Arts For Art Annual Family Gathering

Arts for Art’s annual Family Gathering, will take place on the 2nd floor of The Clemente in Teatro LaTea on Friday December 6th. The event kicks off the Artists & Friends annual fundraising campaign. All funds raised will support Arts for Art and the Improvised Creative Arts.  But more than that it will be a gathering of the community celebrating Love and unbridled creativity and specifically it will celebrate the creative legacy of  the musicWitness®, Jeff Schlanger. 

The focus of Family Gathering is Love and empowerment of Community.  It is more important than ever that AFA holds to our ideals but with eyes wide open to the dangers that lie ahead. But we are equally committed to Love and Joy.

Food prepared by AFA Chefs: Hope Carr, Marcellus Holton, Shashanka 

SCHEDULE: subject to change and additions

Friday, December 6th, 2024  

6 F&B /  Auction Jeff Schlanger Posters  

6:15 Film: One Long Painting (on the Art of Jeff Schlanger) by Moon Lasso

7 Break 

7 :30 Music is Mine,  Youth Band  

8 Luke Stewart & Miriam Parker + guests

8:30 XXE Melanie Dyer, Mara Rosenbloom, Kyoko Kitamura +

9 Bake Off Judging and Bake Sale

9:30 Poetry : No Land / Patricia Nicholson / Bob Holman 

10 William Parker lead PocketWatch Extended & Spirit Voices

Rob Brown, Aakash Mittal, Devin Brahja Waldman - alto

Alfredo Colon, Isaiah Barr,  - tenor

Dave Sewelson - baritone

Diego Hedez - trumpet

Masahiko Kono, Colin Babcock - trombone 

Luke Stewart, Colson Jimenez  - bass

Hans Young Binter - piano

Juan Pablo Carletti /Trae Crudup / TA Thompson / Michael Wimberly - percussion

Spirit Voices:  Ellen Christi / Kyoko Kitamura / Patricia Nicholson / Lisa Sokolov /Amirtha Kidambi 

Host or Publisher Arts for Art