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Event | Public Programming – Access Restricted

CANCELED Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed "Actions: What You Can Do With the City"

Location

195 Broadway, former AT&T Building, between Fulton and Dey Streets

Dates & Times

Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 6:30–8:30PM

A curatorial talk by Giovanna Borasi, Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Mirko Zardini, Director, both from The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal

The curators of Actions: What You Can Do With the City, described as “99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world,” discuss the exhibition and how citizens’ actions of walking, gardening, recycling, and playing have renewed and re-imagined cities. Actions was presented in 2009 by The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and the Graham Foundation in Chicago in 2010. Built in the neo-Classical style in 1912, the former AT&T headquarters features a forest of Doric columns in the lobby. The building was also the location from which the first trans-Atlantic call was made to London in 1927.

This Access Restricted event has been cancelled due to inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Stefanie Nelson Dance Group

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 1–2PM

LMCC grantees Stefanie Nelson Dance Group will perform Prolegomena II - a journey into “the subconscious wanderings that come to light when enclosed in a dark space.” Created in collaboration with visual artist Karolien Soete and composer Alexander Berne, Prolegomena II is inspired by an ongoing exploration of literal and metaphorical darkness, characterized by vigorous movement that isolates and elevates.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Arieb Azhar with Raya Brass Band

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 1–2PM

Arieb Azhar is a Pakistani Sufi & Folk music artist. Arieb's music has won global acclaim and he has many fans all around the world. Raya Brass Band does it on the dance floor, mashing up the music of Eastern Europe with American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany (Gypsy) melodies played on reeds, trumpet, accordion, tuba and drums, Brooklyn favorites Raya Brass Band brings you the best in Eastern European wedding music.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Michael Arenella & The Dreamland Orchestra

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 1–2PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Mark Guiliana's BEAT MUSIC

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, June 28, 2012, 1–3PM

According to Modern Drummer magazine, Mark Guiliana “may well be at the forefront of an exciting new style of drumming.” The 28-year-old New Jersey native’s unique and un-compromised approach to playing the drums has earned him international acclaim as both a leader and a sideman. In 2004, Mark created HEERNT, his ‘experimental-garage-jazz’ trio based out of New York. The band’s debut record, Locked In A Basement, was released in the spring of 2006 and was met with praise from critics and musicians alike. Legendary drummer Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson) called the record “the most exuberant, dramatic, beautiful, sassy, genre-busting little outing that I've heard since I don't know when.” As a sideman, Mark’s longest partnership has come alongside world-renowned jazz bassist Avishai Cohen. He toured all over the world with Avishai from 2003 until 2008 while appearing on six studio records, and a live DVD recorded at the Blue Note in New York City. Mark has also recorded and/or performed with Meshell Ndegeocello, Dhafer Youssef, Wayne Krantz, Matisyahu, Jazz Mandolin Project, Jason Lindner, Brad Shepik, Bobby McFerrin, Tigran Hamasyan, and many more. For more information please visit www.markguiliana.com.

Ongoing | Public Programming

Transforming Function Opens at Conrad New York now through October 26, 2012

Location

Conrad New York, 102 North End Avenue

Dates & Times

July 2, 2012 through October 26, 2012

Installation shot, Transforming Function at Conrad New York, Photo by: Whitney Browne for LMCC 2012

Times:
Tuesdays–Thursdays, 12–6PM; Fridays & Saturdays, 12–8PM

Transforming Function features artists who—by excavating the fields of technology, science, architecture, and/or design—repurpose theoretical tools, virtual platforms, and formal techniques to inform their diverse conceptual and aesthetic investigations. Our direct relationships, whether concretely or abstractly, to these fields are developed inevitably while navigating daily life in both physical and online environments. The artists in this exhibition, by creating works that reimagine purpose, urge us to develop relationships to these environments that extend beyond passive consumption. By adapting uses and subverting functions, the artists de-familiarize or reveal something new about these tools, platforms, and techniques. The artists then use them to generate a deeper understanding of the fields themselves through re-contextualization or, alternatively, exploit them to explore the complexities and construction of personal, social, and political narratives. The resulting work takes many forms, including sculpture, photography, audio, video and new media offering new perspectives and approaches to viewing, listening, experiencing, and interacting.

Artists featured at Conrad New York include luciana achugar, Leah Beeferman, Blake Carrington, Timothy Hutchings, Simone Leigh, and Esperanza Mayobre.

Artists featured at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island include John Andrew, Leah Beeferman, Ingrid Burrington, Kabir Carter, caraballo-farman, Blake Carrington, Timothy Hutchings, Simone Leigh, Anna Lundh, Esperanza Mayobre, Sarah Oppenheimer, Parallelograms, and Claudia Weber.

All of the artists in Transforming Function have participated in LMCC’s Workspace or Swing Space artist residency programs where many of these projects were conceived or developed.

Additional programming such as workshops, demonstrations, and talks to be announced.

