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SUMMARY:In the Family of Things: Parent Hotline
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. New York Member Susan Stainman invites you to participate in her project\, “In the Family of Things.” The project will begin with a hotline where parents can share in the intense high and low moments of their day. Participants may listen to rotating messages from other parents or leave a message for others to hear. Stainman will translate the collected messages into patterned embroidered artworks that will be on display in her exhibition of the same name at A.I.R. from May 25 through June 23. \nTelephone number is: 347-343-4662.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/in-the-family-of-things-parent-hotline-2/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Liberated Pelvis Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Liberated Pelvis\, a movement system\, created by Co-Artistic Director Mame Diarra Speis\, that explores pelvic mobility as the root of powerful locomotion and as a point of connection to the stories\, experiences\, memories and lineages that reside in the body. There will be a charge to tune our instincts\, intuition\, and body knowledge by being immersed in different “states” through a durational process. We will do this by exploring concepts of full bodied movement with a dynamic blend of athleticism and fluidness\, integrating breath and musicality\, core stability\, feet as foundation\, grounding\, shifting\, and accessing the full range of the pelvis. Emphasis is placed on developing a foundation that supports a greater expansion through space with clarity and efficiency. The Liberated Pelvis gives attention to understanding self and our uniqueness with a deep focus on honing our individual voice through permission\, play\, rigor\, transparency\, and duration\, a value within the African Diaspora. \n\n\n\nPlease note: Previous dance practice/experience is strongly encouraged.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/the-liberated-pelvis-workshop-2/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:Mark Morris Dance Center\, 4 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Class / Workshop Series
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SUMMARY:Did you have a hard time finding me? by Denisse Griselda Reyes
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R Gallery is pleased to announce Sleepwalking\, an exhibition of photographs by 2023–2024 Fellow Roberta Dorsett. This is Dorsett’s first solo exhibition in New York City. \nDorsett’s Sleepwalking is a series of photographs examining isolation in the suburbs and how a sense of danger often accompanies seemingly idyllic environments. The work depicts three women\, Dorsett’s aunt\, her cousin\, and Dorsett herself\, occupying the shared space of a suburban home in Connecticut. Tension arises from the camera’s interaction with the women. The camera acts as an intrusive person\, an interloper\, and a voyeur as it captures the women in moments of discomfort and vulnerability. \nIn Dorsett’s previous work\, she took on the role of family historian\, photographing moments of in-betweenness that result in candid and uncontrived images. Her obsession with taking photographs of her family is driven by their lack of extant family albums or other visual documentation. Because of the family’s socioeconomic status\, photography was considered a luxury and only done for special occasions. Moreover\, Dorsett’s mother had to leave behind her family’s photographic history when she immigrated from Jamaica to the United States. \nDorsett initially intended Sleepwalking to be a straightforward documentation of her aunt and cousin’s experience as first-time Black homeowners. But she found herself drawn into the project’s narrative and began photographing her family in a more constructed and story-driven way\, drawing inspiration from slasher and horror films. Dorsett captures the visceral thrills of these types of films by continuing to utilize her family to explore the concepts of voyeurism and anxiety. The single-family home\, once a symbol of milestone achievement\, now becomes a surreal site of both safety and terror. As she stood behind and in front of the camera\, registering the uneasiness and distress of these three women inside their home\, Dorsett dreamed up a distorted reality and asked herself\, “Am I awake or sleepwalking?”
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/did-you-have-a-hard-time-finding-me-by-denisse-griselda-reyes/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:In The Family of Things by Susan Stainman
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New York Member Susan Stainman’s new exhibition\, In The Family of Things\, which draws its title from the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese. Stainman uses the poem’s themes of finding connection and one’s place in the world as a guidepost for exploring the inevitable challenges\, shared experiences\, and joys that parenthood creates. Unfolding over several distinct stages\, In the Family of Things contains large embroidered fabric works\, a communal seating area\, and a workstation for the artist to continue the project throughout the exhibition period. \nThe multifaceted piece starts with a hotline for parents to anonymously share in the high and low moments of parenting. They can leave voicemails or texts as a method of catharsis\, solidarity\, or encouragement for themselves and other parents. Alternatively\, they can listen to messages left by other participants. As messages come in\, Stainman begins translating them into embroidery patterns based on the contents of what each caller conveys. Taking cues from encoding techniques as well as antique cross stitch and embroidery patterns\, these patterns vary by design depending upon topic and by color depending on emotional content. Topics covered often by participants—such as feeding\, sleeping\, and labor—create the edge designs\, while topics covered less often are embroidered as flowers and plants in the center of each work. Though some of the embroidery will be done prior to the exhibition opening\, much of the work will be done during gallery hours throughout the exhibition run\, allowing the installation to grow and evolve. The embroidered fabric will be hung high on the walls of the gallery and drape over a seating arrangement—a communal upholstered piece of furniture—so that visitors can recline under the thoughts and feelings of this community of parents. \nIn The Family of Things is a natural extension of Stainman’s interdisciplinary practice centering embodied moments of intimacy\, connection\, and interdependence. Her ideas stem from her mindfulness practice; she is interested in the small gestures and sensorial moments of life that manifest our interconnectedness: holding someone’s hand\, a touch on the arm\, a hug\, or a conversation. Her soft sculptures\, photography\, installations\, and events make physically tangible these often overlooked or forgotten moments. \nAs Stainman states about one of the primary sources of inspiration for the work: \nWhile my art practice has focused on intimacy and connection for the last several years\, the birth of my son this past December has given me a new perspective. To be a new parent is to be full of intense and often contradictory emotions almost all the time. This project and body of work is inspired by this period in my life and my desire for connection with other parents in similar situations. It is through this project that I am coming to better understand myself and the individual nuances and universal quality of this experience. \nThe artist hopes that the public will enjoy engaging in the process as well as seeing the outcome of this unique work.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/in-the-family-of-things-by-susan-stainman/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T180000
