NEWS

The Angel City Jazz Festival in Los Angeles learned that its proposal for The Forest percussion ensemble was accepted by the National Endowment for the Arts and awarded $12,500. The Forest will perform compositions by the legendary percussionist, co-founder with Max Roach of M’Boom, and frequent Forest collaborator, Warren Smith.

Continuum Culture & Arts is pleased to announce that we have received a 2025 Organization Fund grant from New Music USA. The $7,000 award will go to general operating support and support our Greenhouse, FLY!, and Presentation programs.

2025 marked the first year of three of support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). The $24,300 in funds for year one has had a big impact on Continuum as an organization already.

In addition to leading Continuum Culture & Arts, Andrew Drury will be busy as a musician this Fall with performances in NY, MI, NH, MA, and WA.

Continuum Culture & Arts is a co-producer of the Fall 2025 US tour by legendary South African saxophonist/composer Steve Dyer.

Continuum produced the October 19 performance of Dyer’s Quartet at Orchard Hill in New Hampshire and provided admin assistance for the rest of the tour.

Continuum has initiated a new performance series, the Transparency Series, centered around the innovative concepts of saxophonist, composer, author patrick brennan and his transparency kestra. The November 18 performance will feature celebrated poet Bob Holman. More will be scheduled soon.

In August, 2025 Take Me to Fendika—a product of Continuum Culture & Arts’ Greenhouse program—won Best Documentary at the USA Africa Film Festival at Cannes!

presented by Continuum Culture & Arts' Soup & Sound and Greenwich House Music School

A three-night mini festival featuring the music of OLIVER LAKE, JAMES "JABBO" WARE, and JULIUS HEMPHILL

Since 2001, when we moved in, 292 Lefferts Ave. had been a typical Brooklyn railroad apartment: hallway, three rooms, tiny kitchen. I did a lot of practicing, rehearsals, private sessions, and recordings, but it all happened in the basement where there is a small room. Much transcendent music was made down there, but afterwards I regularly felt that it was a shame that the New York music audience couldn’t hear it, and wasn’t even aware of it.

Alissa Schwartz’ book, Organizational Performance Art: Holding Space for Joy and Possibility, is being co-published by Impeller Press and Continuum’s Different Track Productions. The book will be released on October 17, 2023.

Continuum Culture & Arts – through the International Cultural Exchange Program, Soup & Sound, and our new line of activity with artists in Africa – is providing support for our friend and collaborator, saxophonist / clarinetist / video producer, LEE ODOM.

In October, 2021 Andrew Drury and Continuum received a $40,000 Jazz Road Creative Residencies grant from South Arts. The funds supported the formation of a new percussion quintet, The Forest–featuring Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, Lesley Mok, and Michael Wimberly–and activities in five geographic regions including rehearsals, performances, workshops, and a recording.

During the summer of 2021 an opportunity arose for Continuum to pursue a pie in the sky idea when friends at the Orchard Hill non-profit and land trust in East Alstead, New Hampshire put out a call for new ideas for how they could further their mission of social equity and environmental sustainability.

In July, 2022 Continuum partnered with the German organization Sonic Exchange to present a sound installation and a series of performances and interviews at Documenta, one of the world’s largest art festivals,  taking place every five years in the city of Kassel, in Germany.