An Evening of Different Roads Taken

Join us at Brooklyn Heights for a documentary film by Emmy winning filmmaker Michael Jacobsohn followed by a digital art project by multidisciplinary artist Leslie Arlette Boyce.

Michael will share with you The Art of Edward Ching. In this first-person narrative film, native New Yorker Edward Ching speaks of his life and times of painting out of doors. His works of cityscapes and swaying as he paints attracts pedestrians to his unique physicalized approach to manipulating his brushes in canvases.

Michael’s films have been screened at national and international film festivals, local and national television stations as well as MOMA. Some films are part of the permanent collection of the New York Library For the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. At ABC News, he was a recipient of a DuPont-Columbia and George Polk award. Michael has produced and directed several full length and short documentaries, and in March will premiering a full-length documentary on a legendary Greenwich Village restaurant and performance space entitled The Cornelia Street Cafe in Exile.

Multidisciplinary artist Leslie Arlette Boyce will share a version of her most recent work, The RETURN. This digital art project tells the poignant journey of a protagonist navigating a circuitous road of disappointment and regret that leads him to a place of self-worth and renewed purpose. This project is performed on video by former Pina Bausch dancer Pau Aran Gimeno.

Leslie’s work includes a wide variety of mediums and art forms, including publishing The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus: Legacy, Industry and Artistry to a dance inspired art exhibition that included the work of Romare Bearden. Her photographs have been awarded in New York and France. Some of her photographs of the African Burial Grounds in New York City are in the permanent collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.