NEW YORK CITY: The Dissident Arts Festival

13/08/2011 4:00pm - 13/08/2011 11:00pm

Now in its sixth year, The Dissident Arts Festival is a platform for cultural workers to create, sing, recite, improvise, act and orate against war and inequity and in honor of the struggle of workers and the globally oppressed.

Festival performers include:

San Francisco's radical poetry/jazz ensemble UPSURGE!

Explosive post-modern jazz SECRET ARCHITECTURE

Art Deco-damaged protest music RADIO NOIR

Jazz violinist/vocalist GWEN LASTER and her ensemble

Topical singer/songwriter JUDY GORMAN

Political satirist DAVE LIPPMAN

Labor/peace choir THE NYC METRO RAGING GRANNIES

And Poets STEVE BLOOM, JACKIE SHEELER, ANGELO VERGA, MARY ELLEN SANGER, ROBERT GIBBONS, SARA GOUDARZI

The Festival will open with a screening of 'SALT OF THE EARTH' followed by discussion.

Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15

At The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune streets)

212-242-4201 www.brechtforum.org