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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:33 GMT Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:33 GMT "arts>World Financial Center" <noreply@artsworldfinancialcenter.com> http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1011 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7474/Earth Celebrations slide.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>EARTH CELEBRATIONS <br />PUPPET & COSTUME WORKSHOPS</b> <br /> <br />March 3–May 19, 2010 <br />Wednesdays 6:00–9:00 pm <br />Saturdays 12:00–4:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Courtyard Gallery <br /> <br />As part of arts>World Financial Center’s ambitious roster of residencies, artists-in-residence Michele Brody and Lucrecia Novoa will lead Puppet & Costume Workshops at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery from March 3–May 19, allowing the community to create the costumes and puppets featured in the Hudson River Pageant on May 22. event_1011 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1040 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7552/WFC Hamlet 03.JPG" /> <br /> <br /><b>NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE <br />REHEARSALS</b> <br />HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK <br /> <br />Week of March 8, 2010 <br />Schedule and Locations <br />on Details Page <br /> <br />World Financial Center complex <br /> <br /> <br />New York Classical Theatre creates a new experience for theater enthusiasts with their signature production of <i>Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</i>, designed to carry the audience from one end of the World Financial Center to the other. <br /> <br />During the month of March, you will have the opportunity to watch the company during open rehearsals on site at various locations within the WFC Complex. Weekly schedules throughout the month of March will be posted on our website and Facebook pages. event_1040 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1027 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7420/EAT_Logo-410x280.jpg" /> <br /> <br />Brookfield Properties presents <br /> <br /><b>EAT</b> <br />WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER RESTAURANT SHOWCASE <br />Featuring NYC Blue Grass Band <b>All Night Cookin’</b> <br /> <br />Friday, March 12, 2010 <br />11:00 am–2:30 pm <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Beat the winter blues at <b>EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase</b>. Sweet and savory treats for $1-5 include Au Mandarin’s famous pork dumplings, PJ Clarke’s always popular mini-cheeseburgers, Starbuck’s Hot Chocolate, and Financier’s Blueberry Panna Cotta. <b>All Night Cookin’</b>, New York City’s most popular blue grass band, delivers a delicious live performance! <br /> <br />EAT IS GREEN! <br />In Brookfield Properties’ ongoing commitment to earth friendly practices, all disposable trays, cutlery and serving dishes are biodegradable or compostable, manufactured to break down in a landfill after a few months. As an alternative to plastics and paper, these cutting edge products require less energy to produce and never harm the earth! event_1027 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1038 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7544/All Night Cookin_slide.jpg" /> <br /> <br />Brookfield Properties presents <br /> <br /><b>ALL NIGHT COOKIN'</b> <br /> <br />Friday, March 12, 2010 <br />12:00–2:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Beat the winter blues at <b>EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase. <br />All Night Cookin’</b>, New York City’s most popular blue grass band, delivers a delicious live performance! <br /> <br />Since forming in 2005, All Night Cookin’ has become one of New York’s most highly sought after bluegrass bands. The four-piece core of Jon Mark Fletcher (banjo), Jacob Tilove (mandolin), Christian Oates (guitar) and Rawdge (bass), delivers a ferocious live performance, making ANC a favorite among fellow musicians as well as New York’s discriminating bluegrass fan base. While staunch traditionalists, ANC brings a raw energy to the classic bluegrass repertoire, an intensity that also infuses their original material which addresses a range of important social issues including heavily-drinking girlfriends and being lonesome. Virtuosic musicianship allows them to bend the line between bluegrass and punk, the “high, lonesome sound” and banjo driven, guitar-smashing, rock. All Night Cookin’ is equal parts intricate, driving, beautiful, and frightening, all delivered in exact vocal harmony. event_1038 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1041 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7559/yarn.jpg" /> <br /> <br />Brookfield Properties presents <br /> <br /><b>WFC IN THE LOOP</b> <br /> <br />Friday, March 19, 2010 <br />Friday, April, 16, 2010 <br /> <br />12:00–2:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Announcing March & April’s Project: The Granny Square Blanket! <br /> <br />Starting on March 19 at the Brown Bag Social and continuing through April, we are crocheting blankets for children 5 to 10 years of age living in Haitian orphanages. The blanket is bright, fun and colorful. We’re using Lion Brand’s Cotton-Ease, a durable all purpose washable cotton yarn suitable for warmer climates like Haiti where the average temperate is 70 degrees F. <br /> <br />The project uses 4 skeins of yarn and we will have enough yarn for 20 blankets. One project per In the Loop member. <br /> <br />The project uses a J (6.0 mm) crochet hook. Remember to bring your hook with you to the Brown Bag Social on March 19! <br /> <br />Happy Knitting! event_1041 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1012 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7236/KentridgeBlackBox_slide.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>SOUNDS FROM THE BLACK BOX:<br>THE MUSIC OF PHILIP MILLER FOR THE FILMS OF WILLIAM KENTRIDGE</b> <br />Performed by ENSEMBLE PI <br /> <br />March 21 & 22, 2010 <br />8:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br /><i>Sounds from the Black Box</i> is the latest in a long series of collaborations between South African composer Philip Miller and internationally-acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge. The work is a follow up to and expansion of their 9 Drawings for Projection project, which paired Kentridge's stunning animations with scores by Miller performed live to the films. <i>Sounds from the Black Box</i> includes new scores to a wide range of Kentridge's work performed by the NYC-based Ensemble Pi. event_1012 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1014 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7452/WFC Hamlet 02.JPG" /> <br /> <br /><b>NEW YORK CLASSICAL THEATRE</b> <br />HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK <br /> <br />April 1–3, 6–11, 13–18 <br />7:00 pm <br /> <br />Duration: approx. 