Popebama + Friends @CuteLab_nyc

Save the date. More Info SOON.

What if captions ‘step up,’ ‘speak with’ you, and ‘tell’ you about their stories? 💬💭💃🏽✌🏽:)

Jay Afrisando: [𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨]
performed by thingNY
Fri, May 26, ’23, 7:00 pm ET

@herearts, DOT Theatre
145 6th Ave, New York, NY

🔗 Tix & Info: https://ci.ovationtix.com/219/production/1157853?performanceId=11268622

𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 [𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞]: 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩.

📌 [opera captions] focuses on captions that bring together accessibility, inner and imagined voices, and improvisation.

▶️ It’s a semi-fiction, semi-translation, semi-poetry, semi-film, semi-music, and semi-theater performance!

👋 It features captions as “an actor” interacting with and personified by bodily-diverse human beings: a collective of New York composer-performers thingNY and wonderful viewers-audiences.

🏮[opera captions] reimagines what captions can do beyond functioning as a speech conveyor and a sound interpreter in audiovisual media.

🧡 [opera captions] invites you to celebrate the lives of captions that have been both cherished and hated.

Accessibility/things to anticipate
• Captions will be the main performance elements. They will also be audible.
• There is no sound amplification, and the overall loudness will be moderate.
• A very small part of the performance features profanity.
• The DOT Theater is wheelchair accessible and fully compliant with ADA requirements.

Creator, Director, Writer, and Composer – Jay Afrisando
Performer – thingNY (Gelsey Bell, Andrew Livingston, Erin Rogers, Dave Ruder, Jeffrey Young)
Lighting Designer – Christina Tang
Project Manager – Terry Perdanawati
Graphic Designer – Jay Afrisando
Original photo – kinsum

[opera captions] is made possible by the support of The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. https://mapfund.org/ @themapfund

This production is a part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as a technical liaison.

Czech Center New York presents a concert: Art of Music and Ideas: CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH by Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble. Featuring Roscoe Mitchell.

Friday, April 21 · 7pm
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street
New York, NY 10021

Czech Center New York presents a concert: Art of Music and Ideas: CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH by Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble, conducted by Jiří Rožeň & Petr Kotík. The concert is part of the New York Tour of Ostravská banda.

In the early 1960s, a group of Czech composers (of classical music) was influenced by ideas and music that came from New York. Although later, the American influence in new music spread gradually throughout Europe, Prague was the first place where it had an important impact. This concert of music by the Czech and American composers (going back more than sixty years) will demonstrate the proximity of ideas between Czech and American avant-garde music. When John Cage visited Prague in 1964 and listened to music by Rudolf Komorous and Petr Kotik, he told them:

“What you are doing in Prague is extraordinary, I have never encountered anything like it”.

Ostravská banda is one of the foremost European chamber orchestras; based in Ostrava, it consists of musicians from Europe and the U.S. It was founded in 2005 by Petr Kotík as one of the resident orchestras at the festival Ostrava Days.

Produced by the Ostrava Center for New Music, the Ostravská banda New York tour, in collaboration with the local S.E.M. Ensemble, will include an April 19th performance at the Willow Place Auditorium in Brooklyn Heights and an April 20th performance at the Buchwald Theater of the newly completed Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.

Ostravská Banda’s New York tour will take place thanks to the support of the National Recovery Plan of the EU and the Statutory City of Ostrava and in cooperation with the New York-based S.E.M. Ensemble.

Art of Music and Ideas

CZECH-AMERICAN-CZECH

Ostravská banda & S.E.M. Ensemble

Jiří Rožeň & Petr Kotik, conductors

Excited to join National Sawdust Ensemble for “Days of 2023” a celebration of the poet Constantine P. Cavafy, featuring works by Sofía Avramidou, Marcos Balter, Zosha di Castri, Stylianos Dimou, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lena Platonos, and Georgios Poniridis, will be performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the music direction of Jeffrey Zeigler.

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2023 // 7PM
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, NY

For more info + tickets:
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/days-of-2023