Thank You from Fall Festival

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Photo by Tracy Young

Last week, Bryant Park Fall Festival presented by Bank of America featured over a dozen of New York City's celebrated cultural institutions. These groups came together to present 8 days of free performances, sampling some of the best the city has to offer in ballet, modern dance, jazz, opera, poetry, and kids programming. Crowds were delighted, performers exhilarated, and no one let the rain or a presidential visit to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library stop us. We could not have done it without the generous support of our sponsors, Bank of America, HBO and The Durst Organization; and our media partners, WNET.ORG, WNYC, and amNEWYORK.

Photo by Tracy Young

We also owe special thank yous to the teams of people at Verona Productions, Element Group, and Global Strategy Group, who helped us set-up, design and organize Fall Festival.

Jennifer Muller/The Works
Photo by Tracy Young

The crowd came prepared for Jazzmobile's presentation of the Winard Harper Septet.
Photo by Ethan Lercher

Peter Sellars at the Rubin Musem of Art discussion of the dramatization of Vimalakirti Sutra
Photo by Jacob Bielecki

Festival refreshments provided by 'wichcraft and City Winery
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Kids Club Thirteen and Vital Theatre Company present Pinkalicious
Photo by Ethan Lercher

Thank you to all of the presenting organizations as well for the music, dance, words and memories. That includes City Winery, Bowery Poetry Club, Kids Club Thirteen, City Parks Foundation's PuppetMobile, operamission, Rubin Museum of Art, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the Black Rock Coalition, China Institute in America, Ballet Hispanico, Jennifer Muller/The Works, The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Jazzmobile, Inc., Elisa Monte Dance, and RIOULT. 

Ballet Hispanico takes a bow.

Photo by Tracy Young