FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE KGB BAR, 7-9pm 85 E 4th Street, E Village, NYC: Karen Garthe, Jefferson Hansen, Erica Lazure Plouffe, and M. E. Parker. See link for details. Also see Jefferson Hansen's blog to read his comments on some writings by his fellow readers.
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SUNDAY October 4th, 2009, 5:30 pm
Phoenix Reading Series @ Bengal Curry, trendy Tribeca, NYC (hot hot hot!)
Curator: George Spencer
I will read chutney with Charles Butler and Fred Dasig.
Bengal Curry
65 West Broadway
Take the 1, 2, 3, A, C, or E trains to Chambers Street
1 1⁄2 blocks below Chambers St
Showing posts with label READING/PERFORMANCE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label READING/PERFORMANCE. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Performance at Soho Gallery Wednesday JULY 15, 2009
Please join me and my Iranian-born writer friend Amir Parsa, and others, next Wednesday at:
Engendered Festival 09
PURDAH 2.0
Closing Night Engendered 09, Purdah 2.0: Body Matters
July 15, Halvai Gallery, 75 Grand St @ Wooster, NY, 7pm Onwards
Now, Then, and Forever:
revolutions, politics, literature, contestation
Creative-Critical-Contemporary
Come to see, hear and discuss the works of some of the leading
avant-garde writers of our time
Canto XIV - Dusk's Ether with Ashes
the bassadiga
Interactive Readings and Discussions
Amir Parsa
With
Joe Brent & Amir ElSaffar
Kaveh Bassiri
Sarah Husain
Carol Novack
Rodrigo Toscano
7 Prelude | 7:30 Bassa | 8 Fragments | 9 Party
Canto XIV - Dusk's Ether with Ashes
Parafrags (parallel fragments) to Canto XIV at Halvai Gallery unfolding on:
1. Engendered.org: Canto XIV Narraflow
2. Twitter (amparsa): Canto XIV Narratweet
3. Bassadiga: Canto XIV Oralities/Readation,
4. +
A bassadiga is a short interventionist interlude with minimal props meant
to present inroads into artistic and/or literary innovations and
alternatives. The bassadiga consists of readings, oral expressions and,
occasionally, brief mini-lectures and minimalistically performative
interactions and discussions.
*About Amir Parsa:* An internationally acclaimed writer and poet, Amir
Parsa is the author of over ten literary books, most recently* Drive-by
Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition*, and *Erre*. An uncategorizable body
of work, Mr. Parsa's literary oeuvre - written in English, French and
Persian - constitutes a radical polyphonic enterprise that puts into
question national, cultural and aesthetic attachments and discourses while
fashioning new genres, forms and even species of literary artifacts (*Fragment
*and *Ifs & Co.*). He was included in the anthology of new French and
Francophone poets (Ed. Huguet 2004). Born in Tehran, Mr. Parsa holds degrees
from Princeton and Columbia and currently lives in New York, where he is a
Lecturer and Educator at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is featured in
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters as a site specific installation and constitutes one
fragment of canto XIV.
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters
*The Second Annual Arts Exhibition at Engendered*
June 25th-July 16th, 2009 | Halvai Gallery, 75 Grand Street, NY
*Opening Reception: June 30, 2009 7 p.m.*
After the inaugural edition of Purdah - the unprecedented transcultural
exhibition on art, gender and sexuality last year, Engendered presents
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters.
Curated In Two Parts by:
*Amina Begum Ahmed & Priyanka Mathew*
Exhibition Director :
*Myna Mukherjee*
Body Matters is a contemporary & provocative exploration both of why the
body matters and what matters of the body are, have been and could become.
Across cultures, how do we find a visual and aesthetic language to engage
with the body as simultaneously a site of refuge, resistance, tradition,
freedom, sorrow, solace, desire, pain, rebellion, and rage? Body Matters
investigates the body as a site for contestations of power & violence,
perception & reality, memory & loss, and finally, station & displacement -
especially within urban ecologies and the ever morphous shifting boundaries
of personal and political geographies.
