A Collaboration of Dance & Musical Composition

Alon Necheshtan and Stephanie Sleeper

Saturday May 14th, 2010

5 pm - 8 pm

@ Engine 212 Firehouse: 134 Wythe Ave

Starting at 5pm on Saturday, community, activism and artists come together to breathe life into the vacant Engine 212 Firehouse.

A Collaboration of Dance & Musical Composition is a collaboration between choreographer Stephanie Sleeper and composer Alon Nechushtan exploring together the spaces

between performance and soundscape. The event features musicians from the other string quartet and performers from sleepdance.

This series is sponsored, in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the NewYork City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

This series is also made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, both administered in Kings County by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

TASTE Williamsburg Greenpoint, a culinary celebration of North Brooklyn’s local flavor, is gearing up for year two!

SAVE THE DATE...
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2011

photo courtesy Bob Van Lindt

Last May’s inaugural event brought over 40 of the neighborhood’s top restaurants together along with over 1,500 hungry participants to eat and drink for a great cause.

We were able to raise close to $100,000 toward renovating the historic Engine 212 firehouse on Wythe Ave, getting one step closer to the $2 million needed to make it a reality.

We need your help to make this year’s event better than last’s...

If you would like to be a participating restaurant, sponsor, or volunteer, sign up now!!

The NTHCCC Arts Committee is seeking application for the 2011 Arts Happening Series- Deadline for submissions is January 21st, 2011.

To help ensure the vitality of the North Brooklyn Creative Community and in the spirit of the Firehouse's role as a historically important site of local activism, we are repeating our 2010 strategy of staging art events in this currently raw space in order to draw attention to its rich presence - past, present and future.

2011 Arts Happening Series will present art exhibitions and performances on the following four Saturdays: May 14th, June 11th, September 10th and October 8th.

Download an application NOW!! 2011 Arts Happening Series Application

Have any questions, email us at arts@nthccc.org.

Northside Town Hall's Arts Happening Series Presents:

Projected: Engine 212

Installation by Aslihan Demirtas & Nandini Bagchee

Friday Sept. 24^th, 2010 8pm-11pm

Engine 212 Firehouse: 134 Wythe Ave. Williamsburg B’klyn

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: starting at 8pm on Friday, community, activism and artists will come together to breathe life into the vacant Engine 212 Firehouse, creating an evening in the spirit of the ad-hoc events/exhibition of Williamsburg in decades past.

The interior of the firehouse, despite its shambolic state, is a charged environment. One that rallied a community to mobilize and unite, and generated the momentum that will ultimately allow for Engine 212 to become a publicly-owned community center. The exhibition will focus on the interior as a repository of the past, when the cavernous space housed operating fire engines. Using the ephemeral medium of projected light, Aslihan Demirtas and Nandini Bagchee will ruminate on the latent possibilities of this vacant interior. The installation will speculate on the context, surroundings and history of the building, while alluding to its future as a place to experiment, and create a new arena for debate and discussion.

Crispus Attucks Ensemble & Alper Yilmaz Electroacoustic Trio will perform and engage the audience by inviting them to read selected texts from community and activism related literature. Featuring music composed and performed by: Crispus Attucks Ensemble: Kevin Russell, music/direction & Alper Yilmaz Electroacoustic Trio with Nick Kadajski, Rick Parker, and Alper Yilmaz.

The exhibition is free and takes place from 8pm to 11pm at 134 Wythe Ave. btw. N. 8^thand N. 9^th streets in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Dear friends, neighbors and supporters:

We wanted to be sure that you know about all of the exciting events coming up this month in connection with the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center. We’re making a lot of progress towards our goal of converting Fire Company 212 into a vibrant and active Community Center that will serve the diverse populations of North Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Please note these upcoming events; we hope we can see you at all of them!

• September 13, 2010, 3 pm, 134 Wythe Avenue. Our Borough President, Marty Markowitz will announce his Capital Budget allocation of $742,000 towards the reconstruction of the Firehouse. If you are able to come during the day, please join us at the Firehouse to thank him, salute his support, and let him know how much these funds mean to us.

• September 15, 2010, 6 to 8 pm, The Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, New School of Design 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York. The Firehouse is the subject of an exhibition at Parsons, organized and designed by Aslihan Demirtas, an architect and adjunct faculty at Parsons, School of Constructed Environments ( and a local resident). The exhibition materials as well as the exhibition itself are produced by AAS Interior Design students. We hope to see you at this festive exhibition and experience first-hand the enormous support given to our cause by this prestigious institution.

• September 2010, Community Board 1, Land Use Committee meeting (Date, time and venue to be announced.) The disposition and transfer of the Firehouse from the City to us, is being reviewed by the Land Use Committee of Community Board 1, as part of the New York City Uniform Land Use Review Process. This meeting will be an opportunity for our supporters to comment and assist us in this process.

• September 24, 2010, 8 to 10 pm, 134 Wythe Avenue. This will be the final arts event of 2010 that will be staged in the Firehouse, and will feature the creative work of Aslihan Demirtas and Nandini Bagchee, architects and designers from the neighborhood of the Firehouse. In addition to their visual work, the event will host two bands who will be performing and engaging the audience.
  

Please join us when you can to celebrate our past, present and future as the Northside Town Hall becomes a reality.