Art for Change Closing Reception
Art For Change presents
May 1st: One Year Later
Closing Reception
Featuring music by
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
May 24th 6-9 pm
Carlitos Café y Galeria
1701 Lexington Ave (btwn 106-107th sts)
Attracting hundreds of thousands of participants, the marches for immigration rights that took place on May 1st, 2006 in major cities across the United States stand out as one of the most impressive political mass-mobilizations in the past fifty years.
Currently on display by Art For Change at Carlitos Café y Galeria is a look at photographs taken during these marches as well as posters and art made this year for the May 1st event. Also, included in the exhibition are photographs from the visual component of the Dangerous Storytelling Workshop. This workshop was held in conjunction with the past exhibit Sed: A Trail of Thirst by Orlando Lara, organized as a way to talk about dangerous or risky subjects, especially those faced by immigrant youth.
Art for Change advocates reflection, dialogue, and action through the creative process. Art Belongs to Everyone, the curatorial program of Art For Change exhibits contemporary artists of diverse cultural backgrounds who use art as a tool for progressive social change. Exhibitions focus on emerging and established artists who are looking to create a challenging statement about contemporary history.
March for Affordable Housing
New York Is Our Home!
Campaign for Affordable Rents
Wednesday, May 23rd
March & Rally
5:00pm
Perimeter of Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village
(1st Avenue and FDR/Avenue C from 23rd to 14th Streets)
A united effort of housing groups, the NYC Central Labor Council & the Working Families Party. Join with us to:
-Repeal vacancy decontrol
-Preserve Mitchell Lama and Section 8 housing
-Stop unfair rent increases and harassment
-Ensure adequate state funding for NYCHA housing
-Limit rental payments for people living with HIV/AIDS to 30% of income
The Amazingly Queer Race for Economic Justice
Saturday, May 19
The Amazingly Queer Race for Economic Justice
NOON
starting at the LGBT Center
208 West 13th Street at 7th Ave (Manhattan)
www.queersforeconomicjustice
Bicycle Film Festival
hear us before the films on
Friday May 18
Bicycle Film Festival
RMO at 6:30
films at 7: Ski Boys, Bike Kill 4, Monkey Warfare
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
$8.50- get your tickets ahead of time!
Swashbuckler’s Ball: Benefit for Miss Rockaway Armada
We in the RMO are a varied bunch, but we have some important things in common: we love the green and black, love peace and justice, love fabulous costumes, love to shake the booty and love boats and sustainability. A bunch of the above gets wrapped up into our next gig. The Miss Rockaway Armada is a crew of freaks, artists and adventurers that built rafts out of junk and floated partly down the Mississippi last year; this year they’re going back and shooting for New Orleans. The Armada includes members of the RMO.
As if seeing our lovin’ faces wasn’t enough, we will be joined by three great acts, including our compatriots in Veveritse (playing early at 9; including former/current members of RMO and the Hungry March Band), our friend Rench and new friends from Philly in Pony Pants. We’re on at 10:15. Don’t forget to dress up and don’t miss it!
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Swashbuckler’s Ball
A Benefit for the Miss Rockaway Armada
Thursday, May 10th
Europa Nightclub in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
98-104 Meserole Ave., (corner of Manhattan Ave.)
G train to Nassau
Doors at 7 pm, $7 or $5 if you dress up real crazy
like a pirate or other nautical character
Shake Your Booty to the Fantastic Talents Of:
Rude Mechanical Orchestra (radical marching band)
featuring Team Awesome (guerrilla dance troupe)
Pony Pants (West Philly dancepartymeltdown)
Rench (block rockin’ honky tonk)
Veveritse (balkan brass dance grooves)
And: Enjoy Mississippi-themed snacks! Get your random fabric and clothing
screen printed by the Rockaway Crew! See the Amazing Slideshow!
Don’t Forget to Dress Nautical: Pirates, Mermaids, Sailors, more!
The Armada is collective of people who traveled down the Mississippi
last year on rafts we built ourselves; a project of sustainability,
cultural exchange and adventure. Help send us down the river again,
this time all the way to New Orleans!
www.missrockaway.org
Band links: www.myspace.com/ponypants, www.renchaudio.com/
Links to online flyer/advance tickets: http://www.missrockaway.org
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Cinco De Mayo benefit party for Movimiento Por Justicia del Barrio
We’re very excited to be playing a Cinco De Mayo benefit party for Movimiento Por Justicia del Barrio:
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Join us for a day of festivities, come for the BBQ, come for the music, come to perform at the open mic, come to dance, come to mingle, come to break our surprise pinata, come in solidarity.
Saturday May 5th
2-5pm:
$5 to 20 sliding scale for entry and a drink!
$5 for a plate of veggie BBQ
$3 Margaritas
6-10pm:
Music, dancing and open mic featuring:
Spirit Child (Mental Notes)
Mystery Family
the Rude Mechanical Orchestra
687 Park Avenue
between Marcy and Tompkins
G train to Flushing
Movimiento Por Justicia Del Barrio (MJB) is an immigrant-led social justice organization based in East Harlem. The group was founded in December of 2004 to organize resistance against the devastating effects of gentrification in their community. The immigrant base and leadership of their organization has led MJB to address the pressing issue of immigrant rights. In 2005, their predominantly Mexican membership decided to become adherents to Zapatista’s Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and joined The Other Campaign, a national movement to change Mexico initiated by the Zapatistas. Since then, the group has facilitated a comprehensive Consulta Con El Barrio to invite popular community participation in developing strategyand focus for the struggle for community based justice. MJB struggles for justice by challenging systems of racism, xenophobia, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
Mayday March for Immigrant Workers’ Rights
Call in sick, leave work early, because Tuesday May 1st is
MayDay: Equal Rights for All Workers! End the Raids and Deportations!
No Work, No School, No Sales, No Buying
4pm Rally in Union Square Park, marching down to Federal Plaza
*Stop Criminalizing Immigrants*
Please join us in this day of action supporting immgrant rights.
