BENEFIT, BRICK DRIVE & ART SALE
East Village Townhouse
Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
Donation: $25-$500
www.homebaseproject.com

For the past four years, Anat Litwin has been examining the idea of home in site-specific installations in which she gathers together a diverse group of artists who each get a room of their own in an abandoned structure either soon to be torn down or completely renovated. The HomeBase Project has been previously situated in a brick building in Greenpoint, a cast-iron building in SoHo, a historic townhouse in Harlem, and a former nursing home on the Lower East Side, where artists filled the rooms with multimedia works and were on hand to speak with visitors as they walked through. For its fifth incarnation, Litwin is taking HomeBase to the Pankow district of Berlin (not at the urging of Helen Thomas), near Germany’s largest synagogue. In order to raise funds for the ambitious project, there will a fundraiser this weekend at a private home in the East Village, open to everyone who buys a brick ($25-$500) that is symbolic of the construction of the German installation. The event will feature an art sale with works by an international collection of artists (from Israel, Lebanon, Switzerland, Iran, Poland, America, and other countries), live music and performances (by Sylvie Diegez, Willum Geerts, Amir Darzi, and others), a hard/soft lemonade stand, baked goods from Colson Patisserie, special presentations, and a raffle. Artists interested in being part of the project can attend an information session on Saturday at 3:00, while Litwin will host “Tea Time Tales: Stories That Lino Loves” at 4:00. On Sunday, German filmmaker Mo Asumang will screen her documentary ROOTS GERMANIA at 2:30. The exact location, an architectural delight, will be emailed upon donation.