SPAGHETTI DINNER December 30, 2011

GREAT SMALL WORKS SPAGHETTI DINNER

Occupy The New Year!

Friday, December 30, 2011, 8pm

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC

$15 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)

info: 917-319-8104

featuring...

LEGS ON 'OLIDAY

Little Did Productions

Director/lead puppet designer & builder: Jessica Lorence, performers/builders/designers: Emily Norton, Luke Santy, Sarah Whalen

LITTLE ORPHAN GENDER REVOLUTIONARY ANNIEA toy theater video by Dr. Kate Sorensen, Niknaz Tavakolian, & Killer Sideburns

THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS

Projections, music, and dance from Montreal by Zuzu Knew (Design), Julia Thomas (Choreography) & Tyr Jami (Sound), and...

SYNGJA

Tyr Jami, manipulated cello, samples, voice & Zuzu Knew, layered overhead projections, re-interpreted traditional Icelandic folk songs, psychedelic-pop and recordings of the sister team's Icelandic great-grandmother, with analogue projections

OCCUPY THE HOLIDAYS

The Occupy Wall Street Puppetry Guild with a holiday tale featuring Mayor Michael Bloomscrooge and the ghosts of Occupations Past, Present, and Future performed by members of OWS Arts & Culture

WOLLESONIC MEETS WOLLESCENIC

Light & sound installation by Kenny Wolleson & friends

BALKAN BOOGALOO

Music for dancing by Jessica Lurie and friends!

SOIREE in Great Small Works studio 10.23.2011

After a summer-long hiatus, the Soiree is back!

Join Great Small Works for an evening which will include some songs, some puppets, and presentations from members of Organizing 4 Occupation (O4O) who are working to block foreclosures, and members of the newly-formed Occupy Wall Street Puppetry Guild.

20 Jay Street, Room 214

DUMBO, Brooklyn

Sunday, October 23, 2011

7:30 PM

And if you have a story, a poem, a tune, a video, an idea... please bring it to share.

Wine and juice will be served.

And it's FREE!

Info: 917-319-8104

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Great Small Works member Jenny Romaine will join Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Domestic Workers United TODAY in a community/labor march to Wall Street. Puppet chickens, the Sukkos Mob, and a squawk for economic justice!

When: Wednesday, October 5th, 4:30 PM
Where: Meet at City Hall (250 Broadway) Look for the JFREJ Banner, the giant shofar, and several giant chickens.
Join unions, worker and community organizations, and the rest of us that make up the 99% to demand that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorkers pay their fair share. Join JFREJ as we march to Wall Street with Domestic Workers United and many of our other allies to show the faces of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed and corruption.

BONK! Brooklyn's HONK! Festival

Just back from the HONK! Festival in Somerville, MA, Hungry March Band writes:

A week ago we learned that our fellow travelers from across the U.S.A., Chicago's Environmental Encroachment (EE) and Seattle's Titanium Sporkestra (Sporks) were coming to NEW YORK CITY after the 6th annual HONK! Festival in Boston, MA. Realizing it'd been two years since we'd hosted these folks in NYC at BONK! -- Brooklyn's response to HONK! - we jumped on this opportunity to make a show for our friends in New York City!

Join us and local Brooklyn Balkan-inspired favorites Raya Brass Band in welcoming EE and a good handful of SPORKS to NYC on Wednesday, October 5th.

BONK! The 2011 Brooklyn HONK FESTIVAL
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Galapagos Arts Space
16 Main Street
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Doors at 8pm
Tickets $10

with

HUNGRY MARCH BAND
Raya Brass Band
Environmental Encroachment
Titanium Sporkestra

BONK! THE 2011 Brooklyn HONK! Festival is a NYC follow up to the annual HONK! Festival held in Somerville, MA. Celebrating the spirit and artistry of d.i.y. brass band culture, BONK! embraces a street-smart interpretation of global brass music by musicians across north America and Europe. Like its older sibling, HONK!, BONK! places emphasis on community building, inclusivity, and the participatory making of music and merriment.

Great Small Works at DUMBO Arts Festival

Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner

Friday, September 23rd, 8 PM

St. Ann's Warehouse

38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn

With guests THE ASPHALT ORCHESTRA and

Great Small Works productions The Three Graces and
The Sukkes Mob in "Truth in Gay Clothes: Your Goose is Cooked!"

plus other guests TBA.

