Church Street School for Music and Art

Join Church Street School for Music & Art for a Halloween celebration! On Saturday, October 31st CSSMA will be hosting our annual Spooktacular event. Join us in-person from 11am - 2pm for safe, outdoor pumpkin decorating, sidewalk chalk art, and spooky photo opportunities! We will also have a virtual activities: a live streamed magic show, a performance from one of CSSMA's talented teen bands, Halloween themed student music videos, and much more!... Treats for all ages await! Check churchstreetschoolvirtual.com for more information and to get your tickets to the magic show! #cssfallfest #halloween #pumpkins #virtualhalloween #trickortreat

Stills from Lee Ranaldo’s recent work! You can view the full videos at churchstreetschoolvirtual.com. Lee will be performing a piece in collaboration with Leah Singer at Church Street School’s Fall Festival on Saturday, October 24th from 4 - 5pm EST. The performance will be live streamed. Tickets start at $20! Don’t miss out, get your ticket today. https://www.churchstreetschoolvirtual.com//lee-ranaldo-lea... #cssfallfest #sonicyouth #leeranaldo #leahsinger #performanceart

This Saturday, 10/24 at 4pm poet and musician Lee Ranaldo, a founding member of Sonic Youth, will collaborate with photographer and multi-media artist Leah Singer on a multimedia performance piece involving sound, words and photographic projections. The two have worked together since 1991 performing work that explores how sound and image interact. Their work embraces chance, pays special attention to things that often go unnoticed, and seeks to show how close observation can ...reveal something new. *The performance will be live streamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *Get your ticket for this performance today! Prices start at $20. *See you Saturday 10/24 at 4:00 pm EST! #cssfallfest

This week’s #throwbackthursday comes to you from the archives of churchstreetschoolvirtual.com, the Tribeca Tribune, and Oliver Allen. In 2019, the Trib put together a six minute video of images from Tribeca’s history. These are a few stills from that video. If you are interested in checking out the whole thing head to churchstreetschoolvirtual.com!

Join us at 2pm this Saturday (10/17) for a concert from Grammy Award winning pianist, composer, conductor, and CSSMA Alumnus Oliver Hagen and award winning pianist, composer and CSSMA faculty member, Jung Sun Kang. They will be performing a very special piano concert that will be live streaming from our Performance Space in Tribeca. The concert will be followed by a Q & A with CSSMA Executive Director Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores. We are looking forward to spending Saturday afte...rnoon with all of you enjoying music from these two extremely talented performers. See you on Saturday! *The performance will be live streamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *Get your ticket for this performance today! Donations start at $10 *See you Saturday 10/17 at 2:00 pm EST! #cssfallfest

Join us at 10:00am this Saturday morning, (10/17) for very special guest artist, Suzi Shelton! Suzi is a multi-award winning singer/songwriter and family performer based in Brooklyn, NY who has been bringing joy and musical fun to families for over a decade! She has four solo albums under her belt, and a popular live action and interactive show for young children on Facebook and YouTube called "Sing with Suzi". suzishelton.com We are looking forward to spending Saturday morni...ng with the kiddos enjoying Suzi's bright and joyful songs. Great for children 8 years and younger. See you on Saturday! *The performance will be live streamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *A sliding scale donation starting at $10 is required for access to the class *See you Saturday 10/17 at 10:00am EST! #cssfallfest

We’re bringing you another #throwbackthursday in honor of CSSMA’s 30th anniversary celebration! Be sure to head to churchstreetschoolvirtual.com to see what’s going on with the Fall Festival, and to take a look at our extensive archives for a deep dive on the history of Church Street School and Tribeca. #cssfallfest

We are so excited for Saturday! Join dancer Cori Kresge at 10:00am EST for a 45 minute dance class for the whole family, based on the technique and choreography of the revolutionary choreographer Merce Cunningham. Follow a fun and easy dance warm-up, create unique and active body shapes, balances, rhythms, and jumps. Compose your own movement sequence through chance procedures and rolling dice. Suitable for ages 4+ Cori is a dancer, collaborator, writer, and teacher who has... brought her brilliance and joy to Church Street School students for several years. Kresge has been a member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, functioning as a living archive for Cunningham works. In 2016 Kresge staged Cunningham's Field Dances on students of CNDC, Angers, France. She has also been a member of José Navas/Compagnie Flak, and Stephen Petronio Company. She is currently studying Zero Balancing, a therapeutic bodywork. *The class will be live streamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *A sliding scale donation starting at $10 is required for access to the class *See you Saturday 10/10 at 10:00am EST! #cssfallfest

Beloved CSSMA Music Faculty member Abby Payne is joining our Fall Festival performance line-up THIS Saturday October 10th from 2:00pm-3:00pm EST! You will be treated to a live streamed solo vocal performance of her of Abby’s insightful and poetic original songs. An audience Q&A will follow the performance! Abby has been teaching voice and piano at CSSMA for over a decade. Not only does she teach private students but she also leads our free adult chorus program. She has been a... performer, singer/songwriter, and educator in New York City for many years. Abby also produced, created, and starred in several music videos and is a founding member of the Round Table, a female artist collective that seeks to create more community and opportunities for women. Her musical "The Gunfighter Meets His Match," for which she wrote the books, music, and lyrics, was selected for the 2018 New York Musical Festival. *The show will be live streamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *A sliding scale donation starting at $10 is required for access to the performance *See you Saturday 10/10 at 2pm! #cssfallfest

Here's what's happening this week at the Fall Festival! * More content is being added to churchstreetschoolvirtual.com. The platform is expanding everyday! * Amazing archival video footage is available to watch! * Pictures and pieces of art are being added to galleries!... * Two spectacular live streamed performances from Cori Kresge and Abby Payne will take place this Saturday! More information to come. Head to churchstreetschoolvirtual.com for all of this and more!

Super talented CSSMA faculty member Michael Eaton will be performing at the Fall Festival this Saturday at 2pm. Michael, along with his quartet Individuation, will be performing a 50 minute set that explores and combines world rhythms, and free improvisation with modern jazz. A Q&A will follow the performance! DM us if you have any questions! Michael is a NYC based saxophonist, composer, and educator. His professional career to date has spanned a variety of idioms, encompas...sing jazz, free improvised music, soul, rock, western classical, funk, reggae, brass bands, and beyond. He embraces a progressive and holistic vision of jazz, cognizant of its rich historical origins and development, but reaches for a personal outlook with an eye towards future possibilities. We can't wait! *Show will be livestreamed on churchstreetschoolvirtual.com *There will be a sliding scale donation starting at $5 required for access to the performance. *You can also expect a full churchstreetschoolvirtual.com website transformation on Saturday when you log in for the performance! *See you Saturday 10/3 at 2pm!