Event | Events

The Runway

Location

The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street, 55 Water Street, between Old Slip and Broad Street

Dates & Times

Monday, July 2, 2012, 8–10PM

In this charming comedy, Oscar-nominee Demián Bichir (A BETTER LIFE, Weeds) stars as Ernesto, a Colombian pilot whose plane has crashed in a small Irish village. Not able to speak a word of English, a precocious 9-year old boy named Paco, the only one in his town who knows Spanish, becomes his translator. Rewriting Ernesto’s mysterious and questionable past, Paco turns him into a hero and a celebrity, motivating the entire town to rally behind Ernesto to help rebuild his plane. When a seedy Colombian detective arrives and threatens to reveal a dark secret about Ernesto, the town begins to question who they can trust. Inspired by true events, THE RUNWAY tells the story of a boy needing a father, a man wanting a family, and a town willing to do anything for a hero.d

Event | Events

FEEL…FORM

Location

Sheltered Arcade at North End Way

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 1–2PM

FEEL…FORM is a dance meditation on the relationship between aesthetics and ideology. For River To River 2012 Bessie Award winning choreographer luciana achugar revisits the work in a site based context. Originally co-commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and The Chocolate Factory, and premiering in May 2012, the work presents dance as a celebration of experience, and pleasure as the consummation of experience. In FEEL…FORM four women engage in a psychedelia-inspired kaleidoscope that multiplies their experience and reflects both rigorous formalism and corporeal excess.

Event | Events

Twelfth Night

Location

Castle Clinton, Battery Park

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 7–9PM

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7–9PM

Friday, July 6, 2012, 7–9PM

Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7–9PM

Sunday, July 8, 2012, 7–9PM

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 7–9PM

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 7–9PM

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 7–9PM

Friday, July 13, 2012, 7–9PM

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7–9PM

Sunday, July 15, 2012, 7–9PM

New York Classical Theatre, the company that brought you last season’s epic production of Henry V, presents William Shakespeare’s greatest comedy: Twelfth Night. A magical journey of mistaken identities, misguided lovers and joyous celebration told through some of the bard’s greatest lyrical poetry. Staged as a love letter to our beautiful city, this production is set in 1900s New York, a time of excitement, wonderment, and possibility here in Gotham.

Event | Events

Arieb Azhar

Location

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 7:30–10PM

Sharp eloquence, humanist politics, and mystic poetries are given a global voice by this singer-songwriter and his acoustic band from Islamabad, Pakistan. Defying easy categorization, Arieb Azhar’s mesmerizing baritone “encompasses about all the emotions life has to offer.” (PRI) He leads a quartet of musicians in an eclectic mix of urban and folk-based songs grounded in Sufi and other humanist poetries from across Eurasia. Azhar pays tribute to Irish balladeers, Croatian gypsies, Punjabi traders and ancient Sanskrit texts.

This concert will be followed by an intimate artist conversation and talkback between Arieb Azhar and Rachel Cooper, Director of Cultural Programs and Performing Arts at The Asia Society.

Event | Events

Megan Burtt & The Cure for Lov

Location

One New York Plaza at Water and Whitehall Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:30–3PM

Megan Burtt travels the world relentlessly seeking the moments of grit and grace that make every day precious, capturing these emotional experiences in song. Burtt is joined by her band, The Cure For Love, featuring Louis Cato, Adam Tressler, and James Williams.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

(((audience))) - Source of Uncertainty

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 5, 2012, 1–2PM

((audience)) is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers. Our central project is the ((audience)) festival, an unprecedented project that explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. We also organize a monthly salon in Lower Manhattan called Sound Off. ((audience)) is supported by the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and is a fiscally sponsored project of Harvestworks.

Event | Events

The Saints Tour

Location

John Street United Methodist Church, 44 John Street

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7–9PM

River To River Festival presents The Saints Tour by playwright Molly Rice, directed by Maureen Towey. The Saints Tour is a journey through Lower Manhattan that traces the emergences and residue of saints in that small pocket of the world; for it has been scientifically documented that a disproportionate number of Saints are born in that very area. They emerge in various ways: sometimes they burst from a human body like a butterfly from a bark cocoon, sometimes they crawl out from under someone’s old, used up skin. When they emerge, spontaneous music may erupt. Sometimes messages are left. There is usually a trace. By taking The Saints Tour, you significantly raise your chances of witnessing this singular event.

Event | Events

Underneath Where We Are

Location

77 Water street, between Old Slip and Gouverneur Lane

Dates & Times

Monday, July 9, 2012, 1–3PM

Choreographer Tara O’Con revisits her work Underneath Where We Are, which was originally commissioned by, and premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater in December 2010. A subtle and understated movement piece for two dancers and ambient soundscore, Underneath Where We Are is a sensory, tactile, meditative, and obsessive exploration of the body's relationship to the space it inhabits.

Event | Events

Side By Side

Location

The Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street, 55 Water Street, between Old Slip and Broad Street

Dates & Times

Monday, July 9, 2012, 8–10PM

Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side By Side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

Feature film preceded by stop-motion animated short Flip created by young filmmakers in the Children's Museum of the Arts' (CMA) unique Media Lab. Flip was made in the Puppet TV from 2010, the first of its kind at CMA, which gave Art Colonists the opportunity to co-create a piece that combined the mediums of live puppetry and television. Teaching artists guided filmmaker/puppeteers through the process of writing a script, building puppets and sets, performing, recording and adding sound and music. The result of this intense and in-depth collaboration is Flip.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Sofia Tosello

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 1–2PM

Sofia Tosello grew up in Argentina listening to local singers, as well as to Brazilian music and Duke Ellington. She moved to New York when she was 18 and went to study with legendary jazz singer Sheila Jordan. She’ll play live songs from debut album, which mixes the sounds of Buenos Aires’ streets with downtown New York.

