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MasterCard® Hispanic Financial Outreach Program Seminar

July 9th 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

To Register: calling 212-260-4080 or just showup

Please join us for a financial seminar that will help you learn new ways to manage your finances, take advantage of helpful payment options and budget with convenience and ease.

The MasterCard® Hispanic Financial Outreach Program Seminar will be a unique opportunity to get information about useful tools that give you new ways to save money. Plus, there's great advice from trusted members of the community, give-aways and tips on how to budget.

Space is limited, so reserve your spot at this helpful financial seminar now.

Don't forget to bring a friend! For more information, go to www.mastercardhfop.com.

Diane Alianiello & The Anthropologists present
the World Premiere of

Give Us Bread: The Food Riot Project

Conceived & Directed by Melissa Fendell with The Anthropologists

June 5 – 21 | W & Th 7:30pm | Fr 8:00pm | Sa2:00pm & 8:00pm | Su 3:00pm

Tickets: $20/$15 students & seniors Click here to buy now

Food prices shot up overnight. Starvation threatened families from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the Lower East Side, to the Bronx. A group of women came together to demand action. Boycotts accelerated into riots. The year was 1917. Give Us Bread pairs an original play with innovative programming that explores the
intersection between art and action.

Featuring performances by: Jean Goto, Jennifer Griffee, Jennifer Moses, Shayna Padovano, Katy Rubin, Sonja Sweeney

Lighting Design: Andrew J. Merkel |Costume Design: Alexandra Rubin | Scenic Design: Maggie Pilat Stage Management: Emily Cole

www.theanthropologists.org for more information and the full schedule.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
presents

Flamenco in the Boros
A Tour of New York City

Friday, May 8th | 8pm

Tickets $12 | Click here to buy now or call 1-800-838-3006

Intense speed, sensual partnering, and stiletto movement are the trademarks of the nationally recognized Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Company, premiering its first Tour of the Boros. Featuring dancers and musicians from the US and Spain, the Company will perform at venues in lower Manhattan on May 8th at the Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center. This tour highlights traditional works and includes community artists.
 
Founded in 1983, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s mission is to foster the art form of Flamenco and Hispanic culture through the creation and presentation of new works and to nurture the next generation of flamenco artists.  This program features traditional flamenco works with Antonio Hidalgo, and includes the Company’s young community artists.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is supported by American Express Bank; The Harkness Foundation for Dance;   Garrett Kirk; The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund; The JPMorgan Chase Foundation; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The New York State Council on the Arts; The Office of the Manhattan Borough President; Target Stores; Tourist Office of Spain; The Friar’s Club; American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program and WNYC NY Public Radio and The U.S. Department of Education, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, Con Edison and The National Endowment for The Arts, among others.

F.E.L.T. and CSV present

with Marisol Carrere, Marcela Barrientos, Edmi de Jesus, Luciano Patino, Daphne Lopez, Nickaury Rodriguez, Fanny Rybin

Tickets $20 | Students & Seniors $15 Call 212-260-4080 ext 11 or 212-228-3705
www.felttheatre.org or www.csvcenter.net

This program supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Wreckio Ensemble presents

Rooftops
Don't Eat the Chicken!

written by Karly Maurer
directed by Kimberlea Kressel

March 5-28 | Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat 8PM Sun 3pm

$20 at wreckio.com

Set Design: Michael McClain
Costume Design: Rachel Attridge
Lighting Design: Pamel Kupper
Sound & Video: UniONEYE

With: Randi Berry, Katie Braden, Mike Bradley, Dechelle Damien, Tara Grieco, Jessica Kelly, Lauren Turner Kiel, Anna Lamadrid, Beth McGregor, Al Miro, Meret Oppenheim, Mika Porro, Benjamin Spradley

Photo: Elizabeth White

This production made possible with generous support from the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund

Chemical Utopia
Art Meets Rock

Featuring: Maslow, Future in Plastics, Ethan Shoshan and John Parker, Jasmin Rituper

February 20 | 8PM | $5

All ages, 21+ with valid ID for bar

Witness Relocation in

THE BLUE BIRD

JANUARY 7-25 | Wednesday-Saturday 7:30PM |  Sunday, January 11 3PM

by Mikuni Yanaihara | translated by Aya Ogawa & Kameron Steele

An American version of a Japanese play based on an Anime series that was based on a French play by a Belgian writer (Maeterlinck). With dance numbers, a bear, ladybugs, scientists, a love song, absurd comedy, poetic beauty, and a lecture on the dangers of leaving your mouth open.


created by and starring Abby Browde, Lucky Joe Baker, Aubrey Chamberlin, Mike Mikos, Sam Pinkleton, Wil Petre, Laine Rettmer, Orion Taraban, Randy Thompson, Damaris Webb

directed and choreographed by Dan Safer
designed by  Jay Ryan, Ryan Maeker, Kaz Phillips and Laura Berlin Stinger


With Special Guest Stars: NEAL MEDLYN, DINA MARTINA, RANDOLPH CURTIS RAND, ( ERS) JOHN GRADY (I Am Legend), GLENN MARLA, SETH FLEISCHAUER, CLARINDA MAC LOW, JAMES GODWIN, MIKE ALBO and more!

