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August 19-23
1pm-3pm
Asbury Park Senior Center
A camp for Asbury Park children ages 8-13 focused on picture taking.
Participants will learn how to take pictures with disposable cameras.
Photographs will be taken of different images/objects in Asbury Park and
photographs will be taken of each other. Children will be encouraged to write
(from their point of view) about the objects they photograph. All materials will
be provided.
●Premium reserved seat
●Exclusive meet & greet with Mo Rocca
●Personal photograph with Mo Rocca
●Collectible Mobituaries tour poster autographed by Mo Rocca (limited print)
●Priority entry into the venue
●Early access merchandise shopping
●Limited availability
Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. But let’s face it, some people never got the send-off they deserved. In his Mobituaries live show, Mo makes the case for the people (and things) who have long intrigued him. Even if you know their names, you’ve never known why they matter – until now. Audiences will have the rare opportunity to interact with Mo as he brings these Mobits to life – to ask him questions, share their own stories and get help writing the all-important first line of their own obituaries. With Mo’s knack for storytelling and signature wit, audiences are sure to walk away with a new perspective and appreciation for the things and people of the past who helped shape the world we live in today.
August 19-23
1pm-3pm
Asbury Park Senior Center
A camp for Asbury Park children ages 8-13 focused on picture taking.
Participants will learn how to take pictures with disposable cameras.
Photographs will be taken of different images/objects in Asbury Park and
photographs will be taken of each other. Children will be encouraged to write
(from their point of view) about the objects they photograph. All materials will
be provided.
The Anchor’s Bend is pleased to present the fourth year of Jams on the Sand, a free summer concert series on the beach in Asbury Park. Shows take place every Thursday from June 20th through August 29th this summer with live music from national acts from 5 PM – 10 PM each week. The ever-growing series will add regional and national openers every week and official after parties will follow at the Wonder Bar across the street. The after parties will be individually ticketed shows, with “Season Pass” ticket available for die-hard fans. Guests can expect to enjoy a showcase of different national recording artists from a variety of genres each week.
The following artists have been confirmed for the series.
June 20th – The Main Squeeze (Los Angeles, CA) w/ Ron Artis II & The Truth (Haleiwa, HI)
June 27th – Percy Hill (Durham, NH) w/ After Funk (Toronto, Ontario)
July 4th – Zach Deputy (Savannah, GA) w/ Shady Street Show Band (Red Bank, NJ)
July 11th – Southern Avenue (Memphis, TN) w/ Mike Montrey Band (New Brunswick, NJ)
July 18th – Brandon “Taz” Niederauer (Dix Hills, NY) w/ Dogs in a Pile (Asbury Park, NJ)
July 25th – Cris Jacobs (Baltimore, MD) w/ Evanoff (Boulder, CO)
Aug 1st – Peter More (Austin, TX) & The National Reserve (Brooklyn, NY) w/ Aubrey Haddard (Burlington, VT)
Aug 8th – E.N Young (San Diego, CA) w/ The Pembertones (Oceanport, NJ)
Aug 15th – JAZZ is PHSH (USA) w/ The Funky Dawgs Brass Band (Storrs, CT)
Aug 22nd – Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads (Jamaica) w/ Secret Sound (Asbury Park, NJ)
Aug 29th – Kat Wright (Burlington, VT) & Bella’s Bartok (Northhampton, MA) w/ The Artisanals (Charleston, SC)
The series contains some of the best up and coming artists from across the country and beyond, featuring funk, soul, roots rock, jam rock and reggae. There will be something for everyone and as the series have proven every year, fans will come from near and far each week to get down.
This year the official after parties keep the party going at Wonder Bar and feature some past Jams On The Sand acts and more. All the after parties will be ticketed through Ticketmaster and The Stone Pony box office. There will be a Season Pass offered at a too be determined price. The Season Pass will not grant access to the August 1st Dramarama date.
June 20th – Ron Artis II & The Truth (Haleiwa, HI)
June 27th – After Funk (Toronto, Ontario)
July 4th – Waiting On Mongo (Asbury Park, NJ)
July 18th – Midnight North (San Francisco, CA)
July 25th – Spiritual Rez (Boston, MA)
Aug 1st – Dramarama (Southern Californa / New Jersey)
Aug 8th – New Kingston (Jamaica / Brooklyn, NY)
Aug 15th – Newton Crosby (Asbury Park, NJ)
Aug 22nd – Travers Brothership (Asheville, SC)
Aug 29th – Peoples Blues of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
More information and series facts can be found at our website http://JamsOnTheSand.com.