Ahmed brings together diverse artists whose stories and experiences form a
narrative that excavates, personalizes and reclaims the 'body' that has been
subsumed by the dominant normative . On the other hand, Mathew's curation of
artists explores the human form as an agent/catalyst to dissect political,
social and metaphysical dialogues on sexuality, gender and the relationships
in the grey areas that don't qualify neatly in either category.
Body Matters brings together figurative, conceptual, experiential and also
site specific works by some of the most leading, iconic and emergent
transcultural artists from India, Pakistan, Iran, U.S & China.
For more info: admin@engendered.org
visit www.engendered.org
Sunil Gupta along with -
Performance Poetry Talks Screenings Education Anwar Saeed Marcus
Leatherdale Ayesha Durrani Abir Karmarkar Raghava KK Fareeda Batool Khalil
Chishtee Dong Ming Guang Shailja Gupta Amita Bhatt Srinivas Kuruganti Amir
Parsa Pritika Chowdhry Noelle Williams Salman Toor Ariane Lopez-Huici Marco
Guerra & Yasmina Alaoui
In collaboration with
[image: Tucker Robbins]
Halvai]
Engendered Festival 09
PURDAH 2.0
Closing Night Engendered 09, Purdah 2.0: Body Matters
July 15, Halvai Gallery, 75 Grand St @ Wooster, NY, 7pm Onwards
Now, Then, and Forever:
revolutions, politics, literature, contestation
Creative-Critical-Contemporary
Come to see, hear and discuss the works of some of the leading
avant-garde writers of our time
Canto XIV - Dusk's Ether with Ashes
the bassadiga
Interactive Readings and Discussions
Amir Parsa
With
Joe Brent & Amir ElSaffar
Kaveh Bassiri
Sarah Husain
Carol Novack
Rodrigo Toscano
7 Prelude | 7:30 Bassa | 8 Fragments | 9 Party
Canto XIV - Dusk's Ether with Ashes
Parafrags (parallel fragments) to Canto XIV at Halvai Gallery unfolding on:
1. Engendered.org: Canto XIV Narraflow
2. Twitter (amparsa): Canto XIV Narratweet
3. Bassadiga: Canto XIV Oralities/Readation,
4. +
A bassadiga is a short interventionist interlude with minimal props meant
to present inroads into artistic and/or literary innovations and
alternatives. The bassadiga consists of readings, oral expressions and,
occasionally, brief mini-lectures and minimalistically performative
interactions and discussions.
*About Amir Parsa:* An internationally acclaimed writer and poet, Amir
Parsa is the author of over ten literary books, most recently* Drive-by
Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition*, and *Erre*. An uncategorizable body
of work, Mr. Parsa's literary oeuvre - written in English, French and
Persian - constitutes a radical polyphonic enterprise that puts into
question national, cultural and aesthetic attachments and discourses while
fashioning new genres, forms and even species of literary artifacts (*Fragment
*and *Ifs & Co.*). He was included in the anthology of new French and
Francophone poets (Ed. Huguet 2004). Born in Tehran, Mr. Parsa holds degrees
from Princeton and Columbia and currently lives in New York, where he is a
Lecturer and Educator at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is featured in
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters as a site specific installation and constitutes one
fragment of canto XIV.
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters
*The Second Annual Arts Exhibition at Engendered*
June 25th-July 16th, 2009 | Halvai Gallery, 75 Grand Street, NY
*Opening Reception: June 30, 2009 7 p.m.*
After the inaugural edition of Purdah - the unprecedented transcultural
exhibition on art, gender and sexuality last year, Engendered presents
Purdah 2.0: Body Matters.
Curated In Two Parts by:
*Amina Begum Ahmed & Priyanka Mathew*
Exhibition Director :
*Myna Mukherjee*
Body Matters is a contemporary & provocative exploration both of why the
body matters and what matters of the body are, have been and could become.
