Feminist Casting Agency is a multi-disciplinary art experience with many manifestations from installations to roving performance to media art. Our work is playful, respectful, enlightening, inclusive, empowering, positive, and kind.

We support equal pay, equal employment, and equal representation.

Lumi Ciclo is a public projection installation on the walking bridge, that comes on every evening at sunset. The installation continues to run through to 1am. Every 15 minutes, on the hour, half-hour, and quarter, the animations change to indicate the time. In addition, the colors of the projections slowly evolve over the seasons.

A number of arts and cultural service organizations and individuals have created lists of resources for organizations and artists in response to COVID-19. We will continue to update this list. If you have other resources for the arts and cultural community to add to this list, please contact us. If you would like to post your COVID-19 resources, please see our guide.

American Alliance of Museums

COVID-19/Coronavirus: Resources & Information for the Museum Field - The American Alliance of Museums has compiled this guide to help museums prepare internally and externally for outbreaks in their communities.

Americans for the Arts

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource and Response Center - Americans for the Arts continues to closely monitor recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Federal and D.C. governments as developments evolve concerning the coronavirus.

Artist Relief

ArtistRelief.org - To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States.

City of Boston

Boston establishes Artist Relief Fund in response to Coronavirus - fund application and donation information

COVID-19 & Freelance Artists

COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources - an aggregated list of FREE resources, opportunities, and financial relief options available to artists of all disciplines

The Field

The Field COVID-19 Resources - a curated list of up-to-date, relevant information to benefit artists and other stakeholder.

Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA)

News from the Field continues to cover the latest on the response to the coronavirus and resources for the arts sector.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

COVID-19: Resources and an Update from NYFA contains resources from arts and culture organizations to supplement what you have likely already seen from city and national health organizations including information on emergency grants and health resources.

New Yorkers for Culture and Arts (NY4CA)

Resources for Arts and Culture re: COVID-19 Outbreak - NY4CA is working to gather information about relief offerings for small non-profits and artists impacted by cancellations and reduced attendance due to the Coronavirus in New York City.

Opera America

Covid-19 Resource Hub - Opera America lists information on help & data, sector response, advocacy, additional resources, and a resource tracker

Springboard for the Arts

Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources for Artists - listing resources, opportunities, and support services for artists, freelancers, and contractors affected by the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Vera List Center for Arts at Politics at The New School

COVID-19 Resource Toolkit for Artists and our Extended Communities - resources ranging from virtual programs and events to emergency grants and funding for those in need during this time

https://flushingtownhall.org/global-arts-for-global-kids

GLOBAL ARTS FOR GLOBAL KIDS I REPLAY

While our doors are temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social distancing measures, Flushing Town Hall (FTH) continues to share our global arts programming online. FTH’s master Teaching Artists offer online classes, as our free series Global Arts for Global Kids I (GAGK I) returns with the original English version and four newly translated versions: Hindi (हिंदी में पढ़ें।), Spanish (Leer en español), Chinese (以中文瀏覽) and Korean (한국어로 읽기).

The replay of this arts education series will run from January 11th, 2021 to March 11th, 2021. Students will have the opportunity to explore nine different topics every week for a total of 45 video lessons: Colombian Music, Chinese Dance, Pop-up Book Page Making, Indian Dance, Mexican Dance, African Drumming, Dance Party in the United States, Visual Signs of Gratitude, and Stories from Quarantine. Lessons are provided weekly and each week's lessons will be available every Monday on FTH’s website (can be accessed anytime) and Facebook page at 2 PM EST. Each video lesson will be accompanied by activity worksheets in the above mentioned languages.

Save the date: Second Wednesday of the month at 7pm for our Virtual Jazz Jam! Led by Carol Sudhalter and our wonderful house band, the jam welcomes musicians including our jazz jammers from Queens/Long Island, as well as newcomers from around the world, to share their music, lift our spirits and honor those we have lost. 

If you'd like to watch this session LIVE, simply tune in to our Facebook page or ZOOM.

Up to 15 musicians are welcome to participate in the jam. Please email: education@flushingtownhall.org and mention the name of your 3- to 4-minute tune (spontaneous: live or pre-recorded but please not a professional, edited recording).

