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207 W 25th St, Fl 4th
New York, NY 10001
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NYC's best rehearsal space for actors, singers, dancers, improvisers, casting directors and much more. Call us today for more info! Also find us on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/simple-studios-manhattan And follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/simplestudios We are proudly an Actors' Equity Approved space!

OPERA America draws on resources and expertise from within and beyond the opera field to advance a mutually beneficial agenda that serves and strengthens the field through programs in the following categories: Creation: Artistic services that help artists and companies increase the creativity and excellence of opera productions, especially North American works; Presentation: Opera company services that address the specific needs of staff, trustees and volunteers; Enjoyment: Education, audience development and community services that increase all forms of opera appreciation. The association provides members with an array of publications and online resources, regional workshops, an annual conference and network-specific services such as conference calls, listservs and direct contact with staff with expertise in opera production, administration and education. OPERA America provides members with tools to maximize the effectiveness of financial and human resources, expand the scope of repertoire and programs, and extend their reach to new and diverse audiences. Founded in 1970, OPERA America has an international membership that includes nearly 150 Professional Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and over 16,000 subscribers to its electronic news service.

New York City's most intimate creative technology and arts incubator. Meetings, Workshops, Launch and Networking, Gallery Exhibits, Film Screenings, Photography, Casting, Production, Film and Theater Works. Iconic Fashion District facility in Midtown Manhattan with beautiful southern exposure. Loft227 is an impact start-up in Midtown Manhattan offering one-of-a-kind inspired space with hi-tech resources for artists, off-site meetings, staff training, focus groups, angel investor pitch meetings, fundraisers, launches, brand activations, and events in the most competitive city in the world. Approaching the 5 year mark, Loft227 is set to expand into a location 5X it's current size, to meet the city's overwhelming demand for dynamic space and mentorship in NYC. Executive Director, Robin Sokoloff, has grown Loft227 to encompass 20,000 emerging artists, entrepreneurs, and their supporters, with an emphasis on the advancement of young women, minorities, and LGBTQ voices. For over 4 years, Sokoloff has leveraged her space to donate over $215,000 each year in sponsorship and production dollars to the best and brightest innovators New York City has to offer. Not only does her revolutionary financial model provide Loft227's clients a "strategic jump start" in their respective marketplaces, Sokoloff revenue shares with her core staff, while they build their own small businesses in synergy with her own, and has creating over 54 Freelance jobs for local creatives. For more info: https://loft227.com/ State-of-the-art wireless technology resources include: 15 ft Retractible Movie Screen, Projector, 50 in Adjustable Flat Screen, 32 in Flat Screen + Surround Sound. Halogen + intelligent LED-RGB lighting. Full Kitchen, Bathroom, Various Convertible Couches, Tables, and Chairs. Outside catering allowed. 2 Passenger Elevators + 1 Freight.

Since its inception in 1991, Go Studios has established itself as one of the foremost rental studios in New York City, and is known for its modern, clean look, as well as its friendly staff and welcoming environment. Whether you shoot fashion, celebrities, catalogs, still life, food, or video, Go Studios will meet your professional photographic needs with: - Four beautifully unique and versatile spaces - including the spectacular new Penthouse Studio - Two convenient NYC locations in Chelsea and the Garment District - Daylight and skylight options - Fully-equipped kitchens - All rental equipment and digital capture stations on-site Clients include: Magazines/Publishing - Vogue, Elle Decor, Zink, Amica, Paper, Nylon, American Baby, Fitness, Brides, Self, Food & Wine, Lucky, GQ, Parents, Family Circle, Harper Collins, and Time Inc. Fashion/Beauty/Luxury Goods - Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, BMW, MAC Cosmetics, Estee Lauder, Grey Goose, Conair, and Aerosoles TV/Video/Media - Food Network, Oprah, Rachel Ray, HBO, CNN, Versus Network, ESPN, and NBC Universal.

