HNY grantees put funds to good use year-round and across the state, with performances, workshops, exhibitions, and other types of events that are frequently free and open to the public.
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Tuesday, August 6
Euphoric! Exhibition Opening Reception
6:00-8:00 pm
East Harlem (NYC)
Celebrate the dynamic artwork and immense creativity of the Artistic Noise community. This art show will feature work made over the past 12 months by the young artists in the Art & Entrepreneurship program, the Alumni Artist in Residence, Alternatives-to-Incarceration in coordination with Midtown Community Justice Center, and others. 100% of artwork sales go directly to the young, system-impacted artists who created the work.
Note the exhibition will be open for viewing through Sunday, August 11.
Thursday, August 8
Sugarcane Film Screening and Q&A
7:00 pm
Greenwich Village (NYC)
$17 Regular//$11 Members
In 2021, unmarked graves were discovered around Canadian church-run boarding schools, belatedly exposing the hundred-year efforts to strip First Nations children of their culture and identity. With tremendous empathy, co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (winners of the Sundance Directing award) document the lucid, intimate memories of survivors of the school — including a leading advocate/investigator; a former tribal chief who is still a practicing Catholic; and NoiseCat’s own father and grandmother.
See Sugarcane in advance of its New York run at Film Forum with filmmakers Noisecat and Kassie in attendance for a post-show discussion.
Saturday, August 10
ENO Film Screening and Q&A
8:00 pm
Greenwich Village (NYC)
$17 Regular//$11 Members
Maverick recording artist Brian Eno co-founded Roxy Music, produced breakthrough albums for David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, and U2, and pioneered innovative work in ambient music. A renowned explorer of technology and “oblique strategies,” he is an unlikely subject for a conventional documentary; but in this first-of-its-kind portrait, Gary Hustwit (HELVETICA, RAMS) applies Eno’s own concept of “generative” art: the filmmaker’s proprietary technology, developed with digital artist Brendan Dawes, produces a different movie every time it’s screened, presenting variations in sequence, music, and scenes (including some with such collaborators as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, David Bowie, U2, and others). Film Forum will present a unique version of the film each day during the initial two-week run; these versions will never be shown again.
See ENO at Film Forum with filmmaker Gary Hutswit (Helvetica, Rams) in attendance for a post-show discussion.
Saturday & Sunday, August 17–18
Sat: 10:00 am–5:00 pm; Sun: 12:00–5:00 pm
Guitar-Making Artist Demonstration
Howes Cave
Glenn Hill Jr. is an Akwesasne Mohawk luthier who has been handcrafting acoustic and electric guitars for approximately a decade. He founded Sonny Boy Guitars Inc. in 2015. He will be onsite at the Iroquois Museum during museum hours to demonstrate and share on his practice, rooted in a passion and reverence for music and Haudenosaunee culture
Tuesday, August 20
4:30 pm
Incorrigibles Project on WGXC 90.7
Upper Hudson Valley + Online
Reverend Kim L. Singletary helped close the late–July Staatsburg exhibition “Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York,” providing a blessing/benediction at a memorial service to honor the young women and infants buried at the Hudson Correctional Facility (formerly the New York State Training School for Girls). Alison Cornyn of the Incorrigibles Project and former residents of the New York State Training School for Girls, Cynthia Boykin and Lily Perez, will be joining Reverend Singletary to discuss more about the Incorrigibles Project, the memorial, and their personal stories on Wave Farm Radio, broadcast at 90.7-FM.
Now Live
Immigrants Wake America: Season II Podcast
Exhibition opening reception
The second season of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum‘s Immigrants Wake America audio series recently launched with a new season titled “Hidden Heroes in a Small Town,” focused on caseworkers at the American Civic Association in upstate New York who assist refugees and immigrants. The season will be accompanied by a community resource guide that will be made available to the public on the website for teaching, research, and community programs.
