Name: Skylight Open
Start: 2022-07-21T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Restoration Plaza

Skylight Open

The AUDELCO and Obie Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre is artistic anchor to the largest African American community in the nation: Central Brooklyn and one of the last remaining theaters forged in the aesthetic and sociocultural kiln of America’s Civil Rights/Black Arts Movements. Founded in May 1972, The Billie Holiday Theatre is a beacon for world class art rooted in racial justice in the heart of Bed-Stuy: producing, presenting, and commissioning new and classic works and festivals in theater, dance, music, visual arts, and film; providing artistic and institutional residencies; and serving ages 3 to 103 with educational programming. For bold and daring artists and audiences from around the corner and around the world who look to The Billie as a rigorous artistic space that tackles racial injustices, presents new and unapologetic voices, and imagines a world where all people can flourish...welcome home.

The Billie Holiday Theatre

An electric blend of adventurous spoken word, musical, and movement-based artists.

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An electric blend of adventurous spoken word, musical and movement based artists. ABOUTLaunched in 2018, Skylight Open is The Billie’s monthly music and spoken word series featuring cutting edge Brooklyn-based talent. Some 6 musicians and spoken word artists are presented each month with past artists including Alia Pierre, Inaya Day, Tai Allen Phoenix, and Keisha Gaye Anderson.

Support for SummerFest 2023 has been generously provided by:A.R.T. New York, Altman Foundation, Con Edison, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination and William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Council (District 36) with the support of Councilmember Chi Ossé, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The J.L. Greene Art Access Fund, The Jordan Brand, The New York Community Trust, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Office of the Mayor of the City of New York Mayor Eric Adams, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, The Seller-Lehrer Family Foundation, The Shubert Foundation.

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