Come join us on Saturday, June 2, 2018 – 7pm
at the Jersey City Theater Center’s Merseles Studio
339 Newark Avenue, Jersey City NJ
7 pm-midnight (Vienna & Keith perform first)
$10
The last Hokum! sold out, so buy advance tickets to be sure of entry.
Come on out, Git Down, Have Fun!!
Theater conveniently located 10 blocks from the Grove Street Path Station (just walk west on Newark Ave). See map. See PATH schedule. See parking lot map. More info.
Friday, April 7, 2017,
8pm,
Triskelion Arts at Muriel Schulman Theater,
106 Calyer Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11222,
G to Nassau Ave (walk 3 blks north to Calyer & 3 blks west to #106) • map
The “What For? Why Not?” series combines two artists from different disciplines juxtaposing dance, music, spoken word, and visual art.
Patti Bradshaw (dance) / Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston (music)
Act 1: Choreographer and puppeteer Patti Bradshaw shares the evening with singing storyteller duo, Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston. Bradshaw’s Flowers in Space uses dance, puppetry, and slide projections in a solo for dancer Valerie Striar inspired by the turn of the twentieth-century painter, poet, set designer, and subtle social commentator Florine Stettheimer, (1871-1944).
Act 2: In Folk First: Black Roots Music, Carroll as griot and Johnston as guitarist celebrate the spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea shanties of antebellum African Americans, and their links to contemporary artists like Biggie Smalls and Pharrell Williams.
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
This sweet Ethiopian restaurant is the perfect place to hear Vienna and internationally renowned guitarist Michael Howell, while enjoying a refreshing drink, an appetizer or dinner. Limited seating, get there early.
A, B, C, D to 145th St. Walk to north end of train to exit and you’re a block away. (Check out Vienna’s garden on your way – corner. of 148/St Nick)
Tsion Cafe is an Ethiopian cafe with great food and honey wine, the menu is really fun. Some claim they have the best coffee in Harlem. I personally love the Ethiopian tea.
Don’t miss this!
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.