2 hours <br /> <br /> <br />World Financial Center complex <br /> <br />New York Classical Theatre creates a new experience for theater enthusiasts with their production of Hamlet designed to carry the audience from one end of the World Financial Center to the other. event_1014 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1015 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7265/tribecafilmfest.jpg" /> <br /> <br />Hosted by Brookfield Properties <br /> <br /><b>TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL</b> <br /> <br />April 22–24, 2010 <br />8:00–11:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Plaza <br /> <br />The Tribeca Film Festival’s free outdoor screening series of new and classic films returns to the World Financial Center Plaza. event_1015 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1023 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7309/01_Guzman_web.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>WEATHER BEACON <br /></b> <br />by ERIK GUZMAN <br /> <br />May–December, 2010 <br /> <br />WFC Plaza <br /> <br />Merging public wi-fi, structure, movement and light into an object that invites the public to connect to both the physical and invisible surroundings, <i>Weather Beacon</i> is a kinetic sculpture that emits a code of flashing lights, forecasting the weather for a curious public. event_1023 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1016 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7268/JTparade-board_slide.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>HUDSON RIVER PAGEANT</b> <br /> <br />Saturday, May 22, 2010 (Rain date: May 23) <br />1:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Plaza <br /> <br />This ecological parade and performance art event, directed by theatrical pageant director Felicia Young, features a magnificent parade of giant 15-foot river species puppets, spectacular costumes representing sea life, and music, dance, performances, songs, and poetry. <br /> <br />As part of arts>World Financial Center’s ambitious roster of residencies, artists-in-residence Michele Brody and Lucrecia Novoa will lead Puppet & Costume Workshops at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery from March 3–May 19, allowing the community to create the costumes and puppets featured in the pageant. (Wednesday 6:00–9:00 pm and Saturdays 12:00–4:00 pm.) event_1016 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1020 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7300/Fairbanks_D_2827_web.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>THE NATIONAL STUDENT ART EXHIBITION: <br />THE SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS</b> <br /> <br />June 8–25, 2010 <br /> <br />WFC Courtyard Gallery <br /> <br />The World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery will showcase film, video, animation, writing, photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, drawing, graphic design and ceramics by emerging teenage artists recognized nationally through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. These talented teenagers follow in the footsteps of Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Philip Pearlstein, David Salle, Robert Indiana, Tom Otterness and Zac Posen, who all won Awards when they were in high school. <br /> <br />The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is presented by The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to both identifying teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and bringing their remarkable work to a national audience. event_1020 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1017 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7271/allstars_photo_slide.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>BANG ON A CAN MARATHON</b> <br /> <br />June 27, 2010 <br />12:00 noon–12:00 midnight <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Hailed as “the country's most provocative and consistently entertaining new-music event” by the Village Voice, the Bang on a Can Marathon draws huge crowds each year for a 12-hour marathon of mind-boggling, genre-bending music. This year’s extravaganza will bring together more than 150 performers and composers, including the U.S. premiere of the celebrated work <i>Professor Bad Trip</i> composed by Fausto Romitell. event_1017 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1019 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7292/Third Rail Projects_web.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>THIRD RAIL PROJECTS: UNDERCURRENTS & EXCHANGE AND DRIFTING ENCYLOPEDIA</b> <br />Undercurrents & Exchange <br />Residency & Performances <br /> <br />Monday–Friday, July 12–16 & July 19–23 <br />12:00–12:10 pm & 1:00–1:10 pm daily <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Undercurrents & Exchange/The Drifting Encyclopedia is a two-part rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation, and connection in modern America. event_1019 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1021 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7297/Third Rail Drifting Encycl_web.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>THIRD RAIL PROJECTS: UNDERCURRENTS & EXCHANGE AND DRIFTING ENCYLOPEDIA</b> <br />Undercurrents & Exchange <br />Exhibition <br /> <br />July 12–September 3, 2010 <br />Monday–Friday, 12:00–4:00 pm <br /> <br />WFC Courtyard Gallery <br /> <br />Undercurrents & Exchange/The Drifting Encyclopedia is a two-part rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation, and connection in modern America. event_1021 http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/cgi-bin/Go.cgi?q_id=1022 <img src="http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com/resources/7303/A Fungus to Feed Us_web.jpg" /> <br /> <br /><b>CANSTRUCTION© <br />18th Annual NYC Competition</b> <br /> <br />November, 2010 <br /> <br />WFC Winter Garden <br /> <br />Canstruction© is the most unique food charity in the world. Since 1992, teams of architects, engineers and students have participated in Canstruction competitions throughout North America to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from full cans of food. This year's 30+ entries from New York City will be displayed for two weeks and then dismantled and donated to City Harvest for distribution to those in need. event_1022