Join us at BAX's Artist Services Weekend, February 10-11

(Brooklyn Arts Exchange) welcomes you to its annual Artists Services Weekend, Saturday, February 10 and Sunday, February 11. The entire weekend of events is free with reservations made here.

For complete details on the events listed below,  click here.

BAX Artists Services Weekend

Saturday 2/10

2:30

Maria Bauman | AIR Open Studio


2:30 – 4:00

PROCESS AS PRODUCT – hosted by Tanisha Christie: a conversation/presentation looking at work that is explicitly or implicitly "process based" whether that is defined as ritual, practice, or participatory; where the work is shown as generative, "raw,"  "unfinished," improvisational and/or in the moment.

Participants include: Nina Angela Mercer (playwright/performer), Aisha Bell (multidisciplinary artist and sculptor), NIC Kay (artist), and BJ Evans (Associate Producer, Performing Arts @ BRIC)


3:30 – 4:30

ORIENTATION AND INFORMATION SESSION FOR 2018/19 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AND SPACE GRANT APPLICATIONS


5:30

Mariana Valencia | AIR Open Studio


6:30

luciana achugar | AIR Open Studio

Sunday 2/11

11:00 - 12:00

ORIENTATION AND INFORMATION SESSION FOR 2018/19 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AND SPACE GRANT APPLICATIONS


11-12:30

REDEFINING POWER

A workshop created and facilitated by BAX's Youth Education Racial Equity Cohort: Angie Pittman, Donna Costello, Maira Duarte, Billy Schultz, Casey Hayes-Deats and Lucia Scheckner

BAX Youth Education invites you to join us for a conversation about ways in which we can dismantle white supremacist power structures while working with young artists (and beyond) in classrooms and studios.


12:00

Kat Galasso | AIR Open Studio


12:00 – 4:00

OPEN FORUM - Studio C will remain open and available throughout the day. Meet a friend for coffee. Lay down on a mat, or continue a conversation from a previous workshop. Light body work will be available at intervals on a first come, first serve basis.

1:30-3:3O

All Black: A Long Table on Stress and Self-Care

presented by
Dancing While Black and Eva Yaa Asantewaa /EYA Projects

Let's talk about the many sources of stress in the lives of Black and Brown artists. What approaches, resources and tools help us counteract the effects of stress on our physical health, psyches, interpersonal relationships and creativity?

Core participants: Rashida Bumbray, Charmaine Warren, Orlando Hunter and Paloma McGregor

Curated and facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects

Please note that we are holding this private space for Black and Brown artists and community members. We request that all respect this designation.


2:00

Aya Ogawa | AIR Open Studio


3:45-5:45

Space for Everyone: Different Approaches to Finding the Right Space for Your Project and Your Community.

Join Risa Shoup, ED Space works, Inc. as she explores with and brainstorms about developing your own space and the creating & managing of capital campaigns. What does it mean to advocate against cultural displacement and who are our allies in the business community?

With Stephanie Alvarado and Mara Kravitz from 596 Acres. Jimena Martinez from CUMBE, and Katy Rubin from Theater of the Oppressed NY

6:00

Tanisha Christie | AIR Open Studio


BAX
421 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
(map/directions)

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Upcoming Long Tables: Abrons, Gibney, Dance/NYC

Eva Yaa Asantewaa
(photo: Deneka Peniston)

Upcoming Long Tables


A Long Table conversation--as first conceived by theater artist Lois Weaver--is initiated by an invited core group of participants who "set the table" with food for thought, but it is open, throughout, to other folks, sitting around the perimeter, who can come up and take seats at the table to share their experiences, ideas, questions and insights in a non-hierarchical, non-panel/Q&A setting. They are not so much "audience members" as a listening and contributing community.

So, please join us! Listen in and/or pull up a chair at our table to share your thoughts and questions. Admission is free, except where noted.

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Thursday, November 30 (7-9pm): DISCOMFORT: A Long Table. Presented and hosted by Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: Ash RT Yergens, Dan Fishback, Joya Powell, NIC Kay. DISCOMFORT makes space for dance, performance and other artists to talk about the place of discomfort in our lives, processes, practices and relationships with collaborators, audiences, our society and world.

