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4TH ANNUAL GREEN STREET ARTS FESTIVAL
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FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY GREEN STREET STUDENTS AND
FACULTY, A SALSA DANCE BLOCK PARTY, AND MORE!
Middletown, Conn, May 19, 2008—:Join Green Street Art Center's students,
friends and teaching artists for a day of indoor and outdoor creative fun in
celebration of the Center and Middletown's North End. Students will perform
and exhibit work from the past semester—including tap dance, Salsa, theater
and more! Also highlighting the festival is a salsa dance block party with
live music by Tito Ortíz and his seven-piece ensemble Son Borincaño
performing tropical music from Puerto Rico and Latin America.
Other festival activities include: an African Drumming Circle with Jocelyn
Pleasant, bicycle repair by Transportation Alternatives Middletown, a
children's craft fair, reiki healing demonstrations by Roslyn Carrier-Brault
and face-painting by Funtastic Faces. The festival takes place on Saturday,
June 14 from 1–5pm; Tito Ortíz and Son Borincaño begin playing at 4pm.
Admission is free. Please call 860-685-7871 or visit
www.greenstreetartscenter.org for more information about summer arts classes
and other activities at Green Street.
The Green Street Arts Center, now in its fourth year of programming, was
created to serve as both an anchor to the revitalization of the North End
and as a unique artistic and educational resource for residents of the
neighborhood and the region. It is the result of a major collaboration
between Wesleyan University, the North End Action Team (NEAT), the City of
Middletown and other community and arts partners. A $1.5 million renovation
to the former school at 51 Green Street was completed in January 2005, after
which the GSAC moved into its permanent home in Middletown's North End. The
facility offers a fully-equipped sound/recording, videography, digital
photography, writing and graphic arts lab. It also features two visual arts
studios for drawing, painting and sculpture, a dance studio and a
performance studio with seating capacity of 100.
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