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SUMMARY:New Work by Ann Schaumburger
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New Work\, an exhibition of recent Flashe on panel paintings by New York Member Ann Schaumburger that extends the artist’s decades-long investigation into color. \nFor over fifty years\, Schaumburger has used the house as a basic structure—a scaffold—for exploring how colors interact with one another. Schaumburger builds her houses with blocks of four pigments\, using stencil brushes and tape to fill each house with modular forms. Influenced by the theories of Josef Albers\, Schaumburger’s approach to color is meticulous yet playful. Different colors dazzle and dance when placed in proximity\, creating a sense of surprise. \nThe paintings in this new body of work depart from Schaumburger’s earlier explorations in one key detail: the houses are now mounted on wheels. This choice was inspired by Schaumburger’s reading of the biography of Henry David Thoreau\, whose family had attached wheels to their domicile\, allowing them to transport the house across different sites in Concord\, Massachusetts. “The idea of taking a solid house\, attached to the ground\, and letting it roll away\,” Schaumburger says\, “seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times.” \nSchaumburger has described her color choices as an attempt to “solve an aesthetic problem.” Yet the work is not entirely abstract. Titles like Forest House Under Summer Sky and Moonscape Moving House gesture toward the fact that certain color relationships become evocative of different seasons\, places\, and times of day. All of the paintings in the exhibition feature a crescent or small globe in the upper left or right quadrant. Sometimes\, this globe is rendered in metallic gold or bronze\, recalling the sun. Other times\, it is a lunar silver. The round shape of the globe mirrors the house’s circular wheels. Just as the earth rotates around the sun\, the wheels rotate around their own axles\, allowing the house to move. \nThe wheeled house becomes a spirited metaphor for Schaumburger’s practice. Dynamic rather than stationary\, it embodies the liveliness and energy of Schaumburger’s color choices\, as well as the open-ended nature of her process.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/new-work-by-ann-schaumburger-5/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Monika Drożyńska | Latte Capitalizm: Letters as a Source of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Open Source Gallery is pleased to present Latte Capitalizm\, a project by Monika Drożyńska. \nFor many years\, Drożyńska has used hand embroidery on fabric as a means of writing\, recording\, transcription and documentation. Her textiles are devoted to social commentary from the contemporary to the personal to the political exploring issues such as economic\, migratory and refugee issues in Europe. Her work deconstructs and expands the boundaries of words and language looking for a common area from seemingly unconnected grammars. \nFor her exhibition at Open Source\, Drożyńska will create textiles embroidered with letters\, words\, signs and images. Her textiles will utilize various alphabets such as min Georgian\, Hebrew or Cyrillic\, Morse alphabet and Braille intermixed with phrases written in different languages such as Polish\, Ukrainian\, German\, English or Afrikaans. In addition\, she will also use iconography taken from sign language\, road and evacuation signs\, logos of corporations and social movements\, referring to the symbolism of political systems\, prison tattoo or graphic interpretations of star constellations. Through this collage of languages Drożyńska often creates new words\, and sometimes whole phrases like the title Latte capitalism. The addition of one letter calls Latte Capitalizm the beginning of a new era of capitalism.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/monika-drozynska-latte-capitalizm-letters-as-a-source-of-resistance-5/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:Open Source Gallery\, 306 17th Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11215
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T220000
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SUMMARY:DreamStreet NYC Presents: Power to the People: A Snow White Story
DESCRIPTION:The performers of DreamStreet Theatre Company\, a cast of 30 adults living with developmental disabilities\, take the stage again in the BRIC Ballroom Theatre to share their adaptation of a familiar classic\, Snow White. \n\n\n\nA modern twist on the classic story filled with enchanting performances\, music\, and a heavy dose of Brooklyn charm. Please join us for a magical evening! \n\n\n\n6:30pm Opening Reception\, Cash Bar\, Silent Auction \n\n\n\n7:15pm Showtime \n\n\n\n9:30pm Afterparty
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/dreamstreet-nyc-presents-power-to-the-people-a-snow-white-story/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:BRIC House\, 647 Fulton St\,\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
CREATED:20240424T164436Z
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SUMMARY:Macbeth (an undoing) Written and Directed by Zinnie Harris 
DESCRIPTION:In Shakespeare’s Macbeth\, Lady Macbeth begins the play as the driving force who ruthlessly plans and implements regicide. But she soon disappears from the action and re-emerges in the last Act\, guilt-ridden\, hallucinating and tormented by sleep deprivation. What happened? Zinnie Harris imagines what might be the gaps in Shakespeare’s story\, undoing the play as we know it and retelling it with Lady Macbeth at its center. \n\n\n\nPerformances in May: May 1\, 2\, 3\, and 4 at 7:30pm. May 4 at 2pm with a talkback in the theatre afterwards
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/macbeth-an-undoing-written-and-directed-by-zinnie-harris/2024-05-01/
LOCATION:Polonsky Shakespeare Center\, 262 Ashland Pl\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
CREATED:20240423T182834Z
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Music School Community Choir
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a memorable evening of performance featuring the Brooklyn Music School Community Choir and special guest Tesla Quartet. Tickets are free\, donations are accepted and appreciated!
