Theater For The New City is gearing up for their 2016 Lower East Side Festival of the Arts. The festival is an annual celebration of local neighborhood culture and history. They write:
For three days over Memorial Day Weekend, TNC produces a cabaret-style festival featuring over 100 performing groups from the Lower East Side. All cultures and disciplines are represented. Saturday afternoon, a Street Fair is held on East 10th Street, which includes food and goods sold by local merchants, and performances by local poets, musicians and performance artists.
Inside, there is a children’s program performed for and by students from local schools and a Film Festival running all afternoon and evening. Sunday evening, a Poetry reading is held. This highly anticipated and popular event has grown tenfold since its inception in 1996, and is attended by over 3000 people annually. The purpose of this festival is to unify the community, create a positive image for the Lower East Side, and discover new writing talent.
Here is the open call for artist submissions:
Dear interested artists,
The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts is seeking performers and artists with self-contained acts for our 21st annual LES Festival on May 27th-29th. This is a three-day free festival, which showcases the artistic heritage of the Lower East Side. Artists must either live on the Lower East Side, regularly present work on the Lower East Side, or represent an ethnic community from the Lower East Side.
Please submit a representative excerpt of your work (up to 10 minutes) to: info@theaterforthenewcity.net
or mail a CD or DVD of your work to:
Theater For The New City
155 First Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Attention: Lower East Side Festival of the ArtsWe are also seeking visual artists who would like to submit work for our gallery.
Sincerely,
Crystal Field
Artistic Director
