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Dissident Arts Festival - Aug 13, NYC 2011
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Subject: DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL- Aug 13, NYC From: GUEST,John Pietaro Date: 26 Jun 11 - 08:01 PM Hello Mudcats and other cats.... The 2011 edition of THE DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL is soon coming upon us.....Saturday Aug 13; save the date! Go to the Dissident Arts Festival page or group on Facebook or visit my blog http://theCulturalWorker.blogspot.com for more info. The Cultural Worker THE DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL August 13, 4PM - 11PM The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune streets), New York NY 212-242-4201 www.brechtforum.org Producer/Organizer – John Pietaro, Poetry Director- Steve Bloom New York, NY: In the midst of reactionary fear-mongering, ongoing war, rising unemployment and a right-wing assault on organized labor, progressive artists speak out for social justice. The Dissident Arts Festival, now in its sixth year, is a platform for cultural workers to create, sing, recite, improvise, act and orate against war and inequity and in honor of the struggle of workers and the globally oppressed. Event organizer John Pietaro, a cultural and labor organizer, is proud to present the Dissident Arts Festival in conjunction with the Brecht Forum. Festival performers include: San Francisco's radical poetry/jazz ensemble UPSURGE! The explosive post-modern jazz band SECRET ARCHITECTURE Art Deco-damaged protest/improv music RADIO NOIR Jazz violinist/vocalist GWEN LASTER and her ensemble Topical singer/songwriter JUDY GORMAN Political satirist DAVE LIPPMAN Labor/peace choir THE NYC METRO RAGING GRANNIES And Poets STEVE BLOOM, JACKIE SHEELER, ANGELO VERGA, RASHIDAH ISMAILI, ROBERT GIBBONS, SARA GOUDARZI The Festival will open with a screening of the long-blacklisted film 'SALT OF THE EARTH'; discussion led by film artist KEVIN KEATING will follow The Dissident Arts Festival was founded in Beacon NY, 2006 with a primary goal of establishing an annual showcase of politically progressive music, poetry and performance art---perhaps the only such vehicle in the nation. But this Festival has always sought to bring together a wide variety of sounds and styles, tearing down boundaries, bending rules and infusing all of the arts with the strongest, most radical activism, where folk-protest song meets free improvisation and contemporary composition. Featured among our past performers and speakers were actor/raconteur Malachy McCourt, folk legend Pete Seeger, poet Louis Reyes Rivera, revolutionary hip hop group ReadNex Poetry Squad, protest/garage band The Last Internationale, labor luminary Henry Foner, topical singer Bev Grant, 'anti-folk' singer Lach, and filmmaker Kevin Keating ("Giuliani Time"). We presented tributes to Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Bertolt Brecht and Phil Ochs along the way. As of 2010, the Festival became affiliated with the Brecht Forum, a center of Left education and culture which has proven itself the perfect host of the Dissident Arts Festival. The arts ARE a weapon for social change……. HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US, john |
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