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Tantshoyz Featuring Michael Alpert
(Yiddish Dance Party/Workshop)
presented by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture and the Workmen’s Circle
7-9:30 p.m
Workmen’s Circle, 45 E. 33rd St. (between Madison and Park Ave.), in Manhattan.
Admission: $10 ($8 for CTMD and Workmen’s Circle Members). Pay at the door.
Questions call Pete at 917-326-9659
Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance events are now held at the Workmen’s Circle on the first Thursday of each month! Come learn the traditional Jewish dances of Eastern Europe. This month’s event will feature master dance leader Michael Alpert and live klezmer music by Michael Winograd (clarinet) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer).Beginners are welcome! Parking is available on the street or in the lot next door.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Lissa Schneckenburger with Bethany Waickman
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, City Park, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Contact: 518.792.6508, degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new.

Country Dancers of Rochester presents a
Contra Dance with
Caller: Sarah Van Norstrand
Band: Matching Orange
8-11 p.m.
Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver, Rochester, NY 14609
Admission: $7 ($6 members, $1 off for seniors and students)
A fine regional caller is matched with a Boston-based band. Brendan Carey Block, Julie Vallimont and Eric McDonald.

Caffè Lena presents
Gballoi (The Prophet Band), with Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius & Heard
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $14 advance/$16 at the door (How to get tickets)
Gballoi is a traveling ensemble from Ghana with three decades of experience in the field of West African music and dance. Hailing from Accra, a city on the coast of Ghana known worldwide for its rich, intricate, and notoriously difficult musical traditions, Gballoi’s mission is to promote Ghanaian culture in the United States and across the world. Gballoi’s four core members perform on bells, hand drums, shakers and flutes. Heard features the New World jazz of composer and pianist Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius. Blending jazz, classical, and world music, along with the inspiration of the natural environment, Heard creates a captivating soundscape. Heard’s members include Elizabeth on piano, Jonathan Greene on woodwinds, John Menegan on bass, Zorkie Nelson and Brian Mellick on percussion, and Rebecca Kleinman on flutes.

Gallery Night of Ithaca
5-8 p.m.
Exhibits and Receptions in 14 downtown Ithaca locations
Free and open to the public
Information on participating galleries: www.gallerynightithaca.com
Come and enjoy fine original art by local, national, and international artists. Be sure to stick around later for the Ithaca Festival Paint Off in Center Ithaca starting at 7:30 and the 3rd installment of music and art at Wildfire Lounge from 9 p.m. until late.

El Taller Boricua presents SALSA WEDNESDAYS Doors open 5:30 p.m. 1680 Lexington Avenue, 105 St. & 106 St., The 6 Train to 103rd St., New York, 212/831-4333 April 3 CHARANGA AMERICA/Sabado de Gloria $12 all night April 7 Grupo Latin Vibe (Special BD Party for Soccorro Feliciano’s 90th) April 14 Soneros de Oriente April 21 Charangueando con La Tipica ‘73 and Adalberto Santiago Sonny Bravo, Johnny Rodriguez, Jr., Nicky Marrero & Alfredo de la Fe April 28 Jimmy Delgado & Orch. con Renzo Padilla

Korean Children’s Day
presented by Dutchess County Arts Council Folk Arts Program
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Route 376, Hopewell Junction NY
Contact: 845.454.3222, info@artsmidhudson.org
Cost: FREE
During this interactive program, children will learn about Korean children’s culture. Featured activities include playing traditional Korean children’s games like kongki noli (Korean version of Jacks, traditionally played by girls) and yun nori (traditional board game that uses beautiful wooden sticks in place of dice), making paper crafts, learning about important children’s social customs like bowing to elders, and tasting traditional Korean snacks like mandu (savory dumplings) and bori cha (roasted barley tea). Young adults from the local Korean community will lead area children in these and other hands-on activities.

Caffè Lena presents
Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers with Ben Murray
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance/$17 at the door (How to get tickets)
The Virginia-based husband-and-wife duo of Siobhan Quinn and Michael Bowers offers gracious and gritty songs brimming with seamless harmonies. Singer Siobhan brings the audience directly to the emotional center of each song with her worldclass singing. Songwriter Michael brings fine lyrics, warm guitar, humor and wry observation. Pair these two with Albany’s own stellar blues guitarist and harmonica player Ben Murray, and you get a dynamic program of contemporary folk, rock, pop and blues.

Old Songs Contra Dance
Old Songs, Inc.
Beginner learn-how session at 7:30 p.m.
Dancing begins at 8:00 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $10
Contra dance to live music by Rosie’s Ready Mix and caller Bob Nicholson. Arrive at 7:30 p.m. for the beginner session where you will learn to swing, balance, ladies chain, and right hand star along with many other figures. In an evening of dancing there will be many contra dances (parallel lines facing each other), circle dances, and New England squares. You don’t need a partner...there are always plenty of helpful partners available. Please wear clean soft-soled shoes to protect the wood floor. The dances will be preceded by a POTLUCK SUPPER at 6:30 p.m. for anyone who would like to partake.

Harbortown Revue
7:30 and 9:00 p.m.
Historic Richmondtown, 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Cost: $15
Call (718) 351-1611, Ext. 281 for reservations
Award winning songwriter Bob Wright performs songs about our Island and its harbor environs, joined by a coterie of musical friends.

The Dewey Hall Folk Series presents
JOANNE REDDING with Adam Michael Rothberg and Greg Becker
7:30 p.m.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Suggested Donation: $10; Refreshments
Mark your calendars for the first Saturday of each month — beautiful, intimate setting, checkered tablecloths, superior acoustics, and exceptional local, national, and international musicians. Hailing from Lenox, MA, performer Joanne Redding’s music is a “soulful mix of self-penned roots music; blues, country, and rock n’ soul.”

The Art of Basket Weaving
Maryann Clock, Instructor
7:00 - 8:45 p.m.
Phelps Arts Center, 15 Church St., Phelps, NY
$10 per class

Special Event: James McBride, Author of The Color of Water
7:00 p.m.
Albright Auditorium, Hobart & William Smith College, Geneva, NY
Cost: Free
The Color of Water is a memoir by James McBride that pays tribute to his mother and explores how the issues of family, race, and religion shaped his mother’s life as well as his own. Ostracized by her family and white society in Segregationist Virginia for her marriage to Andrew Dennis McBride and to Hunter Jordan, both black men. Geneva Reads dedicates this year’s community read to Linda Blackwell, who worked with children at the Geneva Public Library for 19 years and passed away with little warning on February 9. She was much admired for her ability to communicate with children and inspire in children a love to read. The author will be speaking at 7 pm on Monday, April 5th at Albright Auditorium on HWS Campus.

The Mid-Atlantic Province of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann hosts the
North American CCE Convention in Parsippany, New Jersey
Hilton Parsippany Hotel
Call 973-267-7373 / 1-800-hiltons (toll free, 9-5) for reservations. Ask for CCE Irish Music Weekend rate ($121 US) or book online.
Cost: $175 for a weekend package (which including all events from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, plus four meals including the Gala Saturday evening banquet show & ceili)
For information and more, visit http://www.cceconvention2010.org
Registration brochure
The North American convention is one of the world’s finest celebrations of Irish music, dance, song and the Irish language. This year we will honor the next generation of musicians carrying on the living tradition and the cultural heritage passed on by our senior musicians. This year’s Convention is going to be quite an extravaganza. In addition to all the instrumental, singing, set dance and sean nos workshops, you’ll find, there’ll be four ceilithe (with elite ceili bands from New York and New Jersey), and all the sessions you can handle. You won’t want to miss it.

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCE) Convention Coach Tour
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Cost of Tour is $50 For reservations respond asap via email to mjahopkins@aol.com
The Sightseeing Tour Includes:
*A view of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
*Irish Hunger Memorial & Ground Zero
*Wall Street and Financial District
*St. Patrick’s Cathedral & Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall
*Times Square and Broadway
*Intrepid Museum on Hudson

Tour includes Lunch at the “Grasshopper on the Green” in Morristown, New Jersey. We anticipate this tour will sell out quickly! Seats are on a first come first served basis, so if you’re interested in attending, please reserve your seat now.

Country Dancers of Rochester presents a
Contra Dance with
Caller: Richard Sauvain
Band: Barb Dyskant, Curt Osgood, and Hope Greitzer
8-11 p.m.
Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver, Rochester, NY 14609
Admission: $7 ($6 members, $1 off for seniors and students)
An experienced caller will provide excellent teaching as we dance to the wonderful music of Barb Dyskant on keyboard, Curt Osgood on hammered dulciumer, and Hope Greitzer on fiddle.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Hungrytown
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, City Park, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Contact: 518.792.6508, degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Hungrytown is the Vermont-based husband-and-wife duo writing and performing new, harmony-drenched ballads that blend modern lyrics with a traditional Americana feel. “Musically, Hungrytown is a rare breed. In this age of fusion, Hall and Anderson prefer to reverse-engineer modern folk: plucking our the rock and R&B and writing brand-new ballads that sound straight out of the ‘30s. Standing face to face, so close that their guitars almost touch, they sing into the same mic, evoking scenes from the glory days of the Grand Ole Opry.”—Justin Shatwell/Yankee Magazine.

Cuban Popular Music on Film 1929-1960s
7 p.m.
Taller Boricua’s Multi Arts Space at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center (1680 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY)
For more information, email the Archives at hmj47@hotmail.com or hmj8s@yahoo.com
The rare vintage film presentation is from The Henry Medina Archives, work of a private researcher and collector who will cover early Afro-Cuban music on film in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Also featured will be world traveler, adventurer, professional dancer, and writer, Vincent Livelli, celebrating his 90th birthday, discussing and reminiscing his tales of Cuban dance team Rene y Estela and the Park Plaza/Palace dance hall off 110th Street & 5th Ave. in Spanish Harlem during the late 1930s and 1940s. Some of the highlights will cover the early African diaspora traditions in Cuban music, early films of Cuban dance, La Sonora Mantacera, Miguelito Valdes, Beny Moré, rumba dancer Ninon Sevilla, the rumba of Silvestre Mendez, a tribute to Arsenio Rodriguez and many others.

Caffè Lena presents
50th Anniversary Decade Concert: The 1990s
Featuring Bill Morrissey and Cliff Eberhardt
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $25 (How to get tickets)
Tonight we celebrate the penultimate chapter in Caffè Lena’s illustrious five-decade run. We welcome back to the stage two of the era’s finest singer-songwriters, who just happen to be old friends and admirers of one another’s work. Bill Morrissey’s lyrical gifts and graceful, understated melodies have won him two Grammy nominations and put him on stages across the world. With songs influenced by Mississippi John Hurt, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan, Morrissey captures the harshness and small sadnesses of his characters, but tempers it all with wry humor that often leaves his live audiences in stitches. Cliff Eberhardt has been called “the missing link between Paul McCartney and Cole Porter.” (Seth Rogovoy) His guitar and piano melodies range from pop to folk to old-style jazz, with lyrics that find fresh, incisive ways to address the familiar themes of life gone good and bad. From melancholy to sweet optimism, Cliff’s songs are the product of a mature and tested performer with the highest level of craftsmanship. As we have with our other Decade Concerts, we will open the evening with an onstage interview of the performers conducted by Michael Eck. A taped copy will be sent to the New England Folk Music Archives as part of their ongoing documentation of the Northeast’s folk scene.

