Freedom Love-Fest

A Summer Night in Queens: Passport Fridays at the Queens Museum

PASSPORT FRIDAYS 2009
5th Annual International Film, Dance and Music Series

@ Queens Museum

Date: 8/21/09
Time: 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Admission: Free

American Express and the Queens Museum of Art present Passport Fridays 2009: 5th Annual International Film, Dance and Music Series

Leave your baggage at home and bring a picnic blanket out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the QMA's Passport Fridays, the weekly outdoor festivities feature dance performances by participants in the QMA/TOPAZ Arts Dance in Queens Residency Program, and continue with a live concert and film screening from one of the many countries that fuel Queens' cultural & artistic vitality. Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, East Africa, Jordan, Iran, Bangladesh & Taiwan are on your all inclusive summer itinerary.

For the full line-up, visit this page:

Dance and Music programs begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the Film program at 8 p.m. each Friday. No raindates! In case of rain, program moves inside of museum.

Location
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK
Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

Save the Date: African Film Festival at Governors Island

10th Annual Summer Outdoors Series
AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL FAMILY DAY

@ Governors Island

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, August 8, 12:00pm–5:00pm

Rain date: Sunday, August 9, 12:00pm - 5:00pm

The sights and sounds of Africa are just a three-minute ferry ride away! Please join African Film Festival, Inc. and the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation for this exception all day celebration on Governors Island. This event will feature FREE dance classes with world-renowned artists from Brazil, Senegal, and Guinea. There will also be FREE storytelling, double-dutch and quilting demonstrations and workshops. Short African films by emerging directors will be shown continually throughout the day. African food vendors will be on site.

Directions to Governors Island: http://www.govisland.com
Click here for the schedule of activities: African Film Festival at Governors Island

River to River Festival

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

Click here to view the calendar of free River to River events: http://www.rivertorivernyc.com

Founded in 2002, The River To River Festival is a partnership between the Alliance for Downtown NY, arts>World Financial Center, Battery Park City Authority, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Port Authority of NY & NJ, and The Seaport.

The River To River Festival takes place each summer from June through August, in a variety of public venues that canvas all of Downtown New York - from Chambers Street down to the southern tip of Manhattan and across the island from river to river.

Save the Date: The Dragon Boat Festival

SAVE THE DATE: RAIN OR SHINE
HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK

@ Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Date: Saturday and Sunday - 8/8 - 8/9/2009
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Admission: Free

Come out and experience the annual Dragon Boat Festival, which features paddlers of all ages racing in 40+ foot long dragon boats. Bring your friends and family and you will also have a chance to experience the different sights and sounds of Chinese culture.

LOCATION:
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Meadow Lake, Queens

CityParks 2009 Summer Festivals

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, City Parks Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 season schedule of its flagship free performing arts festival, Central Park SummerStage. Internationally acclaimed for presenting world-renowned and emerging talent from around the globe and New York City’s own backyard, the Central Park SummerStage season promises to be as electrifying as ever with a calendar chock-full of culturally diverse programs in multiple disciplines including music, dance, word, film, and comedy.

For more information: http://www.summerstage.org



CityParks Concerts is proud to present top musical acts including Grammy award-winning R&B singer Chrisette Michele, salsa sensation Frankie Negron, popular “experimental” band Man Man, and gospel music sensation and Grammy Award-winning pastor of Brooklyn’s Love Fellowship Tabernacle, Hezekiah Walker. City Parks Foundation is also welcoming back the fan favorites hip-hop group Naughty By Nature, KRS-One, and Slick Rick.

For more information: http://www.cityparksfoundation.org




The 2009 season marks several exciting new additions to CityParks Theater presented by Time Warner including City Parks Foundation’s first ever commissioned play, Dirt Rich by Chisa Hutchinson. The festival also features Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Continuum Company's Theater in a Box: Essential Shakespeare I Dream A Little Dream, and will also welcome acclaimed poet, jessica Care moore, as she fuses music and spoken word in her celebrated one-woman show, God is Not an American. The festival will also welcome the National Theater of the USA's Chautauqua!, which explores the hotly debated relationship between High Culture and the Mass Mind, in the style of the original Chautauqua Lectures, which were popular between 1874 and the Great Depression. Three-time New York Innovative Theater Award winning production, Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment, will round out the festival with a genre-defying piece performed by the company Witness Relocation.

For more information: http://www.cityparksfoundation.org




CityParks Dance has another impressive season line-up including an interactive program and performance by the highly acclaimed ballet company Morphoses/The Wheedon Company. The festival also presents African American troupe Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, break dancing experts Illstyle & Peace Productions, and nathantrice/RITUALS abstract expressionists. Dance master classes will be featured before all performances, and will be taught by dance professionals and choreographers.

For more information: http://www.cityparksfoundation.org


CHARLIE PARK AUGUST 2009 JAZZ FESTIVAL

Annual Charlie Parker Summer Festival in NYC
The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival annually assembles some of the finest musicians in the world who reflect Parker’s musical individuality and genius, to promote appreciation for this highly influential and world-renowned artist. The two days of free concerts take place in neighborhoods where Charlie Parker lived and worked, in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park and the Lower East Side's Tompkins Square Park.

On both days, the music starts at 3:00 PM.

For more information: http://www.cityparksfoundation.org

A Sunday in Brooklyn: The Urban Arts Market Street Festival

URBAN ARTS MARKET STREET FESTIVAL
Live Performances by Afrika Bambaataa, Slick Rick, and more...

@ Myrtle Avenue bet. Emerson and Grand St., Fort Green, Brooklyn

Date: 8/10/08
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Admission: Free

This summer, party and shop at the Brooklyn Urban Arts Market, a fusion of the dynamic energy of Afro-Punk and BAM with Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project's Community initiatives.

