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

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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

Steven Ritz-Barr film screening

QUIXOTE

a film by Steven Ritz-Barr

Don Quixote by Cervantes is one of the funniest and most touching stories ever written. Told here in the language of film by puppeteer Steven Ritz-Barr, with Michael York as the voice of Don Quixote, QUIXOTE is the story of an aging Spanish gentleman who reads so many books about chivalry that he imagines himself to be a knight. Accompanied by his faithful squire Sancho Panza, he embarks on a series of absurdly fantastic adventures across 16th century Spain.


Marionettes, exquisitely hand crafted by Russian Puppet artist Eugene Seregin, are remarkably brought to life by master puppeteer Steven Ritz-Barr and co-director Hoku Uchiyama.

Produced by Classics in Miniature, Inc. Music by Jeremy Yeremian.

One showing only at Great Small Works’ Studio. FREE!
Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, 8pm

45 Main Street, Studio #303 (betw. Front & Water Sts.)
F Train (York Street Station), A/C (High Street/ Brooklyn Bridge), 2/3 (Clark Street)

Meet the Artist! DVDs on sale at 25% off for your holiday delectation.
Interested in coming? RSVP Stephen Kaplin skactw@tiac.net