the many professionals working in collaboration with African Diaspora and Latino communities in New York City.

LMCC will be holding an information session on our Arts-in-Education program, Creative Curricula, at 2:00pm. For more information on Creative Curricula please call Chad Bolton at 212 219 9401 x134 or Gideon Unkeless at 212 219 9401 x117.

Open to teaching artists, classroom teachers, and administrators. RSVP no later than April 13th 2007. For more information go to www.latinoarts.org

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ThaiLinks presents the third biennial Thai Takes: Independent Film Festival, curated and produced by the collective, as a snapshot of Thailand's emerging and ever-diversifying film community and new Thai American voices. This unique program includes 20 U.S. premieres with features by acclaimed directors Wisit Sasanatieng, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and Jira Maligool; documentaries including the U.S. premiere of Areeya Chumsai and Nisa Kongsri's breakout debut film Innocence; and experimental short films including the U.S. premiere of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's The Anthem. Select screenings will be followed by discussion with the filmmakers. Coinciding with Songkran, the Thai new year, Thai Takes 3 opens at the Museum of the Moving Image from Friday April 13 to Sunday April 15, and continues at The Pioneer Theater from Saturday April 21 to Sunday April 22. Please see the festival website for schedule and more information at http://www.thailinks.org/thaitakes3.

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As part of its 30th anniversary as a leader in the field of community grounded cultural centers, the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, in collaboration with NYUs Tisch School of the Arts, is hosting a conference the evening of June 8 and all day Saturday, June 9, 2007 titled SUSTAINING VOICES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD:  Community Grounded Cultural Arts Organizations @ 30. For more information please visit http://www.cccadi.org/node/220.

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Sally Gross, a 2007 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant recipient, is reviewed by The New York Times.

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Environmental artists, landscape designers, and multi-disciplinary artists are invited to submit proposals for site-specific works on the grounds of the 450-acre I-Park artists' community in rural East Haddam, Connecticut. 

Six artists and designers will be selected by a three-person panel for a dedicated two-week residency program from June 5 - 18, 2007. Selected artists will also receive grants of $1,000, with up to an additional $1,000 for reimbursement of travel costs and/or materials. A public event on June 23, 2007 will showcase the work. 

The application deadline is January 29, 2007. For additional details and application materials, visit the I-Park website: http://www.i-park.org/Grants.html

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NDI has announced upcoming opportuntities for teaching artists, professional dancers, teachers and musicians:

* January 22, 2007 - Free Audition Class for those interested in working for NDI
* March 12-22, 2007 - Teaching Artist Training Workshop

Applications and additional information about each program is available at the National Dance Institute website:
http://www.nationaldance.org

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Artists Alliance Inc. is pleased to announce its 2007 Open Call for the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program

The Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program offers two free six- month residency sessions to 8 visual artists a year plus a small stipend to each artist. The Program is funded through generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Greenwall Foundation.

Located in the vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood of the Lower East Side, the AAI Studio Programs underscores AAI's mission to support the careers of emerging and mid-career artists working in all fields as well as hard-working artists who fall outside the system. The Studio Program is open to emerging, mid-career and hard-working artists who fall outside the system. All disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and new media will be accepted.

Please note new Application Deadline: March 15, 2007 (postmarked)

Two free six- month residency sessions:

Session 1 begins June 4, 2007 - November 27, 2007
Session 2 begins December 4, 2007 - May 31, 2008
(artists may apply for both sessions)

More Information about Artists Alliance Inc. at www.aai-nyc.org
More details about the AAI Studio Program here

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Zest for Education of Youth Brings Rhythm, Arts and Humanities (ZEYBRAH) presents the 7th Annual Moment In Time Event - "Honoring Father." Dedicated to Chief Oni Eluwade, the Most High Chief Oloja Obalesun of Ife, Nigeria (1878-2004), the Moment in Time Event will be a day of African music, dance and theater for global understanding and peace.

ZEYBRAH is presenting this event in collaboration with The Orisa Community Development Corporation and will feature the following artists:

* Yakar Roots and Rhythms from Senegal
* Baba Ola Jagun from Nigeria
* Ileana Santamaria & Friends from Cuba
* Amma McKen and Omiyesa from the U.S.

Moment in Time will begin at 1 p.m. on December 16, 2006
The Countee Cullen Library (104 West 136th Street near Malcolm X Boulevard)

ZEYBRAH is a 2005-06 Fund for Creative Communities grantee

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December 6, 8PM Free

Inwood Coffee House @ the Piper's Kilt: A night of acoustic roots music of past and present will kick off with an open mic at 8PM with an exciting mix of songwriters, instrumentalists and poets, and will be followed by stellar performances by featured acts. Featured acts include:
* Singer songwriter Karen Hudson with guitarist extraordinaire Skip Krevens and the crisp vocal stylings of Maureen Russell performing songs from Hudson's CD "Hudson River View"
* The Demolition String Band and their kid-friendly-but-safe-for-adults program Americana Family Jamboree which draws on songs from the Americana songbook, plus songs from their acclaimed CD "Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow; The Songs Of Ola Belle Reed," and original material, and
* the Harmony Brothers: Jerry Hertz and Charlie Goldman whose golden voices are supported by mandolin, banjo and guitar, will present their repertoire of high lonesome harmonies in the grand tradition of the Louvin Brothers and the Everly Brothers.

