Festival of Colors September 2011

Participant Profile and Workshop Information

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Yoga and Art
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Plaza Wellness open house and Art exhibition

Plaza Wellness invites you to their seasonal open house, held in conjunction with Festival of Colors 2011 Yoga demonstrations and informational session Come meet the practitioners and teachers at Prospect Heights’ newest wellness center and yoga studio. There will be demonstrations, free mini treatments, as well as refreshments as you enjoy the opening reception for an exhibit of drawings from ongoing figure drawing classes at the Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery  (On going classes scheduled as a part of the festival of Colors)

Acoustic Guitar session by Mcormick Live

Exhibit description:
Figure drawings from some participants of ongoing classes at the Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery include both gesture (one minute poses) and more developed drawings from longer poses (from five to twenty minutes).

List of participating artists in the exhibit:

The exhibit will be available for viewing M-W-F by appointment
call: Steve at Plaza Wellness 718-789-8020

Location: Plaza Wellness Center, 36 Plaza Street, Suite 1C, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn,

(718) 789-8020 www.plazawellness.com

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Figure Drawing

Artist: Enid Braun

• Monday, September 26, 1pm-4pm Figure Drawing Class

Description:

Figure classes at  The Village @ Gureje are aimed at students at all levels, from beginner to more advanced, with an emphasis on the expressive possibilities of figure drawing.  Working from a nude model in charcoal and other media, students gain a sense of the dynamics of the human form, along with some basic anatomy.  The three-hour sessions are broken into 20-minute sets, building from short gesture poses to longer poses.

Fee: $35/person for festival session ($180 registration for regular 6-session class)

Enid Braun is a Brooklyn-based painter who has been teaching  adult art classes in New York for more than 30 years.  She currently teaches figure and landscape classes for the Battery Park City Conservancy and pastel and drawing classes for the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, in addition to the figure classes at the Village@Gureje.

She received her B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute.

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Dinner and a Movie in Ortine’s Backyard

Ortine is a restaurant/café located just around the corner from The Village @ Gureje.  It serves a varied menu that focuses on local, seasonal and organic ingredients.   The name originates from the word, “ortín,” meaning a garden planted by farm workers for their own use in early Lombardy, Italy.

Join us for a movie in our garden backyard while enjoying a locally produced and prepared meal!

Movie: Blue in the Face (starring Wayne Wang)

• Date & Time: Wednesday, September 14, 7:30-10:00pm

Location: 622 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn (718) 622-0026

http://www.ortine.com

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Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center Taiko Workshop for All Ages!

Artist: Kaoru Watanabe

Description: The taiko drum is traditionally used in Japanese festival and theater music and is a dynamic and physical modern day art form. Come learn some basic technique and a simple song with Kaoru Watanabe. Wear comfortable, exercise-friendly clothes, and be ready to sweat!

KAORU WATANABE, a former member of the Japanese taiko ensemble, Kodo, is a practitioner of various Japanese transverse bamboo flutes, the taiko drum, as well as Western flute. His music can be best described as an ever-shifting blend of the folk and classical traditions of Japan with contemporary improvisational and experimental music.

• Wednesdays: 6pm to 8pm
• Sundays: 2pm to 4pm

Fee: $20/session

www.watanabekaoru.com

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One Love Center : Meditations

Led by Rodney Gittens

One Love Center practices compassion in service, love in action and joyous, prosperous giving in the community.One Love Center is evolving from the Divine in Action!

About Us:
We are a vibrant loving community of like minded and hearted individuals who gather to joyfully explore ways and means to become the fullest and most productive beings possible…one moment at a time.

We powerfully, playfully use a variety of messages through media and metaphysical tools to assist us in going deeper and operating from an understanding of being ‘open at the top’.

One Love Vision: We envision a world as:…a sacred environment where spiritual growth and development flourish through living in the practice of spiritual principals. …the place where study, play and service supports celebrating Oneness as one family.

