Culturebot loves PRELUDE! Yes, okay, I curated for three years, but I loved it even before that. Created by the indefatigable and inspiring Frank Hentschker, PRELUDE has established itself as the best way to see new work from all your favorite emerging and established NYC-based artists. This year PRELUDE.11 takes as its starting point the dialogue between recent tendencies in theater, dance and visual art performance. For the first time in PRELUDE’s history, it will use the James Gallery at the Graduate Center as well as the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center so that this interdisciplinary festival can continue to investigate the resonances between the “white cube” and the “black box.” Invitees include Jay Scheib, Temporary Distortion, Sibyl Kempson and Big Dance Theater, Donelle Woolford, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Mac Wellman, Suzanne Bocanegra and Paul Lazar, Half Straddle, Daniel Fish, lumberob, Jake Hooker, Otso Huopaniemi, Elevator Repair Service, Young Jean Lee, Rob Fitterman, Will Holder, Nina Beier, and a host of others, including a new commission from Jackson Pollock Bar. Events occur daily from 4pm-10pm, with selected performances loosely based around the following themes:

· We Present A Presentation: performative lectures, theory-installations, and performances within performances.
· Repurposing: taking preexisting works, events or texts as the basis for new performances
· Text As Texture: creating a musical or performative experience from the materiality of language.

THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!

PRELUDE.11
The Eighth Annual PRELUDE Festival

Wednesday Oct 12 – Friday, Oct 14, 2011
FREE and open to the public. First come, first served.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) NYC
WWW.PRELUDENYC.ORG

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present PRELUDE.11, the eighth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance and visual art performance. PRELUDE will offer over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals—a completely free sneak-peek into the work being prepared for the 2011/12 season, as well as new commissions and daily panel discussions with artists and performers.

PRELUDE is the annual three-day festival organized by the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at CUNY Graduate Center. It was established in 2003 with the remit of showing the best in New York-based theater and performance. Each year Frank Hentschker, director of the Martin E.Segal Theater Center, assembles a curatorial team to select and organize the program. This year’s PRELUDE has been selected by Claire Bishop (Associate Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center), Rob Marcato (Artistic Line Producer, Signature Theatre Company, NY) and Helen Shaw (Theater critic, Time Out New York). PRELUDE.11’s Producer is Caleb Hammons (Producer, Soho Rep., NY).

All presentations will be held in the James Gallery and the Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. A closing night party will be held on Friday 14 October at The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. All programs are subject to change.

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The World Premiere of 1965UU by Mac Wellman, starring Paul Lazar, directed by Stephen Mellor

September 11 – October 4, Thurs-Sat @ 8pm $15

More than two years in development, 1965UU is a solo performance written by Mac Wellman (winner of numerous Obie awards, recent plays include Bitter Bierce at PS122, Jennie Richee with Ridge Theater, and Antigone with Big Dance Theater) adapted from his own group of short stories about the imaginary histories of real world asteroids (Wellman obtained a list of all the named little worlds). 1965UU was written expressly for performer Paul Lazar (of Big Dance Theater) and director Stephen Mellor (frequent Mac Wellman collaborator, received his first Obie Award in 1990 for his performance of Wellman’s Terminal Hip, and his 2nd in 2003 for Wellman’s Bitter Bierce). Additional performances by Heather Christian, Ed Jewett, Daniel Manley, and Kate Marks. Set and Lighting Design by Kyle Chepulis. Sound by John Kilgore. Stage Management by Julie Rossman.

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BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD

Fundraising Soiree

YOU ARE INVITED!

and it will take place on

Thursday, May 29 from 6 to 9 in the PM

at Lolita Bar

366 Broome Street between Allen and Orchard in Manhattan

(F and JMZ and 6 trains are convenient)

tickets are $20 at the door and that includes 2 drink tickets

the evening’s entertainment will include:

music and mood by the Vintage DJ

Jesse and James

Lumberob

Karinne Keithley and her uke

Satan is Real

…and secret special guests

We long to see your face there!

And furthermore, these fabulous prizes could be yours:

~a pony ride with Mac Wellman (pony not included)~

~a portrait of yourself, your pet, your friend or your enemy by Jesse Hawley~

~a festive garment constructed to your specifications by modiste Normandy Sherwood~

~a trip to the Fairway in Red Hook with celebrity chauffeur Richard Toth~

…and more!

All you need do is show up and participate in our auction.

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Be advised:

BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD

is a festival of plays: adaptations written by current and former students of Mac Wellman at the Brooklyn College MFA playwriting program. The festival will take place July 13-16, 2008 at the 13th Street Theater and will feature plays by Susan Melinda Dunlap, Trish Harnetiaux, Matt Korahais and Valerie Work. This year’s festival is produced by Scott Adkins, Normandy Sherwood and Richard Toth.

And: if you are unable to attend but would still like to contribute to our weaselly cause, don’t fret! Contact Normandy Sherwood at normandyravenATgmailDOTcom and she will tell you how!

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