2011 Fund Grantees: Multidisciplinary
- 6th Street and Avenue B Garden, Inc.
- 6th & B Garden presents a six month season of multi-disciplinary arts programs at the garden for a cross-cultural, city-wide audience and especially the Lower East Side community.
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:* Inti Raymi* in New York, 2011 is a series of events about Andean and Peruvian culture, culminating with the staging of the ceremonial rituals of the Inti Raymi, on the day when South American indigenous cultures gather to honor and give tribute to the Sun God.
- Action Arts League, Inc.
- FIGMENT is an annual three-day participatory arts festival on Governors Island that is free and open to the public in effort to provide a forum for community-based participatory art.
- Art for Change
- Community Workshops is a monthly family program that provides a safe space for children to deal with issues of immigration through a creative curriculum that uses art forms and popular education methods.
- BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
- The Atist-In-Residency Program (AIR) provides an artistic home for emerging and established performing artists for the development of new work over the course of a year’s residency period, culminating in a Work & Show Festival at Tribeca PAC.
- Compagnia de' Colombari
- Strangers and Other Angels re-imagines the medieval mystery plays for the 21st Century in an indoor-outdoor Christmas spectacle free to the public and celebrating that public.
- Dance Films Association, Inc.
- Dance Film Lab is a monthly salon for dance filmmakers in which their works are critiqued for their inclusion of two art forms--dance and film.
- DDJW Incorporated
- Tales of the Rainbow Butterflies is a series of workshops exploring the metamorphosis of the butterfly through movement improvisation, chanting, discussion.
- Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, Inc.
- 2011 NYC Season is a two-performance series featuring invited aerial dance guest artists that expends the audiences’ expectation about the art form through blending the skills of modern dance and circus art.
- Hamilton-Madison House
- Hamilton-Madison House celebrates its 60-Year Anniversary Celebration with City Hall Senior Center Artists & Musicians with a year-long tribute to older Chinese-American artists and musicians of the community, culminating in a one-hour performance by year's end and two exhibitions of photography, painting and Chinese calligraphy to be displayed on and off-site.
- Housing Works Used Book Cafe
- Liner Notes is an interdisciplinary performance series that explores the relationship between literature and music. Liner Notes 2011 will include four events that bring together renowned artists in an intimate setting, culminating in a conversation between musician, writer and audience.
- The India Center
- The Annual Saraswati Indian Classical Arts Festival is a day of Indian classical dance, music, and more.
- Lower East Side Performing Arts, Inc.
- Elodie Lauten's The Death of Don Juan is a multimedia opera integrating music, choreography, acting, visual art, live video and dramatic text. The piece is about the archetype of Don Juan interpreted from a feminist perspective.
- Lunatics at Large
- The Sanctuary Project is a series of four multi-disciplinary chamber music and poetry performances with an opening concert at Carnegie Hall featuring collaborative works of five poets and five composers commissioned especially for this project to explore the universal, yet person theme of "sanctuary" in words and sounds.
- Manhattan Amateur Art and Columbus Music Association, Inc.
- Four Seasonal Concerts is a series of concerts giving the Chinatown audience a taste of music, dance and song from artists of the community.
- MOTYL Chamber Ensemble
- Human Creativity in the Face of Adversity is an interactive, multimedia examination of racism, prejudice and anti-Semitism to help promote cross-cultural understanding and sensitivity.
- NY Bard Wo Association
- NY Bard Wo Association will present Romance Of The Phoenix Pavilion and Drums Along The Western Frontier, two fully staged Cantonese Opera classics performed in Chinatown by local artists and guest performers from Guangdong, China.
- Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
- Our Time NYC is comprised of over 34 weekly workshop/rehearsals for approximately 50 youths who stutter. Students will be guided by professional artists and educators in creating 14 original short films and 17 plays/musicals that are presented to the public in a NYC Off-Broadway theater.
- Overfoot, Inc.
- Soldier's Tale is an exciting combination of live music and dance to create a modern telling of Stravinsky's historic tale.
- Pan American Musical Art Research, Inc.
- Latin American Cultural Week is a multi-venue event featuring performances, exhibitions and events that showcase music, dance, film, visual and performing artists from or influence by the diverse countries of Latin America.
- Renaissance Chinese Opera Society
- Renaissance Chinese Opera Society presents a three hour, fully costumed Chinese opera with 30 artists and 10 musicians.
- Seven Stories Institute
- Voices/Voces: Our Young People Speak! Is a free 14-week theatre/writing program for Northern Manhattan youths ages 13-18 inspired by Howard Zinn's" A Young People's History of the United States," culminating in live performances, a print anthology, and audio recording.
- ZEYBRAH
- ZEYBRAH presents its 12th annual Moment in Time Festival featuring musicians, dancers, singers, poets, filmmakers and drummers. The festival showcases traditional African music, dance and song as well as South African, Senegalese and Nigerian traditional arts interspersed with Cuban folklore and African-American theatre, jazz and hip hop.