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/brooklyn-music-school-community-choir/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
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SUMMARY:Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Dance performance.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/remembering/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:The Apollo\, 253 W 125th St\, New York\, New York
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T170000
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SUMMARY:The Meeting Place
DESCRIPTION:Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia’s The Meeting Place is a site for transformative gatherings by and for Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)\, who wish to engage in embodied and somatic practices as a way of activating epigenetics in order to release lived or inherited trauma of systemic oppression stored in the body. The project is designed to provide a supportive structure to an open-ended question: what does rest\, love\, care\, and liberation look like for BIPOC women in the 21st century? The project takes as inspiration the many meetings that women have historically organized throughout the global diaspora to strengthen each other in community\, including the rituals of celebration\, family gatherings\, places of worship\, protest\, political organizing\, and care work. \n\n\n\nThere will be four workshops taking place over the duration of the Session\, known as Meetings\, each facilitated by BIPOC femme organizers. Metaferia will open the first event with her signature By Way of Revolution workshop\, a performance-as-protest somatic experience open for BIPOC femmes. Guest facilitators will support the following Meetings\, some of which are open to everyone. These Meetings include: an Octavia Butler-inspired writing workshop by the Free Black Women’s Library; a Palestinian dance and movement workshop by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre\, and a Juneteenth ancestral meditation and closing Session after party by the Wide Awakes. \n\n\n\nDue to the process-based nature of the Session program\, this project will undergo constant modifications; the features of this page provide accruing information on the project’s developments. Either the artist or a Recess docent will be available to view the project in process.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/the-meeting-place-2/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:Recess\, 46 Washington Ave\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11205
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
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SUMMARY:Did you have a hard time finding me? by Denisse Griselda Reyes
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R Gallery is pleased to announce Sleepwalking\, an exhibition of photographs by 2023–2024 Fellow Roberta Dorsett. This is Dorsett’s first solo exhibition in New York City. \nDorsett’s Sleepwalking is a series of photographs examining isolation in the suburbs and how a sense of danger often accompanies seemingly idyllic environments. The work depicts three women\, Dorsett’s aunt\, her cousin\, and Dorsett herself\, occupying the shared space of a suburban home in Connecticut. Tension arises from the camera’s interaction with the women. The camera acts as an intrusive person\, an interloper\, and a voyeur as it captures the women in moments of discomfort and vulnerability. \nIn Dorsett’s previous work\, she took on the role of family historian\, photographing moments of in-betweenness that result in candid and uncontrived images. Her obsession with taking photographs of her family is driven by their lack of extant family albums or other visual documentation. Because of the family’s socioeconomic status\, photography was considered a luxury and only done for special occasions. Moreover\, Dorsett’s mother had to leave behind her family’s photographic history when she immigrated from Jamaica to the United States. \nDorsett initially intended Sleepwalking to be a straightforward documentation of her aunt and cousin’s experience as first-time Black homeowners. But she found herself drawn into the project’s narrative and began photographing her family in a more constructed and story-driven way\, drawing inspiration from slasher and horror films. Dorsett captures the visceral thrills of these types of films by continuing to utilize her family to explore the concepts of voyeurism and anxiety. The single-family home\, once a symbol of milestone achievement\, now becomes a surreal site of both safety and terror. As she stood behind and in front of the camera\, registering the uneasiness and distress of these three women inside their home\, Dorsett dreamed up a distorted reality and asked herself\, “Am I awake or sleepwalking?”
