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March 25, 2008:
Perform for Thousands at ART ON LARK - the Capital Region’s Premiere Arts Festival - on June 21st!
This year, Art on Lark will be bigger than ever: Lark Street will be closed to traffic, admission is free, the expected attendance for the day is 20,000 people, and for the first time, we’re taking local bands from street to stage. The music starts at 10am and goes all day.
5 Headliner Bands and 6 Solo Acoustic Performers (or acoustic Duos) will be chosen by the Art on Lark Committee.
Performance Details:
- Bands play 45-minute sets and receive a $125 honorarium.
- Acoustic performers play for 15 minutes between bands and receive a $25 honorarium.
- All bands and performers will be given table space to sell merchandise.
- Water will be provided.
- Sound support WILL be provided.
All styles of music welcome!
TO APPLY, DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION HERE
Submissions must be postmarked no later than Friday, May 2nd, 2008. Late submissions will not be accepted.
The final performance line-up will be determined by Friday, June 6, 2008.
E-mail info@albanybarn.org for more information.
February 25, 2008:
Albany Barn featured in the Daily Gazette:
Check out a great article by reporter Philip Schwartz HERE
February 1, 2008:
Albany Barn, Inc. is moving forward with our partner, the Albany Housing Authority, on converting St. Joseph’s Academy, a beautiful and spacious former school building in Arbor Hill into a community arts incubator. The massive first floor will include several large galleries, significant performance and flex space, cafe, work studios, rehearsal studios, a dark room and digital media lab. Affordable live-work apartments with private bathrooms & kitchens will be located on the upper floors.
So many of you have already written to us expressing your interest in live/work space, studio space and rehearsal space - THANK YOU - your input will help to make The Barn a reality.
If you are interested and you have not contacted us yet, we still want to HEAR from YOU:
PLEASE COMPLETE THE "LIVE/WORK IN THE BARN" FORM AT www.albanybarn.org
NOTE: WE WILL NOT BE SHARING ANY NAMES OR CONTACT INFORMATION WITH OUTSIDE PARTIES - we are trying to show general interest, but not specific individual prospects at this time.
EXPRESSING INTEREST IN A SPACE IN NO WAY OBLIGATES YOU WHEN IT BECOME AVAILABLE.
Thank you! If you have any questions, please email us at info@albanybarn.org
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.ALBANYBARN.ORG
What is THE BARN?
Barn-raising is the name given an age-old practice of people coming together to erect a barn or house for a neighbor but it has come to mean a lot more than constructing a structure; it’s about building community.
Albany Barn, Inc, is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing a permanent creative arts incubator and community art center in Albany, NY called THE BARN.
Albany Barn, Inc recognizes how difficult it can be for aspiring working artists to get a foothold. It is our goal to make THE BARN a home for all the rich and diverse arts of the Capital Region, not only by providing a place to display or perform, but a place to create, to network, to promote, to learn, to teach, and even to live.
Exhibits, performances and activities in THE BARN will be unjuried and open to all ages. Facilities planned include affordable artist-friendly residences and work/rehearsal studios, a live music/cabaret space, multiple galleries, public darkroom, multimedia lab, and more. They will be made available to local artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and performers seeking an engaging, supportive environment in which to create and share their work, particularly those who cannot afford or otherwise obtain such space.
Albany Barn, Inc. seeks to cauterize the brain drain of promising young artists from the area, expand the footprint of arts in the city, facilitate neighborhood revitalization with a more vital social-art dynamic, act as a bridge between area artists, arts groups and city neighborhoods, and provide an open forum for youth to explore the arts.
As we work towards a permanent home for THE BARN, Albany Barn, Inc. is planning and producing exciting creative arts events and educational programs.
This is a call to all creative artists and art supporters in the Greater Capital Region:
SPREAD THE WORD - GET INVOLVED - RAISE THE BARN
For more info, please visit www.albanybarn.org or email us at info@albanybarn.org
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