Fortunately, showings have been rescheduled and are set to begin on Saturday. Check the info below via caribBEING….
The 3rd Annual Flatbush Film Festival: West Indian Edition screenings that were postponed due to #Sandy will take place this Saturday, December 1st at Tribeca Cinema, 7-11pm and next Thursday, December 6th at Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 7-11pm. Films include Ring di Alarm!, Stones in the Sun, Pressure, Cabbie Chronicles and Trafik d’Info.
This Friday, some of the best talent from Havana convenes in Brooklyn for a great cause.
Check out the details on Red Hot + Cuba below…
Music Direction by Andres Levin and CuCu Diamantes
Produced by BAM
Co-produced with Paul Heck/The Red Hot Organization in recognition of World AIDS Day (Dec 1) & Andres Levin/Music Has No Enemies
Nine acts representing the vibrant Havana music scene take the stage for a tribute to the sounds of contemporary Cuba. Saunter from the malecón at dawn to smoky clubs at dusk with an all-star lineup of emerging artists and established legends—including Alexander Abreu (of Havana D’Primera), José Luis Cortés (“El Tosco” of NG La Banda), Carlos Varela, CuCu Diamantes, and David Torrens—in this showcase of timba, salsa, nueva trova, and more.
This program is produced by BAM in association with Red Hot Organization in recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1. Part of the proceeds will benefit AIDS prevention and awareness in Cuba.
Featured performers:
Alexander Abreu
José Luis Cortés (“El Tosco”)
CuCu Diamantes
Andres Levín
Kelvis Ochoa
Osdalgia
David Torrens
Roberto Carlos “Cucurucho” Rodriguez Valdés
Carlos Varela
A quick note on an upcoming event featuring our friends from East WillyB: The team will be giving a sneek peek of their fully community-funded new season at The Brooklyn Museum.
Check the details below…
After a memorable production this past Summer, we are hard at work editing this Fall, but could not be more excited to invite you to the first sneak peek of the new season.
Join us for a night of conversation with the creators, actors and a chance to view brand new content on the big screen.
Hope to see you all at the World Famous Brooklyn Museum
The Making of the First Community Funded Latino Web Series: Screening and Panel
Thursday, December 20th 7-9:30pm
Free with Museum Entry
Brooklyn Museum
Iris & Gerald B. Cantor Auditorium, 3rd fl.
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
And, if you contributed to the show on Kickstarter, you can get into the event for free.
Starting last night here in NYC, cariBBeing is presenting their third annual Flatbush Film festival through November 10th.
This year’s focus is West Indian film and features a lineup of films from Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad & the UK such as Doubles With Slight Pepper, Ring Di Alarm, Stones In The Sun, No Soca, No Life, Barrio Cuba, as well as the classic 1975 Trinidad/UK drama Pressure, among others.
Screenings will take place at TriBeCa Cinema, Maysles Theater and Brooklyn Heights Cinema and general admission is $15; $10 for students and seniors.
The Flatbush Dutch Reform Church (on the corner of Flatbush and Church Avenues) will be hosting the free 3rd West Indian Film Festival this Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.
The event, hosted by cariBBeing, will be screening the animated series Cabble Chronicles and the Jamaican documentary Man Free. The festival will also celebrate Trinidad and Jamaica’s 50 years of independence, the anniversaries of which both passed by just last month.
For anyone who wasn’t able to make it over to the parkway this year, you can relive the party at MoCADA’s current photography exhibit. Check out the details below…
Portraits of CARNIVAL features the photography of well-know Caribbean photographers Ruddy Roye (Jamaica) and Ray Llanos (St. Croix). The exhibition also highlights the world famous NYC West Indian American Day Parade with archival content such as journals and vintage photographs from mas camps. The exhibition celebrates a world of color, freedom and self-expression!
The Museum of Complementary African Diasporan Arts is located in Brooklyn heights at 80 Hanson place. For directions, visit their site.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, a milestone being celebrated in various ways not just across Jamaica, but across all of the diaspora capitals, and around the world. One of the many events celebrating the milestone is the world premiere of One People, a public-sourced documentary (meaning regular people, as well as some professionals, were asked to film and submit their own footage in the spirit of inclusiveness) premised around the simple question (as asked to Jamaicans and “friends of Jamaica locally and oversea), “What does Jamaica mean to you?”
Produced by Justine Henzell, daughter of the late The Harder They Come director Perry Henzell, and Zachary Harding the film premieres simultaneously today in Kingston (at the Jamaica 50 Jubilee Village at the National Stadium, at 4p.m. local time), London (at the O2 arena, at 4 p.m. local time) and in New York (at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at 7 p.m. and again at 9 p.m., local time).
In celebration of 50 years of Jamaican Independence, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be showing a host of classic Jamaican films from today, through August 6th. Such classics as Rockers and The Harder They Come will be shown, along with many others.
Check the description below…
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, BAMcinématek presents this 14-film series dedicated to the country’s unique and widely influential musical tradition. Throughout decades of political unrest in Jamaica and racial violence against Caribbean immigrants in Europe and North America, reggae in all its forms has endured as an essential conduit for social protest, individual expression, and spiritual exploration. It has also single-handedly paved the way for rap/hip-hop, the remix (invented in the early 70s in Jamaica), not to mention later cross-pollinated genres like drum and bass, reggaeton, and dubstep.
The series includes films starring or featuring priceless footage of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Toots and the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, Gregory Isaacs, Burning Spear, and many more!
Next weekend, our friends at the Bronx Museum are at it again. This month they’ll be collaborating with the Havana Film Festival for the 5th straight year. It’s sure to be a night of great music, film and overall fun.
Check out the info below…
First Fridays! @ The Bronx Museum presents:
Ahi Na’ma’!
5th Annual Collaboration with the Havana Film Festival
of New York
Live performance by Gerardo Cortino y sus Habaneros.
Music by DJ Asho
Screening of of Caminando Aragon (52 min)
Dir. Tané Martínez
2012. USA-Cuba.
Documentary. 52 min.
Location: Bronx Museum North Wing
2nd Floor
Admission: Free
For those looking to get into something tonight, be sure to make it out the this event put on by our folks over at Fresthetic.
Check out the info below…
ACRYLIC ALCHEMY:
Solo Exhibition by Brian Kirhagis
TONIGHT: Opening Reception from 7-11pm
Fresthetic is excited to be showcasing the work of Brian Kirhagis. BK’s work establishes a unique take on different styles and literally meshes them seamlessly to bring you a new exploration into the depths of your visual interpretation. BK encourages you to find the story in his work.
Thursday, April 12, 2012 • 7pm -11pm
On View til May 19, 2012
Fresthetic 552 Grand St. (btwn Lorimer and Union)
Brooklyn NY 11211
