Around the World in 24 Hours
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 (all times Eastern Standard)
3:00PM – Interactive Kickoff with Internationalists Member Dina Keller Live from Zurich
4:30PM –Mujer Invisible by Nancy Millan (Pureto Rico)
Featuring Nancy Millan
Musicians Ricardo Santana, Noelia Ortiz, Raul Gaztambide, Jomel Rivera, and Rafael Perez
Mujer Invisible (Invisible Woman) wants to be a rock star, a fabulous and sexy woman, but how can you achieve this when no one can see you? La Mujer Invisible with her band in tow, explores in this comedic rock and roll musical our obsession with beauty, acceptance and being loved in a world where not being the stereotype of a Hollywood starlet
is almost blasphemy.
6:00PM – SELLING ROMANIA by Peca Stefan (Romania),
Directed by Ana Margineanu
Selling Romania presents the harsh realities of the Romanian society to US audiences… just the way they like it! A pleasing story, both a moral drama and situation comedy, about a writer who sells his country in a “no compromise, not too many questions asked†manner. For some potential dollars.
7:00PM – respark/revisit
Written and Directed by JeremyLydic (USA/Greece/Turkey)
Actors and non-Actors alike participate in this talk show exploring the spark of the Trojan War, asking questions and drawing conclusions on how it may or may not have burned an effect on human relations all the way up to the 21st century. Relying on scripted and improvisatory dialogue, what may become an absurd commentary on a historical event, will, in effect, become a humorous and human glimpse into contemporary modes of communication and cultural exchange.
8:30PM –For Rent by ÖZEN YULA (Turkey), translated by LIZ AMADO
Directed by Jake Witlen
Featuring Ismael E. Cruz, Ali N. Khan, Claro, Gisele Torres, Bennett W. Harrell, and Sebastian Mitre
A group of young men in a shady park in Istanbul spend their days and nights working towards a better life. But at what cost?
10:00PM –Jaz by Koffi Kwahulé (Cote D'Ivoire), translated by Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Doug Howe, Featuring Tamilla Woodard
Jaz, a one woman show written by Koffi Kwahulé (Côte d'Ivoire), one of Africa's most internationally acclaimed dramatists. Translated from the French by Montreal-born playwright Chantal Bilodeau (2010 NEA Translation Fellow), Jaz, in the words of the playwright, tries to 'defy cultural fundamentalism'. He explains, "The work I have tried to do was to complicate the report of the African, to show he has a shifting identity. I wanted to create doubts, flaws—to make sure people come to doubt the idea that they are Africans, so they can recognize our ability to be in the process of becoming." This powerful performance, featuring music by Ilya Gerasimenko, recounts one woman's account of the horrors she endures when infatuation becomes obsession. Jaz is slated to appear in an anthology in 2010 published by NoPassport Press.
11:30PM – THING NY – (Guest Artists, Paul Pinto- multi-national)
1AM – CAPOEIRA, a dance-like Brazilian martial arts game
2AM – respark/revisit(ed)
3AM – 9AM – Broadcast Performances from Greece, Japan, Germany and Romania with Real Time Q&As with Directors abroad
11:00AM – MISS.ADVENTURE, a multinational interactive broadcast with food (NY/Berlin/Paris/Zurich/the Hauge/London)
Katja Fillmann (Berlin), Dina Keller (Zurich), Pia Furtado (UK), Karina Bes (Netherlands), and Sama Ky Balson (Paris) will join the live audience to tell their favorite story of their personal favorite misadventure-experience. As they sit around a table with wine and food, audiences in New York will enjoy brunch and weigh in on which stories are true and who is exaggerating.
12:30PM – SELECT BUTOH DANCE PERFORMANCES
1:30PM –TRANSLATING BORDERS/TRANSMITTING CULTURE Panel Discussion
Award winning Visual and performing artists from around the world engage in a discussion about practices of creating work across cultural and political borders and the meaning of cultural exchange - looking particularly through the eyes of exiles, immigrants and transnational citizens.
Participants include:
Lisa Russell- Emmy award winning Brooklyn based documentary filmmaker who is currently working on a UN project to document stories of young people in emergencies (filmed in Liberia, Lebanon, Columbia, New Orleans and Northern Uganda.)
Sami Metwasi- Palestinian theatre maker, co-founder of INAD, the first professional theatre in southern Palestine and Al-Harah Theatre.
Daniel Banks and Adam McKinney- are Co-Directors of DNAWORKS dedicated to furthering artistic expression and dialogue, focusing on issues of identity, culture, class and heritage using performance and action through the arts in the intersecting communities in which they live and work.
Lioba Reckfort- Berlin based director and playwright and founder of the Mexican-German theatre group El Frigarifico. Lioba works in Berlin creating work with immigrant communities.
Sean Hemmerle- Award winning and widely exhibited New York based photographer specializing in architectural and landscape photography. His project, WHERE LINES ARE DRAWN, took three years to complete, documenting the walls of Israel-Palestine, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Berlin, the Mexico-U.S. border, and the former Green Line in Beirut.
Nivi Alroy- a New York based Israeli artist and A.I.R gallery fellowship award winner. Nivi is a regular invited speaker at the United Nations center for peace studies and founder and director of SPLIT ENDS, an artist public talk between international artists.
Ye Taik- Burmese Contemporary theater artist , Butoh dancer and Social Critic.
PLUS! – LPAC Student performances and catering by Panla.
Make sure to tune in ALL DAY LONG, as the event will be BROADCAST live right here!