Joe Crookston
Heartland House Concert
7 p.m.
Ralph Hunt & Judy Gradford, Hosts
20 Winbourne Road, off Scottsville Rd., Rochester 14611
Tickets: $15
Joe is from Ithaca, and has been a Rochester favorite for some time now. There’s a warmth in his voice that is immensely appealing and his songwriting is clear, simple and masterful. He writes sardonically about greed at an estate sale, merges Rold Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with resurrection theology, sings with drunken roosters and curls with rolling rutabagas. Equally at home with the accordion, banjo, piano and guitar, Joe doesn’t limit himself only to his own work but provides some tasty renditions of traditional tunes and even some brilliant renditions of rock classics. It’s when he picks up the guitar and his fingers start to fly you realize you are in the presence of a true master.
Heartland Concerts is an all volunteer folk and acoustic music series, presenting the finest in local, regional and national performers in the Rochester, New York area.

BABIK 7:30 p.m.
Seymour College Union Ballroom, SUNY Brockport, 585-395-2787
Tickets: $12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Babik is a progressive gypsy jazz band that plays a wide range of styles such as jazz-fusion, klezmer, world and Latin, that excites music lovers from all walks of life. Seating is general admission and will be very limited. Arrive early.

Rochester Guitar Club: SPRING CONCERT
8:00 p.m.
Harmony House, 58 E. Main, Webster, 14580, 264-0848
Admission: $15
An Acoustic Guitar Concert featuring Hot Licks Fingerstyle Americana, Classical, Celtic, Folk, Spanish, Brazilian, Latin, Rock and Jazz, and folk, styles. Musicians scheduled to perform include Tim Shannon, Roberts Wesleyan College, Guitar Dept. Chair; Dennis Repino, Eastman School of Music, Guitar Doctoral Studies; George Collochio, Collichio Music Schools, Spencerport & Webster; and Loren Barrigar, Syracuse Guitar League Co-founder.

Musical Moments — Rebecca Colleen and The Chore Lads
7:00 p.m.
Geneva Public Library, 244 Main Street, Geneva, New York 14456. 315-789-5303.
Cost: Free
The family group “Rebecca Colleen and The Chore Lads” perform a program of acoustic folk, country, gospel and blue grass. The group from Romulus, New York, includes Peter McDonald, Rebecca Colleen McDonald, and Patrick McDonald—father, daughter and son. Together, they lend their voices to three-part harmonies, and the incendiary playing of their instruments, to break-your-heart ballads. Their performance is accomplished, lively and not to be missed. Rebecca Colleen McDonald has been singing as long as can be remembered and now, only 15 years old, is a confident performer with a powerful voice. Peter McDonald sings and plays fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar. He is a lifelong musician and has performed on stage and appeared in bands with Randy Travis, Gene Watson, Atlanta, Michael Twitty, Doc Watson, David Wills and Narvel Felts, among others. Patrick McDonald, is 18, and the younger half of “The Chore Lads.” He provides a talented accompaniment to his sister on upright bass as well as sings.After retiring from his active music career, Peter McDonald turned to home and country to raise his family and start a sustainable family farm. In addition to nurturing the gifts of his children, he has also become an advocate and a successful practitioner of organic farming and restorative agriculture. Visit >www.pasturepride.com for more information about this family farm.

Rochester Tartan Day
Sponsored by the Rochester Scottish Heritage Society
12- 9:00 p.m.
Sunday: 12:45 p.m. Tullamore Celtic Band performance and 1:45 p.m. Dick Bolt Fiddle Workshop (see complete schedule at website)
Main Street Armory, 900 East Main St., Rochester, NY, 800-745-3000
Cost: $10; free for ages 9 and under Stop by the Clan tents and learn about Scotland’s rich history (and family rivalries), attend a seminar or two to learn something new, pick up some swag from one of our vendors, or grab a beer and some haggis...why not do it all? Scottish music all day! There will be bagpipe bands, scotch tasting, clan and geology information, vendor displays, Scottish games- and food!

RARE NYS FIDDLE TUNES WORKSHOP
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Kellish Hill Farm, 3192 Pompey Center Road, Manlius, NY (just outside Syracuse)
Admission to the workshop is just $10, and it will be followed by a free afternoon jam session (all styles), potluck dinner and evening round and square dance, all sponsored by the New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers Association.
Join traditional fiddler Jackie Hobbs and music researcher and performer Dave Ruch for a rare and special two-hour workshop on lesser-known fiddle and dance tunes from the repertoires of NYS old-time fiddlers. This is a hands-on workshop for all instrumental musicians — melody and rhythm players — interested in adding a few authentic New York State fiddle tunes to their playing. Tunes will be taught by ear in the old style, with the instructors playing one phrase at a time until the group is ready to move on to the next. Sheet music will also be provided, but let’s see how far we can get without it!

Benefit Concert & Silent Auction
A Family Afternoon of Food, Irish Dancing, Music, and a HUGE Silent Auction
1- 6:00 p.m.
German House, 315 Gregory Street, Rochester, NY, 473-5070
Cost: $10/Adults, $5/ children; $30/family rate Performers scheduled are: The Dady Brothers, The Dustmen, Drumcliffe School of Irish Dance, Everheart, The Wild Geese, The Young School of Irish Dance, and The Shannonside Ceili Dancers. Since 1982, The Irish Children’s Program of Rochester has sponsored the visitation of an equal number of Catholic and Protestant children from Belfast, Northern Ireland to the greater Rochester area each summer. The program has touched the lives of generations of Northern Irish and their American host families.

Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries
New CD Launch Concert for “Once Upon the Hudson” by The Hudson River Ramblers
Two Shows: 5-6 p.m. and 7-8.p.m.
199 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508 For more information, call 845-838-1600 ext.10, email jmerchant@bire.org or baladeer@aol.com
Suggested donation: $5
Ramble through 400+ years of history along “America's First River” with storyteller Jonathan Kruk and folksinger Rich Bala, as they celebrate the release of their new CD, Once Upon the Hudson. Prepare to be captivated, enlightened, and entertained by tunes and tales ranging from native legends to songs about “the river that flows both ways.” This lively, engaging show is sure to wow you with the breath and depth of the Hudson’s proud, glorious, and diverse legacy!

ART at Bay: Multi-disciplinary Performance Evening
Curated by Jill Jichetti
6-9 p.m.
ART at Bay, 70 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY
Featuring:
- MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by experimental folk duo, Blurple
- LIVE PAINTING (JOHN EXIT, Jill Jichetti)
- WORKSHOPS (Bullet Plays, Outer Body Poetics, the Blindfolded Musicians Experiment, Film/Sound Improvisation) with The Staten Island Creative Hub (including Eric Alter, Mike Castellani, Steve Huang, and Vlad Kanevsky)
- LIVE PAINTING & IMPROVISATIONAL POETRY COLLABORATIVE EXPERIMENT
- EXPERIMENTAL DANCE PERFORMANCE by melissa west/independent movers
- IMPROVISATIONAL AND TEXT-BASED PERFORMANCE by Actor Ritty Mahoney (featured in April at Sea View Playwrights Theatre as Hamlet)... performing in character as Hamlet

...And more. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS WELCOME both as participants in the workshops and improvisationally. If you haven’t yet had a chance to participate in the weekly workshops of the Staten Island Creative Hub, it’s a great opportunity to join in-and catch the other performances. Visit the gallery, interact with the performers, and enjoy a fantastical evening of multi-disciplinary creativity.

Boiled in Lead
8 p.m.
The Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca Street, Geneva, NY
Cost: $15
Buy tickets online
For over 26 years, Boiled in Lead have been innovators in bringing “folk music” kicking and screaming to rock audiences (and rock music to screaming folk audiences!) BiL’s many instrumental dance tunes incorporate global influences, rhythms, and melodies that are guaranteed to keep the feet moving. Original songs stick in the mind long after the music is over. The players improvise freely yet stay in sync, playing a vital mix of original and traditional material. The group and the individual musicians have won over 20 Minnesota Music Awards, and toured throughout the U.S. and in Europe. With the return of original lead singer Todd Menton and the addition of world-travelling eclectic instrumentalists Dean Magraw and Marc Anderson, the highly-identifiable BiL sound surges foward. Enthusiastic, powerful, technically brilliant, playing a wealth of instruments, electric and acoustic, Boiled In Lead routinely blows away labels and enchants audiences.

Old Songs, Inc. presents
Le Vent du Nord
8:00 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $25/adults; $5/ages 12 and under
Buy tickets online
Le Vent du Nord is now one of the most-loved Quebec folk outfits throughout the world. The group’s current line-up consists of singers/multi-instrumentalists Nicolas Boulerice, Simon Beaudry, Olivier Demers, and Réjean Brunet. Some of their songs come from traditional folk repertoire, while others are original compositions. Le Vend du Nord know how to deliver music that will move any crowd – to their feet and in their hearts!.

Caffè Lena presents
Train of Fools
Featuring Kevin & Katie McKrell, Brian Mellick, and Craig Thaler
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $16 advance/$18 at the door (How to get tickets)
Saratoga’s own Kevin McKrell has been the leading force in the regional Celtic scene for the past three decades. He’s a masterful entertainer and musician with a knack for assembling fine bands. He has travelled the world with Donnybrook Fair and The McKrells. His songs are performed by Kingston Trio, Woods Tea Company, and Seamus Kennedy, among many others. In recent years Kevin has joined forces with his talented daughter Katie McKrell, a singer-songwiter who has put her own rock career on hold for now. She adds powerful harmony and lead vocals and lots of wicked stage banter. Brian Mellick joins in on joyful percussion and Craig Thaler plays fine violin.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures
8:00 p.m.
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York
Tickets $25
Grounded in the American improvisational tradition, Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures embraces musical forms and instrumentation of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the African diaspora. Veteran percussionist Adam Rudolph, a world music pioneer, leads an ensemble of artists performing on instruments ranging from African percussion, Central Asian frame drums, and Japanese and Indian flutes to saxophones, clarinets and piano. The program features new works by Rudolph commissioned by Chamber Music America.

Dirdy Birdies Jug Band
7:30 and 9:00 p.m.
Historic Richmondtown, 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Cost: $15
Call (718) 351-1611, Ext. 281 for reservations
The World’s Most Dangerous Jug Band! Wandering minstrels that have been together since 1965(!), their repertoire includes traditional jug band tunes, gospel, folk and doo-wop with homemade instruments and tight vocal harmonies.

Roundtable Discussion: Cultural Documentation
2:30 p.m.
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave., Staten Island, NY
Cost: $12 general admission; $10 members, students and seniors
Roundtable discussion — Join Curator, Sarah Johnson for a discussion with photographer Phil Borges and Geshe Damdul, Assistant Director of the Institute for Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala about cultural documentation.

5 Boroughs Music Festival presents
M SHANGHAI STRING BAND
4-5:30 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Hall, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
Admission: $25, Students and SI Residents, $15
With an adventurous take on Americana, Williamsburg’s own M SHANGHAI STRING BAND is not easily classified. Lyrically smart and modern, their songs feel both classic and new.

Caffè Lena presents
RéVeillons!
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance/$20 at the door (How to get tickets)
Wake up to the beauty and excitement of authentic Quebeçois music! RèVeillons! (Wake Up!) brings to audiences across North America the percussive beats, hearty singing, and lively instrumentation that characterizes the fine traditional folk music of French Canada. David Berthiaume plays the jaw harp and concertina; Jean-François Berthiaume adds stepdance, bodhran, and suitcase percussion; Richard Forest is the fiddler, and Marc Maziade fills out the sound with guitar and tenor banjo.

Dance Flurry presents a
Family Dance
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
First Congregational Church, 405 Quail St, Albany, NY
Suggested donation: Adults/ $5; Children under 12/ $1
For information, call the Dance Hotline: 518-292-0133 or call 518-482-9255
Circle dances, squares, line dances and play-party/singing games from around the world. Instruction and calling by Paul Rosenberg; music by Tame Rutabaga. (Sit-in musicians of any age and any degree of experience are welcome to join in.)

Story Sunday at The Glen Sanders Mansion
Native American Stories
Father and son Joseph and Jesse Bruchac will share stories and songs from their Abenaki heritage
5-8 p.m.
The Glen Sanders Mansion, 1 Glen Avenue, Scotia, NY
$30 per person (includes entertainment, dinner, tax and tip)
Bring someone new and you each save $3 (only one discount/person)
Reservations: (518) 384-1700 or email sc@katedudding.com
Story Sundays is a storytelling dinner series for adults. Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, NY, in the same house where he was raised by his maternal grandparents. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by which Bruchac has been most nourished. He, his younger sister Margaret, and his two grown sons, James and Jesse, continue to work extensively in projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture, language, and traditional Native skills. A graduate of Goddard College, where his thesis was the creation of a syllabus for teaching the Abenaki language, Jesse Bruchac has worked extensively over the past 15 years in projects involving the preservation of the Abenaki language, music, and traditional culture. A musician whose specialty is the native flute, he is the founder of the Dawn Land Singers and has performed American Indian music at festivals and in concert throughout the United States, in Canada, and in several European nations.
See also January 31 and March 7

Interfaith Understanding Conference
Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
4/11 - “The Art of Dialogue: Interfaith Dialogue Across the Generations”
4/11 - “The Divine Feminine: The Foundation of the Abrahamic World”
4/12 - “Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis”
Email: 2010iuc@naz.edu or call us at 585.389.2955 to reserve or purchase tickets in advance.
Tickets will also be available for purchase at the plenary or event.
View the 3-day schedule
Rochester’s faith and community leaders share beliefs about the interfaith movement. Speakers representing five major world religions will inspire and empower current and future interfaith leaders. Special plenary events include:

2010 IUC Grand Opening & Sr. Joan Chittister
The Divine Feminine: The Foundation of the Abrahamic World
April 11, 2010 - starting at 4:00 p.m. in Shults Center, Gym, $40.00
Ticket price includes: Opening Ceremony, “The Art of Dialogue” plenary with Dr. Swidler & IFYC Trainers, Grand Opening Dinner, and Sr. Joan Chittister's plenary.

Sensei Bonnie Myotai Treace
How Water is the New Salt: An Interfaith Language for our Time &
Dr. P. Jayaraman
Gandhian Interfaith Approach to Non-violence and Peace-making
April 12, 2010 - Starting at 8:30 a.m. in Arts Center, Callahan Theater, $40.00
Ticket price includes: Sensei Treace’s and Dr. Jayarman’s plenaries, and the Spirituality Faire at the Arts Center.

Dr. Eboo Patel
Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis
April 12, 2010 - 8:00 p.m. in Arts Center, Callahan Theater, $20.00

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
From Religious Extremism to Interfaith Dialogue
April 13, 2010 - 8:30 a.m. in Shults Center, Gym, $20.00

Caffè Lena presents
Storytelling Open Mic With Featured Storyteller Jeannine Laverty
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $3 at the door
Jeannine Laverty has been telling international folk tales since 1979, and has been a sought-after teacher of the craft since 1980. She was honored in 1999 by the National Storytelling Network for her long commitment to the field of storytelling. In the past few years Jeannine has returned to her farming roots and tonight she will tell stories connected to that theme, both from her own life and from the farming lives of others.

NIGHT/SHIFT: Book Talk with Lynn Saville
Co-sponsored by the Center for Architecture and the Neighborhood Preservation Center 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012
RSVP required
Free Admission
In her recent book, Night/Shift, Lynn Saville has captured urban landscapes at twilight and dawn, revealing the stark paradoxes between day and darkness. She will discuss the progression of her work from earlier black and white nocturnes and talk about the surprising occasional ghostlike shadowy figures that have begun to appear in her photographs. Photographer Lynn Saville was educated at Duke University and Pratt Institute. Among her teachers was Philippe Halsman. She specializes in photographing both cities and rural settings at twilight and dawn, or as she describes it, “the boundary times between night and day.” Signed copies of Night/Shift will available for purchase following the lecture.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies
Spring 2010
Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment
Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessalonikiy
6 p.m.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
Yiorgos Kalogeras will discuss how Elia Kazan’s America-America (1963) serves as an archetype for two recent films dealing with immigration and the politics of whiteness: The Brides (2004) by Greek director Pandelis Voulgaris and Nuovomondo/The Golden Door (2006) by Italian director Emanuele Crialese. While both films characterize the immigrant’s passage as one into modernity and opportunity, they represent the experience of being viewed as “other” in different ways. Voulgaris portrays a fetishization of the immigrant, in this case a woman. In Crialese’s film, arrival at Ellis Island is a traumatic ordeal of exclusion based on pseudo-scientific racialization.

The Gotham Center for New York City presents the next program in their Gotham History Forum Series for Spring 2010:
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street – Recital Hall, New York, NY
FREE. Reservations required. www.gc.cuny.edu/events
David Ruggles (1810–1849), one of the most heroic figures of the early abolitionist movement in America, is often overlooked. Graham Russell Gao Hodges of Colgate University, provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, and publisher who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. Hodges’s portrait of Ruggles, published by University of North Carolina Press, establishes the abolitionist as an essential link between disparate groups — male and female, black and white, clerical and secular, elite and rank-and-file—recasting the history of antebellum abolitionism as a more integrated and cohesive movement than is often portrayed. Book signing to follow.

COAHSI (Council on Arts & Humanities for Staten Island) presents
Writing an Artist Statement
6-7 p.m.
Century Dance Complex, 568 Bay St., 2nd Floor, Staten Island, NY
Registration is limited to 20 people, so please RSVP early to: gshulick@statenislandarts.org or 718-447-3329.
Writing an Artist Statement—What is an artist statement? What does it take to make it happen? These questions and more will be addressed during this interactive workshop, led by Susan Schear of ARTISIN.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance invites you to TRADITIONAL COLOMBIAN MUSIC AND DANCE IN NY A Five-Part Workshop Series in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art and El Taller Latin Americano April 14, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art, Opening Event and Reception: Pablo Mayor presents a traditional music and dance tour of Colombia. Free! April 21, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art: Martin Vejarano presents the unique sounds of the qaita flute from the Atlantic coast; and Diego Obregón offers marimba music of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Free! May 6, 7-8:30 p.m. El Taller Latino Americano: Ronald Polo explores of the percussion sounds of the Atlantic coast; and Johanna Castañeda presents a music workshop with cuatro from Colombia’s plains. Suggested donation $5. May 13, 7-8:30 p.m. El Taller Latino Americano: Rafael Gomez & Guillermo Penate explore the vallenata sounds of Colombia’s north coast; and Daniel Fetecua Soto presents dances from throughout Colombia. Suggested donation $5. June 16, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art, Closing Event & Reception: Rafael Leal Ramirez demonstrates traditional Colombian rhythms for the drum set; and Andrés Garcia presents traditional Andean music for tiple, flauta and bass. Free! For information, call 212-571-1555 ext 27 or email gmhamilton@ctmd.org.

New York State Archives announces a Documentary Heritage Workshop
From the Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC)
Internet Access to New York’s Historical Records
Presented by Heidi Bamford, WNY DHP Regional Archivist
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
WNYLRC Training Center, 4455 Genesee Street, Cheektowaga, NY
Cost: $10 for WNYLRC members; $15 for non-members
Registration: http://www.wnylrc.org
For more information, call 716-633-0705 x 114
There are many ways in which we can search and locate historical records of New York’s past. The Internet is a key tool for discovering documentary materials in all types of repositories across the country. This session will examine the types of resources that are on the Internet that can help identify collections relating to aspects of NY history, with a focus on regional resources.

The Dady Brothers
8-11 p.m.
O’Lacey’s, 5 School Street, Batavia, NY, 585-343-3270
John and Joe Dady are The Dady Brothers, playing fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bodhran, banjo, uilleann pipes, harmonica in a wide range of styles including country, bluegrass, folk, and Irish.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents
Live! Folklife Concert: Bread & Bones
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, City Park, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Contact: 518.792.6508, degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Bread & Bones is an acoustic trio from Vermont who perform original music with a strong traditional root foundation. Their sound is characterized by imaginative 2- and 3-part harmonies over solid guitar and bass work. “Their playing and singing are crisp and confident”—Jeff Trippe/MaineFolkMusic.com. “Bread & Bones gives a give live show...they created a playful, warm environment for the audience and kept us all engaged until the last song” —Anna Maria Tocci/North Star Music Cafe, Portland, Maine.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
De Volta As Raizes (Back to our Roots):
Sergio and Odair Assad & Friends
8:00 p.m.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York
Tickets $30, $35; WMI Friends $25, $30; Students $18
The famed Brazilian-born Sergio and Odair Assad, acclaimed for their brilliance in the classical, folk, jazz, and Latin repertoires, have been called “the best two-guitar team in existence” (Washington Post). In this program, they explore the rhythmic similarities that tie Middle Eastern music (their ancestral roots) with the music of Brazil. Joining the Assad Brothers are the hypnotic Lebanese singer Christiane Karam, percussionist Jamey Haddad, and pianist/singer Clarice Assad. Their concert features modern and ancient Lebanese texts set to new music by Sergio and Clarice Assad.

