Lincoln Center Expands Local Free Screenings Across New Jersey & New York City

The Lincoln Center Local: Free Screenings series, which offers streams of programs from Lincoln Center's growing digital content collection to libraries and community centers, including world-class performances fromLive From Lincoln Center and other previous live events, is expanding to new venues and new locations this summer. The series is part of Lincoln Center Education's mission to bring high quality resources and programming options to communities beyond Lincoln Center's campus in Manhattan. Earlier this year, the program expanded from screenings in Brooklyn and Queens to around the five boroughs. Now, free screenings are taking place for the first time outside of New York City, and Lincoln Center is adding new venue partners within the city.

Starting on July 30, screenings will take place in Montclair, New Jersey, with monthly events scheduled through November at the Montclair Public Library. The first two events, Red Hot + FELA LIVE! on July 30 and Hurray for the Riff Raff on August 27, will take advantage of the summer weather by being shown outdoors. Later events from September to November will take place in the auditorium of the Main Library. Further details are available at the Montclair Public Library website: www.montclairlibrary.org

Lincoln Center Local: Free Screenings will also be shown on another outdoor screen this summer at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on each Tuesday in August at 8:00 p.m. Showings include Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Bryn Terfel, Emma Thompson and the New York Philharmonic on August 4, the Villalobos Brothers on August 11, Yo-Yo Ma with the New York Philharmonic (2013 Opening Night) on August 18, and the 2012 Richard Tucker Opera Gala featuring some of opera's leading voices on August 25. In case of inclement weather, the screenings will be held at an indoor space at the Queens Theatre.

In addition to these two new partners to the Lincoln Center Local: Free Screenings series, screenings will take place in 19 new locations across the five boroughs of New York City. Details about screenings, locations, and times throughout the summer are available at LincolnCenter.org/Local and LincolnCenterEducation.org.

Participating library branches are granted online access to content via new software created by Lincoln Center made specifically for streaming HD quality video. Library staff also receives support and training on how to use the new technology, host a screening event, create complementary live programming, and develop audience engagement strategies. Content for the screenings comes from a diverse range of past performances at Lincoln Center, and from several organizations and series including exclusive viewings of performances from Lincoln Center Out of Doors, American Songbook, Lincoln Center Theater, and the New York Philharmonic.

Additional events in each of the five boroughs can be found here: LincolnCenterEducation.org