Breaking the News
Breaking the News
Albany, NY
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system. Full Description: Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo, banding together to launch The 19th*, a digital news startup aim…
Sunday, March 31 2024
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Auditions for L'Amant Anonyme and Emancipado
Auditions for L'Amant Anonyme and Emancipado
Albany, NY
Set in the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries, both films deal with characers in search of freedom from social restraints and how one's culture and heritage can help one find balance. The films are highly movement based, involving choreography which uses fighting dances from the Caribbean an…
Saturday, March 9 2024
2:30 PM
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4:30 PM
Razing Liberty Square
Razing Liberty Square
Averill Park, NY
The Liberty Square public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification. Full Description: Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something…
Monday, February 12 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves
Albany, NY
The central mystery of this unconventional documentary isn’t about theft; it’s about the nature of sound itself. What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to e…
Monday, June 3 2024
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
Flamenco Workshop
Flamenco Workshop
Averill Park, NY
Start your day strong with this Open Level Class that will introduce interested participants to the fundamentals of flamenco dance, taught by Omonike Akinyemi, artistic director of Image Quilt Cinema and Dance Theater and an Artist-in-Residence at Arrs, Letters, and Numbers in Averill Park, NY. As…
Sunday, February 18 2024
10:00 AM
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11:00 AM
Scenes from "Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco"
Scenes from "Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco"
Averill Park, NY
This will be a live performance of four works in development for "Sketches on the Edge pf Flamenco": Rumba Ofinina, an exploration of flamenco as a rumba and the bull fight, The Tangos, meeting in a cafe of friends, Las Cumadres Fechiceras, the magicak nannies, and Intergalactica, a dream of the w…
Saturday, February 17 2024
7:30 PM
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8:30 PM
Auditions for L'Amant Anonyme
Auditions for L'Amant Anonyme
Albany, NY
If you are interested in auditioning for any of the following roles: Opera Dancer, age 18-35, flirtatious ballet corps member Toussaint, friend of the Chevalier, rAfro-Haitian Revolutionary Please sign up here and a Zoom Link will be sent to you via email for auditions April 9th, 3:30-4:30pm. …
Tuesday, April 9 2024
3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco
Sketches from the Edge of Flamenco
Salt Lake City, UT
A dance concert with cinematic fringes featuring original choreography by Omonike Akinyemi. These works delve into flamenco's rhythms and capacity to transform the human shapeand tell diverse stories. Solo as well as Ensemble pieces will be performed with filmic scenes woven into each narrative. …
Saturday, January 20 2024
4:30 PM
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5:30 PM
Matter of Mind: A Story of Parkinson's
Matter of Mind: A Story of Parkinson's
Albany, NY
Filmmakers, Anna Moot-Levin (director and producer), Laura Green (director and producer), David Alvarado (producer), and Jason Sussberg (writer and producer) bring us Matter of Mind: A Story of Parkinson's about: A mother, an optician, and a cartoonist each navigate their lives with determination…
Tuesday, May 7 2024
9:00 PM
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10:30 PM
The West Indies: Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
The West Indies: Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
Albany, NY
Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty proved a watershed event for African cinema—one of the continent’s first musicals as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock …
Thursday, July 25 2024
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
