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Agraj Seva Kendra

Cultural Resource ; Festival / Market : Special Events ; Film / Video : Talent ; Fine Arts : Arts Council / Alliance ; History / Preservation ; Performing Arts

The mission of Agraj Seva Kendra is to preserve and promote Asian Indian culture and traditions and to promote diversity among individuals. Since the formation in 2006, through education, art and cultural activities, we promote understanding and appreciation of Indian culture and traditions. We are recipients of Arts Grant from the Middlesex County Office of Culture and Heritage for the past seven years consecutively. We also receive history grant and Gateway to Arts (Theatre) Grant from the County. With grants from the county, matching grants from corporations and generous donations from businesses we conduct various events in the townships of East Brunswick, North Brunswick, Monroe and various other neighboring towns showcasing the talents of youth and developing a sense of volunteerism, community service and leadership. Agraj is a registered Not for Profit organization 501 (c)(3) approved.

Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center

Cultural Resource ; Film / Video : Talent ; Performing Arts : Theatre

Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center is dedicated to celebrating diversity through arts education, dramatic performances, and creation of new works. Dragonfly is committed to reaching all the diverse communities of Central New Jersey with classes for all ages and backgrounds; performances that enlighten, entertain, and educate; and opportunities for development of new works.

Middlesex County Vo-Tech High School~East Brunswick Campus

Film / Video : Film Production ; Fine Arts : Visual Arts ; Performing Arts : Dance , Music , Theatre

The East Brunswick Campus of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School district houses over 440 students in 14 career majors. The School of the Arts career majors include Theatre Arts, Dance, Digital Film, Graphic Design, Arts Technology, Multimedia, Art & Design, and soon Music Technology. Prospective students for the School of the Arts have to apply, audition, or submit portfolios as part of the admissions process. Students interested in the other various career majors will cycle through five career majors as a freshmen after going through the application and admissions process. The East Brunswick Campus has received Bronze Level Certification as a Future Ready School as well as been designated a Green Ribbon School. The campus is also anticipating Bronze Level Certification according to Sustainable Schools for New Jersey framework. East Brunswick Tech has also just opened a brand new MakerSpace in place of an outdated library where students can take part in project-based learning in a hands-on flexible learning environment.

New Jersey Media Arts Center

Cultural Resource ; Festival / Market ; Film / Video ; History / Preservation

The New Jersey Media Arts Center is the only media arts center in New Jersey programming year-round — offering over 100 annual film screenings, workshops, and events via the Bi-Annual New Jersey Film festival and the Summer New Jersey International Film Festival. We are dedicated to the non-commercial exhibition of the media arts and to furthering media arts education. Our goals are to broaden the public’s understanding of the media arts; to offer multi-cultural media arts programming that reflects the diversity of our audiences and communities; to provide a forum for classic, experimental, independent, and international cinema; to preserve classic cinema in an archive and library; and to teach filmmaking. The New Jersey Film Festival has been in existence for over 38 years and are the main focus of our mission to provide thought provoking cinema to our state and our county residents. We know we are filling avoid in cinema programming and the New Jersey Film Festivals are the main reason for the New Jersey Media Arts Center/Rutgers Film Co-op’s success. New Jersey Monthly Magazine selected the New Jersey Film Festival as a Jersey Choice pick and the Best of NJ in 2014. In addition, the NJFF was voted “Favorite Film Festival” in the 2011 JerseyArts.com People Choice Voting and have been runner up in the 9 other years this vote has taken place.

Teh Feeling Messengers by Miguel Valdes

Cultural Resource ; Festival / Market : Special Events ; Film / Video : Talent ; Fine Arts : Folk Arts , Visual Arts ; Museum : Arts Resource , Exhibitions ; Performing Arts : Music

The Feeling Messengers Miguel ( Miguelo) Valdes Band Leader 61 Linden St Apt A6 Hackensack, NJ, 07601 Cell phone number: (201)658-0986/ (201)552-0391 miguelovaldes.mva@gmail.com/ marianglop69@hotmail.com Overview THE FEELING MESSENGERS DESCRIPTION Miguel (Miguelo) Valdes the Afro-Cuban musician and band leader has assembled a talented group of professional Latin artists dedicated to preserving authentic Cuban music. Their performances are jam-packed with rhythms that reflect the Boleros, Rumbas, Guarachas and Cuban music from the 1940s. The Feeling Messengers is noted throughout New York City and New Jersey for combining contemporary traditional jazz and bossanova with the traditional Cuban Son that takes the audience into a feeling of nostalgia, love, longing and happiness all through their music. The Feeling Messengers bridges generations and understanding of the important history music has played in breaking down barriers of misunderstanding. Through music we can touch the hearts, minds, bodies and soul through the heartbeat of good Cuban music. Previously our name was The Feeling Collective Band but know we changed it to The Feeling Messengers because that’s what we are: Messengers of Feeling. Goals Recording a CDs. Participate in different presentations and festivals, theaters and clubs around the world. Get awards that can make our career. Reach the hearts and minds of people who likes this musical genre feeling. Specifications 8 Microphones 2 Bass and guitar amplifiers 5 Monitors 2 Congas 1 Bongo with stand 1 Cajon 2 Stand of cymbals Milestones Harlem-Havana Festival, Harlem Hospital, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Gracie Mansion, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Inter-church Center, Saint Peter’s Church, Zinc Bar, Jazz Standard, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Jazz Mobile Jammin on The Hudson, Harlem Jazz & Music Festival, The Harlem Summer Stage, New York, NYC. NJ PAC, Newark, Perth Amboy Waterfrom Art Festival, William Musto Cultural Center, Union City, NJ The NCPA International Jazz Festival in Mumbai, The Piano Man Jazz Club in Delhi, Kolkata Jazz Festival, Kolkata, India Different clubs and restaurants, NJ, NYC, India

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