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A DOCUMENTARY FILM OF THE LYSISTRATA PROJECT
BY MICHAEL PATRICK KELLY
The theatrical community spoke out before the Iraq War started in a worldwide act of theatrical dissent presenting simultaneous readings of the 2,400-year-old classic Greek anti-war comedy, Lysistrata.
SCREENINGS & EVENTS @
TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER
Tuesday, December 5 @ 7:00 pm
followed by RECEPTION/DISCUSSION (free pizza & beer!) in the DEN of CIN with director Michael Kelly & Judith Malina and Robin Eublind
Wednesday, December 13, 6:45 pm
Q & A with THAW Allies Kathleen Chalfant & Ellen McLaughlin after the screening
TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER
155 East 3rd Street between Ave. A and B
Suggested donation: $10
For subway directions & other information:
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
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OPERATION LYSISTRATA
(dir. Michael Patrick Kelly, 70 mins, 2006)
In January 2003, Kathryn Blume and Sharon Bower, organized readings of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, as a protest of the imminent preemptive war on Iraq. Originally conceived as a local event (at THAW's first town hall!), however, over the course of only a few weeks, word of the Lysistrata Project quickly gained momentum and became a worldwide happening for peace. On March 3, 2003 nearly 1,100 simultaneous productions of Lysistrata were performed in 59 countries around the globe.
THAW is proud to be among the many arts partners for
Culture Project's Inaugural Impact Festival
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IMPACT: Where Culture and Politics Collide brings to New York City national and international works in theater, film, dance, music, visual art, comedy and debates with diverse culture partners citywide.
Scheduled to open on September 12th the festival continues through October 22nd with works by artists, scholars and children designed to provoke dialogue and action and encourage people to participate in the democratic process.
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THAW’S CONTRIBUTION : The THAW Collaboration Weekend
Sunday, October 22 at 4 pm
Baruch College
Baruch Performing Arts Center, Nagelberg Theatre
55 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
As part of the Culture Project's Impact Festival, THAW is staging a creative response to detention, surveillance, torture, and (in)dignity. The THAW Collaboration Weekend is designed to bring together a group of gifted and politically ardent theatre practitioners to create a new work for the stage in just three days. A sincere thanks to our generous participants, including:
• Akin Salawu • Alexandria Beech • Bridgit Evans • Christopher Domig •
• Connie Hall • Cynthia Croot • Daniel Carlton • Deborah Wallace •
• Donnie Mather • Ilyand Kadushin • Jason Grote • Julie Bleha •
• Kristin Marting • Maha Chehlaoui • Mallory Catlett • Mark Watson •
• Michele Travis • Morgan Spector • Noel Salzman • Patrick McNulty •
• Sean Tarrant • Serap Erincin • Sophia Skiles • Victor Maog •
Free and open to the public – for more information on this and other Impact Festival events, go to: www.impactfestival.org
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THAW is pleased to support the public reading of
VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
This thrilling text has been the keystone of THAW's outreach program which works with youth throughout the five boroughs, engaging young New Yorkers with these rebel voices of the past.
THAW is able to receive discounted tickets to this event, featuring some of today's most notable pro-peace American artists.
| With guest readers: |
Erin Cherry
Staceyann Chin
Deepa Fernandes
Laura Flanders
Amy Goodman |
Josh Hamilton
Suheir Hammad
Brian Jones
Christina Kirk
Mario A. Murillo |
Paul Robeson Jr.
Robert Robideau
John Sayles
Wallace Shawn
Lili Taylor |
| With and introduction and narration by Anthony Arnove |
Voices is the long-awaited primary-source companion to Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States. It features the words of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past (and present). Join us for an extraordinary event when these voices of struggle come alive.
THURSDAY, JUNE 22 at 8:00 PM
NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE
2 WEST 64TH STREET AT CENTRAL PARK WEST
For more details see http://www.socialismconference.org/voices.shtml
All tickets are $15.00 — or $10.00 with Socialism 2006 Conference registration (see below).
