REMINDER & UPDATE: March & Hearing

Dear Friends,

Acts of Art would like to invite you to two very important events coming up -

A Congressional Hearing for Artists on Health Care will be held on Saturday, May 6 th, 2006, from 10am-5pm, at Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street , Brooklyn, NY.
(see attached flyer for directions - very easy to get to from NYC!).

This Hearing will be presided over by Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Council Member Charles Barron and co-sponsored by Fractured Atlas, Musician's Union – Local 802, Alliance of African American Artists, FEVA, The Actor's Fund, The Physicians for Social Responsibility, ENABLE Passion, The Pierogi Gallery, FOR, Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Harlem Tenants Council, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare-NOW!, Rattapallax, and Art Without Walls.

Join us for some or all of the day - in the morning we'll be hearing testimonies from local artists and health care workers. In afternoon, we'll open up the dialogue between audience and our panel members of professional artists and physicians. Please join us!! Come support your fellow artists and inform yourself on the health care crisis and possible solutions. For more info, www.actart.org.



Acts of Art will be Marching with Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Saturday, April 29th - a day of marching, celebration, morning, and community bonding. Please see info below, especially the directions to our meeting point - there are points you will not be able to cross Broadway. If you need to contact us on route, please shout out to my cell 917-903-3383.

United for Peace and Justice info www.April29.org

March for Peace, Justice & Democracy with Brooklyn Parents for Peace www.brooklynpeace.org
March steps off at 12 noon- assemble beginning at 10:30 AM on E.19th St between 5th Ave and Broadway(west side of Broadway: enter from west: see travel directions below**)

**Travel directions to meet BPFP contingent, E. 19th St between 5th Ave and Broadway (west side of Broadway): You will NOT be able to cross Broadway between 18th and 23rd Streets. Approach E. 19th St from the west.Suggested subways: #1 to 18th St or 23rd St on 7th Ave; F to 23rd St on 6th Ave; R to 23rd St on Broadway (this station may be closed if too crowded); N, R, Q, W, B, D, F to 34th Street.

MARCH FOR PEACE - NEW MEETING LOCATION AND TIME

JOIN ACTS OF ART AS WE MARCH FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY! APRIL 29TH
noon down Broadway to Foley Square
www.april29.org

We'll be raising our banner high!
We'll be waving our hand made signs!
We'll be handing out flyers for the Hearing!

NEW meeting location:

we'll now be joining

Brooklyn Parents for Peace

www.brooklynpeace.org

and other Br0oklyn groups

on 19th Street between 5th Avenue and Broadway
10:30am assembly
rsvp:

actsart@gmail.com
if you need to find us on route
917-903-3383

you are invited to attend

A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING for
ARTISTS on HEALTH CARE

Saturday, May 6th 2006
10am-5pm

Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
M, N, 2/3, 4/5 to Borough Hall - Court Street
A/C, F to Jay Street - Borough Hall

Please join the very first Artists' Congressional Hearing on Health Care. Artists will offer their personal testimonies on the health care crisis. Presided over by Congressman John Conyers, Council Member Charles Barron and New York State and City constituents. Q&A with esteemed panel members from the artistic community will be a part of the program.

For more information, please call 718-852-8798 or email actsart@gmail.com

Sponsored by: ART WITHOUT WALLS and ACTS OF ART
Co-Sponsored by: Actor's Fund, Alliance for African American Artists, Black Pride, Inc., Bread & Roses, Brooklyn Parents for Peace, ENABLE Passion, FEVA (Federation of East Village Artists), FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Fractured Atlas, Harlem Tenants Council, Healthcare-NOW!, Musicians' Union - Local 802, Pierogi Gallery, Physicians for a National Health Program, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Rattapallax, Journal for the Arts

March for Peace, Justice and Democracy!!!

JOIN ACTS OF ART AS WE MARCH FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY! APRIL 29TH

noon down Broadway to Foley Square

www.april29.org

We'll be raising our banner high!

We'll be waving our hand made signs!

We'll be handing out flyers for the Hearing!

meeting location:

9:30am

SE corner of 23rd Street & 2nd Ave.

rsvp: actsart@gmail.com

if you need to find us on route

917-903-3383

TAKE THE ARTIST SURVEY

Take the Artist Survey!!!

Because so much information on artists' poor health care conditions is difficult to track, Patrick Grugan, a memeber of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign www.universityofthepoor.org, has designed an easy survey for you to take. The results of this survey will serve as documentation that artists, as a low income population, are challenged by today's health care crisis.

Please take a few minutes to click on the link below:

http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/index.htm