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Workshop on the Street: May Day

Date:
May 1, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:
Times Square Broadway Plaza

In conjunction with the Word on the Street exhibition, Arts collective House of Trees invites everyone to convene in Times Square for an artistic act of participatory democracy. Celebrate freedom of speech with colorful felt on banners, sashes, capes or badges and listen to music provided by BRUJAS.

ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, is the largest public platform for innovative contemporary performance and visual arts. With 312,000 daily visitors to New York City’s Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square Arts has featured works by a diverse group of more than five dozen prominent and emerging artists.

ABOUT HOUSE OF TREES
House of Trees is an arts collective working to expand the public appreciation and understanding of contemporary art through the production of murals, performances, installations, and other high-visibility publicly engaged artworks. House of Trees’ projects are interventions in unpredictable sites, curated for both specific audiences and the larger public. House of Trees has mounted projects nationally and internationally with venues including the Kimmel Center in New York City; the Hotel Tropicana in San Antonio, Texas; and The Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, among others.

ABOUT BRUJAS
BRUJAS is a political organization led by New York native kids. They produce hot political propaganda in the form of streetwear apparel, organize communities to proliferate their central values “fuck 12”, “fire to the prisons”, “fight gentrification” through creative programming, throw banger club and house parties, and promote the brujeria and healing that honor and protect the land and their spiritual traditions.

Workshop on the Street is sponsored by National Nonwovens, the country’s leading manufacturer of technical nonwoven textiles and WoolFelt.

Amy Khoshbin

In Residence:
October 4, 2015 - October 23, 2015
Discipline:
Performance Art, Theatre, Video Art
Country:
United States
Amy Khoshbin is a Brooklyn-based artist. She creates hybrid works using performance, video, and interactive media to explore the production and transmission of narratives both personal and cultural. Using a collage-style approach to creating works across mediums, she uses imagery from different sources to assemble mythologies that evade a unified understanding.... During their residency, Amy Khoshbin and Liz McAuliffe will develop and perform the final scene of The Myth of Layla, which will ultimately be a solo performance lasting 60 minutes. Written and performed by Khoshbin and co-directed by Khoshbin and McAuliffe, The Myth of Layla is set in a near... Read More

House of Trees

In Residence:
Discipline:
Visual Art, Performance, Installation
Country:
United States
House of Trees is an arts collective working to expand the public appreciation and understanding of contemporary art through the production of murals, performances, installations, and other high-visibility publicly engaged artworks. House of Trees’ projects are interventions in unpredictable sites, curated for both specific audiences and the larger public. House... Read More

BRUJAS

In Residence:
Discipline:
Multimedia
Country:
United States
BRUJAS is a political organization led by New York native kids. They produce hot political propaganda in the form of streetwear apparel (hoodies, shirts, and more), organize communities to proliferate their central values “fuck 12”, “fire to the prisons”, “fight gentrification” through creative programming, throw banger club and house parties,... Read More

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    Times Square Broadway Plaza
    200 West 44th Street
    New York, NY 10036 United States
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