March 25, 2005 - The Rotunda Gallery presents a free evening of readings and performance on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 7:00 pm. Admission is free, but reservations are required: call 718.875.4047 x11. Each performer will explore the themes of Rotunda's Are We Having Fun Yet? exhibition, which explores fun, a uniquely American pathology. The exhibition is part of Project Diversity, a multi-venue exhibition of 200 Brooklyn artists to be held at 16 galleries in 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods in Spring 2005.
Mike Albo
Writer and performer Mike Albo brings his fast and furious downtown wit to the Rotunda Gallery. His novel The Underminer, co-written with Virginia Heffernan, hit bookstores February 15th - the day after Valentine's Day, when you are most vulnerable to the Underminer's evil ways. Albo's solo show, My Price Point, an inspired blend of dance, monologue and scathing social satire, was recently seen at P.S. 122.
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker; his work has appeared there as well as in Nerve, McSweeneys, The Paris Review, Mississippi Review, Elysian Fields, and elsewhere. He has ghostwritten for Gene Simmons and Simon Cowell, amongst others, and once won a car in a rock 'n' roll trivia bowl. Greenman will read from his new novel, Superworse.
Heather Holiday and Marie Roberts
Artist Marie Roberts grew up speaking Coney Island gibberish and assumed that everyone had a relative who sold snake oil and lectured on freaks. Now a practicing artist and professor of painting and drawing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Roberts will present a slideshow lecture on the history of Coney Island, brought to life by Heather Holiday, the youngest female sword swallower in the world.
Everton Sylvester
Everton Sylvester is a poet and author of Backyard in Bed-Stuy. Lead poet with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials and Searching for Banjo, Sylvester teaches Caribbean literature at the City University of New York. The Rotunda is pleased to present Sylvester, whose skilled wordplay and lyrical twists never fail to delight.
Project Diversity is a multi-venue exhibition of 200 Brooklyn artists to be held at 16 galleries in 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods in Spring 2005. The exhibition is meant to help unite audiences and artists across lines of race, gender, age and place. To feature works across all visual media as well as educational forums and family activities, the event will also celebrate Brooklyn's tremendous diversity, cultural vision and cutting-edge style. The majority of exhibitions will take place April 29-May 28, although some will open in md-March and early April. Free public shuttle bus service will provide easy access to all participating galleries on select weekends. Project Diversity was conceived by Rush Philanthropic cofounder/executive VP Danny Simmons, an accomplished artist and Brooklyn gallery owner, and creator of the award-winning Def Poetry Jam. The exhibition was developed with a coalition of the borough's key cultural leaders. Project Diversity is presented by Bloomberg LP. Generous support is provided by Target, Washington Mutual, Independence Community Foundation, Con Edison, Deutsche Bank, and Danny Simmons. For info, please visit www.rushphilanthropic.org.
The ROTUNDA GALLERY, housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of
Brooklyn artists. The ROTUNDA GALLERY’s educational programs reach 7,000 students each year with gallery visits
and in-school art making projects. The ROTUNDA GALLERY is a project of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc..
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily
accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2, 3, 4, 5, M, or R trains at the
Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
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