TONIGHT & TOMORROW! Stuyvesant Cove Park Association Presents Paul Sachs on Monday August 29 and Folk Dancing with Evelyn Diamond on Tuesday August 30
Monday, August 29th, 2011| August 29, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
| August 30, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Hello, world! Beautiful day today, isn’t it? You’re probably out enjoying it, after being cooped up all weekend. This evening, join the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association for the next event in the Margaret D, Lawrence and Helen W.Collins Memorial Music and Dance Series at Solar One. On Monday, local singer-songwriter Paul Sachs returns with his band, and on Tuesday, we’ll have informal dance lessons and open dancing with local legend Evelyn Diamond. Both events are free and open to the public!
Paul Sachs & Band
Monday August 29 at 6pm
Folk Dancing with Evelyn Diamond
Tuesday August 30 at 7pm
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ALL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND CANCELED
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
It’s probably obvious, but thanks to Hurricane Irene and her imminent arrival, events are canceled this weekend. We’ll be posting new dates on the Film page as soon as we figure out what and when we can reschedule.
Stay safe and dry this weekend, and think positive thoughts about the Park!
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TOMORROW BEFORE THE FILM: See Handleless, a Dance Sitework in the Park by projectLIMB
Thursday, August 25th, 2011| August 26, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| August 27, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Join us tomorrow for a repeat performance of choreographer Gabriel Forestieri and projectLIMB’s Handleless, a site-specific dance work created especially for the Park.
Melissa Guerrero, photo by Luka Kito
ProjectLIMB creates, evolves, and performs work where real time relationships, rather than content, are primary.
Handleless is an investigation of all our interactions, an attempt at revelation of the places we inhabit.
Most performance is about control. Controlling the lights, controlling the sounds, controlling the movement, and controlling the experience. Handleless
ProjectLIMB works to bring performer, space, and audience back into relation. Using an immersive language that joins us all together in a celebration of this moment. Which is infinite and can never be “understood” nor separate from. A living space is opened, where transformation and illumination act independent of design. Just as Solar One receives its power from the Sun, so Handleless will take its cues from the multitude of stimulus that is Stuyvesant Cove.
projectLIMB is
Gabriel Forestieri – Director and Dancer
Benjamin Asriel, Melissa Guerrero, Ted Johnson, Emily Moore – Dancers
Loren Dempster – Composer
Django Carranza – Percussionist
For more information, visit the Dance page.
Benjamin Asriel, photo by Luka Kito
Friday August 26 and Saturday August 27 at 5pm (rain date Sunday August 28)
At Stuyvesant Cove Park
18th Street and Avenue C entrance (Map)
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TONIGHT’S SCREENING OF THE SHORT FILMS OF MATTHEW MODINE POSTPONED BECAUSE IT WON’T QUIT RAINING
Thursday, August 25th, 2011We’re so sorry to have to do this, but we’re postponing yet another screening. Even though it’s clearing up for a while, there’s more rain headed our way just in time to rain out tonight’s screening of the short films of Matthew Modine.
Considering that we’re supposed to have a hurricane this weekend, we may have to cancel more than one film for the second week in a row. We are going to try and reschedule for later in the year- please check back here and on the Film page to find out what the plan is for DIRT!, Urban Roots and An Evening with Matthew Modine.
Please come tomorrow to the screening of Dirty Business, a new film about coal.
Our speaker tomorrow night will be Lyna Hinkel from 350.org:
With a background in international children’s television and documentary film production, Lyna has a long history of environmental activism. She is presently organizing the 350.org Moving Planet NYC climate march and rally coming Sept 24th.
350.org is an international organization working to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis. With over 500 partners and tens of thousands of active volunteers in 192 countries, we have thus far successfully organized the two largest coordinated days of climate action in the planet’s history. This year, our third mobilization is called Moving Planet: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels and will take place on September 24.
Moving Planet NYC
Out of the 300+ events scheduled to take place from coast to coast, NYC will be home to the spotlight Moving Planet event in North America. It will consist of a bike/march and rally from Columbus Circle to the United Nations Dag Hammerskold Plaza, with participants highlighting the need to move beyond fossil fuels and asking their elected leaders to push for clean energy solutions and a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty at COP 17 in Durban, South Africa.
Dirty Business
Friday August 26 at 7pm (film will screen between 8-8:30)
At Solar One (Map)
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UPDATE! DIRT! Repostponed Due to Rain! 2011 Solar-Powered Film Series Begins Next Thursday August 18 with DIRT! the Movie
Saturday, August 20th, 2011| August 18, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
UPDATE! MORE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT, DIRT! THE MOVIE CANCELED AGAIN
Please check back here to find out when we might be able to screen DIRT!
Due to thunderstorms on Friday, the screening of DIRT! the Movie has been postponed until TONIGHT Sunday August 21 at 7pm (film will screen around 8:30).
The summer is more than half over, and you know what that means- time for Solar One’s annual Solar-Powered Film Series! As usual, we’ll have 6 programs of (mostly environmental) features and shorts, with a few surprises and special guests thrown in. Also as usual, we’ll be partnering with the always-amazing Green Edge NYC, a social network that helps New Yorkers live more sustainably. This year’s Film Series is also sponsored by Chapin Hill Advisors, a financial planning and wealth management firm with a strong commitment to the environment. We’re excited to welcome them to the Solar One family!
Also new this year: the first week of films deal with the themes of food and urban agriculture, and we’re incredibly excited that the urban farmers of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm will be coming to Solar One and setting up a farm stand where attendees will be able to buy popcorn, snacks and produce grown right across the river in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! Eagle Street is close to Solar One’s heart not only because of their farming venture, but also for Growing Chefs, a great program that teaches schoolkids to not only grow food, but to prepare it as well.
Come and meet them on Thursday, Friday and Saturday August 18-20!
And now, more about the first film we’ll be screening- DIRT! the Movie:
From the website:
DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.
The opening scenes of the film dive into the wonderment of the soil. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, “dirt is very much alive.” Though, in modern industrial pursuits and clamor for both profit and natural resources, our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. “Drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.”
DIRT! the Movie–narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis–brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.
DIRT! the Movie is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: “When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked.” But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action.
“The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.”
What we’ve destroyed, we can heal.
Speaker: Leanne Spaulding, Program Coordinator for the Western Queens Compost Initiative will talk abut the latest in compost initiatives and how YOU can get involved! Find out more about WQCI on their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/wqnscompost.
You can see trailers and get information about the entire Series HERE, and check back here in the coming days for more details about each program!
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