“ Help Ourselves”

“Help Ourselves” is a youth empowerment group involved with creative activism in diverse communities. In collaboration with Children’s Magical Garden, they will be inviting local Artists to create spontaneous works of art alongside audience participants and guests!

ARCHIVE 3
Curated by Karl Cooney
SEPTEMBER 22 —7 PM – 12 AM

LE PETIT VERSAILLES COMMUNITY GARDEN

346 E. Houston St. / 247 E. 2nd St. http://alliedproductions.org/
RAIN OR SHINE

At times, being a performance artist can feel more like being a failed librarian. This series is a small contribution to the historical record of performance art in New York City. Twelve artists total, four per night.
Each performance will be lovingly documented and the video archived on YouTube.
PERFORMERS:
Jenna Kline’s most important tool is her body. Nightmares, memories and heartbreak fuel her work. Her body is a sculpture, storyteller, and most importantly, an instrument to connect with her audience. The performances are an outlet to create an expression of raw emotion. The goal is to achieve emotional enlightenment. Once she reaches this state, she is her most genuine, transparent and true self. Wearing her heart on her sleeve for all to see. Exhausted and sweating and she has transcended her body and has become a sweaty, fleshy creature. The air is left with lingering aroma of copper, fried foods and hand sanitizer.
Quinn Dukes is a multimedia performance artist, activist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work addresses human connection, social injustice and ritual. In 2014, following a heated discussion about the death of performance art, Dukes founded Performance Is Alive. She is a tireless advocate for performance art and higher education via appointments at Grace Exhibition Space and the School of Visual Arts.
Sophia Mak is here and creates, makes and performs. They have made their home in Baltimore City for the past 7 years but have recently moved back to New York to apply knife and chopstick to perceptions and assumptions. Sophia investigates issues of race, gender, class, sexuality and intergenerational trauma through performance and invokes the stories of their ancestors to present new narratives. Their eyes are open and they are taking in the changing landscape of city neighborhoods, learning about the role that art plays in it all, and trying to listen real hard to the growing pains, unacknowledged histories, and the rumbling, crumbling walls that have heard stories of multiple life times.
Zavé Martohardjono is an interdisciplinary artist interested in geopolitics, social justice, queer glam, and embodied healing. Zavé is currently in residence at The Bronx Museum of the Arts through the BxMA Co-Lab residency. Zavé was a Gibney Dance Work Up 3.0 artist (2017), has had residencies at The Shandaken Project at Storm King (2016), La MaMa (2016), Chez Bushwick (2015), and was a Lambda Literary Fellow (2015). Among many venues, they’ve performed at BAAD!, Boston Center for the Arts, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Issue Project Room, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Movement Research at Judson Church, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Recess, and the Wild Project.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 8 PM

FIRE BUG
Multi-Media Performance by Ethan Weinstock

Fire Bug, a new multimedia performance by Ethan Weinstock, explores the circumstances behind a string of 70 cases of arson that took place in the small town of Coatsville, PA between 2008 and 2009. To date, seven individuals have been arrested in connection with the fires but many of the incidents remain unsolved and many questions are still unanswered. Ethan is a Brooklyn, NY based artist who has previously shown work at the Joe’s Pub, The BFI Flare London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival.

SATURDAY September 23, 4–6PM •DANCE PERFORMANCE• Program curated by Martha Tornay and Ayo Harrington with Sheep Meadow Dance Theater, choreography by Billy Blanken. Art of Motion Dance -Theater “Monarch” (excerpt from HEAVEN and EARTH) choreography by Lynn Needle. Performances by Chloe London, John Gutierrez and more
El Jardin del Paraiso 4th St (Aves C & D)

Check out the trailer HERE

 The 2017 Line-Up at Green Oasis, both Saturday and Sunday,  368 E.8th St between Aves C & D

Saturday September 23

 5-5:45 pm        mbiraNYC

mbiraNYC is a musical group which presents the uplifting and magical music of the mbira (thumb piano) of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. mbiraNYC’s performances are engaging and participatory, with audiences encouraged to clap, sing and dance.
6-6:45pm   Deanna Kirk

Deanna Kirk’s voice has been compared to a lark and her rendeition of jazz classic like Fever would make Peggy Lee shudder.Deanna has recorded and co-produced 5 CDs as a signed recording artist with Atlantic and Electra Records.She hosts a regular Wednesday night evening of musical at Nomad, in the East Village. She won the Bistro Award in 2013 (outstanding achievement, jazz vocal).She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award for vocal excellence.

