Glorystar Childrens Chorus

Children's Chorus of Washington with Glorystar Children's Chorus
Together We Sing, a cultural intersection of two outstanding youth choruses, each launching international tours.
Saturday, Mar 6 at 2:00 PM
Lang Theater
Tickets: $10 student (ages 12 and under) / $20 adult
For audiences ages 6 and up.

Children’s Chorus of Washington
Chamber Ensemble
Joan Gregoryk, Conductor
Donald Cotton, Accompanist
Precious Achikeh
Alex Baker
Maddy Baker
David Ball
Grace Becker
Lucy Chin
Shoshanna Erlich
Isabel George
Amanda Hastings
Milvia Herrera
Micheila Jacobson
Emily Janes
Conor Kelly
Schuyler Krogh
Erin McFarland
Sasha McGee
Morgan McNair
Theresa Nakamura
Erin O’Brien
Nadia Olaciregui
Teresa Paterson
Hannah Pepus
Morgan Powell
Celeste Saddler
Andrew Skinner
Ben Skinner

Glorystar Children’s Chorus
Chamber Choir
Cherie Jeng, Conductor
Karen Jeng, Accompanist
Alice Chang
Simon Cheng
Stephen Chen
Cynthia Chiang
Jeffrey Chien
Esther Ho
Jason Hsiao
Nathan Hsieh
Ariel Hsu
Timothy Hsu
Alex Huang
Andrew Huang
Alina Hwang
Philbert Hwang
Leah Jacobs
Christopher Jou
Matthew Kannan
Maureen Kuo
Roslyn Lee
Samuel Lin
Chelsea Lo
Charlene Tai
Dennis Ting
Libby Wei
Joshua Tseng
Ross Tsiomeuko
Galene Wong
Helena Wu
Yu-Chia Wu
Andrea Yang
Jeffrey Yang
Stephanie Yang
Joseph Yu
Kathleen Yu

http://www.childrenschorus.com/
http://www.glorystar.org/

This Sunday: Vertical Voices Playback Theatre

"The fact that someone is interested in what today's youth have to say is important. Vertical Voices Playback Theatre is a forum for audiences to learn about themselves and their community. I look forward to seeing what kind of community will be formed by those attending the festival.

The company members of Vertical Voices Playback Theatre capture the essence of someone's personal story quickly and concisely. Despite their age, these company members have the knack to accurately reflect the feelings of young children to older adults - a nice meeting place, or intersection, for folks to learn about one another." --Tim Reagan
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Vertical Voices Playback Theatre
Intersect: Let Your Life Speak, an interactive performance created by DC’s Sidwell Friends School performers probing the festival theme.
Sunday, Feb 28 at 4:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 5 and up.

Click HERE for tickets!

Prep School Negro

The Prep School Negro, a film that takes a poignant and unapologetic look at the life of a young man who, through a scholarship, moved from poverty to prep school, followed by a discussion from students from DC independent schools.
Friday, Mar 5 at 5:00 PM
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $20 Adults, $5 Students
For audiences ages 12 and up.

The Prep School Negro
Step into the shoes of André Robert Lee who grew up in the ghettos of Philadelphia. At 14, André received what his family believed to be a golden ticket - a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. Elite education was Andre's way up and out, but at what price? In this dynamic new film, filmmaker André Robert Lee takes a journey back in time to revisit the events of his adolescence while also spending time with current day prep school students of color and their classmates to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. Following a Q&A with the director André Robert Lee, join students from DC independent schools in a response to the film, organized by Edmund Burke School.