Event | Events

Tere O’Connor Dance

Location

Mannahatta Park, Wall Street between Front and South Streets

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 2–4PM

This is a work-in-progress showing of a dance created on and with four emerging dance makers. O’Connor has had a mentoring relationship with each of these artists. This dance is the first in a series of three distinct works to be created over the next two years, each with a different cast and conceptual concern. In 2013, the works will be merged together to create a fourth dance. In this culminating project the dances will infect each other, erase each other, and change to become something very different from their original form.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Sam Barnes

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 1–2PM

Event | Events

Missy Mazzoli & Victoire

Location

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 7:30–9PM

This musical portrait of “postclassical queen bee,” composer Missy Mazzoli, will feature Mazzoli at the keyboard fronting her internationally beloved ensemble Victoire. Performing songs with her own signature “shimmering, surging, post-Minimalist flow” (Time Out New York), she will be joined by Matt Mehlan with his band Skeletons who Pitchfork calls "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion." The concert will feature world premieres by Mehlan and Mazzoli.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Isle of Klezbos

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 1–2PM

ISLE of KLEZBOS approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. Based in NYC, this soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women’s klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Band repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing and retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals.

Event | Events

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic

Location

Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City at the corner of River Terrace and Warren Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 12, 2012, 7–9PM

One of the most influential names in R&B and funk music, George Clinton is the leader of Parliament/Funkadelic (or P-Funk), a collective of wildly talented musicians who revolutionized soul music in the 70s by incorporating influences from Hendrix, Zappa, and Sly. George and P-Funk have been rocking steady for more than 50 years with hit songs like “Flash Light,” “Mothership Connection,” and “Chocolate City.” In 1997, George Clinton and 15 other members of the group became the largest band yet inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, proving that they are epic in both size and sound. Clinton has been a particular influence on Prince, and recorded several albums for his Paisley Park record label. Come down to Rockefeller Park and join One Nation Under A Groove, getting down just for the funk of it.

Event | Events

Eleanor Friedberger with Ex Cops

Location

Pier 17, The Seaport

Dates & Times

Friday, July 13, 2012, 7–9PM

Eleanor Friedberger is an exceptional songwriter, a fearless performer, and one of the sweetest alto voices in music. A masterful wordsmith, Friedberger mashes up colorful, complicated lyrical lines into beautiful refrains, often describing whirlwind New York moments within her narratives. Her performances are delivered with passionate vocal phrasing and excellent manipulation of melody, never ceasing in her explorations of sound. Although Friedberger is known for her role as the lead singer of The Fiery Furnaces, one of music’s most interesting and dynamic bands, she is just as comfortable playing alone on a stage with an acoustic guitar as she is fronting a band.

Event | Public Programming

Open House at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 12–5PM

Sunday, July 15, 2012, 12–5PM

Event | Events

Ecstatic™ Summer: A Far Cry Orchestra with Oneohtrix Point Never & David Lang

Location

World Financial Center Winter Garden, 200 Vesey Street

Dates & Times

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 7–10PM

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (and co-founder of Bang on a Can) David Lang's hour-long, slowly-evolving work for strings, Darker, is the starting point for a live re-imagination by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin), who will real time loop and electronically process the live string sound of A Far Cry Orchestra back over and on to themselves.

Daniel Lopatin will also present his own work with selections from of his critically acclaimed albums (Returnal and Replica) specially arranged for A Far Cry Orchestra.

Event | Events

Alarm Will Sound

Location

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street

Dates & Times

Sunday, July 15, 2012, 7:30–10PM

Alarm Will Sound's fans know that the group has been combining music and theater for some time now. What they might not know is that John Cage's work was an early inspiration to take that path. The members of the ensemble did a production of Song Books as students years before starting Alarm Will Sound and much of what they've accomplished since then in innovating the concert-hall experience goes right back to the excitement they felt during that first Song Books. It's the kind of piece that calls on performers to expand how they think of themselves—using not just their instruments, but also their bodies, the space between them, and the experience of coming together itself.

Perhaps Cage's greatest music-theater work, Song Books is a collection of instrumental compositions, songs, electronic music, and theater pieces that can be combined in countless ways. Song Books holds an astonishing range of musical styles that is increasingly relevant to today's musical world and that resonates with the breadth of Alarm Will Sound's repertoire. This original production—created by director Nigel Maister and Cage scholar Rob Haskins—reimagines Cage's 1970 text as a contemporary, smart, and dramatic theatrical and musical event.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

Workshop: Teaching Artist Focus: Curriculum Development

Location

http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/workshops

Dates & Times

Monday, July 16, 2012, 3–6PM

In this interactive workshop, teaching artists will use Community Word Project’s philosophy of inquiry as a method for developing and sequencing innovative, arts-based lesson plans for K-12 students. The workshop is open to teaching artists working in any artistic discipline, with some prior experience in creating a lesson plan.

To register, visit LMCC’s arts services webpage on Thursday, July 5, 12PM.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Kathy Westwater

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 1–2PM

LMCC Swing Space artist Kathy Westwater will show a work in progress version of PARK - a site-based dance piece first developed during a 6-month residency at Fresh Kills Landfill.

Info Session | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Info Session at Repertorio Espanol, 138 East 27th Street

Location

Repertorio Espanol, 138 East 27th Street

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 4–6PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

DJ Turmix

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore performance.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at Chatham Square Branch Library - in Mandarin Chinese only

Location

Chatham Square Branch Library , 33 East Broadway

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 4–6PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Twistycat

Location

LMCC's LentSpace in Hudson Square, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 19, 2012, 1–2PM

Twistycat is the electroacoustic bass woodwinds brainchild of Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci. The Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone are acoustically related to each individual venue through electroacoustic feedback. The creation of an immediate awareness of space aims to break the antiquated barriers between performance and audience, and realize the innate potential of sound as energy and information. Twistycat's compositions explore themes such as electronic abstraction of acoustic timbre, the bleed between the senses of sight and hearing, post-industrial dissonances, and radio as a vehicle for displacing sound.

