New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Dumbo Arts Festival Official Website) 15TH ANNUAL DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 23-25 More Than 10 Local Brooklyn Bands To Perform In Musical Showcase As Part Of Free Weekend FestivitiesThe 15th annual Dumbo Arts Festival, a three-day extravaganza that will showcase more than 500 artists, 120 open art studios and 40 live performances - all free of charge - will take place Friday,
September 23 - Sunday,
September 25 in the Dumbo neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront, between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges.
Musical programming at this year's Dumbo Arts Festival includes a showcase of local Brooklyn indie rock bands on the afternoon of Saturday,
September 24th at St. Ann's Warehouse, located at 38 Water Street, Brooklyn. Among the bands that are scheduled to perform are Jan Bell & the Maybelles, Miss Tess, Hilary Hawke & the Flipsides, Asphalt Orchestra, Mecca Bodega, Roberto Poveda, The Well-Informed, Conjunto Guantanamo, Drbebop and the Glocals, The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, La Defense, You Won't, Young Boys and The Long Eye. Additional musical performances will take place throughout the neighborhood all weekend, ranging from rhythm and blues to Latin and indie rock, among others.
The multidisciplinary Festival will include visual and performance art, open studios, music and literature, family programming and more. Among this year's Festival highlights are monumental outdoor exhibitions, cutting-edge and technologically-advanced video projections on Dumbo's bridges and buildings and interactive projects and performances. Genre highlights are listed below.
Originally conceived and organized by the Dumbo Arts Center in 1997, and known as the "Art Under the Bridge Festival," the Festival has grown and evolved with the changing neighborhood to include more artists, more disciplines and now new media. In 2010, Two Trees Management, a founding sponsor of the Festival, increased its support by managing the production of the Festival - which has since become known at the Dumbo Arts Festival.
This year, AT&T has become major sponsor of the Dumbo Arts Festival and will be integrated into various aspects of the festival, including sponsoring a signature installation that will be a cornerstone of this year's artistic programming as well a new Festival app that will guide visitors through the Festival's projects. Dozens of personal guides, with Wi-Fi-enabled tablets and spread out across Dumbo, will direct, teach and interact with festival-goers using the robust AT&T network. The festival will include a lounge with amenities powered by AT&T, including charging stations and AT&T Wi-Fi-enabled products featuring an interactive festival map.
Festival hours are:
Friday,
September 23: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday,
September 24: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday,
September 25: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
All outdoor projections are open from 6:00 PM - Midnight on all three nights.
For more information including an up-to-date list of artists and programs, visit https://dumboartsfestival.com. To get the latest updates on artists and exhibitors, follow the festival on Facebook and Twitter (@dumboartsfest).
EVENT: Dumbo Arts Festival
DATE & TIME: Friday,
September 23: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday,
September 24: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday,
September 25: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Dumbo neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront
between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges
Dumbo Arts Festival Highlights
Performance Art
-
Janet Biggs' premier of Wet Exit, a multi-media performance that combines projected video images and musicians with choreographed kayakers performing in the East River;
- Shaun 'El C.' Leonardo's
Battle Royal, a spectacle recreating the opening scene of Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man that will feature 15 blindfolded professional wrestlers fighting inside a 16-foot high steel cage until only one man is left standing;
Visual Artists
- Mac Premo's The Dumpster Project uses a converted 30-foot long industrial dumpster as exhibition space to showcase more than 400 personal objects;
- Manifest.AR, curated by John Cleater, presents a series of augmented reality projects on the Brooklyn waterfront viewable by using the free LAYAR app on iPhone 3GS/4 or Android smartphone;
- Immersive
Surfaces projects video onto the Manhattan Bridge anchorage and surrounding cityscape to blur boundaries between perception, art and technology.
- Emilie Baltz and Jeremy Linzee's Buoys, a set of circular, metal disks that float on the surface of the East River and reflect the surroundings.
- Arts and crafts projects including a pop-up book workshop, community quilt-making and comic book art.
Family Art/Programming:
- Acrobuffos' Waterbombs!, an interactive and hysterical water balloon gladiator show that substitutes spoken word with opera music to deliver a thrilling performances.
- Robert Elmes' Dumbo Kite Flying Society will teach kids of all ages the beloved pastime of kite flying in some of the "best winds in the borough."
- Great Small Works' Workshop and Procession, an arts and crafts workshop at St Ann's Warehouse where children can make puppets, cut-outs and flags and then showcase their work in parade through the streets of Dumbo.
Arts and crafts projects including a pop-up book workshop, community quilt-making and comic book art.