One Love Mission:

To provide a stable and welcoming community for all who choose to practice and grow, play and unfold their understanding of spiritual principles and spiritual living.

• Date: September 18, 2011  Time: 11am – 1pm

All are Welcome!

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Mask Making Workshop and Presentation

Artist: Nehprii Amenii

Description:A three day workshop that brings participants the history, the role and significance of Masks and Mask-Masking. During this workshop, participants will explore a characteristic of self that they would like to enhance or make visible via the spirit of the  Mask. We will anchor mask creations  based on qualities found and identified  in nature. During  the three sessions participants will engage in sculpting a clay mold, creating a papier-mâché casting, and decorating the final release of the mask. Participants will also learn basic mask movement for the embodiment and presentation of their mask.  Presentation will feature masks by renowned Papier mâché  and  Carnival  Artist  Didier Civil.

Nehprii Amenii, is an artist, writer, and educator. With a passion for ritual theater,  puppetry, and the arts of enchantment, she has created and worked with Penumbra theatre Company, In the heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and The Czecholovak-American Marionette Theatre.  For the past seven years, she has enjoyed teaching puppetry and staging puppet performances for The Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation’s Arts in Education programs. Educated in African Philosophy and Creative Communications, She Designs curriculum that uses creativity to enhance self-image and imagination for both children and the adult’s child within.

• Friday –  September 23 - 6pm-9pm Intro to Masks &  Sculpting Clay Session 1
• Saturday – September 24 – 2pm-5pm [Creating  Papier mâché  Casting] Session 2
• Saturday   October 1, 2pm-5pm [Releasing the Mask!]    -      Session 3

Fee: $150

(Sessions culminate, attendance to all 3 are required. Registration closes September 16^th )

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Print Making / Textile Dyeing Workshop

 

Artist: ‘Jimi Gureje

Description: A two-hour interactive workshop with career artist and medium illustrator, ‘Jimi Gureje teaches and orientates participants about hands-on basic dyeing techniques and manipulating fabrics, resulting in intricate pattern/texture creations on fabrics.

Participants with or without prior dye work experience in textile art shall watch demonstrations by the artist. Each shall in-turn engage in similar process assisted by the instructor.

A special ‘breathe of new life’ exercise encourages participants to bring in addition to the pieces that will be the focus of the class, old or new garments which through guidance shall be recreated as desired by each participant.

• Monday          September 19, 11am to 1pm – Session 1
• Wednesday  September 21, 1pm to 3pm –   Session 2
• Friday             September 23, 1pm to 3pm –   Session 3
  

Fee: $50/Session

‘Jimi Gureje:He is the artisan in front of textile art and design at Gureje. He is a master of color and the interplay of color in the fabrics. His techniques are as ancient as the world and as modern as today.

‘Jimi hails from Nigeria where he perfected his use of dye pigments and layered composition on fabric. Through color, he explores the wisdom of nature through all spectrums. When one browses the racks at Gureje, he or she will witness some of the most sophisticated dye techniques around.

Attendance Requirements: Must be 18 years or over due to the use of dye chemicals ________________________________________________________________________

Introduction to Soundpainting

 

Artist: Eric John Eigner

Description: This workshop will introduce Soundpainting to musicians of all ages and skill levels. Soundpainting is a multi-disciplinary live composing sign language system created by composer Walter Thompson. It breaks through boundaries, tapping into reservoirs of skills and expression that help students better understand themselves and the world in which they live. Eigner will begin by addressing the class with a brief explanation and history of this international live composing language. From here we will jump right into the process, learning the basic 43 gestures and energizing each student, as they hear their contributions relate and unite with the whole group.

Each weekly workshop will start with a review of the prior weeks covered material.  To ensure a smooth development and progress, it is recommended that attendees sign on for all 4 workshops. Participants shall deliver a group performance on October 1st, 2011 to demonstrate and celebrate their collective achievements with the general public.