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/did-you-have-a-hard-time-finding-me-by-denisse-griselda-reyes/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
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SUMMARY:In The Family of Things by Susan Stainman
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New York Member Susan Stainman’s new exhibition\, In The Family of Things\, which draws its title from the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese. Stainman uses the poem’s themes of finding connection and one’s place in the world as a guidepost for exploring the inevitable challenges\, shared experiences\, and joys that parenthood creates. Unfolding over several distinct stages\, In the Family of Things contains large embroidered fabric works\, a communal seating area\, and a workstation for the artist to continue the project throughout the exhibition period. \nThe multifaceted piece starts with a hotline for parents to anonymously share in the high and low moments of parenting. They can leave voicemails or texts as a method of catharsis\, solidarity\, or encouragement for themselves and other parents. Alternatively\, they can listen to messages left by other participants. As messages come in\, Stainman begins translating them into embroidery patterns based on the contents of what each caller conveys. Taking cues from encoding techniques as well as antique cross stitch and embroidery patterns\, these patterns vary by design depending upon topic and by color depending on emotional content. Topics covered often by participants—such as feeding\, sleeping\, and labor—create the edge designs\, while topics covered less often are embroidered as flowers and plants in the center of each work. Though some of the embroidery will be done prior to the exhibition opening\, much of the work will be done during gallery hours throughout the exhibition run\, allowing the installation to grow and evolve. The embroidered fabric will be hung high on the walls of the gallery and drape over a seating arrangement—a communal upholstered piece of furniture—so that visitors can recline under the thoughts and feelings of this community of parents. \nIn The Family of Things is a natural extension of Stainman’s interdisciplinary practice centering embodied moments of intimacy\, connection\, and interdependence. Her ideas stem from her mindfulness practice; she is interested in the small gestures and sensorial moments of life that manifest our interconnectedness: holding someone’s hand\, a touch on the arm\, a hug\, or a conversation. Her soft sculptures\, photography\, installations\, and events make physically tangible these often overlooked or forgotten moments. \nAs Stainman states about one of the primary sources of inspiration for the work: \nWhile my art practice has focused on intimacy and connection for the last several years\, the birth of my son this past December has given me a new perspective. To be a new parent is to be full of intense and often contradictory emotions almost all the time. This project and body of work is inspired by this period in my life and my desire for connection with other parents in similar situations. It is through this project that I am coming to better understand myself and the individual nuances and universal quality of this experience. \nThe artist hopes that the public will enjoy engaging in the process as well as seeing the outcome of this unique work.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/in-the-family-of-things-by-susan-stainman/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:New Work by Ann Schaumburger
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New Work\, an exhibition of recent Flashe on panel paintings by New York Member Ann Schaumburger that extends the artist’s decades-long investigation into color. \nFor over fifty years\, Schaumburger has used the house as a basic structure—a scaffold—for exploring how colors interact with one another. Schaumburger builds her houses with blocks of four pigments\, using stencil brushes and tape to fill each house with modular forms. Influenced by the theories of Josef Albers\, Schaumburger’s approach to color is meticulous yet playful. Different colors dazzle and dance when placed in proximity\, creating a sense of surprise. \nThe paintings in this new body of work depart from Schaumburger’s earlier explorations in one key detail: the houses are now mounted on wheels. This choice was inspired by Schaumburger’s reading of the biography of Henry David Thoreau\, whose family had attached wheels to their domicile\, allowing them to transport the house across different sites in Concord\, Massachusetts. “The idea of taking a solid house\, attached to the ground\, and letting it roll away\,” Schaumburger says\, “seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times.” \nSchaumburger has described her color choices as an attempt to “solve an aesthetic problem.” Yet the work is not entirely abstract. Titles like Forest House Under Summer Sky and Moonscape Moving House gesture toward the fact that certain color relationships become evocative of different seasons\, places\, and times of day. All of the paintings in the exhibition feature a crescent or small globe in the upper left or right quadrant. Sometimes\, this globe is rendered in metallic gold or bronze\, recalling the sun. Other times\, it is a lunar silver. The round shape of the globe mirrors the house’s circular wheels. Just as the earth rotates around the sun\, the wheels rotate around their own axles\, allowing the house to move. \nThe wheeled house becomes a spirited metaphor for Schaumburger’s practice. Dynamic rather than stationary\, it embodies the liveliness and energy of Schaumburger’s color choices\, as well as the open-ended nature of her process.