NYC_Festival
WHAT: NYC Festival of Young Artists & Leaders
WHEN: Saturday, June 11 12-5pm
WHERE: Outdoors Fourth Arts Block East 4th Street (Second Ave & Bowery)
ADMISSION: FREE
Over 200 young artists ages 12-21 performing and exhibiting;
Performances / Workshops / Professional Advice for young artists. An amazing packed day of things to do, see, learn, celebrate!
Produced by Downtown Art in association with FAB and the Lower Eastside Girls Club
Overview of Activities:
Professional Advice sessions include workshops on auditioning, working as a filmmaker, getting your plays on stage, entering the fashion industry, and portfolio review for photographers (email info@downtownart.org for portfolio review appt.)
On the street workshops in stage combat (Jose Rivera IV), manga drawing (HiArt/Yali Lim), hula hooping (Jules Skloot). Arts activities with recycled materials (EcoAction), spray painting t’s (The Whitney Museum.)
Music performances from Maple Street Band, Mantis, Eli Greenhoe, Fiona Silver, Zen Anton, Alice Quinn-Makwaia, Third Street Jazz Ensemble, Rude Girls, Dig It, Elise Lovelie & Victor Gurbo, August Glory, The Point, Oscar Hallas, Lena Feliciano Hansen, Erin Simone Wells, and Downtown Art’s ‘The Bowery Wars’ company.
Theater/Dance/Spoken word performances from Urban Word poets, TADA! Youth Ensemble, The Possibility Project, NYTW ‘Mind the Gap’, Urban Youth Theater/Henry Street Settlement, The Door, Rod Rodgers Dance, and fight choreographer Jose Rivera IV.
SPECIAL Circus for a Fragile Planet from ArtFarm – unicycling, juggling, acrobats. 12pm
‘Green Midway’ from Lower Eastside Girls Club – ‘Girls Gone Green’, Face Painting, Fortune Telling Monkey
Street performance: Capoeira from ‘The Edgies’, Circus skills from Cirque du Monde/The Point.
Free Raffle – enter with your email address – for summer adventure! Prizes from NY Surfing School, Coney Island Sideshow, Bike & Roll, Brooklyn Cyclones, High 5 Tickets to the Arts, New York Shakespeare Festival, Eastside Billiards.
Awards Ceremony with Councilwoman Rosie Mendez for our ‘Local Hero”, 3:30pm
Massage fundraiser from East Village Chiropractic – $1/minute back massage to support the Festival.
Outdoor cafe from FAB Cafe, hopscotch & four square.
Who else will be there?
Gowanus Music Club, Young Playwrights, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Cooper Union, F.I.T., High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Little Hair Shoppe, Luck You artist collective, Leave Out Violence (L.O.V.E.) U.S., New Museum, viBe Theater Experience, The Public Theater, and several individual artists.
Professional advisors include Rosemary Quinn, Patricia Decker, and Chris Chan Roberson of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts; Annica Paganakis and James Ott of The Row, Eljon Wardally – playwright, Fernanda Coppen – playwright, Sean Hemmerle – photographer, Elizabeth Bojsza, Literary Manager-Young Play.
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