Friday, June 1, 2018
7PM
La Plaza Cultural Community Garden
9th Street and Avenue C, NYC
Dinner after sunset at 8:30
Admission: $15 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of
funds)
All ticket sales on site.
RAIN LOCATION TBD
Info:
917-319-8104
Featuring:
Ramadan-inspired poets grove including poet SaaliSI and
songs by Mariam Bazeed
Great Small Works’ historic “The True Story of Charas”
cantastoria
"Pari
Banu, Ravi Ahu," a remix of Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animated film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, performed
by SaaliSI.
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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.
Fasting starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. During this time
Muslims abstain from food, water, and also wrongful acts like backbiting,
fighting, and violence. The meal traditionally starts with water and a date when
the adhaan (call to prayer) signifying the end of the fast begins.
Woman shadow puppeteer Lotte Reiniger's 1926 oldest
surviving animated feature film The
Adventures of Prince Achmed uses a silhouette animation technique
Reiniger invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and
thin sheets of lead under a camera. The technique is similar to Wayang shadow puppets, though hers were
animated frame by frame, not manipulated in live action. Her work is important to the
development of (western) shadow puppetry and film animation in
general.
The story is based on elements taken from One Thousand and One Nights, specifically "The Story of Prince
Achmed and the Fairy Paribanou."
SaaliSi will play a live sound track to accompany an excerpt
from Reiniger’s film.
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Funding
made possible in part by the Puppet Slam Network, the NYC Department of
Cultural Affairs, the Doctorow Family Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, and
the NY State Council on the Arts.
THANK
YOU!
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