Arts For Art is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage innovation and build awareness of avantjazz and related expressive movements through encouraging community. Our principal activities are the presentation of innovative, creative music, dance, multi-media performances, spoken word, and the exhibition of visual arts. Through RUCMA, Arts for Art, Inc. is now creating networks for artists that identify problems and create effective solutions. Arts for Art, inc. remains dedicated to encouraging and presenting experimental American music from an afro-American perspective and traditions. This jazz inspired innovative music has gone worldwide gaining audiences and artists from all cultures. Thus our programming is multi-racial, reflecting this development into a multi-cultural music. Much of this innovative music was first developed in New York's lower east side and is acclaimed and supported worldwide, yet has remained underexposed and without support in its place of origin. Thus our goals are to acknowledge and sustain the legacy of this art form, by establishing a place for its future development. The very institution of Arts for Art, Inc. is a political act of self-determination. We hold to the belief that art really moves people and to move people is a powerful political act.

Over the past year, Arts for Art., Inc. has worked closely with Rise Up Creative Music and Arts (RUCMA), a new creative music organization founded in 2007. RUCMA is built around a grassroots coalition of musicians and music lovers who have united to address a variety of creative, political and practical concerns relating to New York's artistic culture. Most essential in this regard is a coordinated effort among both organizations to build an innovative new center for creative music and arts in lower Manhattan. This proposed center would fulfill three essential needs within the New York music scene:

1) Providing a performance space for creative improvised music to replace the closure of Tonic at the hands of real estate developers,

2) Fostering musical education programs geared towards improvisation to replace music programs that have been steadily cut from public schools, and

3) Interacting closely with the community in an effort to reintegrate the arts as a central part of New York's historical and cultural legacy.

While this central goal is pursued, it is also the goal of both organizations to help maintain an ongoing presence for creative music in lower Manhattan. It is our hope that the Vision/RUCMA Series will convey our overriding message of the importance of creative arts in the heart of our community.

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WHAT IS THE VISION FESTIVAL?

The Vision Festival is the largest AvantJazz festival in New York City. Since 1996, the biggest names in Jazz and Experimental music have come together in New York City to celebrate music, dance, visual art and the community of these artists and fans.

Thanks To ALL who helped us to create and experience VISION FESTIVAL XIV in 2009!

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