Spaghetti Dinner postponed to November 5th

GREAT SMALL WORKS SPAGHETTI DINNER HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
New date:  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5th.
Now the season is really getting spooky...
Thank you, Teatro SEA!!

Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner

GREAT SMALL WORKS

SPAGHETTI DINNER

Spooky Season!!

MONDAY, October 29, 2012

7:30 PM

TEATRO SEA, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY

Admission:  $15 (sliding scale)

Info:  917-319-8104

Join us for an evening of spaghetti, songs, banners, crankies and puppets!

VILLA DELIRIUM
Inspired by eerie traditional folk songs of Germany, Ireland and the Balkans as well as murder ballads of the American South, New York band Villa Delirium writes and performs their own startling compositions, as well as choice covers.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Villa-Delirium/202478256482598

Tine Kindermann: Voice, saw and violin. 
John Kruth: Voice, guitar, mandolin, banjo, sitar, harmonica and flutes.  
Kenny Margolis: Accordion and keyboards. 
Christopher Morrow: Trombone. 
Steve Bear: Pots, pans, boxes and assorted batterie. 

YAEL RASOOLY, excerpts from “Paper Cut”
The language of black and white cinema is transformed to the “low–tech” universe of paper cut-outs and object theater, creating a tension that is absurd, painful and humorous.

Born in Jerusalem 1983. Yael was trained primarily as a classical singer, and went on to study theater design at the foundation program at Central St. Martins college of Art and Design, London. She began developing her unique theatrical language at the School of Visual Theater In Jerusalem, where she specialized in direction, puppetry and design during four years, graduating with excellence and awards by the city of Jerusalem.  Since 2006, Yael has been creating independent theater work and performing at International festivals throughout Europe, USA, South America, and the Far East. Her solo production Paper Cut has won several International awards and is currently on an extensive tour in festivals worldwide.  www.yaelrasooly.com

"'Paper Cut' is one of those artfully quirky solo performances that make the New York International Fringe Festival worth checking out. . . »
The NY Times, August 23, 2011

JANA ZELLER, Spybird Theater, excerpts from “Eye of the Storm”
The full-length piece will premiere in 2013, involving an elegant woman who is waiting for the return of her sailor son on a shrinking island that faces a storm. She is a rod puppet haunted by shadow visions, and her only neighbors are a set of grotesque hand puppets in their puppet booth.  This excerpt features the two hand puppets Kasper and Gretel as they bang around their domestic obstacles.  www.spybirdtheater.com

Full-length piece performed with Zak Grace.  
Directed by Kali Quinn and Ines Zeller-Bass.
Hand puppet coach: Alice Boehm
Music: Anna Patton
Created with support from the Jim Henson Foundation and a commission from Sandglass Theater funded by the NEA.


RACHEL SCHRAGIS, “One Question
A mini-cranky from the studios of Occupy Wall Street Puppetry Guild

GREG CORBINO, “The Story of Otto Pit-Sling,” a cantastoria

SAM WILSON, “Ned Talk: A Few Questions About the Newest and Most High-End Technology of the Police State,” a cantastoria

AND—underwater boat rides and creepiness by GREAT SMALL WORKS’ Seaweed Serenaders!!

The Singing Picture Show

Come one come all!
See a brand-new cranky show by Great Small Works, "HEMISPHERIC CASSEROLE"
Learn what Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Wall Street and Montreal have in common!
Special guest appearances by Kenny Wollesen, Jennifer Harris and Sam Sussman!


THE SINGING PICTURE SHOW
July 20th and 21st at 8:00 PM

The Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn

Banners & Cranks presents The Singing Picture Show
featuring new works by a gaggle of cantastoria artists and musicians.
Performing each night will be:
The Dolly Wagglers combining polkas and barnstompers with tales of pre-post-consumer society;
New York's very own Great Small Works;
Circus Amok's fabulous Jennifer Miller;
from Philadelphia/Providence, Ramshackle Enterprises featuring the wry work of Beth Nixon;
Chicago's Meredith Miller presenting six pieces that exploit "the disturbing subtexts in jazz standards";
Theater Oobleck with new selections from its 7-year project Baudelaire in a Box;
Vermont's Clare Dolan premiering a brand new cantastoria;
Meredith Holch with a gripping piece of labor history in sassy rhyming couplets;
Anna Roberts-Gevalt with her sewn and stitched crankies!
Each night will feature music including the Banners & Cranks All-Star Orkestar with special appearances by Jalopy's own Whiskey Spitters.

