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< back							September 22-28 > Thursday, September 25th, 6:30pm Creative Conversation Arts leaders in the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens are invited to discuss the outer boroughs’ unique opportunities and distinct challenges, in a Creative Conversation hosted by the Emerging Leaders of New York Arts (ELNYA). Stakeholders in arts and culture of all ages, regardless of affiliation with specific arts or cultural institutions, are invited to participate. Come prepared to discuss threats and opportunities in your own borough, best practices and opportunities in the outer boroughs, and to meet and network with other outer borough leaders and stakeholders. This Brooklyn Creative Conversation will be held at the start of the DUMBO Arts Festival, and will kick off the season of Creative Conversations. Creative Conversations, started by Americans for the Arts, are local gatherings of emerging leaders in communities across the country and are part of a grassroots movement to elevate the profile of arts in America during Arts & Humanities Month every October. Emerging Leaders of New York Arts (ELNYA) is the newest link in the Arts & Business Council of New York’s continuum of leadership development. The group aims to bring together local, young arts administrators to discuss challenges specific to their field and generation. Events are designed to help build the contacts, skills, and knowledge of arts professional under the age of 35 or with less than five years experience in the field. > Friday-Sunday, September 26th - 28th DUMBO Arts Festival Friday, September 26th, 2008, happens to be a big political night. Couch potatoes arise! We've got some not-to-missed specials happening in Dumbo: You won't miss it, we're showing the Presidential Debate LIVE! HACK THE DEBATE - 3D! video_dumbo presents Current TV's "Hack the Debate," an interactive broadcast of the first presidential debate. For visual enhancement, video_dumbo will transform the Broadcast into 3D based on a new polarized filter technique called Chroma-depth®. Ironically, this stereoscopic system is based on the colors RED and BLUE. Each object displayed in those colors will create the illusion of either protrude out of the screen, or retract behind the screen - creating a true stage for this political theater. More information about "Hack the Debate" is available at http://www.videodumbo.org/opening-night.html http://www.current.com/debate http://www.twitter.com/current We're partnering wth Current TV on this event. About Current: Current is a new breed of media company comprised of Current TV and Current.com, the first fully integrated online and broadcast platforms that help users determine the news and information that's relevant to them. Current is now viewed in more than 58 million households. Current rocks. > Saturday, September 27th, 11pm Galapagos and the DUMBO Arts Festival presents Lost in the Trees All Music Guide writes about Lost in the Trees, "Melodic chamber-pop that is as musically ambitious as it is lyrically precious." Lost in the Trees is a modern mini-orchestra from Chapel Hill, NC; the synthesis of orchestral scores and guitar-based folk songs. "A sublime blending of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with a dash of Vivaldi and the vocal stylings of a suaver Ben Gibbard from Death Cab." -*Entertainment Weekly* > Monday, September 29th, 8pm, $7 Divided We Fall Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college student when she set out across America in the aftermath of 9/11, camera in hand, to document hate violence against her community. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American west, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis – racism and religion, fear and forgiveness – until she finds the heart of America… halfway around the world. All proceeds from the screening go to the Barack Obama campaign.