STAGE TUBE: Sen. Chuck Schumer Talks Power of the Arts in Human Rights Art Festival Promo

In a video for the upcoming International Human Rights Art Festival below, Senator Charles Schumer shares thoughts about the imperative nature of the Arts at this time - check out a clip below! The entire video will be screened at the opening ceremonies, Friday, March 3 at 7:30pm, among other videos from esteemed supporters.

New York City's first arts-advocacy festival, the International Human Rights Art Festival, will be presented by The Institute of Prophetic Activist Art, co-sponsored and housed at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St, NYC), will take place March 3-5, 2017. The International Human Rights Art Festival brings together more than 150 artists producing more than 50 events, all of them oriented toward advocacy. Tickets are $10-25 and are now available online with full schedule and participant information at www.dixonplace.org.

The Festival will use passionate, tough, unforgiving beauty to create social energy to catalyze collective action on social concerns, promote equality for racial, ethnic and religious groups, advocate for specific policy change in issues such as climate change, LGBT and disability laws, religious tolerance and other issues. Artistic media will include theatre, performance, dance, spoken word, painting, photography, music, literary arts, workshops, panel discussions, a kidsfest (hands-on activities to introduce children to using art for socially-transformative purpose), film and others. Rigorously curated for quality as well as content, the event includes some of New York's most passionate rising artist-activists. It will raise social, cultural and political issues, as well as offering gentle, positive responses through thoughtful beauty and political and social thinking.