Event | Artist Residencies – SPARC

Jesse Tobin - Art Book Showing

Location

Visions, 135 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 3:30–4:30PM

Art display showcasing the students’ art books and paintings. Themes include: food, fashion, scripture and memories.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue

Location

El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 4–6PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Doug Wamble

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 1–2PM

Doug Wamble hails from Tennessee, and his family is from Oxford, Mississippi, the real place that William Faulkner used as the inspiration for his award-winning novels and short stories. Wamble currently lives in New York, where his jazz and blues playing and composing are in demand. He has recorded on the Marsalis record label, toured with Madeleine Peyroux, appeared on recordings with Wynton and Branford Marsalis (separately), and composed scores for Ken Burns’ documentary films. The New Yorker magazine said, “This acoustic guitarist, singer, and composer is a one-man compendium of avant Americana.”

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at HERE ARTS CENTER, 145 Avenue of the Americas

Location

HERE Arts Center, 145 Avenue of the Americas

Dates & Times

Monday, July 30, 2012, 3–5PM

Event | Artist Residencies – SPARC

Maura McGurk - Sketchbook Exhibition

Location

Stanley Isaacs Center, 415 East 93rd Street, New York, NY 10021

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1–2:30PM

Join us, and meet the artists as seniors from the Stanley Isaacs Center display their sketchbooks. These creative investigations include mixed-media narratives that tell a story, as well as “traditional” sketchbooks full of sketches and drawings from life. Refreshments will be served.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Olamide Faison

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1–2PM

Olamide is a singer/songwriter born and raised in Hells Kitchen, New York City. He was introduced to the music industry in 1999 as a member of the Jive recording group Imajin

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

DJ Béco Dranoff

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 1–2PM

Béco Dranoff has been professionally active in the Brazilian music industry for over 25 years. His multifaceted career includes work as A&R, record producer, creative consultant, radio programmer/producer, DJ & selector, music supervisor, compiler and more. Béco's international expertise positions him as a unique bridge for cultural projects between Brazil and the world. His love for music started at an early age influenced by older siblings who listened to The Beatles and Brazilian music non-stop around the house.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Jazzmeia Horn

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 1–2PM

Jazzmeia Horn is a jazz singer who's been in the scene for a while - she was featured as part of Harlem Jazz Festival, was part of Grammy Jazz Ensemble, and has received great reviews from Smalls, All About Jazz, Dallas Museum of Art, and more.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street

Location

Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 4–6PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Jason Green

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore performance. Guitar - jazz, blues, latin, bluegrass

Info Session | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Info Session at Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street

Location

Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 5–7PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Mad Satta

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1–2PM

Mad Satta is a rapidly rising soul/r&b group comprised of some of the tri-state areas most talented young musicians, founded by vocalist Joanna Teters and upcoming jazz bass player, Ben Carr.

Joanna Teters, based in Boston, is a brilliant vocal stylist with roots in jazz, blues, reggae and pop music. She is backed by bass player and principle composer for the group Ben Carr, guitarist Ted Morcaldi, drummer Zane West, and Kevin Theodore on keyboards. With the recent addition of a horn section, Mad Satta is turning heads with it's unique blend of soul music.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Swing Space Information Session

Location

LMCC, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 9, 2012, 3–4:30PM

Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 7–8:30PM

Swing Space is a project-based residency program that places visual and performing artists and arts groups in space for the development and presentation of new projects. Since its launch in 2005, Swing Space has placed over one thousand artists in more than 20 different locations throughout Lower Manhattan and on Governors Island all generously provided by the Downtown real estate community and LMCC’s programming partners. Swing Space is designed to address short-term space needs for a wide range of projects and to encourage creative, experimental, and collaborative approaches to artistic practice in unconventional spaces. Register for an information session below.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Lora Faye

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 1–2PM

With her rich, captivating, timeless voice, Lora-Faye makes lo-fi Americana that often sounds like it could have been pulled off an old Alan Lomax reel-to-reel. There’s no flash, no “look at me, I know Folk music!” vibe, just from-the-soul songs that sound like they were made to be played in the cotton fields, on the front porch or at the local church revival in some alternate universe.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Joe Alterman Trio

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 1–2PM

Joe Alterman Trio is a jazz pianist, bassist and drummer whose playing is a joyous throwback to the keyboard stylings of the 1950s. By merging the patient touch of past pianists with his own contemporary sound, Alterman manages to revitalize the familiar, rekindling memories of why you started listening to jazz in the first place.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Wyndham Baird

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 1–2PM

Prodigiously talented folksinger Wyndham Baird plays traditional and original songs on piano and guitar.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at Artists Space: Books & Talks, 55 Walker Street

Location

Artists Space: Books & Talks, 55 Walker Street

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 6–8PM

Event | Artist Residencies – Process Space

Big Dance Theater Presents a Work-in-Progress

Location

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, August 18, 2012, 3–5PM

Moving from large scale performance frames, to the intimacy of the crypt-like basement of the Chocolate Factory, Big Dance Theater teams up with playwright Sibyl Kempson (Crime or Emergency) to install their signature blend of performance, text, and visual design for an audience of just 30 per show. Kempson’s Ich, Kürbisgeist is set in a harsh quasi-medieval landscape facing destruction, populated by a community speaking a rigorous, specific, and completely invented language. Every word is semi-recognizable: an amalgam of English, Swedish, German-- and Sid Ceasar. The language is as tough and unforgiving as the windswept, uncultivated landscape.

Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island is located steps from the main ferry dock. As you disembark walk up the small hill and to the right. Building 110 is the first building on the right. Enter through the center door.

Ferries to Governors Island are free and depart regularly from the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan and Pier 6 in Brooklyn. Visit the Governors Island website for more information about visiting.

Space is limited, RSVP required.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at Joe’s Pub , 425 Lafayette Street

Location

Joe’s Pub , 425 Lafayette Street

Dates & Times

Monday, August 20, 2012, 12–2PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Genghis Barbie

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 1–2PM

Genghis Barbie the leading post post-feminist feminist all-female horn experience, and is the most innovative and energizing chamber ensemble of its generation and beyond. With a combined 24 years of conservatory training, Genghis Barbie delivers to you a visceral and unadulterated musical adventure. Performing arrangements of pop music from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and today, they are the most versatile and expansive group on NYC’s classical/pop/rock/jazz/indie/alternative/punk/electro-acoustic scene.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Outer Borough Brass Band

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 1–2PM

The Outer Borough Brass Band deliciously melds the precision of jazz with the soul of the second line. Blending crisp technique and dirty funk, the OBBB delivers authentic Nola (New Orleans LA) brass band grooves to the boroughs of NYC, augmented by a secret weapon: a barrelhouse piano that puts a rollickingly fresh spin on classic covers and throbbing originals that sound as though they were written 30 years ago. Led by Loyola University New Orleans alum Joe Scatassa, the OBBB’s lineup is chock-full of ringers, Crescent City veterans, and NYC mainstays who have logged time with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bonerama, Honey Island Swamp Band, New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Afroskull, and many others. After putting numerous unsuspecting hips in motion during their debut on Mardi Gras Day 2011, the Outer Borough Brass Band has quickly ascended to share the stage with the likes of Rebirth Brass Band, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Glen David Andrews, the Joe Krown Trio, and many other modern-day titans of New Orleans music. Hold your hanky high because the Outer Borough Brass Band is in town. Get ready to get down

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session at Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, 178 Bennett Avenue

Location

Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, The Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 6–8PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Guidonian Hand

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 1–2PM

Nestled in New York’s vibrant music scene, the Hand built its foundation performing extensively in the New York metropolitan area at such venues as the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Le Poisson Rouge, The Stone, The Juilliard School, Galapagos Art Space, Roulette, Manhattan School of Music, The Tank, Mannes College of Music, New York University, INTAR Theater, and the Gershwin Hotel’s New Music series. In 2010 they appeared as featured guest artists at the International Trombone Festival in Austin, TX. Upcoming engagements include appearances at the Bang on a Can Festival, Tribeca New Music Festival and tours to California, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

David Gilmore

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore performance.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

DJ Béco Dranoff

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 1–2PM

Béco Dranoff has been professionally active in the Brazilian music industry for over 25 years. His multifaceted career includes work as A&R, record producer, creative consultant, radio programmer/producer, DJ & selector, music supervisor, compiler and more. Béco's international expertise positions him as a unique bridge for cultural projects between Brazil and the world. His love for music started at an early age influenced by older siblings who listened to The Beatles and Brazilian music non-stop around the house.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session

Location

St. Peters Church, Music Room, 619 Lexington Avenue, enter at 54th Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 4–6PM

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Los Mas Valientes

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 30, 2012, 1–2PM

Formed in 1995 by Jessica Valiente, Anna Milat-Meyer and Yasuyo Kimura, the group brings together some of today’s finest Latin musicians. Collectively, the band’s resume reads like a who’s-who of New York’s jazz and Latin music scene. Its members have played with Chico O’Farrill, Louis Bauzó, Charlie Persip, Max Roach, Orlando Marín, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, the Kit McClure Band, Jimmy Bosch, Grammy-nominated Juan Carlos Formell...and the list goes on.

Info Session | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Info Session

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, August 30, 2012, 6–8PM

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie presents an excerpt of A Single Ride

Location

80 Broad, 21st Floor

Dates & Times

Sunday, September 2, 2012, 12:45–1:45PM

Ephrat "Bounce" Asherie presents an excerpt of A Single Ride, which will premiere at Dixon Place September 20–29. A Single Ride is a multimedia dance show that explores the complex relationships between New Yorkers and the subway. Riding the train can evoke some of our most primitive emotions, anger and frustration, or it can stir in us what makes us most human, our compassion and empathy. Choreographer Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie reflects on these emotions by fusing the underground styles of breaking, house, and vogue with a contemporary aesthetic. She asks the fundamental questions: Where are we going? Where do we come from? And, where is that train?

Please arrive by 12:45PM to check-in

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Colin Gordon

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 1–2PM

Auto/Tenor Saxophonist Colin Gordon plays regularly in the NYC jazz club scene such as Smalls, Birdland and was featured in festivals such as Rochester Jazz Festival.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Tom Larsen Quintet

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 6, 2012, 1–2PM

Jazz guitarist with a folk/country vibe. Regular freelance musician at Jazz club such as Smalls, Vangard, Birdland.