The events are rain or shine. The Anchor’s Bend promenade or the Grand Arcade of Convention Hall will be used if there is inclement weather.
The Anchor’s Bend is a restaurant and bar located in the Arcade of Convention Hall at 1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ 07712. The beach stage is located to the north of Convention Hall.
3rd Annual Siren Arts Summer Residency & Exhibition Program for Emerging Visual Artists
Performance Art Events every Thursday evening at 7 pm on the 2nd Avenue Beach
All Audiences Welcome, Presented Free of Charge
Into the Mystic marks the 3rd year of Siren Arts, an innovative summer residency & exhibition program based in Asbury Park, NJ to support emerging visual artists within the northeast corridor of Washington, DC to NYC. Created by Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director of Transformer – a 17 year old non-profit visual arts organization based in Washington, DC – Siren Arts is an expansion of Transformer’s mission to connect and promote emerging visual artists, to advance them in their artistic careers, and to build & engage audiences in new and best contemporary arts contexts and practices.
Pursuing different themes each year, Siren Arts’ 3rd year, Into the Mystic, is a residency program that combines social practice, social engagement, and social justice. The program consists of a series of consecutive micro-residencies for seven emerging visual artists, resulting in Thursday evening performance art events on Asbury Park’s 2nd Avenue beach July 11 – August 22, 2019. Informed and inspired by the sea, and how it moves us physically, spiritually, and emotionally, the performance art events in Into the Mystic explore ocean myths, migration, unity, collective unconscious, ancestry, and more through music, dance, ritual, sound, and visual art components.
Highlighting a diverse range of artists living within the northeast corridor of DC to NYC, Siren Arts provides urban-based artists an opportunity to get out of their respective cities, enjoy creative time at the beach, and advance work they are currently pursuing. Transformer’s goal with Siren Arts is to empower the participating artists and engage audiences in both reflection and positive action around ocean conservation and its implications in all other social activism, while introducing and advancing innovative contemporary art practices.
Transformer is honored to support and present the following artists in this summer’s Siren Arts Into the Mystic program: Kunj (DC), Jane Carver (Philadelphia), Maps Glover (DC), Ayana Evans (NYC), Tsedaye Makonnen (DC), Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow (NYC), and Andrew Demirjian (Newark).
All events will take place at approximately 7:15 pm on the 2nd Avenue Beach in Asbury Park, NJ. Performances will last approximately 40 minutes and are open to all audiences free of charge. Audiences are encouraged to start gathering on the 2nd Ave beach at 7 pm, and to bring beach towels or chairs. In the event of rain, performances will take place in the lobby of The Asbury Hotel at 7 pm. Rain location will be called at 5 pm on the day of performance if raining. Visit Siren Arts on Instagram for details: @sirenartsap
Into the Mystic is generously supported by Salt Hotels with housing assistance provided by The Asbury Hotel. Transformer thanks our Community Partners for their support of this year’s Siren Arts programming, including: Monmouth Arts, Transparent Gallery, and the Boys & Girls Club of Monmouth County. Special thanks to the City of Asbury Park for its support of Siren Arts and Into the Mystic.
PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, JULY 11
Kunj | Wet
What is emotion? Is it a journey? A voyage along a sea of experience? Through the use of fabric and found ephemera, Kunj will perform a series of rituals based around grief and growth. Questioning and rebelling against institutional ideas of race, gender and queerness, Kunj uses ritual performance and structure to explore the notion of no-identity versus new-identity. He received his bachelor’s degree in
anthropology and studio art from the University of Maryland, and has performed at Grace Exhibition Space in New York, Transformer DC, The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, EMP Collective in Maryland, the
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and Platforms Project in Athens, Greece.
