Celebrating marriage equality

Come celebrate Marriage Equality 

with great music from

Isle of Klezbos and Nedra Johnson

at 92YTribeca

Tuesday, July 26 (8pm)

Glitter valentine, East Village (c)2011, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

  

Isle of Klezbos, the soulful, fun-loving powerhouse klezmer sextet makes its 92YTribeca debut to help celebrate marriage equality (the city starts giving out licenses to ALL starting Jul 24, people). This band approaches tradition with irreverence as well as respect. Based in New York City, they have toured from Vienna to Vancouver with a repertoire that ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing, retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking songs, re-grooved standards and genre-defying originals.

Nedra Johnson is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist born and living in New York City. Her unique style of guitar playing is unmistakably informed by her many years as a professional bassist, and keeps her live solo acoustic performances on more of an R&B tip than what one might expect of a "girl with a guitar." Johnson plays with a joyful mix of funk, rock and gospel.

Complete information and ticketing 

92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street (south of Canal Street)
(map and directions)

Sci-Fi: Write now, write future

What We Leave Out: 

The Art of Science-Fiction Writing

Monday, July 18, 7pm

at 92YTribeca Mainstage

Scientific experimentation is as much about what we choose not to study as what we do—researchers must always ignore some elements of a problem to focus on others.

Similarly, writing is a process of taking out as much as putting in, of deciding what we can include and what we must leave untouched. Writers who work with the future tend to care most about a particular aspect—about changes in technology, society or the environment.

Panelists Anna North, Carl Schoonover and Lawrence Wechsler discuss the ways writers fashion a future by whittling down an infinity of possibilities until that which most interests them remains. Join them as they shed light on the processes of writing and experimentation and how the eventual results are only part of the story.

Event Code: TS12D111

Program notes, panelist bios and tickets

92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street (south of Canal Street), Manhattan

(map and directions)

The art of persuasion

92YTribeca 

presents

The New York premiere of

WHAT IS A HEART?

with 

THE PERSUASIONS

Wed, Jul 13 (9 pm)

The Persuasions, one of the world's greatest a cappella groups, were first produced by Frank Zappa in the '60s and have since released more than 18 albums, including whole records devoted to music of Zappa, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and U2, recording and performing alongside the likes of Stevie Wonder and Lou Reed along the way.

They perform a very special set here in front of the NYC premier of the film What Is a Heart?, in which they're featured. The film, directed by Ted Bogosian, is a 37-minute exploration of Christopher Janney’s world-renowned multi-media performance art piece Heartbeat that features performances by acclaimed New York dancer and choreographer Emily Coates, as well as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Sara Rudner, with music by The Persuasions.

Complete information and tickets here

92YTribeca 
200 Hudson Street (Ground Floor), Manhattan
(map and directions)