Nine-time Grammy-Award winning Eddie Palmieri will kick-off the new Artists Speak series at the Black Rock Art Center on Thursday evening, October 18th at 7:30 pm. 

Mr. Palmieri is considered by many to be the foremost Latin artist of his generation with innumerable awards, an Honorary Doctorate from Yale University and concert performances throughout the world.  This will be a rare opportunity to meet him and hear his music and stories in an intimate setting.

Thank you to Laura Pennock from Black Rock Pilates and the Black Rock Garden Club for their generous and beautiful flowers planted around the Black Rock Art Center.  Wendy Lindquist also generously donated plantings and soon the whole area will be resplendent in colorful plantings.  The watering of the flowers is being done by summer intern volunteers.  If anyone would like to helpout with flowers or other plantings,

May 25, Friday, 7:30 pm      Flicks & Food: BattleGround – 21 Days on t

Help Create An Art Center for Your Community.  Volunteers needed for a wide variety of activities at the Black Rock Art Center including administration, graphic design, concert and gallery event assistance, building rehab, and much more.  Meet other commited people who believe in the dream of an Art Center for our city. Check out more possibilities at: www.BlackRockArtCenter.com  or  call: 203-367-7917

An Urgent Call To All Artists & Art Supporters Another artist's center is on the chopping block.  The Nest Arts Factory is being sold to the ever–growing condominium expansion in Bridgeport.  The Arts Community needs to close ranks by coming to Bridgeport City Hall, 45 Lyons Terrace, this Monday, April 16th at 6pm and give support with your presence.  

State of the Arts Panel Discussion

Join the newly formed Concerned Citizens for the Arts in Bridgeport (CCABpt) as the ad hoc group meets to address critical problems facing the arts community in the Park City. Facilities, work space, funding and other challenges facing the arts – a great way to get involved and help to move forward an arts agenda for the community.  Refreshments, NEST Art Factory, Sunday, April 15, 2:00 pm. FREE

Help Create An Art Center for Your Community.  Volunteers needed for a wide variety of activities at the Black Rock Art Center including administration, graphic design, concert and gallery event assistance, building rehab, and much more.  Meet other commited people who believe in the dream of an Art Center for our city. 

Check outmore possibilities at: www.BlackRockArtCenter.com  or  call: 203-367-7917

April 13, Friday, 7:00 pm  World Cinema & Cuisine: City of God City of God’s intersecting cluster of lives starts with youth and quickly tightens into a generation-long Gordian knot. Set in one of the worst housing projects in Rio de Janeiro, the movie presents its characters through the early realization of their birthright to the cultivated manifestation of it: they share little hope for anything beyond surviving the life into which they were born. Within its constraints they get creative in likely, and less likely ways.

Black Rock Art Center in the New York Times

Go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/index.html

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page;  See Event Calendar on lower right hand corner w. picture from City of God movie that we are showing;  Also click on Connecticut Events for additional Art Center listings.  

Composer Jin Hi Kim, formerly of Grovers Avenue in Black Rock, had her newest orchestra composition premiered by the New Haven Symphony on March 24.  Kim composed the work entitled, Monk Dance, as a co-commission by Stanford University and the New Haven Symphony.  It is one of the first pieces to ever incorporate the Korean traditional Barrel Drums with a Western classical orchestra.  The New Haven Register wrote of the performance, ".... the audience was left breathless."  Kim will tour the work to various cities in the USA during the 2007-2008 concert season.