AND...

Great Small Works Lunar New Year Dumbo Rebirth Procession

Saturday, September 24th

Tobacco Warehouse - Water Street (opposite St. Ann's Warehouse - DUMBO, Brooklyn)

Workshops 11 AM to 1 PM and 2 PM to 4 PM

Processions 1 PM and 4 PM

Open public workshops to create banners and puppets for Great Small Works'

Lunar New Year Dumbo Rebirth Procession for Chickens, Brass Band and Eggs-istential Solutions for our City.

Taking to heart the oft-heard cry to "Go Forth, Dress Up, and Have Fun," we invite the public to help articulate the challenges we face in our city and our neighborhoods. Help stencil on banners, and create egg-centric cardboard cutout icons to hatch creative solutions to our common problems, and then join us in the streets of DUMBO.

http://dumboartsfestival.com/events/great-small-works-workshop/

http://dumboartsfestival.com/events/spaghetti-dinner/

Great Small Works in Huntington, Long Island

PUPPETS ON THE SOUND
a Puppet Slam Café at the
CINEMA ARTS CENTRE, HUNTINGTON, NY

Thursday, July 28th at 8PM

with GREAT SMALL WORKS as MCs for the evening


Cinema Arts Centre - Sky Room
423 Park Avenue Huntington, NY 11743
(631) 423-7611
www.CinemaArtsCentre.org
www.huntingtonarts.org

Produced by the Huntington Arts Council, Cinema Arts Centre, and The Puppet Company. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs, NYCBF, and the Town of Huntington.

Ice Cream Sunday Is Coming!

A special GREAT SMALL WORKS Spaghetti Dinner...

Milk Not Jails * Jenny Romaine* Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner*

Dixon Place Hot! Festival and Gaby Cryan*

invite you to an ice cream social.

Ice Cream Sunday is coming to Dixon Place!

Sunday July 24, 2011 6:30-930

Dixon Place's Hot! Festival of LGBTQ Performance.

$10.00 ice cream, game tickets and the show!

161A Chrystie St. Between Rivington and Delancey www.dixonplace.org

Milk Not Jail's says: “If rural New York’s economic survival depends on my habits,

I’d rather drink their milk than go to their prison.”

Melt your mind with fresh local ice cream and hot queer political desire.

Come to an old fashioned homosexual ice cream social and learn about what milk and jails have to do with one another.

Enjoy ice cream and entertainment

Revel in a garden of glistening glitter cherries, enjoy the milk drunk antics of the Ice cream cone mascot, look exquisite in our photo booth, wander through the flags, the games, the candy stripes, the banners, the costume room,

the hot silk screened patches and zines.

See

Shimmering heavenly MC Killer Sideburns

The Butter Milk Brothers smooth barbershop tones (Xavier, Sully Ross and siblings)
Copper Henningfield (World's Greatest Magician) in a new stage illusion act by Jenny Romainefeaturing

French Phenomenon NiNi, music by Lee Free & Jessica Lurie, additional directing by Jennifer Miller
,
Creamy Cavalcade of Stars

EmJay: creme de la creme of DJ's

Freezy Frozen photo parlor with Jennifer Miller and Lee Houck
Celebrity swirls and rants by The Sylvia Rivera Law Project crew, Becca Blackwell, J. Dellacave, and YOU in the

Full gender spectrum Dairy Princ/ess pageant

Create a persona, project your mission, win amazing economic and political change (and prizes)

ENTER TODAY!

Lovely, delicious, one delightful dream...

Demand a new urban-rural relationship.

And taste good doing it!

"…As an organization MILK NOT JAILS seeks to mobilize and empower new political leaders for criminal justice and economic development reform. The campaign also expects to develop and test new social change strategies, both in it's focus on overcoming the obstacles to criminal justice reform and in its creation of economic incentives-- in this case a dairy marketing cooperative-- for political alliance building."

WWW.milknotjails.wordpress.com

Milk Not Jails on Facebook
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1838599302/milk-not-jails
www.greatsmallworks.org

Ice Cream Sunday Is Coming!

A special GREAT SMALL WORKS Spaghetti Dinner...

Milk Not Jails * Jenny Romaine* Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner*

Dixon Place Hot! Festival and Gaby Cryan*

invite you to an ice cream social.

Ice Cream Sunday is coming to Dixon Place!

