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Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá Dance Festival by BABEL Movement

FREE to the public! Español a continuación….

Join us for an afternoon of dance, film, and food!

Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Dance Festival by BABEL Movement will be an afternoon of dance performances and films by local artists, with refreshments and treats provided by Buunni Coffee, Inwood. Guests will get moving through interactive workshops on folkloric dance and embodiment. 

Join us to share in the healing and unifying power of dance!

First come, first served. Reserve your seat here!

Saturday, November 18th 3-5 pm

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¡Gratis para la comunidad!

¡Nuestro festival de danza Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá promete ser una tarde de baile, cine, y refrigerios! Nuestro evento consta de presentaciones y cortometrajes creados por artistas de nuestra comunidad, con refrigerios proporcionados por Buunni Coffee Inwood. Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de mover el esqueleto en nuestros talleres interactivos de baile folklórico y empoderamiento. 

¡Acompáñenos en este evento para celebrar el poder unificante y sanador del baile!

Los invitados seran atendidos por orden de llegada, reserve su puesto aquí. 

Sábado, 18 de noviembre, 3-5 pm

Buunni Inwood – Zena Group: A free reading of Emily Adler’s play, FACE

Zena Group is presenting a free reading of Emily Adler’s play, FACE, featuring Florencia Lozano and Nicholas Michael McGovern. Josh Liveright is directing.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/face-play-reading-tickets-746193895027?aff=erelexpmlt

Sometimes you can be lost just at the moment you think you know exactly where you are.

A younger man and his older lover blur the lines of fact and fiction is this emotionally and sexually charged play about love and power.

Synopsis: Josh prepares himself for a night with his lover, Valerie. When she arrives, he initiates a psychologically complex mother/son role-play in which she gradually gains the upper hand. As Josh struggles to regain his power, they continue to engage in the erotically charged role-play as the lines between fact and fiction become more and more blurred. In her final move, Valerie becomes both mother and lover as she unearths his incestuous past, pushing past the parameters of their taboo relationship in an attempt to heal old wounds and propel them both forward into a hopeful unknown.

Emily Adler is a playwright, screenwriter and published author from New York City, whose plays include The Frog in the Flipper, Trumpet of the Swan, Supernatural Playboy, Face, Love Story in 3 Phases, and Andromeda Speaks. Her work has been seen at The Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, MN; Hartford Children’s Theater in Hartford, CT; The Overtime Theater in San Antonio, TX; The NJ Rep in Long Branch, NJ; The Danny Kaye Playhouse, the cell, Urban Stages, The New York New Works Theater Festival, and The Actors Studio in NYC. In 2015, Emily was nominated by industry professionals for The Kilroy’s List for Notable Female Playwrights and in 2021, she was a quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Horror Competition with her screenplay, Anything for You.

Josh Liveright is the artistic director of Zena Group and provides service to the Inwood community by programming live music and theater events at Buunni Coffee. He’s directed plays for UP Theater, Uban Stages, Interart and Zena Group and won the Excellence in Directing Award at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival for Patricia Davis’s play, Alternative Methods.  He’s also directed several short films including the What If? anti-violence series and Matt Higgins’s The Improvisor.

Florencia Lozano THEATRE: Playwrights’ Horizons (WET BRAIN, PLACEBO), NYTW, Public, Shakespeare in the Park, LAByrinth, MTC, MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Movement Theatre Co., Second Stage, EST, Teatro IATI, Repertorio Español NETFLIX: Keep Breathing, Narcos TV: Bull, The Baker and The Beauty, Kevin Can Wait, Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, Blue Bloods, Lipstick Jungle, Ugly Betty, Royal Pains, Law & Order (CI&SVU), Gossip Girl, One Life To Live. FILM: Life After You (she also co-wrote &produced), Faraway Eyes, The Ministers, Veronika Decides To Die. Upcoming: Crybaby Bridge. Her play underneathmybed was produced at Rattlestick and won HOLA’s Best New Play Award. BA Brown, MFA NYU

Nicholas Michael McGovern (SAG/AEA) Recent Theatre: Icarus Tries to Catch the Sun (one man show, New Ohio Theater), High Noon (Axis Theatre Company), Welcome to the Fall (Samuel French OOB Festival).  Recent Film/TV: “Fallout” (Amazon), “Liberty” AppleTV release Nov. 21, “Snakeeater”.  Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio.

Mandingo Ambassadors live at Buunni

Date: Saturday, October 14, 2023
Time: 7:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Location: Buunni Inwood – 4961 Broadway, New York, NY 10034

Get ready to be transported to a world of vibrant music and cultural fusion. The Mandingo Ambassadors will take you on a musical journey that blends traditional West African rhythms with jazz, funk, and high-energy dance beats. This is a one-of-a-kind experience that you won’t want to miss!

So mark your calendars and invite your friends for a night of pure musical bliss. Join us at Buunni for an unforgettable performance by the Mandingo Ambassadors. See you there!

TICKETS:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mandingo-ambassadors-live-at-buunni-tickets-699081390257

About the Band:

The Mandingo Ambassadors was founded in New York City by griot-guitarist Mamady Kouyaté in 2005. As a veteran of the great orchestras of the golden age of Guinean dance bands, Mamady is a living library of musical science inherited from his ancestors and from a half century of experience as an arranger, band leader, accompanist and soloist.

Mamady Kouyaté carried this heritage with him to New York where he has collaborated with members of the West African diaspora and Western musicians to continue the great tradition and sound of Guinean Afro-jazz.

