A Benefit for NoMAA (the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance)
Sunday, March 6th at 4:00 p.m.
Readings by literary artists who have received Individual Artist Grants from NoMAA for 2011
Christine Toy Johnson
Lola Koundakjian
Danielle Lazarin
Will MacAdams
Suggested donation of $7 includes free drinks and snacks
Reception after to meet the composers and writers
Sunday Best Reading Series
Performances by fiction writers, poets, dramatists, memoir writers and spoken-word composers
The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens
Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd Street
Performances by fiction writers, poets, dramatists, memoir writers and spoken-word composers
The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens
Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd Street
NoMAA’s mission is to cultivate, support and promote the works of artists and arts organizations in Northern Manhattan. Their programs and services include the Regrant Program, Technical Assistance Institute, Uptown Arts Stroll, NoMAA Gallery and Artists’ Salon. More atwww.nomaanyc.org.
Christine Toy Johnson is an award-winning playwright, actor and filmmaker whose plays have been developed at such places as the Roundabout Theatre and Crossroads Theatre. The Christine Toy Johnson Portfolio, an anthology of her work, is included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection. www.christinetoyjohnson.com
Lola Koundakjian serves on the editorial board of Ararat, an Armenian-American Literary Quarterly. Her poetry has appeared on the web and in print in the US, Canada, Armenia and Lebanon. For the past 20 years, Lola has organized evenings dedicated to the Dead Armenian Poets’ Society and since 2006 has produced and edited text and audio for the
Armenian Poetry Project. She has read in venues in NY, RI and LA, and her work was translated into Spanish for the 20th International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia, where she read in July 2010. http://Armenian-poetry.blogspot.com
Danielle Lazarin’s fiction has appeared on FiveChapters.com, in Boston Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. A graduate of Oberlin College's creative writing program, she has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan. She recently moved back to her native New York, where she is at work on her first novel.
Will MacAdams creates original plays inspired by local stories. Recently, he worked with farmers, farm workers, dancers, and other residents of Warwick, NY to create Water and Stone, a performance poem about land and community change. Past projects include Eye to Eye, an original play about racism and youth-police relations, created with future police officers and young people from New Haven, CT; and Cruising the Divide, an interview-inspired play about race, class, and the celebration of the Kentucky Derby. He is a past recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. He teaches theater in City College's Center for Worker Education.
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Sunday Best Curator, Patrizia Eakins, 212-923-7800 x1342
Also Coming Soon to The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens:
April 3rd at 4:00: High Jinks!: Musico-Literary satirists Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine. Also appearing: Duo Fortuna--Charles Ramsey and Leslie Upchurch. $7.