Arts & Business Council of New York presents a
Panel Discussion: All About Collaboration
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers), New York, NY 10007
This event is free, but an R.S.V.P. is required. Please contact Molly HyoJung Bidol at 212.674.5153 or bidolm@nysa.us. NY State Assembly member Deborah J. Glick is hosting a panel discussion on how to build arts partnerships. The arts vitalize and enrich our local communities. The performing arts – theater and dance – especially, have made the neighborhoods of Tribeca, SoHo, NoHo, the West Village, Greenwich Village, and the East Village highly sought after places to live and visit. Due to the current economy, our theaters and dance companies are struggling to keep their doors open. Join us for a discussion of existing and potential downtown partnerships.
Panelists:
*Peggy Coleman, of Battery Dance Company, will talk about the arts and business collaboration called “Walk on White Street,” located in Tribeca
*Tamara Greenfield, of Fourth Arts Block (FAB), will discuss the initiatives they have undertaken to promote the arts and businesses in the East 4th Street Cultural District
*Julie Menin, Chair of Community Board 1, will discuss how community boards and performing arts organizations can work together
*Will Maitland Weiss, Executive Director of the Arts and Business Council of New York, will talk about arts and business partnerships

Taiko Concert with Master Koji Nakamura
presented by Dutchess County Arts Council Folk Arts Program
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Locust Grove, 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie NY
Contact: 845.454.3222, info@artsmidhudson.org
Cost: FREE
A concert of traditional Japanese music featuring Grammy Award winning Taiko Master Koji Nakamura, with guest appearance by acclaimed koto player Yukiko Matsuyama.

Chris O’Brien
8:00 p.m.
Cafe Veritas, First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 Winton Road South, Rochester, 617/440-4279
Admission: $12 adults, $6 students, 12 and under free
Massachusetts singer/songwriter, Chris O’Brien has made quite a name for himself in Boston’s competitive music scene and it didn’t take long for the rest of New England to catch on. Within three years O’Brien made a splash nationally after being chosen from a pool of nearly 1,000 contestants to appear on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Folk Music Society of New York, Inc./New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club
presents
Bill Staines, Singer-Songwriter Extraordinaire in Concert
8 p.m.
OSA, 220 E. 23rd Street, Suite 707, New York, NY 10010
General Admission is $20. Members of the Folk Music Society, $10, children, and full-time students under 22 are free.
Tickets are available at the door or online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92241;
More information is at www.folkmusicny.org or by calling 718-672-6399.
Bill Staines is one of the best songwriters in folk music today, penning lyrics that evoke a sense of place and a generous spirit to go along with his pretty melodies. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year. He weaves a blend of gentle wit and humor into his performances and one reviewer wrote, “He has a sense of timing to match the best standup comic.” His gentle lilting voice, spacious melodies and common-chord lyrics give his songs a homespun grace that often belies his mastery of the folk form. He is such a pure pleasure too, people forget to notice how damn good at the job of singer-songwritering he really is. Bill’s music is a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease his feelings about the prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon, the on-the-road truckers, or the everyday workers that make up this land. A number of Bill’s songs have been recorded by other artists including, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, and others. Bill has recorded twenty-two of his own albums, fifteen of which are still in print.

Watkins and the Rapiers
8:30-10:30 p.m.
Little Theatre Cafe 240 East Ave., Rochester 14604, 258-0400
Band members include: Tom Whitmore onbass, guitar, mandolin and vocals, Scott Regan (yes, he’s the Host of “Open Tunings” on WRUR) on guitar, percussion and vocals, Kerry Regan on bass, guitar, harmonica and vocals, Bruce Diamond on mandolin, fiddle, bass, keyboards and vocals, Marty York on drums, percussion, washboard and vocals, Steve Piper on guitar, clarinet and vocals, and Rick McRae on trombone and keyboards.

Caffè Lena presents
5th Annual Acoustic Blues Fest
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Five years ago we hit upon the idea of dedicating a weekend to that most enduringly popular brand of folk music, acoustic blues. Down through the decades, the Caffè stage has been filled innumerable times with the mesmerizing, sweet and sad sounds of the Mississippi Delta.

Friday, April 16
Paul Geremia
With Openers Mark Tolstrup and Dale Haskell
8 p.m.
Cost: $18 advance/$20 at the door (How to get tickets)
We open our 5th Annual Acoustic Blues Fest with long-time Caffè Lena favorite Paul Geremia. Paul is your classic bluesman, reconteur, and road warrior. He has travelled the globe since 1966, during which time he has earned a rock solid reputation as a fingerpicker, songwriter, and scholar of early jazz and blues. Playing six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano, and singing in a husky, whiskey-and-heartbreak voice, Paul has an innate sense of the humor and drama of his songs. He mixes classics by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake with his original compositions to create a show that has received endless accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe.

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS
$25 each, or $60 for all three
11:00 a.m. – Paul Geremia
1:30 p.m. – Phil Drum
3:00 p.m. –Tas Cru

Saturday, April 17
Blues In the Round with Mark Tolstrup & Dale Haskell, Tas Cru, and Phil Drum
8 p.m.
Cost: $15 advance/$17 at the door (How to get tickets)
Whether you like your blues straight from the true vine, or whether you hunger for fresh branches on the tree, you’ll relish this high caliber in-the-round song swap by the area’s finest practioners of acoustic blues. With a solid beat of finger-picking, foot stomping, ringing slide-guitar, rock solid percussion, and a powerful vocal attack, Saratoga Springs duo Mark Tolstrup and Dale Haskell reprise the authentic sounds of the American landscape, from New Orleans to Tin Pan Alley. Albany’s Tas Cru does Mississippi Delta blues on resonator guitar. He’s a master of the double entendre, adding dark sparkle to every song. He’s a regular at the famed Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and has represented the Northeast Blues Society at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Tas is a smart and seasoned bluesman who knows how to entertain. Phil Drum is a fingerpicking bluesman and founder of the Saratoga Acoustic Blues Society. Music has been a lifelong pursuit for him. From a tour with the Coasters in 1972, to more recent ventures with Bluesology and the Mojo Filters, Phil has kept his chops in good working order. Tonight, he’ll focus on the oldtime blues of Blind Blake and Robert Johnson.

Ballads, Songs, and Tunes from New York State Tradition
Jeff Davis and Dave Ruch

Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.: A house concert in Buffalo, New York. Call (716) 884-6855 for reservations.

Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.: Cranberry Coffeehouse in Binghamton, New York. Call (607) 729-1641 or 754-9437 for reservations.

Sunday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.: Bound for Glory at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. E-mail bfg@wvbr.com for reservations.

For further information contact Dave Ruch at dave@daveruch.com or (716) 884- 6855.

A Japanese Tea Ceremony Experience
presented by Dutchess County Arts Council Folk Arts Program
1:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie NY
Contact: 845.454.3222, info@artsmidhudson.org
Cost: FREE
The Japanese Tea Ceremony Experience in an interactive cultural program during which members of the local Japanese community will demonstrate the highly choreographed Japanese way of tea. Two demonstrations will be held, the first from 1:00-2:00, and the second from 2:15-3:15. During each session, three audience members will participate as “guests” in a mock tea ceremony while audience members look on and learn about many of the ritualized practices. The program is appropriate for youth and adults.

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders presents
Mixteca in New York/La Comunidad Mixteca en Nueva York
2-3:30 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian in New York, One Bowling Green (between Broadway and State Streets), New York, NY
For information, call 212-587-3070 or email info@manoamano.us
Cost: Free
This panel discussion will explore issues of language, expression and identity among the Mixteco community in New York City. These estimated 25,000 indigenous migrants bring a rich and complex history of language diversity as part of their transborder experience. Migrants to New York, who have settled primarily in East Harlem, Staten Island, the Bronx and the Upper West Side come mostly from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca. They face special challenges in the areas of education and social services. A panel of experts and community members will look at the unique situation of this special migrant community. Our goal is give visitors a deeper understanding of the diversity within the migrant population, while emphasizing the common threads that connect immigrants and indigenous communities throughout our region.
Presented in collaboration with Immigrant Heritage Week.

COAHSI (Council on Arts & Humanities for Staten Island) presents
Latino Dancing with Latino Folklorico de Staten Island
2-4 p.m.
St. George Library, 5 Central Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Latino Dancing!-The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island and El Centro del Inmigrante are proud to celebrate Immigration Heritage Week with “Latino Folklorico de Staten Island.” This group of talented Staten Island based artists will demonstrate and discuss traditional dances from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Puerto Rico.

An Evening of Balinese Music and Dance with Hudson Valley Gamelan Giri Mekar and Special Guests
Presented by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
7 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk
8 p.m. Concert
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kleinart/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498, 845-679-2079
Tickets are $15, $10 for Guild members
Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestra Giri Mekar and special guests from the Bard College student gamelan Chandra Kanchana take the stage in a presentation of Balinese music and dance. In a performance designed to please all ages, this ensemble of sixteen-plus musicians will be joined by Balinese Artistic Director, Musician and Dancer Tjokorda Gde Arsa Artha performing traditional Balinese Topeng or masked dances. World-renowned Balinese dancer Shoko Yamamura will perform a traditional Rejang dance. Giri Mekar dancer Dorcinda Knauth will join Yamamura in the crowd-pleasing Joged—known in Bali as a flirtation dance—with audience interaction. Musician Nicci Reisnour, a Bard gamelan graduate and Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, who recently returned from a year-long intensive performance residency in Bali, will also join the performance. Artistic Director, Dancer and Master Musician Tjokorda Gde Artha Artha and guest scholar, ethnomusicologist and musician Peter Steele will kick off the evening performance with a special pre-concert talk including instrument and dance demonstrations at 7 p.m.

Taller Boricua Galleries is exhibiting the Alma Portfolio at the
SOMOS 23rd Annual Spring Conference
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Crown Plaza Hotel, State and Lodge Street, Albany, NY 12207
The Taller would like to thank NYS Assemblymen Adam Clayton Powell (D-68) and Felix Ortiz (D-51) for extending an invitation for the first ever art exhibition at the annual SOMOS conference. Established in 1987, the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force annual Legislative Conference (also known as the Somos conference) is the largest gathering of Puerto Rican/Hispanic civic and political leaders in the State. The Taller’s “Alma Boricua” (Puertorican Soul) Portfolio is a collection of computer-generated works on paper by seven artists and seven poets. Each artist’s work is integrated by a text, specifically created for this project. The seven “diptychs” (as this form is called) reflect aesthetic cohesiveness through digital technology as a medium. Artists included are Rafael Tufiño, the patriarch of Puerto Rican art and silkscreen genres; Diógenes Ballester, whose work is showcased in France, throughout Europe and the Caribbean; Marcos Dimas, founder of the Taller Boricua whose work combines pre-Columbian Taino symbols with contemporary modes of abstraction and figuration fusing past and present ways of seeing; Gloria Rodríguez, whose work as a mixed-media artist incorporates collaged images from mass-media print ads creates kaleidoscopic views of Latino identity; Fernando Salicrup, who started as a painter and evolved into computer-generated art; Juan Sánchez, has a long and eminent history of highly original paintings and graphics that are artistically multilayered and socially direct; and Nitza Tufiño,daughter of Rafael Tufiño, muralist and the first Latina artist of El Taller, she is known for public projects that introduce pre-Columbian Taino forms into urban settings. Her mural mosaics are sophisticated renderings of ancient ancestral symbols.

