Historic Theater to Induct King of Pop Michael Jackson and Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame and Honor Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony with the Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Arts & Humanitarian Award

Hosted by Comedian and Actor Jamie Foxx

HARLEM, NY — March 30, 2010 — The Apollo Theater, one of the nation’s greatest cultural treasures, has announced plans for its 2010 Benefit Concert and Awards Ceremony, to be held at the historic Theater on Monday, June 14, 2010. The Gala celebration will bring together the best and brightest in business and entertainment to raise funds in support of the non-profit theater’s remarkable legacy and its current initiatives for emerging artists and community and educational programs in New York City and beyond. The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a star-studded red carpet, followed by the Gala concert and awards ceremony at 7:00 p.m. and culminating with a grand tented after-party, the Apollo Supper Club.

Hosted by comedian and Oscar-award winning actor Jamie Foxx, the Benefit will feature the induction of two royal new honorees into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame: the undisputed King of Pop Michael Jackson, and the one and only Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. Mr. Jackson, who will be posthumously inducted, first performed at the Apollo in the late 1960s with his brothers and won Amateur Night, catapulting their career as the Jackson 5. Jackson went on to become perhaps the world’s biggest star, stretching boundaries in his artistry as a singer, dancer, songwriter, video artist, and the consummate entertainer. Michael Jackson revolutionized popular music and the impact of his music is to this day felt all over the world.

No one epitomizes the definition of an Apollo legend more than Ms. Aretha Franklin. Her name alone commands R-E-S-P-E-C-T. A giant of soul music and an institution of American culture, the Queen will be on hand as she is inducted in grand style into the Legends Hall of Fame. Past inductees into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame include Quincy Jones, Patti Labelle, Smokey Robinson, James Brown, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Little Richard and Ella Fitzgerald.

The awards ceremony will continue with the Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis Arts and Humanitarian Award presented to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. This award, named after the late Ossie Davis and his wife, Ruby Dee, is given annually to a couple who embody the powerful beliefs of this unique pair: a rarified command of their craft, a deep commitment to their community, and an unshakeable connection to each other and their family. Previous award recipients have included Bill and Camille Cosby; Pauletta and Denzel Washington; Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon; Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance; and Tonya Lewis Lee and Spike Lee. The Theater’s annual corporate award recognizing superior corporate leadership will be presented to JP Morgan Chase for its ongoing commitment to the Apollo and the Harlem community.

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Now in its 8th year, the NALAC Leadership Institute brings emerging Latino artists and key staff of community based Latino arts and cultural organizations from across the nation for intensive training in nonprofit arts management and leadership development. Fifteen to twenty applicants are selected to attend each year, and up to two people from an organization can apply!

The NALAC Leadership Institute has created a powerful national network of Latino arts leaders, whose creative intellect is shaping the future of Latino arts and culture.

The NALAC Leadership Institute training includes instruction in such areas as:

• Fundraising and Grant Writing
• Capacity Building
• Audience Development
• Outreach & Publicity
• New Technologies
• Trends in Philanthropy
• Leadership Transition
• Case Study Reviews

The NALAC Leadership Institute also provides the unique opportunity to meet and network with peers from around the country working in every artistic discipline.

Past Leadership Institute instructors and presenters have included Rosalba Rolon (Pregones Theater), Abel Lopez (GALA Theatre), Maribel Alvarez (The Southwest Center), Anthony J. Garcia (El Centro Su Teatro), Jesse Borrego (Actor) and Tomas Ybarra Frausto (independent scholar).

Applying to the Leadership Institute is a benefit of NALAC membership. We encourage you to become a member today and enjoy other benefits, such as the opportunity to apply to the NALAC Fund for the Arts grant, free admission to the Regional Arts Training Workshops and discounts to NALAC’s National Convenings.

As a member, you will also receive subscriptions to NALAC’s monthly eBoletin newsletter and tri-annual El Aviso magazine, thus keeping informed about upcoming funding opportunities, events and other great resources for the Latino arts field. Affordable annual membership rates start at $35 for individuals and $45 for families.

For more information, please call 210-432-3982, email info@nalac.org. or visit www.nalac.org.

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From Indonesia to Canada, Australia and DKNY, Kate’s comedy career began after she graduated with an acting degree from The Juilliard School. The “club scene” drew her to Caroline’s Comedy Club, NYC, where she quickly was “slotted” for a series of appearances and features showcasing her particular brand of character based comedy. She has brought her funky urban Asian sensibility to The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, Chicago Museum of Modern Art, and The Public Theater.

