November 2010 Archives
Daniel Baltzer Opening at Tria Gallery
Opening! 6-8pm
Casey Vogt & Daniel Baltzer
Tria Gallery (531 West 25th Street, Ground Floor #5)
info@triagallerynyc.com
Technology has found its way into the fabric of our relationships. Its development and maintenance has become, in part, based on modern innovations.
In his Broadcast series, daniel Baltzer explores this idea. The work stems from his interest in the evolution of human relationships and social networks, as they relate to communication and information technologies. In his collage‐like oils, imagery is layered to show the intricacy of these networks.
Along with Casey Vogt, Baltzer's first show with Tria is the upcoming Background Noise.
Makoto Fujimura has an opening the same night, on the same block, so do hit both up!
Rob Mathes Christmas Concert 12/18
RING IN THE HOLIDAYS WITH THE 17TH ANNUAL
ROB MATHES CHRISTMAS CONCERT
One-Night Only Concert Rocks the Holidays at The Palace Theatre, Stamford, Conn. Saturday, December 18, 2010
(STAMFORD, Conn., October 18, 2010) – Rob Mathes and his beloved brand of holiday musical magic is back for a 17th year with an extraordinary mix of world-class musicians, holiday originals and remarkably reworked holiday classics… and a brand new home. The Grammy and Emmy-nominated Mathes, fresh from co-producing and arranging the acclaimed Symphonicities album with Sting, and currently co-producing the debut CD for Glee star Matthew Morrison, is moving his annual holiday concert to the Palace Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, for a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY engagement on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the 2010 Rob Mathes Christmas Concert are $55, $40 and $35 and are available online through the Palace Theatre/Stamford Center for the Arts at http://www.scalive.org or through The Palace’s Box Office by calling 203-359-9108. The Palace Theatre is located at 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Conn. This year’s concert is a benefit for Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, an award-winning non-profit photography project that works with orphaned children in Rwanda.
Mathes, often lovingly referred to as “Mr. Christmas” by fans and fellow musicians for his nearly two-decades of performances of one of our region’s “can’t miss” holiday traditions, will once again be joined by his all-star band, featuring bassist Will Lee of David Letterman’s famed “CBS Orchestra” and longtime Mathes’ guitarist Billy Masters; the 30+ member Choir of Saints and Friends; award-winning vocalists including James “D-Train” Williams, and others. The set list will be full of what fans have come to expect from Mathes – a seasonal mix of original holiday compositions alongside imaginative and entertaining re-workings of holiday classics – all spanning the worlds of R&B, pop, jazz, classical and then some.
As grateful as he is for his success, however, Mathes still feels something truly special about returning home to celebrate the season he loves. “It’s amazing to me that we’ve been doing these Christmas concerts for almost 20 years,” Mathes said. “What began as a little gathering in a church on a hill somehow has grown to become a sold-out event at some of our area’s most prestigious concert halls. This year, after 15 years at SUNY Purchase, we are thrilled to be moving on to the historic and beautiful Palace Theatre in Stamford.”
Rob Mathes’ Christmas Concerts are always presented to benefit a charity that is close to Rob’s heart. This year, the Christmas Concert will benefit Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project, which is an award-winning photography project, and is the culmination of ten years of photographic workshops for the children living at the Imbabazi Orphanage in Gisenyi, Rwanda. A dedicated group of Americans have been traveling to Rwanda to teach the children photography skills; now the children’s work is shown in worldwide exhibits that showcase the children’s lives today, as seen through their own eyes. The exhibit has been shown at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, the U.S. Senate Building in Washington, D.C., and in exhibits in France, Sweden, Belgium and Canada, and was showcased at the United Nations in April 2004 to mark ten years after the genocide; the photography exhibition was also displayed at the New York and Los Angeles premieres of the movie “Hotel Rwanda,” and at such premiere locations as NYU, the Houston and Southwest Florida Holocaust Museums, and The Brooklyn Children’s Museum. The children’s photographs will be on exhibit at the Rob Mathes Christmas Concert and opportunities to support the project, such as assisting with the transition of the children from the orphanage onto their next stage of schooling and adulthood, will be presented. Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project (http://www.rwandaproject.org) was conceived by photographer David Jiranek (1958-2003), a long-time supporter of the Rob Mathes Christmas Concert and a Greenwich resident.
Tickets for the 17th annual Rob Mathes Christmas Concert, December 18, 2010, at The Palace Theatre, Stamford, are available online at http://www.scalive.org. To learn more about Rob Mathes, visit http://www.robmathes.com.
Compagnia de’ Colombari's Strangers and Other Angels Opening Dec. 4
WITH DANCE, MUSIC, AND DRINK, A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS PLAY
COMES TO LIFE ON STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY
In STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGELS, Manhattan becomes
stage for a raucous, modern re--imagination of medieval mystery play
The medieval mystery play will get a 21st century update on December 4th when the Christmas story is brought to life on the streets of New York City through a raucous mix of music, dance, song, and drink.
In STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGELS, Manhattan’s Morningside Heights will become the backdrop for a wild, joyful re-imagination of the centuries-old Second Shepherd’s Play. A free theatrical event for audiences of all ages, the production will wind inside and outside venues throughout the neighborhood, from Sakura Park near Riverside Church to the Union Theological Seminary. Gathering crowds along the way, the performance will culminate with a celebratory dance involving the entire cast and audience and food and drink for all to share.