Click HERE for tickets!
http://www.eburke.org/


View the trailer at:
http://www.theprepschoolnegro.org/

Word-Beat, Don't Miss it

Word-Beat
The Legacy of Langston, a multi-disciplinary salute to Langston Hughes, featuring popular collaborators singer/actor Charles Williams and percussionist/composer Tom Teasley.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 7:30 PM
Lab II
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 11 and up.

www.word-beat.com

To buy tickets, click HERE

Let the Voices be Heard

An Interview with Holly Bass and Benny Blaq

"Poetry is an act of democracy, an expression of the First Amendment, a way to speak that transcends borders and barriers. I’m proud to be able to host a spoken word event that will include poets of different backgrounds and experiences-- black, white, brown, gay, straight, foreign and American-born."
--Holly Bass
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Voices from Busboys and Poets
The City in Words, a night at the mic when resident poets Holly Bass and Benny Blaq of the popular Busboys and Poets restaurant host a dynamic evening of spoken word and open mic.
Sunday, Feb 28, at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 15 and up.

To buy Tickets, click HERE

http://hollybass.com/

www.busboysandpoets.com

Come hear the world with Tom Teasley

Tom Teasley will be presenting both a hands on workshop as well as a solo performance at Intersections. In the workshop he will focus on various hand drum techniques from India, the Middle East and Africa. These will be combined with techniques that American jazz drummers use. This intersection creates an east meets west fusion of rhythms, hand technique and compositional ideas.

His solo performance will draw on these various traditions and combine them with the magic of digital technology. Using digital looping he will create virtual ensembles that defy time and space. He has presented this material at Eastman School of Music, three PASIC conventions and throughout the U.S.,Europe and Middle East where he just returned from performing and teaching. Tom is the recipient of three time Fulbright-Hayes awards, Young Audiences Artist of the Year award, Kennedy Center Artist In Residence and recently was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for outstanding sound design.

Reviews of Tom’s work:
"The evening's dazzler..." -- The Washington Post

"No Instrument has a limitation for him" -- Modern Drummer Magazine

"Fusions between American and Eastern schools are old news, yet seldom has any percussionist drawn so deeply from both wells and come up with a blend as bewitching and original as this." -- Drum! Magazine

"Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern flavors abound, yet they're blended in such a way that the resulting dish hits the palate as wonderfully different, toying with each composer's original recipe to great effect."-- Jazziz Magazine

" ... a highly imaginative conceptualist... a colorful, intellectual musician, employing his talents in the orchestration of sound... ingeniously deploys unusual uses of unusual percussion... unlimited talents. " -- Allaboutjazz.com

Check out the Videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqCnppWWEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9av45o9X0BQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83oFMGnR5Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjdoXU5mO8

For more info, visit http://www.tomteasley.com/

Washington Performing Arts

An Interview with Brandon Felder, Director for the WPAS Children of the Gospel Choir

Jacqueline Lawton: What type of artist are you?
Brandon Felder: Musician, Vocal Director, Music Educator

JL: Where were you born? How did you end up where you are now?
BF: Buffalo New York. I got here through School, Practice, and hard work

JL: List five words that describe your personality.
BF: Geniuine, Commited, Humble, Humourous, Risk-Taker

JL: What do you think will be cool about the festival?
BF: The exchanging of ideas and collaboration with other individuals that may or may not have similar backgrounds. And for that reason alone, this experience will truly be an intersection!
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Washington Performing Arts Society

Summer Academy Live! WPAS presents a concert of their up and coming youth performers in Children of the Gospel, the Capital Jazz Project and Summer Steps with Step Afrika!
Saturday, Feb 27 at 2pm
Lang Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences of all ages.

www.wpas.org

Voices of Now, Arena's Top Youth Ensemble

Voices of Now
Encounter, a musically poetic look at young peoples' lives devised and performed by Arena's top youth ensemble.
Sunday, Feb 28 at 2:30 PM
Sunday, Mar 7 at 2:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5
For audiences ages 11 and up.

http://www.arenastage.org/

Og Ceol this Saturday!

