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fund our #makemoreart campaign!
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fund our #makemoreart campaign!

Support Norte Maar’s #makemoreart campaign! As we race towards our teenage years (the second year into our second decade!) we need your support to keep us on the edge, at the forefront of new art, poetry and dance in Brooklyn and beyond. Quite simply… help us... help artists... #makemoreart

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Support Norte Maar! 11 years and counting!
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Support Norte Maar! 11 years and counting!

You know Norte Maar for our relentless energy, creating and promoting new collaborations and alternative events in the arts. Over the course of 11 years, we have enjoyed meeting you, seeing you, and having you participate in so many of our exciting events. We now look to you to help us continue to grow our friendships, collaborations and community as we look forward to the new year. Help us raise $11,000.00!

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It was EPIC !!! NM's Brooklyn Performance Combine storms the Brooklyn Museum
Events, General, News Peter Freeby Events, General, News Peter Freeby

It was EPIC !!! NM's Brooklyn Performance Combine storms the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Performance Combine will easily go down as Norte Maar's most ambitious event to date. We know we use the word a lot, but this time we can certainly call the event E P I C as the two-hour durational event at the Brooklyn Museum included 2 DJ's, 5 poets, 10 visual artists, 11 performing artists and William Powhida! The Brooklyn Performance Combine was “certainly one of our most successful programs ever in that Beaux-Arts Court," said the Brooklyn Museum.

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Norte Maar collaborates with Socrates Sculpture Park to present SOUNDEVENT
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Norte Maar collaborates with Socrates Sculpture Park to present SOUNDEVENT

Long Island City, NY–In conjunction with Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual celebration of the Summer Solstice on June 21, Socrates Sculpture Park collaborates with Norte Maar to present SOUND EVENT an evening of site-specific sound performances at Socrates Sculpture Park. For this event, which will encompass the entire park, noted sound artists will create unique sound platforms through traditional instrumentation, amplification of objects, juxtaposition of voices, and experimental electronic sound.

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Cage Transmitted with Simone Forti
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Cage Transmitted with Simone Forti

On Monday, November 12, as part of the Cage Transmitted Series presented by Norte Maar and Experiments in Art and Technology, choreographer Simone Forti discussed her work and John Cage's influence.Forti, a postmodern legend with a near four-decade career, has created dances largely based on basic everyday movements. A noted dancer, Forti performed with Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown and Robert Whitman. Musically she has collaborated with La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Terry Riley, and Yoko Ono.

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