Bob Lusk
7-9 p.m.
Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Main and Partition Streets, Saugerties, NY
Bob will be playing and singing folk music and invites all to come out. He tells us he will be breaking in a new banjo this evening. A veteran of both the Irish and American folk circuit, Bob is an experienced balladeer and multi-instrumentalist. He sings in a strong baritone, from rousing pub song favorites to tender love songs.

The Golden Link Folk Singing Society presents
Red Molly
7:30 p.m. Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave, Penfield, NY
Admission: $18 ($15 for Golden Link members; $10 for students; 12 years and under free)
Purchase advance tickets online at http://www.goldenlink.org/html/redmolly.html
Red Molly consistently brings concert-goers to their feet with stunning three-part harmonies, crisp musicianship, and a warm, engaging stage presence. They have earned a devoted and ever-widening fan base, and have begun to tour nationally. Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner, and Carolann Solebello have a lot of fun on stage, and it’s contagious.

Stout
7:30 and 9:00 p.m.
Historic Richmondtown, 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Cost: $15
Call (718) 351-1611, Ext. 281 for reservations
The Tavern and Stout go together like cats and pajamas! They’re a group of experienced folk musicians who combine hearty five-part vocal harmonies with traditional acoustic instruments and create an enthusiastic 19th century musical experience, not to be missed.

Old Songs, Inc. presents
Scott Ainslie
8:00 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $20/adults; $5/ages 12 and under
Buy tickets online
Coming of age during the Civil Rights era and with his abiding affection for cross-cultural exchange, Scott Ainslie speaks about the Blues the way he plays them: with authority and passion. A community-based artist, Ainslie comes to the stage part storyteller, part historian, and all musician. Armed with three or four instruments – guitar, National slide guitar, a fretless gourd banjo and a diddley bow (one-string slide instrument) – with carefully chosen historical anecdotes and personal experiences with senior musicians across the South, Ainslie brings the African roots of American music out into the open.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Mali Blues: Rokia Traoré
7:00 p.m.
Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th St bet. 9th and 10th Aves, New York
Tickets $28
Mali’s entrancing singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré, known for her distinctive vocal stylings and outspoken lyrics, is one of West Africa’s most lauded voices. Called “the experimental diva of Africa” (The Guardian, UK), she blends modern sounds with centuries-old traditions, enthralling audiences around the world. Her program features selections from Tchamantche, her striking new album on Nonesuch.

Bill Staines
7:30 p.m.
Valley Folk, Drake House Studio Theater, 171 Cedar Arts Center (Cedar & First), 155 Cedar Street, Corning, NY
Admission: $12
Full time students (high school, college)with valid ID half price; Children under 14 free with adult
Singing mostly his own songs, Bill has become one of the most popular singers on the folk music circuit, averaging around 200 concert dates and over 65,000 miles a year. Weaving wit and gentle humor into his performances, “he has a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic.” His lyrical songs have been recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, The Highwaymen, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, and Priscilla Herdman. Bill has recorded twenty-two of his own albums, fifteen of which are still in print. His songs have also been published in four songbooks with 2 of them containing nearly 100 of Bill’s songs. Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion and Mountain Stage.

The THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE—95 YEARS LATER, IN REMEMBRANCE: The First Genocide in the 20th Century
Celebrating Armenian Heritage — a Culture, a Faith, a People
Performance Event 3:00-5:00 p.m.
URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, 80 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903
For information, please contact Steven Pennell 401-277-5206 or visit www.uri.edu/prov
An art exhibit (see Ongoing Exhibitions at the bottom of this page) to mark the 95th anniversary of the atrocities of the Armenian Genocide and to showcase the contributions of the Armenian culture. This performance event is the main event of the exhibition featuring art works (50 artists+) in a variety of mediums, film, program/exhibition catalog, books, extensive genocide display, posters, museum artifacts, theater production, lecture, guided field trips, State of Rhode Island Genocide Educator of the year award, receptions, food and music.

Art for the Synagogue
Illustrated Lecture with Dr. Vivian Mann
11 a.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP asteinmilford@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888 x201
Join us for the first event in our Ways We Worship lecture series, an illustrated lecture on Art for the Synagogue with Dr. Vivian Mann, Director of the Master’s Program in Jewish Art & Visual Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary. There are many ceremonial objects associated with the observance of Judaism in the synagogue from the Torah scroll to beautiful textiles and silver to ritual furniture. But these items, so intrinsic to Jewish practice today, did not always exist. Dr. Mann describes how these elements emerged, and how their design reflects the period and region in which they were created. Beginning June 1: Sunday-Thursday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. — Ways We Worship - Jewish Ritual Tour: Explore 120 years of Jewish practice in America. Trace the path of a Sabbath service at Eldridge Street, circa 1887. See, hear and touch objects associated with Jewish rituals and culture. Discover how Jewish practice has been maintained, adapted and innovated upon in America. $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.

Sacred Sites Walking Tour
2 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
$15/person
RSVP ncohen@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888 x205
Find sanctuary in the city. Visit synagogues, churches and temples encompassing 200 years of religious life in America, from early structures built by wealthy landowners to houses of worship encompassing the Jewish, African American, Italian, Hispanic and Chinese immigrant experience. This event is part of New York City’s 2010 Immigrant Heritage Week.

Story Circle at Proctors
Bumps in the Road with Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi and Karen Pillsworth
2 p.m.
Proctors Theater (The Fenimore Gallery, upstairs), 432 State Street, Schenectady, NY
$16 (coupon discount at StoryCircleatProctors.org
To purchase tickets, go to Proctor's web site, or visit the Box Office at Proctors, or call them at (518) 346-6204.
Lessons we’ve learned along the way. Some of life’s most interesting lessons are discovered by accident. Come hear stories of mothers and daughters, sons and husbands, and a plethora of cousins who have helped shape their lives. You are in for an afternoon of humorous and heart-warming tales.
See also March 14 and April 18 storytelling events.

Long Island Traditions and East Meadow Public Library present a
Trinidadian Steelband Concert: Steel Sensation
2 p.m.
East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front Street, East Meadow, NY 11554
Cost: Free
For more information, call 516.794.2570 or 516-767-8803
On Sunday, April 18, Steel Sensation, a master Trinidadian steelband ensemble led by Ian Japsi, will perform and offer a hands-on workshop on the popular steel drums at the East Meadow Public Library. They will perform traditional calypso melodies along with popular and classical arrangements. Then you can join in and learn how to play this traditional instrument. The programs are free and begin at 2 p.m. We encourage families and individuals alike to attend.

Kingsborough College in collaboration with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance present
Dancing Crane — Georgian Dance Theater
3:00 p.m.
Kingsborough College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11235-2398, 718.368.5596
Admission: Free
From the pristine beauty of polyphonic a cappella singing to thrilling feats of acrobatic dancing, Dancing Crane present traditional music and dance from the country of Georgia performed with traditional costumes and musical instrument such as the panduri, doli and salamuri. The dance forms from this mountain region have a unique style that rivals ballet in it demanding and refined technique, elegance and graceful movement. The songs styles are very distinctive and unusual with complex harmonies and moving lines producing music of a rare beauty, with a modal structure quite distinct from European music and typically sung in three parts. Dancing Crane present songs and music from all traditional Georgian genres, including regional folk music, church songs, urban songs, and songs from the Georgian classic and opera repertoire. Their performance is part of the Free Sundays at Kingsborough College program. No tickets or reservations are required. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. The performances run between 75-90 minutes.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Fado of Portugal: Ana Moura
7:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Tickets $32, WMI Friends $27, Students $18
Ana Moura’s stunning interpretation of her country’s soulful fado has made her a rising star in Europe and brought her critical acclaim in her North American concerts. An outstanding voice in the new generation of fado singers, she transcends her youth with a maturity that speaks of the pain of separation, unrequited love, and longing — themes portrayed in this poetic, deeply expressive genre. Accompaniment on Portuguese guitar, acoustic guitar, and bass guitar.

Caffè Lena presents
Angel Band
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance/$24 at the door (How to get tickets)
Angel Band makes big noise. Loud noise. Boisterous, sad, sweet, goofy, glorious and angelic. Whether it’s the crazy-tight three-part harmony, the killer backup playing, the stories, the passion or the compassion, it gets your attention. The songs roam from old time mountain music to rock and roll originals, weaving vivid images, powerful lyrics, musical integrity and chops to write home about. The core of the band is held by singers Nancy Josephson, Aly Paige, and Kathleen Weber. The crackerjack backup band (lovingly known as “Chum”) is: Bobby Tangrea (mandolin, guitar, fiddle), Bob Taylor (bass), and Jeff Wisor (fiddle, mandolin).

RiverwayStorytellingFestival.org
Albany, NY (see schedule for various times and locations)
Tickets: $60 for full festival or purchase tickets at each event using check/cash.
Whatever our age, we all need stories that speak to our experience. At Riverway, you’ll find events for children and families and others meant just for adults. So join with us to laugh together, share a poignant moment or two, and surely recognize ourselves in the stories told by our masterful tellers. Weekday evenings and all weekend long. Amazing storytellers including Donald Davis (NC), Liz Weir (Ireland), Charlotte Blake Alston (PA), Willy Claflin (ME), Cindy Rivka Marshall (MA), and local storytellers, Peggy Cimino, Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi, Mary Murphy,Tales ‘n Tunes, Joe Peck, and Karen Pillsworth. Come for story swaps, workshops, and performances.

New York State Cultural Data Project Demonstrations and Discussions Announced Is your organization one of the more than 1,800 already taking part in the New York State Cultural Data Project? If not, now is a great time to attend a demonstration and discussion training session to help you get started with the CDP. This powerful tool will, at no cost, allow arts managers and artistic leaders to understand and analyze their organization’s financial performance through easy-to-run reports. By participating in the New York State CDP, you will be part of a successful and growing project that will allow researchers and the arts community as a whole to better articulate and provide evidence for the sector’s assets and needs, as well as its contributions to the state and the country. By completing the online form annually, you will also be able to generate reports to be submitted to grantmakers with the click of a button. Join us to learn how you can begin to use the New York State CDP, free of charge! Get the most from the New York State CDP. Attend a free demonstration and discussion. In these 90-minute demonstration and discussion sessions we will give you an overview of the New York State CDP and everything you need to get started using it. Refreshments will be served. May 3, 2010, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Westchester ArtsWestchester Arts Exchange, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601 Register online May 4, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Poughkeepsie Dutchess County Arts Council, The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Building, 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Register online May 5, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Hudson Hudson Opera House,West Room, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 Register online May 6, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Albany Shaker Heritage Society, 875 Watervliet Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12211-1051 Register online Join a demonstration and discussion from your home or office. Attend a training ONLINE via webinar! April 19, 2010, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Register online May 12, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Register online Upcoming Demonstrations and Discussions June 7-10, 2010 Adirondack Region Questions? Visit www.nysculturaldata.org or contact the New York State CDP Help Desk at help@nysculturaldata.org or call 1-888-NYSCDP-1 (1-888-697-2371). To receive alerts when new sessions are added, please email help@nysculturaldata.org or call 1-888-NYSCDP-1 (1-888-697-2371) to be added to the New York State Cultural Data Project email list.

