Save the date for Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden’s 33rd Annual Neptune Ball.  SHCCBG’s yearly gala will celebrate past achievements and honor Council Member Steven Matteo, Joanne Gerenser (Executive Director of EDEN II,) Margarette Purvis (President & CEO of the Food Bank for New York City) and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts..
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Stefanie Batten Bland is a choreographic artist who creates performances rooted in community, highlighting the  delicate threads that connect us to one another and to our planet. Based in contemporary dance theatre, Company SBB constructs futuristic environments with installations ripe in poetic theatrical flavors that are emotionally driven. In 2008 while head choreographer of the
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber returns to the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the seventh time since debuting their David Bowie tribute in 2011; revisiting & re-imagining their own tunes from That Depends On What You Know Parts 1,2&3, Not April in Paris, The Darknuss, Negrocity, The Rites, Making Love To The Dark Ages
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Patient(ce) is an evening-length, interdisciplinary work is inspired by father daughter conversations between Stefanie Batten Bland and controversial composer and film maker Ed Bland.  This creation will examine the structure of jazz with its formal emphasis on the eternal present.  Through a collaboration with futuristic jazz ensemble Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber and visual installation
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Sugar Nation … a message from the organizers of the fundraising effort for Ivan Julian: “First, thank you so much for pitching in with your time and energy–and money when possible–to help Ivan in his extreme need. The latest news regarding his condition is that, slightly over a year after his cancer diagnosis, and the
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Waiting List for “Heart of Fire” can be found here: http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/tickets/heart-on-fire-concert-for-ivan-julian-feat-debbie-harry-richard-hell-vernon-reid-living-colour-ian-hunter-garland-jeffreys-willie-nile-the-bush-tetras-more-5-4.html Donations for Ivan Julian can be made here.  https://www.gofundme.com/IvanJulianFund

The Burnt Sugar Arkestra returns to the Thunderbird Cafe fresh off a Lincoln Center commissioned Rick James tribute and on their way to Detroit and Cleveland to pay musical homage to Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback soundtrack and to one of the most, if not the most iconic rock star of our time … David
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Sugar Nation … stop by MIST for this FREE event that will feature renditions of Bowie tunes by the Burnt Sugar Arkestra, Jason St. Angelo, Omo Misha, and a special set of Bowie music by DJ DesiLu.  You’ll hear Breaking Glass, Rock & Roll Suicide, Moonage Daydream, Rebel, Rebel, Diamond Dogs, China Girl, The Man
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Sugar Nation we want to give a “shout out” to Tom Welsh of the Cleveland Museum of Art for the referral and shout a “thank you” to Colleen Miller who, after witnessing an assortment of the videos from our Lincoln Center songbook performances over the years, has invited us back to Cleveland to be a
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Sugar Nation … we are coming back to “The Motor City” with Melvin Van Peebles! It’s been a minute, or should we say a few years, since M.V.P & the Burnt Sugar Arkestra debuted the theatrical version of “Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song” in Paris at the Sons d’hiver Festival in 2010. Two sold-out, ow should
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