Virtual Field Trip 5/3 [LIVESTREAM]

Summer's Different

Tamar Rogoff

Friday May 3rd / 7:30PM EST / Followed by Q&A

How does a family find its balance when one of its members suddenly reveals a gender identity that challenges not only their own equilibrium but that of the whole family? In Summer's Different, the audience in a single row of 100 seats encircling the stage, watches the intimate struggle of three generations as they come to terms with this transformation.

More Info / Free Livestream / Free Tickets* 

ARTALK with Esther Chae May 2nd / 9PM

May 2nd / 9PM EST
ARTALK Esther Chae
CultureHub LA / CalArts XBOX (Main Gallery Conference Room) /
LIVESTREAMED
Esther Kyung-ju Chae will share her personal stories of where she came from and how she got to her current professional life as an artist working across multiple mediums. She is a Hollywood actress in tv shows/ commercials/films/voice overs, a stage actor and playwright of solo performance “So the Arrow Flies,” and cultural provocateur who challenges notions and ideas of what it means to be an Asian American female artist through her leadership and educational work. She created a play called “Ae-ri in Otherland” that features Korean percussion music sa-mul-nol-i and characters from both Korean folktales and Alice in Wonderland.She has always identified herself with Alice/Ae-ri and now presenting her telepresence seminar through this state-of-the-art technology for students world wide, she is indeed living her childhood dream through the looking glass.

FUTURTECHNOTERROR [[[Postponed]]]

Instead we will be hosting the New York City premiere of Let Me Out a Korean independent coming of age zombie movie, followed by a live telematic talk-back with directors Change Lae Kim & Jae Soh from Seoul Institute of the Arts, Korea. You know you want to go. We’ll be back in June with The Terminator (1984).

LOCO 7 / URBAN ODYSSEY APRIL 6

LA MAMA ETC / LOCO 7 PRESENTS: URBAN ODYSSEY

Friday April 6 / 7:30 PM

Show followed  by a telematic talkback with El Colegio Del Cuerpo in Cartagena, Columbia. Conceived by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber. Designed, Directed & Choreographed by Federico Restrepo. Music Composed by Elizabeth Swados. Text by Elias Khoury.

Urban Odyssey depicts the experience of immigration to America through movement and visual theatre. This new work is the culmination of a ten-year investigation that began in 2002 with a production created from Federico Restrepo's personal experience as a Columbian immigrant...The New York Times Called Loco7's Room to Panic an 'elegant multimedia show...consistently touching and evocative' and described Open Door as "a striking, evocative theater experience.'

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LIVE-WIRED / Catherine Filloux / LUZ February 23rd

 

CultureHub Live-Wired and Catherine Filloux / LUZ : A Play Reading

In Collaboration with Teatro Abril, Guatemala City

February 23rd / 7PM

CultureHub 47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor.

From the garbage dump in Guatemala City, to the tent cities in Haiti, to the toxic ponds where birds expire, all search for hope in the unlikeliest, in-between places. LUZ is a large-scale work, panoramic in its view of its subject and people, poetic and surreal, tender and violent, but, ultimately, clear-eyed and hopeful. This Live-Wired session was shared with actors both in New York and in Guatemala City.

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LIVE-WIRED/ Digital Dialogues / December 14 / 2:30 PM

CultureHub Live-Wired and Contact Theatre / Digital Dialogues

December 14 / 2.30PM EST

CultureHub teamed up with Contact Theatre in Manchester, UK to present staged readings of new works in process.

Verbally Challenged is a regular script-writing competition held at Contact Theatre / Manchester, UK. In collaboration with CultureHub, Digital Dialogues was special version where both sides were connected via telepresence technology. The writers followed a set brief and two teams of performers and directors came together through the virtual space.

