This Friday: FREE event by Hell’s Kitchen Artists’ Guild as part of MakeMusicNY.org! Noon-8 PM +: 15(!) great bands, free desserts + cheap gourmet homemade cuisine. We added a live fine art demonstration (12-3 PM), a dance/you create art show, face & body painting + a giant bubble-making man! Our 2nd year in Hell’s Kitchen Park: 10th Avenue between 47th-48th Streets. For the biggest single day concert on earth!! One of 1000 + venues in NYC: celebrate the 1st day of Summer (Solstice) with us!
Tease: pasta dishes w/special red sauces, refreshments, even vegan & organic options. Two playgrounds & sprinklers for kids. B-ball courts, & ending with 2 large choirs! Please widely invite folks, forward this note & cut & paste to FB/social media. Bring a camera & then send photos (1st person accounts welcome too). For publication & credit through ArtistsintheKitchen.org. After dark: join us at legendary local Gibson guitar NYC HQ & showroom for an all night open jam, drinks & liquor sponsor!
UPDATED performance schedule at bottom of section!
ALSO put this on your schedule & calendar:This is your LAST notification re: the July 21stdeadline to be published FREE by the Fall in our 3rd large Collector’s Edition of arts & cultural magazine “At The Edge“, sold in 100’s of newsstands & bookstores + online. This newsletter will now take an extended break!
Artists, writers & performers: would you like a feature & international exposure for your art, idea(l)s, creative writing, fiction, photography, intelligent rants & raves, &/or poetry? Sold most heavily around NYC, but also nationally, in Canada & beyond through stalwart distributor Disticor! No submission charges, nor if chosen for publication-just take care in putting forth your best idea(l)s, true stories, insights &/or IMAGES, while following directions for how (to label images, a bio, your picture…) to SUBMIT through ArtistsintheKitchen.org our website/HERE!
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THANK YOU to all guests, artists, performers & sponsors for the 5th annual all free HK: ArtiST Festival, 5-17/19! We met & had a great time at ~ 150 venues for art in homes, studios, galleries, biz, gardens street events near & at huge 40th annual 9th Avenue International Food Festival.
Then 3 all evening Grand Galas with continual live music & entertainment of all genres! See large 2 sided postcards & interactive MAP + awesome, magazine launch party-infused promo video for that self guided art crawl at ArtistsintheKitchen.org!
Friday, June 21, noon-8 PM: Here is the updated schedule for our MakeMusicNY.org concert in Hell’s Kitchen Park (on 10th Avenue between 47th-48th Streets):
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Frankie Keane frankiekeane@aim.com
1:00 PM 1:30 PM Trumpet Grrrl trumpetgrrrl@gmail.com
1:30 PM 2:00 PM Alissa Vox Raw alissavoxraw@hotmail.com
2:00 PM 2:30 PM Caprice Starbrite capricestarbrite@gmail.com
2:30 PM 3:00 PM School of Rock NYC dmusatto@schoolofrock.com
3:00 PM 3:30 PM Laura Eister Larcy.marie@gmail.com
3:30 PM 4:00 PM Our 6′ 7″ Soundman Paul Reilly pjor13@gmail.com
4:30 PM 5:00 PM Two Boroughs ben.chuchinsky@yahoo.com
5:00 PM 5:30 PM Angela Everwood info@pierentertainment.com
5:30 PM 6:00 PM Motor Heart Man Motor_Heart_Man@yahoo.com
6:00 PM 6:30 PM Jed Luckless jed.luckless@yahoo.com
6:30 PM 7:00 PM Wooden HEZ woodenhez@gmail.com
7:00 PM 7:30 PM Peace of Heart Choir gbaker@thehackettgroup.com
7:30 PM 8:00 PM Gotham Rock Choir gothamrockchoir@gmail.com
8:00 PM David Easton Guitar Rock DavidEastonBand@gmail.com
STAY TUNED for breaking news & updates, Now for the usual free art & cultural listings, opportunities, deals, contests, tickets, internships/sponsorships: for novice/emerging to mid career & beyond professionals, + networking opportunities.
From Nadine Charlsen, great HKAG member-resident, volunteer & theater design professor. Doing the park concert live painting demonstration 12-3 PM Friday-her photographic quality watercolor. She has 50+ paintings on view in exhibits in five states during the summer of 2013! Information on the individual shows.. Website page:, nadinepaints.com
“Thrills” group show at Smart Clothes Gallery 6/26-7/28. Artist’s Opening Reception: June 26th, 6-9 PM. Cuated by Paul Bridgewater of the Coney Island “Hysterical” Society. Also a PREVIEW of the surreal mystery & sensual work of Lawrence Brezon-to be featured in our Autumn issue of “At The Edge“.
Entertaining us Friday: Fran McGee, text or call her future live dance & painting collaboration. 347-254-3404.
Hell’s Kitchen’s own, 15 artists: contrastartshow.com. Friday & Saturday 6-21/22, 6 PM- 1AM. 320 West 37th, 14th floor.
After almost two years the Contrast Art Show is host to some of the best artistic communities in the New York underground art scene. A grand spectacle & meeting place for artist, curator, & collector alike. This exhibition which puts together a variation of artists, artistic movement groups + several upcoming galleries; in order to show the rising styles and trends of art in NYC. With a Special presentation of work submitted by children survivors of the 2004 southeast Asian tsunami. (Proceeds go to the United Nations Women’s Guild). Performances at 10 PM. “Join” on Facebook.
Hear sublime HKAG member, resident, artist, blues belting chanteuse Janet Restino on Wednesdays. HEART & SOUL RADIO 7-8 PM www.cityworldradio.com. TURN IT ON/TUNE IN. SUMMERTIME MUSIC! Some rock, some soul, some-DANCIN’ IN THE STREETS!
Archived & ON DEMAND soon after). To Listen: in
1) Click on the LISTEN LIVE link (Picture of the Microphone)
2) Click on the Icon of the folder with a music note on the streamer dashboard & pick the show you want to hear.
Let me know how you like the show!
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I design, take commissions & sell existing artworks from my studio. Collect Fine Art at janetrestino.com.
BELOW are the gigs, shows, & great chances for artists of all types. But recall to mark your schedules: Friday for our free all day 15 band concert, art & gourmet home-cooking social! AND to submit all art & writing BEFORE July 21st for publication. Offer your best images & literary efforts by following directions at: ArtistsintheKitchen.org.
Submissions are now open for the 7th Annual Mono No Aware exhibition, to take place December 6th & 7th, 2013 at Light Space Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Open to all artists; filmmakers, performers, poets, musicians – who incorporate Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered light projections as part of a live performance, installation, sculpture or expanded cinema presentation.
DEADLINE: received by OCTOBER 31, 2013. NO DIGITAL PROJECTIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED. FILM ONLY. NO FEE FOR SUBMISSION. FUNDED BY LOCAL ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS. Event history, entry details and submission form can be found at: mononoawarefilm.com. SUMMER WORKSHOPS, LIMITED SPOTS REMAINING! JUNE/JULY. Direct Film-making/Animation, 3-D Puppet Animation, Hand-Processing Color Negative Film,Producing for Independent cinema.
Summer Solstice 2013: Longest Day Of Year Begins Thursday, June 20