Showing posts with label Hudson Fine Arts Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hudson Fine Arts Foundation. Show all posts
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Monday, August 8, 2016
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, July 30, 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
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
New York International Concerto Festival
The Hudson Fine Arts Foundation announces their schedule of concerts for the New York International Concerto Festival entitled “Concert for Peace: Empowering the Oppressed with Music" to be held January 2014 at various venues including Lincoln Center in NYC.
In our crazy fast-paced world full of hectic hustle and bustle with people scampering without direction in their lives, the Hudson Fine Arts Foundation shares love and culture throughout the world. Since its founding in 2011, the Foundation has showcased the talents of musicians to the local community to bring inspiration, warmth and the beauty of the arts to those who need music as a tonic for various conditions.
Based in New York, the multi-cultural Hudson Fine Arts Foundation kicked off with a concert series called Concerts in Love where young musicians performed over one hundred concerts in various nursing homes and childrens’ hospitals in New York and New Jersey. Since then, with the support of New York Congressman Charles Rangle, Congresswoman GraceMeng and State Senator Brian P. Stack, the Foundation grew to new heights as it has become a government recognized group. For their service to the community, the Foundation was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award, the highest volunteer service award in the nation.
In 2013, the Foundation started an Asian-American exchange program where musicians from both countries came together to perform in concerts for the handicapped, low income families, people suffering from depression, as well as the elderly. Because these people, under normal circumstances, would not be able to go to concert halls or other such venues, it was the Foundation’s wish to bring the concerts to them and to give them a sense of hope. This was the start of their Art for Peace series, in which the idea was to make the concerts more meaningful than justmere performances.
This past summer, the Foundation took on The Arirang Project with a concert series in South Korea to help commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean War with many war veterans in attendance. The Foundation also hosted the first annual New York International Concerto Festival with concerts at Lincoln Center in NYC, as well as at the Union City Museum of Art and the Union City Performing Arts Center. These concerts were also broadcasted by the Hudson Cable Television Network.
With the success of this past festival still fresh in the memories of those who participated and attended, the Hudson Fine Arts Foundation will host the second annual New York International Concerto Festival with three concerts: Sunday, January 19 at 6:00 PM at the Union City Performing Arts Center featuring the Union City Philharmonic Orchestra; Wednesday, January 22 at 7:00 PM at the Union City Museum of Art; and Saturday, January 26 at 6:00 PM at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center in NYC. This series of concerts is subtitled, “Concert for Peace: Empowering the Oppressed with Music.” With each festival, the Foundation seeks to bring to awareness to a different and important social issue, so as to prevent present and future injustices on that subject. The topic of this year’s festival is on the plight of the "Comfort Women" during the Korean War, as well as the sex trafficking of both women and children in countries such as Congo and Cambodia. All concerts are open to the public and free of charge.
The Hudson Fine Arts Foundation continues to strive in spreading the message of peace and hope through music and the arts, inspiring a new generation of listeners as well as performers. For more information, please visit: www.hudsonfoundation.org.
The Hudson Fine Arts Foundation
presents
The New York International Concerto Festival
“Concert for Peace: Empowering the Oppressed with Music"
Sunday, January 19 at 6:00 PM
Union City Performing Arts Center
2500 Kennedy Boulevard
Union City, NJ
Wednesday, January 22 at 7:00 PM
Union City Museum of Art
at The William V. Musto Cultural Center
420-15 Street
Union City, NJ
Saturday, January 26 at 6:00 PM
Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
NY, NY 10023
Open to the public
Free Admission
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