The Bronx Culture Trolley rolls again on Wednesday, July 1, along South Bronx Cultural Corridor with an evening full of family activities. The evening features six art exhibitions at: Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Synthetic Zero Art Space, LDR Studio Gallery, and Bruckner Gallery at the Bruckner Bar & Grill. The evening will also include a book signing at the Bronx Museum, a visit to the outdoor Tree Museum, a trip to the Alexander Avenue Art and Antiques District, an outdoor literary reading at St. Mary’s Park, and a karaoke after-party at the Bruckner Bar & Grill. The Bronx Culture Trolley is a program of the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA). Admission to most activities is free and all are welcome to hop on board and enjoy them. Read more..
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Be There at the Square – Westchester Square in The Bronx, for a full day of free activities including live music provided by Bronx Underground, an outdoor craft exhibit, an art walk, and more on Saturday, May 16th, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. All activities are free and open to the public
Including…
At The Huntington Free Library: An Artisan Crafts Workshop featuring members of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Artisans Initiative (inside the library), a children workshop, a craft exhibit, and face painting for the kids (outside the library).
At Owen Dolen Park Plaza (across from the Huntington Free Library) free outdoor concert featuring the Bronx Indie Musicians of The Bronx Underground who will perform throughout the afternoon. Including Drew Torres (www.myspace.com/drew torres), Safe To Say (www.myspace.com/safetosaynyc) and more!
An Art Walk throughout the Square – Arts & Business Walking Tour will take place at local businesses along the Square featuring work by artists assembled by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Artists include photographers Marisol Diaz, Susan Farley, and Ron Terner, new media artist Kay Reese, and mixed media artists Ruth Marshall and Daniel DelValle.
Emmy-winning Latin jazz flutist Dave Valentin will appear at the Bronx Arts Ensemble’s annual jazz concert, Sat., Feb. 28 at 8 pm at the Russian Mission to the UN Residency, Mosholu Avenue at W. 255 Street, in an exciting evening of pop, R&B, Brazilian music and Latin jazz. Appearing with Valentin will be members of his quintet - Bill O’Connell, piano, Lincoln Goines, bass, Robby Ameen, drums and Richie Flores, congas.
Performing a variety of ethnic and classical flutes, Dave Valentin’s playing combines a popular and accessible form of Brazilian, salsa, merengue, funk and jazz. A native of the south Bronx, Valentin began with bongos and congas, later focusing on the flute at the urging of his teacher, Hubert Laws. He has recorded 25 albums and has performed with such legendary performers as Tito Puente (as his music director), Machito, Herbie Mann, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Barreto, Eddie Palmieri and Johnny Pacheco. Voted “Best Jazz Flutist” in Jazzis Magazine for the past eight years, his most recent CDs, for Highnote Records, are World on a String (2005) and Come Fly With Me (2006). Mr. Valentin is a proud Bronx resident and active member of his community. Read more..
The title of this program might seem like an oxymoron: winter doesn’t appear to have many colors, much less those worthy of collage.
But that isn’t true for Noah Baen, who leads the drop-in family art projects at Wave Hill, the 28-acre Bronx garden. On Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Mr. Baen will help children discover a surprising variety of hues. In “Collage the Colors of Winter” young visitors will hear a seasonal story in the Kerlin Learning Center and then go outside to gather natural materials (above).
“The witch hazel blooms in winter,” Mr. Baen said. But while it may be too early to observe those yellow and orange blossoms, “we’re likely to see red and purple berries hanging from bushes.” Children can collect sweet-gum seed balls, which are often red-brown, as well as evergreen sprigs.
But Mr. Baen also encourages appreciation of the hazy shades of winter, which are like bit players who take turns onstage when the glamorous stars have exited. “The harmonies are subtler, so there’s more of a place for the neutral shades to sing out, and textures as well,” he said. Read more..
While the Bronx has no shortage of famous writers - going back to Edgar Allan Poe and up to J.P. Donleavy, Don DeLillo and E.L. Doctorow - the next famous writers (and artists and photographers) might be getting their starts in a new literary magazine being launched in the borough.
They will, however, no longer be able to call themselves ink-stained wretches. The new magazine will be a cyber-age, online, digital publication.
The Bronx Council on the Arts, which is launching the new journal, to be called Cross Bronx, said the online publication will encompass the best writing, poetry, photography and digital art, with a primary focus on Bronx writers and artists.
The journal will be published three times a year, beginning in April, and feature BCA’s award-winning artists, alongside commissioned works, as well as submissions from both emerging and established writers and artists.
BCA said the new venture follows its Digital Matrix program, which provides an online exhibition space for artists working with new media, and continues the council’s ongoing commitment to the exploration of digital arts.
Cross Bronx editor Sonya Chung formulated the idea for creating this new project as part of her public service as a 2007 BCA Literary Fellow.
Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, Cream City Review and BOMB Magazine, among others.
She is also the recipient of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize nomination, and was a Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award finalist. She has recently completed her first novel and is at work on a second.
For consideration for publication the Council is seeking electronic submissions of previously unpublished short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and digital photography/art.
The deadline for all submissions is Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Preference will be given to Bronx artists. Submitted work must adhere to a specific set of guidelines, available by going to the BCA’s Web site at www.bronxarts.org
The program is supported with funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Times Foundation and the Scherman Foundation.
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