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/new-work-by-ann-schaumburger-5/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Monika Drożyńska | Latte Capitalizm: Letters as a Source of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Open Source Gallery is pleased to present Latte Capitalizm\, a project by Monika Drożyńska. \nFor many years\, Drożyńska has used hand embroidery on fabric as a means of writing\, recording\, transcription and documentation. Her textiles are devoted to social commentary from the contemporary to the personal to the political exploring issues such as economic\, migratory and refugee issues in Europe. Her work deconstructs and expands the boundaries of words and language looking for a common area from seemingly unconnected grammars. \nFor her exhibition at Open Source\, Drożyńska will create textiles embroidered with letters\, words\, signs and images. Her textiles will utilize various alphabets such as min Georgian\, Hebrew or Cyrillic\, Morse alphabet and Braille intermixed with phrases written in different languages such as Polish\, Ukrainian\, German\, English or Afrikaans. In addition\, she will also use iconography taken from sign language\, road and evacuation signs\, logos of corporations and social movements\, referring to the symbolism of political systems\, prison tattoo or graphic interpretations of star constellations. Through this collage of languages Drożyńska often creates new words\, and sometimes whole phrases like the title Latte capitalism. The addition of one letter calls Latte Capitalizm the beginning of a new era of capitalism.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/monika-drozynska-latte-capitalizm-letters-as-a-source-of-resistance-5/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:Open Source Gallery\, 306 17th Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11215
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
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SUMMARY:DreamStreet NYC Presents: Power to the People: A Snow White Story
DESCRIPTION:The performers of DreamStreet Theatre Company\, a cast of 30 adults living with developmental disabilities\, take the stage again in the BRIC Ballroom Theatre to share their adaptation of a familiar classic\, Snow White. \n\n\n\nA modern twist on the classic story filled with enchanting performances\, music\, and a heavy dose of Brooklyn charm. Please join us for a magical evening! \n\n\n\n6:30pm Opening Reception\, Cash Bar\, Silent Auction \n\n\n\n7:15pm Showtime \n\n\n\n9:30pm Afterparty
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/dreamstreet-nyc-presents-power-to-the-people-a-snow-white-story/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:BRIC House\, 647 Fulton St\,\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T210000
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SUMMARY:"FABULATION\, or the Re-Education of Undine" at The Billie
DESCRIPTION:Have you secured your tickets for our revival of “FABULATION\, or the Re-Education of Undine”\, penned by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage? \nEmbark on a captivating journey alongside Undine Barnes Calles as she confronts adversity with wit and resilience\, transforming setbacks into triumphs in her quest to reclaim her place in the world. “FABULATION” offers a delightful twist on the classic comeuppance story\, interweaving humor and heart into every scene. \nJoin us at The Billie as we proudly bring this tale to life on our stage for a four-week run. Performances will take place Thursday through Sunday\, with matinees on Friday through Sunday. Special discounts are available for students\, seniors\, and groups. It’s been far too long since our stage has seen such a production. \nShowing now through May 19th. Secure your tickets now!
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/fabulation-or-the-re-education-of-undine-at-the-billie/2024-05-02/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T210000
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SUMMARY:On the Same Page
DESCRIPTION:NY Writers Coalition has served hundreds of men\, women\, and youth through our Criminal Justice Writing Program on Rikers Island and elsewhere\, and we fully support freedom of expression and know the importance of the written word. Because of that\, we’re excited to support the mission of Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop and host On the Same Page\, an event where attendees respond to and uplift the work of incarcerated writers. \n\n\n\nAt this event: NYWC will provide and distribute copies of prose and poetry from incarcerated writers at various facilities seeking feedback on their writing. You are invited to contribute remarks that respond\, uplift\, and encourage. At the end of the evening\, the pieces (now covered with our inspiring feedback) will be collected and mailed back to the authors.  \n\n\n\nOn the Same Page is a free event and open to everyone; please share it with anyone you think may be interested in joining us. Snacks and beverages will be provided; we hope to see you there!
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/on-the-same-page/
LOCATION:80 Arts\, 80 Hanson Pl\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Class/Workshop (No ongoing attendance required)
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
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SUMMARY:A Little Night Music
DESCRIPTION:Theater 2020 presents Sondheim masterpiece \n\n\n\nA LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC \n\n\n\nInspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night\, A Little Night Music is a celebration of love and second chances. This Multi TONY Award winning musical is a longtime favorite of Sondheim and all musical theater lovers everywhere. Featuring some of Sondheim’s most beloved melodies\, the story follows the adventures of renowned actress Desirée Armfeldt\, and the colorful characters in her life. Filled with much emotional churning\, soul searching\, and comedy\, in the end\, the plot twists unravel\, true love reigns\, and the summer night smiles. Best suited for ages 10 and up. \n\n\n\nCREATIVE: Co-Director/Choreographers David Fuller/Judith Jarosz (NYITA & Nytheater.com Award\, GLAAD nom.)\, Music Director/Pianist Mitchell Brownell\, Lighting Design Giles Hogya\, Projections/Video Design Alex Kopnick\,\, Costume Design Robert Jay Pugh\, PSM Linda Elizabeth\, ASM Colston Rienhoff. \n\n\n\nCAST:\, Bobby Barksdale\, Corey Barron\, Kelly Collins\, Mathew Curtis\, Caryn Hartglass*\, Jaymi Michylle Horn*\, Meghan Hutchins\, Melrose Johnson*\, Johana Gracia Lara\, Emma Noelani\, Josh Powell*\, Kathryn Taylor Rose\, Tanner Sands\, Maria Tramontozzi. \n\n\n\n(*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association)
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/a-little-night-music/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:Mark O’Donnell Theater\, 160 Schermerhorn Street\, Brooklyn\, New York
