Art Talks Brooklyn + The Tumble + Nellen Dryden & the Visitors + Seafarers Unite at The Way Station

7:45pm- Art Talks Brooklyn
An informal speaker series highlighting the importance of Brooklyn art initiatives and how they positively impact our community. Monthly, we invite three speakers, each allotted 15 minutes, to talk about their organization’s history, mission and creative public programming.

A great opportunity to get involved in your community and network!

Speakers
Shelley Carter, independent creative producer, arts administrator, and theatremaker
She currently works with CATCH, Daniel Fish, Taylor Mac, and GRANDMA. In the past year, she has produced with The Civilians, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, and Andrew Schneider. She has worked from large scale (Avery Fisher Hall and The Metropolitan Museum of Art) to small (The Silent Barn in Bushwick). In 2013 and 2014, she was part of the PRELUDE festival team. She is currently curatorially collaborating with Peter Mils Weiss and Eric Shethar on the New Skin for the Old Ceremony performance series at Cloud City in Williamsburg.
-Photographer credit: Thomas Dunn

The Village at Gureje and Art Cafe + bar, Enid Braun, art instructor
The Village @ Gureje is an arts center and creative community that brings together artists, teachers, and leaders from Brooklyn and beyond. We encourage and support artistic talents and the spirit of entrepreneurs.
https://artcafebrooklyn.wordpress.com/

The Five Boro Story Project, Bridget Bartolini
The Five Boro Story Project, run by artist Bridget Bartolini, produces community events to showcase stories and art inspired by the neighborhoods of New York City. These participatory events connect New Yorkers to our neighborhoods and our neighbors through stories, song, poetry, dance, film, and discussion about the places where we live. The Five Boro Story Project aims to strengthen community connections, preserve local history, challenge negative perceptions of the outer boroughs, and celebrate the diverse neighborhoods of NYC.
http://www.fiveborostoryproject.org/

9pm- The Tumble
For fans of: Mandolin Orange, Gillian Welch, The Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe

The Tumble is a roll around with the high and lonesome wail or the groove of a blues. We dig what is old. We make the new songs sound like we turned them up from the red dirt ground or the attic. This band strikes fine chords in the midst of clattering songs and pulls out sweetness from the minor keys.

thetumbleband.com

10pm- Nellen Dryden & the Visitors
Genre: Alternative Country/Americana
For fans of: Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, Buddy Miller

Roots-Americana-electric, Alt-Country. Full voiced and dreamlike. Playing songs from debut EP “Final Say’ and them some. Brooklyn based.

www.nellendryden.com
nellendryden.bandcamp.com

11pm- Seafarers Unite
Genre: Modern folk
For fans of: Fleet Foxes, The Lumineers, Bob Dylan

Seafarers Unite is a collection of amateur and professional musicians based in NYC, but hailing from far and wide. They perform a brand of modern folk, weaving tales of city life old and new, and with nautical themes a-plenty. In another life, all would surely have been captains, boatswains or longshoremen.

www.seafarersunite.com