Asian American Arts Alliance
Locating the Sacred Festival
- Information Session
Time: Tuesday,
January 17, 2012
Time: 6:30PM to 8PM
Place: 25 West 43rd
Street, 18th Floor
between 5th & 6th Avenues,
Manhattan
“Locating the
Sacred” is a
twelve-day,
twenty-event
festival
coordinated by
the Asian
American Arts
Alliance (a4)
that brings
together artists
and spaces in
New York for
creative
explorations of
the “sacred.”
The festival
showcases the
diversity and
talent of the
Asian American
community, which
now constitutes
more than 1
million people
in New York (13
percent of the
population) and
is the most
rapidly growing
cultural group
in the city. The
artists will
connect with
space hosts—from
museums to
schools to
churches—to
create events
together. The
result of these
collaborations
will be
presented for
all New Yorkers
to experience.
The festival
aims to promote
artists as
agents of
change,
demonstrating
the power of art
and culture to
unleash
imagination,
break down
barriers, and
connect
communities
together for the
greater good. At
a time of great
turmoil in the
world—economic,
political, and
cultural—the
festival
provides
opportunities to
explore what
remains sacred
in our lives
during turbulent
times, how we
might draw
inspiration from
each other, and
how we can
imagine moving
forward as a
society.
The model of the
festival is
simple. a4 will
produce three
pillar events:
an opening, a
closing, and a
panel discussion
series. For the
other festival
events, a4 will
act as an
umbrella,
matching artists
with space hosts
in an attempt to
generate
creative
collaborations
across ethnic,
religious,
geographic and
aesthetic
boundaries.
These
events will
benefit from the
festival's
“stamp”, from
underwriting for
artist fees of
up to $2,000
depending on the
scope of the
project, and
from the
exposure from
the festival's
citywide PR and
marketing
campaign.
The festival
becomes the
showcase of more
than a dozen
collaborations
across the city,
which we hope
will continue
long after the
festival is
over.
Outreach
Partners
Asian American /
Asian Research
Institute - CUNY
Bronx Council on
the Arts
Council on the
Arts &
Humanities for
Staten Island
The Field
Harlem Arts
Alliance
New York
Foundation for
the Arts
Queens Council
on the Arts
