OUR FESTIVAL ON
SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
It was a day filled with food, music, and art from around the world.
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Johnson Avenue, between 235th and 236th Streets
Riverdale
Riverdale Festival of the Arts Founders:
Lisa Cooper, Owner, Elisa Contemporary Art
Linda Manning, Linda's Jazz Nights
Tracy Shelton, Executive Director, KRVC
Welcome to the Riverdale Festival of the Arts official website.
Our May 6th Festival featured Live Music Performed by:
Phil Palombi's electric jazz trio "718"
"Seeing Voices" - blues tinged rock
Shane O Sullivan leads "Moakland" - Traditional Irish Music
Alma Micic and Rale Micic performed original jazz compositions and arrangements of traditional Serbian music.
And we featured artwork from around the globe including:
Chinese Artists: Amy Cheng and James Chen Feng Kao
Turkish Artist: Yasemin Kackar-Demirel
Japanese Artist: Kiyoshi Otuska
Canadian Artist: Marie Danielle Leblanc
Mexican Artist: Manuel Servin
Iraqi Artists , Omar Odeh, Khalid Al Aani, Asam Al Mandlawie
German artist, Michael Mendel
And many more....
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Our October 23rd Festival was a tremendous success!
It was held on 256th Street between Delafield and Mosholu
and attended by over 1,000 people.
Elisa Contemporary Art displayed original art work
Sweet Fix performed
Local Business
Riverdale Violins
displayed their instruments
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The mission of RFA is to enrich the Riverdale Community by bringing diverse groups, across all ages, races and religions, together through a series of specially created art events and festivals. Our goal is to create, build, and grow a vibrant, connected and engaged Riverdale community for its residents and businesses by leveraging the universal power of live music, theater, street performers and original art.