Participants are encouraged to bring instruments

• Sunday  September 11   12:00-2:00pm  Session 1
• Sunday  September 18   12:00-2:00pm  Session 2
• Sunday  September 25   12:00-2:00pm  Session 3
  

Workshop fee: $15/Workshop or $40 for all sessions

Eric John Eigner is a musician and composer based in New York City. He plays primarily drumset and tabletop percussion and has released three CDs from his Mysterium Project on Eavesdrop Records, a label he created as a platform for contemporary work. Eigner works in a number of diverse Soundpainting projects and has performed with the Walter Thompson Orchestra, the Tours Soundpainting Orchestra, the New York Soundpainting Orchestra, and ZAHA. Eigner’s work has received accolades in: The Wire, Cadence Magazine, Signal to Noise, and All About Jazz. He recently worked with composer John King, and choreographer Yoshiko Chuma, for a series of shows in NY’s River-to-River Festival, where he received praise in the New York Times for his performance. Additionally, Eigner studies Japanese drumming with taiko master Kaoru Watanabe. Eigner is a 2010 Fellow in Music/Sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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Fabric Weaving — Global Weaving

Artist: Susanna Sitterding [Frankfurt, Germany]

 

As we all know, weaving is one of the oldest cultural techniques and rich with meanings & symbols The warp thread, the vertical parts of weaving symbolizes in most cultures the essence of things, the not-changeable parts of our world and connect all stages/levels of existence. The weft thread, the horizontal parts symbolizes the being in space-time-continuum, the fading and changeable parts of being. This background confirms the basic idea that the fabric piece which begins its weaving process in Germany will be continued by other people in other places using the stripes / warp threads of the ‘global bags’ as raw material for the continuing parts. This weaving integration represents the stage of globalisation thru movement that the world has reached.

The workshop shall begin with a work in progress woven piece of fabric which shall be continued in a one day open demonstration and interaction leading to a rotation weaving  exercise for everyone who wants to be part of the piece & process while participants explores weaving a personal piece each for themselves.

Opening session; Demonstrations, preparing the material and weaving

Continually: General explanations about ‘the why and what’ Information about the workshop:

- Process of  weaving the ‘global piece’

- Individual pieces and the intension of participation and a relation to their own brought fabric

- What to bring else: fabric, scissors … 
• Session 1

Saturday September 10 [Open demonstration]

Concrete explanation about the basic idea

How we will work

Weaving the ‘global piece’ and the individual pieces

Some Input about the culture of weaving 
• Session 2

Wednesday September 15 [Continuing weaving the 'global piece' and the individual pieces

Exchange/talk with participants about their ideas and stories about/behind their fabrics 
• Session 3

Thursday September 22 [weaving  the 'global piece' and the individual pieces continues]

Discussion about the culture of weaving and its relativity and applications.

Discuss participants goals for the last session 
• Session 4

Tuesday, September 27

Referencing goals from this last session, more weaving and Sharing weaving experiences

Open preview discussion on  what might/will happen with the ‘endless global woven piece’

Fee: $50/Session

 

Susanna Sitterding: In Search of Essence Susanna explores and expresses the impulse for her through painting and other art medium thru various applications and techniques. He interest is stemmed in her relentless curiosity in ‘essentials’ of making what is relevant and as result she focuses on basic objects or process like weaving which to her represents our relation to the world symbolizing ourhow we weave and interpret life ever unfolding stories.

The process leads in a group, the different individual differences personal experience thru practice of an ongoing, overreaching process and object

The impuls for her artwork – paintings and other techniques – is always trying to find out ‘essentials’, making out what is relevant.

So she focuses on basic objects or processes – like weaving – which are representatives for our relation to the world, which symbolizes how we ‘weave’ and interpret life.

The workshop will lead together  the different personal/individual experience and practicing to an ongoing, overarching process and object.

 

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Stitching Stories: A Collective Story Book /stitch binding Workshop

Artist: Amelie Ray and Jules Persuad

Description: We will begin by asking every participant to brain-storm a character. During the three weeks, we will illustrate our characters and create a plot based on our collective sketches and discussions. We will then copy and bind a book for every participant. Finally we will individualize our covers and have a reading for our friends/family. Our goals are to encourage individuals in creating and imagining, give an intro into book binding and illustration, and show how cool working together is. All ages and families are welcome.

