Grand Street communityARTS invites youto celebrate the
completion of the BoardedUP community art project.

BoardedUP is a 6 month, street-level showcase featuring
the new works of 40 area artists.

All works will be on display and up for auction.

Support communityARTS!

Friday September 12, 6pm
64 Grand Street, Albany

More information on the artists of BoardedUP is below (click "read more" to see the full list)

· alisa sikeleanos

· ally kirby

· barbara shema

July boardedUP is now up and looks incredible. We will probably keep it up into august a little as this will be the last month of boardedUP!

This show has really exceeded our expectations and has been an amazing way to open a dialog about communityART with neighborhood residents and regulars. We will have a big closing event and art auction September 12th so save the date.

Thank You to all of you that came to see the show, that stopped to look and talk about the art.

Thank you to all of the participating artists-
alisa sikeleanos, ally kirby, barbara shema, benj gleeksman, burnest cashu FOE, cookie, demetrius dickerson, derek revella, dwell, dylan boyce, eileen cheong, g.g. roberts, gabrielle becker, issie, james van duyn, jamie courcelle, kat peters, laura travison, lauren jacobs, liberation please, m.s., marcus kwame anderson, mark gregory, mc3, melissa marceau, michelle legget, nicole martin, pasquale littlejohn, peter amorosa & leigh cummings, r. iannacone, radical, rebecca schoonmaker, scout + stain, slack, steven rolf kroeger, tashi palden, uneek, and warren macmillan

A set of 8 new works is up for May. This is the third month of boardedUP! and we have received a lot of positive feedback from the first two months. Madison avenue gets a lot of foot traffic and people have really come forward to tell us they enjoy the show. We've had conversations with people about what they like about some of the work, some people have shared stories about art they used to make. In fact one of the artists featured this months comes from some one who stopped to talk to us about the show and lives right across the street. We hope to extend the show for another month or two! This show is up for the month of May please come by to see before it's gone.

Did you snap some shots or grab some video at the Kimya Dawson show?? (or any other GSCA event).

Please, please share them with us.
just attach and e-mail to events @ grandarts.org

Thanks to Nicole E. for these pictures (below).

View more of theseaudience submitted photos and more on the GSCA flickr site.

Last night's show with Kimya Dawson, Angelo Spencer, & L'Orchidee D'Hawai show was incredible!

With just over 200 people the show felt very intimate both the audience and performers seemed very engaged with each other.  There were many interactions between audience and performers, with children (and adults who act like children) even taking turns on stage to help create everything from music to animal sounds (more on that later).  At other times, however, the audience was very silent, completely focused on the performance.

We're very excited for our first big music event! See you all there.

Our first month of boarded up! was amazing & we've people passing by have been very impressed and excited abot the art and aren't shy about letting us know about it.

April's rotation went up last week and is continnuing the momentum.  More and more people are finding out about the show and many are interested in getting invovled.

Come by and see April's exhibition before it's gone.

More to come in May. . .

Also, if you know anyone who might be interested in submitting a proposal for boarded up! We are still taking submissions here.

Visit GSCA's flickr site.

UPDATE Tues, April 4 2008, 5:30pm

We are no longer offering online ticket sales
There may be some tickets at the door, keep checking this site for more.

Our face to face ticket sale on Sun. 3/30 was a big success (thank you CDFI for hosting and all of you Kimya fans who bought tickets).

Thanks to CDFI for helping us out and providing a great space for The Free School to sell tickets for the Kimya Dawson show.

ALSO thanks to all of you who showed up to buy tickets.

We still have a small bundle of tickets left so. . .
You can buy yours online above.

Despite anything you might have heard on facebook.  The Kimya Dawson show is definitely NOT canceled.

Apparently, someone started a facebook group for the event and canceled the event which caused the confusion.

