Saturday, August 8th

7:30 pm

The Bushwick Lorax

Curated By Amanda Cordero And Genesis Henriquez

Ashley Ortiz and Adalisse Perdomo (Hip Hop)

Music: Hotel room Service By Pittbull

Ashley and Adalisse previously performed this dance alongside new, up-and-coming artist Bianca, for her song “Only You”. Tonight they will be performing it to Pitbull’s “Hotel Room Service”. Both Ashley and Adalisse are graduates of Talent Unlimited high school. They were both dance majors as well. Ashley is twenty years old and currently attends Hunter College. After dancing for thirteen years she aspires to be a celebrity’s backup dancer and hopes to go on tour one day. Adalisse is twenty years old and is a student at Buffalo State.

The Bushwick Lorax (Theater)

Play Written And Directed By Amanda and Genesis

With : Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Rivera, Eddie Cordero, Amanda Cordero, Michael Candelario

The Bushwick Lorax is an interpretation of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax. It tackles the current housing situation that Bushwick finds itself in. Despite the severity of the situation, the play is set up in a way that even children can understand. With their satirical wit, Cordero and Henriquez manage to make an important issue reach the ears of an otherwise uninformed audience.

DeeJay (R&B music)

Officially Missing You

Fantasy Girl

Twenty year old Howard Gonzalez graduated Talent Unlimited alongside Ashley Ortiz and Adalisse Perdomo. Tonight he will be singing “Officially Missing You” by Tamia. “I chose this song because it reminds me of my past, when music was real. I’m officially missing real music.” His second song will be and original of his called “Fantasy Girl”. He has been singing since he was eight and he plans on taking advantage of every part of the music industry and even the entertainment industry. He is currently signed to an independent label, D’Starr ENT. He is also CEO of his own promotion and marketing company called HoodPop Inc.

Curators

Amanda Cordero

I swear there’s no getting away from this place. Trust me, I’ve tried. Last summer I went on vacation to Miami Beach with my godparents and we were sitting in a Chinese restaurant when our waiter brought out fortune cookies right before we left. It was written on the back of the wrapper in black letters “Made in Brooklyn.” That label should have been written on my back, because if there’s one thing I have in common with that cookie is that we were both “Made in Brooklyn”, 11206 to be exact. I’ve lived in that area code for all sixteen years of my life. Graham Avenue or Avenue of Puerto Rico is the place to be, with its lively shops, savoring food, and energetic parades and festivals. But “Gra-ham” isn’t my only safe haven. All Saints Church is a place where my friends and I chill before and after mass. Weekdays I get my junior knowledge on at The Brooklyn Latin School along with my older brother, a senior at the school. Next school year I will be focusing on the visual arts because one of my short term goals (don’t laugh) is to be a tattoo artist. But I dream big so my long term goal is to be a journalist, hopefully for a fun magazine or maybe even the news. (Bio from the website)

Genesis Henriquez

OKAY. So I was born on November 2nd 1993 in Bellevue Hospital to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father.  Know I was shipped to D.R. before I was 2 years old to live with my grandmother while my mother was in the Navy and my father worked. D.R. made me into one of those real sweet jobs. You know those little kids you come upon that don’t know you but they’ll give you their world or whatever if you’re friendly enough. I remember to have lived with my grandmother, my aunt Norka, my uncle Wilson, my cousins Diori and Joan, though there are pictures and memories of people who were there that prove that at one time my cousin Carolina lived there with me before she was taken to New York to live with her mom and dad. I was the princesa of that place, probably because Dominicans from the island, at least the ones I know, have a strange obsession with Nueva York and all that’s from it because to quote my cousin Melissa, “es el centro del universo.” At five years old, I left my kingdom. Torn away from the easy breezy slow paced life of D.R. to be thrown into the fast paced whirlwind that is Brooklyn, New York.  Between the girls from school and afternoons spent in front of my aunt’s salon with my “bitter-sweet” cousin Ashley, there was really no hope. I became real quiet. Kept to myself…until elementary school at P.S.19.  It was in P.S.19 that I met the man that probably changed my life forever. He was the music teacher, Mr. Assip.  Mr. A was important because he introduced me to music.  This new obsession with music didn’t make it all too easy to fit in with my family who was strictly into the Hispanic and Hip-Hop/R&B side of music. To them it seemed I was becoming quite the “BLANQUITA”, but forget that because I found something that no one was taking away from me. The years ahead only helped to add flames to what had started as a flicker. At 11, I put my hands on a piano and a year later I picked up my first guitar. Now at the age of 15, I spend my days, writing, composing, taking lessons and listening. Inhaling inspiration from my neighborhood, the people that belong to it just as much as it belongs to them, my family, my friends both the ones that are here and the ones who have drifted away, books, television shows, and all of the other randomness that fills the world. (Bio from the website)

Dancers

Ashley Ortiz and Adalisse Perdomo

Ashley and Adalisse previously performed this dance alongside new, up-and-coming artist Bianca, for her song “Only You”. Tonight they will be performing it to Pitbull’s “Hotel Room Service”. Both Ashley and Adalisse are graduates of Talent Unlimited high school. They were both dance majors as well. Ashley is twenty years old and currently attends Hunter College. After dancing for thirteen years she aspires to be a celebrity’s backup dancer and hopes to go on tour one day. Adalisse is twenty years old and is a student at Buffalo State.

Singer

Howard Gonzalez

Twenty year old Howard Gonzalez graduated Talent Unlimited alongside Ashley Ortiz and Adalisse Perdomo. Tonight he will be singing “Officially Missing You” by Tamia. “I chose this song because it reminds me of my past, when music was real. I’m officially missing real music.” His second song will be and original of his called “Fantasy Girl”. He has been singing since he was eight and he plans on taking advantage of every part of the music industry and even the entertainment industry. He is currently signed to an independent label, D’Starr ENT. He is also CEO of his own promotion and marketing company called HoodPop Inc.

Actors in Play

Michael Candelario is a 12 year Old attending P.S.16. He wishes to continue acting as an adult.

Jennifer Lopez- J. Lo is a sophomore at The Brooklyn Latin School. She currently runs the law club and is apart of the Latin club. One day she hopes to become a psychologist and has a future goal of making her own guitar from scratch.  

Elizabeth Rivera. Twenty-three year old Elizabeth Rivera is the sister of Amanda Cordero. She is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz. She currently works as a student advocate at Medgar Evers College YABC Performing Arts and Technology High School. One goal of hers is to go to graduate school for her MSW and one day open her own nonprofit organization.

Eddie Cordero. Edwin Cordero is the older brother of Amanda Cordero. He is a senior at The Brooklyn Latin School, located on Bushwick and Seigel. After high school he wishes to attend Sacred Heart University and study Criminal Justice.




LOCATION:

Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
(Between Bogart and White)
Brooklyn, NY 11206


ADMISSION:

General: $10
Students: $5
Seniors: $5
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