Inwood Coffeehouse @ Piper's Kilt of Inwood
4944 Broadway (A or 1 train to 207th Street; 7, 12 and 20 bus to 207th Street)
212 569-7071

Karen Hudson is a 2005-06 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee.

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Choreographer Pavel Zustiak teams up with famed video artist Tal Yarden exposing postmortem ecstasy somewhere between a dream and a memory entitled Le Petit Mort. Raw, unsettling, emotionally charged images ask questions that are ultimately unanswerable - questions of the matters of the end. Scenes of disquieting stillness and agitation, haunting traces of life past living, will leave a residue that can't be washed off.

Performances December 7-10 at Performance Space 122: www.ps122.org/performances/palissimo.html
Additional information at www.lepetitmortshow.com

Palissimo is a 2005-2006 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grantee.

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And Were Afraid to Ask Nolini Barretto, Producer, Sitelines Festival; Michele Brody, Artist; Peter Eleey, Curator and Producer, Creative Time; Anne Frederick, Executive Director, Hester Street Collaborative; Adam Kleinman (Moderator), Associate Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

WHAT:

Grants for Art in Public Spaces Panel Discussion and Information Session

Artists and curators in the public art field will present their past projects and discuss conceptual and practical issues in public art, including site and neighborhood selection, permits and insurance, community outreach, and project timelines and budgets. After the panel, LMCC staff will review the application guidelines, present sample timelines and permit agreements, and answer any questions you may have.

WHEN:

Thursday, August 17, 4pm

WHERE:

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

RSVP: http://www.lmcc.net/grants/infosessions.html

WHO (PANELISTS):

Nolini Barretto, Producer, Sitelines Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council worked for the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance for thirteen years. She was the Director of Marketing for Dance Theater Workshop, helping it transition into its new building, managing its re-branding efforts, and launching its inaugural season. While at DTW, Ms. Barretto was part of the National Arts Marketing Project's Advanced Audience Development Training. She was a founding Director of the Emergency Fund for Student Dancers, and continues to serve on its Board and on the Advisory Board of Buglisi/Foreman Dance.

Michele Brody, Artist, has been actively pursuing her career as an installation and public artist for the past twelve years. She has had one-person shows at Littlejohn Contemporary in NYC; Dina4 Projekte in Munich, Germany; and at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo in San José, Costa Rica. She has been the recipient of grants and residencies from the Pollack/Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her permanent public works of art are installed on Wall Street, the Allerton MTA station in the Bronx, and at PS/MS 194 in the Bronx.

Peter Eleey. Curator and Producer, Creative Time has organized a diverse range of Creative Time artworks and events including Cai Guo-Qiang's Light Cycle (2003) pyrotechnics project for Central Park; Jenny Holzer's first xenon projections in the United States for New York City (2004); and sculptures, murals, performances, and conferences with Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Zhang Huan, and Gary Hume, among others. He has also organized multi-artist projects and exhibitions for Creative Time, such as The Dreamland Artist Club (2004-5) in Coney Island, and The Plain of Heaven (2005), an international exhibition situated in a vacant meatpacking warehouse in Manhattan. As a critic, he is a regular contributor to London-based frieze magazine, and has lectured internationally on issues in public art practice.

Anne Frederick, Executive Director, Hester Street Collaborative co-founded Hester Street Collaborative (HSC), a design/build non-profit that works with underserved New York City communities to improve their physical environments. Prior to founding HSC, Ms. Frederick worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio and taught as a built environment educator in the Parsons Pre-college program and the New York Foundation for Architecture’s Learning by Design program. Ms. Frederick initiated and taught the design-build education program “Ground Up” at Chinatown’s I.S. 131, which in 2004 completed the “The Wishing Garden,” a sculpture garden that students designed and built on their school campus. Ms. Frederick continues to teach at I.S. 131 and has expanded the Ground Up program to include an additional school, P.S. 134 in the Lower East Side. Currently, Ms. Frederick is working to further HSC’s mission by partnering with two local coalitions to ensure community participation in the re-design of local parks in Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

Adam Kleinman (Moderator), Associate Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is a curator and critic who has programmed numerous art exhibitions and events, including a lecture, events series, and rotating mini-exhibit in Terminal 5, Eero Saarinen’s vacated TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport (2004); a retrospective of Architectural Body Research Foundation (Arakawa/Gins) at the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway (2000); and numerous gallery shows in Chelsea, NY. In addition to his more formal work, Adam has deployed site-specific one-off performances around New York City. His critical work has been published in Abstract, Artforum, Artnet, Ego, Review, X-tra, “…” and in a range of independent artists' publications.

Opening Ceremony, Hester Street Collaborative's SIGN and PATH, 2006, funded by the 2005 Grants for Art in Public Spaces program

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