• Tuesday   September 13     4pm-6pm – Stitching Stories     FREE /Open
• Tuesday     September 20      4pm-6pm – Stitching Stories         Session 1
• Thursday   September 22      4pm-6pm – Stitching Stories        Session 2
• Tuesday     September 27      4pm-6pm – Stitching Stories         Session 3
  

Fee: $50/participants

Jules Persuad is a textile artist, Amelie Ray is a painter/illustrator, and aside being good friends, they just recently began JACK KNIFE, a co-operative clothing business.

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Dance / Movements

Artist:Ethel Calhoun

African Dance will invite the mind. body, and sprit. Get ready to participate in an active,rhythmical, fun class that will expose you to West African Dance .  You will begin with a simple but thorough warm up that prepares your body to  move freely and safely through the class.  Then you will learn the African Dance “Kou Kou: from Guinea. West Africa.  You will learn traditional steps while we attempt to use fabric to enhance movement and create shapes and beauty to the movement. This class will expose you to African culture while giving you and appreciation for your own culture.

Dates:

• Saturday, September 24, 2011 – 6:pm-7:30pm
• Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 6pm-7pm
• Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6pm -7pm
  

Fee: $15/per session   $40/all sessions

Ethel Annette Calhoun (Bronx, NY) began her dance career at the Bronx House Music School where she studied ballet and piano. She received a B.S. Degree in Therapeutic Recreation at Lincoln University and a Master’s in Recreation Administration at New York University. Ms. Calhoun has over 20 years as a performer and dance instructor from the community level to the professional stage.  Regularly lending her instructional talents to the Alvin Ailey Dance School as a teaching artist in the Arts-In- Education Department, she also served as a Guidance Counselor since 2006 at the Ailey Camp. This summer Ms. Calhoun proudly became Director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Camp in Miami, Florida 2011.  Ms. Calhoun is also a movement therapist and counselor to the health care community delivering services to persons of all ages and varying levels of health that restore, rejuvenate and renew.  A fitness enthusiast Ms. Calhoun is a Certified Personal Trainer and is the Fitness Coach and high –energy soloist at the Abyssinian Baptist Church. A member of AFTRA the (American Federation of Television Radio Artists) Ms. Calhoun has performed in films, stage productions, and television shows in over 15 countries on 4 continents and is passionate about the arts, Her compassion and ability to reach others continues to bring her great joy.

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Rebalance, Release and Reconnect

Jyll’s Yoga Power Hour!

Artist:Jyll Hubbard & Corey Henderson

Description: “Jyll’s Hour of Power” explores Vinyasana yoga, a practice that focuses on the balance between breath and body with a series of interconnected asanas or poses, that simultaneously meld calming and strengthening movements into a centered sense of being. “I want to create a powerful, peaceful space during the day.” Jyll’s playful and challenging style brings the best of beginner, intermediate and advanced practitioners.

• SUNDAY  September 25    12pm-1pm        Jyll Power up yoga   Session 1
• MONDAY  September 26     7pm-8pm        Jyll Power up yoga   Session 2
• FRIDAY  September 30       7pm-8pm        Jyll Power up yoga   Session 3

Fee: $15/session

About JYLL HUBBARD

Jyll has been practicing yoga for over a decade. Inspired by the empowering and healthful dynamic that yoga offers, Jyll became a certified Yoga Alliance yoga instructor in 2000 after competitive coursework at Manhattan’s noted Atmananda Yoga Center. There studied Hatha, with her mentor, renowned yogi, Jhon Tamayo. In line with her dedication to sharing the many benefits of yoga, she has taught students of both public and independent New York city schools. Additionally, Jyll has taught at the YWCA, numerous sports clubs, and select private students. Jyll is also a certified Thai Yoga masseuse and a doula. Currently, teaches offer Hatha, Anusura and Iyengar yoga at the Shambhala Yoga Dance Center in beautiful Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

