Chris Farrell

Chris Farrell

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Contemporary Artists In Victorian Flatbush: Tour Ditmas Park Artists’ Studios This Weekend
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Contemporary Artists In Victorian Flatbush: Tour Ditmas Park Artists’ Studios This Weekend

DITMAS PARK – Since its inception eight years ago, the Flatbush Artists Open Studios Tour [https://www.facebook.com/Flatbush-Artists-Studio-Tour-309055422518941/] has become an important weekend in the calendar of creative events in New York City. On October 27-28, forty painters, photographers, sculptors and other artists will welcome visitors on a free

Shakers n’ Bakers Reinterpret Albert Ayler’s ‘New Grass’ For Today’s Audience
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Shakers n’ Bakers Reinterpret Albert Ayler’s ‘New Grass’ For Today’s Audience

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Fifty years ago, Albert Ayler [https://www.discogs.com/artist/202309-Albert-Ayler] attempted a musical experiment—recording an album combining the spontaneity and iconoclasm of free jazz with more traditional song structures and a strong R&B groove. New Grass [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/albert-ayler/new-grass-6/] was a notorious

Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema’s First Graduating Class Produces Films As Varied And Diverse As Its Students
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Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema’s First Graduating Class Produces Films As Varied And Diverse As Its Students

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on

‘The Guide To Getting What’s Yours’: Weeksville Presents Story Of Famed Jewel Thief
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‘The Guide To Getting What’s Yours’: Weeksville Presents Story Of Famed Jewel Thief

CROWN HEIGHTS – A one-woman show inspired by the exploits of an octogenarian jewel thief is one of the plays the Onstage@Weeksville [http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/onstage-at-weeksville/] theater series has scheduled for the Weeksville Heritage Center [/weeksville-heritage-center-preserving-history-weeksville-community/]. Doris Payne, already the subject of a f [http://www.imdb.com/title/

Gold, Frankincense And Myrrh: Arturo O’Farrill Performs Father’s Seasonal Composition on Christmas Eve
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Gold, Frankincense And Myrrh: Arturo O’Farrill Performs Father’s Seasonal Composition on Christmas Eve

Pianist and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_O%27Farrill] will present his father’s rarely performed seasonal composition “Oro, Incienso y Mirra” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcFbbq2mgk] (“Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh”) in a free performance on Christmas Eve at All Saints’ Church. The

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