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is the preeminent national literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. We’ve garnered coverage from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post, Associated Press, Atlantic, Slate and NPR. Invited to the White House, named one of the top Asian American groups nationally, we seek to invent the future of Asian American intellectual culture. Check us out at http://www.aaww.org. 1. WE CURATE UNFORGETTABLE ART EVENTS. We hold fifty events a year at our Chelsea space. They’re fresh, progressive, funny, interdisciplinary, and community-based. We have curated events with Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje, Zadie Smith, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ha Jin, Das Racist, Eddie Huang, Tea Obreht, Junot Díaz, Roxane Gay, and other writers, activists, and scholars. 2. WE PUBLISH THE ONLINE MAGAZINES THE MARGINS AND OPEN CITY. The Margins magazine (aaww.org) seeks to invent the future of Asian American arts and ideas and imagine ethnic identity as counterculture, both aesthetically and politically. We have published Pulitzer Finalist Chang-rae Lee, National Book Award Finalist Jessica Hagedorn, and MacArthur Genius Vijay Iyer. Open City magazine (opencitymag.com) publishes stories about communities of color, those excluded from traditional power structures, and incubates the underprivileged writers who can write about them. Almost a third of a million readers have read our magazines. 3. WE INCUBATE EMERGING WRITERS OF COLOR. We give out grants to eight emerging Asian American writers a year. We hold open mics, writing workshops, and a big publishing conference. As Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, arguably the most celebrated novelist in America, said at our 2009 PAGE TURNER literary festival: “I felt that AAWW was a secret door that opened and cared about and supported my work as a writer.”

The mission of YOGANESH YOGA is to create a compassionate and loving environment for the practice of various traditions of Yoga, to achieve optimal health of the body, mind, and spirit. We want our students to feel that they are doing yoga at home with friends. Ganesh, is known in Hinduism as the Elephant headed God, Remover of Obstacles.

UNITE HERE boasts a diverse membership, comprising workers from many immigrant communities as well as high percentages of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American workers. The majority of UNITE HERE members are women. Through organizing, UNITE HERE members have made apparel jobs in the South, hotel housekeeping jobs in cities across North America, and hundreds of thousands of other traditionally low-wage jobs into good, family-sustaining, middle class jobs.

Initiated as an organizing effort by a coalition of LGBTSTGNC People of Color, The Audre Lorde Project was first brought together by Advocates for Gay Men of Color (a multi-racial network of gay men of color HIV policy advocates) in 1994. The vision for ALP grew out of the expressed need for innovative and unified community strategies to address the multiple issues impacting LGBTSTGNC People of Color communities. ALP secured and moved into its Fort Greene home, in the parish house of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, during the summer of 1996.

Fighting Discrimination against Gender Non-Conforming People: Focusing on People of Color and Poor People Transgender, transsexual, intersex and other gender non-conforming people face persistent and severe discrimination in employment, education, health care, social and legal services, criminal justice and many other realms. Simultaneously, all low-income people, and particularly those in communities of color, are suffering from the severe cutbacks to anti-poverty programs, increasing militarization of the police, and rising rates of incarceration. Low income people and people of color who experience gender identity discrimination are particularly vulnerable in this climate. Low-income people and people of color are overrepresented in systems such as prisons, group homes, shelters and detention facilities. Because so many of the systems are sex-segregated, many people face serious problems of inaccessibility, harassment or violence if their gender identity or expression does not conform to their birth sex. Many are turned away outright from essential services like homeless shelters, drug treatment or mental health services, while others experience discrimination or violence in these settings because of their gender identity or expression. Police harassment and violence, and mistreatment in juvenile and adult justice systems, are widespread in our communities. Furthermore, those who seek legal and social services to help get on their feet or fight for entitlements often encounter ignorance or discrimination at the door. The result is that transgender, transsexual, intersex and gender non-conforming people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated, and are 7-10 times more likely to be a victim of murder. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s work seeks to address both the root causes and effects of discrimination and violence on the basis of gender identity and expression. The right to self determine gender identity and expression and be free from violence is only one facet of a multi-issue movement for justice and self-determination of al people. We believe that justice does not trickle down, and that those who face the most severe consequences of violence and discrimination should be the priority of movements against discrimination. Our agenda focuses on those in our community who face multiple vectors of state and institutional violence: people of color, incarcerated people, people with disabilities, people with HIV/AIDS, immigrants, homeless people, youth, and people trying to access public benefits. We work through a collective structure built on the idea that our work should be by and for our community, and should be focused on maximizing political voice and power while providing desperately needed services.