Sunday July 24, 2011 6:30-930

Dixon Place's Hot! Festival of LGBTQ Performance.

$10.00 ice cream, game tickets and the show!

161A Chrystie St. Between Rivington and Delancey www.dixonplace.org

Milk Not Jail's says: “If rural New York’s economic survival depends on my habits,

I’d rather drink their milk than go to their prison.”

Melt your mind with fresh local ice cream and hot queer political desire.

Come to an old fashioned homosexual ice cream social and learn about what milk and jails have to do with one another.

Enjoy ice cream and entertainment

Revel in a garden of glistening glitter cherries, enjoy the milk drunk antics of the Ice cream cone mascot, look exquisite in our photo booth, wander through the flags, the games, the candy stripes, the banners, the costume room,

the hot silk screened patches and zines.

See

Shimmering heavenly MC Killer Sideburns

The Butter Milk Brothers smooth barbershop tones (Xavier, Sully Ross and siblings)
Copper Henningfield (World's Greatest Magician) in a new stage illusion act by Jenny Romainefeaturing

French Phenomenon NiNi, music by Lee Free & Jessica Lurie, additional directing by Jennifer Miller
,
Creamy Cavalcade of Stars

EmJay: creme de la creme of DJ's

Freezy Frozen photo parlor with Jennifer Miller and Lee Houck
Celebrity swirls and rants by The Sylvia Rivera Law Project crew, Becca Blackwell, J. Dellacave, and YOU in the

Full gender spectrum Dairy Princ/ess pageant

Create a persona, project your mission, win amazing economic and political change (and prizes)

ENTER TODAY!

Lovely, delicious, one delightful dream...

Demand a new urban-rural relationship.

And taste good doing it!

"…As an organization MILK NOT JAILS seeks to mobilize and empower new political leaders for criminal justice and economic development reform. The campaign also expects to develop and test new social change strategies, both in it's focus on overcoming the obstacles to criminal justice reform and in its creation of economic incentives-- in this case a dairy marketing cooperative-- for political alliance building."

WWW.milknotjails.wordpress.com

Milk Not Jails on Facebook
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1838599302/milk-not-jails
www.greatsmallworks.org

Ice Cream Social coming soon!

Milk Not Jails Ice Cream Social--don't forget!

July 24th.

BANNERS AND CRANKS!!

A Cantastoria Festival

curated by Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan

HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program presents a week of pre-cinematic technology in the form of contemporary cantastorias and crankies cooked up by puppeteers, artists, and craftspeople from across the country. A millenium-old art form is rejuvenated and re-imagined, as performers animate paintings and banners alongside texts, songs and stories.

Each evening features several original shorts on a given theme such as: Boom or Bust, Phobia & Fetish, or Sink or Swim. On June 22nd and 23rd, Great Small Works will perform a brand-new cantastoria, Three Graces, in which three mythical graces — Harmony, Strategy and Splendor — float down to earth for an Op-Art romp inspired by Grace Kelly, Grace Paley, Grace Jones and Grace Lee Boggs.

AND, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 19th, from 4 to 7:30 PM, Great Small Works will present the opening event for Banners and Cranks at Pier One in Brooklyn Bridge Park (rain location: the Tobacco Warehouse) in DUMBO on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The Greatest Smallest Band will kick off the afternoon with a parade, followed by simultaneous shows throughout the park. Bring a picnic and the whole family and celebrate Father’s Day and the third longest day of the year with Great Small Works, Bread and Puppet Theater, The Dolly Wagglers, Jonny Clockworks & the Cosmic Bicycle Theatre, Clare Dolan, Sara Peattie, Sam Wilson, Daniel Lang-Levitsky, Theater Oobleck, Redwing Blackbird Theater and the Lubberland National Dance Company, all in full view of the New York Harbor and Lower Manhattan. Free of charge!

HERE Art Center - June 22-26

tix: $15 | use code: blast15

www.here.org

www.bannersandcranks.wordpress.com

http://vimeo.com/24626138

Ice Cream Sunday is coming to Dixon Place!
July 24, 2011

It’s a family Ice Cream Social from 2-4
and one for adults from 6:30-9:30

Milk Not Jails will melt your mind with fresh local ice cream and hot queer political desire.
Come to an old-fashioned homosexual ice cream social and learn about
what milk and jails have to do with one another.
Enjoy ice cream and entertainment.
Find out what you can do to demand a new urban rural relationship.