THERE IS A SPECIAL DISCOUNTED RATE OF $10 FOR THAW MEMBERS. When you call ticket central please give them the discount code: THAW. This is available immediately, on-line ticket discounts will be available June 16.
Tickets on sale via Ticket Central.
Online at http://www.ticketcentral.com,
by phone at (212) 279-4200 (daily 12-8pm) or in person at the box office at 416 West 42nd St.
For more information: 917-319-7008 or info@socialismconference.org.
Sponsored by: Center for Economic Research and Social Change
THAW is proud to be a part of CULTURE PROJECT’s inaugural
IMPACT FESTIVAL. This annual arts festival focuses on human rights, social justice and political action and will take place in venues throughout NYC. THAW, among many other partners,
is working with CP — please watch this space and sign up for
e-announcements to learn the latest on event details and opportunities for action.
FROM CP
Culture Project views theater and the performing arts as a vitally important national resource. Our purpose is to support work that addresses injustice, embraces diversity, and effects social change. Creating dialogue about critical issues, we seek to inspire and promote a national conversation, amplifying voices which are rarely heard, seldom considered yet essential to the democratic process. Culture Project occupies a unique perspective at the juncture of culture and politics. This vantage point allows the collision ofculture and politics to be expressed in a timely manner on the stage of World debate.
As an extension of Culture Project's past successes with productions such as The Exonerated, Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Sarah Jones Bridge & Tunnel, and RFK, an annual arts festival focused on human rights, social justice and political action will be launched in September 2006. Spanning 6 weeks from September 12th - October 22nd, 2006, the festival will occupy a variety of prestigious venues. It will be multi-disciplinary and include theater, film, dance, music, and visual arts. The goal is to bring to the public a critical mass of performances within a concentrated period, so as to win wide attention. Some of the performances will be produced by Culture Project alone, and others in collaboration. A series of debates will further explore the questions raised by the performances.
The scope of the festival and consequently the impact will be extended through inclusion of associated organizations and venues such as BAM, NewYork Public Library, The Knitting Factory, Gigantic Art Space, NY Academy of Art, PACE University, Bowery Poetry Club, Gigantic Art Space, Town Hall, Galapagos, Maritime Hotel, Current TV, uNight, Planned Parenthood, Rooftop Films, docfest, Imagine Festival, The Onion, The Nation, Pomegranate Arts and THAW.
It is our hope to motivate arts organizations throughout the country to follow our model. The eventual result may well be the building of a national coalition of arts companies that can speak powerfully about the urgent issues of our time.
CULTURE PROJECT
http://www.45bleecker.com/
THAW joins the Protest Drummers, the PSC (CUNY teachers union),
and Educators to Stop the War in a contingent feeding into
United for Peace and Justice’s APRIL 29 March for Peace, Justice
and Democracy in New York City — this Saturday!
Meet at 11:00am @ East 19th Street between Park Avenue South & Broadway.
- WEAR your THAW SHIRT!
- Download the THAW logo and MAKE A SIGN TO BRING!
(Get the THAW logo here in PDF format: color or black & white)
- BRING DRUMS, BELLS, OR ANY PERCUSSION INTRUMENT!
Some buckets will be available and will be
distributed on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, contact: ccartei@hunter.cuny.edu
General march info:
Assemble: 22nd Street and Broadway, 10:30AM onward
March: At noon down Broadway to Foley Square
Grassroots action festival: 1:00-6:00PM, Foley Square
www.unitedforpeace.org
THAW out for Peace! www.THAWaction.org
PATRIOT'S DAY FREEDOM FOLLIES
AT THE CULTURE PROJECT
MONDAY, APRIL 17
THAW in association with NoPassport* present
PATRIOT'S DAY APRIL FREEDOM FOLLIES
moderated by Jason Grote, Sophia Skiles and Caridad Svich
an arts evening devoted to statements and writings in
favor of freedom of expression
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On Patriot’s Day, the Culture Project hosts an evening of monologues, songs, readings, poetry, speeches, statements penned by the likes of Brecht, Athol Fugard, Vaclav Havel, Arthur Miller, Naomi Wallace, Hannah Arendt, MLK, Subcommandante Marcos, Wallace Shawn and many more, in support of freedom of expression and its unique role in the arts.
