Grants from municipal or county arts agencies are a great way to fund community related arts projects by professionals. Artists and arts organizations (performing, visual, composers, etc) based in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and Rockland county, NY, should note these important upcoming grant deadlines. For most of these you MUST attend a workshop before applying – put these dates on your calendar.

1. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (for all of Manhattan)
Grant due: SEPTEMBER 21
Remaining workshops

2. Brooklyn Arts Council
Grant due: SEPTEMBER 22
Remaining workshops

3. Queens Council on the Arts
Grant due: SEPTEMBER 30
FAQs

4. Arts Council of Rockland
Grant due: September 15/22 (depending on grant)
Remaining workshops

Peter McDowell Arts Consulting is available for questions or assistance with the application process. Contact us with any questions.

The Sabrina Lastman Quartet is an innovative music project that brings together jazz, South American rhythms with African roots like Candombe (Afro Uruguayan Music), and contemporary music. The Quartet plays original compositions, and arrangements of music by Latin American composers like Egberto Gismonti, and Rubén Rada.

Featuring:
Sabrina Lastman – voice & compositions
Emilio Solla – piano
Pablo Aslán – double bass
David Silliman – drums & percussion
Special Guests TBA

Monday, September 6 | 7:30 PM (only one set)
JOE’S PUB | 425 Lafayette St. (bet. E4 & Astor Pl)
TICKET RESERVATIONS: 212 967 7555, www.joespub.com & in person at The Public Theatre Box Office or Joe’s
Pub

TABLE RESERVATIONS: 212 539 8778. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation.

Vlada Tomova’s Balkan tales is featured at NJPAC Outdoors Festival: Sounds of the City on August 5th at 5pm.

Balkan Tales will feature Vlada Tomova (vocals), Raif Hyseni (accordion), Emi Simeonov (violin), Chris Rael (guitar), Mike Savino (bass), Mathias Kunzli (percussion)

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
One Center St, Newark, NJ

Full schedule of the evening and more information at www.njpac.org

Live stream available at www.livestream.com/njpac

Gemini & Scorpio present: The Lost Circus (circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist)

Sat, July 31, 11:59pm-4am, $15 w/RSVP; $20 without
Littlefield, 622 Degraw, Gowanus, BK
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The Circus is said to have started in ancient Egypt when the court entertainers of an immortal Pharaoh escaped their slavery under a midnight moon. They have traveled the globe for centuries, gathering talent from every great empire as the empire itself begins to crumble: Istanbul, Saint Petersburg, London, Berlin…and now they have made it across the sea.

At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. With music from times gone by or times that never were: dark string fusion by Brooklyn’s own Copal, and bohemian cabaret in 13 languages by Vagabond Opera – our special guests from Portland, OR. The circus unfolds to the bands and in between: mind-bending contortion by Jonathan Nosan, aerial dance by Madeline Hoak; tribal fusion bellydance by Lauren Robbiani; fire & gorgeousness by Ali Luminescent; gypsy fortunetelling by Kai Altair; an original installation & performance by artist (and Minsky Sister) Kristen Rhea van Liew. Beautiful costumed creatures perform feats of fire in the courtyard. Dusty circus visuals set the mood. DJ sophybot fascinates your ears with a renegade circus tent soundtrack. With your ever-dapper host, steampunk author G.D. Falksen. Plus photo-op custom art installation with works by Molly Crabapple and Kathleen Green. And a few surprise guests we can’t mention.

Dress code (required): dark cabaret, traveling circus, steampunk Victorian, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Mad Max, City of Lost Children.