FREE SHAKESPEARE in the PARK! September 2013

http://www.shakespeareinthepark.org/#!public-works-the-tempest/c1jez

Written By William Shakespeare

Music & Lyrics by Todd Almond
Conceived And Directed by Lear deBessonet
Choreography by Chase Brock

Featuring Todd Almond, Laura Benanti, Carson Elrod,
Jeff Hiller, Norm Lewis, and Jacob Ming-Trent

September 6, 7, & 8 - 8pm
 

​THE TEMPEST will showcase 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs who will share the stage with professional actors and community partners for this three-night civic event.

Free Public Works Tickets will be distributed, two per person, at 12:00 p.m. on the day of the show at the Delacorte Theater. Free tickets will be available via the Virtual Ticketing drawingon the day of the performance. Summer Supporter tickets are also available for a tax-deductible donation of $75 each. For information and to donate, call 212-967-7555.

​PUBLIC WORKS is designed to cultivate new connections and new models of engagement with artists, audiences and the community each year. In its inaugural year, it is creating an extraordinary example of participatory theater with this free, original musical adaptation of THE TEMPEST, inspired by a 1916 community theatrical event of Caliban by the Yellow Sands at the stadium at City College in New York.

The five community partner organizations of PUBLIC WORKS for the first two years areChildren’s Aid Society (Manhattan); DreamYard (Bronx); Fortune Society (Queens);Brownsville Recreation Center (Brooklyn); and Domestic Workers United (all boroughs, including Staten Island).

THE TEMPEST will also feature cameo performances from community art groups that have a strong artistic and cultural tradition.These cameo groups include Ballet Tech, the NYC Public School for Dance, with choreography by Eliot Feld; the Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, which creates folkloric and contemporary works while exploring Mexican traditions; the Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Ensemble, a taiko drumming group; the Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir, a choir based in New York’s East Village; the New York City Taxi Workers Alliance; Raya Brass Band, which performs Balkan “gypsy” music; and Stephen Duncan, a New York City performance artist who specialized in super-sized soap bubbles.

© 2013 by The Public Theater​

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Looking for students (grades 9-12) to participate in a two-year project... Contact Ms. MacNeil ASAhumanlyP, please and thanks!

Remember this poem?

We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It, Kay Ryan

The first fear

being drowning, the

ship’s first shape

was a raft, which

was hard to unflatten

after that didn’t

happen. It’s awkward

to have to do one’s

planning in extremis

in the early years -

so hard to hide later:

sleekening the hull,

making things

more gracious.

Who?

·       Interested in making a long-ish term commitment to social justice issues?

·       Are you curious and passionate about your work as a founding student at WHEELS?

·       Do you have questions about the making and implementing of those systems that allow us to make a thing for ourselves?

What?

Consider apply to work with me on “The Ship’s First Shape,” a partnership with folks (undergraduate students interested in service design work and their professors) at Parsons (the design branch of The New School for Social Research) and The Fortune Society (which, among other things, serves students who have formerly been incarcerated, and their teachers).  We’ll consider the larger focusing question: What does it mean when we make a thing for ourselves?

We’ll use this to guide our work as we ask questions including but not limited to:

• What sustains us?
• What nourishes us?
• What makes us healthy (in lots of ways)?

Where?

Students will work with project partners on-site at WHEELS, at Parsons, at The Fortune Society and at yet-to-be-determined fieldwork sites.

When?

This is a two year project.  Students in grades 9-12 can apply (with the knowledge that if seniors are selected, those remaining students will help to select their replacements in 2014-2015). 

Partnership meetings will happen before school, at lunch, after school, and occasionally, on weekends.  All participants will have a say in our scheduling. 

This project will require an on-going commitment (likely 1-5 hours/week).

Why?

This is the question I’ll be asking at your interview (and through-out the next two years).

Additional information

Ideal WHEELS candidates for “The Ship’s First Shape” Project should:

·       have a genuine curiosity about what it means be in community with folks and what it means to have a sense of agency in active decisions making in our school community;

·       want to serve as WHEELS student docent and panelist;

·       be in reasonable academic standing;

·       be in reasonable standing with her/his parents (as fieldwork will require some travel in NYC);

·       have an interest in notions of social justice;

·       have LOTS of ideas;

·       like working both alone and with others;

·       have interest in/openness to working with folks at Parsons and/or The Fortune Society.

Interested?  I’ll be interviewing folks in August and September; let me know!

With thanks and hope. 

Ms. MacNeil

k.macneil@wheelsnyc.org

N.B. This project carries a modest (this means not-so-much) stipend (this means CASH MONEY) with it AND a travel/meal allowance.

We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It, Kay Ryan (from Poetry Magazine, June 2006)

We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It, Kay Ryan (from Poetry Magazine, June 2006)
The first fear
being drowning, the
ship’s first shape
was a raft, which
was hard to unflatten
after that didn’t
happen. It’s awkward
to have to do one’s
planning in extremis
in the early years -
so hard to hide later:
sleekening the hull,
making things
more gracious.

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