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Winter 2020 Program & Event Guide WINTER 2020 CONNECT WITH PEOPLE AND PLACE AT BPCA PARKS PROGRAMS Help BPC stay green this holiday season! Please deposit your tree on the curb without decorations. BPCA staff will pick up trees thru January 27. Trees are chipped and used for mulch in the parks of Battery Park City. For more information email: [email protected] or call: 212-267-9700. 2 MESSAGE FROM THE BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY PRESIDENT & CEO, B.J. JONES ‘Tis the season! After another great year here in Battery Park City we invite all our residents, partners, and friends to join us for a 2020 that’s chock full of fun. This winter we’ve got 900 programs and events on offer across our indoor and outdoor public spaces, including an expanded and topical Tuesday Talks series, holiday and cultural celebrations in our Community Room, Friday Night art house film classics and a concert and poetry marking Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary! We look forward to spending the season with you in Battery Park City. See you here. Stay connected www.bpca.ny.gov facebook.com/batteryparkcityparks twitter.com/bpca_ny instagram.com/bpcparks 3 JANUARY EVENTS JANUARY FRIDAY, JAN10 MONDAY, JAN13 FRIDAY NIGHT ART HOUSE CLASSICS: WRITE ME FILM SCREENING AND ARTIST PUTNEY SWOPE & ACTIVIST TALKBACK 6PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE 7PM, MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE The best art house cinema is characterized by 36 BATTERY PLACE independent filmmakers with uncompromising vision. Write Me (2019; 7 mins.) follows a Holocaust survivor and a survivor of human This series features courageous films inspired by the trafficking regaining power over their bodies by removing physical evidence of civil rights movement. Putney Swope is a 1969 satirical “branding.” Write Me is adapted from the poem, “After Auschwitz,” by comedy film about a black advertising executive. The Deborah Kahan Kolb, and premieres at New York Jewish Film Festival. film satirizes the advertising world, the portrayal of The preview screening will be followed by a discussion with director Pearl Gluck, race in Hollywood films, the white power structure and poet Deborah Kahan Kolb, composer Lisa Gutkin, Auschwitz survivor the nature of corporate corruption. Free popcorn will Shirley Gottesman, trafficking survivorBarbara Freeman and tattoo artist be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings. Virginia Elwood. The free evening is part of a series to engage audiences in Mature audiences only. conversations on art, social justice, and history. Write Me programs are made possible through a community partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Battery Park City Authority. TUESDAY, JAN14 TUESDAY TALKS: CONVERSATION WITH PAUL RIECKHOFF 7PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE Paul Rieckhoff, host of the Angry Americans podcast, is a BPC resident, veteran of the Iraq War, writer, activist and an advocate for veteran’s rights. Rieckhoff will host an informal and engaging conversation addressing local issues which may end up in the national spotlight during the upcoming Democratic presidential debates and 2020 Presidential election. The discussion will include questions from the audience. 4 JANUARY EVENTS JANUARY SATURDAY, JAN25 SUNDAY, JAN26 SATURDAY FAMILY WORKSHOPS 2020 ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION MASQUERADE: BULGARIAN SURVA OPENING RECEPTION 11AM –12:30PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE 1–3PM, 75 BATTERY PLACE Surva is a Balkan festival where thousands of ART ON VIEW WEEKDAYS people join in a grand parade of costumes JAN 27–MAR 27, 2–4PM and folkloric games to scare away evil spirits, and wish a prosperous year to all. Make your All are welcome to come and enjoy the inspired own Surva inspired mask and take part in a artwork created by participants of all ages at BPCA’s parade led by Young Bulgarian Voices of art programs. Meet many of the participating artists, New York. Art project is designed for ages 4 the artist/educators who lead the programs, and and up. learn about upcoming BPCA art programs and events. No viewing on 2/17. 11AM: ART PROJECT 11:45: FAMILY CONCERT Watercolor by Florence Liu 5 FEBRUARY EVENTS FEBRUARY TUESDAY, FEB04 FRIDAY, FEB07 TUESDAY TALKS: EXPLORING THE FRIDAY NIGHT ART HOUSE CLASSICS: SHADOWS AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND MEMORIAL 6PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE 1PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE The best art house cinema is characterized by independent In celebration of Black History Month, guest speaker T. Rasul Murray, filmmakers with uncompromising vision. This series features a historical interpreter and griot at the African Burial Ground courageous films inspired by the civil rights movement. National Monument, will present an overview of this sacred site in Shadows is a 1958 American independent dramatic film directed Lower Manhattan which honors African Americans and informs on by John Cassavetes about race relations during the Beat Genera- the hardships they endured in early America. Discovered in 1991, tion years in NYC. