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.
Monday, February 6
7:30 pm
Our Culture is A Weapon: Black History Month Series
GroundFloor Collective
Outer Space Unemployment Agency:
Sun Ra's Space is the Place

This Afro-Futuristic yarn features philosopher and Jazz pioneer Sun Ra and his Myth Science Orchestra. Summoned from Outer Space to save the Black race, this film is a meditation on slavery, cooptation and...

Wednesday, February 8
7:30 pm
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Co-sponsors: Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative/ Ocean Ana Rising
Women on Wednesdays: The Naked Edition 2012
Body Ecology Performance Ensemble, Denae Hannah (dance), Mahogany Browne (poetry), Kamilah Aisha Moon (poetry), Maritri Garrett (music)

Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.

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Thursday, February 9
7:30 pm
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Whose America?
An Evening of Poetry & Politics with Ewuare X Osayande
Ewuare X. Osayande

Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate...

Friday, February 10
6:00 pm
Black History Month/Exhibit Opening
Co-sponsored by the Groundfloor Collective
Ladies First
Our Expansion in Consciousness
Curated by the Groundfloor Collective (Sophia Dawson, Lehna Huie, Casey Johanna, Alexandria Lust)

The “Ladies First 2012" art exhibition at...

Monday, February 13
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Land and Freedom
Michael Lardner

The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The film won the...

Wednesday, February 15
7:30 pm
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Co-sponsors: Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative/ Ocean Ana Rising
Women on Wednesdays: The Naked Edition 2012
Binahkaye Joy (dance), Piper Yvonne Anderson (theater arts), Una Karim (video arts), Malaika Adero (lit. reading), Bon Secours Community Works (theater arts), Tonya Hegamin, Samantha Thornhill & Company (theater arts)

Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.

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Friday, February 17
7:30 pm
PERFORMANCE
Freedom Summer
A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes

Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...

Saturday, February 18
7:30 pm
PERFORMANCE
Freedom Summer
A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes

Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...

Sunday, February 19
2:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
Freedom Summer
A Play by William Tucker, Directed by Ghenet Brianna Pinderhughes

Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...

Monday, February 20
7:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the GroundFloor Collective
500 Years Later

Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty,...

Wednesday, February 22
7:30 pm
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Co-sponsors: Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative/ Ocean Ana Rising
Women on Wednesdays: The Naked Edition 2012
Kimani Fowlin (dance), Phakiso Collins (dance), Carmen Mojica (theater arts), 1st Generation Nigerian Project (theater arts), Dominique Morisseau (lit. reading), Delandria Mills (music)

Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts. Women...

Monday, February 27
7:30 pm
Film Screening
Co-sponsored by the Groundfloor Collective
Child of Resistance & Locations of the Motherships Black Women as Fugitive Archetype of Resistance
Curated and organized by Casey Johanna (Ground Floor Collective)

Concluding our Black History look at Afro-Futurism, the Brecht Forum and the Groundfloor Collective are proud to present two experimental films.

Child of Resistance(Haile Gerima, 1972, 36 minutes...

Wednesday, February 29
7:30 pm
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Co-sponsor: Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative/ Ocean Ana Rising
Women on Wednesdays: The Naked Edition 2012
Special Forum on Global Women’s Empowerment
Panelists: Paloma McGregor, Aimee Cox, Imani Uzuri, Kayhan Irani, Anusha Mehar, Dayanara Marte. Moderator: Shani Jamila. Special performance by Imani Uzuri

Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music,...

Wednesday, March 14
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Verita$
Everybody Loves Harvard

Verita$ critically examines Harvard’s historical role and its global impact. The film’s director describes Harvard¹s traditional character in three key words: rich, white, and male...

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 funded in part by Manhattan Neighborhood Network, The Bardon Cole Foundation, The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

  

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