THURSDAY, JULY 18
Jane Carver, We, The Creature
We, The Creature is an original musical composition Carver created inspired by ancient ritual and sea monster lore. It is a part of Carver’s ongoing study of collected depictions of the Dionysian myth, entitled Mending the Broken God. Much in the way that sacrificial victims were forced to wait, exposed for a monster’s claim, thus sparing their home villages from total destruction, Carver will wait on the beach and sing to the sea. The song is an anthem for the heroes that long to be brave and fight for those they love, and the beasts themselves, whose qualities are exaggerations of aspects of the human condition- strength, perseverance, appetite, envy, boredom, self-delusion. Jane Carver is a visual artist, composer and educator and co-founder of Impossible Song, a sound collective in Philadelphia, PA. Carver has an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College and a BFA in Drawing from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
THURSDAY, JULY 25
Maps Glover, Whispers from the Waves
Whispers from the Waves is a dance based performance ritual highlighting the connection we all share with our ancestors though water. Dancers will act as a medium between the ancestral world and the physical world, bodies moving as one. Using their voices and bodies to share the Whispers from the Waves. Maps Glover creates work inspired by human behavior and observation, and pervasive social issues. He
visualizes how time affects behavior, and how observation of behavior alters perspective. He constructs portals in which the characters he creates exist and experience the world around them, often in ways that seem unnatural to the viewer. Maps has created and performed work at Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Smithsonian Arts Industries Building, Transformer DC, and more.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
Ayana Evans, Spectacle and Change
With Spectacle and Change, Evans attempts to present both an extreme spectacle of beauty inspired by the ocean, and a call to action for community involvement and care for each other. Audience participation of all ages will be strongly encouraged. “There is art that exits only as a beautiful image. This art usually helps us escape into a world of beauty and fantasy. And then there is art that draws our attention to the ills of the world. This art forces the viewer to confront what is wrong with the world, to see what is ugly in it and maybe be drawn to fix it. The meaning or activism of this type of art usually places more importance on the meaning and process of the work than on the beauty of the work. Rarely and perhaps most beautifully there is art that lies in the middle of these extremes.” – Ayana Evans
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8
Tsedaye Makonnen, Breaking the Wake
Breaking the Wake is a new performance based on Makonnen’s past work on forced migrations that explores the blurring between and transience of borders and identities, using her body and the water as the conduit
and the material. The work will be an abstracted participatory intervention that is both a personal, intimate memorialization for Makonnen, but also a look into our continued collective complacency towards the lives drowning in the Black Mediterranean. Drawing inspiration from Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, she will use her body to break the waters: “The amount of time it takes for a substance to enter the ocean and then leave the ocean is called residence time. Human blood is salty, and sodium, Gardulski tells me, has a residence time of 260 million years. And what happens to the energy that is produced in the waters? It continues cycling like atoms in residence time. We, Black people, exist in the residence time of the wake, a time in which ‘everything is now. It is all now’ (Morrison 1987, 198).” (Sharpe 2016, 41).
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Junkanooacome
Combining storytelling, drawing, painting, sewing, sculpting, and live performance, and borrowing visual styles
and traditional techniques from all aspects of her Jamaican, Chinese, and European heritage(s), Jodie LynKee-Chow’s Junkanooacome explores cultural and spiritual practices, the topic of migration, and the effects globalization has on the natural landscape to (re)claim, (re)tell, and (re)educate on forgotten stories through art. Combining costuming and readymade objects that reference Junkanoo – a centuries old ritual and art form based on celebrating freedom – Lyn-Kee-Chow forms hybridized utopian environments and scenarios. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a 1.5 generation Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in Queens, NY. Her work often explores performance and installation art drawing from the nostalgia of her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality,
environmentalism, and migration.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22
Andrew Demirjian, Sonic Drawing: Lines in the Sand
Sonic Drawing: Lines in the Sand explores the interaction of airwaves and ocean waves by performers drawing moving lines of sound across the Asbury Park shoreline. Using the beach as a compositional space and radios as instruments, two groups of performers move their bodies to choreographed locations creating call and response patterns across the sand. The piece creates opportunities for audience members to experience resonant aural pathways as the composition envelops the listener’s body in sound. The work culminates in the lines forming a sonic circle that surrounds the audience in an immersive 360º listening experience. Andrew Demirjian’s artistic practice fuses conceptual art, experimental poetry and computer science to harvest unexpected juxtapositions of cultural imagery, revealing subversive, deeply human readings of familiar spaces. Andrew’s work has been performed and exhibited at The Museum of the Moving Image, The Newark Museum, The Havana Biennial, Eyebeam, Fridman Gallery, Rush Arts, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Stone and many other galleries, festivals and museums. The MacDowell Colony, Puffin Foundation, Artslink, Harvestworks, Diapason, The Experimental Television Center, The Bemis Center, LMCC Swing Space and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts are among some of the organizations that have supported his work.
t r a n s f o r m e r is a Washington, DC based 501 (c) 3 artist-centered, non-profit visual arts organization. Founded in June 2002 by artists & arts organizers, Transformer provides a consistent, supportive, and professional platform for emerging artists to explore and present experimental artistic concepts, build audiences for their work, and advance their careers. A catalyst and advocate for contemporary artists and emergent expression in the visual arts, Transformer connects and promotes emerging visual artists within regional, national and international contexts through innovative exhibition and programs partnerships with a broad & diverse range of individual and organizational partners. t r a n s f o r m e r ’ s 2019/20 Exhibition Series and programs are supported by: Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The CrossCurrents Foundation, The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities/NEA, The Robert Lehman Foundation, and The Visionary Friends of Transformer – a growing group of individual donors & corporate sponsors.