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 6, 2012, 4–5:30PM

Info Session | Grants – Manhattan Community Arts Fund – The Fund for Creative Communities

The Fund & MCAF Info Session

Location

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 6, 2012, 6–7:30PM

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Transforming Function Artist Leah Beeferman Presents SPACE

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 8, 2012, 2–3:30PM

A projected lecture and screening of selected audio and visual works,moving sketches, and semi-translucent drawings and diagrams, exploring topics of space and empty space, density, and vastness.

Event | Public Programming

Help LMCC make art happen here! It just takes a click

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Thursday, September 13, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Friday, September 14, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Saturday, September 15, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Monday, September 17, 2012, 12AM–12PM

Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 12AM–12PM

None of what we do at LMCC would be possible without the support of our friends, artists, and audience members. We’re in the running to win a $10,000 grant from Chase Community Giving, but we can’t do it without you!

At LMCC, we believe that arts and culture play a crucial role in the vitality of our communities. Over the past 39 years, LMCC has helped transform the New York City landscape through innovative arts and cultural initiatives. LMCC’s artist residency programs, grant-making initiatives, professional development services, and public programs serve more than 1,000 artists and 550 small arts groups each year. And, through free cultural programs like the River To River® Festival, we reach an audience of more than 120,000 Downtown residents, workers, and visitors annually.

Your vote can help us get one step closer to winning a $10,000 grant (or more!) in support of our innovative arts programs. Please cast your vote for LMCC today and encourage your friends to vote too. Remember – you only get 2 votes, so make them count!

Help us make art happen here – it just takes a click! Thank you for your support!

Voting closes at 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, September 19, 2012.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

The Brain Cloud

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 1–2PM

The Brain Cloud is a western swing band that's played at Lincoln Center as well as many festivals.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

DJ Turmix

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore Performance.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Rainbow Children

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 13, 2012, 1–2PM

The Rainbow Children have been funkin' up the scene since the spring of 09. A 12 piece funk/soul/R&B band with the sexiness that will make your toes curl. The Rainbow Children represents all ages, all types, all genres, and all people coming together to feel the love. So make sure you bring some foot spray cuz it will be funky!! Guaranteed!

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

The Kandinsky Effect

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 1–2PM

The Kandinsky Effect is a post-modern jazz Trio searching for new ways to improvise within the jazz idiom by blending the borders of jazz, rock, electronica, hip-hop, and experimental sounds to create a truly singular voice within instrumental music. Improvisation is ever-present, and spontaneity is paramount.

The band has been touring extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe over the last few years building new audiences with an adventurous yet accessible sound and a flair for the unexpected.

As the Los Angeles Times puts it : “The young Paris-based trio, The Kandinsky Effect, offers an invigorating approach to modern jazz and improvisation…”

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

The Xylopholks

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore Performance.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Leila Hegazy

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 20, 2012, 1–2PM

Soul/R&B singer songwriter based in NY. [http://www.myspace.com/leilassongs}

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Transforming Function Artist Kabir Carter Presents Workshops and an Installation

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 22, 2012, 2–3PM

Sunday, September 23, 2012, 2–3PM

Saturday, September 29, 2012, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 30, 2012, 12–5PM

Listening Through Buttermilk Channel- September 22 and 23, 2PM
After meeting at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island, participants will be led to Yankee Pier where they will listen to sounds traveling in the air and water enveloping Governors Island. Hydrophones will be used to hear acoustic events within Buttermilk Channel. The channel is a strait, and changes in the channel’s salinity and temperature alter sound’s behavior. Through focused listening, an underwater soundscape will be revealed.
RSVP Required.

Fill-September 29 and 30, Dock 102
Carter's installation, Fill, is a sound project comprised of live waterborne sound events and newly added sounds. A mixture of these materials will be projected into a land based listening space.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Wayne Tucker

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore Performance.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

Melinda Ring/Special Projects Presents an Open Studio

Location

80 Broad Street, 21st Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 12:15–1:45PM

Melinda Ring and performers Antonietta Vicario, Marilyn Maywald, Molly Lieber, Maggie Jones, and Talya Epstein, will introduce Forgetful Snow, a three-part work which will premiere at The Kitchen gallery space in 2014. The artists will share choreographic research, methods, and material developed during their current Swing Space residency and a past residency at Mount Tremper Arts.

Photo: Paula Court

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Jason Green

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore performance.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

PitchBlak Brass Band

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, September 27, 2012, 1–2PM

Encore Performance.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Open House at Building 110: LMCC'S Arts Center

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 29, 2012, 12–5PM

Sunday, September 30, 2012, 12–5PM

Please join us for an Open House at Governors Island with Open Studios; Transforming Function, a group exhibition in the gallery; and a performing arts presentation. Come meet the 20 visual artists-in-residence and watch a work-in-progress presentation by People Get Ready.

LMCC's Open House is brought to you by

Event | Artist Residencies – Process Space

People Get Ready Present a Work-in-Progress

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center on Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, September 29, 2012, 3–5PM

People Get Ready is a band that creates immense sonic landscapes through the interaction of bodies and analog technology. They also generate choreography based on their songs, including selections from their new album. See what they have been working on for their upcoming performance at New York Live Arts, October 18-20.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Breakdown Brass Band

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 1–2PM

The members of Breakdown Brass play/record with international artists such as Wyclef Jean, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, Streetlight Manifesto, Ikebe Shakedown, Easy Star All-Stars, The Pimps of Joytime, Blitz the Ambassador, Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves, Meta and the Cornerstones, Navegante, The Sweet Divines, Peoples Champs, and more.