What We've Been Up To!!!

Great Small Works Activities 2011- June 2012

PERFORMANCES AND TOURING

March 18-19
Toy Theater After Dark, Open Eye Theater, Minneapolis
Performance and panel discussion
 http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2011/toy-theatre-after-dark-open-eye-figure-theatr

April 6
International Puppetry Conference, University of Connecticut
Perform at puppet cabaret   http://puppetconference.uconn.edu/home.html

June 19-24
Banners and Cranks Festival
Premiere performances of Three Graces at Brooklyn Bridge Park and HERE Art Center
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc385/BannersAndCranks/Opening Ceremony - Brooklyn Bridge Park - June 19/?action=view&current=_DSC2454.jpg

http://www.greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

http://bannersandcranks.wordpress.com/about/

July 28
Puppets on the Sound festival, Huntington, Long Island
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1482&bih=1043&tbm=isch&tbnid=8Cwp4DliU5ayOM:&imgrefurl=http://greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html&docid=Rm2N87RPoFHegM&imgurl=http:ht

September 17
Perform at Puppet Slam, University of Connecticut
puppetslam.com

October 31-November 4
Suspense Festival, London, U.K.
Toy Theater performances, workshop, panel discussions
http://www.suspensefestival.com/content/home

November 18-19
Velaslavasy Panorama, Los Angeles, hosted by Automata
Premiere performances of Soil Desire People Dance
http://www.experiencela.com/calendar/event/42592
http://www.panoramaonview.org/
http://www.manualarchives.org/automata.htm

February 3-4
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Performance program, with talk-backs
http://middletown-ct.patch.com/blog_posts/interview-with-mark-sussman-85-co-founder-of-great-small-works
http://scribblers.us/nhtj/?p=2496

March 8-10
Castelliers Festival, Montreal
Performance and workshop
http://finearts.concordia.ca/newsandevents/events/fofa-gallery-feb-13-to-mar-11.php
http://greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/2012/02/toy-theater-of-terror-as-usual-in.html

March 29
Columbia University, NYC
Premiere of new Toy Theater of Terror As Usual episode

June 21-24
Toy Theater festival in Mexico City  Festival Internacional de Teatro de Papel, http://forodeltejedor.com/boletos/index.php?cPath=1_12&nombreEvento=Festival+Internacional+de+Teatro+de+Papel

WORKSHOPS, ARTS IN EDUCATION, COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS

January-May 2011

P.S. 84, Astoria, Queens
Cantastoria  workshops with 5th and 6th graders on “Respect in Queens”
Sponsored by Queens Museum of Art and NYC’s CASA program

March 19
You Better Work, a Very Precarious Purim, a Pageant of Laborers and Lovers
Collaboration with intergenerational team of individual designers, organizers, builders and performers, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Domestic Workers United.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/violentgrind/5544815869/in/photostream/
http://www.greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/2011/03/purim-march-19th.html

July 24, Ice Cream Sunday is Coming!  Old fashioned homo-sexual Ice Cream Social with full gender spectrum Dairy Royalty Pageant, Dixon Place, NYC
Co-sponsored with Milk Not Jails and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.   milknotjails.wordpress.com, http://www.greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/2011/07/ice-cream-sunday-is-coming_17.html

July-August
Production sessions with Sara Peattie to build chickens for indoor and outdoor performances directed by Jenny Romaine
https://picasaweb.google.com/lpaulina/ChickenWorkshop?feat=email

September 15-24
Truth in Gay Clothes: Your Goose Is Cooked.  Sukkos Mob takes to the streets of NYC, reinventing the traditional harvest holiday with live music, Yiddish/Spanish/English languages, and giant chickens.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2496355056885.2143597.1493108224&type=3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/workmenscircle/4034217659/in/photostream/

January-March 2012
Return to P.S. 84 in Queens with workshops sponsored by CASA and Queens Museum.