If you want a facebook group that won't tell you its canceled use this one::
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10368212561

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March, 26, 2008. Albany, NY - Kimya Dawson of The Moldy Peaches and Juno soundtrack fame performs a special benefit for the Free School April 9th at the Grand Street Community ArtSpace.

<<< TICKET INFO POSTED 3/26 @ 4:30pm >>>

Kimya Dawson TICKET Info:

Time/Date:
Saturday, March 29, 10am to 4pm

Location:
Point 5
Capital District Federation of Ideas, CDFI
383.5 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY

 Tickets:
$20 per ticket (Cash only)
This is a small show and tickets are limited.
Online sales and additional sales dates may or may not be announced depending on availability.

Questions:
events@grandarts.org

Map of location of Point 5, CDFI below

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Saturday, March 29th @ 7pm

Harriet Tubman Free School Proudly Presents
a concert featuring

• Oddy Gato Albany's Wildest Hip Hop Mic (on myspace)
• Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde Soul Singer warrior (on myspace)
• The Storm Power Poetry for The People
• Herbal-T Spoken Word to Lifth the Heart
  
• Lindsey Rogowski HTFS' Own Fierce Folk Rock
  
• Alisa Sikelianos Acoustic Love From NYC (on myspace)

COME SEE GSCA's boarded up!

Boarded up! is an ongoing show featuring the work of artists on 9 boarded up windows on the exterior wall of GSCA's Artspace (former St. Anthony's church).

Come down to Madison Ave @ Grand Street to take a look,

The 1st monthly rotation of Boarded Up is on display now. We had some really amazing submissions, made some difficult decisions, and are very pleased with the work that we selected. We will have a brand new rotation in april, may, and possibly beyond.

More photos after the jump (click read more below).

Grand Street Community Arts (GSCA) presents “Boarded Up”.

Boarded Up! seeks visual artists to produce artwork on plywood panels to be displayed on the exterior of the church building on the boarded up basement windows of south (Madison Ave.) side.

Artists will use plywood (which will be provided) as their canvas. The pieces will be displayed in the buildings exterior south side (on Madison Ave) windows. There are nine windows, each artist will have one window and their work will be displayed for one month.

GRAND STREET COMMUNITY ARTS PRESENTS:
A special benefit for The Free School
Kimya Dawson
w/Angelo Spencer and L’Orchidee D’Hawaii

April 9th, Doors: 6PM Show: 7PM
Grand Street Community ArtSpace
corner of Grand St. & Madison Ave.
Albany, NY

Space is minimily heated please dress accordingly.
Map

GSCA, honorable mention the Albany Times Union's: best gigs of 2007

Albany Times Union
12.31.2007

High notes

To christen the former St. Anthony's Church at Madison Avenue and Grand Street in Albany into its new identity as an arts space run by Grand Street Community Arts, a team led by co-curators Michael Oatman and C. Ryder Cooley took over the space on June 1 and 2 for two days of imaginative and rather mysterious art and performance

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND!!!

WE ARE ARCHITECTS: BUILDING ONE

Indoor Blanket Fort Building

Grand Street Community Arts presents, We Are Architects: Building One, a single evening, all ages, participatory art and architecture event that invites the public to collaborate in making a large-scale sculpture, based on the childhood pastime of building blanket forts. Participants will be provided with all necessary materials to construct their own structure in a designated area inside of GSCA's century old community center. We Are Architects invites everyone to join together in making a spiraling metropolis of quilt towers, duvet tepees and linen nests.

This event will culminate in a live music concert, viewable from the cozy confines of our cloth constructions. The concert will feature special music guests, Matthew Immigrant, folk loops; Lucas Rathke, minimal sounds of modern living; The Dust Dive, experimental campfire music, Dave End, children's music for adults; Scientific Maps, pop theories; Kitty Little, music you can clap your hands too . Where: Grand Street Community Arts (GSCA) at former St. Anthony's Church/ On the corner of Grand Street and Madison Avenue, 64 Grand Street, Albany, NY 12202