“Strangers and Other Angels” is a production of Compagnia de’ Colombari and is directed by its founder Karin Coonrod (New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience). Its May 2010 production of MORE OR LESS I AM, a musical play based on Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, was hailed as “a joyous jamboree” by The New Yorker.
In the tradition of medieval mystery plays, STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGELS engages the talents of a wildly diverse mix of artists and artisans, including opera singers, actors, step-dancing and tap-dancing angels with spectacular wings, steel drummers, accordionists, trombonists, and guitarists.
The production features original music by Tony Geballe and Paul Vasile spanning genres from gospel and jazz to opera and classical, and its book freely incorporates text from a wide breadth of writers, including the gospels, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and WH Auden.
Its title is inspired by the Bible verse, “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
“STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGLES removes the barrier between performers and the audience, creating a community out of strangers, and inspiring a celebration of our city’s spectacular abundance,” said Coonrod. “We hope to create a new holiday tradition that reminds us all to embrace our neighbors and our diversity”
Cast members include: Tony Award-winner Trazana Beverley (“For Colored Girls Only”), Obie Award-winners Michael Potts (“Grey Gardens”), David Patrick Kelly, and Julian Francis Kelly; Jorge Rubio, Michael Rogers, Elliot Villar, Kenny Rampton, Edward Babb, Pheeroan akLaff, Janille Hill, Khalid Hill, Sarah Heltzel, JD Webster, Ayeje Feamster, Dietrice Bolden, Giovanni Pucci, and Christina Gill. The designers include Garland Farwell, Obie Award-winner Peter Ksander, and John Conklin
About Compagnia de’ Colombari
Compagnia de’ Colombari is an international collaborative of performing artists born in Orvieto, Italy, and based in New York City. Colombari is dedicated to new and old works from diverse traditions and cultures, creating spectacles for the public free of charge. The Company is named after the colombari—dovecotes—etched high into the cliff on which Orvieto is poised. The dovecotes, networked one to another against the brutal elements, demonstrate a synergy between the individual and the collective. Colombari plays at the intersection and clash of cultures celebrating the intrinsic kinship of humankind alongside its extraordinary diversity. Generating theater for a new century, Colombari believes that every place is a space for the sacred architecture of theater experience, which ignites performer and audience. For more information, visit http://www.colombari.org/.
Jonathan Cowan Solo Exhibit at All Things Project
JONATHAN COWAN: AFTER YOUR REVOLUTION
November 6 - December 18, 2010
All Things Project presents its fourth and final show of 2010 with JONATHAN COWAN: After Your Revolution. On view for six weeks at the heart of a church, the exhibition presents the artist’s love and subversion of “craft” mediums, along with his interest in the phenomenological. Hot glue is formed into faces and torsos, traditional cross-stitching is turned photorealistic, and the Annunciation gets controversial again, in time for the Christmas season.
About the Artist
Jonathan Cowan was born in 1982 in Temple, Texas. He attended San Antonio College and The University of Texas at San Antonio. He currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn, the New York Center for Arts and Media Studies (NYCAMS), and will be on view at 739 Mass Street Flash Space near Kansas City, Kansas. More info at: www.jonathan-cowan.com.
JONATHAN COWAN: AFTER YOUR REVOLUTION is the fourth exhibition of All Things Project in 2010 and closes the gallery’s second year of exhibitions organized by curator Samuel Kho. The curatorial appointment is made possible by a generous grant from the Mustard Seed Foundation, matched by individual gifts. All Things Project and its gallery are part of the Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village (NCGV), a house of worship that unabashedly supports cutting-edge visual practices, thoughtful lectures, as well as music and spoken word performances. More info at www.allthingsproject.
November 6 – December 18, 2010
Opening reception: 7:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday, November 6, 2010
Artist talk with curator: 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 6, 2010
JONATHAN COWAN: AFTER YOUR REVOLUTION
November 6 - December 18, 2010
Please call for gallery hours or to make an appointment.
Admission is free and open to the public.
All Things Project @ NCGV
269 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10014
(Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)
(Subway A,C, E, B,D,F,M – West 4th / 1, Christopher St.)www.allthingsproject.
212.691.1770
Brian Watkins New Play to Open Nov. 4
Curator contributor Brian Watkins has a new play called The Prairie Plays opening at UNDER St. Marks Theatre in the East Village this Thursday. The show will run for three weeks.
WHAT: The Prairie Plays (High Plains and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer)
WHEN: Nov. 4-21, Thurs-Sat at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm
WHERE: UNDER St. Marks Theatre, 94 St. Marks Place, New York, NY 10009
WHO: Written by Brian Watkins, Directed by Anthony Reimer and Kristin Hoffman, starring Amy Lee Pearsall, Katie Shorr, and Brian Watkins
TICKETS: $18 at the door, or online at SmartTix here, or by calling 212-868-4444
The production is about 2 hours 15 minutes plus an intermission and starts at 7pm, so you'll be out of there by 9:30 (or 4:30 on a Sunday).
This is an encore production of High Plains, which premiered at the NY Fringe Festival last year, and it is also the new workshop production of My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer. This is sort of a development experiment to see how these two pieces fit together, as My Daughter... is currently in development to turn into it's own full play.
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