Summer isn’t just a season. It’s a launchpad for the wildest adventures and the best memories. At the Y, every splash is a thrill, every moment a story, and every friendship a bond to last a lifetime. It’s a...
The Lower East Side Film Festival returns to the neighborhood for it's 15th year on Thursday, May 1st - Monday, May 5th.
Touting "5 Days of Cinema, Culture and Chaos in the Lower East Side," this year's jury members...
This year's Lillian Wald Symposium at Abrons Playhouse Theater will focus on a question we've all been asking for a while now - "Can artists survive in New York City?" As the costs of living here keep going up,...
Host Traven Rice talked with Immanual Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass about the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground's new memorial installation, HALO. The work is located at the entrance to the M'Finda Kalunga Garden, on Rivington Street, between Forsythe and...
Our friends at Arts For Art have been curating a weekly experimental/free-jazz concert series every Wednesday called Free Dimension. They write, "It is a unique, underground scene taking place at the NuBlu Classic in alphabet city. We hope to further create...
Host Traven Rice spoke with Lower East Side artist Marja Samsom. Samsom is an international artist and filmmaker, whose work confronts and exposes cultural issues with elegant wit. Poised within 1970’s international avant-garde, her early works are experiments in...
@petethestreet1 artist Peter Brown, aka “Pete the Street,” was painting at Essex and Canal this morning, prepping for a solo show coming soon.
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Host Traven Rice spoke with founder Mark DeGarmo of Mark DeGarmo Dance, who has been based on the Lower East Side for over 30 years.
https://youtu.be/-AVpJxpAFdA?si=hh1pkJp42a54r9ml
As an artist and scholar, his work investigates embodied imagination, improvisational composition, and nonverbal/non-discursive ways...
Host Traven Rice talks with director Miriam Wasmund and performer Liz Dutton about "Your Faithful Reader," an experiential theater performance that merges the worlds of acting and dance with real letters.
Miriam Wasmund is an Alvin Ailey trained dancer living...
Chinese New Year is upon us! The Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony takes place today in Sara D. Roosevelt Park from 11am-4pm. The official Lunar New Year Parade and Festival takes place Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 1:00pm. Celebratory...
