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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Cover Photo courtesy of Beverly’s. Interior photos courtesy of Abrons teachers. Settle / Unsettle photo by Kristen Jensen. Block Party photo by Camilo José Vergara.
SETTLE / UNSETTLE AIRspace 2016–2017
June 28–August 18 Opening Reception | June 28 | 6–8 PM Xavier Acarín (curator), Kristen Jensen, Sara Jordenö, Baseera Khan, Alan Ruiz, Matthew Schrader
SUMMER BLOCK PARTY
July 28 Friday | 6–8 PM FREE Join Abrons Arts Center artists and staff for a summer block party celebrating all things culture! Enjoy live music, art activities for kids and adults, video games, karaoke, and delicious food.
SUMMER PROGRAMS 2017
BONSAI
July 11 | August 8 | Tuesdays | 6–8 PM $150 per session Learn the artistic, philosophical, horticultural, and technical process of designing, planting, and maintaining your very own bonsai. Artist: Julian Velasco
BAT SKELETON
July 18–19 | Tuesday–Wednesday 6–8 PM | $200 for 2-day intensive Participants will learn how to create an osteological preparation of a bat in the fashion of 19th-century zoological displays. Leave class with a striking bat skeleton posed in a glass dome. Artist: Wilder Duncan
AFRO KARIBÉ
DANCE INTENSIVE
July 18–21 | Tuesday–Friday 6:30–9:30 PM | $120 for 4-day intensive From the roots of West Africa through the Caribbean, and straight to the heart and soul of Hip Hop, Yaminah Legohn presents Afro Karibé® Dance. Artist: Yaminah Legohn
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EXPERIMENTAL NOTATION WORKSHOP
July 26 | Wednesday | 7–9 PM | FREE Explore modern evolutions of music notation with the renowned musicians of the International Contemporary Ensemble.
POW!
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT
July 13–August 17 | Thursdays | 7–9 PM $130 for 6 sessions Create your own original performance! Make work that explores the complicated intersection of dance and language. Bring pen, paper, and body. Artist: Mike Mikos
VIDEO GAMES
PERFORMING ORIGINAL WORK
AMERICAN PROTEST MUSIC
July 19 | Wednesday | 7–9 PM $40 for single workshop Trace American protest music from its roots in the Griot tradition of Northern Africa to contemporary Rap and R&B. Lots of listening, with sidetracks to Woody Guthrie and punk rock. Artist: Joel Lambdin
BEGINNERS CAPOEIRA
July 13–August 17 | Thursdays 6–7:30 PM | FREE | All ages welcome Capoeira is an expressive Afro-Brazilian martial art combining self-defense with dance, music, and acrobatics. Classes focus primarily on physical vocabulary but will also incorporate Portuguese culture and history! Artist: Jack Kellogg
August 1 | August 8 | Tuesdays | 7–9 PM $80 for 2 sessions Taught by Harold Goldberg, a New York Times and Washington Post contributor and founder of the New York Videogame Critics Circle. You’ll learn all about the amazing history of videogames. Artist: Harold Goldberg
IMPROVISATION SOUNDING THE UNKNOWN
August 13 | Sunday 12–3 PM Workshop | 4 PM Performance $40 for single workshop Explore free improvisation as a music making method through historical context, aesthetic considerations, and applicable strategies for incorporating into instrumental and vocal technique. Artists: Patrick Breiner & Nathan Pape
SUDDEN SHIFTS
MOVEMENT TRAINING FOR THE RESISTANCE
August 14–18 | Monday–Friday 6:30–9:30 PM | $150 for 5-day intensive This work prepares us to be able to act powerfully and suddenly as a group, creating spontaneous yet cohesive actions and forms. No previous dance training necessary. Artist: Katherine Ferrier
REGISTER ONLINE AT abronsartscenter.org Tuition assistance available
URBAN YOUTH THEATER
MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY
July 5–August 18 Tuesdays & Wednesdays | 3:30–5:30 PM FREE | Ages 14–18 Why Mr. Burns? Because it shows the human ability to adapt, to make sense of a world that often does not make sense. To look for order where there is none. And, it’s funny. Artist: Kaaron Briscoe Minefee
SONIC COLLECTIVE
BEAT MAKING AND PRODUCTION July 5–August 16 | Wednesdays 6–7 PM | FREE | Ages 14–18 Students will learn to program beats in a variety of styles and then apply production techniques to create full songs and compositions. No prior musical experience needed. Artist: Joel Lambdin
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
July 6–August 17 | Thursdays | 7–8 PM $150 for 6 sessions Experience an intuitive and visual approach to the piano specially tailored for adults. Participants will learn to play songs and be introduced to basic theory. Taught on electronic keyboards. Artist: Julie Hill
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LEARN PIANO