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
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SUMMARY:Macbeth (an undoing) Written and Directed by Zinnie Harris 
DESCRIPTION:In Shakespeare’s Macbeth\, Lady Macbeth begins the play as the driving force who ruthlessly plans and implements regicide. But she soon disappears from the action and re-emerges in the last Act\, guilt-ridden\, hallucinating and tormented by sleep deprivation. What happened? Zinnie Harris imagines what might be the gaps in Shakespeare’s story\, undoing the play as we know it and retelling it with Lady Macbeth at its center. \n\n\n\nPerformances in May: May 1\, 2\, 3\, and 4 at 7:30pm. May 4 at 2pm with a talkback in the theatre afterwards
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/macbeth-an-undoing-written-and-directed-by-zinnie-harris/2024-05-02/
LOCATION:Polonsky Shakespeare Center\, 262 Ashland Pl\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T220000
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SUMMARY:Micah Thomas
DESCRIPTION:This is the debut of a body of composition developed by Micah Thomas in early 2024\, designed to facilitate the improvisational languages that have already been developing between the members of the band. While this band has never performed together\, many of the musicians have played together extensively in different situations. \n\n\n\nImmanuel Wilkins alto saxophoneKalia Vandever tromboneMicah Thomas pianoThomas Morgan bassLesley Mok drums
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/micah-thomas/
LOCATION:Roulette Intermedium\, 509 Atlantic AVE\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T130000
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SUMMARY:Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Dance performance.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/remembering/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:The Apollo\, 253 W 125th St\, New York\, New York
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T170000
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SUMMARY:The Meeting Place
DESCRIPTION:Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia’s The Meeting Place is a site for transformative gatherings by and for Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color (BIPOC) women (cis and transgender)\, who wish to engage in embodied and somatic practices as a way of activating epigenetics in order to release lived or inherited trauma of systemic oppression stored in the body. The project is designed to provide a supportive structure to an open-ended question: what does rest\, love\, care\, and liberation look like for BIPOC women in the 21st century? The project takes as inspiration the many meetings that women have historically organized throughout the global diaspora to strengthen each other in community\, including the rituals of celebration\, family gatherings\, places of worship\, protest\, political organizing\, and care work. \n\n\n\nThere will be four workshops taking place over the duration of the Session\, known as Meetings\, each facilitated by BIPOC femme organizers. Metaferia will open the first event with her signature By Way of Revolution workshop\, a performance-as-protest somatic experience open for BIPOC femmes. Guest facilitators will support the following Meetings\, some of which are open to everyone. These Meetings include: an Octavia Butler-inspired writing workshop by the Free Black Women’s Library; a Palestinian dance and movement workshop by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre\, and a Juneteenth ancestral meditation and closing Session after party by the Wide Awakes. \n\n\n\nDue to the process-based nature of the Session program\, this project will undergo constant modifications; the features of this page provide accruing information on the project’s developments. Either the artist or a Recess docent will be available to view the project in process.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/the-meeting-place-2/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:Recess\, 46 Washington Ave\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11205
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T180000
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SUMMARY:Did you have a hard time finding me? by Denisse Griselda Reyes
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R Gallery is pleased to announce Sleepwalking\, an exhibition of photographs by 2023–2024 Fellow Roberta Dorsett. This is Dorsett’s first solo exhibition in New York City. \nDorsett’s Sleepwalking is a series of photographs examining isolation in the suburbs and how a sense of danger often accompanies seemingly idyllic environments. The work depicts three women\, Dorsett’s aunt\, her cousin\, and Dorsett herself\, occupying the shared space of a suburban home in Connecticut. Tension arises from the camera’s interaction with the women. The camera acts as an intrusive person\, an interloper\, and a voyeur as it captures the women in moments of discomfort and vulnerability. \nIn Dorsett’s previous work\, she took on the role of family historian\, photographing moments of in-betweenness that result in candid and uncontrived images. Her obsession with taking photographs of her family is driven by their lack of extant family albums or other visual documentation. Because of the family’s socioeconomic status\, photography was considered a luxury and only done for special occasions. Moreover\, Dorsett’s mother had to leave behind her family’s photographic history when she immigrated from Jamaica to the United States. \nDorsett initially intended Sleepwalking to be a straightforward documentation of her aunt and cousin’s experience as first-time Black homeowners. But she found herself drawn into the project’s narrative and began photographing her family in a more constructed and story-driven way\, drawing inspiration from slasher and horror films. Dorsett captures the visceral thrills of these types of films by continuing to utilize her family to explore the concepts of voyeurism and anxiety. The single-family home\, once a symbol of milestone achievement\, now becomes a surreal site of both safety and terror. As she stood behind and in front of the camera\, registering the uneasiness and distress of these three women inside their home\, Dorsett dreamed up a distorted reality and asked herself\, “Am I awake or sleepwalking?”
