January 2014

ISSUE is pleased to host an evening with three extraordinary singer songwriters: Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero and Ed Askew. Outsider folk legend Askew plays new songs with his trio, joined at times by Foster and Herrero, who each perform solo sets.

Artists-In-Residence 2014

Peter Evans

Peter Evans opens his 2014 residency with a solo trumpet performance, a format he has been working with for over a decade. Improvisation is used as a method of pressurizing and slowly refining materials from concert to concert, a process of using the known as a catapult to the unknown.

POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER! A shadow puppet play by Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters) and Tom Carey, "The Legend of Mothman" brings the details of alien existence to light, in a humorous fantasy, mixed with pop-culture lore, set during Halloween in post-industrial Detroit. Sound by concept band Monster Island.

R. Stevie Moore / Gary Wilson

A seminal pioneer in the DIY ethic, R. Stevie Moore has recorded over 400 very original homemade albums of alarmingly idiosyncratic styles— tonight he performs unplugged. Bursting with electro-funk, synth rock, soul, and avant-garde jazz, Gary Wilson's songs celebrate the romance and randiness of born-losers.

Artists-in-Residence 2013

SOLD OUT! devynn emory "This room this braid"

The Actors Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn 11201

SOLD OUT, tickets for Sunday still available. "This room this braid" premieres, a new work by choreographer devynn emory. Commissioned as part of ISSUE’s Artist-In-Residence program, the piece features devynn emory joined by dancer Aretha Aoki, with sound by Ryan MacDonald, and sets by painter RJ Messineo.