It’s a time for business owners, poets, entrepreneurs, authors, and changemakers to attend and connect, collaborate, and share insights with other attendees. Register for this event. For more information, contact Rachel Romain at rcharles@lagcc.cuny.edu.
LaGuardia will host a day dedicated to celebrating the environment at the Annual Earth Day Festival. Organized by the Sustainability Council, the Festival will feature environmental groups, agencies, and vendors from around the city, games and activities, and raffles and snacks. For more information, contact the Sustainability Council at SustainabilityCouncil@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Dabke is a Levantine folkloric dance traditionally used in cultural moments of celebration and resistance. Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Dabke classes blend contemporary dance and theater with traditional Dabke tools (rhythm, footwork, unison movement etc.) to invite improvisation and play within the traditional form. Class starts with an anatomically mindful warm-up and builds skills including […]
The annual New York Forum of Amazigh Film (NYFAF) is a showcase of feature, documentary, and short films about the Amazigh or "Berber" people of North Africa and in the diaspora. NYFAF's mission is to create a space where filmmakers, artists, and scholars, whose work focuses on indigenous Amazigh identity and culture, can gather yearly […]
Please join us for a creative workshop with artist Alia Benslimane, immediately following the NYFAF screening of The Tattooed documentary. Alia Benslimane combines traditional North African, Amazigh and contemporary art to make intricate drawings full of pattern and symbolism. This workshop is open to all and materials are provided. For more information, visit www.nyfaf.com or contact […]
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre views technique as a means of furthering our bodies as instruments for creative expression. Blending contemporary dance and theater to explore themes of repertory works, YSDT classes draw on visualization, improvisation and play to facilitate an experiential, process-driven environment that empowers students and meets them where they are. Our goals as […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
Through the years, ECS has been established as a one-of-a-kind mentoring program that has provided over 70 NYC choreographers with the tools and resources to create new works. It is conceived and administered by Mare Nostrum Elements, a non-profit arts organization based in Queens, NY. This year we further our support for five ECS alumni […]
Arsenal Movement dance project will lead a master class for the LAGCC community. Using material from Operation: Alice, AMdp will offer students the opportunity to experience “release work” (muscle & mind relaxation focused on letting go in order to create) partner work, where students will learn how to literally and figuratively share weight, and finally […]