March 3, 2012
My Hamentashn Are Killing Me: A Purim Ball for the Body, this year’s installment of the annual Purim bash, with dozens of artistic and activist collaborators in collaboration with  JFREJ and the Caring Across Generations campaign. 
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151389500960301.820049.687650300&type=3

http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=chickens jenny romaine&init=quick&tas=0.8459655395708978 - !/photo.php?fbid=782289763014&set=a.782289353834.2197260.13303042&type=1&theater

http://caringacrossgenerations.org

SPAGHETTI DINNERS AND SOIREES

Spaghetti Dinners:

September 24, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150293353742109.333275.718702108&type=3

December 30, Judson Memorial Church, NYC

January 31, 2012, One Arm Red, Brooklyn

Soirees (new event in GSW studio for sharing of developing work):

April 10
May 22
June 12
October 23
February 19

STUDIO
Moved from 45 Main St. to 20 Jay St. in May-June, the 5th move in 11 years, and second move in 12 months.  Now stable with a 5-year lease and reduced monthly rent.  Studio has been very lively with use by other artists who contribute to rent, including:  Chinese Theatre Works, Foundry Theater, Hungry March Band, Rob Ebeltoft, and Occupy Wall Street Puppet Guild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKNQU_nJGj4&feature=relmfu

OTHER

Exhibition of Great Small Works: Terror As Usual, Episodes 1-12 installed at FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.  Retrospective of the series, originally built with the Queens Museum of Art in 2010.

JUNE GREETINGS

June Greetings!

It occurs to us, as we live on the planet, that sometimes the most interesting cultural performances going on are not taking place in theaters!

Here, for your inspiration, is a list of activities GSW folk are possessed by this month.  Enjoy. ..
1. Milk Not Jails (Dairy Distribution business) is now open for business in New York City with Music and Performance! 
Milk Not Jails is a new brand of dairy products made by New York dairy farmers who are committed to preserving agriculture in rural New York and to dismantling our state’s dysfunctional prison system.  Sign up and shop to transform NY state with milk, ice cream, cheese, ice cream, butter and yogurt! 
http://milknotjails.wordpress.com                              

GSW and affiliated artists will be rocking the opening week ceremonies. Schedule below .

Saturday June 2 Rude Mechanical Orchestra 12:30-1:15
Location: M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden, Rivington between Forsyth and Christie, New York, NY  Stanton Street “Meet the Farmer” Event 12-2pm

Sunday June 3 Bond Street Theater Stilt Band 4-5 
Location: Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden, 216 West 122nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York, NY. Harlem “Meet the Farmer” 4-6pm

Tuesday June 5  Kenny Wolleson vibraphone duets 6-8
Brooklyn Beet CSA 5:00-8:00pm Location: YWCA, 70 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday June 6
Brooklyn Bridge CSA 6:00-8:00pm
Rima Fand and Sarah Alden fiddles 6:30-8
Location: Congregation Mt. Sinai, 250 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday June 13

Flatbush Farm Share   5:00-8:00pm
Location: Flatbush Reformed Church, 890 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Mariel Berger, accordian 6:30-8

2. LGBTQ month special gift: groundbreaking grassroots kids series SEZ ME premiers. www.sezme.me created by long time GSW collaborating artists Mor mornography Erlich and Lee Frisari.  Kids both interview and are interviewed by members of the community who represent non-traditional gender expressions  The interviews are unscripted and the resulting topics effortlessly flow from hobbies to haircuts, fashion to fantasy, the genderization of color to the basics of identity and human rights.

3. Roberto Rossi performs in Margaret Leng Tan's SATIEfaction
Satie and Satie-inspired music from John Cage, Toby Twining, Federico Mompou and Milos Raickovich, performed on piano and toy piano
with Roberto Rossi, narrator, Ranjit Bhatnagar, sound artist
at Roulette
Wednesday, June 6, 8:00 pm
509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves), Downtown Brooklyn

http://roulette.org/events/margaret-leng-tan-6/

4. And more:

June 19-24, Great Small Works will travel to Mexico City to participate in Mexico's first Toy Theater Festival, hosted by our friends from Facto Teatro.  

