Arts
The Brecht Forum hosts monthly art exhibits along with a regular schedule of dramatic readings, film screenings and musical performances. The Forum is home to the Neues Kabarett experimental jazz series, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and the Red Channels film series. “Friends of the Brecht” organize occasional theater outings and, for the first time in 2010, the Forum’s Black History month program featured “Women on Wednesday,” a performance series conceived, curated and executed by women of color.
Sunday, September 5
4:00 pm
Visual Liberation Film Festival
Co-sponsor: Red Channels
Liberation of the Imagination
Rebellion in Real Time
Mayday (Black Panther) | Newsreel, 15 min | 1969
New Haven | Abbie Hoffman and the National Guard | Videofreex | 1970 | 23 min
Mayday...
Thursday, September 9
7:30 pm
- 10:00 pm
Visual Liberation Film Festival
Co-sponsor: Red Channels
9500 Liberty
Dirs. Annabel Park & Eric Byler | 80 mins | 2007 | USA
"9500 Liberty makes it clear that when we, as a nation of immigrants, debate the immigration issue, we are defining our very identity as...
Friday, October 1
7:30 pm
Performance
FreEpLay Fridays
Special Daylight Savings Show
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media...
Monday, October 11
7:30 pm
Revolutions Film Series
If...
Discussion led by Michael Lardner
Dir. Lindsay Anderson | 1969 | 111 mins | UK
Lindsay Anderson's film "IF..." is set in an English boarding school. HIs "everyman" character, Mick Travis, is played by...
Friday, October 22
8:00 pm
3 BY FO
Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of...
Monday, October 25
7:30 pm
Revolutions Film Series
Tout Va Bien
Discussion led by Michael Lardner
Dirs. Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin | 1972 | 95 mins | France/Italy
"Tout va bien" is set in 1972, i.e. four years after the events of 1968 in Paris. President De Gaulle and his successor president...
Friday, November 5
7:30 pm
Performance
FreEpLay Fridays
Special Daylight Savings Show
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media...
Monday, November 22
7:30 pm
Revolutions Film Series
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal
Discussion led by Michael Lardner
Dir. Robert Kramer | 85 mins | USA | 1977
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary follows the evolution of the radical social...
Monday, November 29
7:30 pm
Revolutions Film Series
Torre Bela
Discussion led by Michael Lardner
Writer/Dir. Thomas Harlan | 55 mins | Italy/Portugal | 1975
A year after the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution" that ended the longest running dictatorship in Europe, people from a group of...
Friday, December 3
7:30 pm
Performance
FreEpLay Fridays
Special Daylight Savings Show
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media...
Monday, December 20
7:30 pm
Revolutions Film Series
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Discussion led by Michael Lardner
Dir. Alain Tanner | Writers. John Berger & Alain Tanner | 116 mins | France/Switzerland | 1976
The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was possible to think that the radical idealism of the...
OUR SPECIAL THANKS! The Brecht Forum owes its existence to a broad network of support. Our modest fees cover only a fraction of our costs and we rely on the progressive community for our financial survival. Hundreds of valued subscribers and donors provide steady contributions to all of our activities. Our programs are made possible with support from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, The Surdna Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
