You Can Help Create “Video Portrait” of the LES on Sunday
‘ A similar project took place in Portland, Oregon. From Henry Street Settlement: Lower East Side residents (or people who work on the LES) can be part of an exciting video art project at the Abrons...
View ArticleAbrons, Gulick Park Offer Outdoor Movies; You Can Help Decide What’s Showing
This summer, the Friends of Gulick Park and the Abrons Arts Center are teaming up for four outdoor movie screenings. Two will take place in the Abrons amphitheater on Grand Street and two will happen...
View ArticleThursdays at Sunset: Free Movies
Each Thursday this July, the Abrons Arts Center and the Friends of Gulick Park are showing free movies as part of an “Urban Drive-In” program. Each film begins at 8 p.m. and the location alternates...
View ArticleBy Popular Demand: ET at Tomorrow’s Urban Drive-in Screening
Tomorrow night marks July’s second weekly Urban Drive-in event, the result of a partnership between Abrons Arts Center and Friends of Gulick Park. Last Thursday, Charlie Chaplin aficionados gathered...
View ArticleSee “The Mark of Zorro” at Abrons Tonight at Sunset
The Urban Drive-In, a summer series from the Abrons Arts Center and the Friends of Gulick Park returns tonight with “The Mark of Zorro.” The 1920 Douglas Fairbanks silent classic will be accompanied...
View ArticleArts Watch: Talking With Mark Dendy, Prepping to Premiere “Labyrinth” at Abrons
Photo by Marisa @RockPaper. Labyrinth – Heather Christian and Mark Dendy, Matthew Hardy (background) Throughout Mark Dendy’s career, he has steadily defied expectations to work in defined categories....
View ArticleAbrons Art Center Artistic Director Jay Wegman is Moving On
Abrons Artistic Director Jay Wegman (holding the Obie) with Henry Street Settlement Executive Director David Garza, Former Abrons General Manager Adrian Saldana and Operations Manager Rose Ortiz at the...
View Article“Hot Meet” With Jack Ferver in the Abrons Garden Tonight
If you’re looking for something interesting to do tonight in the great outdoors, here’s a suggestion. Abrons Arts Center will be hosting “Hot Meet,” an ongoing series meant to “draw back the elusive...
View ArticleNew Yorkers of the Year: LES’ers Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz
Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Frazer on the set of, “Jack and the Beanstock.” Photo by Laura Vogel. Two Lower East Side artists take center stage today in the New York Times’ annual series highlighting...
View ArticleIn Eliza Bent’s “Aloha, Aloha,” Exploring Cultural Appropriation with Verve
Writer and performer Eliza Bent‘s latest play, “Aloha, Aloha or When I Was Queen,” premiered this past weekend at Abrons Arts Center. The one woman show, directed by Knud Adams, is a bright,...
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