Scheduled to participate include: actor-playwright Mando Alvarado, playwright Bianca Bagatourian, actor and Iraq War Veteran JB Becton, playwright Kia Corthron, the Carmona sisters, performer Mike Daisy, historian and media critic Stephen Duncombe, poet and performer Suheir Hammad, actor Marin Ireland, playwright and performer Lanna Joffrey, activist Ashley Marinaccio, actor Omar Metwally, Peter McCain, Edward Lee Murray, playwright and educator Brian Pickett, playwright-translator Joanne Pottlitzer, playwright Diane Roy, playwright Crystal Skillman, playwright Saviana Stanescu, playwright and performer Trav SD, actor Tatiana Suarez-Pico, playwright-actor Michael Tisdale, Sandy Wayne of the Raging Grannies and actor Ian Wen.
Bulk flyers for UFPJ’s upcoming Peace Mobilization will be available for distribution (see below for details).
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Date: Monday, April 17, 2006
Time: 8 pm
Where: The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Street
Subways: 6 to Bleecker, B/D/F/V to Broadway/Lafayette
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP by sending an email message to: thawfollies@yahoo.com
*NoPassport was founded by Caridad Svich as a Pan-American theatre coalition/collective devoted to action, advocacy and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit.
 Kathleen Kathleen Chalfant, Denis O'Hare
and Kia Corthron Headline THAW’s 3rd Anniversary of the War Event
For the third anniversary of the Iraq War, Theaters Against War returns to the site of its first Town Hall, PS 122, and invites our long list of member theaters to offer up a piece of work from the last three years that speaks to the sense of outrage at a war that never should have been and the US’ continuing assault on civil liberties in the US and around the globe.
T HAW Member Theaters and individual theater artists gather to share short excerpts of pro-peace performance from the last three years. Confirmed participants include: Kathleen Chalfant and Liz Magnes, Tony Award-winner Denis O’Hare, playwrights Kia Corthron, Karen Malpede, David Meth with Farah Bala, Howard Pflanzer, and the work of Caridad Svich, Anthony Arnove (co-editor with Howard Zinn of The Voices of the People’s History of the United States), singer/songwriters Alec Duffy, Jamie Smith, Amy Clarke, composer Milos Raickovich, performers DADAny with Lissa Moira, Emmy Bean, Michael Schwartz, Jay Smith, David Cote, Okwui Okpokwasili, the Missile Dick Chicks and Paul Pierog and youth theater from the Creative Arts Team (CAT). Rounding out the program are an extended portion of Fountain Theater and Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About Iraq* and an excerpt from the Pumpkin Pie Show’s new production, junta high**, now playing at Performance Space 122.
Date: Sunday, March 19, 2006
Time: 7 pm
Where: PS 122 at 150 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets
Subways: L to 1st Avenue/ F to 2nd Avenue/ 6 to Astor Place
This event is free and open to the public.
Space made possible by Performance Space 122
and Playwright Clay McLeod Chapman
*WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ (A Cry for 5 Voices), adapted for the stage by Simon Levy, from the article, "What I Heard About Iraq" by Eliot Weinberger; originally produced at The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles (www.fountaintheatre.com), September 11, 2005.
**junta high by The Pumpkin Pie Show at Performance Space 122
March 16 – 26; Opens Thursday, March 16
Wed-Sat at 8:30 p.m.; Sat and Sun at 4:30 p.m.
In junta high, Clay McLeod Chapman crafts a Sweet Valley-styled high school for terrorists where cheerleaders double as suicide bombers and guidance counselors are taken hostage by the A/V club. Holy causes worth dying for galvanize school spirits, blood is shed on the football field every Friday night, and the Hungry March Band fervently plays on.