Arts & Business Council of New York and the Foundation Center present
Building a Volunteer Program
9:30-11:30 a.m.
The Foundation Center, New York Library/Learning Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10003
This event is free, but an R.S.V.P. is required. For more information, please visit the Foundation Center website.
Since early 2009, a combination of factors has yielded a significant increase in the number of nonprofit volunteers. What elements go into a charity’s decision to accept a volunteer, train that volunteer, and choose the right assignment for that volunteer? Find out by attending this not-to-be-missed program. The panel will address how to:
*Realistically determine your volunteering needs
*Recruit volunteers — learn where to post opportunities and what groups to work with
*Assess potential volunteers
*Gracefully decline someone who seems inappropriate for your organization
*Get volunteers integrated into your organization

Sankofa African Dance & Drum Ensemble
Clyde Alafiju, Artistic Director and Khalid N’Faly, Musical Director
7:30 p.m.
Heartwell DanceTheatre, SUNY Brockport, Arts & Performance
Tickets: $12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
For information, call (585) 395-2787
The unabashed joy of dance and the rhythm of drums combine in the occasionally Carnivale-esque atmosphere that is Sankofa. A bit of African, Afro-Caribbean, and Brazilian culture come to Brockport and create and phenomenon.

“Beat the Drum for Ganondagan” Rally
2- 4:00 p.m.
Corner of Boughton Hill Rd. & Route 444, Victor, NY
For information, call (585) 742-1690.
Participants are invited to bring a drum to beat at the rally. Bring a drum (if you have one) and your enthusiasm! This event is an effort to help keep the Ganondagan State Historic Site open. (The property is slated to close unless $35,000 is included in the next state budget.) Contributions are being accepted online at www.ganondagan.org

Caffè Lena presents
Eric Taylor
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance/$20 at the door (How to get tickets)
Texas songwriter Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius, and a master of the guitar who learned his chops from Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi Fred McDowell. Through his long, steady career he has headlined the Newport Folk Festival, played NPR’s “Mountain Stage,” and appeared on “Late Night With David Letterman” and “Austin City Limits.” It“s always hard to describe with only printed words the emotional impact of a great songwriter so you’ll just have to come to the show tonight and discover for yourself the man Nanci Griffith has called “the William Faulkner of songwriting in our time.”

Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra
8:00 p.m.
Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St., Geneva, NY, 315-781-5483
Tickets: $7.50 general admission/Free students grade 12 and under
Formed October 1980 in Amsterdam, NY, this 11-piece orchestra is led by the Bronx-born bassist Alex Torres. They have been presented by hundreds of festivals, performing arts centers and events annually to perform their original blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as Salsa, Merengue, Cha-Cha, Bomba, Plena and Latin Jazz. The Orchestra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the New England Cultural Arts Preservation Award, the New York State Music Achievement Award, the Schenectady League of Arts Award, The Governor’s Excellence in Arts Award, The NAACP Albany Chapter Award and Metroland Magazine’s “Best of Award” for seven consecutive years. The group is also registered with the Arts-in-Education Program of the New York State. This program brings the orchestra into schools to showcase and explain the music, instruments, and rhythms associated with their music.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents
Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY
All presentations are free and open to the public. SEATING IS LIMITED.
Program subject to change
For further information, call (212) 642-2094.

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010
9-9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:30-10:45 AM Public Spaces
Architettura Sonora/Applied Acoustics Lorenzo Brusci, Sound and Experience Design
Social Justice and Democracy:The Significance of a Commons Christine F. Zinni, State University of New York at Brockport
Another Corleone: Another Sicily (film) Anthony Fragola, Greensboro University
11-12:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM The Transnationalized Nation
Italian America: Beyond the Imagined Nation Ottorino Cappelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Continental Drift: Mapping a European Italy Vincent Della Sala, Università degli Studi di Trento
Reflected Republics: Reinterpreting Italian Nationalism through Peru’s Guano Boom Christopher J. Parisano, Instituto Nacional de Cultura del Perú
11-12:15 PM LA GALLERIA Points South and West I
Here Come the Sicilians: Another Puzzle Piece in the Making of New Orleans Gerald T. McNeill, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Melissa Puglia McNeill, Stuart Hall School for Boys
The Italians of the Jamestown and Virginia Colonies Giuseppe Di Scipio, Hunter College/CUNY
The Making of Little Italies in the Appalachian Hill Towns of West Virginia Victor A. Basile, Independent Scholar
12:15-1:30 PM Lunch on your own
1:30-2:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM Gardening and Foraging
Memories of Repasts (film) Karina S. Ramirez, The New School Media Studies Program
Fright or Delight: The Cultural Implications of Wild Fungi as Food Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox, Independent Scholar
Gardens of the Mind: Memory, Ecology, and Justice in the Story of Tullio Inglese Patricia Klindienst, Independent Scholar
1:30-2:45 PM LA GALLERIA Narrated Landscapes
“U Bizz’ di Creanza: A Piece of Politeness” Joanna Clapps Herman, Manhattanville College
“Mirage” Paola Corso, Western Connecticut State University
“La Brigantessa: The Life of a Female Brigand” Rosanna Micelotta-Battigelli, Author
3-4:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM Sacred Spaces
To Struggle for a Place at the Table: Italian-American Protestants in Italy Dennis Barone, St. Joseph College
Preserving History in the Old Neighborhood: Saving the Our Lady of Loreto Church, East New York, Brooklyn Marilyn Ann Verna, St. Francis College, and Mario Toglia, Calitri American Cultural Group
Vernacular Exegesis of the Gentrifying Gaze: Saints, Hipsters, and Public Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
3-4:15 PM LA GALLERIA Navigating Nostalgia
“Eyes Like The Ocean” Nicola Battigelli, Author
Between Memory and Nostalgia: Italian Jewish Emigration to the United States During and After World War II Cristina Bettina, Ben Gurion University, and Vincenzo Pascale, Rutgers University
Performing Nostalgia in Caterina Edwards’ Homeground and Marco Micone’s Deja’ l’agonie Simone Lomartire, Leeds Metropolitan University
4:30-5:45 PM Little Italies
Imagined Little Italies Stefano Luconi, Università degli Studi di Padova
America’s Little Italies as Visually Contested Terrains Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College/CUNY
Re-Membering the Neighborhood: Creating Community with Food Exchange Dana David, Pace University

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010
9-9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:30-10:45 AM Re-Mapping Italy/North America
The Complexity of Canadian Space: Two Films: Les Enfants de la Loi 101 and Sons and Daughters: The Italians of Schreiber Francesca L’Orfano, School of Canadian Studies
America as Garden of Plenty and Hell on Earth: Pre-and Post-Immigration Images of the Promised Land and their Relation to Italians of the Great Migration Joseph J. Inguanti, Southern Connecticut State University
From the Nostalgia of Origins to Creating Home: Making Place at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, New York City, 1923-1940 Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College/CUNY
11-12:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM Architecture Abandoned, Reclaimed, Re-Imagined
Il Borgo Fortificato: Culture, Traditions, Life John C. Russotto, Independent Scholar, and M. Gabriella Gasbarre, Italian American Community Club of Rochester
The Place and the Action: The Metaphor of the Square According to the Social Enterprise Paola Melone, Institute of the National Research Council
Vernacular Architecture of the Alto Molise John Caserta, The Design Office
11-12:15 PM LA GALLERIA Travel Writing
“The Dead Sang with Dirt in Their Mouths” Joseph P. Cosco, Old Dominion University
The Re-enchantment of the Everyday: Late-Twentieth-Century Expatriate Memories and the New Arcadian Dream “Made in Italy” Lynn Mastellotto, University of East Anglia
Click to Enlarge: Connecting Memories, Places, and Cultures in the Virtual Paese Robert Oppedisano, Editor/Writer
12:15-1:30 PM Lunch on your own
1:30-2:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM Contested Landscapes/Contested Readings
Speaking of Place: Campanilismo as Linguistic Practice in Northern Italy Jillian R. Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College/CUNY
Re-imagining the Colonial Landscape: Notions of Faith, Healing, and Prestige in Goffredo Alessandrini’s Abuna Messias AnneMarie Tamis, New York University
The Confiscation of Mafia Lands Anthony Fragola, Greensboro University
1:30-2:45 PM LA GALLERIA Land in Literature
The Transnational Origins of Antonio Stoppani’s Il bel paese Erica Moretti, Brown University
Paradise from Mud and Stone: Visions of Italy in the Work of Ignazio Silone and Iris Origo Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
Place and Narrative as Real and Metaphysical Catalysts in Fiction Gioia Timpanelli, Author
3-4:15 PM Points South and West II
A Northern Southern Italian of the Eastern Western United States: A Topographical Analysis of John Fante’s Fiction Jim Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Piedmont on the Pacific: Labor, Race, and Place and the Origins of Italian Winemaking in California Simone Cinotto, Università degli Studi di Torino
“Il Fuoco di Mingona”: The 1907 Mine Disaster, the Landscape of Coal, and the Making of Transnational Italian Identity in West Virginia Joan Saverino, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

4:30-5:45 PM KEYNOTE: Gastronomic Utopias, Promised Land
LUISA DEL GIUDICE, Independent Scholar

Caffè Lena presents
George Drew and Allen Hoey
2-4 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $10 (How to get tickets)
George Drew and Allen Hoey have been friends and poetic allies for twenty-five years. In a special two-act program, Riding the Flood, these two poets blend their voices for an afternoon of dramatic monologues and narrative poetry that explore the human condition from the comic to the tragic and everything in between. Allen Hoey of Bucks County, PA, is the author six collections of poems and three novels. His 2008 release, Country Music, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Since the publication of his last two poetry collections, The Horse’s Name Was Physics (2008) and American Cool (2009), Albany’s George Drew has become an in-demand guest poet on college campuses throughout the United States. Drew is a natural teacher and storyteller who easily engages the audience with his powerful narrative poems.

History: Celebrate Historic Preservation through Historic Palmyra
Noon to 5 p.m.
Historic Palmyra, 132 Market Street, Palmyra, NY 14522, 315.597.6981
Cost: $4 for trail ticket
The Historic Palmyra Museums will be open on Market Street sharing its great efforts of historic preservation with those that have come to share in the Preservation Conference to be held in Palmyra that day. We will feature the Urban Renewal model for the proposed look at the Village of Palmyra and how Palmyra has maintained its unique and original atmosphere. Full guided tours and at a discounted price of $4 for a trail ticket.

DUSTY PAS’CAL & JOE DRISCOLL with opener Mikey Powell
8 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Auburn Public Theatre, 108 Genessee Street, Auburn, NY, 315/253-6669
Tickets: $9.65 at the door or in advance at www.auburnpublictheater.org
Dusty Pas’cal: The 32-year-old Skaneateles, NY resident has a refreshingly old soul, and he expresses himself lyrically like a modern version of acoustic icon John Prine. Creating waves on both sides of the Atlantic are the transcendental sounds of modern day one-man band, Joe Driscoll, effortlessly fusing hip-hop, reggae, soul, folk and rock to create a completely original and unique sound.

