Hook Arts Media is proud to announce that Kyle Marshall Choreography will be joining the 2020 Red Hook Fest broadcast!

Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC) is a dance company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform, and a site of celebration. KMC has performed at venues including: BAM Next Wave Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Joe’s Pub, Roulette, Actors Fund Arts Center, and NYC Summerstage. Commissions have included: “Dance on the Lawn” Montclair Dance Festival, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Harlem Stage. The company has taught masterclasses and creative workshops at high schools and colleges including Bloomfield College, Montclair University, and the American Dance Festival. KMC is a part of the MANA Contemporary Performance Residency Program, received a CHIRP residency from County Prep High School, and is presently a 92nd st Y resident artist. Director, Kyle Marshall is a graduate of Rutgers University and a resident of Jersey City. He received the 2018 NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Jury Award and is an NJ State Arts Fellow.

Learn more:

Instagram: @KMChoreo | Facebook: @KyleMarshallChoreography | kmchoreo.com

Hook Arts Media is proud to announce that Pioneer Works is co-presenting the Resistance Revival Chorus for the 2020 Red Hook Fest broadcast!

The Resistance Revival Chorus is a collective of more than 60 womxn who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance and to uplift and center women’s voices. The great artist and activist Harry Belafonte once said, “when the movement is strong, the music is strong” and we attempt to live up to that call.

Joy is an act of resistance.

The RRC has been honored to perform with Kesha at the 2018 Grammys, on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with Jim James, at Carnegie Hall with Phillip Glass, Carly Simon, and Patti Smith, at SummerStage with Angelique Kidjo, at Babefest with Ani DiFranco, with Natalie Merchant, and most recently with Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner from The National.

 Instagram: @resistancerevivalchorus | Facebook: @ResistanceRevivalChorus | Twitter: @ResistanceRev

Hook Arts Media is happy to announce that Taína Asili will be joining the 2020 Red Hook Fest broadcast!

Taína Asili is an Albany, New York-based Puerto Rican singer and activist carrying on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. She performs an energetic fusion of powerful vocals laid over Afro-Latin, reggae, and rock, bringing love, resistance, and ancestral remembrance to venues across the globe. In January 2017, Taina performed for over half a million people at The Women’s March on Washington. Her music video “No Es Mi Presidente” (Not My President) premiered in Rolling Stone, The Huffington Post named her in a list of in a list of “12 Freedom Fighting Bands To Get You Through the Trump Years”; Billboard Magazine featured her in a list of “11 Songs of Protest & Resistance by Latino Artists”; and her music has been aired several times on Democracy Now!. During Taína Asili’s 20-year career of creating music for social change, she has toured within and outside of the U.S. numerous times. She has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Alicia Keys, Talib Kweli, Janelle Monáe, and Tom Morello, and activists such as Cornel West, Barbara Smith, and Angela Davis.

Learn more about her here:

Facebook: @TaínaAsili | Twitter@ TaínaAsili | Instagram: @TaínaAsili | TaínaAsili.com

SPOTLIGHT ON RED HOOK’S LOCAL HEROES

Hook Arts Media is proud to spotlight the fantastic relief efforts in Red Hook during the upcoming Red Hook Fest! In this uncertain time, Red Hook’s residents, essential workers, volunteers, and community leaders have risen to the occasion to offer food, supplies, and other invaluable resources and support.

We recognize that these efforts wouldn’t have been so successful without the tireless dedication of hundreds of volunteers and organizers and dozens of organizations. We wish we could highlight everyone’s work, but we only had the resources to share video profiles of 3 people.

In addition to NYC’s most powerful dance groups and bands, Hook Arts Media brings out talented pre-professional youth groups to perform on the Red Hook Fest mainstage. Over the years, Red Hook Fest audiences have seen NYC’s most powerful young artists perform ballet, Mexican folk dance, hip hop, step, modern dance, jazz, and more.

While we can’t showcase the talents of NYC’s young performers in 2020, we will be sharing a retrospective of some of the best performances we’ve seen in our 27 years.

Red Hook Fest Youth Performers

For the past 27 years, Hook Arts Media has proudly partnered with multiple organizations to share resources, services, activities, and opportunities with Red Hook Fest audiences. Activities have usually included scavenger hunts, reading tents, face painting, button-making, poster crafting, and free kayaking on the harbor.

This year, we’ve partnered with a few of the organizations that have been at the front lines of the vital relief efforts in Red Hook. Covid-19 has devastated our city, and we deeply admire the many people who quickly mobilized to serve Red Hook. While we didn’t have the resources to highlight all the efforts, we were able to shine a light on these peoples’ brave work:

Find a selection of the organizations, agencies, and initiatives that have partnered with us at Red Hook Fest in previous years:

Red Hook Fest Community