REFEST at CultureHub

Refest is CULTUREHUB's 3-day art and technology festival that celebrates the convergence of new and old, digital and analog, near and far. The artists featured in Refest are those who are breaking open possibilities through their practice. Creators working across a broad range of technologically informed media will gather at CultureHub in New York City to share video, performance, music, and more. Refest invites artists to share how they are reforming, rebuilding, reiterating, and renewing ideas.

Here is the full weekend schedule:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29

5 PM Exhibition Opening / Featuring works from Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jane Tingley and Michael Seta, RATS Theatre, Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint, Jesper Norda, Jody Zellen, Karen Niemczyk, Matthew Mazzota, EcoArtTech, Robert Spahr, Namwoo Bae

6 PM Long Table co-curated by CultureHub and Tom Tenny of Re/Mixed Festival NYC featuring remix scholar Eduardo Navas, musician Adriano Clemente, RE/Mixed NYC founder Tom Tenney, performing artist David Commander and more TBA!

8 PM In Flight by David Commander / Theatre Performance

8:30 PM LightPUSHer with Adriano Clemente / Musical Performance

9 PM Kick-Off Party

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30

12 PM The Moment by ss-io / Generative audiovisual installation

1 PM Maryam: A Mobile Drama from RATS / Interactive Performance

2 PM foci + loci / Installation

3 PM Indeterminate Hikes+ with Leila Nadir & Cary Peppermint / Interactive Experience

6 PM Artist Talk with Jesper Norda

7 PM Artist Talk with Matthew Mazzota

8 PM Reception

9 PM Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid with Sound Impact / Performing Seoul Counterpoint *This event will be Livestreamed

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1

11 AM CoLab with Federico Restrepo / Children's Workshop

1 PM Le Blanc et Le Noir, CoLab presentation / Interactive game

5 PM Memory Palace with Christopher Cerrone

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Lisa Mayo

Lisa Mayo in Spiderwoman Theater's I'LL BE RIGHT BACK, 1984.  

Photo by Gerry Vezzuso.

It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of Lisa Mayo of Spiderwoman Theater on Sunday, November 24, 2013.  Lisa is pictured above in Spiderwoman Theater's I'll Be Right Back in April of 1984.  

Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.

Thankful @ La MaMa

La MaMa is so thankful for everyone who came out for our DIY Season Gala last Thursday to help us celebrate our DIY season and honor Patsy Tarr and Michael Feingold. Mike Albo and Marga Gomez were terrific hosts and we were wowed by the talents of Tom Gold, Joan Morris, Jonah Bokaer, Joyce Castle and Sting (yes, STING!).

We hope everyone had enjoyed themselves and if you didn't get to come, please join us for our next one.

The online auction is still going on via CharityBuzz until Wednesday, December 4th. CLICK HERE to bid!

And we wish everyone a Very Happy Thanksgiving!

Opening The Week: The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates

The La MaMa Puppet Series may have just concluded, but there are still more puppets inhabiting the La MaMa First Floor Theatre.  This week, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's  The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates begins performances.  With a cast of 6 actors, 50 marionettes and dozens of shadow puppets, The Rupublic asks: Is democracy not the ideal form of government?  Was Socrates executed by a vigilant Athenian "department of homeland security?  The play may or may not answer these questions, but will at least hope to open a dialogue in a true Socratic method.

La MaMa presents
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's
The Republic, or My Dinner with Socrates

Written and Directed by Vít Hořejš

November 29 – December 15, 2013

Tickets: $18 Adults; $13 Students/Seniors; A limited number of $10 tickets are available as part La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative, through which ten tickets are available for every performance for only $10: these tickets must be purchased in advance.

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Felt It Again II @ La Galleria

AN EXHIBITION OF
WEARABLE ART BY
SELCUK GURISIK & ALI ALEV

Dr. Selçuk Gürısık has researched traditional Anatolian felt-making for 28 years. After a long absence, he is back on the New York art scene with a dazzling new exhibition. The show invokes the collective, progressive spirit of the felt-making community. Felt makers’ multimedia techniques merge traditional and contemporary concepts, expressing aspects of post-postmodernism. Adopting a theme of “today creates tomorrow,” this exhibit puts on display the felt-makers’ ultimate ambitions for their art.

The exhibition will also commemorate the memory of Ellen Stewart, the founder and director of the avant-garde theater company La MaMa, and Huseyin Katircioglu, a Turkish Performance artist and founder of Assos Performance Arts Festival. Both had a profound influence over Gurisik’s work and the exhibition simultaneously serves as an homage to the indispensible body of theaterical work that came out of their collaboration together in international theater festivals in Italy, Turkey and the US.

La MaMa Galleria
6 East 1st Street
(Between Broadway & 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY 10003

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 1-7:30pm

Free Admission

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