VISUAL ARTS

Fall 2008

CANSTRUCTION

16th ANNUAL NYC COMPETITION

November 20 - December 8
9:00 am - 5:00 pm daily
WFC Courtyard Gallery

Canstruction is the most unique food charity in the world. Since 1992, it has organized teams of architects, engineers and students in competitions throughout North America to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from cans of food. This year's 40 entries from New York City will be displayed at the WFC and then donated to City Harvest for distribution to those in need.

www.Canstruction.com

MUSIC

Holiday 2008

THE ACCIDENTALS

December 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 23
12-2pm, Weekdays
2-4pm, Weekends
WFC Winter Garden

This award-winning a cappella troupe performs beloved holiday carols.

MUSIC

Holiday 2008

CATHERINE RUSSELL & CARLINE RAY

December 8
12:30pm
WFC Winter Garden

Jazz-blues singer extraordinaire Catherine Russell, praised for her recent albums on the World Village label, joins legendary bassist & vocalist Carline Ray, her mom, for a special daughter-mother performance of spirited music and holiday favorites.

KID'S PROGRAM

Holiday 2008

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO DOWNTOWN!

Presented by Brookfield Properties

December 12–14
Friday, 10am-1pm & 2-7pm
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
WFC Winter Garden Mezzanine

Santa Claus is back to make your child's holiday wish come true! Take home a keepsake photo to remember the moment - all proceeds benefit Project Sunshine. While you wait . . . Visit the World Financial Center Shops & Restaurants and enter to win a deluxe Holiday gift basket valued at $300! Join Project Sunshine in creating fun holiday cards for kids in local hospitals - a great way for families to give back to our community this season.

MUSIC

Holiday 2008

MARGOT LEVERETT and the
KLEZMER MOUNTAIN BOYS

December 14
12:30pm
WFC Winter Garden

Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to deliver a holiday concert that explores the shared musical spirit of two genres. Appalachian & southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia & Eastern Europe to create music that is raw, funny, soulful and foot-stomping.

FAMILY EVENT

Holiday 2008

NEW YORK AFRICAN CHORUS ENSEMBLE

December 16
12:30 pm
WFC Winter Garden

In celebration of the holidays, the New York African Chorus Ensemble entertains and educates about the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa through music interspersed with recitations from James Stovall of poetry by renowned poet Langston Hughes.

MUSIC

Holiday 2008

WAIT FOR GREEN

ETHEL & ANNIE-B PARSON

December 19
12:30 & 7pm
WFC Winter Garden

Wait for Green, a new site-specific work commissioned by arts>World Financial Center for its 20th Birthday, is the first collaboration between string quartet ETHEL and post-modern choreographer Annie-B Parson. ETHEL, a group that redefines the nature of the string quartet, engaged in an intensive study of dance with Parson before writing the music for Wait for Green. The performance's compositions spring directly from the dance structures they learned, and the staging folds back on the score, creating physical responses to the music's sonic structures. This world-premiere work uses the architecture of the Winter Garden to transform the space into an immersive sound and visual installation.

Commissioned by arts>World Financial Center for its 20th Birthday.

www.EthelCentral.com

www.BigDanceTheater.org

MUSIC

Holiday 2008

AVRAM PENGAS AND THE NOGA GROUP
with MAGDA FISHMAN

December 22
12:30 pm
WFC Winter Garden

Twenty-year veteran of New York's downtown music scene, guitarist and Bouzouki virtuoso Avram Pengas performs Israeli pop hits, Arabic melodies, Persian rhythms and traditional Yiddish songs with his band the Noga Group. For this special holiday performance, the band will be joined by versatile Israeli vocalist and trumpeter Magda Fishman.