Across cultures, how do we find a visual and aesthetic language to engage
with the body as simultaneously a site of refuge, resistance, tradition,
freedom, sorrow, solace, desire, pain, rebellion, and rage? Body Matters
investigates the body as a site for contestations of power & violence,
perception & reality, memory & loss, and finally, station & displacement -
especially within urban ecologies and the ever morphous shifting boundaries
of personal and political geographies.
Ahmed brings together diverse artists whose stories and experiences form a
narrative that excavates, personalizes and reclaims the 'body' that has been
subsumed by the dominant normative . On the other hand, Mathew's curation of
artists explores the human form as an agent/catalyst to dissect political,
social and metaphysical dialogues on sexuality, gender and the relationships
in the grey areas that don't qualify neatly in either category.
Body Matters brings together figurative, conceptual, experiential and also
site specific works by some of the most leading, iconic and emergent
transcultural artists from India, Pakistan, Iran, U.S & China.
For more info: admin@engendered.org
Sunil Gupta along with -
Performance Poetry Talks Screenings Education Anwar Saeed Marcus
Leatherdale Ayesha Durrani Abir Karmarkar Raghava KK Fareeda Batool Khalil
Chishtee Dong Ming Guang Shailja Gupta Amita Bhatt Srinivas Kuruganti Amir
Parsa Pritika Chowdhry Noelle Williams Salman Toor Ariane Lopez-Huici Marco
Guerra & Yasmina Alaoui
In collaboration with
[image: Tucker Robbins]
Halvai]
Sunday, May 03, 2009
HOSTING A Festival of Plays celebrating Women's History Month: MAY 8TH, WAH Center, Williamsburg, NYC
The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center’s
WAH Theater of the Performing Arts, and
THE BROOKLYN PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE PRESENT:
THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY
TICKETS AT WAH CENTER BOX OFFICE: $10
_____________________________________________________________
A Festival of plays for the
WOMAN FORWARD Art Exhibition
3 Weekends, 6 Performances!
Friday and Saturday,
May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23, 2009
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211
THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY
PROGRAM
Stage Manager: Teresa Violet Cajigas
-Friday May 8, HOSTED BY GUEST POET CAROL NOVACK
-Friday, May 9th, 15 and Saturday May 16th HOSTED BY GUEST POET MARGUERITE MARIA RIVAS
8PM Curtain
A Visit with Grandma
By Philip Kaplan, Directed by Stephanie Walter
Great Artists and their Family Encounters
Draw Me a Paper. By Alaina Hammond. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
A romantic contest comes to an end, for now.
NIN Unexpurgated, By Allan Lefcowitz. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
Two Greenwich Village scenes from Allan’s Anais Nin Play
A Photo Play
By Maria Micheles. Directed by Marcus Haupt..
Dialogue and Body language at a Diane Arbus nudist colony photo session
Homespun Webs. By C.J. Ehrlich. Directed by Lori Kee.
Imagining Louise Bourgeois
Hosted by the Evening’s Guest Poet!
Ballroom dancing music by The Steppe Dogges.
Institutional Bio:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective is a project of local playwrights collaborating through workshops, proposals, and readings to aid each other in the playwriting process from writing, to editing and production. In addition to their annual festival last season, they produced a series of one act readings at the Brecht Forum, received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Works Grant for Les Hunter’s To the Orchard, and work-shopped Marcy Wallabout’s Resistable Rise of Fatlinda Paloka, which received rave reviews after opening at Theatre for the New City.
Each year, BPC produces a festival of short one act plays by their members which responds to a particular theater practitioner. The festival has worked for the last three years in an alphabetical order Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud, Beyond Brecht, and Confronting Chekhov (2008)
Their Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud prompted the NYTheatre.com reviewer to conclude by saying, “Best of all, perhaps, is the conception of the evening itself—a participatory celebration/conversation between theatre artists and ordinary folks in the audience. Too many ‘festivals’ of one-act plays seem to have no raison d'être beyond serving as a hopeful showcase of talent to producers, agents, and other show-biz types who probably aren't there anyway; I love that Cruel and Unusual is an end unto itself, giving all who venture into the room a chance to experience some art of the raw and untried variety because that's an exciting, fun, and interesting thing to do.”