The market will feature live music, visual art performances, food from Myrtle Avenue restaurants, and 50 local, DIY vendors selling fashion, art, and accessories.

Additional Performers: Hard Hittin Harry, The Earthman Experiance, Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love, and DJ Spinna.

For more information: www.afropunk.com

FLF Summer in NYC Fesitival List

Click here and bookmark this link to review a running list of summer festivals in New York City (some popular ones and others that you have never heard of): THE FLF SUMMER IN NYC FESTIVAL LIST

Enjoy!

Editor's Pick: It's Free, It's Dance, & It's the Joyce Theater!

JULY 16–20, 2008:
FIVE DAYS OF FREE OUTDOOR DANCE PERFORMANCES THROUGHOUT ALL FIVE BOROUGHS!

The Joyce Theater, in partnership with City Parks Foundation, takes dance outdoors this July, presenting three breathtaking performances for five days July 16th- 20th in parks throughout the five boroughs.

The three acclaimed pieces, created to resonate with the energy and vibrancy of outdoor life, will all launch consecutively in the busy East River Park. From there, each company will tour separately for the week, performing in popular parks that are under-served throughout the city. Bringing dance to unexpected environments, The Joyce strives to create a meeting ground that serves both new audiences as well as the thriving dance community of New York.

TONIGHT: DANCE OUT! LAUNCH
Performances of Dans le Jardin, Contigo and Transports Exceptionnels

@ East River Park

Date: 7/16/08
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: Free

Dans le Jardin, an improvised dance by the Netherlands-based choreographer Michael Schumacher, is set to live music performed by cellist and composer Alex Waterman. Using the park as a backdrop and inspiration for his improvised performance, Michael dances with and around his surroundings. Partnering with a statue, moving gracefully under a tree or exploding across a green; the park, music and audience play equal parts as inspiration and observers for this improvised performance.

Transports Exceptionnels is a unique and whimsical outdoor duet between man and five-ton mechanical digger. Choreographed by Dominique Boivin and accompanied by the dramatic voice of Maria Callas, the dancer meets, greets, and embraces a moving excavator, transforming the stage into a construction site, street into playground, and dance into a tentative balance between nature, man, and machine.

Contigo is a work combining acrobatics and dance by Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta and solo artist Joao P. Pereira Dos Santos, an accomplished acrobat and master of the Chinese pole. In this awe-inspiring piece that defies gravity, Dos Santos traverses a 20 foot vertical pole by moving up and down it, flipping and spinning with brut strength and drilled precision.

EAST RIVER PARK
Location: East River Park Between FDR drive and the East River Esplanade
(best access at walking bridge south of Delancey Street)

Click here to view the schedule of performances: www.joyce.org

A NYC Summer Staple: Monday Concerts in Wingate Park

A NYC STAPLE FOR SUMMER MONDAY NIGHTS:
26th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Free Concert Series

@ Wingate Field, Brooklyn

Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: All Shows are Free

The schedule for free summer concerts at Wingate Field is up and running and can be found here: www.brooklynconcerts.com

The 2008 line-up includes:

July 14, 2008:
THE O'JAYS FEATURING THE MANHATTANS
with Gerald Alston and Blue Lovett

July 21, 2008: Mystery Night?

July 28, 2008: Annual Gospel Night
MARY MARY, TYE TRIBBETT AND GREATER ANOINTING, & RICKY DILLARD AND NEW GENERATION

August 4, 2008:
AN EVENING WITH ERYKAH BADU

August 11, 2008:
AN EVENING WITH JILL SCOTT

August 18, 2008: Caribbean Night
BERES HAMMOND, THE MIGHTY SPARROW, & BUNJI GARLIN AND ASYLUM

August 25, 2008:
AN EVENING WITH PATTI LABELLE

The 25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series performances are held Monday nights. The public is encouraged to bring their own chairs because seating is limited.

WINGATE FIELD
Located: Winthrop Street between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues
T: 718-469-1912

For more information: www.brooklynconcerts.com

JellyNYC Summer Pool Parties are Back

SUMMER FUN @ THE POOL:
JELLYNYC Pool Party with The Breeders, Matt+Kim, The Whip, and DJ Franki Chan

@ McCarren Pool

Date: 7/13/08
Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Admission: Free

The JellyNYC Pool Parties return to McCarren Pool for a third summer of fun. Look forward to dodge ball, slip-n-slide, food, ice cream, bands, fans, families and kids of all ages and much more.

Tonight's Line-Up:

THE BREEDERS: www.myspace.com/thebreeders
The Breeders are an American rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly. Tthe current line-up consists of Kim Deal (vocals and guitar), her twin sister Kelley Deal (vocals and guitar), José Medeles (drums) and Mando Lopez (bass).

MATT+KIM: www.myspace.com/mattandkim

THE WHIP: www.myspace.com/thewhipmanchester

DJ FRANKI CHAN: www.myspace.com/frankichan

Franki Chan @ The Heist
by eddie-v

Upcoming Pool Party Dates @ McCarren Park :
JULY 20, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties with the Liars, @#$% Buttons and Team Robespierre

JULY 27, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties with MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow and Ting Tings

JULY 31, 2008 @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Boost Mobile and JellyNYC present The Apples in Stereo, Earlimart and Poison Control Center -

AUGUST 3, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties with Black Lips, Deerhunter, King Kahn & His Shrines and Tall Firs - Pool

AUGUST 10, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties - McCarren Park Pool

AUGUST 17, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties with Aesop Rock, Chin Chin and Panther

AUGUST 24, 2008:
The JellyNYC Pool Parties - McCarren Park Pool

MCCARREN PARK
Location: Lorimer Street between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street)

For more information: www.jellynyc.com