Face To Face: Forgotten Voices Heard

Saturday, March 25, 2023

A Benefit to Support Soup Angels, Touch, and Rockland Community Against Hunger

A Documentary Screening and Conversation about Homelessness and Food Insecurity

Time: 8:00pm EDT
The Nyack Center
58 Depew Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: $20

Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Elliott Forrest

Join the brilliant violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, ArtsRock's Elliott Forrest and guests for a moving evening revealing what people are doing to help others in our community. Featured will be representatives of Nyack's SOUP ANGELS, TOUCH (Together Our Unity Can Heal), and Rockland Community Against Hunger. We'll also screen the new award-winning short-form documentary FACE TO FACE: FORGOTTEN VOICES HEARD directed by Mr. Forrest and Ms. Hall Tompkins, which had its World Premiere at Carnegie Hall. The evening will include a special musical performance by Ms. Hall-Tompkins. A portion of the proceeds will benefit SOUP ANGELS in Nyack.

BubbleMania!

Sunday, April 2, 2023

Featuring Casey Carle

Time: 2:00pm EDT
Theater at Old Nyack High School
131 North Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: Child $12 / Adult $20 / Family Four Pack $50

Bubbles! Big Bubbles! Thousands of Bubbles! An extremely unique program fusing high-energy entertainment, highly crafted showmanship and artistic achievement. Casey's show is loaded with in-the-moment improvisation, quick wit, big band swing music, a bit of audience participation and the untamed, often unbelievable qualities of spherical liquids. Part Science, All Fun! The show includes fog-filled bubble art forms and jazz inspired, choreographed routines to eventually "trapping" people inside bubbles!

Birth of the Universe

Thursday, April 20, 2023

James Webb Telescope Images Set to Music

Featured Guest from the Space Telescope Science Institute

Time: 8:00pm EDT
Old Nyack High School
151 N Midland Avenue, Nyack, NY
Tickets: $20

For the first time anywhere, spectacular new images from the JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE will be seen on BIG SCREEN set to music. These new images far surpass what scientists previously received from the Hubble Telescope. Award-winning director, producer, Elliott Forrest has set these out-of-this-world images to music. Special guests will be on hand to explain the images.

Lewis Black

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In Conversation with Elliott Forrest

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Lewis Black, America's angriest funnyman, joins ArtsRock for an intimate (rant filled) evening of conversation and laughs. Elliott Forrest, WQXR Radio Personality and ArtsRock's Executive Director, interviews Mr. Black about his life, his career and perhaps some politics. 56 minutes. 2020.

Director: Patrick Heaphy
Starring: Elliott Forrest, Lewis Black
Genres: Arts, Entertainment, and Culture, Special Interest
Subtitles: English [CC]
Audio Language: English

Eddie Izzard

Now Streaming Online

in a Global Online Conversation with Elliott Forrest

Streaming On Demand
Tickets: $15 US - 48-Hour Rental

Eddie Izzard is the much-loved actor and comedian, receiving rave accolades for her stand-up and work on stage, screen and stand-up. She's also a relentless runner, finishing multiple marathons on multiple days, raising money and awareness. Eddie, who recently changed her pronouns, talked with Peabody Award-winning host Elliott Forrest about her life, work and dreams. This was a Global Online Conversation giving fans world-wide the opportunity to ask Eddie questions.

This event was in support of the Arts in Rockland County, NY, Phyllis B. Frank Pride Center of Rockland and Eddie's Charities.

Itzhak & Toby Perlman At Home With Friends

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Streaming On Demand
Tickets: $15 USD

11am/LA 2pm/NY 7pm/UK

Join ITZHAK PERLMAN, wife Toby, and special guests in an online conversation about their extraordinary work and lives, how they've coped and adapted to quarantine, and what's next as the world begins to reopen. Enjoy exclusive clips from AN EVENING WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN. Hosted by Elliott Forrest, with actor F. Murray Abraham, conductors Marin Alsop and Leonard Slatkin, flutists Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne, violinist Sean Lee, and Rockland Conservatory of Music Executive Director Marigene Kettler.

The Perlman Music Program logo

Proceeds from the event benefit ArtsRock and The Perlman Music Program.

Phylicia Rashad

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In Conversation With Elliott Forrest

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Tickets: Starting at $1 ($10 Recommended)

A conversation with the Tony-winning actress who became a household name when she portrayed Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show. She received an Emmy nomination for her work on This is Us and has been a force on the stage, including Broadway. Most recently she was heard in Richard II, the 2020 Shakespeare on the Radio collaboration between The Public Theater and WNYC.

ArtsRock aims to bring its programs to all audiences and allows you to "pay what you can," for a ticket price starting at $1 or a higher price that suits your budget (recommended ticket price is $10). Ticket prices are per household. If multiple people will be viewing, please consider a higher ticket price in support of our mission and outstanding programming.

Songs of Protest 4

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Streaming On Demand
Tickets: Free, $15, or $50 (per household)

This is the fourth annual celebration of the power of music to change society. This year's concert features Branford Marsalis, Suzanne Vega, Lady Jeanne and Sir James Galway, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Tom Chapin, The Chapin Sisters, Billy Roues, Lorena Mann, Lula Pilar, Sam Waymon, Rita Harvey and Neil Berg, Adam Falcon, John Forster, Michael Mark, Alice Leon and a few surprises.

ArtsRock aims to bring its programs to all audiences and allows you to choose the price that suits your budget. Ticket prices are per household. If multiple people will be viewing, please consider purchasing a $15 or $50 ticket in support of our mission and outstanding programming.

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Shirley Crabbe - Jazz for Kids

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Tickets: Free, $15, or $30 (per household)

Play and sing along with the band, as Jazz vocalist Shirley Crabbe brings the music of Ella Fitzgerald "The First Lady of Song" and her fabulous friends Louie "Pops" Armstrong, Edward "The Duke" Ellington, and John "Dizzy" Gillespie to life in this family-friendly interactive virtual concert. Learn how they invented Jazz and how you can make music too.

Made possible by support by The ArtsWestchester.

Featuring: Jazz Vocalist Shirley Crabbe, David Budway - piano, Clovis Nicolas - bass, Paul Wendt - drums, John Castleman - trumpet, and James Song - saxophone.

ArtsRock aims to bring its programs to all audiences and allows you to choose the price that suits your budget. Ticket prices are per household. If multiple people will be viewing, please consider purchasing a $15 or $30 ticket in support of our mission and outstanding programming.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Now Streaming Online

The original Hans Christian Andersen story, more or less...

Streaming On Demand

Adapted and Directed for the Stage, Video Edited by Elliott Forrest

Filmed by Myles Aronowitz/Lush Photography

FEATURING: Josie Rothman, Narrator Rick Apicella, King/Chief Officer Terese Giamarco, Swindler, Noah Morley, Stage Manager

FIRST PRESENTED: April 6, 2019 in Nyack, NY
Produced by ArtsRock.org