Mystical Music and Art

 Inside  the B E A T!  This week, we are thrilled to announce that BEAT Global was awarded a generous grant of $15,000 by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation. This contribution allows us to offer 50 BEAT Explorers workshops at various New York Public Library branches across Manhattan, Bronx & Staten Island. We will teach students to create original material and share their stories through poetry, spoken word, MC’ing/rapping, song writing, and music production. Our assessment in providing this program to more than 700 NYC underserved youth has shown that participants gain self-confidence through creative expression and channel negative feelings into positive action. Ultimately, they learn to embrace their individuality and develop lifelong skills that can be implemented in their personal and professional lives! Check below for dates and times and be sure to forward this newsletter to a young person who may be interested in attending our free workshops. Please follow us

 Inside  the B E A T!  This past Thursday (August 1st) we were hyped to partner with NYC Dept of Youth & Community Development (DYCD), NIKE and El Puente M.S.50 Community School of Williamsburg, Brooklyn to offer our BEAT Breakers program. In an auditorium packed with nearly 100 middle school students, we had 8 of our best dance instructors divide all participants into 4 different teams. Each team had their own breakout sessions, coached by 2 of our teaching artists, and learned the basics of breaking, pop and lock and Hip-Hop dance. To close out the event, the teams showcased the dances they learned from their breakout sessions and then faced off in a dance battle for bragging rights. The youngest group of participants were the feistiest bunch and beat out all of the older groups for ultimate bragging rights. It was so inspiring to see the kids come alive as they learned to be fully self expressed through the art of breakin, using nothing but their bodies. I am prou

SPHERICAL SYMMETRY Day Series of Performances, Film Projections & Drawings Off-Site project, 76th Venice International Film Festival August 27- 29, 2019 Performances: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Projections: 9:30pm – 5am ARTI3160 Salizzada Malipiero, San Marco 3209/A – 3160 Venice, Italy ARTI3160 is excited to present  SPHERICAL SYMMETRY,  a three-day series of performances, video projections and an exhibition of drawings during the opening of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Curated by Claire Zakiewicz and Laura Vattovaz, each performance will feature an inter-disciplinary dialogue and exchange between an international collective of artists: Jana Astanov (Poland), Katie Cercone (USA), Anita Cerpelloni (Italy), David Jason Williams (USA) and Claire Zakiewicz (UK). SPHERICAL SYMMETRY  examines traditional ideologies of cosmology, shamanic techniques, occult symbolism and traces early tribal archetypes alongside sacred geometry. Continuing Zakiewicz’s investigations wit

HIGH PRIEZTEZZ OR NAH Featured in ISSUE 2 of The Blood Book ,  by Chloe Devine get your copy  HERE !