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 Councilmember 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 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.