Fourth Arts Block Presents FAB! Festival & Block Party 9/25

In the heart of the East Village, 4th Street brings together the best in downtown arts & culture year-round. On Saturday, September 25th from 1:00PM-5:00PM, FAB will help you preview the fall season for FREE. With multiple stages for performances of dance, theater, and music, a selection of local artisans and gourmet food vendors, film screenings, installations, hands-on activities, and classes all on one block, there is something for everyone.

?Each year we try and expand the FAB! Festival to better represent the wealth of cultural opportunities available in the East Village. This year we are bringing more open classes, better vendors, including some delicious gourmet food vendors, and an even wider selection of performance from the upcoming fall season for everyone to enjoy,? says Tamara Greenfield, Executive Director of Fourth Arts Block.

Each unique showcase is not to be missed. Highlights include
*The premiere exhibition & presentation of Art Cart NYC, a new mobile art gallery, http://www.artcartnyc.com.
*East Village Chiropractic will be giving dollar a minute massages with all proceeds to benefit FAB.
*Teatro Circulo will be presenting an excerpt from Sabina y Lucretia, with Johanna Rosaly, the Puerto Rican soap opera star.
*Works In Progress will be silk-screening of T-shirts on the street. Bring your own T-shirt to get the best fit!
*Giant flying puppets presented by Federico Restrepo of Loco 7

Other performances include work by artists from Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance, Downtown Art, Fantasy Grandma, Horse Trade Theater Group, La Mama E.T.C., The Living Theater, Maya de Silva and Flamenco Revolucion, Millennium Film Workshop the New York Neo-Futurists, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Performance Space 122, Teatro Circulo, Teatro IATI, and WOW Cafe Theater.

Vendors at the Local Artisans Market include Ann Pollon, Da Metals, Metropolis Soap Company, Miss Wit Designs, Moon Tide Dyers, popidiot, Saskia DevriesUmsteigen, Volta Organics, and more to come!

Website: www.fabnyc.org.

About Fourth Arts Block

Fourth Arts Block (FAB), founded in 2001, works to improve and promote the East 4th Street Cultural District and surrounding artistic community, which has supported creative diversity and experimentation for more than 30 years. FAB provides a variety of services, including leading the development and conversion of 100,000 square feet of cultural space, marketing the East Village as an arts destination, and offering discount ticketing and other community events and programs. For more information, visit www.fabnyc.org.