ART FOR CHANGE presents
HACIA AFUERA
East Harlem Arts & Music Festival
August 13-14 (Sat-Sun), 1-6pm
Sat 6-10pm, film screeningsFree (rain or shine)
Live performances by Pistolera, Edwin Vasquez, Sellassie, Selectress Iriela and Jesse Ricke, plus film screenings, interactive art, storytelling by Bobby Gonzalez, sidewalk parade, percussion workshop, arts & crafts for kids, outdoor yoga, artist & food vendors, in East Harlem’s gardens & playgrounds!
ART FOR CHANGE is pleased to present its 4th annual Hacia Afuera Public Arts Festival, August 13-14, 1-6pm in East Harlem’s outdoor spaces! Hacia Afuera, “to go outside”, showcases outdoor art exhibitions throughout the playgrounds and gardens of East Harlem (El Barrio), infused with musical rhythms, spoken words, storytelling, film screenings, and live theater performances by local artists. This year’s theme, Fruits of Our Labor, addresses the topics of labor and sustainability, while celebrating and highlighting the creative resources we possess collectively in our communities.
INTERACTIVE ART EXHIBITION featuring Ellen Hackl Fagan, Jocelyn M. Goode, Marissa A. Gutiérrez-Vicario, Asa Jackson, Nathaniel Lieb, Carlos A. Martinez, Dato Mio, Jevyn Nelms, Tara Parsons, Danielle Poletto, Sasha Sumner, and Eileen Weitzman! Explode paint balloons on canvas, wheat-paste your life-size silhouette to the Hand in Hand community mural, play the ColorSoundGrammar game, create sandals from recycled t-shirts, add your photo to the Community Family Tree, or build steel sculptures in garden & playgrounds!
WORKERS UNION ART EXHIBITION
Art Exhibition by members of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 32BJ—the largest property services workers union in the country. With poetry readings & music performances.
OUTDOOR FILM SCREENING of original short films by local youth on themes of environment, community, and identity, with complimentary popcorn, music performances, & filmmaker dialogue! On August 13, Saturday, 6-10pm at Children’s Aid Society, 130 E 101 St at Lexington Ave.
And check out the new solidarity mural SOLDADERAS by artist Yasmin Hernandez at Hope Community’s Modesto “Tin” Flores Garden!
Locations and times:
August 13-14 (Sat-Sun) / 1-6pm
Modesto “Tin” Flores Garden and PS 72 Playground
Lexington Ave between 104-105th Sts
(Sunday only: White Playground, E. 105-106th Sts between Lexington Ave & 3rd Ave)
August 13 (Sat night), 6-10PM
Hacia Afuera 2011 Film Screenings
For more information, please visit: artforchange.org
Art for Change (AfC) is a non-profit organization that creates innovative art and media programs that inspire people to take an active role in social justice. Hacia Afuera is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund and Fund for Creative Communities, administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NY State Cultural Affairs. Hacia Afuera is also made possible with support from Children’s Aid Society, PS 72, Hope Community, Inc., Second World Group, AfC Board of Directors, and AfC volunteers.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Bou Van 'N Nasie
20
x 7
_____
x 7
_____
140 nooses hang on a cieling. quiet. still.
and maybe if you allow yourself to get lost in the eerie solitude of silenced,
you, too will hear the black screams.
of Men. of Women. even Kids.
140 nooses circle above my head.
they cry from the depths of their souls.
they beg.
they question.
and always scream.
i hear them.
an elephant NEVER forgets.
Patrick J.
Toyi-toyi
they call us animals.
so we shake Earth like an angry herd
when we chant and walk and dance
to the rhythm of our own anger.
Patrick J.
Courage Is Contagious
Within me lives a
S U P E R H E R O
who is swift and comes to
the rescue of those who need me.
I prefer, however, not to wear a cape.
My name is ________________.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The "Why?"
At the end of the day, we are who we are. The 'why' doesn't really mean a thing, does it?
Friday, January 15, 2010
Even in Death They Sing Their Spirituals
cold, hurt, and sorrow.
streets of despair.
these streets stretch from one end to the other
and connect like a maze from which very few can fully escape.
despair sits on this country in most places like a charm,
but there is a special gray death that loiters in the streets
of an urban Negro slum...
and the distortion is as old as its sources:
the fear, frustration, and hatred
that Negroes have always been heir to.
it is just that in the cities,
which were once the black man's twentieth century "Jordan,"
promise is a dying bitch with rotting eyes.
and the stink of her dying is a deadly killing fume...
it is the tone,
the quality of suffering each man knows as his own
that finally must be important,
but this is the most difficult to get to.
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
streets of despair.
these streets stretch from one end to the other
and connect like a maze from which very few can fully escape.
despair sits on this country in most places like a charm,
but there is a special gray death that loiters in the streets
of an urban Negro slum...
and the distortion is as old as its sources:
the fear, frustration, and hatred
that Negroes have always been heir to.
it is just that in the cities,
which were once the black man's twentieth century "Jordan,"
promise is a dying bitch with rotting eyes.
and the stink of her dying is a deadly killing fume...
it is the tone,
the quality of suffering each man knows as his own
that finally must be important,
but this is the most difficult to get to.
LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
YELE FOUNDATION
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Somebody Ring The Alarm!
He seems to be a mere eyewitness to the world.
Documenting. Recording. Journaling.
He refuses to see simply in black & white.
He speaks in colours.
He weaves history- current & past
Into his own masterpeice of intricate detail.
And as he sings his brothers spirituals [Ziiinc Blue!],
He moves to the rhythm of his own beat.
He is as charismatic as he is articulate and gifted.
Somebody ring the alarm... Oveous is in the building!
Patrick J.
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