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Karin Batten’s solo show
TURNING TIDE at June Kelly Gallery opening June 30

PEOPLE'S UMBRELLA 46'' x 58'' Mixed Media on canvas (acrylic, digital images, gel, rice paper, mica, crayon). Inspired by Costa Rica's largest leaves and plants on top of the volcanoes.

PEOPLE’S UMBRELLA
46” x 58”
Mixed Media on canvas (acrylic, digital images, gel, rice paper, mica, crayon). Inspired by Costa Rica’s largest leaves and plants on top of the volcanoes.

Where: June Kelly Gallery
166 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212 226 1660

Dates: June 30th – July 30th, 2016

Opening Reception: June 30th from 6pm – 8pm

Kate Walter’s collection of LGBT
memorabilia is featured this June
at Jefferson Market LIbrary

Kate Walter Library image

Location: Jefferson Market Library 425 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY, 10011
(212) 243-4334

Date: month of June

Hours: Library open 7 days a week – 10 am – 6pm (varies)

LGBT memorabilia of Westbeth resident and author, Kate Walter,
is featured this June in the lobby of the Jefferson Market Library.

Kate loaned the library dozens of buttons from pride marches, from
the 1980s and 1990s. This display is part of the Greenwich Village
Ephemera project.

Kate Walter is the author of Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of
Downtown Heartbreak and Healing (Heliotrope Books, 2015)

Elisabeth Condon in The Conference of Birds exhibit at Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC closes July 9, 2016

Elisabeth Condon URBAN JUNGLE, 2015 Glitter, acrylic on linen 59 x 59 inches

Elisabeth Condon
URBAN JUNGLE, 2015
Glitter, acrylic on linen
59 x 59 inches

Address: 81 Barclay Street, NYC
Hours: Tues – Sunday 12 noon – 6pm
Dates: May 18 – July 9, 2016

A new exhibit, “The Conference of Birds,” curated by Brenda Zlamany showcases work by 35 artists from New York City and beyond.

To see more of Elisabeth Condon’s work, click here

The exhibit’s theme centers on a 12th-century poem, “The Conference of the Birds,” by the Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar. In this epic, mystical-quest narrative, hundreds of birds embark on a perilous journey in search of a king called “The Simurgh,” who can right the wrongs in their world. They are led by Attar, who has been transformed into a sharp-beaked, crested hoopoe bird. On their journey they pass across seven treacherous valleys: Aban (Flash) or Talab (Quest); Tawheed (Unity); Ishq (Love); Hayrat (Bewilderment); Marifat (Gnosis); Fuqur o Fana (Selflessness and Oblivion) and Istighnah (Detachment).

Some birds give up the journey in each of these valleys, unable to endure. Only 30 birds are left when the flock crosses the final valley — and when they finally find the Simurgh, they simply see a reflection of themselves.

Attar’s poem can be seen as a metaphor for the often perilous journey of self-discovery that artists face, explains curator Zlamany. “This metaphor and the rich imagery of birds in the poem are the gravitational glue that brings together a diverse group of artists for this exhibition,” she says.

The artists featured in the exhibit are: L.C. Armstrong, Brandon Ballengee, Mike Ballou, Rachel Berwick, George Boorujy, Katherine Bowling, Mary Carlson, Elisabeth Condon, Lesley Dill, Eric Dyer, Shauna Finn, Juan Fontanive, Tsibi Geva, Allison Green, Sarah Haviland, Amy Hill, Marya Kazoun, Kurt Hoffman, Sharon Horvath, David Humphrey, Kevin King, Wendy Klemperer, Katharine Kuharic, Valentina La Pier, Paula McCartney, Norma Minkowitz, Laura Newman, Graham Nickson, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Ron Richter, Christopher Russell, Wade Schuman, Susan Silas, Hunt Slonem, Fred Tomaselli and Brenda Zlamany.

The Shirley Fiterman Art Center, in partnership with the BMCC Foundation Board, a not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to raising funds for student scholarships and ensuring the success of its students, who come from every borough of New York and countries around the world, seeking better lives.

For more information, call (212) 220-8000 ext. 3013.

