Category: Festivals

  • Hip Hop Theater Festival 10th Anniversary Mixtapes

    All year, HHTF will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the New York City Festival coming in October 1 – 16, 2010. As a way to share the joy HHTF enlisted an eclectic mix of its favorite DJs to share original sounds and new favorites.

  • Bumbershoot (Seattle) Announces Line-Up

    The 40th Annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, taking place September 4-6 at Seattle Center, announces the Words & Ideas, Performing Arts, Spectacle, and Theatre program lineups.

  • EMPAC Announces Line-Up for FILAMENT

    RPI’s EMPAC announced the line-up for FILAMENT – a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media that will be held in Troy, NY from October 1–3, 2010. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

  • Lumen Video Art Festival on Staten Island

    Who says there’s no art on Staten Island? Culturebot just got a press release for LUMEN – “a cutting-edge video art and projection festival featuring site-specific video installations, 3D-video technology, sound-based performances, and art interventions by artists around the globe.” Featuring work by emerging Staten Island artists, as well as established video, new media, projection,…

  • Dixon Place's HOT Festival Line-Up

    This year marks the 19th anniversary of downtown’s most action-packed festival of LGBT-themed performance – The HOT Festival at Dixon Place. The festival starts on Saturday June 26 with a kick-off party hosted by Anti-Diva’s Liz Liguori and Jessie Mann from 6:30PM to 1AM in DP’s new lounge. There are WAY too many performances to…

  • Red Carpet Muncher 1: Ivan Bellman on a taut leash at Cannes Film Festival

    Ivan Bellman on a taut leash at Cannes Film Festival

  • Game Play 2010 at The Brick

    On Tuesday night Culturebot went out to dinner with an old college buddy. He is a big honcho in the video game world, and we had a long discussion about the relevance of live performance and the possibilities of work at the intersection of video games and theater. So I was excited to see this…

  • Movement Research Festival Spring 2010 – HARDCORPS

    From June 2-7, 2010 the downtown dance scene comes roaring to life with Movement Research Festival Spring 2010:HARDCORPS. Curated by Walter Dundervill, Melanie Maar, Aki Sasimoto, and A.L. Steiner, the festival features performances, workshops, talks, events and much more. You can download the brochure here. The whole thing is chock full of good stuff, but…

  • Darmstadt Institute June 2-30 at ISSUE Project Room

    ISSUE Project Room Presents the Darmstadt Institute, a festival of interdisciplinary programming including concerts, lectures, workshops, film screenings, and talkbacks which celebrates and critically examines the continuum of the experimental tradition in music and related media. Click here for a full schedule. Highlights for this year’s Institute include an all-star two-day celebration of Anthony Braxton’s…

  • X-YU FESTIVAL May 26-29 at Dixon Place

    Last night we ran into Ivan Talijancic who reminded us about the X-YU Festival at Dixon Place running Wednesday – Saturday, May 26, 27, 28, 29. DP is partnering with Dance New Amsterdam and WaxFactory on the first-ever festival of new dance from the former Yugoslav countries. The X-YU festival will present the U.S. premieres of…

  • Come Out and Play!

    This looks like a lot of fun! The Come Out & Play Festival is coming to Brooklyn in 2010. The festival will run June 4-6, 2010 in the Park Slope and Gowanus Canal neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Lyceum will be hosting the 2010 festival. From the website: Each year the Come Out & Play…

  • Roman Tragedies at Festival Transameriques

    Festival Transameriques looks like it is going to be really cool. Check out the trailer for Ivo Van Hove’s Roman Tragedies: