Rock for Rights @ Lincoln Center

Come for the globe-trotting line-up of incredible artists, but stick around for the phenomenal afterparty. Watch as Lincoln Center is transformed into the largest nightclub in New York, featuring 50-foot-high floor-to-ceiling windows with sweeping views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, PLUS international DJ Dave Sharma spinning house, drum ‘n’ bass, and Bollywood beats all night. What’s more, special $25 afterparty-only tickets are available exclusively through SALGA NYC.

“The acts assembled for the Rock for Rights benefit concert, taking the stage at Lincoln Center on Sunday January 18, cut a wide swath through South East Asian music and culture, pulling sounds from Bollywood to Babylon” Rocking Lincoln Center with Bombay Beats -NBC [Read the article Here]

Engendered, New York’s annual transnational festival of arts and human rights exploring gender, sexuality, ritual and religion proudly announces its benefit event Rock for Rights! – an unprecedented and historic rock concert, and the World Premiere of a unique music video by MTV iggy, featuring the artists and embodying the spirit of the concert. Staged at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s illustrious performing arena The Rose Theater, the concert will be preceded by a press conference and will be followed by an after-party/reception at the Atrium & Allen Room of the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Schedule - JAN 18, 2009
6pm: CONCERT
8.30pm onwards: PARTY & RECEPTION

What role can art can play in strengthening an inclusive politics that imagines equal tomorrows at a time when the world is at a crossroads, with new struggles against divisions, violence, and exclusions?  Rock for Rights!! brings together some of South Asia’s most explosive musical talents crossing all genres and generations — from Sufi and electronic rock bands, to contemporary pop artists, to jazz and funk legends.  Together the artists show the power of music and culture to create a platform to speak of rights, and to band together to call for peace, unity, and social justice.

Rock- for-Rights!! brings particular attention to historically underrepresented, but now critical contemporary battles – the quest for equal dignity across gender and sexuality.  As we think about how to make rights relevant for these new marginalizations, we see both recent victories and setbacks in our journey.  Recent trends of the feminization of poverty and the disproportionate impact of violence and exclusion across gender have challenged us to broaden and strengthen our language of rights.  We must work to make them not just inclusive, but effective.  Other battles remind us of victories that must rightly be celebrated.  While Nepal passed historic same-sex marriage legislation and Indian activists await similar result in their legal battle against the country’s anti-gay laws.  The setbacks to gay rights in California and Arkansas remind us of battles closer to here.  Rock for Rights!! both celebrates and voices resistance to and beyond South Asia and the Diaspora, reminding us of our part in creating an equal world.

Contact and Concert Ticket Information: http://www.engendered.org/RockforRights.html