August 19-23
1pm-3pm
Asbury Park Senior Center
A camp for Asbury Park children ages 8-13 focused on picture taking.
Participants will learn how to take pictures with disposable cameras.
Photographs will be taken of different images/objects in Asbury Park and
photographs will be taken of each other. Children will be encouraged to write
(from their point of view) about the objects they photograph. All materials will
be provided.
Music Mondays in Springwood Park will run in 2019 from June 24 through August 27 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. The series features diverse musical styles with a broad appeal to all of the Asbury Park community. Springwood Park is a new park located on Asbury Park’s west side, about 3 blocks from the train station.
The Anchor’s Bend is pleased to present the fourth year of Jams on the Sand, a free summer concert series on the beach in Asbury Park. Shows take place every Thursday from June 20th through August 29th this summer with live music from national acts from 5 PM – 10 PM each week. The ever-growing series will add regional and national openers every week and official after parties will follow at the Wonder Bar across the street. The after parties will be individually ticketed shows, with “Season Pass” ticket available for die-hard fans. Guests can expect to enjoy a showcase of different national recording artists from a variety of genres each week.
The following artists have been confirmed for the series.
June 20th – The Main Squeeze (Los Angeles, CA) w/ Ron Artis II & The Truth (Haleiwa, HI)
June 27th – Percy Hill (Durham, NH) w/ After Funk (Toronto, Ontario)
July 4th – Zach Deputy (Savannah, GA) w/ Shady Street Show Band (Red Bank, NJ)
July 11th – Southern Avenue (Memphis, TN) w/ Mike Montrey Band (New Brunswick, NJ)
July 18th – Brandon “Taz” Niederauer (Dix Hills, NY) w/ Dogs in a Pile (Asbury Park, NJ)
July 25th – Cris Jacobs (Baltimore, MD) w/ Evanoff (Boulder, CO)
Aug 1st – Peter More (Austin, TX) & The National Reserve (Brooklyn, NY) w/ Aubrey Haddard (Burlington, VT)
Aug 8th – E.N Young (San Diego, CA) w/ The Pembertones (Oceanport, NJ)
Aug 15th – JAZZ is PHSH (USA) w/ The Funky Dawgs Brass Band (Storrs, CT)
Aug 22nd – Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads (Jamaica) w/ Secret Sound (Asbury Park, NJ)
Aug 29th – Kat Wright (Burlington, VT) & Bella’s Bartok (Northhampton, MA) w/ The Artisanals (Charleston, SC)
The series contains some of the best up and coming artists from across the country and beyond, featuring funk, soul, roots rock, jam rock and reggae. There will be something for everyone and as the series have proven every year, fans will come from near and far each week to get down.
This year the official after parties keep the party going at Wonder Bar and feature some past Jams On The Sand acts and more. All the after parties will be ticketed through Ticketmaster and The Stone Pony box office. There will be a Season Pass offered at a too be determined price. The Season Pass will not grant access to the August 1st Dramarama date.
June 20th – Ron Artis II & The Truth (Haleiwa, HI)
June 27th – After Funk (Toronto, Ontario)
July 4th – Waiting On Mongo (Asbury Park, NJ)
July 18th – Midnight North (San Francisco, CA)
July 25th – Spiritual Rez (Boston, MA)
Aug 1st – Dramarama (Southern Californa / New Jersey)
Aug 8th – New Kingston (Jamaica / Brooklyn, NY)
Aug 15th – Newton Crosby (Asbury Park, NJ)
Aug 22nd – Travers Brothership (Asheville, SC)
Aug 29th – Peoples Blues of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
More information and series facts can be found at our website http://JamsOnTheSand.com.
The events are rain or shine. The Anchor’s Bend promenade or the Grand Arcade of Convention Hall will be used if there is inclement weather.
The Anchor’s Bend is a restaurant and bar located in the Arcade of Convention Hall at 1300 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ 07712. The beach stage is located to the north of Convention Hall.