Ontario County Arts Council presents
BLUEGRASS JAM
2-7 p.m.
All Things Art, 65 S. Main St., Canandaigua, NY
Cost: $2 suggested donation
If you like bluegrass music, you will want to join us for an entertaining Bluegrass Jam. For $2 at the door and a dish to pass, you will receive an afternoon of wonderful music.

Caffè Lena presents
Sweetback Sisters
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $14 advance/$16 at the door (How to get tickets)
Like their pseudo-sister role models, the Davis Sisters, the Sweetback Sisters sing country songs in close harmony and matching dresses. Their repertoire combines several passions: country music from before they were born, and new interpretations of those traditions, to create a fresh take on what it means to “be country.” The Sweetback line-up features the lavish voices of Zara Bode and Emily Miller joined by an all-star cast of instrumentalists including: West Virginian triple threat Jesse Milnes; Stefan Amidon on drums; Philly’s stringed slayer Ross Bellenoit on rippin’ Telecaster, and a the newest Sweetback Sister Bridget Kearney on bass. Their debut EP earned them a spot on A Prairie Home Companion’s talent contest for twenty-somethings. Their first full-length album, Chicken Ain’t Chicken, was released in 2009 on the prestigious Signature Sounds label. This is one of those great young bands that proves folk music has bright future!

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFQ) is accepting applications for: Artist As Entrepreneur: Boot Camp Applications are due on April 26 and classes begin June 12, 2010. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is now accepting applications for the “Artist as Entrepreneur” Boot Camp. The Boot Camp will provide artists working in all disciplines (literary, media, performing and visual) with the business skills they need to further their artistic careers. There is no charge for participation. Please share this information freely with your community of artists. The Boot Camp begins on June 12 and will take place over 5 day-long sessions at NYFA’s office at 20 Jay Street in DUMBO. Participating artists can expect the sessions to spark goals and help to define concrete steps to building a business plan that can lead to financial security. Approximately 50 artists will be accepted into the program which will include both group work and individualized training. The Boot Camp is open to artists and members of creative teams working all disciplines. They must be residents of New York City and have internet access. Classes will take place from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. on June 12, 19, 26, July 10, and July 17. The application is due on April 26 and is currently available on NYFA’s website at http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=785&fid=1&sid=76. For questions, please contact Peter Cobb at pcobb@nyfa.org or Felicity Hogan at Clearning@nyfa.org.

World Music Series: Gamelan Lila Muni
8-10:00 p.m.
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre (corner of Gibbs and Main St.), Rochester, NY
Tickets: $20, $15, and $10; discounts to UR ID holders
PRE-SALES: Available at the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Box Office, 108 East Ave. Rochester or by phone at (585) 454-2100.
This is a concert by Eastman’s resident Gamelan Lila Muni (Heavenly Sound)—a Balinese percussion ensemble comprised of Eastman students, faculty, and staff, and members of the Rochester Community.

Arts in Crisis
A Kennedy Center Initiative: Kennedy Center Tour Comes to Albany
10 a.m.
The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 339 Central Avenue, Albany, NY
FREE! 518-465-5233 ext. 145 for tickets.
The Arts in Crisis tour, a 50-state initiative launched in March 2009, is coming to Albany this month. Part of the larger Arts in Crisis project, the tour includes visits from Kennedy Center President, Michael Kaiser to lead arts management symposia. At each event, hosted by a local arts organization, Kaiser will address the challenges facing non-profit performing arts organizations today through such areas as fundraising, building more effective Boards of Trustees, budgeting, and marketing. Visit www.artsincrisis.org/ for more information.

Arts & Business Council of New York presents
Market Research: Get The Answers
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Arts & Business Council of New York, Auditorium, One East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022
ABC/NY Members: $35; Non-members: $55
Register online
Two workshops in one:
(1) Latest research on why companies (large and small) DO give to the arts. And why they DON’T give to the arts.
(2) Come with your own questions, needs, challenges—and walk away with a plan of how to do your own affordable, solution-oriented market research.
*Hire a firm? Hire a consultant? Pro bono help? Do it yourself?
*Online? Paper? Phone? Focus groups?
*Qualitative? Quantitative?
*What questions to ask (and what not to ask)
*How to analyze the data you gather
Take advantage of Shugoll Research’s valuable nonprofit arts-specific research experience to design your own marketing or development survey/poll/questionnaire right at the workshop.

Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis
Film Screening with Remarks by Director Gaylen Ross
7 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: $8; RSVP hgriff@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888 x205
Join us for a screening of director Gaylen Ross’s award-winning film on the life of Rudolf Kasztner. Known as the Jewish Schindler, Kasztner negotiated face to face with Adolph Eichmann, rescuing 1,700 Jews on a train to Switzerland. Yet he was accused as a collaborator in a trial and verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as the “man who sold his soul to the devil.” He was assassinated in Tel Aviv in 1957. Post screening, director Gaylen Ross talks about her interviews with survivors, historians and Kasztner’s assassin. Visit >www.killingkasztner.com for more information.

Los Pleneros de la 21 presents
Subiendo al Tambor — The art of playing the Primo Drum in Puerto Rican Bomba
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (three consecutive evenings)
1680 Lexington Avenue, Room 213 New York NY 10029
Contact: Nellie Tanco, 212-427-5221, nellietanco@aol.com
Cost: $50 (1 class), $95 (2 classes), $140 (3 classes)
Registration deadline: 4/19/2010
LOS PLENEROS DE LA 21 proudly presents 3 consecutive evenings of intensive and interactive master classes exploring techniques on mastering Bomba’s “talking drum” with master drummers and LP21 members: JUAN GUTIERREZ, ALEX LASALLE and CAMILO MOLINA GAETAN. Classes will teach three styles and approaches to the art of playing the “primo” barrel drum in the Afro-Puerto Rican music: Bomba—focusing on a specific style or technique as interpreted by a powerful intergenerational group of three master percussionists and members of Los Pleneros de la 21 who are considered today as some New York’s top Bomba drummers. Sessions will provide a multigenerational and regional appreciation to mastering this “talking drum” and its unique role in engaging in a musical dialogue with a dancer and their improvised movements. All 2-hour intensive sessions are intensive, highly interactive, providing participants with hands-on learning and dynamic exercises, bringing in a Bomba dancer to demonstrate techniques and compel participants to practice the lessons explored. Previous drumming/percussion experience and/or Bomba knowledge is highly recommended.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
“Documented Italians” Film and Video Series
Spring 2010
LE RAGAZZE DI TRIESTE (2008), 45 min.
Chiara Barbo and Andrea Magnani, dirs.
6 p.m.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY
Free and open to the public.
Seating is Limited
Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
In the years following World War II, the city of Trieste was under the control of the Anglo-American Allied Military Government as both the Italian and Yugoslavian governments claimed the Trieste province. Over 1,300 Triestine young women became “war brides,” marrying U.S. soldiers and immigrating to various parts of the country. Le Ragazze di Trieste features interviews with seven of these women, who settled in New York, Florida, California, Michigan, and Virginia. They share memories of Trieste during the war and of their experiences as recently arrived immigrants to the United States.
Post-screening discussion led by Dawn Esposito, St. John’s University.

The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library presents
Matt and Maura Burns
Live! from Ireland’s Hill of Kerry. An Evening of Irish Tales & Music
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Crandall Public Library, 251 Glen Street, City Park, Glens Falls, NY 12801
Contact: 518.792.6508, degarmo@crandalllibrary.org
Cost: Free (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Batt Burns is a master of the ancient art of the seanachie (storyteller), first experienced from his grandfather in the hills of County Kerry. Batt helps to preserve that heritage with haunting accounts of ghosts, great adventure stories, and witty jokes—as an author, teacher and performer. Maura Burns plays traditional music on the concertina, learned from her mother, a well-known performer of the West Limerick style, and as a member of the O’Dwyer family of traditional musicians from Ardgroom in the Beara Peninsula, County Cork. Batt and Maura just performed on St Patrick’s Day at Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage (with their performance archived online), and Batt’s new book, The King with Horse’s Ears won The Storytelling World Award 2010, for the best collection of folktales for young readers.

Caffè Lena presents
Guy Davis
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance/$24 at the door (How to get tickets)
Of all the paths he might have pursued in life, Guy Davis has dedicated himself to reviving and sharing the traditions of acoustic blues. His shows and numerous albums combine classics of the genre with African American stories, and his own original songs and performance pieces. Like the best of the old-time players, Guy is at heart a storyteller—a master of transporting his audience to a creaking front porch in a forgotten southern swamp. He stomps his way through songs that range from soulful and moaning to playful and bouncy as a hayride. He accompanies himself on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and accordion.

Folk Music Society of New York, Inc./New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club
presents
Brian Peters in Concert
English singer and concertina, & guitar player of rare ablility
7:30 p.m.
Broadway Mall Community Center, 96th and Broadway, on the center island, New York, NY 10025
General Admission is $15. Members of the Folk Music Society, $12; children and full-time students under 22, $6.
Tickets are available at the door or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/92297;
More information is at www.folkmusicny.org or by calling 718-672-6399.
Brian Peters is one of the English folk scene’s leading solo performers. He’s a compelling singer, one of the country’s best anglo-concertina and button accordion players, and a skilled guitarist as well. Brian loves traditional songs and specializes in the Child Ballads, but he has an eclectic repertoire with plenty of variety, also including lively jigs and hornpipes, newer songs, and occasional squeezebox wildness. His stage act bristles with energy and wit. Brian has toured the U.S. many times, appearing at Old Songs, Champlain Valley, Pinewoods Camp and Augusta Heritage Center, as well as folk music societies, coffeehouses, and squeezebox workshops too numerous to list. He often performs together with the wonderful Connecticut singer, fiddle and banjo player Jeff Davis, and we are lucky enough to have Jeff joining Brian for part of his performance.

Two Extraordinary Guitarists: Loren Barrigar and Kinloch Nelson
8 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Auburn Public Theatre, 108 Genessee Street, Auburn, NY, 315/253-6669
Tickets: $15 at the door or in advance at www.auburnpublictheater.org
KINLOCH NELSON, a solo fingerstyle guitarist/singer, creates a synthesis of folk, jazz, classical, American popular music, and original compositions. LOREN BARRIGAR’ recently released CD Dance With Me received a SAMMY Award for Best Country CD. (2009).