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Jason Green Trio

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 1–2PM

Repeat Performance

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

Quentin Angus Quintet

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 1–2PM

Angus has received much international and national recognition, including; three 'International Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards' in the categories of 'Jazz Soloist' (2012), and 'Jazz Composition' (2011/ 2012), an 'ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award' (2012), was one of 20 musicians from around the globe selected for the 2011 'Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency' , and was the inaugural winner of the 'Award for Excellence in Jazz' at the '2012 APRA Art Music Awards'.

Quentin recorded his debut, critically acclaimed album 'Retrieval Structure' in August 2011. The CD has been a 'featured album' on ABC Jazz Radio, a 'Download of the Day' on AllAboutJazz.com, while also receiving regular airplay in Europe, the USA and Australia.

http://www.quentinangus.com/ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkFcNUHcEY

Event | Public Programming – LentSpace

LoVid

Location

LentSpace, intersection of Canal Street and Sixth Avenue

Dates & Times

Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 1–2PM

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory. http://www.lovid.org/

LoVid will be presenting a piece called URQR is the upcoming R2R, and the event at LentSpace would be a test run of a component of the actual piece. LoVid will create a large-scale QR code to display. The QR code will actually be made of images of people's faces- painted to look like one portion of the QR code.

Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space

CABULA6 / Jeremy Xido Presents an Open Rehearsal

Location

80 Broad Street, Manhattan

Dates & Times

Monday, October 15, 2012, 4–6PM

Step inside Jeremy Xido’s process during his Swing Space residency to witness and participate in the development of his new work, Part 3 of The Angola Project Trilogy, premiering at Dance New Amsterdam. Eat cake, talk about heartbreak, punch a punching bag, nap, read thoughts and words taped to walls, expect anything and expect nothing at all. For more information, click here. Reservation required. RSVP here http://www.tfaforms.com/258557.

Event | Public Programming – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Open Studios at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Friday, December 14, 2012, 12–5PM

We might not have heat in the studios, but Hurricane Sandy can’t stop us! Despite the chill, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island has been operating, and artists have been working. Join us in Building 110 at Governors Island for a festive open studio event featuring 20 wonderful artists-in-residence. Dress warmly and we will provide the hot cider! Free with RSVP. RSVP here!

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Workspace

2013/2014 Workspace Application Info Session

Location

One Liberty Plaza, 12th Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, January 10, 2013, 7–9PM

Want to learn more about applying for the 2013/2014 Workspace residency? Attend a free info session. Space is limited. RSVP required. RSVP here. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to check in.

Info Session | Artist Residencies – Workspace

2013/2014 Workspace Application Info Session

Location

One Liberty Plaza, 12th Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 4–6PM

Want to learn more about applying for the 2013/2014 Workspace residency? Attend a free info session. Space is limited. RSVP required. RSVP here. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to check in.

Info Session | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Information Session

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Please join us for an information session about Creative Curricula at our office. RSVP is required.

Creative Curricula is a local arts-education funding program administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). Open to partnerships between cultural organizations and teaching artists working with Manhattan public schools, Creative Curricula supports projects that engage students in rich artistic learning experiences in a classroom setting.

Deadlines for application:
Submit Online Application & Supporting Documents by Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Submit School Partner's Letter of Commitment by Friday, April 26, 2013

For more information, please read the Application Guidelines.

Info Session | Grants – Creative Curricula

Creative Curricula Information Session

Location

2785 Frederick Douglass Boulevard near 148th Street

Dates & Times

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Please join us for an information session about Creative Curricula at Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center. RSVP required.

Creative Curricula is a local arts-education funding program administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). Open to partnerships between cultural organizations and teaching artists working with Manhattan public schools, Creative Curricula supports projects that engage students in rich artistic learning experiences in a classroom setting.

Deadlines for application:
Submit Online Application & Supporting Documents by Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Submit School Partner's Letter of Commitment by Friday, April 26, 2013

For more information, please read the Application Guidelines.

Event | Open Studios

Performance with Wally Cardona/Jennifer Lacey/Rebecca Warner

Location

125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor

Dates & Times

Friday, May 10, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Friday, May 10, 2013, 8:30–10PM

Saturday, May 11, 2013, 1–2:30PM

The Set Up: Proeung Chhieng

Join Extended Life artist-in-resident Wally Cardona and his collaborators Jennifer Lacey and Rebecca Warner as they open up their studio to present a performance of The Set Up: Proeung Chhieng. Each installment of The Set Up is made in unique cooperation with a dance/movement-based artist viewed as a “master” of their form, operating in their own culturally informed aesthetic. Designed to mine the layering of superficiality and depth inherent in the assumption of the “universality” of dance, this second installment of The Set Up began in Cambodia with master Cambodian dance artist Proeung Chhieng.

Location: LMCC’s Project Space, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor.
Photo ID Required to enter the building.

Event | Open Studios

Visual and Performing Artists at Building 110

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12–5PM

Sunday, May 26, 2013, 12–5PM

Join us for the first 2013 public access weekend at Governors Island. Visit with visual and performing artists who have been working at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island since March. The weekend will feature behind-the-scenes access to 20 visual artists' studios and a work-in-process showing on Sunday by performing artists WOW: Joe Diebes, Christian Hawkey, and David Levine. For more information about the visual artists participating in LMCC's 2013 Swing Space Residency program at Building 110, please visit their profile pages at Current Session Swing Space.

