Check Out, Shout Out!

Imagine Off Broadway
Celebrate, dance and sing with us at the world premiere of our new show:
"IMAGINE"

New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC
A production of The Present Company
Tickets $10 and $15. For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org
Tickets are limited.

CSV Cultural and Educational Center - Flamboyan, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, New York 10002
(Rivington & Delancey Streets)

Saturday, August 15 @ Noon
Sunday, August 16 @ 3:45pm
Thursday, August 20 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, August 27 @ 6:00pm
Sunday, August 30 @ 2:45pm

All actors are part of the ongoing Imagine Project creativity workshops. Half our cast members come to us from our programs in New York CityHomeless Shelters.

Based on ideas and improvisations of their own creation, our cast of twelve young actors brings to life eight contemporary stories filled with beauty, humor and magic expressed in their own words. Themes dealing with topics as universal as "LOVE," "WHAT IF?" "YA GOTTA LEAVE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE!" "IDEAS Parts I and II" as well as the fairy-tale-silliness of "MAGIC SHOES" and "THERE AIN'T NO ROYAL PRINCE IN BROOKLYN" illuminate the joys, doubts, and fears that young people so often express as they try to make sense out of the sense-less.

Can't wait to see you there!

Play is a Right!

As Play is defined as a transitive verb
1 a (1) : to engage in or occupy oneself with (2) : to engage in (an activity) as a game (3) : to deal with, handle, or manage b : to pretend to engage in the activities of c (1) : to amount to by one's efforts

Here is more proof that Kids need to PLAY More

So why wouldn't we want to engage our children in their education. Be engage in their future's and ours! Give our children the tools to deal with conflict in a positive light . To play an important role in children success by giving children all they need to be the best they can be! I know I will and continue to be! What does PLAY mean to you?

Article of the Day

Recently I have been by passing The New York Times and opting for the Huffington Post. But I found a gem of an article, New Endowment Chairman Sees Arts as Economic Engine. I agree with all my heart that the Arts have to be apart of the Recession plan. Without it we are lost to the wind, Artists should have the same rights as government workers, 401 K's and health plans.We pay taxes too! Its time that we get some resources back, maybe this time we have someone in office that has our back. Here's to Hope!

Sharing Resources

I wanted to share some resources for art educators like myself:

The center for Arts Education

Career Transtion for Dancers

New York Foundation for the Arts

Dance Education Lab at 92nd Street Y

Enjoy!

Pick me up

I am always in need of a pick me up after the Mondays. Enjoy the video of Michelle Obama's plea for education:

Happenings For this Week

For over 20 years, IRT has been dedicated to supporting the work by and for the Deaf. The Emerging Deaf Artists Festival will feature an array of exciting new talent during the first week of June, 2009. The centerpiece of the festival will be a presentation of Willy Conley's play "Broken Spokes," performed by students from RIT/NTID (Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf), June 5-7, 2009. After the show on June 5th there will be talk back with Willy Conley.

Details of the week:
June 2nd- 7pm A talk back with Ann Marie"Jade" Bryan, Owner/CEO/Producer of Jade Films and Entertainment
June 3rd- 8pm Open Mic Deaf Jam
June 4-7pm Film Screening of the RIT/NTID performance of Othello and live performance
June 5-8pm Show..Broken Spokes-after the show talk back with Willy Conley
June 5-7-Show..Broken Spokes-Friday/Sat.8pm Sunday 3pm

If you are interested in being a part of the Open Mic night please contact Renee Pena rpena@irttheater.org

To purchase tickets for Broken Spokes contact Theatermania all other events are $5 suggested donation at the door-
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/155297

or call

Tickets by Phone: 212-352-3101
866-811-4111(toll free)

IRT
154 Christopher St.,Suite 3B
New York,NY 10014
212-206-6875

AWOL

I know I have been awol! However, I am back and stronger than ever! I will post three times a week.