2008 MCAF Grantees: Multidisciplinary
- 6th Street and Avenue B Garden, Inc., 6th and B Garden Events Program
- To suppport a multi-disciplinary 2008 season of Events Program at 6th and B Community Garden in Manhattan.
- Action Arts League, FIGMENT Arts Festival
- To support the 2008 FIGMENT Arts Festival, a three-day participatory arts festival on Governors Island in New York that is free and open to the public to attend, participate, and contribute works of art.
- Alwan Foundation, Inc. ,
- To support two evenings of modern dance performance by Dance Elixir at Dance New Amsterdam on February 29, 2008 and March 1, 2008.
- Ana Milosavljevic, Multimedia Recital
- To support multimedia recital performance, scheduled for April 11, 2008 at The Times Center in Midtown Manhattan.
- Anna Pasztor, “Why didn’t you trust me?”
- To support a multimedia installation project and its exhibition during four-weeks in the Hungarian Cultural Center.
- Arianna Martinez, An Exploration of Latina Identities in a Postmodern City
- To support printing costs for a photography and audio installation that will explore issues of Latina identities in NYC.
- Artists Unite, Inc., Artists Unite LIVE
- To support production of exhibitions and performance events, including exhibits, concerts, and films in collaborating venues in Washington Heights.
- Boston Fielder, URB ALT Festival 2008 festuring MuthaWit Orchestra
- To support a six (6) 2-hour rehearsals and four (4) 2 hour public performances featuring the 15 house musicians of the MuthaWit Orchestra.
- Caron Eule, The Crane Wife
- To support eight, 40-minute performances of The Crane Wife, a site-specific dance-theater piece with original score and live music.
- Charlene Tong Shaw, Chinese Opera “Mu Gui Ying”
- To purchase new costumes. Chinese Opera costumes are made of silk with elaborate embroidery, and take months to make in China by special craft experts. Each costume costs a minimum of $500 per set. The project requires different costumes for each scene and there are 4 different scenes in this play/opera.
- Clarinda Mac Low, RUI(NATION) A DAGGER-in-process
- To support the production of RUI(NATION) an in-progress version of DAGGER, an original solo work by Clarinda Mac Low based on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” to take place at The Kitchen Jan. 31-Feb 2, 2008.
- David Wolfson, Opera and the Undoing of Women
- In support of two public performances of transdisciplinary opera stagings.
- Dharma Road Productions, Inc., Butoh/ACTION
- To support a one-month residency for four internationally acclaimed artists, two from the Japanese Butoh tradition and two from the American Action Theatre tradition, in order to create a hybrid form and seed of a new work.
- Direct Arts, Inc., Take Two
- To support a monthly intercultural reading and screening series.
- Dixie Fun Dance Theatre, Inc. , The All Alone Solos Show
- To support the creation and presentation of a radically fun, multi-disciplinary performance event in Lower Manhattan or the Lower East Side.
- Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc., NYC Aerial Dance Festival
- To support a dance festival held on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
- Friends of St. Nicholas Park, Summer Fetival
- To support free outdoor cultural events in St. Nicholas Park.
- India Center, The, Natraj Folk Arts Festival
- To support Natraj Folk Arts Festival with an audience comprising of Indian Americans and Non Indians interested in traditional Indian Arts.
- Jenny Lee Mitchell, The Shrine
- To support the construction and development of a multimedia shrine, culminating in two weeks of installation performances at 3leggeddog Art and Technology Center and Phillips de Pury & Company Gallery.
- Juggernaut Theatre Company, The, Oh What War
- To support a full theatrical production of Oh What War at HERE Arts Center.
- Liberata Dance Theatre, Inc., Project Papiamentu
- To support a six (6) 1-hour long multi-disciplinary productions of Papiamentu, a dance/drama of pain, strength, survival, triumph and healing.
- Ling Zhang, Forever Young
- To support 10 performances in Lower Manhattan region.
- Manhattan Amateur Art & Columbus Music Association, The Four Seasons Concert Series
- To support a year long music and dance program which includes multiple concerts in Lower Manhattan/Chinatown, also including festivals, fairs in parks, and community events.
- Mayumi Ishino, KASA-Casa
- To support a four 40-minute, free, evening performances that include temporary installation of small screen structures in the public parks of northern Manhattan.
- Melissa Grey, Psychodrama
- To facilitate, in NYC’s Lower East Side, the premiere public performances of Psychodrama, a 45-minute live electroacoustic composition.
- Miguel Frasconi, Showdown at the Crossroads
- To support an interdisciplinary project in development with a showing of the work-in-progress at the Center for Sharing and Remembering
- Motyl Chamber Ensemble, Human Creativity in the Face of Adversity
- To support the engagement students and community member of diverse backgrounds in an interactive multi-media examination of racism, prejudice and Anti-Semitism to help promote cross-cultural understanding and sensitivity.
- New York African Chorus Ensemble, Inc., The Gathering III: a night of African traditional, popular, art music and Award Ceremony
- To support the artistic fees of the musical groups participating in our annual concert entitled “The Gathering III: a night of African traditional, popular, art music and Award Ceremony.”
- NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc., Access to Artists: NuyoRican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble Performances
- To support performances by Puerto Rican writers and musicians in East Harlem or the Lower East Side.
- Olga Ast, Exploring Collaborative Possibilities: can artists and scientists work together?
- To support a series of 4 discussions and lectures that will explore the possibility of collaboration between artists and scientists, and ultimately culminate in an exhibition that explores the possible ways that the two disparate communities can intesect.
- Patricia Burgess, Nothing Without a Woman
- To support five 1-hour weekly performances in the series Nothing Without a Woman at MS 131 culminating in an outdoor event: Lifting in Flight.
- Rachel Schroeder, Heliantha
- To support work-in-progress showings of Heliantha, an evening-length, one-woman, two-character, movement-video-puppet-theater performance that explores healing.
- Raymond Jow, A Gathering
- To support a range of design and curatorial activities culminating in a set design/installation and two live performances in the Lower East Side.
- Sonali Skandan --Jiva Performing Arts, Urban Kutcheri 3
- To support production costs related to Urban Kutcheri 3: Evening of Classical Arts and modern images and Word.
- Suzette Brown, Spring into Laughter in the Park
- To support a 4 week spring series of free comedy in open NYC public places.
- Tara Bracco, Poetic People Power
- To support the 6th annual Poetic People Power show which will represent 6-8 NYC poets presenting new poems on a social or political theme.
- The Sybarite Chamber Players LTD, The Dido Project
- To support a multi-media production of Purcell’s baroque chamber opera Dido and Aeneas at the Samsung Experience in Time Warner Center free of charge.
- Zeybrah, 9th Annual “ A Moment in Time Event” 2008
- To support 2 months of rehearsals culminating in an African and Afro-Cuban dance/music/drama to be featured at our 9th Annual “Moment in Time Event” dedicated to a cultural hero who has passed on.
