Thanks for coming out on Saturday!

Hi Everybody!

A big thanks to everyone who came and participated on Saturday. Lots of new people came, we heard some great poetry, some wonderful guitar, some dancing jams, a great chapter 4 from Anthony(my favorite actually!), and some amazing dancing from Little Dave Rockers.

Some exciting news from Saturday:

-People were watching from their roofs!
-Artists sold some work!
-I think we'll have Little Dave Rockers back for another jam session!
-All the hot dogs got eaten! (that's a first)
-We made enough money for a tent!

We'll be sending out an e-mail soon to our mailing list with all upcoming info about our April 25th artists and our May event. In the meantime, make sure to check out Breevez who shared some beautiful poetry with us at an event at Pace tomorrow.

Tuesday Poetry Slam
Pace University 8pm
One Pace Plaza
4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, JMZ to Chambers St.

Also, we are still looking for more visual artists to show at our May 30th event. if you'd like to show please let us know. lia.backyart@gmail.com!

Pictures from April 25th coming to flickr soon!
If any one has any pictures or video, send em our eway so we can share with everybody. backyart@gmail.com

Thanks and lots of love
Lia

April 25th Flyer!

APRIL 25th ART ATTACK

Our next backyart event is April 25th. Celebrating the end of The Winter Series and the beginning of our second Summer Season, we are hosting an all day art extravaganza with a complete artistic transformation of our indoor space, live painting and performances outdoors, and a live DJ to get us dancing all day long. Specific info below:

Announcing
(drum roll please...)

backyart presents OpenHouse Art Attack!
April 25th, 2009
3pm-8pm
649 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11201
(L train to Lorimer)

All encompassing art installation:
A Crew of Creeps Presents a Collection of "low-brow" Art: from portraiture to fantasy, on found objects.

Performances throughout the day($5):
DJ Fraze One spins old school hip hop and other jams you can dance to

4:00-5:00
*Musical Stylings by Indiana Hoover
*Spoken Word performances by Andrea Cofino, Sade Dozier, and others

6:00-7:00

*"Chapter 4: April Fool's Day" of Belated Apocalypse by J. Anthony Roman
*Old school break dancers, Little Dave Rockers show us a thing or two on the dance floor

First video ever of January 09!

Hey guys- So here is video of January's Winter Series event with J. Anthony Roman and The Sturdy Beggars (now The Dust Busters who will be joining us at our May event) How exciting! I'll admit- it's a little ghetto and a little shoddy- but that's what this is all about- taking chances, learning new things and being creative. Woohoo!

Anyway enjoy!