PLG Arts Presents: Music and Dance at Parkside Plaza

PLG Arts presents Music and Dance at Parkside Plaza an outdoor, block party-style event that celebrates the rich Caribbean heritage of Flatbush/ Prospect Park Lefferts Garden (PLG) and the growing community of local artists. The event will feature live drumming, the music of composer and woodwind player Mike McGinnis, Dancehall and Reggae music facilitated by D.J. Ayanna Heaven, and a site-specific performance of Finding Herstory and community dance-along led by Davalois Fearon.

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Photo: Richard Termine

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This event was made possible, in part, by funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and Green/Arts LIVE NYC. GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC is made possible with support from New York Community Trust and Con Edison’s Arts Al Fresco Series, administered by City Parks Foundation in collaboration with the Horticultural Society of New York, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts, NYC Department of Transportation, OpenCultureWORKS, and Street Lab. It was produced collaboratively by PLG Arts and Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD). In addition, this program is supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, the Dance/NYC's Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Ford Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation Performing Artist Recovery Fund in The New York Community Trust. Finding Herstory is commissioned by the Stephen Petronio Company for the 2021 Bloodlines(future) Program, made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with support from Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. DFD is fiscally sponsored by Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. a non-profit organization administered by Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.). Pentacle is a non-profit management support organization for the performing arts. www.pentacle.org