Be an extra in our music video and have a Boricua Good Time...
Current mood: OMG!!
Category: OMG!! Movies, TV, Celebrities
Sabac Red Video Shoot Artist: Sabac Red featuring La Bruja
Song Title: Viva Boricua from the upcoming CD/DVD "The Ritual"
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Place: Nuyorican Poets Café
Time: 4:00 – 9:00 pm
Everyone is welcome, all ages and ethnicities. If you are Puerto Rican or just feel like representing please bring flags, shirts, etc. For more information please contact John Fuentes at jhnfuentes@yahoo.com. This video will be a celebration of Puerto Rican Culture. There will be family, friends and loved one's so come in peace and ready to party.
Nuyorican Poets Café s located in the heart of Manhattan's beautiful East Village, on 236 East 3rd Street, between
Avenues B and C. We're also a NYC legend, so if you get misplaced in the neighborhood somehow, just ask someone
By NYC Subway:
Closest Subway Stop is "2nd Avenue" on the F Train: F Train to 2nd Avenue Station. Get out at the 1st Avenue exit and walk east to Avenue B. This is the closest subway train stop, since you'll be getting out on East Houston Street, which is already below 14 Street, and you'll be getting out on 1st Avenue, which is pretty far east.
R Train to 8th Street Station. This is a bit of a walk but you're in the neighborhood. You'll end up on Broadway and West 8th Street when you get out of the train. Walk east to Avenue B, then over to East 3rd Street.
4 or 5 Train to 14 Street Station. Walk east to Avenue B, then walk over to East 3rd Street.
6 Train to Astor Place Station. Same directions as above, only you'll be about 6 blocks closer.
You can take any train to the West 4th Street Station, but we recommend that you switch to the F Train at that point and take it to the Second Avenue Station. West 4th Street Station is way west of the cafe, but it IS a downtown stop and in the vicinity. If you must go this route, it's a beautiful (but long) walk on a summer's night. Find East 3rd Street when you exit the train, and just keep walking east .....(like 8 avenues).
Come to the video shoot this Thursday!
Current mood: electric
Category: Music
I would like to extend an invitation to anyone and everyone, please join me and Sabac Red for our video shoot this Thursday from 4 pm - 9 pm at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Our song is about Puerto Rican Pride, Que Viva Boricua, and it is a beautiful song. Come watch us perform it and be part of the video magic. We would love to celebrate our pride with you, come through!
My Top Friend is looking to hire a Program Director... Will it be you?
Current mood: focused
VOICES UNBROKEN IS HIRING A NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR!
Voices UnBroken is a community-based, non-profit organization based in the Bronx. We are dedicated to providing under-heard members of the community with the tools and opportunity for creative self-expression. Through creative writing workshops in jails, prisons, group homes, residential treatment facilities, and various other transitional and alternative settings, Voices UnBroken nurtures the inherent need in all people to tell their stories. It is our belief that through this telling of stories and sharing of dreams community and individual growth becomes possible. Learn more at: www.voicesunbroken.org
JOB DESCRIPTION: The Program Director will work closely with the Executive Director to assess and improve Voices UnBroken's programs.
Responsibilities include: • Identifying potential workshop sites and facilitators • Recruiting, training and supervising facilitators • Organizing monthly facilitator dinners • Providing ongoing support for facilitators including regular visits to workshop sites. • Nurturing relationships with current and potential workshop sites • Partnership building and networking with others in the field to collaborate on projects and events • Recruiting and supervising interns and volunteers as needed • Facilitating one Voice UnBroken residency per workshop cycle • Writing annual Program Report, and additional reports as necessary • Documenting and evaluating our programs • Assisting with ongoing organizational development and work with consultants • Creating meeting agendas • Managing production of bi-annual Voices Ink Magazine and workshop publications • Assisting with special events • Representing the organization at conferences and events • Establishing workshops, programs and events at the Voices UnBroken space • Maintaining a network of organizational contacts • Other duties, as needed
Qualifications: • Experience working with non-profit youth arts organizations • Experience facilitating creative workshops and training facilitators in youth development • Experience using alternative assessment tools • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Must work well in collaboration with others • Must work well independently • A willingness to learn and share • Commitment to working in the Bronx
Preferred: • basic knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop • Bilingual (Spanish and English)
This is a full-time position with a salary to be determined based on experience.