Revel in a garden of glistening glitter cherries, and enjoy the milk drunk antics of the ice cream cone mascot and the Milk Maids of Mars, look exquisite in our photo booth, wander through the flags, the games, the candy stripes, banners and zines

while bathing in an aura of full frozen fat.

Lovely, delicious, one delightful dream... a party with live dairy smooth music, info tables, and a creamy cavalcade of stars in the full gender spectrum Dairy Princ/ess pageant.

Cool off with live solutions thinking on ice!

Co-sponsored by MILK NOT JAILS and Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner/Jenny Romaine

Demand a new urban-rural relationship.
And look good while doing it!

next soiree june 12th

Another evening of works in progress at Great Small Works' new studio.

Sunday, June 12th, 7:30 PM
20 Jay Street, Room 214

Info: trudico@gmail.com
917-319-8104

SOIREE in Great Small Works NEW Studio 5.22

You are invited to our second Soiree, a new series of work-sharing evenings in the Great Small Works studio!
7:30 PM, May 22, 2011

Since our first gathering, Great Small Works has relocated. Please come visit our new home and help inaugurate the space. We will again share developing work, and will toast our new studio and our future together in it!
20 Jay Street, Room 214
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Info: trudico@gmail.com

917-319-8104

Above is a photo of a jolly scene from last month, during a presentation by Alexander Gref and Elena Slonimskaya from Moscow. We were instructed to pound on a table to make their straw dolls dance!

SOIREE in Great Small Works Studio 4.10

You are invited to a Soiree!
7:30 PM, April 10, 2011
45 Main Street, Room 301-303
DUMBO, Brooklyn

Info: 917-319-8104
trudico@gmail.com

The first in a new series of work-sharing evenings in the Great Small Works studio.

Bring your developing poem, puppet, monologue, song, somersault, dance, photograph, film, painting, political analysis.
Or come to see what others are working on.
And join us for a glass of wine.

HOORAY

PURIM March 19th

It is Purim time again, that festival of Spring Fever, parodies, and masquerade that centers on the Scroll of Esther. For centuries Jews and the people who love them have fashioned home-made pageants like the one we will present with a whole community of folks and JFREJ on March 19th at
St. Cecilia's Church in Greenpoint!!

YOU BETTER WORK
A VERY PRECARIOUS PURIM
A PAGEANT OF LABORERS & LOVERS

Purim is a holiday of inversions where we get so ritually drunk we cannot tell the difference between our enemy (Haman) and our hero (Mordachai). We get so disguised that we become strange to ourselves and mystical to our friends.
We make a lot of noise!
We get so lost, you might say, that we get found again.

Your Local JFREJ/GSW Purim shpil speaks of over reach, overtime pay, courage, the derangement of those in power, and the Domino effect of successful organizing (Go Domestic Worker's United!). It will be an incredible party where we can practice the political improvisation skills we need to join the world wide effervescence.


Hurry Hurry Hurry! Bands! Giant outdoor Puppet Shows!
Cabaret! Masquerade! Riveting and Right-On Installations!
Dancing, organizing and more!!!!

Hope to see you there March 19th.

DANCING::MUSIC::PROCESSIONS::CABARET::INSTALLATIONS

Show starts at 7:30pm, party and dancing go LATE

Check out these Amazing Performers

* Avi Fox-Rosen's Musical Madness
* Schmeckel: 100% Trans Jews
* Yiddish Princess
* The Rude Mechanical Orchestra
* Amazing Amy, the Yoga Yenta, and her Kosher Kontortion
* Shawn Shafner
* exHOTic other
* Haman's Drag Race
* DJ Shomi Noise
* Mira Stroika

But, How Do I Get There? => St Cecilia’s is located at 2 North Henry Street in Brooklyn
· Take the L Train to Graham Avenue
· Walk East on Metropolitan Avenue toward Humboldt Street
· Make a Left onto Humboldt Street
· Turn Right onto Richardson Street
· Turn Left at North Henry

What Should I Wear?
Anything your heart desires, of course costumes are encouraged, join the fun!

Do a mitzvah and volunteer! We need your help with a range of fun jobs - bar tending, ticketing, even clean-up, please click here or reply to the email to sign up. <3

$12-20 SLIDING SCALE//NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF COSTUME OR CASH


Sponsored by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice + Great Small Works with support from PURSUE: Action for a Just World