On February 1, 2021, Flushing Town Hall re-opens the community art exhibition and solicits new artwork for the Lunar New Year, once again inviting participants to artistically express the range of emotions they feel as they face the new year. This Lunar New Year is the Year of the Ox--- and its associated characteristics of diligence, strength and determination are skills that help build resiliency, allowing us to recover quickly from difficulties.  
Flushing Town Hall will begin to accept new artwork to share as part of Call and Response beginning on February 1, 2021.  Participants can hang their artwork themselves, or email scans to the institution before and during the Lunar New Year, which is noted for strength and determination. The Lunar New Year – the Year of the Ox - begins on Friday, February 12, 2021.
If participants cannot travel to Flushing Town Hall to hang artwork, they are invited to take a photo or scan of artwork and message, and email scans to education@flushingtownhall.org. Flushing Town Hall staff will print a copy of the work and hang it on our fence.   
 

ADF and DANCECleveland to premiere 

Untold Secrets of the Heart Chamber
by
GREGORY VUYANI  MAQOMA and MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH

Premieres Thursday, February 25 at 7:00pm EST
This is a FREE event although there is a suggested donation of $10.

Building upon their partnership over the past few years and with a desire to work together to support artists and their creativity during this extraordinary moment in time, The American Dance Festival (ADF) and DANCECleveland have commissioned a new dance film by South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma and poet, arts activist, and educator Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The new work, Untold Secrets of the Heart Chamber, will premiere online on February 25th at 7:00pm EST. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists moderated by Gina Belafonte and Jefferson Tshabalala. The work will be available for additional viewings for 30 days following the premiere.

Untold Secrets of the Heart Chamber is a trans-Atlantic, pandemic-backdropped missive between almost strangers. Gregory Maqoma and Marc Bamuthi Joseph met in the fall of 2020 to begin discussing the matter of Black life as filtered through 25 years of South African democracy and one particularly hot summer on the American racial timeline. The result is a piece that connects these world-scaled events to the intimacy of the artists’ respective homes and sanctuary spaces. Untold Secrets of the Heart Chamber is an 18-minute long dance film/live performance shot on two continents in the time of COVID-19. Edited by David Szlasa and performed by Maqoma and Joseph, the work ponders democracy, what grandmothers leave behind, and the safety extended from Black fathers to their sons.

https://flushingtownhall.org/black-history-trilogy-iii

Black History Trilogy III: André De Shields is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

FRI, FEB 26, 2021 7:00 PM

Black History Trilogy concludes with “André De Shields is Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.” The Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award Winner and Hadestown star explores the life and achievements of the great emancipator Frederick Douglass.

André De Shields was the Triple Crown winner of the 2019 awards season, having won Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his critically acclaimed performance as Hermes in Hadestown. In 2019, he received the 2019 Project1Voice Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 SAGE Joyce Warshow Lifetime Achievement Award, and The York Theatre Company’s 2019 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre. Throughout his career, De Shields has received numerous awards for his achievements on the stage and screen and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2019. 

Frederick Douglass—who began his life as a slave, and through heroic effort, became one of America’s most important and historically influential icons—delivered a keynote address at a commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 5, 1852 at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. In his speech entitled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” Douglass asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” On February 26, de Shields will take the audiences back in time to this historic moment.

Mark DeGarmo Dance broadcasts its transcultural transdisciplinary Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change 2020-2021 to an international audience on Zoom with performances featuring international and emerging performing artists Olga Drachuk-Meyer (Germany), Laura Katz Rizzo (USA), Irina Lerman (Canada), and Melissa Zuccalà (Italy) on Thursday, March 4th at 7PM ET. Each performance includes an audience feedback session curated and facilitated by Dr. Mark DeGarmo.

Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change: 

Thursday, March 4th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom

Tickets by Donation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140448963631 

Paypal: paypal.me/markdegarmodance

Venmo: Mark-DeGarmo-2

Thursday, March 4th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom*

*Zoom Link will be sent to attendees at 4PM ET the day of the performance. If a donation is made after that time, the MDD staff will send the link via email as soon as possible.

For questions, please contact: info@markdegarmodance.org.

About Mark DeGarmo Dance
Founded in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a nonprofit organization that educates New York City communities and children; creates, performs, and disseminates original artistic work; and builds intercultural community through dance arts. MDD commits its resources to serving social justice, equity, and equality issues across multiple fronts through dance arts in NYC, the U.S., and internationally.

About Mark DeGarmo
Mark DeGarmo, Ph.D., B.F.A. is a New York City-based dancer, choreographer, writer, and researcher. They are Founder, Executive & Artistic Director of Mark DeGarmo Dance, New York City; Dance Director of Crossing Bridges International Artist Residency, Michoacán, Mexico; and an Artist-Scholar with Creative Agency, Australia. Their 2020 publications explore autoethnography during COVID.

https://.markdegarmodance.org, Follow Mark DeGarmo Dance on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter 

Our programs are supported, in part, by private funds from Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance and by public funds from the NYC Council Member for District 1, the Honorable Margaret Chin; the NYC Council Member for District 2, the Honorable Carlina Rivera; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation CARES relief funding supported by National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

https://flushingtownhall.org/victor-provost-and-alex-brown-quartet

Victor Provost and Alex Brown Quartet

FRI, MAR 5, 2021

6:00 PM EST

Meet the Artist will be on Zoom at 6 PM ET followed by Facebook Premiere performance at 6:30 PM EST. (RSVP to receive both links and reminder)

Steelpanist Victor Provost and pianist Alex Brown co-lead a quartet that marries Jazz sensibilities with Caribbean swagger.  Roots rhythms, swing, and soaring improvisations abound and the Trinidadian steelpan takes center stage as the quartet features original compositions alongside the beloved music of Chick Correa, Bob Marley, Vince Mendoza, and more.

Vasco Abadjiev (1926-1978)

Chaconne for piano

Nine Caprices for solo violin

1. Allegro, quasi presto

2. Allegro

3. Allegro moderato

4. Allegro

5. Adagio con moto

6. Allegro assai moderato

7. Allegro assai

8. Maestoso

9. Moderato

Sonata for violin and piano

1.  Allegro aperto

2.  Intermezzo

3.  Adagio

4.  Finale. Allegro marziale

Founded in October 2020, MDD’s seasonal Virtual International Arts (VIA) Festival creates a space for artists, scholars, and audiences to share, respond, and reflect beyond traditional, commercial performance spaces that often exclude people and limit access. Mark DeGarmo Dance broadcasts its Virtual International Arts Festival for Social Change on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday March 16-18, 2021. The VIA festival features 19 performing artists from 5 countries over the course of the three evening event. 

Virtual International Arts (VIA) Festival for Social Change: 

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom

Thursday, March 18th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom

Tickets by Donation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/141165410543 

Paypal: paypal.me/markdegarmodance

Venmo: Mark-DeGarmo-2

About Mark DeGarmo Dance
Founded in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a nonprofit organization that educates New York City communities and children; creates, performs, and disseminates original artistic work; and builds intercultural community through dance arts. MDD commits its resources to serving social justice, equity, and equality issues across multiple fronts through dance arts in NYC, the U.S., and internationally.

About Mark DeGarmo
Mark DeGarmo, Ph.D., B.F.A. is a New York City-based dancer, choreographer, writer, and researcher. They are Founder, Executive & Artistic Director of Mark DeGarmo Dance, New York City; Dance Director of Crossing Bridges International Artist Residency, Michoacán, Mexico; and an Artist-Scholar with Creative Agency, Australia. Their 2020 publications explore autoethnography during COVID.

https://.markdegarmodance.org, Follow Mark DeGarmo Dance on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter 

Our programs are supported, in part, by private funds from Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance and by public funds from the NYC Council Member for District 1, the Honorable Margaret Chin; the NYC Council Member for District 2, the Honorable Carlina Rivera; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation CARES relief funding supported by National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Akua Allrich & The Tribe: A Beautiful Disruption- The Genius Of Black Women in Music

SAT, MAR 20, 2021

8:00 PM

Buy tickets: https://creativealliance.secure.force.com/ticket/?orderSource=Flushing#/events/a0S4W00000WWjbyUAD

TICKETS: $12/$20 SUPPORTER (+$3 SERVICE FEE)

This partnership event is streamed live from the Creative Alliance Theater in Baltimore, Maryland. A Portion of the proceeds your ticket purchase sold go to supporting the mission of Flushing Town Hall.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with songs of freedom, love and inspiration of the  genius women who have shaped music, including Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, Roberta Flack, Abbey Lincoln, Alice Coltrane and more.. Akua Allrich is a vocalist beyond measure.  A musical treasure with a massive stage personality and vocal style that is fluid and ever evolving, her musical roots run deep into blues, soul, and rhythm and blues, with a clear grounding in jazz and pan-African music. Along with her group, The Tribe, she has received accolades for her annual events honoring the defining female voices of Black music. This performance will be live streamed in incredible high definition with a four camera system.

About your virtual access: Upon purchase, you will receive a confirmation email from info@creativealliance with your virtual access. THIS IS YOUR TICKET. Scroll down until you see a blue box. This is your access to the event. This event will be available for viewing on demand 24 hours after the concert concludes. Your on demand access is good until April 20th. Questions? Please email josh@creativealliance.org