Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Exciting New Film Festival
Get your tickets today: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=nohED1
Monday, October 13, 2014
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Art Installation honors Dr. Cortina
Dedication to Dr. Cortina
An Art Installation by Luis Romero
Union City, NJ) The City of Union City, Mayor Brian P. Stack & Board of Commissioners will be hosting an Art Installation by Louis Romero as a Dedication to Dr. Cortina opening tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 6:00 PM at the William V. Musto Cultural Center, 420 - 15th Street in Union City.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
William V. Musto Cultural Center
420 -15th Street
Union City, NJ
This exhibit is an installation consisting of an oil painting, three drawings, a photograph, a low relief sculpture/medal, and an informational video about Dr.Cortina, amongst other things. Everything in this installation is designed and made by Luis Romero, including the sign. For the last two weeks, this installation was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he is employed. Dr. Cortina visited the Met last week with his family to attend the exhibit and they were all very moved and impressed by it.
Artist Louis Romero has been a Union City resident since his family migrated to the US from Cuba back in 1974. Last year, the City of Union City honored Dr. Francisco Cortina before his retirement at the age 90 and after more than 40 years of serving our local community by naming a street after him ("Dr. Cortina Way").
As a person indebted to Dr. Cortina for the medical services he has provided to Mr. Romero's family and to the community at large, Mr. Romero has worked diligently for the last year on this installation to honor the doctor in his own way.
Everyone in the community is invited. Free Admission. The exhibit will run from September 17 - October 6, 2014.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Comfort
"Comfort"
a New Play... exposing abuse against women
(New York, NY) The Hudson Fine Arts Foundation & The Grace Theatre Workshop, Inc. will be presenting the provocative new play, "Comfort", opening on Friday, July 18, 2014 at The Jewel Box Theatre in New York City and running through Friday, August 8th with a Special Gala Performance at Lincoln Center.
"Comfort" deals with the horrific acts of violence towards "Comfort Women" or "sex slaves" by the Japanese during World War II. The Japanese government would kidnap young girls as young as 14 years old from various countries including China and Korea and send them to their soldiers in the battlefield to "comfort" them. Details from some survivors attest to being raped fifty to two hundred times a day. But, more so, the play dares to bring forth the difficult subject of sex trafficking and physical abuse of women world-wide. The current political issues around this topic are expressed through movement and straight dialogue. In the play, the leading character "Peter" must produce a documentary film about Comfort Women, but his boss disagrees with Peter's chosen subject matter. In the meantime, Peter meets "Roksun", a comfort woman, in his dream. With a great mix between experimental movement & poetry about serious political matter the play presents an important subject in a palpable artistic way.
"Comfort" is Written & Directed by Jung Han Kim; Produced by Megan Fernandez; Lighting Design by James Vitale; Costume Design by Ashley Rogers; Ou Hyuk Im, Production Manager; and Luis Camacho Dilorenzi, Stage Manager. It stars Lucio Fernandez, Shannon Kelly, Taylor Schramm, David Couter, Josh Tucker, Audrey Smith, Kelsey Knight, Cat J. Lane, Ian Jesse Curtis, and Pallavi Seth.
"Comfort"
presented by
Hudson Fine Arts Foundation, Jahye Kim, President
& The Grace Theatre Workshop, Inc., Megan Fernandez, Artistic Director
Jewel Box Theatre
@WorkShop Theatre Company
312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor
NYC
Friday, July 18th @ 6:00 PM
Saturday, July 19th @ 7:00 PM
Saturday, July 26th @ 1:00 PM
Sunday, July 27th @ 6:30 PM
Friday, August 1st @ 7:30 PM
Admission: $18.00
For tickets, please visit: www.midtownfestival.org
or call: 866-811-4111
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Special Gala Performances of "Comfort" on Monday, August 4th and Friday, August 8th, 2014 at The Bruno Walter Auditorium @ Lincoln Center, NYC. Special guests at the Gala Performances will be South Korean victims from World War II ("Comfort Women") as well as other dignitaries.
The Bruno Walter Auditorium
@ Lincoln Center, NYC
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just below 65th Street
NYC
Gala Performances - "Comfort"
Monday, August 4th @ 7:00 PM
Friday, August 8th @ 7:00 PM
Admission: $18.00
For tickets, please visit: http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=COM94
or call: 212-868-4444
For further information, please visit: www.HudsonFoundation.org or www.GraceTheatre.com
Thursday, June 26, 2014
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