About COREY HENDERSON

At the tender of 16, Corey became a single dad! As the days turn into years he felt he needed to offer his son something different like a sense of inlightment if you will . It wasn’t until 1999 when i discover yoga @ a friends New years eve midnight yoga expreince. Though he still had the struggles of single parenting , and the struggle of finding the rite practice for himself . In early 2000 he started praticing Hatha, Bikram and Vinyasa . Where his vinyasa partice took off to 5 days a wk . His son wld practice with him now and then . Yoga offer Corey a deeper sence of compassion , showing him how to slow down and listen , enjoy being a single parent it also taught him a different respect for food , and it intrduce him greatly to spirituality.

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Sound of Light: A Photographic Exhibition of Music and Musicians

Photography by Petra Richterova  ~   Curated by Greg Tate

September 12 – December 23

Opening reception:

Monday, September 12, 2011 6pm-9pm

The Village @ Gureje – Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery

Dr. Petra Richterova was born in Prague, Czech Republic. In 2004, Petra was awarded a scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Yale University where she then received her Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees specializing in the Art of Africa and its Diaspora under the guidance of Robert Farris Thompson. As photographer, Petra has worked extensively with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Cuban rumba ensemble Yoruba Andabo, the NY-based rock group Living Colour, LA-based performance artist Angelo Moore, and NY-based arts organizations Black Light Productions and The Black Rock Coalition, among others. As researcher and photographer, she has worked in Cuba, Jamaica, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and Morocco. Petra has shown at Columbia University in the exhibit “Making Music with Light: Jazz and the Art of Photography” as well as Museum of Art and Origins exhibitions titled “Sacred Bond: Mothers, Fathers and Legendary Ancestors” and “Delta to Delta: From the Niger to the Mississippi.” Petra is a board member and curator of art at the latter museum, which has branches in New York City and Ghana. Most recently, she has contributed photographs for the Studio Museum in Harlem Postcard Series project. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

www.petrarichterovaphoto.com

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Homebrewing / Craft Beer Workshop

Artist / Instructor: Sam Burlingame / Brewheister

Description: Come brew your own beer…and then drink it! In this multi-session beginners workshop, you’ll be exposed to the joys of hand crafted beers and transformed into a Brewer as you team up with a partner to cook up your own unique creation. The brew day will be structured and supervised and supported by discussions on craft beer and brewing as well as tastings of some of Brewheister’s own concoctions. We’ll bottle everything up a week later so it’ll be ready for October 1st, when the finished beers will be available for all attendees to taste at the Final Fete of the Festival. You’ll leave with a working knowledge of home brewing, from brew kettle to bottle, and of course your own mixed pack of all the F.O.C beers we brewed together. You’ll even have the option to design your own custom label. Hope you are as excited about the prospect of brewing and drinking your own beer as I am!

Group 1 Schedule:

• Sat, Sept 10, 1:30 to 4:30 pm – Brewing
• Wed, Sept 21, 6:00 to 7:00pm – Bottling

Group 2 Schedule:

• Sun, Sept 11, 1:30 to 4:30 pm – Brewing
• Wed, Sept 21, 7:00 to 8:00pm – Bottling

Group 3 Schedule:

• Sat, Sept 17, 1:30 to 4:30pm – Brewing
• Wed, Sept 25, 6:30 to 7:30pm – Bottling

ALL GROUPS:

Sat, Oct 1 – Final Fete[Big Party] – Share, Swap, and Take Home your beers!

Fee: $85 – covers ingredients, materials, and equipment

(add $25 for custom labeling)

Note: Group Size Limited to 6 people. Brew Dates are fixed, but bottling/pickup dates & times are flexible.

* Must be 21 years or older to participate.