Og Ceol with Oran Sandel and Tom Teasley
Two Café Concerts featuring a duo of young traditional Irish Musicians intersecting with guitarist Oran Sandel on eclectic acoustic sets. Look for world percussionist Tom Teasley to sit in, too. Og Ceol with Oran Sandel
Saturday, Feb 27 at 4:00 PM & at 6:00 PM
Kogod Lobby
Free
For all ages
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" Be able to say “I knew them when” after delighting to the traditional Irish tunes of Og Ceol, a duo of teen musicians – fiddler Jamie Sandel and Irish flute and whistle player Malinda Reese. Intersecting with folk guitarist Oran Sandel, Og Ceol will share the tunes they’ve learned at the knee of players in both Ireland and the US, but with a distinctive, contemporary twist. Other festival musicians, including percussionist Tom Teasley, will sit in on this lively session, too. Enjoy a unique festival collaboration of musicians of diverse ages, traditions and styles."

To buy tickets click HERE!

Music Meets Film on Sunday: Carmen

Three musicians of extraordinary skill and international renown join forces to salute the romance and beauty of Carmen in an exquisite prelude to Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s stunning resetting Bizet’s opera.

Soprano Anastasia L. Robinson; Versatile tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs; and Venezuelan-born pianist Carlos César Rodríguez, will present a program of selections from Carmen and Zarzuela as well as the Carmen Fantasie. Saura’s Carmen (1983) spins a story with passionate dance as a Flamenco company reinterprets the opera as the choreographer (Antonio Gades) and his alluring leading lady (Laura del Sol) fall in love. Enjoy a night at the opera like never before!

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Music Meets Film: CARMEN at the Intersection
Inspired serenade by soprano Anastasia Robinson, tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs and virtuoso pianist Carlos César Rodriguez paired with a screening of Carlos Sauro's film that resets the world's most famous opera in the passionate world of flamenco dance.

Sunday, Feb 28 at 5:00 PM
Lang Theatre
Tickets: $15
For ages 12+

Try Your Hand with Adair and Ahiagble

Artisans at the Intersection
Interact with two artisans, William Adair and Chapuchi Bobbo Ahiagble, in projects inspired by the Atlas’ Art Deco style – an internationally renowned gilder-conservator and a master weaver from Ghana.

Interactive Demonstrations
Saturday, February 27 from 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sunday, February 28 from 1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Kogod Lobby & Cafritz Promenade

Workshop: Try Your Hand at Gilding
Saturday, Feb 27 from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lab 1
Free
For all ages

For more info, CLICK HERE
http://www.goldleafstudios.com/

Fall in Love with Lulu Fall

"This project is about self-love and self-exploration. I find that generally, people tend to keep themselves in a box, especially when listening to music. I try to use my music as a vehicle to allow this self-exploration to happen. It's about airing your dirty laundry and releasing those skeletons from you closet. The music I'm performing at Intersections touches on things that humans, especially young women like me, experience everyday, but are afraid to reveal in everyday conversation. Things like self-esteem and loss of identity, lust, heartbreak, fear, abortion, things like that. Embrace your strenghts, fears, and fantasies everybody!!" --Lulu Fall

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Lulu Fall
Two Cafe Concerts by a dynamic new Senegalese-Cameroonian-American vocalist and her guitarist Andy Fahs.
Saturday, Feb 20 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Friday, Mar 5 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Lobby
FREE

Video link ('Senegal' debut video) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJH_hcYxbc_hcYxbc
www.myspace.com/lulufall

Don't Miss Christylez in Action

"I call myself a Progressive Hip-Hop Artist, mixing traditional elements of Hip-Hop, like Human-Beatboxing & Rhyming, with World-Music instrumentation. I wanted to take-on this project with Patrick Crowley to merge my Hip-Hop Concert with his Theater Expertise, to create a totally new experience for myself and others. The music itself will merge Hip-Hop, Classical, Jazz, & World Music, and the production as a whole merges Hip-Hop concert with Theater." --Christylez Bacon

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In Pursuit of Me: The Story of Christylez Bacon, a world premier merging of music and theatre by one of Washington hip-hop's rising stars.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 9:30 PM
Friday, Mar 5 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, Mar 6 at 9:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $15
For audiences ages 13 and up.

