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SITI Thought Center invites our New York City community to delve into the relationship between art and activism through a Long Table discussion. The Long Table format is a dinner table atmosphere where all voices are encouraged to ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen, and watch.
What role and responsibility do artists, and especially performance artists, have in directly shaping our civic and political landscape?
1/29/20 - Wednesday
7-9pm
SITI Studio
510 8th Ave. Ste 310
New York, NY 10018
Featured Guests:
Padraig Bond
Leon Ingulsrud
Modesto Flako Jimenez
Rad Pereira
PADRAIG BOND in an American born actor, director, playwright and activist currently attending Hunter College. He served as the Artistic Director of student led and operated Ad Astra Theatre Troupe. With Ad Astra he has appeared in Uprising (2018) and directed/adapted The Trojan Women (2019). He spearheaded the Students Demand Action and March for Our Lives movements in New York State through a series of rallies meant to push for gun control legislation and is continuing his political mission through work with the Sunrise Movement. His current work is based on dealing with the sociological and economic impact of Climate Change on the younger generation. He ranked in the top ten at the National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center out of 22,000 participants.
LEON INGULSRUD was born and grew up in Japan as the son of Lutheran Missionaries. Leon helped found SITI Company and currently serves as one of the three Co-Artistic directors of the company. With SITI he has appeared in Orestes, Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera), Nicholas & Alexandra (LA Opera), bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Under Construction, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Antigone, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Co.), War of the Worlds; Radio Play, Trojan Women, Cafe Variations, Continuous Replay (with BTJ/AZ Dance Co.), A Rite (with BTJ/AZ), Persians, the theater is a blank page, and directed Hanjo. Previous to SITI, Mr. Ingulsrud was a member of the Suzuki Company of Toga for seven years during which time he appeared in Homage to Homo Ludins, King Lear, Dionysus, Macbeth, Ivanov and Greetings from the Edge of the Earth. During this time, Directorial credits include Endgame, The Hairy Ape, Macbeth, Short Stories, Martini Ceremony, Medea, Angel/Babel, The Sea, The Grapes of Wrath, three different original adaptations of Moby Dick, The Tempest, Death of a Salesman, Saint Joan, Our Town, Laramie Project, Eurydice, Psyche, Callies Tally, Big Love, A Show Of Force, Jamestown, Dr. Faustus, 23 Seconds About John Cage, Mad Forest, The Blue Bear, and All Under The World. Mr. Ingulsrud has taught in workshops and universities around the world, and holds an MFA in directing from Columbia University. In addition to directing, acting and teaching, Mr. Ingulsrud has translated for English publication or production, nine Japanese contemporary plays. He also appears in AMCs western series Hell On Wheels.
MODESTO FLAKO JIMENEZ 06 is a Dominican-born, Bushwick-raised theater director, writer, poet, actor, producer, and educator. He received the Princess Grace Honoraria in theater for 2016. ATI & HOLA Award Winner for 2015 and 2016, NY Times and Wall Street Journal profiled, Flako is best known for original productions and three signature festivals Ghetto Hors DOeuvres, One Catches Light, and Oye! Avant Garde Night! produced with his company Brooklyn Gypsies Collective. Flako has appeared on TEDxBushwick, Comedy Centrals The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Charlie Rose Show, Favorite: Early Shaker Spirituals (Wooster Group), Last Night At The Palladium (Bushwick Starr/3LD), Yoleros (Bushwick Starr), Conversations Pt.1: How To Make It Black In America (JACK). Upcoming work includes Oye For My Dear Brooklyn (The Performance Garage/Wooster Group), Furry by William Burke (Bushwick Starr), and Samara by Richard Maxwell (SoHo Rep; dir. Sarah Benson).
Modesto is an Associated member of the Wooster Group in New York City. Vice president of the Brooklyn Poets board of directors. His recent focus has been on his writing, and on addressing the social and political changes affecting the Latin American communities in his neighborhood. Hes also appeared on Comedy Centrals The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, TEDxBushwick, Charlie Rose, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BK Live, NY1, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicles.
RAD PEREIRA is a proud (im)migrant from Brazil. Rad is a transdisciplinary artist/ healer/ educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Their work has been supported by over 50 cultural institutions around the World including National Black Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama etc., Shakespeare Theatre in DC, A Blade of Grass, Abrons Arts Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, NYTW, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin, Ars Nova, New Ohio, Clubbed Thumb, Theatre 167 and on screen: HBO, CBS, MTV. Rad has spoken at the United Nations, Queens Museum, Working Woman of Color Conference, The 8th Floor, Dance/NYC symposium, Culture/Shift, Rio de Janeiro Museum and has been featured in Art in America Magazine & The Fine Print Magazine . Rad is an EmergeNYC fellow with Hemispheric Institute; 2017 NYC Public Artist in Residence. www.RadPlanet.org @______rad___
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LocationSITI Company (View)
520 8th Ave Ste 310
New York, NY 10018
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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