Sam returned from a backpacking trip around Europe seven years ago with a taste for dark German beers that later developed into a deep interest in craft beers and micro-breweries. Last year, after experiencing a home brewing tour, he decided to brew one for himself and couldn’t believe where it took him. Since then he has experimented with ales and lagers, methods and flavors, and has come to view the creation of a new brew as an art, in both the process and presentation. He looks forward to exploring new styles and tastes in order to continuously offer something unique and exciting to the beer lovers around him, open the door to those new to craft beer, and transform the perception of beer itself.

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Shamanic Yoga

Instructors: Sarah Eve Cardell & Luxas Chute

Description: Asana yoga will be led by Sarah, and drumming, cleansing, and ceremony will be facilitated by Luxas.  There will also be group healing/energy work. Shamanic yoga is a new way to connect the mind, body, and spirit through movement, ceremony, and high-vibration group support. This class blends ancient traditions, energy healing, Asana yoga, and meditation to create a community healing space where the participants connect to their divine powers. Let’s heal the world together!

• Tuesday, September 27, 10am to 11am – Session 1  [Shamanic yoga]
• Wednesday, September 28, 11am to 12:30pm – Session 2 [Asana yoga]

Fee: $20 for pre-registered participants, $25 at the door

We encourage all to sign up early. Classes limited to 20 participants

 

Sarah Eve Cardell believes in the power of community and love, allowing spirit to guide the wisdom of yoga, dance, and shamanism for healing in sacred circles. A native New Yorker, she is blessed to continue studying yoga with Sri Dharma Mittra, completing the teacher training in Israel in October 2010, is attuned as a Reiki Master under the guidance of Ana and Carlos Gonzalez, and followed the late shaman Ipupiara, a Makunaiman (dream-maker), of the Ure-e-wau-wau tribe(People of the Stars) in Brazil. Shaman Robert Murphy is a beloved teacher and mentor. Sarah currently studies with Crealo Ra at the Shekinah Temple in Queens, NY. Sarah is also passionate about raw food and feminine empowerment, expressing the divine feminine in shakti-shaking pole fitness classes.

Luxas Chute is an artist, sacred activist, multidimensional energy healer, and crystal worker. He blends ancient and modern wisdom from many traditions and cultures to create unique spaces where free creative expression and group healing is safe and encouraged for all. Raised in the woods of Vermont, Luxas has lived in Brooklyn for five years and currently works with the Green Bus Tour community evolution project and the XANGO arts and culture tribe. He is an active member and leader of the conscious and spiritual community in NYC and helps create and hold sacred spaces at events, temples, and wherever spirit calls him to do so. Luxas also currently studies with Crealo Ra at the Shekinah Temple in Queens, NY.

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Bryn Jackson (J4Kd)
[Au]gmented Megacosmos ~ Video Screening

 

All classes and work shall take place at the following address except as otherwise noted.

Renate Albertson-Marten Gallery
The Village @ Gureje

Address: 886 Pacific Street (between Underhill and Washington),
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Phone: 718-857-2522

Directions: C train to Clinton/Washington or subway to Atlantic Ave to B45 or B65 bus
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION

For dye work sessions, participants must be 18 years or over due to the use of dye chemicals.

All fee include materials and supplies.

Please arrive at least 15 minutes before class for materials setup.

TO REGISTER, CONTACT: info@gureje.com or call 718-857-2522

Live Performances & Schedules

Our Sponsors:

GUREJE Inc., Ortine Resturant, Brooklyn, Plaza Wellness Center, Brooklyn, The Village @ Gureje, Brooklyn, Enid Braun, Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center, Brooklyn, One Love Center, Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery, Brooklyn, Skoto Gallery, NYC, Nova Bar & Lounge, Brooklyn, Aljo Dyes, NYC, Jonathan Embroidery, NYC, Ebad Fabrics, NYC, 21 Century Fabrics, NYC, Khunum productions, ChiOriMedia.com

Volunteers:

Nehphrii Amenii, Steve Guidi, Quentin Wynaar, Mari Nakano, Yumiko Higaki,
Barbara Merjan, Karen Hambrick