Thursday, March 31, 2016

DISCOVER THE NEW AVENUE C PLAZA: A ONE-DAY PLAZA EVENT

Performance/Dance Schedule

1pm-1:45pm - The Bond Street Theatre‘s Shinbone Alley Stilt Band. Strut from Avenue C Plaza to Kensington Plaza and back, ending at Avenue C Plaza

1:50pm-2:05pm - Opening Remarks New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, The Kensington Stewards, and others in Bengali and Spanish

2:10-2:35pm - The Famous Accordion Orchestra, led by composer/accordionist Bob Goldberg

240-2:45pm - BIPA (Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts) Performance 1 (Split for Costume Change)

2:55-3:20pm - Feringhees, a Bangladeshi-American Rock Band

3:20-3:25pm - BIPA Performance 2

3:30-4:05pm - Contemporary Variety music (not live)

●      The Singing Winds, Storytelling by Jill Reinier

4:10-4:25pm - " A Dancer's Day," Dance-Cardio Fitness Class by Taseen Ferdous

4:30-5:00pm - Dance Party with Ritmosis, an Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz band.  Taseen Ferdous will encourage participants to dance.

Other Activities

2:30pm-5pm

●      Uni-Project Pop-Up Mobile Reading Room

●      “Energetic Painting” by  Diana Sanzone

●      Plant Workshop & Giveaway by Sue Braverman

●      Cynthia’s Arts & Crafts by Cynthia Fortozo

●      Participatory Budgeting Voting Location

●      Info Table with DOT Street Ambassadors

Grants from The Scherman Foundation to The Horticultural Society of New York’s Neighborhood Plaza Partnership program are partially funding the April 3 program.

The Kensington Stewards are a Project of the Open Space Institute, Inc.