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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)

LMCC brings art where it’s least expected and engages the ideas of the moment by exploring the links between culture and capital. LMCC curates and commissions art installations, produces and presents performances, and champions the arts as a vital component in creating and maintaining a vibrant community in Manhattan. LMCC grant programs award over $500,000 annually to enable over 200 arts projects across all disciplines throughout Manhattan. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council remains at the forefront of Downtown’s creative sector, linking artists with new audiences and sustaining Manhattan’s vast and vibrant arts community.

The Website for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council is lmcc.net. We gratefully acknowledge the generous partnership with LMCC for providing ARTonAIR.org with these programs for our listeners.

RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: Arts & The World Trade Center Radio show A discussion on the past, present, and future of the arts downtown with special focus on the history and future of the World Trade Center site and vicinity, with Anita Contini, Eiko & Koma, directors of the Joyce, LMCC, and the 9/11 Museum. On April 18, 2012, at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Preview Site on Vesey Street, a distinguished panel convened for a discussion on the past, present, and future of the arts downtown with special focus on the history and future of the World Trade... Originally aired 6/4/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: Art, Money, & Politics Radio show Five activist artist/producer/educators--Jan Cohen-Cruz, Randy Martin, Morgan Jenness , Rachel Chavkin and Amy Whitaker--discuss the complicated and often fraught relationship between art, money and politics, the semiotics of dissent, and more. This event, entitled At the Intersection: Art, Money and Politics, was recorded April 11, 2012 at the Broad Street Ballroom of Léman Manhattan Preparatory School in the Wall Street area as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Access... Originally aired 5/11/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: On the Waterfront Radio show A discussion on the history, proposals and progress of developing a 2 mile stretch of waterfront on the lower east side of Manhattan, in an affordable housing area, with plants and grass, pavilions, music, food, recreation and more. It's complicated. "On the Waterfront: Re-Imagining the East River Esplanade" was a panel discussion presented as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Access Restricted program for 2012, and recorded for broadcast in partnership with LMCC. This discussion... Originally aired 4/23/12 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted, The Sacred and the Secular Radio show In this LMCC program, recorded at St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan, art directors, a composer and a journalist explore how the arts, particularly music, can bridge the sacred and the secular, creating a space for community to come together. This program explores how the arts, particularly music, can bridge the sacred and the secular, creating a space for community to come together in both contexts. Interesting observations are aired on liturgical music, Asian spirituality, and how... Originally aired 4/9/12 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants Radio show On April 13, 2011 Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator, lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar, spoke about the Lenape people (an Algonquian group of Native Americans from the northeastern American woodlands) in a special LMCC event. A program recorded as part of ARTonAIR.org's partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). The 2011 edition of the popular Access Restricted series concluded with this event. On April 13, 2011 Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator (In... Originally aired 9/1/11 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: Greg Sholette & John Kuo Wei Tchen Radio show A March 9, 2011 LMCC event at the Seaport Museum with Prof. Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder of REPOhistory, and Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. On March 9, 2011 under the title of Make History Now, a conversation took place at the South Street Seaport Museum between Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder of REPOhistory and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College in... Originally aired 5/23/11 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted: Giovanna Borasi, Canadian Center for Architecture Hosted by Pete McCabe Radio show The Curator of Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Center for Architecture talks to ARTonAIR's Pete McCabe about her work at the CCA--generating new ways to think about and conceptualize public space in cities. Giovanna Borasi, the Curator of Contemporary Architecture at the Canadian Center for Architecture talks to AIR's Pete McCabe about her work at the CCA--generating new ways to think about and conceptualize public space in cities, through public "... Originally aired 4/4/11 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted, Unbuilding the City Radio show Architect Michael Sorkin stresses the importance of redefining the city towards a more self sufficient model, one in which pedestrians rule the street, and where we "put the orchard back on Orchard Street." Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 2011 edition of its popular Access Restricted series with a fifth installment, Lower Manhattan Revealed. In this interview between journalist and author Jeff Byles (Rubble: Unearthing the... Originally aired 2/28/11 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Access Restricted, Cultural Memory: Lower Manhattan Revealed Radio show An LMCC event recorded on the 45th Floor of 7 World Trade Center in January 2011: a conversation between Clifford Chanin of The Legacy Project and Steven Davis, architect and designer of the National September 11 Museum at the World Trade Center. In partnership with ARTonAIR.org the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents recordings of the 2011 edition of its popular Access Restricted series with a fourth installment, Lower Manhattan Revealed. As the history of the Financial... Originally aired 2/7/11 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Radio Profiles Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sam Miller Hosted by Pete McCabe Radio show A talk with the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council about the history and purpose of the council, how it works with scores of Manhattan's art organizations, and the many grants they issue to arts organizations and individuals. Pete McCabe talks with the President of The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sam Miller, and Special Projects Manager, Erin Donnelly. They describe this history and purpose of the council, how it works with scores of Manhattan's art organizations,... Originally aired 1/7/11 Listen Read More »