RED CLAY PRACTICUM:Vintage High Tech
Thursday 11/01/01
Focusing on the phenomena of remixing and sampling of dub culture, DJ and video artists in this improvisational multimedia collaboration use turntables, drum machines, projectors and other digital and analog tools to weave an audiovisual tapestry. Presented by Red Clay Arts.
BRIC: Sink or Swim (S.O.S.)
Thursday 11/08/01
S.O.S. puts eclectic art forms at the forefront with performances by Roxanne Butterfly, trapeze artists from Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, playwright Luke Leonard's Broadway and street performers, the Mercury Men. Produced and curated by Michelle Moskowitz.
RED CLAY PRACTICUM: The Revival - Church of the Living Womb
Thursday 11/15/01
Tish Benson and Liza Jesse Peterson are holding service with a collective of artists who have embraced and abandoned traditional forms of theater. In the spirit of the griot, they conjure voices from the past, present and future; laced with the essence of blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, funk, rock and hip-hop. You are invited to come, bear witness, get sanctified and testify. Presented by Red Clay Arts.
THUNDERGULCH: off-line/off-site @ BRIC
Thursday 11/29/01
A discussion and multimedia works from two online projects produced as part of BAM's New Media Initiative for www.bam.org: Before and After Geography, a work for the web featuring a remaking of Ralph Lemon's dance piece Tree; and Under_score: Net art, Sound, and Essays, exhibiting the work of nine Australian net artists. Discussants include Wayne Ashley, Manager of New Media, BAM; Vivian Selbo; Carl Skelton; Lane Czaplinski; Allen Feldman; and McKenzie Wark. Thundergulch is the new media arts initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
DUMBO Theater eXchange (DTX)
Thursday 12/06/01
A great opportunity to preview the incubation of contemporary work, the 2nd Annual eXchange Sampler is an evening of new plays-in-progress by emerging dramatic artists. This year's Sampler offers a variety of new material by talented writers from the Off-Off Broadway theater scene in New York City.
Super 8 FLICKER screening party!
Wednesday 12/12/01
Brooklyn Film Networks invites you to enjoy a free evening of films, food, and music at the first FLICKER film event in Brooklyn! Watch a great collection of short films shot on Super 8 and 16mm. Space is limited! Presented by Brooklyn Film Networks (BFN) in association with FLICKER films - an ongoing film series that features outstanding Super 8 and 16mm film shorts by local filmmakers.
BRIC: Words
Thursday 12/13/01
David Hollander will read from his critically acclaimed novel, L.I.E. (Villard, 2000); a look into the confused life of teens growing up on "the island" in the 1980s. Nelly Reifler, whose stories have appeared in magazines including Bomb, Exquisite Corpse and Mississippi Mud, will also read.
RED CLAY PRACTICUM: Multimedia Rumba
Thursday 12/20/01
Dealing with the ritual and transcending power of dance and concepts of community, the Multimedia Rumba reinforces those universal concepts while adapting them to a new technological terrain. Live music, ceremony, fete, cultural iconography and visual stimuli abound in this non-traditional Cuban Rumba. Presented by Red Clay Arts.