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"So I
thought I was spending my Saturday night listening to a bit o' music in
between seeing a bit o' dance from Faith Pilger and
Veronica Dittman at a benefit held at the Gowanus for Brooklyn's Spoke the Hub Dancing. Surprisingly, in the
spirit of Brooklyn's oldest multi-purpose,
multi-faceted community arts organization I got to witness a multi-talented
group of artists strut their wild and witty wares. Pilger
and Dittman brought together a fantastic group of
singers, dancers, musicians, comedians, food and very thankfully (future
producers please note) free beer!"
Maura Nguyen Donohue
Theater Critic
The Dance Insider
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Local
Produce For All Seasons Productions
Local
Produce For All Seasons is all about Brooklyn:
its diversity, vitality and creative spirit as expressed through dance,
music, theater, literature, and visual art. It was created in an effort
to highlight Brooklyn's vast and varied
wealth of artistic talent as well as to give Brooklyn-based performers a
chance to develop a larger home audience and more paid work opportunities
on their home turf.
SPRING: The Local Produce Festival
Launched in 1993, The Local Produce Festival of the Performing Arts
originated as a weekend marathon of music, theater and dance which now
takes place annually around the last weekend in April, first weekend in
May, in various indoor and outdoor venues around Park Slope.
SUMMER: "Local Produce in the
Gardens"
"Local Produce in the Gardens" is a weekly series of
rejuvenating creative arts activities offered outdoors on Tuesdays from
5:00- 7:00 pm from May through September in one of Park Slope's most
beautiful community gardens, the Garden of Union on Union Street and 4th
Avenue.
FALL: Local Produce "Octoberfest!"
Making its Local Produce debut in the fall of 2003, Spoke the Hub's first
Brooklyn Octoberfest! will
celebrate the harvest season with a weekend of international social dance
classes and performances from around the world. In keeping with the
tradition of this season, fruit of the vine wine and beer tastings will be available to quench revelers'
thirst.
WINTER: Local Produce "Winter
Follies"
At the Follies, each artist/ group gets five minutes to show what they do
best, and the audience votes at the end of each evening for which artists
they would like to see come back in the Spring. And, in addition to being
produced at the Spring Festival, the artists receiving the most #1 votes
also win 50 hours of free rehearsal space. The "Winter Follies"
takes place in Spoke the Hub's industrial penthouse in the Gowanus
Arts Building
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