Penny Jones & Co Puppet Theater presents More Mother Goose Tales with the Three Little Pigs

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Sundays until Christmas!
More Mother Goose Tales
with the Three Little Pigs

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS IN THE VILLAGE

“Very simple, and perfect as an introduction to theatre.” -New York Magazine
“Charming.” -The New York Times

Sundays in November and December 2016 until Christmas

More Mother Goose Tales
More Classic Tales and Fables.
Toby returns with more fun for the very young including The Three Little Pigs and the story of Boswell, the Polar Bear (who happens to drift south on his iceberg to chance upon friendly southern animals before he is blown back to the North Pole).

“I like it that such care went into the making of these shows.I was struck by the fullness of detail and the surprising elaborateness of the sets. The three little pigs really looked piggy for a change, with pink, rotund bodies and the right shaped ears and snouts.”
-Village Voice

“Warm, friendly atmosphere for the beguiling presentation.”
-Gannet Newspapers

WESTBETH Home to the Arts
155 BANK STREET
between West and Washington Street in the West Village
Tickets on sale at pennypuppets.org and Eventbrite
or CASH ONLY at the door starting 20 minutes before the show

Tickets are $10 for everyone
Show Times: 11 AM & 2:30 PM
All Ages – Great for 3 to 8
Stroller Parking
Shows Run about 45 Minutes

Information: (212) 924-0525
http://www.pennypuppets.org

BUS AND SUBWAY: M14A, M11, M20, (2 blocks)
A, C, E, L, 1, 2, 3 (5 or 6 blocks)
“A Child’s first experience with theater is important and forming. Quality counts.” – Penny Jones

PENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS has been a mainstay of children’s theater in New York since the 1970’s. The company specializes in informal puppet shows for children aged three to eight, and puppet ballets with live music for audiences of adults, children or both. The company performs in collaboration with chamber ensembles and orchestras. The repertory includes adaptations of classical works as well as original stories and scores. In schools, the company has performed hundreds of times, and Penny has a wide variety of programs from puppet pageants with a cast and crew of 30 to 90 school children, to workshops for small classes, and Penny’s “One on One” – interweaving puppetry, storytelling, movement and arts.

The company has appeared on television, in the Henson International Puppet Festival at the Public Theatre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, at City Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and in museums including The Museum of the City of New York, The Children’s Museum of New York, the American Museum of Natural History, at Emelin, Wave Hill, the Washington Square Music Festival, at venues from Macy’s to Barnes & Noble, and with orchestras at Bargemusic, Casa de España, Greenwich House Music School, with the New Jersey Symphony, and many more.

Laura Klein in Broadway hit play, THE HUMANS – whose ensemble cast is called peerless in NY Times review – wins 4 TONY awards including Best Play.

Cast of The Humans at the Helen Hayes Theater. Laura (Lauren) Klein seated. Photo; Sara Krulwich NYTimes

Cast of The Humans at the Helen Hayes Theater. Laura (Lauren) Klein seated.
Photo; Sara Krulwich NYTimes

AWARDS UPDATE:
THE HUMANS received 4 TONY awards: Best play, Best scenic design, Featured actor (Reed Birney), Featured actress (Jayne Houdyshell). It was also nominated for best director, and best lighting.

Cast and producers on stage

Cast and producers on stage

Laura (Lauren) Klein on stage in silver jacket

Laura (Lauren) Klein on stage in silver jacket

It has received a Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a play

It has received a NY Drama Critic’s award for Best Play

It has received a Drama Desk Special Award for Best Ensemble

It received 4 Drama Desk nominations for Best Play, Best Director, Best lighting, Best sound.

The finest new play of the Broadway season so far — by a long shot — Mr. Karam’s drama has been beautifully transferred from Off Broadway, where it was presented by the Roundabout Theater Company last fall, with the production’s prized virtues intact: a peerless cast, whose members all inhabit their characters as if they’ve been living in their itchy skins forever.

Erik’s mother, called Momo (Lauren Klein), who is in a wheelchair and suffering from dementia. Although everyone showers tender care on her, Momo is having one of her “bad days,” as Erik puts it, only rousing from her near-slumber to mutter incomprehensibly. (Ms. Klein gives a remarkable performance, admirably free of showboating or sentiment.)

“The Humans” is a major discovery, a play as empathetic as it is clear-minded, as entertaining as it is honest. For all the darkness at its core — a darkness made literal in its ghostly conclusion — a bright light shines forth from it, the blazing luminescence of collective artistic achievement.

