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SPAC and New York City Ballet Unveil Dance Videos Created in Saratoga and Troy

July 5, 2017 By upstatecreative

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_video_embed no_container=”true” type=”16:9″][/x_video_embed][cs_text]When the New York City Ballet was scouting locations for a series of gorgeous new videos to promote their upcoming summer season, SPAC CEO Elizabeth Sobol found seven amazing Saratoga locations — and then reached out to Susan Herlands Holland, Executive Director of Historic Albany Foundation for her thoughts about a great location somewhere else in the Capital Region.

Holland, who was raised in the region and has an encyclopedic knowledge of locations thanks to her historic preservation work, immediately came up with a dozen great options. In the end, the Gasholder Building in Troy was chosen.

“The New York City Ballet has been one of my personal favorite experiences since I was a little kid and so I was able to envision how those ballet movements might look in wide open, ‘cool spaces,'” said Holland. “The Gasholder Building is one of the most unique historic buildings in the Capital Region. I thought it a perfect match.”

Click here to buy tickets for the New York City Ballet at SPAC, July 5-15.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]

ACE SPOTLIGHT: “Untitled” Event Showcases Millennial Brands and Talent at Troy Kitchen

June 27, 2017 By upstatecreative

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][rev_slider June2017BlogPostSlider][cs_text]Kat Richards and Malaika Iyok recently graduated from Mission Accomplished‘s “Fashion Edition” program and decided it was time to launch their multi-platform brand, known as Untitled, in earnest, so on Sunday, June 25, from noon-4pm at Troy Kitchen, they gathered a dozen artists and creators for an event that showcased talent and energy of Capital Region millennials. T-shirt and fashion brands, a make-up artist, poets, a photographer, and several painters had their work on display and all were happy to talk about their vision for themselves and their businesses.

Untitled’s website describes their mission:

Untitled is a collective of influential millennials dedicated to making a creative movement. We’ve built a new type of social networking service targeting creative young adults, while forming a positive social community for artists in various fields. We use our many different events to provide a platform for our creators and celebrate our creative minds.

Kat has joined ACE’s Freelancer Event production team, and Malaika is a stylist with a rapidly growing list of clients. Keep your eye out for their next event in September, and write them at UntitledOfficial.Info@gmail.com to join their mailing list.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]

ACE Spotlight: Sophie Moss, Albany Symphony

June 23, 2017 By upstatecreative

Sophie Moss joined Albany Symphony two years ago and is already on her third job title. “Albany Symphony has really allowed me to take the initiative on many projects, so it’s been easy to gain a lot of experience very quickly,” she said. “There is always a LOT to do!”

Her interest in music began with violin lessons when she was 6 (she continued playing through high school, and considered a career as a performer), and she worked in the Music Department for all four years at SUNY Buffalo. When she completed her Masters degree in Liberal Studies at the University at Albany, she was happy to find a job that combined her experience as a performer, music fan, sales and marketing professional, and administrator. In her words, “It’s a perfect fit!”

Her latest role as Program Manager for Albany Symphony’s “Water Music NY” came about when she was lead grant writer on the project in 2016. “David Alan Miller had been developing the idea for Water Music NY for over ten years, so when we saw that NYSCA and Market NY were offering funding for programs celebrating the Bicentennial of the Erie Canal, we were ready,” she said.

You can see Albany Symphony Water Music NY from each evening at 8:00 — 9:30pm from July 2nd through July 8th at a wide variety of beautiful Erie Canal locations. Click here for the location and performance details, and here for more about Albany Symphony Water Music NY.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]

“Makers 365” Photography Exhibit and Event, Thursday, July 6, Albany Center Gallery

June 16, 2017 By upstatecreative

Join ACE on Thursday, July 6th, at Albany Center Gallery for the “Makers 365” Photography Exhibit and Discussion Event, celebrating the Capital Region’s Creative Restauranteurs.

“Makers 365” is the latest iteration of a year-long project by photographer Richard Lovrich, who took pictures of creatives who live or were passing through the Capital Region. The photos were first posted on Facebook and Instagram, and are now gorgeously presented at ACG.

Electric City “IDENTITY” Fashion Show Saturday, July 8, 8pm, New York State Museum

June 14, 2017 By upstatecreative

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”thumbnail” src=”https://www.upstatecreative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-ECC-IDENTITY-Save-the-.png” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false”]Electric City “IDENTITY” Fashion Show Saturday, July 8, 8pm, New York State Museum[/x_custom_headline][cs_text]Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy (ACE) is celebrating the launch of our new “Fashion Upstate” initiative with the sponsorship of Electric City Couture’s “IDENTITY” Fashion Show on Saturday, July 8, 8pm, at the New York State Museum in Albany.

General admission tickets: $20 advance | $25 at the door

VIP premium packages available

Tickets Available at the Electric City Couture Website www.electriccitycouture.com

ECC (Electric City Couture) presents IDENTITY, a runway fashion show to be held at the New York State Museum, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY. The show will feature a bold mix of four established and up-and-coming New York State designers and 35 models in a single night performance that explores fashion as an expression of identity, simultaneously celebrating and raising questions about this timely social issue.

Designers include:

Meg Kluball (Clifton Park)
PopImpressKA by Olga Papkovitch (Manhattan)
Marjolaine’s Touch by Marjolaine Arsnault (North Creek)
Adam Van Buren (Albany)

“IDENTITY is currently such a divisive subject, I felt compelled to explore it. By staging it in the New York Metropolis section of the NYS Museum, we are able to deepen the concept of identity as a reverberating theme with a story that contextually ties into the history of the State of New York, which is the primary focus of our represented designer studios, ateliers and production facilities.” Corey Aldrich – Producer at Electric City Couture

Electric City Couture’s mission is to provide a platform to increase awareness for regional fashion designers and fashion support industries, and to stimulate a regional fashion-based economy.

ECC is partnering with ACE (Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy) to roll out FASHION UPSTATE. FASHION UPSTATE’s purpose will be to create opportunities for established and aspiring fashion professionals to work together in support of fashion-based industry that can provide meaningful employment and resource opportunities in the Capital Region.

The FASHION UPSTATE committee is headed by Corey Aldrich of ECC and Carmen Duncan, CEO and Founder of Mission Accomplished Transition Services, an Albany based nonprofit organization that prepares millennials to find their purpose, develop their skills and transition into the global workforce, higher education and charitable activities. Mission Accomplished will be playing an active part in helping to develop millennial educational programming as part of the new FASHION UPSTATE initiative.

As part of this new commitment, Electric City Couture has created 2 paid fashion intern positions based around the IDENTITY show that will be filled by recent graduates of the Fashion Edition, a fashion-focused career education program run by Mission Accomplished.

“There is so much potential for a first-rate Fashion Industry in the Capital Region,” said Maureen Sager, Project Director for Upstate ACE. “We’ve got amazing designers, photographers, stylists, boutiques, makeup artists, and so much more. Our new FASHION UPSTATE initiative will bring together professionals from across the 8-county Capital Region, encouraging them to work together to create new opportunities and attract new business. The IDENTITY event is a great way to kick us off, as it will include a team of over 50 people, from planning stage to runway. This is exactly how an industry starts.”

The popular Buy It Off The Runway retail area, The POP UP! Shop, returns again giving attendees the opportunity to purchase directly from show designers off the runway immediately following the event.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]