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Presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts in collaboration with Brooklyn Arts Council.
New York City can seem overwhelmingly vast, divided, and impersonal to newcomers and longtime residents alike, and presents specific challenges to artists struggling to create, often in isolation. To help newer New York artists keep on creating, NYFA’s Immigrant Artists Project (IAP) proposes a forum called Conversations for immigrant and culturally specific artists to exchange stories, expertise and support with their peers, building community and sharing resources to further enrich their artistic lives.
June 10 at 6-8 pm
New York Foundation for the Arts
20 Jay Street, 7th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Space is limited. To attend please RSVP to i.outreach@nyfa.org
The inaugural Conversations forum will focus on recognizing and drawing on existing community-based resources in the current economic-political climate, with guest presentations by Cecilia Jurado, Jaki Levy, Founder of Arrow Root Media, and Zuo Bin Tang of Brooklyn Chinese American Association. Participants will share their experiences in persevering in their arts practice in spite of immediate financial burdens, lack of funding opportunities, and in finding alternative resources within their own communities. Please come prepared to share your own stories!
The evening will be devoted to networking, with refreshments served, following brief guest presentations. Feel free to bring promotional materials to share with the group.
Conversations: Rediscovering Community Resources to Sustain your Art
06/10/09
6:00PM - 8:00PM
This event is part of NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project(IAP).Through this project, NYFA seeks to expand the community of artists it serves by nurturing new connections among artists and organizations, and by fostering a supportive community of empowered artists with diverse educational, cultural, and creative backgrounds.
Speakers:
Cecilia Jurado is a visual artist who has developed a body of work about the notion of beauty. From her early projects, she focused on the power of image as a representation of beauty. She was born in Lima, Perú, where she studied Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Professional Photography at Instituto Antonio Gaudí. She moved to New York in 2003.
Jaki Levy founded Arrow Root Media, a New Media Production company. Jaki has produced videos, web sites, online marketing strategies, and recently developed the supertitles for Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra. He also launched The Clytemnestra Project in conjunction with Martha Graham's New York season. Jaki has worked with multiple non-profits, including: Issue Project Room, The Field, Dance/USA, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Queens Council on the Arts, DanceBrazil, NextBook, JDub, and Soundstreams. He recently presented at NYSCA's Folk Arts Roundtable. His initiatives and work with Misnomer Dance Theater helped the company secure over $1.25 million in grants from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation to help develop new initiatives for performance online. He was also the first recipient of Cisco’s $25,000 Digital Incubator grant. Jaki is an avid cyclist, and can be found cycling through all 5 boroughs.
The Brooklyn Chinese-American Association (BCA) started out as a small social services agency in 1988 whose primary mission was to provide assistance to the growing Asian-American community in the Sunset Park, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge sections of Brooklyn. Today, with its Main Community Service Center and more than eighteen other service sites in Sunset Park, Borough Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay, and Bensonhurst, BCA serves well over 2,300 families on a daily basis. BCA plays an important role in promoting Asian culture and arts not only within Brooklyn but also throughout the city. BCA has a Senior Choir Group and a Senior Dance Team composed of Asian seniors from BCA's four senior centers, as well as a Lion Dance Team composed of BCA staff. BCA's performers have performed at various venues across the city such as Brooklyn Borough Hall, local schools, and area hospitals. BCA also organizes an annual Chinese New Year Parade in Sunset Park to further promote Chinese arts and culture. What started out as a small agency has now grown to be the largest community-based, multi-human services and community development organization for Asians in the entire borough of Brooklyn.
Zuo Bin Tang first joined the BCA family as an ESL instructor. Aside from teaching English to immigrant students, he soon found himself promoting Chinese culture as a member of BCA's Lion Dance Team. A member of the team for over two years, he is now the co-captain of the Lion Dance Team. BCA's Lion Dance Team most recently performed at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and the Fort Hamilton Community Club as part of the 2009 Asian Heritage Month celebration.
Cecilia Jurado is a visual artist who has developed a body of work about the notion of beauty. From her early projects, she focused on the power of image as a representation of beauty. She was born in Lima, Perú, where she studied Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Professional Photography at Instituto Antonio Gaudí. She moved to New York in 2003.
Jaki Levy founded Arrow Root Media, a New Media Production company. Jaki has produced videos, web sites, online marketing strategies, and recently developed the supertitles for Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra. He also launched The Clytemnestra Project in conjunction with Martha Graham's New York season. Jaki has worked with multiple non-profits, including: Issue Project Room, The Field, Dance/USA, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Queens Council on the Arts, DanceBrazil, NextBook, JDub, and Soundstreams. He recently presented at NYSCA's Folk Arts Roundtable. His initiatives and work with Misnomer Dance Theater helped the company secure over $1.25 million in grants from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation to help develop new initiatives for performance online. He was also the first recipient of Cisco’s $25,000 Digital Incubator grant. Jaki is an avid cyclist, and can be found cycling through all 5 boroughs.
The Brooklyn Chinese-American Association (BCA) started out as a small social services agency in 1988 whose primary mission was to provide assistance to the growing Asian-American community in the Sunset Park, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge sections of Brooklyn. Today, with its Main Community Service Center and more than eighteen other service sites in Sunset Park, Borough Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay, and Bensonhurst, BCA serves well over 2,300 families on a daily basis. BCA plays an important role in promoting Asian culture and arts not only within Brooklyn but also throughout the city. BCA has a Senior Choir Group and a Senior Dance Team composed of Asian seniors from BCA's four senior centers, as well as a Lion Dance Team composed of BCA staff. BCA's performers have performed at various venues across the city such as Brooklyn Borough Hall, local schools, and area hospitals. BCA also organizes an annual Chinese New Year Parade in Sunset Park to further promote Chinese arts and culture. What started out as a small agency has now grown to be the largest community-based, multi-human services and community development organization for Asians in the entire borough of Brooklyn.
Zuo Bin Tang first joined the BCA family as an ESL instructor. Aside from teaching English to immigrant students, he soon found himself promoting Chinese culture as a member of BCA's Lion Dance Team. A member of the team for over two years, he is now the co-captain of the Lion Dance Team. BCA's Lion Dance Team most recently performed at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and the Fort Hamilton Community Club as part of the 2009 Asian Heritage Month celebration.
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