Made in NYC

Sustaining Cultures

Made in NYC is an expansive interdisciplinary, intergenerational and inter-community project that focuses on next generation traditional music and dance practitioners who are ‘inheriting the city’ with increasingly ‘New York formed’ traditions and stories. Programming also seeks to share CTMD’s unique history of promoting and advocating for the traditional arts of immigrant New York that are an integral part of the City’s soundscape.

Objectives

With events in a diverse range of community-based and high profile venues curated in collaboration with community partners, Made in NYC looks at three major themes: 1) Musical masters and orchestrators of NYC cultural movements that CTMD has had a significant relationship to and role in promoting over the past 50 years; 2) Transmission of tradition within communities; and 3) Next generation practitioners who are ‘inheriting the city,’ and are in many cases products of these founding groups. From the celebrated legacy artists, to those who are just bursting onto the scene, all of these stories and talents are in fact ‘made in NYC’ and it is their NYC story that makes them and CTMD’s work so significant.

Related Event Series

Folk Dance Fridays: 50 Years of Social Dance in NYC

Folk Dance Fridays teach and share vernacular/social dance traditions integral to CTMD’s work over the past five decades.

Made in NYC: Next Generation Traditions

Interactive community-based programs that blend performance, workshop, scholarship, and discussion to tell stories of NYC - formed traditions throughout the five boroughs.

Related News & Articles

CTMD Celebrates 51st Anniversary with Heritage Sunday: Made in NYC

Peter Rushefsky October 16, 2019

For this 51st celebration of CTMD, we called upon some of its newest artists to join us in celebrating at Lincoln Center, Hearst Plaza. July

CTMD Co-Founder Ethel Raim Named 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow

Samantha Shokin June 20, 2018

CTMD is proud to announce that its Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus Ethel Raim has been awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellowship,

Contributors

Los Pleneros de la 21; Redobles de Cultura; Inkarayku; Los Herederos; Lincoln Center; Grupo Rebolu; DJ Rekha; Shashmaqam; Museum at Eldridge Street; Andy Statman; Sidiki Conde & Tokounou; Cherish the Ladies; American Folklife Center; Terraza 7; Queens Museum and Pregones Theater. We are grateful for the support of the Gilder Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.