HOW TO APPLY: Please send a resume and cover letter by August 1, 2008 to Victoria Sammartino, Executive Director, at voicesunbrokenHR@gmail.com . Applicants interviewed on rolling basis starting immediately. In your cover letter please address the following questions: 1) Why do you think arts education is important? 2) Tell us about an experience or belief of yours that makes one of the Guiding Principles (below) important to you.
Guiding Principles: • Voices UnBroken helps participants identify dreams and goals. • Voices UnBroken believes in and nurtures the creative voice in all people. • In a Voices UnBroken workshop, everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn. • Voices UnBroken is a non-judgmental organization. We value every person's right to self-identify and we do our best to work with people's judgments about the work we do and the people we serve. This non-judgmental stance has helped us to achieve and maintain organizational integrity. • We are committed to evaluating and documenting our programs. • We identify and foster leadership. • We respect, value and care for our participants. • We are accountable to our participants and to our community. • Voices UnBroken expects Greatness!
Voices UnBroken employs without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other attribute not related to superior performance.
-- Victoria Sammartino Founder & Executive Director Voices UnBroken PO Box 342 Bronx, NY 10461 718.292.3018 www.voicesunbroken.org
Teatro SEA, NY's award-winning Latino theatre for young audiences, is seeking puppeteers for immediate replacements for our company. Puppeteers will be part of our citywide tour and performances at our home base theatre. Experience in puppetry not necessary. Looking puppeteers to play a variety of characters in SEA's repertoire; experience with mouth puppets and rod puppets a plus! SEA does over 150 performances each year. Bring picture & resume, and a short monologue (2 min or less); puppets will be provided at the audition, but feel free to bring your own.
Location of audition: Teatro SEA @ Los Kabayitos Puppet & Children's Theatre, 107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10002 (F train to Delancey St. or J, M, Z, to Essex St.) For more information visit www.sea-online.info . Pay. Non-union.
Auditions will be held by appointment on Tuesday July 15th by appointment only.
All You True Hip Hop Heads - Check out NAS Video Remix by Rik Cordero
Current mood: thirsty
Friends,
Three/21 and Best of Both Offices launch "Sly Fox" for Nas, a fair and balanced look at Fox News and News Corp. Special thanks to Nas, Miss Info, Jay Smooth and all of the writers/journalists/bloggers who are helping to rebuild our media from the ground up. The culture would not be alive with you guys. We salute you!
High Res http://www.three21media.com/content/?page_id=355
seed2TREE Productions will be holding auditions for the upcoming play Here In Vain written by NADIRAsimone at The Producers Club 358 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036. Please bring headshots and a resume that we can keep. A synopsis of the play and character bios are below. Thank you and we look forward to meeting you.
Audition time and dates:
Thursday July 10th 12pm - 2pm
Friday July 11th 12pm - 2pm
Sat July 12 11am - 2pm
Here In Vain synopsis : A modern day love story, about the lovers you choose and the love that chooses you. Set in a six year period from 2001-2007. Here In Vain is the story of a generation X – a generation with no name, lost, without purpose. It is the story of this generation's war and politics, life and love.
Nina is a young, black, HIV positive woman who searches for love and happiness within the structure of the world and her status. A struggling waitress yet talented poet, who yearns for a stage big enough to share her pain.
Langston is a fellow poet who befriends Nina. The events of 9/11 bring them closer together yet further apart. He joins the army, as she fights her war, with her words. They find themselves in different ways, both Here In Vain and in desperate need of change.
Characters
THE NARRATOR – in his mid-20's moves around with mystical powers only the audience can see him, as he tells the story in prose.
NINA – in her early 20's a loner and poet who finally finds her way to the stage. HIV positive, the story centers around her life. Her words just as potent and overwhelming as her beauty. But if there was one thing she has always loved it was poetry. She has a comfort with words that she never experienced with any person. On stage she is free, and thru poetry she is loved.