Plays:

New York:

Manchester - Manhattan (Alexander James Aginian); Rubbing Eyes and Rings (Aditi N. Kini)

Manchester:

We Share the Same Skies (Stephen Myott); Love and the Wet Bed (Nicole May)

Directors: Baba Israel and Billy Clark

Technicians: Jason Crouch, Lee Grey, Lawrence Reekie, Jesse Ricke

Comperes: Dominic Berry and Catherine Filloux

Production Assistant: Lizzy Tait

Actors: Sarah Amankwah, David Judge, Daniel Pinheiro, Charlotte Brathwaite

After each of the four performances, an informal Q&A session took place where the audience challenged the writers with questions and discuss the pieces they have just seen. In the end the audience decided that the ultimate cash prize was for Manchester writer Stephen Myott with the play 'We Share the Same Skies'!

 CultureHub / New York Feed

ARTALK / Catherine Filloux / November 17 / 8PM

CultureHub Artalk Series / Catherine Filloux

November 17 / 8PM

47 Great Jones St, 3rd Floor.

In this Artalk event, Playwright Catherine Filloux showcased her work involving social justice issues, followed by a brief exersice and discussion.

Playwriting: The Personal and the Political “To embrace hope is a challenge, of course, in a world plagued by violence and pain. However, that is what theater is for me: a valuable art form that can help make political, living change and can build community. Theater can allow audiences to become witnesses, and through this communal act of witnessing, there can be re-imagination and even revolution.” - Catherine Filloux

CultureHub / New York Feed

CultureHub / Korea Feed

ARTALK / Ping Chong / October 5 / 9PM

Culturehub Artalk Series / Ping Chong & Co. + La MaMa’s Great Jones Rep.

October 5 / 9PM

47 Great Jones Street/3rd Floor

New York / New York 10012

Ping Chong gave a talk on the evolution of his interdisciplinary approach to theater in relationship to changes in contemporary arts and culture over the past 40 years. The presentation provided context for an open rehearsal of Angels of Swedenborg with La MaMa’s acclaimed Great Jones Repertory Company. Angels of Swedenborg will kick off La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary Season this fall and is a revival of Ping Chong’s signature dance theater work, which toured extensively in the United States and Europe.

This Artalk session was shared with an audience at the Seoul Institute of the Arts via telepresence. To watch the recorded live feeds please click on the links below.

CultureHub / New York Feed

SeoulArts / Korea Feed

THEATRE WITHOUT BORDERS / Theatre and Resistance in the Middle East

CultureHub Artalk Series / Theatre Without Borders / Theatre and Resistance in the Middle East

Catherine Filloux from Theatre Without Borders in Conversation with Theatre Artists from Iraq and Pakistan

Walid Shamil Interview, Part 1.

Mr. Shamil is theater artist and teacher in Baghdad speaks about the conditions and theater work in his city.  

Walid Shamil interview, Part 2.

 Walid Shamil talks about a play performed/improvised by his students called, "September" about September 11.

Shahid Nadeem Interview Part 1. 

Background on Shahid Nadeem's theatre company, Ajoka, Theatre for Social Change.

Shahid Nadeem Interview Part 2.

Censorship in Pakistan: pressure from extremists and self censorship.

Shahid Nadeem Interview Part 3.

Peace-building work of Shahid Nadeem and his theatre company, Ajoka; exchanges with other countries. 

Amir Al-Azraki Part 1.

Iraqi Playwright, Canada and Basra, Iraq. He performes from his short play, "Stuck". Speaks about theater and reconciliation in Iraq.

Amir Al-Azraki Part 2.

Discussion about theater as tool; the nature of Iraqi audiences; theater of the elite vs working class; usefulness of comedy in Iraqi theater; problems with stereotypes; ideas for dissemination of his dissertation.

Interactive Performance Workshop / The Happening / 12.14.2010

12.14.10 / Interactive Performance Workshop / The Happening 

The Happening is the final project of the SeoulArts Interactive Performance Workshop. 4th year students explore the future, mass media and dictatorship in this multi-location sci-fi musical. The work was shown as an informal work-in-progress on December 14th 2010.