CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) director Christopher Pelham chats with Grammy-winning violinist, composer, and ...

Trois Chants Pour Cyber-Nostalgie I, II, III Composed by Jialin Liu Sheng solo with electronics Sheng performed by Li-chin Li This ...

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center ...

This performance by Li-Chin Li (sheng) with electronics is from the concert series Paradise Laboratory presented by CRS (Center ...

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presented Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 18: FREEDOM on July 16, 2022 at ...

CRS Presents Paradise Laboratory: Hell in Paradise Li-Chin Li & Jeonghyeon Joo improvised duet PARADISE LABORATORY is ...

CRS presents Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 19, curated by Maya Keren. Careful In The Sun traverses a verdant ...

On the occasion of the 815th birthday of the beloved Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Mevlana Rūmī, CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presented an intimate evening of art, poetry reading, and dance , accompanied by live music by Hadi Eldebek and Mohamad Eldebek of the Brooklyn Nomads at the L — Private Gallery in Chinatown, NYC.

Video by Waku Fiore

WENDI WENG is the founder of China's One Thousand and One Nights Dance Art Center and is currently the Artistic Director of the "1001 Experimental Theater." She has won the Asian International Music, Dance Art Competition, and the champion of the Fujian Women's Talent and Emotional Reality Show. Wendi is known for her spiritual teaching, and she has trained a group of outstanding dancers and teachers with distinct personalities and independent thoughts to cultivate a group of talents in the promotion of Chinese oriental dance. She has served as a judge of the major art festivals in China, traveling to Middle East and North Africa, and many countries in East Africa. She went to the United States in 2015 and actively joined in various art activities at New York and actively promoted dance art. She has successively exhibited at New York fashion Events and art exhibition centers, poetry associations, museum, libraries, and churches, and collaborated with artists from different fields. She hopes to establish a bridge between Eastern and Western culture through her work.
https://wendiwengdanceart.com

HADI ELDEBEK is an Oudist, Composer, and Cultural Entrepreneur based in New York City. He has collaborated with prominent figures and institutions in the Arts, Culture, and Education sectors, including Yo-Yo Ma's Silkroad Ensemble, Harvard Graduate School of Education, The Kennedy Center, TED, Disney World Imagineering, and others. In addition, Hadi has founded several cultural startups, including grantPA and Circle World Arts. His TED talk, discussing the importance of funding the arts and artists, has gone viral with over 1.25 million views.

MOHAMED ELDEBEK is a percussionist from Lebanon based in New York City. He has performed internationally in numerous venues including the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, Symphony Space, Metropolitan museum of Arts, Shanghai Concert Hall, and others. His musical adventures brought him to tour in China and teach Arabic music and dance at the first world arts workshop in Xizhou town, Yunnan Province.

Their band, THE BROOKLYN NOMADS, is a cross cultural collective rooted in musical traditions from the Arab world. Our musicians are from Lebanon, Germany, Sudan, Turkey, Iran, the US, Albania, and others. Our music includes global styles like Flamenco, Jazz, Balkan, Bluegrass, North & East African, European Classical and more.
https://thebrooklynnomads.com

ABOUT THE EVENT ORGANIZERS

L — PRIVATE GALLERY is an extension of artist Loy Luo's workspace. The artist's pursuit of artistic quality, enthusiasm for artistic exchanges, and convenient transportation have gradually transformed the space into a place for painters, sculptors, musicians, performance artists and philosophers to collide and display their works. There is a brave spirit of academic exploration and an open atmosphere of artistic innovation.
https://loyluo.art

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.
https://crsny.org

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 28:
Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 2

Improvised by
Jungwoon Kim — dance
gamin — piri


Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on February 6, 2022

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project.

Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects.

https://www.aha-k-pro.org/

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 27:
Paradise Laboratory with gamin & Jungwoon Kim 1

Improvised by
Jungwoon Kim — dance and voice
gamin — piri and saenghwang


Video Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on February 6, 2022

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project.

