Year-End Spaghetti Dinner -- in January

 

Tuesday, January 3, 2023, 7:30PM

Judson Memorial Church

Entrance at 243 Thompson Street, NYC

This year we present a benefit jamboree to support our collective, Great Small Works! Attend masked on-site at Judson Church, or from your home live-streamed.

No spaghetti will be served. A NOODLE GROTTO will honor the spaghetti we are not able to offer. And artistic drinks for sale (with straws).

FEATURING:

Original Great Small Works pageantry and a rousing game of puppeteer ancestor BINGO, with prizes!

**MUSIC by Frank London and friends**

Trumpets - Frank London and Stevie Bernstein

Percussion - Onel Matos

Saxophone - Jessica Lurie

Tuba - Ron Caswell

Drums - Aaron Alexander

And, to honor the ancestors --

   *Pura Belpré: Perez and Martina, by Teatro SEA

   *Bernice Silver: Schnitzelbank, created by Great Small Works and performed by Boxcutter Collective

   *Lenon Holder Hoyte: Excerpts from The Harlem Doll Palace by ALVA Puppet Theater

   *Naftule Brandwein: N*A*F*T*U*L*E, a cranky created by Tine Kindermann, Josh Kohn and Michael Winograd. Performed by Shane Baker, Ira Temple, Tine Kindermann and Michael Winograd.

Chinese Theater Works with New Year Celestial Rabbit Review

Suggested donation $20, sliding scale.

Buy tickets now to attend on site or online!

Invite a friend!
Make a donation!
Join us on January 3rd!
Help Great Small Works to continue creating puppets, flipping banners and turning cranks, beating drums and blowing horns, writing, teaching, performing, organizing, and dancing in the streets!

Info: 917-319-8104

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Great Small Works also thanks the Puppet Slam Network, NY State Council on the Arts, Scherman Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, and the Doctorow Family Foundation.

SPAGHETTI RAMADAN

Great Small Works and Fihi Ma Fihi
present their 5th “Spaghetti Ramadan”

Friday, April 29, 2022, 7:30 PM
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
9th Street between Aves B and C

Suggested donation: $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

**Support Spaghetti Ramadan 2022** www.greatsmallworks.org/donate

Mention whether you were referred by a promoter, artist, or a friend and specify if you are purchasing tickets or donating to sponsor the event!

Tickets also available at the door

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Iranian:
Mitra Khorsandi

West African:
Salieu Suso with Jalikunda Music Ensemble

Arabic:
Elsa Saade

The Americas:
Hip Hop, Headliner: Legendary Cyphers
Hip Hop/Fusion: Sounds of the Unseen (Fihi Ma Fihi)

Puppetry/Solidarity: Great Small Works

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Bringing our communities together to break bread for Ramadan in classic communal fashion --
Let’s join together outdoors in a beautiful community garden and enjoy artistic jewels from the Muslim world - Arabic, Iranian, West African, Hip Hop/Fusion -- together with Afro-Indigenous, Jewish and Christian spiritual/musical kinship.

This year's Spaghetti Ramadan is the 5th iteration of Great Small Works' and Fihi Ma Fihi's celebration of the Islamic holiday, and the first in real space since 2018. Iftar is the meal that Muslims eat after sunset during Ramadan to break the day's fast. It is one of the ceremonial observances of Ramadan and is often done as a community, with people gathering to break their fast together.

For more info: 917-319-8104

Thanks for support from:
The Puppet Slam Network, the Doctorow Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, NYSCA, and DCA's @materialsforthearts.