Tickets $20, $15 students/seniors, $10 P.S. 122 Members
FEE FREE: Available on-line at www.ps122.org, by phone 212-352-3101 or at box office. 150 First Avenue at Ninth Street
THAW is an international network of theater artists responding to the United States' ongoing "War on Terror," aggressive and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the US and throughout the world. www.THAWaction.org
THAW and T.R.U.C.E.
Theaters Against War &
The Renaissance University for Community Education
Present the first dramatic reading of THAW’S New York Borough-Wide
Voices Community Outreach Project
VOICES
Performed by Harlem Youth of T.R.U.C.E.
Narrated by Anthony Arnove and Brian Jones
Script Based on Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Co-Editors (Seven Stories Press)
February 4, 2006 (new date!)
421 5th Avenue,
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
Co-Sponsored by THAW and
Brooklyn Nonviolent Communications
with readings by local high school and community center students.
More details to come, with the other boroughs to follow!
FREE and Open to the Public
more info about VOICES >>
THAWTALKS! + THAW Member
Theater for The New City
present
A THAWTALK! Q & A
with Jean-Claude van Itallie
(author of The Serpent & America Hurrah)
Plus Special Guest, TBA
Wednesday, JANUARY 4, 2006
Following the 8 PM Performance
of van Itallie's new work, a farcical
take on current Administrators…
FEAR ITSELF: SECRETS
OF THE WHITE HOUSE
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Ave, New York, NY
(betw. 9th & 10th Streets)
Trains: N/R to 8th Street; L to 1st Avenue
Talk is free; show is $10 for activists/THAW members & students ($15 regular price)
Moderated by THAW's Alexis Sottile
Combined THAWTALK/TOWN HALL
Thursday, DECEMBER 22. 2005 @ 8 pm
immediately following the performance of
THAW Member Theater
International WOW Company
THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT
Special return engagement with performances on
December 21, 22, 23 @ 8pm
OHIO THEATER
66 Wooster Street, New York
Between Spring & Broome in SoHo
Please call 212.886.4551 for reservations.
Tickets: $10, or write to orifox@aol.com
for specially-priced or free tickets.
THAW and T.R.U.C.E.
Theaters Against War &
The Renaissance University for Community Education
Present the first dramatic reading of THAW’S New York Borough-Wide
Voices Community Outreach Project
VOICES
Performed by Harlem Youth of T.R.U.C.E.
Narrated by Anthony Arnove and Brian Jones
Script Based on Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Co-Editors (Seven Stories Press)
Friday, December 2, 2005 at 7 pm
Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc. T.R.U.C.E
(The Renaissance University for Community Education)
147 Saint Nicholas Avenue, First Floor Auditorium
Between 117 and 118th Streets
Trains: B/C to 116th or 2/3 to 116th
FREE and Open to the Public
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Join us in a powerful evening of staged readings by Harlem youth expressing the voices of struggle spanning over 400 years of U.S. history, linking past struggles to the present.
Audience Discussion Moderated by Anthony Arnove
and Brian Jones to Follow Reading
For more information contact: lucia.scheckner@gmail.com
2000 TOO MANY
Monday, November 21, 2005
7–8:30 pm
HERE ARTS SPACE
145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
(south of Spring Street)
Subway: C/E to Spring Street
Admission: Free; all are welcome
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Much has happened in the world since our last Follies in August that strikes at the heart of THAW’s concerns: the potentially catastrophic change in the makeup of the Supreme Court, the continued war profiteering by this Administration's cronies, the shame of Hurricane Katrina’s colossal humanitarian failure, the passing of civil rights titan, Rosa Parks, and finally, the mounting civilian and military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan — with the U.S. tally in Iraq now passing 2000.
As artists-citizens we can take some measure of heart in this year’s Nobel Committee's heroic one-two punch in awarding Mohammed El-Baradei the Peace Prize and dramatist Harold Pinter the Literature Prize. Pinter’s words as an outraged global citizen, as shared by Kathleen Chalfant, were in fact part of the inspirational proceedings at THAW’s first Town Hall in 2002. And as the life of Rosa Parks attests, simple, cumulative acts of outrage can overcome injustice.