– NY Times Christopher Isherwood Review February 19, 2016
http://nyti.ms/1RbnsnP

Laura Klein

Laura Klein. Photo Christina Maile

The Humans

By Stephen Karam; directed by Joe Mantello; sets by David Zinn; costumes by Sarah Laux; lighting by Justin Townsend; sound by Fitz Patton; production stage manager, William Joseph Barnes; production manager, Aurora Productions; company manager, Christopher Taggart. A Roundabout Theater Company, Todd Haimes, artistic director; Harold Wolpert, managing director; Julia C. Levy, executive director; Sydney Beers, general manager; presented by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, Roundabout Theater Company, Fox Theatricals, James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Roy Furman, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Eli Bush, Broadway Across America, Jack Lane, Barbara Whitman, Jay Alix and Una Jackman, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman, Amanda Lipitz, Peter May, Stephanie P. McClelland, Lauren Stein and the Shubert Organization; Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner and John Johnson, executive producers. At the Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, 212-239-6200, telecharge­.com. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes.

WITH: Cassie Beck (Aimee Blake), Reed Birney (Erik Blake), Jayne Houdyshell (Deirdre Blake), Lauren Klein (Fiona “Momo” Blake), Arian Moayed (Richard Saad) and Sarah Steele (Brigid Blake).

Gloria Miguel in MATERIAL WITNESS at La Mama in association with Spiderwoman Theater

GLORIA MIGUEL AND SPIDERWOMAN

Show Dates: May 12 – 15, 18, 22, 26-29, 2016
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2pm

Location: LaMaMa
74A E4th St
NYC

Tickets:
$18; $13 students and seniors
Box Office 646 430 5374
Online Tickets: www.lamama,org

MATERIAL WITNESS Here you are free to tell your stories…
by Spiderwoman Theater and Aanmitaagizi and A Loose Change Production
Directed by Muriel Miguel

Written and Performed by
Cherish Violet Blood
Donna Couteau
Gloria Miguel
Penny Couchie
Ange Loft
Tanis Parenteau

MATERIAL WITNESS is part of La MaMa’s Safe Harbors Indigenous Arts/Theater Collective

Ken Golden and Valentina DuBasky
Carter Burden Gallery
May 19 – June 9, 2016

KEN GOLDEN AND VAL DUBASKY AT CARTER BURDEN

Participating Artists

Journeys: Barbara Arum and Valentina DuBasky
Structural Breakdown 3.0: Robert W Petrick
On the Wall: Ken Golden

Show Dates: May 19 – June 9, 2016

Location: Carter Burden Gallery
548 West 28th Street #534
B/w 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

info: carterburdengallery.org
Marlena Vaccaro, Curator

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Friday 11am – 5 pm
Saturday 11am – 6pm

11 Westbeth Artists in
NEW YORK/Canadian Dialogues
Chazou Gallery
Kamloops, British Columbia

Participating Artists:

Bill Anthony (works on paper)
Beverly Brodsky (monotypes)
Robert Bunkin (paintings)
Sandra Caplan (paintings)
Elisa Decker (archival pigment prints)
Jayne Holsinger (works on paper)
William Kennon (etchings)
Robert Ludwig (paintings)
Christina Maile (polyester plate lithography)
Lucille Rhodes (film)
Barbara Rosenthal (video)
Hugh Seidman (poetry reading)

Curators:
Jayne Holsinger and Tricia Sellmer (director of Chazou Gallery)

Show Dates
July 5 – July 29, 2016

Location: Chazou Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Chazou Gallery is a private, contemporary art gallery located in Kamloops, British Columbia.It is considered one of the cutting edge, contemporary art galleries in the interior of British Columbia, exhibiting contemporary Canadian and International visual artists.

Chazou Gallery curates and rotates solo, group or collaborative exhibitions at least six times a year, and selects work from emerging, mid-career and established visual artists.

A component of Chazou’s mandate is to document a number of the exhibitions in published catalogue form.

CHRISTINA MAILE Choking Victim polester plate litho and linocut

CHRISTINA MAILE Choking Victim polester plate litho and linocut

BILL ANTHONY You're the Cream in my Coffee oil and graphite on wooden panel

BILL ANTHONY You’re the Cream in my Coffee oil and graphite on wooden panel

ROBERT BUNKIN Untitled oil on canvas

ROBERT BUNKIN Untitled oil on canvas

ROBERT LUDWIG Untitled oil on canvas

ROBERT LUDWIG Untitled oil on canvas

ELISA DECKER The Other Side of the Mirror archival pigment print

ELISA DECKER The Other Side of the Mirror archival pigment print