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Come Celebrate LIFE on 9/11/2011
(*RAIN DATES: Saturday, September 24 or in case of rain, Sunday, September 25th.)
“Celebration of Life!” - a dance-percussive-art “Happening” - features Sticks & Stones healing ritual artist
... Judith Z. Miller’s primal wearable art and sculpture made from trees and stones, set to a live soundscape of global
rhythms by Music for the Masses DJ Neva Wartell, in Park Slope’s lush St. Marks/Warren Street Community Garden.
“Celebration of Life” will include dancers in body paint wearing Judith’s handmade, one-of-a-kind amulets, moving
throughout the garden with her “Sacred Staffs” made from the roots and trunks of trees. Dancers will be accompanied by
music spun by DJ Neva along with live percussion. The community will be invited to participate.
Dancers will honor the earth by creating movement in response to the song “MANKIND” by MAURI, accompanied by live music.
Dancers, Choreographers, Percussionists, Body Painters, Poets & Writers, Photographers, Videographers, and advance &
on-site Event Organizers are invited to collaborate. If you want to participate, please let us know what skills you'd like to
share!
POTLUCK: Please bring food and non-alcoholic beverages to share. The grill will be fired up.
Featured Artists:
DJ NEVA (Music for the Masses) is an ethnomusicologist and long-time cultural activist. Along with performances at
festivals and events, she co-produces "New York International" — NY’s longest-running weekly live-format World Music
radio show — on Haitian community station Radio Soleil [http://www.radiosoleil.com/].
More information: [http://www.facebook.com/DJNeva]
Radio show archive: [http://www.djneva.podOmatic.com/]
Judith Z. Miller (Sticks & Stones) is a self-trained healing ritual artist who lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe. Inspired by the
beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition, she draws and creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees, stones and
found objects, which she fashions into ritual staffs, instruments, wearable amulets, and employs in healing rituals.
To learn more about Judith Z. Miller, go to:
[http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller]
[http://www.zamo-zamo.com/]
Partial list of collaborating artists:
Artist/Designer/Raconteur Thomas Lynn Pool [http://www.coroflot.com/salondelynn] will display his origami designs and shoot video.
Jazz improvisational and devotional vocalist Deborah Shelton will lead a song circle combining vocal improvisation and multi-part songs of
faith, hope and love.
Dub Poet Infinity [http://www.adiosbabylon.com/INFINITY.html] will perform.
Jim Su and Tyler P. Fairbanks [www.modelmayhem.com/582872] and Rainbow Heart [www.FunMasters.biz and http://www.facebook.
com/l/BAQDNhErgAQCpssQfdO7CeTChHeXjq0Hsy77FZmsMXm] will paint the dancers’ bodies and Ahuva Adanani [www.ahuvanyc.com]
will do makeup and hair.
Taino tongue drummer William Ruiz [http://www.reverbnation.com/percussionistwilliamruiz] and percussionist Shoshana Jedwab
[http://shoshanajedwab.com/]
Will lead drum circles.
Brooklyn videographer Jett Cain a documentary, live music performance and music video producer will document the days’ events and
create a music video.
Painter Leon Nicholas Kalas will be creating a new original oil painting in the garden. [http://www.leonkalas.com/]
Sylvana Tapia is our dance coordinator and one of the photographers [http://www.wix.com/sylvanatapia/sylvanatapia].
We invite your collaboration, please contact:
CelebrationOfLifeNYC@gmail.com and let us know what you’d like to contribute.
Please include the words “Celebration of Life!” in the subject line.
Event Hashtag: #911COL
Create a small temporary installation and document it for submission for "Return, Remember" sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council at
Celebration of Life!
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL
Return, Remember
Ephemeral Memorials in the Legacy of September 11th Deadline: September 30, 2011
For more information:
[http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1716]
(*RAIN DATES: Saturday, September 24 or in case of rain, Sunday, September 25th.)
“Celebration of Life!” - a dance-percussive-art “Happening” - features Sticks & Stones healing ritual artist
... Judith Z. Miller’s primal wearable art and sculpture made from trees and stones, set to a live soundscape of global
rhythms by Music for the Masses DJ Neva Wartell, in Park Slope’s lush St. Marks/Warren Street Community Garden.
“Celebration of Life” will include dancers in body paint wearing Judith’s handmade, one-of-a-kind amulets, moving
throughout the garden with her “Sacred Staffs” made from the roots and trunks of trees. Dancers will be accompanied by
music spun by DJ Neva along with live percussion. The community will be invited to participate.
Dancers will honor the earth by creating movement in response to the song “MANKIND” by MAURI, accompanied by live music.
Dancers, Choreographers, Percussionists, Body Painters, Poets & Writers, Photographers, Videographers, and advance &
on-site Event Organizers are invited to collaborate. If you want to participate, please let us know what skills you'd like to
share!
POTLUCK: Please bring food and non-alcoholic beverages to share. The grill will be fired up.
Featured Artists:
DJ NEVA (Music for the Masses) is an ethnomusicologist and long-time cultural activist. Along with performances at
festivals and events, she co-produces "New York International" — NY’s longest-running weekly live-format World Music
radio show — on Haitian community station Radio Soleil [http://www.radiosoleil.com/].
More information: [http://www.facebook.com/DJNeva]
Radio show archive: [http://www.djneva.podOmatic.com/]
Judith Z. Miller (Sticks & Stones) is a self-trained healing ritual artist who lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe. Inspired by the
beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition, she draws and creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees, stones and
found objects, which she fashions into ritual staffs, instruments, wearable amulets, and employs in healing rituals.
To learn more about Judith Z. Miller, go to:
[http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller]
[http://www.zamo-zamo.com/]
Partial list of collaborating artists:
Artist/Designer/Raconteur Thomas Lynn Pool [http://www.coroflot.com/salondelynn] will display his origami designs and shoot video.
Jazz improvisational and devotional vocalist Deborah Shelton will lead a song circle combining vocal improvisation and multi-part songs of
faith, hope and love.
Dub Poet Infinity [http://www.adiosbabylon.com/INFINITY.html] will perform.
Jim Su and Tyler P. Fairbanks [www.modelmayhem.com/582872] and Rainbow Heart [www.FunMasters.biz and http://www.facebook.
com/l/BAQDNhErgAQCpssQfdO7CeTChHeXjq0Hsy77FZmsMXm] will paint the dancers’ bodies and Ahuva Adanani [www.ahuvanyc.com]
will do makeup and hair.
Taino tongue drummer William Ruiz [http://www.reverbnation.com/percussionistwilliamruiz] and percussionist Shoshana Jedwab
[http://shoshanajedwab.com/]
Will lead drum circles.
Brooklyn videographer Jett Cain a documentary, live music performance and music video producer will document the days’ events and
create a music video.
Painter Leon Nicholas Kalas will be creating a new original oil painting in the garden. [http://www.leonkalas.com/]
Sylvana Tapia is our dance coordinator and one of the photographers [http://www.wix.com/sylvanatapia/sylvanatapia].
We invite your collaboration, please contact:
CelebrationOfLifeNYC@gmail.com and let us know what you’d like to contribute.
Please include the words “Celebration of Life!” in the subject line.
Event Hashtag: #911COL
Create a small temporary installation and document it for submission for "Return, Remember" sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council at
Celebration of Life!
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL
Return, Remember
Ephemeral Memorials in the Legacy of September 11th Deadline: September 30, 2011
For more information:
[http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1716]
| Warren St./St. Marks Community Garden 619-625 Warren Street, between 4th & 5th Avenues Park Slope, NY |
| Sunday, September 11 · 2:00pm - 7:00pm |
