SAWCC Quinceanera 15th Anniversary Party

EFA Project Space hosts the South Asian Women's Creative Collective's (SAWCC) celebration of 15 years of collective feminism, art and organizing!

Music by DJ Ashu Rai of Sholay events, dance by the Parul Shah Dance Company, free wine/juice/ refreshments served. Kids and formal attire are welcome and encouraged! (Free for those under 12 yrs.)

Admission is $15.00 - a dollar per year! Please RSVP in advance as there are only 100 available tickets for this event!

Tickets can be purchased in advance at

http://www.sawcc.org/15th-anniversary/

Ashu Rai is a resident DJ and co-founder of Sholay Events’ “Desilicious”, NYC’s monthly and queer South Asian dance party since March 2002. She has performed at many of New York’s premiere venues, including Limelight, Pachita, Club Shelter, Pyramid, Highline Ballroom, BB King’s and Rebel. She has also taken the Desilicious party and her signature mix of Bollywood-House music to Amsterdam’s Paradiso for the city’s India Festival and around the East Coast.

Ammr Vandal has been a member of the Parul Shah Dance Company for the last eight years. She began learning Kathak in her home town of Lahore, Pakistan under the tutelage of the late Maharaj Ghulam Hussain and Nahid Siddiqui. After an extended break, in which she pursued her college education in Hong Kong and the US, she resumed her training in New York City under Parul Shah, a leading disciple of Padmashree Kumudini Lakhia. The repertoire of the company includes traditional Kathak solo and group pieces along with contemporary dance pieces. Ammr has been featured in numerous performances including Jacob’s Pillow: Inside/out series, the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts: EnGendered Arts festival, Solar One: Sun to Stars festival, City Center in New York: Fall for Dance Festival, Rosswell Cultural Center Atlanta: Parul Shah & Co., City Center in New York: Career Transitions for Dancers, Tribeca Performing Arts Center: Tradition Unbound , Brooklyn Museum of Art: Parul Shah & Co. as well several other educational and demonstrative performances.

Ammr is currently based in New York where she is continuing her training under Parul Shah as a member of the Parul Shah Dance Company. Along with pursuing her passion for Kathak, she works as an Architect allowing for an undeniable influence of both spatial art forms on each other.

Sound of Silence Curatorial Walk-through with Olga Kopenkina

Saturday, March 10, 2012

EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor

12:00pm

EFA is participating in Armory Arts Week 2012!

Join curator Olga Kopenkina in a walk-through and brief reception for the exhibition Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship. After the walk-through, EFA Studio Program hosts Open Studios from 1-5pm.

More information to come...

Screening of "Belarusian Dream"

Thursday, March 1, 2012

EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor

6:30pm

EFA Project Space will be screening the 50-minute documentary Belarusian Dream, which was first screened on November 6 in the art-gallery "Ў".

Belarusian Dream (2010-11) recounts the story of a young man who has been living in Belarus, known to the world as the last European dictatorship, for the last 17 years. The film focuses on 2010 presidential elections in Belarus to remind the general public of the proud, silent protests against Alexander Lukashenko. It shows the dramatic events of post-election night on December 19, 2010 and the events that followed; the crowding of streets in Minsk, the confusion of the oppositional candidates, the firmness and brutality of police and government forces, and subsequent repression, mass abductions and trials of activists. It is a film about the economic devastation of the country, and the hard lifestyle under the Lukashenko regime.

Belarusian director Katerina Kibalchich currently lives in Moscow, working as a journalist for Russian Channel One.  In 2011, she was awarded the “Golden Feather” Prize presented by the Russian Union of Journalists as a laureate in the category of “Special Correspondent” for a series of her investigative reports on a wide range of socio-political issues.

The New York Times Feminist Reading Group

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor

7:00pm

Please join us for the first New York Times Feminist Reading Group of 2012. The reading group will be dedicated to looking at Tuesday, February 21st's edition of The New York Times from a feminist perspective.

The New York Times Feminist Reading Group gathers several times a year to discuss current events and feminist politics addressed in issues of The New York Times on the day of the reading group's meeting. Participants are welcome to join regardless of whether they have read, skimmed, or glanced at that day's paper. The discussion begins informally with new items or issues that participants bring attention to first, and dives into investigations of specific articles or images, editorial choices or ad placements, and larger questions about the business of newspapers and other contemporary media.  

The project is organized and facilitated by Jen Kennedy and Liz Linden, who have collaborated on projects that investigate contemporary usages of the word "feminism" since 2008. Their projects range from town hall meetings, to feminist book swaps, to pilot press (their D.I.Y. feminist publishing house), to video and sound works.

Further information about this project, and their project at large, may be found at www.contemporaryfeminism.com.  Please email contact@contemporaryfeminism.com with questions.

NYFA Bootstrap Arts Festival

Friday, February 17, 2012

EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor

6:30pm

The Bootstrap Arts Festival presents "An Evening of Interdisciplinary Art at EFA Project Space." This will feature the works and readings of several performance artists, musicians, and filmmakers.

The Bootstrap Arts Festival, a vibrant new cornerstone of the New York City arts scene, is rolling out in February with a series of arts events covering a wide range of disciplines. Taking place throughout the month, at various locations across the five boroughs, the festival includes performing, literary, visual and media arts. The Bootstrap Arts Festival is presented by Artspire and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).