If you want to teach a class at the Arts Park, there’s an application process. You can find information about existing classes, and the Instructor Application, here. We need to utilize the Arts Park so it can stay open. If you’ve not visited, it is located on East side of Elm Street, just South of [...]
Lots of folks teamed up to change the status of the Art Park on Elm, just South of Broadway, from being in a constant state of lock-down to now having regular hours. In order for this to continue, however, we need to encourage its regular use. A great way to encourage residential use of the [...]
By Greggory Moore A simple concept: sound artists gather to create a live score for short expressionistic films. And that’s all that happened. This will be a short review. This was my first experience of them, but apparently the Brothers Quay are well-known for their stop-action animation work (which has been featured on MTV, among [...]
The Press Telegram covered the meeting between Phil Hester, Director of the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, and the community served by the Homeland Cultural Center. Orlando Greenhill, who teaches an improvised music class at the center, speaks passionately about the impact Zoot Velasco has had on every person at the center. I’m not sure, [...]
If you are as outraged as many in the community over the dismissal of Zoot Velasco, Cultural Program Supervisor at Homeland Cultural Center and Macarthur Park, then this is a CALL TO ACTION. You, The Friends of Homeland and the community want to know what this means for the future of the Art and Cultural [...]
Yesterday, I received this e-mail from Zoot Velasco, the soon to be ex-Cultural Program Supervisor at the Homeland Cultural Center at McArthur Park. During the past 16 months that I have visited Homeland, I have witnessed a scene unlike any other in a neighborhood and city that is often fractured by racial and ethnic tensions [...]
By Greggory Moore In 2006, in addition to the walking tour of sound installations throughout the East Village Arts District, SoundWalk has been expanded to include three nights of performances. The first, on October 6, took place in the Dome Room of the Lafayette (528 E. Broadway). Noah Thomas used a laptop and a mixing [...]