LANGSTON – a dreamer, in his mid 20's. A poet in his own rite, yet he never quite made it to where he always thought he ought to be. He struggles between the life he desires and the life he has, finding new inspiration in NINA, he is determined to love her.
JENNY – is the fast talking Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx, who always says what's on her mind. In her early 20's with a long past. PAUL- is in his early 30's and like JENNY he says what's on his mind and has a past he would like to escape, only he knows that he can't – he is a realist.
CLAY- a painter, 'playa' and charmer, in his late 20's. A lover by nature, for him "making art is like making love" and he is equally good at both. AMANDA – in her mid 20's, she has high expectations on life and love and is unwilling to settle on either.
Hip Hop Cameos are the bomb! I got the call and reported for duty. Especially for my favorite MC of all time, the one that made me want to do this sh@! NAS... Check out his controversial video by the hottest director out... Rik Cordero
Yeah, I'm a Nigger Too! And guess what... so are you. Kelis said in an interview and I love her for this, that John Lennon wrote a song called women are the Niggers of the world, so marinate on that.
While you do, check it out!!
Three/21 Films and Best of Both Offices Launch
"Be A N****r Too" Music Video for Nas
High Quality Version and YouTube Version http://www.three21media.com/content
"I know there is a very pixelated low quality version floating around so click the link above to watch it how it should be seen or go to OnSmash.com (thanks Legend). Thanks to everyone for the hard work and support of this video. Be sure to pick up Nas' latest offering via Def Jam Recordings on 7.15.08. Peace!" Rik Cordero
Central Park Show Today - come through
Current mood: artistic
Come on out today if you're free from 5 - 7 pm to a live acoustic performance from Bilbao, Spain. I'll be hosting and performing some songs. One special song I've prepared with the help of Jay Omega, E da Rocka & Suero called Mi Bilbainita will pay tribute to the music from this special place.
Location: The bandshell, entrance is on Fifth Ave on 72nd Street. Go about 500 ft down the hill from the entrance. I'll be there having some fun... come join me and let's enjoy the weather, the music and the Bilbainitias together.
Comedy Show Tonight @ Cemi Underground
Current mood: chipper
Come on through tonight to see me and my friends Eric Nieves and Arnold Acevedo crack jokes in El Barrio's Cemi Underground. I know it's last minute, but if you missed the last comedy show I did there come on out. And yes, I know it's raining but.... If I don't melt in the rain, niether will you.
CEMI UNDERGROUND 1799 Lexington Avenue off of 112th Street 7 pm $8 at the door
Come see me perform the infamous "Arroz con Habichuelas" song
YOU need to audition for this...
Current mood: electric
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
Habla is back in NYC!
What is Habla? The Habla series features Latinos from all backgrounds talking about being Latino in the U.S. Simple, spontaneous, in your face and unapologetically in Spanglish, Habla which means to talk, is often a hilarious commentary on the immigrant experience and the resulting culture clash. Four half-hour specials have been created for HBO Latino, featuring actors, poets and musicians, but mostly regular people from: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.
We like to call them "Talking Portraits."
To be invited to the casting and to see samples, please visit www.latinomediaworks.com and follow the instructions. You don't have to be an actor to participate. This is a non-union paid project. SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS MAY 10th
I had the wonderful opportunity of being on the first season of HABLA on HBO LATINO where they filmed a poem that so many people have expressed love for, PEARL of the CARIBBEAN which has been seen countless times and has opened amazing doors for me...
LATINOMEDIAWORKS.COM
YOU TOO should seize this wonderful opportunity of expressing what Latino means to you, even non-latinos should audition because, from the outside looking in must be an interesting perspective, couldn't hurt. Any Youth to Elder should see this as a chance to share something of yourself with the world. And non-union just means that you are not part of the two television/film unions, SAG or AFTRA... If you are part of SAG or AFTRA you cannot audition... EVERYONE ELSE CAN! Reach out to www.latinomediaworks.com. Follow the directions and audition... BE SURE to say that LA BRUJA sent ya...
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