July 20-21, Great Small Works will participate in the third incarnation of Banners and Cranks, presented by cantastoria genius Clare Dolan and graphic artist Dave Buchen, at Jalopyin Red Hook, Brooklyn (more info coming soon!) 

 

Stephen Kaplin and John Bell are right this moment in Chengdu, China.

John is representing U.S. puppeteers at the quadrennial congress of the international puppet organization, UNIMA. Stephen is performing at an affiliated international puppet festival with Chinese Theatre Works and Bread and Puppet Theater in a new shadow-puppet collaboration.

  Hamidreza Ardalan, Poupak Azimpour and their kids Neekbanoo, Neekjan (from Iran), Basil Twist, and John Bell in a Chengdu theater before a performance of Three Tales of China by Shaanxi Folk Art Theatre Co., Ltd. (for which Stephen Kaplin constructed giant talking lion statues in 2005.)

And Mark Sussman is banging on his casserole in Montreal, in support of massive student demonstrations against province-wide tuition hikes and anti-free speech legislation designed to silence protests.

See you in the streets this summer! 

John, Trudi, Jenny, Mark, Stephen, & Roberto

MAY DAY SPAGHETTI DINNER

GREAT SMALL WORKS MAY DAY SPAGHETTI DINNER
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 8PM
One Arm Red
10 Jay Street, 9th floor
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Sliding scale, $5-$15
Info: 917-319-8104

"R-and-R"

Come celebrate after a day of great displays of common interest and shared physical expression. Contemplate the power that arises from collectively withdrawing cooperation and consent, however you do it...


1. Stagger Back Brass Band
Celebrating the 6th annual Stagger Back Brass Band May Day concert/singalong/extravaganza, featuring Don Godwin, Quince Marcum, Joe Keady, Brian Drye, JR Hankins, Ben Holmes, Jessica Lurie, Greg Squared, Michael Winograd, and Patty Farrell, with singers Eva Primack and Michele Hardesty.

2. Great Small Works' improvised living newspaper shadow show about the events of this May Day 2012.


3. "We Shall Not Be Moved: The Musical Story of the 1937 Woolworth’s Sit-Down Strikes"
Written, Directed and Arranged by Phil Andrews,
featuring Cara Francis, Josh Lerner, Xavier, Sully Ross and Jessie Reilly, with Ava Farkas, Naomi Podber and Judy Shatsky Music by Apocalypse Five and Dime: Joe Keady, Phil Andrews, Rebecca Heinegg, Michele Hardesty, Quince Marcum, Cassandra Burrows, Adam Katzman and Heather Cole.


4. A May Day Crankie by Vermont puppeteer and filmmaker Meredith Holch


5. "Bloomberg’s Fifth Largest Army in the World: Puppet Study #1"
Puppeteer Maura Gahan teams up with Brookyn-based Jacobs/Campbell Dance for a brand new work. Dancers shout, spit, and high kick in cardboard masks with movement references from the 1930s Workers Dance League, Mayor Bloomberg, and N.Y.C.’s finest dancers: the NYPD.


Food and drink will be available throughout the night.
Please come by and share stories of how you occupied your May Day!

Performances at MOBIUS in Cambridge, MA

The Art of the UnGrand #4
GREAT SMALL WORKS @Mobius

An Evening of Toy Theater with John Bell, Trudi Cohen and Sara Peattie

A Short Entertaining History of Toy Theater: presented by the singing professor, Dr. John Bell, accompanied by toy instruments

A Walk in the Country: Sara Peattie’s latest venture into small-scale romance and sci-fi

Living Newspaper: Trudi Cohen and John Bell interpret the daily news, torn from today’s headlines

A display of historic and contemporary Toy Theater stages, scenes and images will cover the walls of the Mobius storefront. This can be viewed during show times, as well as during the listed additional gallery hours.

performances: Thursday April 26, 2012, 7:30pmFriday April 27, 2012, 7:30pm
suggested donation: $10
additional gallery hours:Saturday April 28, 3-7pm, Sunday April 29, 3-7pm

Thu Apr 26, 2012 - Sun Apr 29, 2012
@ Mobius
55 Norfolk Street
Cambridge, MA 02139