DATE: FRI, APR 14, 7:30 PM
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11354
For the first time in Queens, Great Small Works presents an evening of developing puppetry as part of its long-running Spaghetti Dinner series that showcases new work that responds to current trends. Featuring puppets, music, and pasta, the Spaghetti Dinner will feed you with food, with art, and with ideas.
For adult audiences only.
DATE: FRI, APR 14, 7:30 PM
Tickets: $16/$10 Members & Students
GREAT SMALL WORKS SPAGHETTI DINNERS
presents
Happy Collision: Queens and Dreams
Puppets
“Trumppuppetry” Overhead projector shadows for dark times by CHINESE THEATRE WORKS
“Song from a Nomad Flute,” excerpt from new work with original music by PHYLLIS CHEN and shadow landscapes by STEPHEN KAPLIN
Stories
Storytelling and Performance by Jackson Heights’ own CECILIA GENTILI
beloved mentor and Translatina Network advocate for trans rights in New York City
“The Holey Land” A crankie (paper scroll picture performance) by VALESKA POPULOH with CHARLES GRAHAM, created as part of the Campaign for Fair Development in Baltimore. The tale of a community and the land they call home.
Dance
Duet by composer/vocalist JUDITH BERKSON and choreographer/dancer ABIGAIL LEVINE.
A historically amazing and relevant Happening from SOMETHING POSITIVE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY, Old Carnival Mas specialists and preservers of the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and its cross-cultural influences.
Resistance
Aftselokhis Spectacle Committee “6 positions for engagement with the autocrat”
Founded by veterans of Vermont’s Bread & Puppet Theater in 1978, the Spaghetti Dinners began in a storefront on East Ninth Street as informal evenings for neighborhood residents and members of the downtown theater community, combining puppet theater, New Orleans brass band music, and healthy portions of spaghetti with fresh garlic. Today, the Spaghetti Dinner still works with the same formula – home-made vegetarian pasta, new performances in theater, puppetry, dance, film, spoken word and live music. It is a venue for both emerging and veteran performing artists to show excerpts of developing work, and for Great Small Works, its audience, and friends to celebrate the political and ritual calendars of New York City. These one-time-only events feed both participants and audiences with spaghetti, with art and with ideas.