Sunday, March 19, 2017
1:30pm: Guthrie Bros. Simon & Garfunkle Tribute
2:30pm: The Joni Project by Katie Pearlman
3:30pm: Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston with Folk First/Black Roots
FREE and Family Friendly. This is also a food drive, please bring a can or box of non-perishable food!
Long Beach Public Library
111 West Park Avenue
Long Beach, NY 11561
(516) 432-7201
http://longbeachlibrary.org and http://aip-arts.org and aip4arts@gmail.com
Get directions
Tsion Cafe
763 St. Nicholas @ 148th Street
Harlem, New York
A, B, C, D to 145 St.
http://tsioncafe.com
Sunday, April 23, 2017
7pm
Postcrypt Coffeehouse
Basement St. Paul’s Chapel
Campus of Columbia University
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY
1 to 116 St. stop
http://columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/
3/Fifths
Written by James Scruggs
May 1 – 28, 2017
At 3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street (south of Rector St. & north of Edgar St.)
New York, NY 10006
Get directions
Phone: (212) 645-0374
1 to Rector St. (closest, same block); J/Z to Broad St.; 4/5 to Wall St.
http://www.3fifths.org
Staged as an immersive participatory carnival and cabaret, and sprawled across 10,000 square feet, 3/Fifths transformed 3LD Art + Technology Center into a dystopian interactive ethno-theme park known as SupremacyLand. Mass incarceration, racist carnage, and political incorrectness have never been more entertaining!
Read reviews:
Off Off Online
Theatre Is Easy
StageBuddy
New York Times
Time Out New York
Mamapalooza NYC
1 – 2 pm: Vienna performs with the fabulous fierce band: Stanley Banks, bass; Newman Taylor Baker, washboard; Keith Johnston, guitar
12 noon – 5 pm: entire festival, so come early and stay late!
May 28, 2017
Riverside Park South
Pier i, 500 W 70th St. (path to pier is at Riverside and 68th Street, see map below)
New York, NY 10069
(Nearby Pier i Cafe has excellent food & drink, but no alcohol on the pier outside cafe grounds.)
Concert on the end of the 795 feet pier! Stunning river views. Fishing. Dog-friendly, family-friendly, bring chairs or a blanket to sit on, some benches.
Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston at Roots & Ruckus
Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY
F or G trains to Carroll St. station. Get directions
Quakers helped. Mostly, Black people Freed Ourselves through the "Slave Grapevine." Watch the story of African Queens kidnapped, enslaved and resisting. Plus, U.S. Colored Troops and the Slave Grapevine in the Black freedom struggle in the U.S.
Read a brief history of slavery and African rebellions in America freeing ourselves.