Wednesday, February 7 (6:30-8:30pm): Long Table: Sexual Harassment in the Dance Industry. Presented and hosted by Center Line, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: Gabri Christa, Katy Pyle, Nicole Wolcott and Siobhan Burke

Sunday, February 25 (time tbd): Decolonizing Dance: A Long Table. Presented and hosted by Dance/NYC Symposium 2018 at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants (list in formation): André M. Zachery, Ayodele Casel, J Soto, Layla Zami. Admission with Dance/NYC Symposium 2018 registration. Click here.

Wednesday, April 25 (6:30-8:30pm): Decolonizing Dance: A Long Table. Hosted by Center Line, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan. Curated/facilitated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa/EYA Projects. Core participants: (list tba)

Community Long Tables are also in the works for BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange) and Dancing While Black in 2018. Keep watch for more information!

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My upcoming Long Tables for Gibney Dance & Abrons Arts Center

I'm so excited to be curating and facilitating two more arts community Long Tables and hope you can join us for either or both of these welcoming, informal conversations for artists of dance, performance or any discipline!

A Long Table conversation--as first conceived by theater artist Lois Weaver--is initiated by an invited core group of participants who "set the table" with food for thought, but it is open, throughout, to other folks, sitting around the perimeter, who can come up and take seats at the table to share their experiences, ideas, questions and insights in a non-hierarchical, non-panel/Q&A setting. They are not so much "audience" as listening and contributing community.

Eva Yaa Asantewaa
(photo: Deneka Peniston)

CENTER LINE:

MOVING INTO WRITING

WITH EVA YAA ASANTEWAA

Wednesday, November 8

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

280 Broadway (enter 53A Chambers), Manhattan

(directions)

Moving into Writing considers approaches to the written word as response to, collaboration with, and documentation of dance and performance. What can writers and dancers learn from each other? What role do writers play within local, national and international dance ecosystems? Core participants will include Maura Donohue, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Paloma McGregor, Marissa Perel and Tara Sheena.

Free admission. Everyone is welcome to listen in and/or pull up a chair at our table to share your thoughts and questions.

An RSVP is not required, but it helps us better plan our space. Click here.

Produced by EYA Projects and Gibney Dance

DISCOMFORT: A LONG TABLE

Thursday, November 30

7pm to 9pm

Abrons Arts Center

466 Grand Street, Manhattan

(directions)

DISCOMFORT makes space for dance, performance and other artists to talk about the place of discomfort in our lives, processes, practices and relationships with collaborators, audiences, our society and world. Core participants will include NIC Kay, Dan Fishback , Ash RT Yergen and Joya Powell.

Free admission. Everyone is welcome to listen in and/or pull up a chair at our table to share your thoughts and questions.

Please hold this date. RSVP information to come.

Produced by EYA Projects and Abrons Arts Center


And I'm already planning more Long Tables for 2018! I hope you will support these community gatherings with your presence and by helping to spread the word to your network of friends and colleagues. Let's get this out there all around social media!

Thanks!

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Gibney's new Center Line season presents Long Table convos

I'm looking forward to a new season in the arts in New York!

Please join me on September 27 and November 8 

for two special Long Table conversations 

at Gibney Dance, 

free and open to all!

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Center Line Conversation Series

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

Curated and facilitated by dance writer and independent curator Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Center Line is a conversation series highlighting issues concerning the dance community. Center Line conversations will adopt performance artist Lois Weaver’s non-hierarchical Long Table format to encourage “informal conversation on serious topics.”


Casting About: About Casting
Wednesday, September 27 at 6:30pm

Initiated by Yanira Castro, Casting About: About Casting will explore present day dynamics of cast, audience and choreographer. What does a cast represent? How does access to resource affect the composition of a cast, and does this change the relationships between performers, the work and the choreographer? Does the mutability of the contemporary performer challenge or stimulate creativity? Invited participants include Yanira Castro, Aaron Mattocks, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Kyle Bukhari and Leslie Cuyjet.


Moving into Writing
Wednesday November 8 at 6:30pm

Moving into Writing considers approaches to the written word as response to, collaboration with and documentation of dance and performance. What can writers and dancers learn from each other? What role do writers play within local, national and international dance ecosystems? How can dance artists best interact with critics, scholars and creative writers in their field? Participants may bring one sample written about or for dance, to share if time permits (350 words, maximum). Invited participants include Maura Donohue, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Paloma McGregor, Tara Sheena and Marissa Perel.

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For information on this and all Gibney Dance programming for Fall 2017, visit Gibney Dance Center here.

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (entrance at 53A Chambers), Manhattan
(map/directions)

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