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North Stage, Cadman Plaza East

Korean War Veterans Park Brooklyn NY 11201 United States

Non-Fiction

Free

Iconic NYC: Jonas Mekas, Blues and the Creative City

2022 is the centennial of the late Jonas Mekas, poet, filmmaker and artist, who transformed avant garde film in
the U.S. Join film writer and essayist Phillip Lopate and author and poet Charity Coleman for a discussion about Mekas’s time in NY and musician/ author Larry Simon and author John Broven (New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond) talking about the postwar New York City Blues scene based on interviews and personal stories. Supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute.

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