RSVP here for Saturday, May 25, 12-5PM

RSVP here for Sunday, May 26, 12-5PM

RSVP here for Sunday's performance by WOW, 4PM

Event | – Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island

Season of Cambodia "In Residence"

Location

Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island

Dates & Times

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12–5PM

Sunday, May 26, 2013, 12–5PM

Monday, May 27, 2013, 12–5PM

LMCC is also proud to be a part of the Season of Cambodia Festival, a city-wide initiative of Cambodian Living Arts celebrating the arts and culture of Cambodia. Join us in the Gallery at Building 110 and meet the curator and six Cambodian artists who have been in residence since April.

Vandy Rattana

Amy Lee Sanford

Svay Sareth

Than Sok

Lim Sokchanlina

Kong Vollak

Lyno Vuth

For more information, please visit the Season of Cambodia website

Event | Open Studios

Visual Artists and Writers at One Liberty Plaza

Location

One Liberty Plaza, 12th Floor, in Lower Manhattan

Dates & Times

Friday, May 31, 2013, 7–9PM

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 1–7PM

Sunday, June 2, 2013, 1–6PM

Join us in celebrating the culmination of the 2012-2013 session of Workspace, a nine-month studio residency program for 18 emerging visual artists and 8 emerging writers. For more information about the artists participating in LMCC's programs, please visit their profile pages at Current Session Workspace.

Open Hours:

Saturday, June 1 from 1 - 5PM - RSVP here

Sunday, June 2 from 1 - 6PM - RSVP here

Opening Reception: Friday May 31 from 7 - 9PM - RSVP here

Open Texts: Saturday June 1 from 5 - 7PM - RSVP here

Event | Public Programming – Open Studios

Writers at One Liberty Plaza

Location

One Liberty Plaza, 12th Floor, in Lower Manhattan

Dates & Times

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 5–7PM

Join us in celebrating the culmination of the 2012-2013 session of Workspace, a nine-month studio residency program for 18 emerging visual artists and 8 emerging writers. During Open Texts, writers-in-residence will read from the work that they have been developing during their residency.

For more information about the artists participating in LMCC's program, please visit their profile pages at Current Session Workspace.

Open Texts: Saturday June 1 from 5 - 7PM - RSVP here

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: The Funding Ecosystem

Location

Fortune Society, 630 Riverside Drive

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 6:30–8PM

The Funding Ecosystem: What You Should Know Before You Start Fundraising | Led by Kay Takeda, Director, Grants & Services, LMCC

This workshop reviews basic information that artists need as they begin to research and apply for grants. The session will provide an overview of arts funding sources, frequently used terms in fundraising, what happens once your application is submitted, and processes to follow and understand from the initial inquiry through receipt of a grant. The goal of this session is to prepare artists to better navigate the range of funding resources available to the field.

The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: Budgeting 101

Location

Fortune Society, 630 Riverside Drive

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Budgeting 101 | Led by Haowen Wang, Program Manager, LMCC

A budget is a planning and communication tool. Yet for many artists, the process of building a budget is unfamiliar, and can seem complicated or confusing. In this workshop, participants will learn how to construct a line item budget that represents anticipated expenses and income for a sample artistic project. The session will also include a review of basic budgeting terms and concepts, and address the importance of balancing and reconciling actual costs to your budget.

The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: Work Sample Dos and Don’ts

Location

El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 6:30–8:30PM

Work Samples Dos and Don’ts| Led by Kay Takeda, Director, and Prachi Patankar, Program Manager, Grants & Services, LMCC

In order to access funding, residencies and other professional opportunities, artists are often required to submit work samples for consideration. Who reviews work samples? How are they reviewed? How important is formatting? Context? Our interactive workshop will cover these issues and provide a series of examples from a range of artistic disciplines that will ask participants to consider what makes a work sample compelling and why.

The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: Grantwriting Basics

Location

Fortune Society, 630 Riverside Drive

Dates & Times

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Grantwriting Basics for Artists | Led by Maria Michails, Artist

Artists face significant challenges in fundraising for projects or opportunities to support their artistic development. One of these challenges is writing clear and effective grant proposals. This session will cover the common components of most grant proposals, providing tips, exercises, and examples to help make future proposals more effective. Artist Maria Michails will draw on her years of experience in fundraising, sharing examples of an artist bio and statement, project description, budget, and her approach to organizing and maintaining this integral part of her practice.

The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: Individual Donors

Location

El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 6:30–8PM

Building and Cultivating Relationships with Individual Donors | Led by Dara Silverman, Fundraising Consultant

Good fundraising is all about cultivating relationships to build deep connections. In the current economic climate where government and foundation support are growing increasingly competitive, fundraising from individuals is more important than ever. At the same time artists and organizations are interested in ways to more fully engage their audiences and supporters. This session is designed to help participants learn how to strengthen and grow the base of relationships for themselves, their arts organization, or art project - today and for years to come. We will cover topics on the development cycle, how individual artists fundraise, tracking current and prospective donors, making an individual donor plan and practicing the ask.

The series is free, but space is limited and registration is required for each workshop on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here.

Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series

LMCC's Fundraising Fundamentals Professional Development Workshop: One-on-One Grantwriting Consult

Location

LMCC's Studios at One Liberty Plaza, 12th Floor

Dates & Times

Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 6:30–8:30PM

Available to participants who attend three or more workshops in this series, this follow-up session will match each eligible participant with a knowledgeable professional for a 20-minute consultation to review a grant proposal currently in development. Participants will be asked to submit the in-progress grant proposal prior to the consultation to allow time for a thorough review. A round table for open discussion with LMCC staff will also be available throughout the evening.

LMCC will contact eligible participants by Wednesday, July 10 to confirm registration for this session. Learn more here.