It is really hard to believe that come October 5 it will be one year since the passing of Suzanne Fiol, the founder and creative visionary behind Issue Project Room, the experimental music and performance space in Park Slope/Gowanus.
It’s a testament to Suzanne’s enduring vision, that Issue Project Room continues to thrive. In the year since Suzanne’s death, IPR has increased its financial, curatorial, production and promotion support for hundreds of artists performing in the space. They have also developed new programs such as Propensity of Sound, dedicated to the contribution of women in the experimental arts.
Recently, IPR has launched a new Emerging Artist Commissions program to further Suzanne’s dream of nurturing new artists and they have continued to run their artist residency program.
Throughout the year there have been special pre-construction concerts featuring rare works at IPR’s new (not yet occupied) space at 110 Livingston Street, offering IPR audiences a glimpse of the vision Suzanne had for the space as an active artistic center in Brooklyn.
Unbelievably, in the year since her death IPR has presented 220 events featuring artists from Brooklyn and around the world.
There is little doubt that Suzanne’s energy and creative vision lives on.
On Tuesday, October 5th at 7PM, there’s an ISSUE-style potluck dinner to honor Suzanne’s memory a the IPR space in the Old American Can Factory building at 232 3rd Street. A chance to remember Suzanne, there will be no performances, just good people sharing in remembrance.
you’re setting a bad example for other bloggers by freely appropriating from the original IPR press release and not disclosing your source. how hard would it have been to begin the post with: “From the IPR email:”?
how much of this stuff do you actually write? or does most of it originate from other people’s uncredited press releases? the least you could do would be to add your own POV to the piece, tell us what’s interesting or relevant to YOU, as opposed to just parroting the script.
geez. and you wonder why you’re the laughing stock of brooklyn blogging.