The WAH Theater hosts visiting troupes from all over the world, and has originated productions of musical plays by Peter Dizozza, many connected with WAH Center art exhibits, including Prepare to Meet Your Maker (Apocalypse 1999), The Last Dodo (2000), The Eleventh Hour (2001), The Golf Wars (The World Peace Exhibit, 2002), The Marriage at the Statue of Liberty (Brave Destiny, 2003), The Sea Heiress (2004), and Paradise Found (Artwork Celebrating John Milton’s 400th Birthday, 2008).
WAH Theater of the Performing Arts, and
THE BROOKLYN PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE PRESENT:
THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY
TICKETS AT WAH CENTER BOX OFFICE: $10
_____________________________________________________________
A Festival of plays for the
WOMAN FORWARD Art Exhibition
3 Weekends, 6 Performances!
Friday and Saturday,
May 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23, 2009
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
135 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211
THE WOMAN ARTIST’S JOURNEY
PROGRAM
Stage Manager: Teresa Violet Cajigas
-Friday May 8, HOSTED BY GUEST POET CAROL NOVACK
-Friday, May 9th, 15 and Saturday May 16th HOSTED BY GUEST POET MARGUERITE MARIA RIVAS
8PM Curtain
A Visit with Grandma
By Philip Kaplan, Directed by Stephanie Walter
Great Artists and their Family Encounters
Draw Me a Paper. By Alaina Hammond. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
A romantic contest comes to an end, for now.
NIN Unexpurgated, By Allan Lefcowitz. Directed by Peter Dizozza.
Two Greenwich Village scenes from Allan’s Anais Nin Play
A Photo Play
By Maria Micheles. Directed by Marcus Haupt..
Dialogue and Body language at a Diane Arbus nudist colony photo session
Homespun Webs. By C.J. Ehrlich. Directed by Lori Kee.
Imagining Louise Bourgeois
Hosted by the Evening’s Guest Poet!
Ballroom dancing music by The Steppe Dogges.
Institutional Bio:
Brooklyn Playwrights Collective is a project of local playwrights collaborating through workshops, proposals, and readings to aid each other in the playwriting process from writing, to editing and production. In addition to their annual festival last season, they produced a series of one act readings at the Brecht Forum, received a National Foundation for Jewish Culture New Works Grant for Les Hunter’s To the Orchard, and work-shopped Marcy Wallabout’s Resistable Rise of Fatlinda Paloka, which received rave reviews after opening at Theatre for the New City.
Each year, BPC produces a festival of short one act plays by their members which responds to a particular theater practitioner. The festival has worked for the last three years in an alphabetical order Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud, Beyond Brecht, and Confronting Chekhov (2008)
Their Cruel and Unusual: Works Inspired by Antonin Artaud prompted the NYTheatre.com reviewer to conclude by saying, “Best of all, perhaps, is the conception of the evening itself—a participatory celebration/conversation between theatre artists and ordinary folks in the audience. Too many ‘festivals’ of one-act plays seem to have no raison d'être beyond serving as a hopeful showcase of talent to producers, agents, and other show-biz types who probably aren't there anyway; I love that Cruel and Unusual is an end unto itself, giving all who venture into the room a chance to experience some art of the raw and untried variety because that's an exciting, fun, and interesting thing to do.”
The WAH Theater hosts visiting troupes from all over the world, and has originated productions of musical plays by Peter Dizozza, many connected with WAH Center art exhibits, including Prepare to Meet Your Maker (Apocalypse 1999), The Last Dodo (2000), The Eleventh Hour (2001), The Golf Wars (The World Peace Exhibit, 2002), The Marriage at the Statue of Liberty (Brave Destiny, 2003), The Sea Heiress (2004), and Paradise Found (Artwork Celebrating John Milton’s 400th Birthday, 2008).
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