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/did-you-have-a-hard-time-finding-me-by-denisse-griselda-reyes/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:In The Family of Things by Susan Stainman
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New York Member Susan Stainman’s new exhibition\, In The Family of Things\, which draws its title from the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese. Stainman uses the poem’s themes of finding connection and one’s place in the world as a guidepost for exploring the inevitable challenges\, shared experiences\, and joys that parenthood creates. Unfolding over several distinct stages\, In the Family of Things contains large embroidered fabric works\, a communal seating area\, and a workstation for the artist to continue the project throughout the exhibition period. \nThe multifaceted piece starts with a hotline for parents to anonymously share in the high and low moments of parenting. They can leave voicemails or texts as a method of catharsis\, solidarity\, or encouragement for themselves and other parents. Alternatively\, they can listen to messages left by other participants. As messages come in\, Stainman begins translating them into embroidery patterns based on the contents of what each caller conveys. Taking cues from encoding techniques as well as antique cross stitch and embroidery patterns\, these patterns vary by design depending upon topic and by color depending on emotional content. Topics covered often by participants—such as feeding\, sleeping\, and labor—create the edge designs\, while topics covered less often are embroidered as flowers and plants in the center of each work. Though some of the embroidery will be done prior to the exhibition opening\, much of the work will be done during gallery hours throughout the exhibition run\, allowing the installation to grow and evolve. The embroidered fabric will be hung high on the walls of the gallery and drape over a seating arrangement—a communal upholstered piece of furniture—so that visitors can recline under the thoughts and feelings of this community of parents. \nIn The Family of Things is a natural extension of Stainman’s interdisciplinary practice centering embodied moments of intimacy\, connection\, and interdependence. Her ideas stem from her mindfulness practice; she is interested in the small gestures and sensorial moments of life that manifest our interconnectedness: holding someone’s hand\, a touch on the arm\, a hug\, or a conversation. Her soft sculptures\, photography\, installations\, and events make physically tangible these often overlooked or forgotten moments. \nAs Stainman states about one of the primary sources of inspiration for the work: \nWhile my art practice has focused on intimacy and connection for the last several years\, the birth of my son this past December has given me a new perspective. To be a new parent is to be full of intense and often contradictory emotions almost all the time. This project and body of work is inspired by this period in my life and my desire for connection with other parents in similar situations. It is through this project that I am coming to better understand myself and the individual nuances and universal quality of this experience. \nThe artist hopes that the public will enjoy engaging in the process as well as seeing the outcome of this unique work.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/in-the-family-of-things-by-susan-stainman/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T180000
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SUMMARY:New Work by Ann Schaumburger
DESCRIPTION:A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce New Work\, an exhibition of recent Flashe on panel paintings by New York Member Ann Schaumburger that extends the artist’s decades-long investigation into color. \nFor over fifty years\, Schaumburger has used the house as a basic structure—a scaffold—for exploring how colors interact with one another. Schaumburger builds her houses with blocks of four pigments\, using stencil brushes and tape to fill each house with modular forms. Influenced by the theories of Josef Albers\, Schaumburger’s approach to color is meticulous yet playful. Different colors dazzle and dance when placed in proximity\, creating a sense of surprise. \nThe paintings in this new body of work depart from Schaumburger’s earlier explorations in one key detail: the houses are now mounted on wheels. This choice was inspired by Schaumburger’s reading of the biography of Henry David Thoreau\, whose family had attached wheels to their domicile\, allowing them to transport the house across different sites in Concord\, Massachusetts. “The idea of taking a solid house\, attached to the ground\, and letting it roll away\,” Schaumburger says\, “seems both comical and deeply suggestive of our times.” \nSchaumburger has described her color choices as an attempt to “solve an aesthetic problem.” Yet the work is not entirely abstract. Titles like Forest House Under Summer Sky and Moonscape Moving House gesture toward the fact that certain color relationships become evocative of different seasons\, places\, and times of day. All of the paintings in the exhibition feature a crescent or small globe in the upper left or right quadrant. Sometimes\, this globe is rendered in metallic gold or bronze\, recalling the sun. Other times\, it is a lunar silver. The round shape of the globe mirrors the house’s circular wheels. Just as the earth rotates around the sun\, the wheels rotate around their own axles\, allowing the house to move. \nThe wheeled house becomes a spirited metaphor for Schaumburger’s practice. Dynamic rather than stationary\, it embodies the liveliness and energy of Schaumburger’s color choices\, as well as the open-ended nature of her process.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/new-work-by-ann-schaumburger-5/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:A.I.R. Gallery\, 155 Plymouth Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T163000
