Ava & Gabriel( Curaçao) on Channel 75

February 15th, 2012

Ava & Gabriel: February 18, 19, 24 9pm

The Other African-Americans: Films from the Caribbean & Latin America  CITY CINEMATHEQUE
(1990, Holland/Curacao, 100 min., color, drama, in Dutch and Papamientu with English subtitles) Dir.: Felix de Rooy. Cast: Nashaira Desbarida, Cliff San-A-Jong, Theu Boermans, Carol Brown Winkel. In Curacao in the late 1940s, a painter of Surinamese origin arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary. His presence disrupts the community to a degree of tragic dimensions. Photographed by Ernest Dickerson.   Guest: Gabri Christa Distrib.: ArtMattan Productions, NYC.

See ART TREK NYC with Gabri Christa and Vernon Reid on TV a few times this month.

February 15th, 2012

 ART TREK NYC hosted by CJ Follini with guest host Gabri Christa and Vernon Reid, is continuing its reruns on Channel 25 again New Yorkers for those of you who missed it. If you watch on line only got to the site and you watch all episodes here. and yes do vote!

Read the rest of this entry »

“I am nobody who are you?” at NYLA

January 31st, 2012

Thursday,  February 2nd, 2012 6 pm at NYLA

Maya Ciarrocchi ‘s digital installation: I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (2012)

Feb – May, 2012

FREE

And yes I am one of the nobodies… body

Opening reception Feb 2 at 6pm

Originally presented at The Chocolate Factory, I’m Nobody! Who Are You? will be re-conceived for the New York Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Gallery Wall. The installation is comprised of a series of life-sized video portraits, presented in pairs, of individuals who are connected directly or tangentially to Read the rest of this entry »