Workshop on Hip Hop in the Middle East Region and Africa
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Harvard University Room B101, Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fees: $20 per participant (includes lunches).
Make payment to “President and Fellows of Harvard College” memo line: Hip Hop Workshop, mail payment to CMESOC Hip Hop 38 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA. 02138
For a schedule: Email cmesoc@fas.harvard.edu
This two-part workshop is open to educators and the general public and will introduce Hip Hop as a social and artistic movement that offers a vivid look at contemporary culture, language, and the social landscape of Africa and the Middle East region. Specific linguistic and geographical case studies will be presented on Hip Hop artists writing and performing in Arabic, Swahili, Persian, Wolof, and Hebrew. The workshop will include presentations by leading scholars of Hip Hop, African and Middle Eastern Studies, as well as live performances and film footage featuring Global Hip Hop culture. With historical and cultural roots in urban America, the universal themes of Hip Hop — urban life, social criticism, political language use — can be seen in emerging regional contexts and languages.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Third Annual CIAO ITALY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Where: Associazione San Cono, 233 Ainsle Street, Ground Floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn When: Saturday June 19, 2010 - 6:00-10:00 p.m. Coordinated by Anabella Lenzu and Todd Carroll We are looking for artists in the following performance genres: Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Music, and Poetry. Performances should be 20 minutes maximum and either Italian-inspired or traditional Italian-based works. A small performance stipend will be provided to selected artists. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday May 12, 2010. To apply please submit completed application form, a short bio, and a work sample. Applications may be submitted by e-mail to info@AnabellaLenzu.com or by mail to Anabella Lenzu, 126 Ainslie Street, Apt. 3L, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Work samples can be submitted as a CD/DVD or electronically as a link, youtube clip, e-mail attachment, or mp3 file. Artists will receive notification by Monday May 17 2010. This year’s festival has been made possible in part through the generous support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, and sponsored by Associazione San Cono.

Brooklyn Arts Council and Associazione San Cono present
Third Annual CIAO ITALY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
Coordinated by Anabella Lenzu and Todd Carroll
6:00-10:00 p.m.
San Cono Association, 233 Ainsle Street, Ground Floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
For more information, contact info@anabellalenzu.com
Ciao Italy Performing Arts Festival was conceived to create a bridge between the historic Italian community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the new community of artists who have begun living and working in the neighborhood. We are presenting traditionally-based and Italian-inspired work by contemporary performers and scholars. Performance genres include theater, dance, music, visual arts, and poetry. The festival will also include traditional Italian folk dance classes. This year’s festival has been made possible in part through the generous support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, and sponsored by Associazione San Cono.

Taller Boricua presents the 2nd in their series:
4 SOLO EXHIBITIONS BY:
Las Hermanas Iglesias: EVERYBODY LIKES TO DANCE
Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera: AHORA / NOW
Traci Molloy: MISSED / DISMISSED
Jorge Rojas: NATURALEZA MUERTA / STILL LIFE
Curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata
Opening Friday, March 26, 2010, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 p.m.
Thursday 1-7 p.m., Closed Sunday and Monday
Taller Boricua Galleries at the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Avenue, NYC, N.Y. 10029, 212.831.4333
For more information, contact the Taller Boricua: contact@tallerboricua.org

As part of their 40th anniversary celebration, the Taller Boricua presents the second in our series of multiple, solo exhibitions by artists who share facets of our mission: art and aesthetics, community, art activism as well as music and performance.
Las Hermanas Iglesias (Janelle and Lisa Iglesias) create multimedia and multidisciplinary works that address their shared autobiographical experiences. For “Everybody Likes to Dance,” Las Hermanas create an audio-visual installation involving custom-made disco balls that reference imagery of their Dominican and Norwegian cultures and spin over an interactive dance floor diagram. The step-by-step instructions encourage viewers to listen to the music while trying to trace and learn the dance movements. For these original tracks, Las Hermanas approached six international musicians to each create “mash-ups” of a Dominican Merengue and a Norwegian Pols: Chris Gooris, Christopher “Ryan” Spence, Colin Bragg, Mark Vicente and Guilt and Johannes Brechter with mastering by Gregory Adkins. To complement these mash-ups, Las Hermanas developed a unique choreography, inviting the viewer to experience a fusion of the two traditional, yet diverse, dances and cultures.
“Ahora / Now: Stop III, El Barrio, New York” is the third incarnation of Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera’s multimedia three-channel video, sound, art object installation and public intervention. This site-specific performance takes place through the lens of a video camera and is executed, recorded and edited by the artist. The piece is an evolving allegory of a woman who, both literally and figuratively, takes the walls of her “home” – the symbolic transporter, collector and guardian of memories – with her as she relocates. Poignantly moving her Plexiglas "house" through the streets, she gathers newfound belongings, reconfiguring and recreating it as she goes along. In “Ahora / Now,” diverse worlds are fused together and familiar spatio-temporal realities are shifted, negating the concepts of “local” and “global” and creating a hybrid sense of identity and place. In this instance, her final stop is the Taller Boricua in El Barrio where her collected objects will be exhibited along with the first two chapters of “Ahora / Now: Stop I, Puerto Rico” and “Stop II, Cuenca.”
Traci Molloy’s exhibition “Missed / Dismissed” uses text, photography, painting, and digital imaging to examine loss in relation to adolescent violence, with an emphasis on youth who have murdered their peers. The paradox between the public’s desire for sensational stories involving brutality and death and the private emotions that come as a result of grief and bereavement play a pivotal role in her work. While the media often overlooks the victim’s lives and experiences, instead focusing on the scandalous aspect of the crime, her ongoing series “Kids that Kill Kids” explores the psychological, social and political portraiture of the individuals involved. In her prints from the “White Dandelions” series, she manifests the ramifications of death and the absence of loved ones. For Molloy, it is the universal feeling of loss—of identity, life, and innocence—that ties the work together.
In the exhibition “Naturaleza Muerta / Still Life,” Jorge Rojas incorporates abstract, wax sculptures along with video, sound and light to examine the themes of artistic process, the creation of art, and the foundations of aesthetics. Collectively, Rojas’ work addresses the classical relationship of the beautiful and the sublime to contemporary notions of technology, nature, isolation and transcendence. For this exhibition, his process emphasizes the inherent metaphors within beeswax that in itself is a living force of nature in constant flux. Born of pain and pleasure, it has the power to separate and unite as well as obscure and clarify. Combined with prefabricated metals and sounds, Rojas’ sculptures navigate the ever-present dichotomies in life such as the ephemeral and the concrete, permanence and impermanence and creation and annihilation.

March 26, 2010 –May 8, 2010

History: Wayne County and the Burnt-Over District
Museum of Wayne County History, 21 Butternut St., Lyons, NY
For more information ,call 315-946-4943 or visit www.waynehistory.org
The new exhibit, “Wayne County and the Burnt-Over District” is on display in the Changing Exhibition Room of the Museum of Wayne County History. Wayne County is unique in that many religions and religious movements had major connections to the area and three can even call Wayne County their birthplace: Mormonism, Modern Spiritualism, and the Neversweats. This exhibit examines this part of the “Burnt-over District,” a term coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a “burnt district” to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening. The name was inspired by the notion that the area had been so heavily evangelized during antebellum revivalism as to have no “fuel” (unconverted population) left over to “burn” (convert).

March 10, 2010 – August 7, 2010

The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents:
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion
Winter Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306, 718/987-3500
Admission: $5 adults; seniors/students $3; children under 6 - free
Please email info@tibetanmuseum.org for additional information
Tibetan Portrait highlights photographic portraits of Tibetan people by renowned contemporary artist Phil Borges. Borges’ portraits introduce viewers to individuals from a deeply spiritual culture who have been marginalized and displaced by the occupation of their homeland. The portraits range from images of everyday people, including nomads and children, to important historic figures such as the Dalai Lama. Tibetan Portrait also features interactive displays focusing on aspects of traditional Tibetan culture such as a map of Tibet’s changing borders, a moveable display of Himalayan mountains, audio recordings of mantra chanting, and a hands-on display of Tibetan prayer wheels.

March 29, 2010 – December 31, 2010

MEXICANation — Irma Bohórquez-Geisler
Opening reception: Thursday, April 15, 5-7 p.m.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Winter Garden Gallery, Bldg. P, Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY
For information, contact: Monica Valenzuela at (718) 425-3524 or mvalenzuela@snug-harbor.org
MEXICANation features twenty-four silver gelatin prints that are part of a long-term photo essay project by Irma Bohórquez-Geisler. Her aim is to document the rapidly growing Mexican immigrant community as they establish themselves in New York City. Reflecting on a relevant, current social dynamic, Irma develops a rich, visual narrative of daily life from within the local Mexican-American community, paying special attention to how immigrant communities bring and adapt tradition in their new lives. Her work is especially sensitive to how they balance the competing expectations of their cultural, ethnic, and American identities as they shift between the public and private domains.

April 6 – April 30, 2010

The THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE—95 YEARS LATER, IN REMEMBRANCE: The First Genocide in the 20th Century
Celebrating Armenian Heritage — a Culture, a Faith, a People
Gallery Reception April 15th, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Performance Events April 17, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, 80 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903
Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 - 9,
Friday and Saturday 9 - 4, Closed Sunday
For information regarding any of the exhibits or performances, please contact Steven Pennell 401-277-5206 or visit www.uri.edu/prov
Art Exhibit of fine art as well as photographs, posters and historical artifacts from private collections presented in collaboration with Berge Zobian, Gallery Z. “Zobian was invited to produce this show in collaboration with The Urban Arts and Culture Program of the University of Rhode Island...Both Zobian and URI coordinators have wanted for some time to celebrate Providence’s Armenian Community by sharing various aspects of Armenian culture and history and will showcase artwork, artifacts, posters, objects and photographs that illustrate home life, community life, religious and political life in order to provide a comprehensive representation of the Armenian Genocide. While the exhibition works will reflect artists’ impressions and understanding of genocide, the show aims equally to showcase the survival, achievements, and contributions of the Armenian people and culture.”—Naomi Kuromiya, Rhode Island exhibit to highlight Armenian heritage (from the Armenian Reporter)

Thanks to Lucine Kasbarian for this notice. Five of Lucine’s political cartoons will be included in this massive, multimedia group show and cultural program.

April 1 - April 30, 2009

The Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) presents
America’s Chinatown Voices:
Silent Auction and Exhibition Bidding and Opening Reception: April 22, 6-8 p.m. and online at www.chinatownvoicesNY.com
Closing silent auction and Mother’s Day Party: May 9, 4-7 p.m.
Exhibition on view 7 days-a-week: 3:30-11:30 p.m.
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (CSV), 3rd floor, 107 Suffolk Street (between Delancey and Rivington), New York, NY
In Columbus Park last summer, America’s Chinatown Voices was a special outdoor exhibition of RED PANELS that circled the park fence. Many community residents including young students, local artists and community leaders participated by submitting their poems, messages, thoughtful reflections, memories, and artwork. To rouse New Yorkers and particularly to enable the local Chinatown community to see and hear itself, new panels in Chinese and English were hung regularly every weekend for three months. The red panels have been repainted, reinstalled, and are on view at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side. See the entire collection at CSV and online at www.chinatownvoicesNY.com.

Starting this Thursday April 22nd, with an Opening Reception, nearly 80 of the beautiful panels will be auctioned. The artists, Nathalie Pham and Avani Patel, have generously donated the sale of the panels to benefit Asian American Arts Centre. In addition, photographs of Chinatown’s community life and activities in the midst of the red panels will also be available to bid on in this silent auction.

April 19 - May 22, 2009

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