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SUMMARY:Botanical Embroidery Series with Arounna Khounnoraj
DESCRIPTION:Flowering plants\, conifers\, and fungi are the heroes of this class\, which offers an exploration of plant structures through embroidery. The beauty and wonder of flora and fauna have inspired embroidery motifs for thousands of years. From scientifically precise depictions of plant specimens to abstract motifs that delight in shape and color\, embroiderers have long interpreted nature to embellish their artworks. Humans understand that plants and fungi offer medicinal and spiritual potential\, and have carefully cultivated plants and plant knowledge that enhance wellbeing. Each plant\, from the common “weed” to a specimen tree\, awaits discovery; and plants can be transformed into teas or tinctures\, rendered into dye or stitched design. \n\n\n\nThis botanical embroidery course explores the intersection of art\, science\, and folklore. Join famed author and artist Arounna Khounnoraj\, along with herbalist and professor Katherine Elmer and lecturing mycologist Ari Rockland-Miller\, for a three part workshop designed to elevate our stitching through a deep investigation into plant structure and potentials. Express your newly discovered knowledge in thread\, elaborating an original abstract botanical design by Arounna with your own stitches. \n\n\n\nStudents will learn 19 stitches\, including stem stitch\, picot\, eyelet\, and turkey work. When your artwork is complete\, you will know your subjects deeply.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/botanical-embroidery-series-with-arounna-khounnoraj/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:Online\, Brooklyn
CATEGORIES:Class / Workshop Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T180000
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SUMMARY:Sustainability Lecture: The Eco-nomics of Fiber Arts with Gigi Matthews
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to change the way we make and appreciate textiles! For almost all of human history\, cloth was created from plant and animal fibers. Over the past 75 years\, the textile industry has undergone extraordinary changes and the vast majority of clothing and fabrics are now made with oil and toxic chemicals.   \n\n\n\nFind out why we need to move urgently toward sustainable textile practices\, what kinds of amazing new fibers are coming down the pipeline\, and how you can incorporate sustainability into your fiber arts work and life. Our lecturer\, Gigi Matthews\, will be supporting this conversation with anecdotes from her family history\, her travels over the past 30 years\, and her creative journey as a fiber artist.
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/sustainability-lecture-the-eco-nomics-of-fiber-arts-with-gigi-matthews/
LOCATION:Online\, Brooklyn
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk/Lecture/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T095121
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SUMMARY:"FABULATION\, or the Re-Education of Undine" at The Billie
DESCRIPTION:Have you secured your tickets for our revival of “FABULATION\, or the Re-Education of Undine”\, penned by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage? \nEmbark on a captivating journey alongside Undine Barnes Calles as she confronts adversity with wit and resilience\, transforming setbacks into triumphs in her quest to reclaim her place in the world. “FABULATION” offers a delightful twist on the classic comeuppance story\, interweaving humor and heart into every scene. \nJoin us at The Billie as we proudly bring this tale to life on our stage for a four-week run. Performances will take place Thursday through Sunday\, with matinees on Friday through Sunday. Special discounts are available for students\, seniors\, and groups. It’s been far too long since our stage has seen such a production. \nShowing now through May 19th. Secure your tickets now!
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/fabulation-or-the-re-education-of-undine-at-the-billie/2024-05-03/
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T220000
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SUMMARY:A Little Night Music
DESCRIPTION:Theater 2020 presents Sondheim masterpiece \n\n\n\nA LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC \n\n\n\nInspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night\, A Little Night Music is a celebration of love and second chances. This Multi TONY Award winning musical is a longtime favorite of Sondheim and all musical theater lovers everywhere. Featuring some of Sondheim’s most beloved melodies\, the story follows the adventures of renowned actress Desirée Armfeldt\, and the colorful characters in her life. Filled with much emotional churning\, soul searching\, and comedy\, in the end\, the plot twists unravel\, true love reigns\, and the summer night smiles. Best suited for ages 10 and up. \n\n\n\nCREATIVE: Co-Director/Choreographers David Fuller/Judith Jarosz (NYITA & Nytheater.com Award\, GLAAD nom.)\, Music Director/Pianist Mitchell Brownell\, Lighting Design Giles Hogya\, Projections/Video Design Alex Kopnick\,\, Costume Design Robert Jay Pugh\, PSM Linda Elizabeth\, ASM Colston Rienhoff. \n\n\n\nCAST:\, Bobby Barksdale\, Corey Barron\, Kelly Collins\, Mathew Curtis\, Caryn Hartglass*\, Jaymi Michylle Horn*\, Meghan Hutchins\, Melrose Johnson*\, Johana Gracia Lara\, Emma Noelani\, Josh Powell*\, Kathryn Taylor Rose\, Tanner Sands\, Maria Tramontozzi. \n\n\n\n(*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association)
URL:https://artsmonth-dbaa.org/event/a-little-night-music/2024-05-03/
LOCATION:Mark O’Donnell Theater\, 160 Schermerhorn Street\, Brooklyn\, New York
CATEGORIES:Performance
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