Family Performance:
Saturday, Feb 20 at 1:30 PM
Lobby
Tickets: FREE

Dance Party:
Saturday, Mar 6 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

To Buy Tickets, click HERE.

http://www.christylez.com/
http://www.itsthebeatbox.com/

Get Your Blues on this Sunday

How I might have gotten to the Blues
Walter “Wale” Liniger, 2010

"I grew up with trains in my life: my grand-father and my father both were railroad engineers, driving trains for the Swiss railroad system. Our lives were ruled by train whistles and the odd hours of father’s work. As we didn’t have a car, connections with other people always seemed to start and end at a train station; that is where we said “hello” and “good-bye.”
Blues is a story of amorphous content. I believe that most of us will experience moments of the blues, and yet we find ourselves quite often at a loss when invited to explain. Music and other artistic expressions help us give voice to such moments. "The blues are not about anything new. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard,” wrote James Baldwin.

In my life the blues are always connected to trains, and vice versa. Trains carried me to the warmth of my grandmother’s kitchen and her stories, trains took my father’s time and mind. Trains are about arriving and leaving. Needless to say that when I heard my first old time blues-music, my body felt the underlying train rhythms and recognized that “huge something” that couldn’t be stopped. But my heart also embraced the emotions that rode on the whistles, boisterous in the day and lonesome at night.

Eventually life brought me to Mississippi and South Carolina where I hardly found any similarities with the tightly-stitched Swiss system I knew so well. Most of “my teachers of the blues” did not know where Switzerland was, and I had no clue how to deal with a mule. Trains once again connected our stories. Whilst their whistles sound very differently, trains on either side of the Atlantic are metaphors for motion, and with it metaphors for coming and going, for gain and loss.

I never became a railroad engineer, it required too much diligence, too much adherence to regulations. However, the young boy’s dream is still with me: it lives in my story’s breath and beat!" --Wale Liniger
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Blues Professor Wale Liniger
Take a unique journey into the blues with a Swiss-born artist who has made this distinctly American sound his own, weaving harmonica, guitar and voice into a rich musical tapestry. A celebrated artist featured in blues festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, this professor is a true believer in the creativity of the human mind when the heart is in trouble.

Sunday, Feb 28
6:00-7:30pm
Lobby
FREE!!!

This performance is sponsored by The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
http://www.bluesprof.com/

Click the link below to watch a video of Blues Professor Wale Liniger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkVE0q0ocE

Breakin' Boundaries with DCypher Dance

"DCypher Dance focuses on developing new and innovative works of pure hip hop and fusion that are high energy, provocative, and “culture specific” for audiences of all ages and walks of life. DCypher Dance produces works that enrich and empower community through dances of understanding, tolerance, and celebration!" -- Natasha Hawkins
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DCypher Dance
DCypher 10.2: Co-Ed, A high-voltage hip-hop performance event by a boundary-breaking DC ensemble that will invite festival-goers to a new cultural crossroads -- step up and in!
Friday, Mar 5 at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $15
Sprenger Theater
For audiences ages 13 and up.

Dance Party:
Friday, Mar 5 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

To Buy Tickets, click HERE.

For a six-week performance class leading to advanced participation in the show, go to: http://www.joyofmotion.org/

Join Jon and the Jay Walkers this Friday

"It promises to be a real celebration, an unleashing of creativity. My favorite album projects are the ones where a set group of players and singers are at the studio every day for a week or so. A touring company gets to explore a process that is seldom possible with one-off gigs and sessions. The circus bus pulls up, and all the clowns and acrobats come tumbling out to feel at home for a while. This is when magical things happen."
-- Jon Carroll

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Jon Carroll and the Jay Walkers
Jay Walkers at the Intersection, a concert explosion of stylistic connections among Grammy-winner Jon Carroll's signature pop and R & B, Nigerian artist Tosin Aribisala's jazz and Michael Shereikis' Afro-Funk.
Friday, Feb 26 at 7:30 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $15
For audiences of all ages.