Jungwoong has taught improvisation and contact improvisation at numerous universities and independent workshops in the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea. For the fall 2021 semester he was a guest artist/choreographer at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster PA. He recently received a 2021 ART IS PHL award from the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation for creation of Gather Together in Their Name, a public art project that speaks to the interruption of community memorial rituals in the time of COVID. Lately he has enjoyed working with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater as the movement consultant for an uproariously physical interpretation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by Dmitry Krymov, which played to sold-out audiences and rave reviews in April/ May 2022. In June 2022 he was a featured artist in performances at the 25th anniversary celebration of Philadelphia Dance Projects.

https://www.aha-k-pro.org/

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon 25: Oud Taksim Huzzam by Tomchess

Music by Tomchess
https://tomchess.bandcamp.com
@birdoffire7

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

From Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 14: Rumi's Wedding Night
Filmed at CRS in NYC
Premiered Dec 17, 2020
https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

Tomchess (oud, ney, morsing) is a Pittsburgh–based multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer who has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress, Ronald Shannon Jackson) as well as Moroccan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. He has performed around the world and at New York City venues like Lincoln Center, the Turkish and Pakistani embassies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations He has played on Grammy-nominated recordings and was awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and the Maryland Council for the Arts. In 2012 he was nominated for an Independent Music Award.

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 24:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 3

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Text by
Mia Chung
https://newdramatists.org/mia-chung

Spoken Word by
Elya Osmanova
https://www.elyaos.com
@elyaos

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
https://chrispelham.com
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on December 6, 2021

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His devotion to training within the traditional formats of hindustani music have provided him with respect and love for the ever unfolding wisdom of sound while his diverse experiences across countries, genres, people and vocations have given him the conviction that art is to serve a greater purpose of spirituality and justice. Besides hindustani music he performs experimental compositions, collaborations with dance and other creative formats. He has had the privilege to work with the Pittsburgh Opera and Brooklyn Raga Massive and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from The Saratoga Arts Council which he used to conceive and launch Folk Song, an emergent ensemble inspired by the forms of hindustani and Irish Trad.
@galenpassen

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 22:
Sarve Kharaman (Graceful Cyprus)

Direction by Läle Sayoko

Vocal by Mina Omidi
https://minaomidi.com

Sufi dance by Läle Sayoko & Mina Khanal
@lalesayokonyc
@meera_whirling
@meerawhirling

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@christopher_pelham

From "Rumi's Wedding Night"
Filmed at CRS, NYC
Premiered on December 17, 2019

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 21:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 2

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on December 6, 2021

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His devotion to training within the traditional formats of hindustani music have provided him with respect and love for the ever unfolding wisdom of sound while his diverse experiences across countries, genres, people and vocations have given him the conviction that art is to serve a greater purpose of spirituality and justice. Besides hindustani music he performs experimental compositions, collaborations with dance and other creative formats. He has had the privilege to work with the Pittsburgh Opera and Brooklyn Raga Massive and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from The Saratoga Arts Council which he used to conceive and launch Folk Song, an emergent ensemble inspired by the forms of hindustani and Irish Trad.
https://www.instagram.com/galenpassen/

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents
Wednesdays at Noon Music Video Series Episode 20:
Paradise Laboratory 5 Part 1

Improvised by
Galen Passen — sitar
gamin — piri and saenghwang

Video & Editing by
Christopher Pelham
@christopher_pelham

Filmed in the White Room at CRS, NYC
on December 6, 2021

Created in collaboration with musicians and dancers primarily of Asian and Middle-Eastern origin or descent, the WEDNESDAYS AT NOON music video series provides a playground for unusual collaborations and creative experimentation. The works featured include both composed/choreographed and improvised performances and take aim at the perceived boundary between traditional and contemporary.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His devotion to training within the traditional formats of hindustani music have provided him with respect and love for the ever unfolding wisdom of sound while his diverse experiences across countries, genres, people and vocations have given him the conviction that art is to serve a greater purpose of spirituality and justice. Besides hindustani music he performs experimental compositions, collaborations with dance and other creative formats. He has had the privilege to work with the Pittsburgh Opera and Brooklyn Raga Massive and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from The Saratoga Arts Council which he used to conceive and launch Folk Song, an emergent ensemble inspired by the forms of hindustani and Irish Trad.
https://www.instagram.com/galenpassen/
galenpassen

gamin is a distinguished NYC soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe), taepyeonso (double-reed horn), and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council, and Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. gamin, as soloist, has scheduled her Carnegie Hall debut with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra in coming year. She has been a curator for the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series, which she helped to conceive, at CRS since 2018.
https://gaminmusic.com
@gamin_ny

https://crsny.org
https://www.instagram.com/crsnyorg/

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