Click here for more info: witnessrelocation.org

MBCT
Modern But Classical Theatre
presents

Twelfth Night

by William Shakesepeare
adapted and directed by Miriam Tobin

with Ruthie Bornstein, Elizabeth Eggers, Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Daisy Ouzts and Arden Walentowski

December 10, 11, 12 8PM | December 13 3PM & 8PM | December 14 3PM

Tickets $17 | Students, Seniors, Groups of 3+ $15 Click here to buy now

Five women play nine characters in this new tongue-in-cheek of the classic Shakespeare comedy. With a pinch of Italian slapstick and a dash of British bawdiness, this Twelfth Night is feast like no other.

CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTER PRESENTS

I Never Even Seen My Father
and
Once Upon a TIme

written by Nicholasa Mohr
directed by Jose Joaquin Garcia
set design by Antonio Martorell

Wednesday through Saturday, September 17 – 20 at 8 PM and Sunday September 21 at 3 PM. 

CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTER PRESENTS I NEVER EVEN SEEN MY FATHERand ONCE UPON A TIME, THEATER PRODUCTIONS BY CELEBRATED AUTHOR NICHOLASA MOHR, DIRECTED BY JOSE JOAQUIN GARCIA. WITH SETS BY RENOWNED PUERTO RICAN ARTIST, ANTONIO MARTORELL.

Nicholasa Mohr, the celebrated author of numerous award winning books, plays and essays, was born in Manhattan ’s El Barrio of Puerto Rican parentage and raised in the Bronx . Her many awards include National Book Award, American Book Award, Hispanic Heritage Award, and the Raul Julia Award in 2007.  I Never Even Seen My Father, based on a story by Mohr from her book In Nueva York, was first staged by The Richmond College Theater in London , England in 1995, where she was Writer In Residence. This one-act play explores the transitory nature of childhood friendship between two young women. Once Upon A Time, a one act play adapted from Mohr’s book El Bronx Remembered, recalls the affecting world of Puerto Rican emigrants during the 1950s.  Her prize winning work paints a poignant picture of the Puerto Rican experience that touches the hearts of all readers. Nicholasa lives in El Barrio, where she continues to write books and plays for people of all ages.

Renowned Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell, the set designer, also designed the sets for the London staging of I Never Even Seen My Father.  Antonio’s art work, which consists of drawings, etchings, lithographs, installations, and paintings, has been exhibited in the United States , Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean .  His work exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington received a glowing review in the New York Times.  Antonio has also designed sets for plays and films and illustrated children’s books.  He is Artist-in-Residence at the University of Puerto Rico .

Omar Pérez’ has worked with Pregones Theater in El Apagón, The Red Rose, The Beep, The Caravan, and Migrantes. Film credits include Shut up and Do It, Broken Hearts, and Evergreen. Omar was awarded a Career Advancement Fellowship from the New Visionaries Initiative of the Ford Foundation and the New Visionary Fellows of Pregones Theater. Omar is a writer, film director, and a Teaching Artist with the Creative Arts Team, using educational drama with inmates at Riker’s Island and women in domestic shelters.

From Puerto Rico, Sol Marina Crespo graduated from New York University with a BFA in Drama and a BA in Latin American Studies.  For her performance of Griseldi in The Missteps of a Salsa Dancer she was awarded the 2005 HOLA award for Outstanding Performance of a Featured Female Actor.  She has performed with Pregones Theatre in The Beep, 365 Plays in 365 Days, Medea’s Last Rosary, The Red Rose, Sissy, and the Asuncion Playreading Series. Film credits include Overnight Shift, Surrender, and Making Change. She directed an all female cast of Piñero's Short Eyes, and Shanley’s Danny & the Deep Blue Sea . She is a teaching artist for various companies.  

Yaritza Pizarro graduated from City College of New York with a B.A in Theatre.  She has performed at La MaMa in Klub Ka, toured Don Quixote de la Mancha with National Theatre for Arts and Education, played Louisa in August the First and Nicole in The Scrolls: The Book of Life 1, 2, and 3. With Pregones Theater she has participated in 365 Days/365Plays, Betsy, La Caravana, God’s Creatures, and Migrants.  She is also an actor-teacher for the Creative Arts Team.

This production of I Never Even Seen My Father and Once Upon A Time is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Downtown Cabaret

Dirty Town Productions presents

Kill Me Loudly
A Clown Noir 

July 11, 12 | 18, 19 | 25, 26 at 8pm

Click here for more info

CAUTION. May or may not contain clown nudity. Not for children.

In this dream-like murder mystery, a clown trio attempts to stage a film noir. But beware!  No one returns unscathed from the depths of depravity! The clowns get caught up in the corruption, perversion and betrayal of their own twisted tale!

The Stolen Chair Theatre Company

presents

The Accidental Patriot

Opens April 25, 2008

Second Generation Group presents

Eleven

new plays by

Michii Barall, Carla Ching, Julia Cho, Michael Gollamco, Patricia jang, Michael Lew, Rehama Mariza, Ralph B. Pena, Sung Rno

March 3 through April 5

Milagro Theatre

for tickets call 212-352-3101 or visit www.2g.org

previews $1 | opening night $50 | all other performance $18

Eleven Celebration Pass $29 (includes Stix, TBA and In the Works, not valid opening night)

Purchase College Arts Festival

Music, Dance, Film, Visual Art

April 10, 11, 12 | 6:00 PM to midnight

Reception and Refreshment 6:00PM to 7:00PM

Students Free | All others by donation

www.purchase.edu/DTCab