Since the summer of 2008 the group has been in residence at Barbes, performing every Wednesday night at this well-known Brooklyn venue. In addition, they have performed at many clubs, events and festivals including Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Celebrate Brooklyn, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

BUUNNI INWOOD & ZENA GROUP presents YASSER TEJEDA, LIVE AT BUUNNI

RESCHEDULED – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 at 7:30PM at BUUNNI COFFEE, 4961 BROADWAY in INWOOD

BUUNNI COFFEE, in collaboration with ZENA GROUP, presents the return of YASSER TEJEDA playing an acoustic set with special guest, percussionist JONATHAN “JBLAK” TRONCOSO.

YASSER TEJEDA is an award-winning Dominican composer, guitarist, vocalist, and producer. According to Billboard, Yasser gives traditional folkloric music a new spin with jazz, rock and Caribbean rhythms in “a frenzied celebration of ancestral union” while Juan Luis Guerra, the most influential Dominican artist in the world, praised his mission calling it the “marvelous example of what’s happening with Dominican music”. Tejeda has released three commercial albums, La Madrugá (2023), Kijombo (2019), and Mezclansa (2009), with his group Palotré, while also surprising his followers with an acoustic EP called Interior in 2021. Mezclansa was dubbed one of the “100 essential recordings of Dominican music” bythe Dominican National Association of Art Writers (Acroarte). His second album Kijombo received six awards from Dominican Republic’s Premios Indie, including Best Album. La Madrugá , which is Tejeda’s latest offering, features his latest collaboration with Vicente García, “En El Naranjo”, as well as the singles “Tu Ere’ Bonita” and “Todo Va a Marchar”.

JONATHAN “JBLAK” TRONCOSO, was born into a family of musicians (including grandfather Bienvenido Troncoso -the well-known composer) in Los Mina – Santo Domingo. Jonathan was inspired to be a musician at an early age by his father, Domingo Troncoso, a percussionist. At the age of five, he picked up “la tambora” and amazed his family and neighbors. Shortly thereafter, Jonathan began playing guira and later, bongo. Versed early on in playing percussion for popular music such as merengue, bachata, and salsa, Jonathan began playing professionally as his father’s young protégé.

Delicious Ethiopian food, beer and wine and other treats available for purchase!

Tickets are $20

Information and tickets available on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yasser-tejeda-live-at-buunni-tickets697371726607?aff=erelpanelorg

BUUNNI COFFEE is an independent coffee shop providing exceptional coffee and baked goods in an inviting community meeting place for all that live, work and enjoy the neighborhood. Located at 4961 Broadway between 207th Street and Isham, conveniently located near the A and 1 trains, the venue presents eclectic programming with the mission to serve the diverse community of upper Manhattan.

ZENA GROUP is a New York City non-profit arts organization operating since 1991. Zena Group has produced, or had a hand in producing, a myriad projects ranging from theater, film and the arts, to educational and health related outreach.

ZENA GROUP presents FIZZLES BY SAMUEL BECKETT, LIVE AT BUUNNI.

The event will take place on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 at 7:30PM (doors open at 7:00) at BUUNNI INWOOD (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood).

FIZZLES are eight short, impressionistic prose pieces written by SAMUEL BECKETT evoking the struggle in life to be, to be seen, to be heard, to remember and to tell. FIZZLES will be performed by JOSH LIVERIGHT and featuring live electronic accompaniment and sound design by DAVID MARGOLIN LAWSON, with LAMINE THIAM on percussion. This event is conceived as a unique sonic experience of words, music and feelings taking the audience for a ride inside the creative mind of SAMUEL BECKETT and beyond. Lighting design by GRAHAM KINDRED.

DAVID MARGOLIN LAWSON is a sound designer, composer and recording engineer. He has worked with, recorded, and designed for many New York area performing arts organizations including Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), La Mama, E. T. C., The Juilliard School, The Public Theater, The Signature Theater, Lincoln Center, UP Theater Company, HERE Arts Center, The New School, Repertorio Español and Urban Stages.

JOSH LIVERIGHT is a writer, director, producer, and actor. In 1991 he co-founded Zena Group, a not-for-profit theater and film collective based in New York City. Acting credits include five episodes of Law & Order, A Dog Year with Jeff Bridges, Judge Ranken on Bull, Eco Activist Ray Collins on Tommy, Stephen King’s The Golden Years and a ton of Off Off Broadway theater.

LAMINE THIAM, born in Senegal in 1972, is a world-renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, drummer, and actor who specializes in cultivating West African Dance and maintaining his traditional homeland dance forms. He specializes in the dance art forms Sabar, Djembe, and Bourgarabou.

Delicious Ethiopian food, beer and wine and other treats available for purchase.

Tickets are $10

Information and tickets available on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fizzles-live-at-buunni-tickets-697365477917?aff=erelexpmlt

BUUNNI COFFEE is an independent coffee shop providing exceptional coffee and baked goods in an inviting community meeting place for all that live, work and enjoy the neighborhood.

Located at 4961 Broadway between 207th Street and Isham, conveniently located near the A and 1 trains, the venue presents eclectic programming with the mission to serve the diverse community of upper Manhattan.

ZENA GROUP is a New York City non-profit arts organization operating since 1991. Zena Group has produced, or had a hand in producing, a myriad projects ranging from theater, film and the arts, to educational and health related outreach.