Multidisciplinary Arts Festival Death-Birth-Freedom REVELRY Runs Thru 10/29

The Six Betweens Art Collective announces a month-long new multidisciplinary arts festival. Death-Birth-Freedom REVELRY runs through October 29, 2011. The festival, which aims to promote art as a vehicle to transcend and transform ourselves and the world in which we live, is the first of its kind in its explicit intent to acknowledge and strengthen the ever-growing community of artists who combine art-making with the healing arts, and create work from that consciousness.

Presented by The Six Betweens Art Collective, Death-Birth-Freedom REVELRY features Brooklyn's rich, artistic talent as well as other New York City area and International Artists, including more than 125 artists and host over 20 events that include visual arts, mixed media, music, dance, film, spoken word, theatre and workshops. Held at Tea Lounge, the Gowanus Print Lab and lululemon athletica Brooklyn Showroom, all venues within the Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the festival opened October 1, 2011 and concludes with a Halloween Art Extravaganza.

According to festival Founder and Artistic Director Rakel Terceño, "the REVELRY is meant to provide a unique artistic experience that blurs the line between audience and artist; a stage for experimentation, as if in an Art Lab; an interactive space for free expression, deep reflection and conscious action." Inspired by the natural cycle of death-rebirth-freedom, each artist creates work around that theme with full freedom of approach. "The Revelry truly is a celebration of Art, and it will transform our main venue, Tea Lounge, both physically and energetically."

Oct 29, Saturday-Halloween Art Extravaganza!
The most amazing Halloween Party you'll ever attend! Musical theatre; body painted dancers; costumes; site-specific sculptures... all topped with Jason Lindner's electro-groove trio Now vs. Now.

Live Multidisciplinary Shows at Tea Lounge, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights:

Ma'ata: Prayers for, to, and through the water
Movement and video landscapes, live and recorded soundscapes, fuse to provide insight into the journey, life and energies of water. An investigation, a prayer, an offering to the most essential element of life, Ma'ata is an evolving, interactive, multimedia performance and installation piece composed of physical, visual and sound driven prayers. Presented by dancer, choreographer, healer and educator Sunder Ashni.

A night of Mini-Art! Mini films, mini drawings, mini poems, mini songs. All things mini...even the food!

Other events include: Tuesday Night Film Series at Tea Lounge, visual art exhibit and afamily workshop at Gowanus Print Lab, a Creativity and Meditation workshop at lululemon athletica.

The majority of Festival events are free to the public with a suggested donation of $5 at the door. Fee-based workshops and special admission events will be specified in the Festival Program. For more information and full program details, visit the festival web site at www.sixbetweensart.org.

Death-Rebirth-Freedom REVELRY is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. www.fracturedatlas.org

Presenting Organization-The Six Betweens Art Collective Founded in New York City in 2008 by Artistic Director Rakel Terceño, The Six Betweens Art Collective is a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary artistic platform dedicated to promoting art as a tool to Transcend and Transform ourselves and the world in which we live. Drawn together by the shared belief that creating Art is healing in itself and essential to having a more profound human experience, the Collective presents opportunities, through workshops, demonstrations and performances, both for artists and audiences, to experience multiple artistic disciplines as languages for expression without boundaries.

The theme Death-Rebirth-Freedom and the collective's name, The Six Betweens, were originally inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist Bardo teachings, which describe the transitory stages in the life-death-rebirth cycle. www.sixbetweensart.org

Tea Lounge- Main Festival Venue
Tea Lounge has been supporting Brooklyn creativity for over a decade, as it has always displayed the work of local artist on its walls ever since it opened more than eleven years ago. Serving organic fair trade coffee and over 60 teas, baked goods and food, the Tea Lounge, located at the heart of Park Slope, also has a full bar with 10 taps. Host to weekly events of live music, lectures, storytelling, improv and open mics, Tea Lounge is committed to providing great community environment while supporting local artists. This October, it also becomes the main venue of Death-Rebirth-Freedom REVELRY.

Coffee. Tea. Cocktails. Community. Come on in and hang.
See www.tealoungeny.com for full the menu and event schedule.
837 Union Street, Brooklyn

Gowanus Print Lab-REVELRY Exhibition Gallery
In business since Oct. 2010, the Gowanus Print Lab is a community screen-printing workspace and exhibition space. Its aim is to create a nurturing artist community by providing affordable access to workspace and tools, skill-sharing and education through classes, workshops and lectures. It also provides exhibition space for emerging artists and this October, the exhibition space becomes host to a special Death-Rebirth-Freedom REVELRY group show.
54 Second Avenue, Brooklyn
www.gowanusprintlab.com

lululemon athletica Brooklyn Showroom
A lululemon showroom is a cozier version of the full retail stores, with a solid selection of technical product for all your sweatastic needs. During the week, the Brooklyn Showroom hosts private parties, plan community events, put lulu on wheels for trunk shows, and act as local experts on where to find great yoga, Pilates, fitness, or just plain fun in the neighborhood! This October the REVELRY will hold a Consciousness Creativity Celebration, 2 h. workshop, facilitated by Sunder Ashni.
472 Bergen St., Brooklyn
www.lululemon.com/newyork/brooklyn

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