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion the burial ground is considered to be one of the most significant will follow the screenings. Mature audiences only. archeological finds in the U.S. over the last 100 years. THURSDAY, FEB06 WRITE ME POETRY WORKSHOP 7PM, MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE 36 BATTERY PLACE Join poets Deborah Kahan Kolb, who wrote “After Auschwitz” which served as text for the film Write Me; Cornelius Eady, co-founder of Cave Canem Foundation, the Brooklyn-based incubator for African American poetry, and other poets in a workshop to analyze poetry and encourage writing as a source of healing, resistance, and transmitting personal histories. The eve- ning is part of an intergenerational series to engage audiences in conversations on art, social justice, history, and current events. Write Me programs are made possible through a community partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Battery Park City Authority. 6 FEBRUARY EVENTS FEBRUARY SUNDAY, FEB09 WEDNESDAY, FEB19 VALENTINE MAKING WORKSHOP* WRITE ME STORYTELLING WORKSHOP 11AM, 6 RIVER TERRACE FOR TEENS AND ADULTS FREE PROGRAM: 7PM, MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED, SPACE IS LIMITED 36 BATTERY PLACE All we need is LOVE! Take part in this time-honored annual BPC Pearl Gluck, filmmaker and director of Write Me (2019; 7mins.), tradition where participants are invited to make personalized, a film about Holocaust and human trafficking survivors, will lead handmade cards for their loved ones. Cut, paste and decorate a writing workshop in which participants will have the option to with provided materials, and don’t forget to seal it with a kiss. share short stories, with an emphasis on personal narratives. Art projects are designed for ages 4 and up. The free evening is part of a series to engage audiences in conversations on art, social justice, and history. Write Me programs are made possible through a community partnership with the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Battery Park City Authority. Love SATURDAY, FEB22 SATURDAY FAMILY WORKSHOPS MASQUERADE: VENICIAN CARNIVAL 11AM – 12:30PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE The Carnival of Venice is world renowned for elaborate and colorful masks and for the ancient theatrics of the Commedia You dell’Arte. In this workshop, participants will make their own character masks and watch a performance by the Kairos Italy Theater in English and Itailian. Art project is designed for ages love 4 and up. you 11AM: ART PROJECT more 11:45: FAMILY CONCERT * Registration required. Call 212-267-9700 or email [email protected] 7 MARCH EVENTS MARCH SATURDAY, MAR07 FRIDAY, MAR13 SATURDAY FAMILY WORKSHOPS FRIDAY NIGHT ART HOUSE CLASSICS: S.T.E.A.M. DREAM THE HARDER THEY COME 11AM–12:30PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE 6PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE Kids are invited to pick up S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, The best art house cinema is characterized by filmmakers with uncom- Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) at this special event promising vision. This series features courageous films inspired by the featuring quirky projects from BK Robot Foundry, an civil rights movement. The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican film that interactive discovery zone, and live performance by Soul features Jimmy Cliff as an aspiring young singer from the countryside Science Lab featuring Code SCTY. Projects are designed who travels to Kingston to pursue musical stardom. After being victimized for ages 4 and up. by an unscrupulous record producer, the local drug trade and corrupt 11AM: S.T.E.A.M. PROJECTS police, he fights back and becomes an inadvertent folk hero. Free pop- corn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings. 11:45: FAMILY CONCERT Mature audiences only. 8 MARCH EVENTS MARCH SATURDAY, MAR21 TUESDAY, MAR24 SATURDAY FAMILY WORKSHOPS TUESDAY TALKS: WOMEN’S WERK MASQUERADE: JAPANESE MATSURI 7PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE 11AM–12:30PM, 6 RIVER TERRACE Building upon the success of last year’s discussion on the gig Traditional Japanese masks are archetypes borrowed from economy, this Women’s Month we focus on ‘next step’ practices myth, ancient dances or Noh theater, which represent an to help propel your project forward. Topics covered in this infor- array of people, creatures and animals. Make your own mal talk and meet-and-greet with experts Kelly Ridgway, Alexis Japanese inspired mask and enjoy a dynamic drumming Henry and DJ Bembona will include sharing resources, financial performance by Taiko Masala. Art project is designed for literacy and developing your own personal support system. Wear ages 4 and up. your brand tee, swap swag, and network with like-minded women ‘werkin’ it’ just like you. 11AM: ART PROJECT 11:45: FAMILY CONCERT THURSDAY, MAR26 WRITE ME FILM SCREENING AND EDUCATORS & ACTIVIST PANEL 6:30PM, MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE 36 BATTERY PLACE In honor of Women’s History month, Pearl Gluck will introduce her short film Write Me (2019; 7 mins.) followed by a panel discussion on branding and marking of women’s bodies in the context of trafficking and power.
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