Jamie Hewlett in Conversation at Lincoln Center, June 22

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Come hang out with Jamie Hewlett this Saturday at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center starting at 11:00am. Jamie will be discussing Monkey: Journey to the West with Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times, and there will be a sweepstakes to win signed Monkey posters. The event is FREE and open to the public. No ticket required, but early arrival is advised.

 

 

 

This Day In Lincoln Center History…

On June 19, 2007, Free Wi-Fi service is launched across the Lincoln Center outdoor public spaces.

 

Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, running October 24 through November 23, 2013, focuses on artistic expression’s powerful capacity to illuminate the many dimension of our interior lives. The fourth annual White Light Festival, will feature a particular emphasis on the power of voice. Spanning numerous musical traditions, genres, and disciplines, the Festival will offer 23 performances of music, dance and theater, as well as films and events featuring seven premieres and debuts by artists and companies from more than a dozen countries, including France, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, the U.K., Mali, Estonia, Italy, Austria, Canada and the U.S.  New to this edition of the Festival is White Light on Film, film screenings followed by discussions with their directors. Other Festival components include: a panel discussion focused on the subject of time, pre- and post-performance artist discussions, and the popular post-performance White Light Lounges.

Highlights include the US premiere of Akram Khan’s DESH, the US premiere of Michel van der Aa’s mysterious cello concerto and film Up-close, the US premiere of Era la notte featuring soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, the New York premiere of Jordi Savall’s The Cycles of Life, performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Thomas Boy’s Choir, the Tallis Scholars, the Jack Quartet, Le Concert d’Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Festival encores of The Manganiyar Seduction, and Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

Explore and learn more about the 2013 White Light Festival here.
Read the press release detailing all the events of the Festival here.

 

Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival 2013

Get ready for details tomorrow on Lincoln Center’s fourth White Light Festival, coming this Fall.

 

Behind the Scenes: Rehearsals for “Monkey: Journey to the West”

Rehearsals for Lincoln Center Festival’s “Monkey: Journey to the West” are now underway!

Check out these behind the scenes footage from rehearsals in China! And visit our Facebook page for more videos.

 

First Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award Presented

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Lincoln Center Education has teamed up with the Department of Education’s “Big Apple Awards” to honor an art teacher for making a difference in the lives of his/her students and for going above and beyond in their role as an arts educator. The Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award is one of 11 honors given as part of these new DOE sponsored awards. Each Big Apple Teacher Award winner was granted $3,500 for use by the teacher in the classroom.

The first Lincoln Center Arts Teacher was presented last week by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and the first recipient is Melissa Salguero of PS 48 in the Bronx. She teaches students in grades K-5, and is being recognized for bringing music back into the school which has not has a music program in 50 years. Salguero created a group called SongCorps, which is designed to reach out to at-risk 4th grade boys through music in partnership with the local Hunts Point Alliance for Children.

Learn more about Lincoln Center Education and the Lincoln Center Arts Teacher Award

Pictured, left to right: Ann Unterberg, Chair, Lincoln Center Education; Dennis Walcott, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Melissa Salguero; New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Katherine Farley, Chair, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)

 

Reflection of Met Opera House in the Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center.
 

Reflection of Met Opera House in the Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center.

 

The Dance Floor and the Damrosch Park Bandshell are all ready for Midsummer Night Swing, starting next week! Check out more on the annual outdoor festival here at Lincoln Center, starting June 25.
 

The Dance Floor and the Damrosch Park Bandshell are all ready for Midsummer Night Swing, starting next week! Check out more on the annual outdoor festival here at Lincoln Center, starting June 25.

 

Midsummer Night Swing at Ginny’s Supper Club tonight

Midsummer Night Swing kicks off in just over a week! Get in the spirit tonight at a pre-season event at Ginny’s Supper Club. Take a dance lesson and enjoy live music by the John Dokes Quintet, and DJ George Gee. The fun starts tonight at 7 p.m.

 

Some of our favorite Instagram photos of the 88 Sing for Hope pianos that graced Josie Robertson Plaza yesterday — and the people (and dog) who played them!
 

Some of our favorite Instagram photos of the 88 Sing for Hope pianos that graced Josie Robertson Plaza yesterday — and the people (and dog) who played them!