The Bushwick Starr & Brooklyn Gypsies Present OYE! Avant-Garde Night This Weekend

OYE! Avant-Garde Night is an annual festival devoted to the development of new performances by artists from Bushwick and surrounding areas. Brooklyn Gypsies created OYE! as a platform to celebrate and share what is unique about Bushwick's converging arts communities. Join us for a night of eclectic theater, dance & film, including a reasonable daydream of the fall of nations, Patti Smith, and other cannibals and the story of a Broken Bachelor. Performances followed by music, conversation, food and dancing.

OYE! Avant-Garde Night features actors and musicians including Jake Denney, Arisleyda Dilone, James Zebooker, AR Garcia, Knick E. Finn & Tabhita Vidaurri.

Produced by Brooklyn Gypsies, OYE! Avant-Garde Night is curated by Modesto Flako Jimenez, Lighting & Tech by Jay Maury & Dan Kent, Technical assistant Kevin Torres & Daniel Broadhurst.

Location:

The Bushwick Starr theater: 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]

Directions:

Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.

For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS

Tickets are $15.00 at www.thebushwickstarr.org

About Modesto Flako Jimenez: Modesto Flako Jimenez is a Dominican-born actor, writer and arts educator raised in Brooklyn. He has performed on stage with the Wooster Group and Repertorio Español in New York and appeared on broadcast and online radio to discuss politics throughout the Spanish-speaking world and to share his poems and stories. A board member of Brooklyn Poets. Has also appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, BK Live, NY1, TEDxBushwick, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and shared the stage with Wallace Shawn, Frances McDormand and Maura Tierney. In 2012 he published a poetry collection addressing gentrification called Oye, Para Mi Querido Brooklyn (Listen, For My Dear Brooklyn).

About The Brooklyn Gypsies Collective:

Brooklyn Gypsies is an eclectic artist collective made up of New Yorkers both native and immigrant to our city. We present annual showcases of new work in theater, dance, poetry and film that spark dialogues on critical issues of immigration, economics, and urban survival. We curate a mix of established and emerging artists and give them a platform to explore complex issues in a stimulating environment. Brooklyn Gypsies is a playground to celebrate and share what is unique about Bushwick's converging arts communities.