7-7:45 pm   Tony Williams Band

 Tony Williams Band will get you humming, tapping and up on your feet with his classic funk and soul beats. His drumming style makes him a go to for many popular bands.

Sunday September 24

5- 5:45pm  The Green Machine*

 Sax virtuoso Arthur Green, brings his signature sounds of funky soul with his Green Machine, mixing a blend foot tapping rhythms and get up and dance beats moves you into action.

*Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America’s Gig Fund program, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts & the New York State Council on the Arts.

6 -6:45pm       Keisha St Joan*

 A seasoned jazz vocalist and a fixture on the New York City scene for decades, she is, at first glance, a garrulous, warm, expansive presence with an easy laugh and an eye, and an ear
her soulfulness on the bandstand, and in her unyielding commitment to her craft. Keisha’s ability to disarm her audiences with charm, wit, and vocal intensity, tends to obscure her more complex qualities.

* Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America’s Gig Fund program, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

 7- 7:45pm              Faith

What can be said about this amazing singer/songwriter, Felice captures you with her soulful ballads, with rock/soul and reggae flair, with the raspiness of Nina Simone. Felice Rosser “Sings in a voice both plangent and wailing” (New York Times). HERES a Taste of “Faith”

The 6th Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival is fast approaching this year, Saturday, September 23 & Sunday, Sept 24.  We are lining up a many great programs. Please let us know what your garden is planning so we can include it in the schedule and promotions.

This year HOWL Arts will be presenting their audacious program Sunday afternoon in El Jardin.

And we are very happy to announce that The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will be present Czech & Slovak Fairy Tales With Strings with Puppeteer and Storyteller Vít Hořejš. Vít  performs a one-man show of Czech fairy tales (in English) replete with kings, clever village maidens, witches and spirits.  His marionettes speak in dozen voices, dance, play violin, swim and fly. Saturday 2pm at All People’s Garden on E.3rd St and Sunday 2pm at Campos Garden E.12th St

The remarkable Ray Santiago and his crazy hot band again playing for your dancing pleasure on Saturday night, Sept 23.

“Faith” with Felice Rosser will preform Sunday evening.

“Avon Faire”will join us again.

Paul Sachs will sing on Saturday.

The East Village Dance Project is putting together a program of dance companies.

The Loisadia Center will be presenting an extravaganza.

The Festival will have workshops and yoga as well as painting, photography, films, poetry and crazy fun.

Let us know if you interested in participating.

The LUNGS 6th Annual Harvest Arts Festival is happening this year on September 23 & 24. Plenty of talented artists are going to be offering free performances, stay tuned for more info.

LUNGS CSA will begin Sunday, July 9  with fresh produce coming again from the Acevedos Family Farm in Orange County. Campos Garden on E. 12th St is hosting the CSA each July Sunday.  It’s still $10 for a bag of fresh produce, you pickup between 1-3pm, if you are interested send an email to Info@Lungsnyc.org.

The LUNGS Summer Youth Employment Program will begin July 5, if your garden has special projects that need support, let us know.

LEEP the LUNGS Environmental Education Program will begin July 10 with free classes for elementary students Monday and Tuesday afternoons, 1:30 to 4pm in the gardens. More information on how to register.

Saturday, September 24, at 6:30pm at 6B Garden, Ave B & 6th St. Please join us for a Slide Show/Discussion with Eric Sanderson, landscape ecologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, director of the Mannahatta Project and the author of the bestselling book, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City.