Dance Party:
Saturday, Feb 27 at 11:00 PM
Sprenger Theater
Tickets: $5

Workshop:
Saturday, Feb 27 at 5:00 PM
Lab I
Tickets: FREE

http://www.joncarroll.org/
http://www.tosinmusik.com/

Words Collide with The Folger

The Folger Shakespeare Library
When Words Collide, a poetic response to life in today's America by professional and student writers, including poets Kim Roberts and Sami Miranda.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 5:00 PM
The Loft
Tickets: $10
For audiences ages 10 and up.
www.folger.edu/poetry

To Buy tickets, click HERE.

Delta Players & NE Senior Singers

Northeast Senior Singers and Delta Players
Come and hear, "Freedom Journey,"a performance of songs and stories by H Street community elders, highlighted by selections from a stellar 20th century intersection-- Porgy and Bess.
They will perform a variety of well loved popular, spiritual and original songs, including Old Ship of Zion, Duke Ellington’s Compensation, a combination of Precious Lord, along with You’ve Got a Friend. Perhaps one of the most exciting selections will be Lord, Let Me Be a Light, composed by the group’s pianist, Michael Terry.
Saturday, Feb 27 at 4:30 PM
Lab II
Tickets: $5
For ages 8+
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The Delta Players is a readers' theatre group consisting of older Americans, ranging in age from 55+ to 96 years young. The Players have been in existence for over 3 years under the direction of Charles H. Clyburn, a professional actor/director. Most of the group resides in the Delta Towers building on Florida Avenue in the H Street corridor. The piece to be performed for INTERSECTIONS is entitled "Freedom Journey" and is a compilation of stories, poems, and songs which takes us on a journey from the days of slavery to the election of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Northeast Senior Singers
Founded in Fall, 2002, the Northeast Senior Singers is a vibrant chorale made up of dedicated members living at Delta Towers, Capitol Hill Towers, and the broader H Street and Capitol Hill communities. Since its inception, the group has been the subject of a feature article in the Senior Beacon and has had the opportunity to perform on Capitol Hill with Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock in an effort raise awareness of the need of funding arts programs for older Americans. The group performs regularly at Delta Towers, Levine School of Music and the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The Northeast Senior Singers rehearse weekly at Delta Towers under the direction of Charles Williams, their director since 2004, and Michael Terry, accompanist. The Northeast Senior Singers have been generously sponsored by Paul Sprenger, Jane Lang, and the Atlas Arts Access Fund since 2002.

Click HERE to watch a video clip.

Click HERE to buy tickets.

It get's Sticky this Friday

Sticky Mulligan
Sink into the soulfulness of "the most exciting new artist on the scene" (Baltimore City Paper) . Sticky Mulligan is an Irish-American soul singer and multi-instrumentalist who just released his debut album, "Showtime," filled with soulful grooves and beautiful melodies that draw from Celtic, jazz and funk fluences. Relax in the festival café with this intriguing intersection of musical styles.
www.cdbaby.com/cd/stickymulligan
Friday, February 26
6:30 - 8:00 PM
10:30 - 11:30 PM
Lobby
FREE

"I am bringing Irish lineage, and ethno-music influences together with a little bit of soul on the side." -- Joe “Sticky Mulligan” Smith

CLICK HERE to Watch a video of Joe "Sticky Mulligan" Smith.

Great Opening Weekend!

Thanks to everyone for coming out to support the first weekend of Intersections. You might've missed the first weekend, but you still have a chance to catch some ground breaking, barrier shaking, culture colliding work.

Is anyone out there guilty of making a mental note about something they want to do and then totally forgetting about it? You say to yourself, "That looks like fun, I have to check that out!" Then you look at your calendar again and realize that the event has passed, and not only did you miss it, but you missed it by a month! Don't let Intersections be that for you. Get out of your house, get in your car, take the metro and spend a weekend with us. You don't have to spend the whole weekend with us. Go jogging first, then top it off with an amazing cultural experience, the likes of which D.C. has never seen. I'm being grandiose, but I'm serious. I guarantee you'll be glad you came.

Erika Rose
Festival Programming Committee