She has preformed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival, The Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival, and developed her first comedy and music revue for NBC’s PSNBC in New York, and the HBO Time Warner workspace in Los Angeles. Kate’s Chink-O-Rama: featuring the chinkorama dancers is a New York city favorite at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Her follow up “Birth of a nASIAN” played at the Mark Taper Forum’s Summerfest (developed at La Mama ETC, New York City), MACLA in San Jose, the New World Theater in Massachusetts, the Vancouver Comedy Festival, Women in Theater Conference Toronto, ConWorks Seattle, OutNorth Alaska, MACLA, CCE Portland and the Comedy Central Theater L.A as part of their 2007 season.

Kate has appeared on NBC Late Friday, CTV Women of The Night, NPR, CBC Radio, Sirius Radio, STAR TV, National Lampoon’s International Comedy DVD, Comedy Central, SEX TV, PBS, Latin American TV, vH1, as well as being profiled in the film Race is the Place Alongside Amiri Baraka and Danny Hoch (aired at festivals and on PBS). She has produced numerous comedy shows for RIPE TV and Time Warner on demand, and The Naughty Show Bad Girls of Comedy Show, which is in international release on DVD by Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Her Hip Hop band, Slanty Eyed Mama has toured the US, Canada and Australia, notably at the Perth International Arts Festival in Australia, the Eurasian Nation Festival, the Asian Film Festival at University of Michigan, the A/PI heritage fest in Union Square NYC, LA’s GRAND Performances at City Center, The Asian American Jazz Festival in Chicago, Girl Fest Hawaii, Soundfest NYC, The Philadelphia Fringe Fest and the Women in Performance Conference and the Smithsonian Institutes’ keynote 2007 Asian Heritage Month Performance.

Kate was a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow as well as a 2005 NEA grant recipient to develop new work. In 2006 she won the Urban Arts Initiative Grant through the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Ludwig Vogelstein Award to develop new work and one of the Asian Women’s Giving Circle’s Inaugural Grants to Artists for her work in the Asian American community. She has been awarded grants and prizes by The Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council, The PatsyLu Fund for Women in Music, Dixon Place, The Australia Council for the Arts, The Norma Epstein Foundation, The Juilliard School Interarts Program, and the University of Melbourne.

She recurs on Law and Order, Fox’s Family Guy, and starred in the New York premieres of Dogeaters at the Public Theater, and BFE at Playwright’s Horizons. Off Broadway she was in the Vagina Monologues at the Westside Theater, The Most Fabulous Story Every Told, at Minetta Lane and Sez She, at the Mark Taper Forum. She frequently hosts events, some of which include: The Coalition of Asian Children and Families Benefit (NYC), The Asian Women’s Giving Circle Awards (NY), The Asian American Recovery Services Mentor Luncheon (San Francisco), The Sistering Shelter for Homeless Women Benefit (Toronto), Eurasian Nation’s Launch Party (NY), Queen’s Pride, The Dinah Shore Weekend VIP Pool Party, The Heritage of Pride NYC Rally, Bryant Park, The NYU Asian Heritage Month Fashion and Arts Show, the A/PI Heritage Month Conference Smith College, A/PI Heritage Month New York in Union Square Park. She has appeared on Damages, QVC, Hey Paula, TOP CHEF, Flavor of Love, Big Love, Reaper, Three’s Company and Arrested Development. She has spoken or/written about Asian American culture and representation in: Time Magazine, The Globe and Mail, On and Off Magazine, BUST, The San Francisco Examiner, THIS Magazine, NOW Magazine, CBC Radio and A Magazine.

Beware; Kate could bring mayhem and the curse of laughter on your “small town” if she comes there.
Sincerely,
Richard Currier

Produced & Directed by Richard Currier. (Excerpt/Clips)
©2008 richardcurrier

Discover Kate @:
http://www.katerigg.com/

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As part of their programs, students will get an opportunity to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Orange County Performing Arts Center when Alvin Ailey returns to the Center March 2 – 7, 2010.

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Arts Council Silicon Valley: a private non-profit organization in partnership with the County of Santa Clara, California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Silicon Valley Arts Fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Video edited by Diem Jones, Director of Programs.

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