In: Single Event
Prologue to Progress: Kristin Norderval and Guillermo Gregorio
September 28, 2017Arts Partner: Culture Project
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October 8, 2017
7:30 pm
Award-winning opera composer and singer Kristin Norderval and Argentinian composer and clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio will perform a set of improvisations for voice, clarinet and electronics. Texts for the improvisations will include excerpts from Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis” interspersed with words of women who have given birth in prison, or whose pregnancy terminations have been criminalized. (more…)
Prologue to Progress: RUDRA
September 28, 2017Arts Partner: Culture Project
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October 6, 2017
7:30 pm
RUDRA is a 4 piece ensemble who’s musical direction can best be described as acoustic World Fusion on steroids. RUDRA is co-led by guitarist Bobby Rozario and saxophonist/flutist Premik Russell Tubbs, along with South Indian percussion masters Swaminathan Selvaganesh and Ghatam Rajaram. The band takes a cue from guitar great John McLaughlin’s Shakti band, but (more…)
Prologue to Progress: Rebel Voices – Stories, Speeches and Songs of Resistance
September 28, 2017Arts Partner: Culture Project
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October 4, 2017
7:00 pm
Rebel Voices: Stories, Speeches and Songs of Resistance is Rob Urbinati’s stage adaptation of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s “Voices of A People’s History of the United States.” It brings marginalized voices usually left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites, to vibrant life. REBEL VOICES provides a full course in the struggles that have shaped (more…)
Prologue to Progress: I Am Antigone
September 28, 2017Arts Partner: Culture Project
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October 1, 2017
7:30 pm
Starring Broadway and screen actress Nicole Ansari and internationally renowned Comédie Francaise actor Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, I AM ANTIGONE is a timely story of one woman’s stand against the abuse of political power. This contemporary retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone is written by poet Saudamini Siegrist and directed by award-winning Myriam Cyr. Defying Creon’s command by (more…)
El Apagón/The Blackout
September 28, 2017Arts Partner: Pregones Theater + Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
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October 21, 2017
8:00 pm
A brand new staging of “the quintessential Boricua play,” featuring acclaimed veteran actor and original Apagón cast member Jorge B. Merced, together with rising Latino stage, film, and music star Flaco Navaja. Directed by Rosalba Rolón. APAGÓN/BLACKOUT is our award-winning adaptation of the story “The Night We Became People Again” by José Luis González, performed in Spanish and English, and set to the beat of (more…)