This month as we observe Veterans' Day, THAW invites you to respond with outrage — sign up for a slot to share vital updates on how the Supreme Court process is progressing, read short excerpts from Pinter’s plays and essays, as well as interviews with and poetry about Rosa Parks…THAW extends a special invitation for Veterans to submit their thoughts and take the stage at THAW Member Theater HERE in SoHo.
HERE ARTS CENTER
146 Sixth Avenue between Spring & Broome St
8:30pm
Presented by Isadora Productions and Amnesty International.
"No One Signs Up to Become a Slave."
A series of events to raise awareness of human trafficking.
With a special reading from Becoming Natasha.
Panelists include: Josh Fox (International WOW)
Susan Pavlin (Synchronicity, Women +War)
Ron Russell (Epic Theatre Company)
Sophia Skiles (THAW)
The Kazbah Project’s Rana Kazkaz and Brigit Evans (Producers)
Allison Prouty (Vitals Theatre Company)
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen (Writers,The Exonerated)
Anita Durst (Chashama).
$15 suggested donation.
For reservations, email: reservations@isadoraproductions.org
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Part of a series presented by Amnesty International
No One Signs Up to Become a Slave
A series of events to raise awareness of human trafficking.
Amnesty International states: Right now, thousands of men, women and children in the tri-state area areforced to work in situations ranging from domestic households to the construction, manufacturing, and sex industries. An estimated 20,000 people are trafficked into the United States every year (internationally,there are millions more), and many of them travel through New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
This October, Amnesty International presents a series of events to raise awareness of trafficking — and money for victims — in collaboration with Safe Horizon, Tonic, Exit Art, and Isadora Productions.
More information on the series.
at the Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue between 9th & 10th St
Following the 3:00 pm matinee performance of Desert Sunrise.
more info on THAWtalks and this event >>
UFPJ calls for a massive mobilization!
Hold Bush & Congress Accountable for the Deaths, the Destruction, the Lies, and the Toll on Our Communities
END THE WAR ON IRAQ. BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
September 24
Massive March, Rally & Festival
September 25
Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
September 26
Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
For more information: www.unitedforpeace.org
THAW CONTINGENT FORMING FOR DC PROTEST
On September 24th, the renewed vitality of the anti-war movement will be visible at a mass mobilization in DC against the war in Iraq. For the first time, ever, THAW NYC is organizing a contingent to attend this protest as a group. Will you march for peace with THAW in DC?
(If you are currently in DC, join us!)
THAW travel arrangements are currently being made, and we need to know our number to make them. If you will march with THAW in DC, we'd like to make it easier for you to get there.
Interested in joining? Write to us at thawpaper@yahoo.com.
Tickets on a UFPJ bus cost $35 regular price/$20 low-income.
THE BRICK EASY
A Performance Benefit for Victims of Katrina
SEPTEMBER 25: 1–10pm
THE BRICK THEATER
575 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
575 Metropolitan Ave. @ corner of Lorimer St.
(L train to Metropolitan)
All proceeds from this benefit will be donated to the Hurricane Relief efforts of BRAF, Baton Rouge Area Foundation. www.braf.org
Presented by Brick Theater Inc. in comjunction with THAW and WAX.
More information: http://www.bricktheater.com/benefit.htm.
HOWARD ZINN, WALLY SHAWN, ANTHONY ARNOVE & MORE!
SEPTEMBER 21: 7:00pm
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
Join Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove and Wally Shawn and
more for a special night of readings from Voices of a
People's History of the United States!
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
Room: Celeste Bartos Forum
http://www.nypl.org/spacerental/bartos.cfm
Directions: http://www.nypl.org/research/hours/chssdir.html
Beginning this fall, THAW will be working to bring special readings of this text, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, to non-traditional performance venues throughout the 5 boroughs. Contact Alexis Sottile, at thawpaper@yahoo.com, to organize THAW readings of Voices.
Tickets for the 9/21 reading are $15 for general admission
($10 for students, seniors, and Library donor groups)
www.smarttix.com
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