The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is a non-profit organization run by voluntary staff and dedicated to the aim of disseminating the knowledge of yoga. We have been in continuous operation at its present location on West 24th Street in New York since 1964 - and have been teaching in NY since 1959. We are part of a worldwide organization, the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres, founded by Swami Vishnu-devananda. A renowned authority on Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, Swami Vishnudevananda was sent to the west by his Master, Swami Sivananda to spread the ideals of Yoga and Vedanta with the words 'people are waiting.'

BalaSole Dance Company believes that the art of dance is for everyone. The company was established to address the following imbalances, which have prevented and/or discouraged individuals from participating or pursuing a career in dance: - Limited artistic freedom given to dance artists in most dance companies - Insufficient multi-ethnic representation of dance artists - Inadequate mentorship given to dance artists with regard to finding their artistic identity and strengthening their professional credentials - Limited opportunities for artistic collaboration in most dance companies - Typecasting restrictions that marginalize dance artists because of age, shape, size, ethnicity, and style - Generally only one stylized form of dance used in a dance company’s repertoire - Below average compensation given to a large number of dance artists working in smaller companies - Scarce opportunities for emerging dance artists to work alongside seasoned performers - Limited opportunities for dance artists to showcase their full artistic talents and identity within a dance company - Limited number of dance company programs providing access to the art of dance to under-served communities such as senior citizens living in senior centers, children and youth from low income families, and adults who don't have formal or prior dance training - Limited opportunities for male and female dance artists to become soloists - Low number of male dance artists entering the field - Limited connection between dance and non-artistic fields

Founded on the belief that teenagers can and must speak for themselves, Urban Word NYC™ (UW) has been at the forefront of the youth spoken word, poetry and hip-hop movements in New York City since 1999. Urban Word NYC presents literary arts education and youth development programs in the areas of creative writing, journalism, college prep, literature and hip-hop. UW provides FREE, safe and uncensored writing workshops to teens year round, and hosts the Annual NYC Teen Poetry Slam, NY Knicks Poetry Slam, local and national youth slams, festivals, reading series, open mics, and more. UW works directly with 15,000 teens per year in New York City alone, and as a steering committee member of the National Youth Spoken Word Coalition, has partner programs in 45 cities. UW also has a vigorous community educator and teacher training series which links inquiry-based classroom practices with the most progressive academic trends in student-centered pedagogy.

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is the preeminent national literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. We’ve garnered coverage from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post, Associated Press, Atlantic, Slate and NPR. Invited to the White House, named one of the top Asian American groups nationally, we seek to invent the future of Asian American intellectual culture. Check us out at http://www.aaww.org. 1. WE CURATE UNFORGETTABLE ART EVENTS. We hold fifty events a year at our Chelsea space. They’re fresh, progressive, funny, interdisciplinary, and community-based. We have curated events with Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje, Zadie Smith, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ha Jin, Das Racist, Eddie Huang, Tea Obreht, Junot Díaz, Roxane Gay, and other writers, activists, and scholars. 2. WE PUBLISH THE ONLINE MAGAZINES THE MARGINS AND OPEN CITY. The Margins magazine (aaww.org) seeks to invent the future of Asian American arts and ideas and imagine ethnic identity as counterculture, both aesthetically and politically. We have published Pulitzer Finalist Chang-rae Lee, National Book Award Finalist Jessica Hagedorn, and MacArthur Genius Vijay Iyer. Open City magazine (opencitymag.com) publishes stories about communities of color, those excluded from traditional power structures, and incubates the underprivileged writers who can write about them. Almost a third of a million readers have read our magazines. 3. WE INCUBATE EMERGING WRITERS OF COLOR. We give out grants to eight emerging Asian American writers a year. We hold open mics, writing workshops, and a big publishing conference. As Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri, arguably the most celebrated novelist in America, said at our 2009 PAGE TURNER literary festival: “I felt that AAWW was a secret door that opened and cared about and supported my work as a writer.”