New York Creative Queers: A Picnic & Performance
WHEN:
8/28/2016
WHERE:
Creative Queers: A Picnic & Performance, New York
DESCRIPTION:
Live dance, film screening, art & food at the intersections of Jewish and Queer experience. A free and breezy event :) Schedule of the day: 11:00am - Tour of Art Kibbutz Open Studios - Nolan Park 6B 12:00 - Dance Performance by Moriah Ella Mason 12:30pm - Film screening by Pearl Gluck 'Summer' 1:00pm - Moderated discussion with the artists 1:30pm - Picnic and relax with your beautiful Creative Queers Community! Governors Island is accessible by two FREE ferries, one leaving from Manhattan and one leaving from Brooklyn. Manhattan Ferry departs from Battery Maritime Building at 10 South Street near Staten Island Ferry, accessible from the 1, 4, 5, N, R, J or Z trains. Brooklyn Ferry disembarks from Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, by Atlantic Ave., accessible via R, 2, 3, 4, 5 trains & B23, B65, B61 buses. Plan to arrive at the ferry landing at least 30 minutes before your desired arrival time at the Art Kibbutz. And make sure to bring water, a picnic blanket or towel, and either of vegetarian dish to share or money for the kosher and non-kosher food trucks. --------------------------------------- The day starts off with a tour of Art Kibbutz - a volunteer-driven, international Jewish artist residency program, community, and a hub housed in a breezy Victorian Mansion on Governor’s Island. After the tour see a work-in-progress performance by interdisciplinary artist Moriah Ella Mason. A young queer Jewish woman, Ella has been engaged for several years with artistic explorations of American Jewish identity that take into account an intersectional understanding of oppression and power. Over the last year Ella has created a series of dance and audio works based upon her personal experience growing up as the only Jewish child in a small industrial town as well as a collection of interviews she has conducted with other young Jews in the Pittsburgh region. Next get a sneak peak of resident artist Pearl Gluck’s new film 'Summer' about two Hasidic girls questioning their sexuality. Pearl Gluck is a director, writer, & producer whose work has been part of the Sundance Lab, and played at the Festival de Cannes - Page Officielle, Tribeca Film Center + Tribeca Screening Room, PBS. Her documentary and narrative work has covered a range of topics from Yiddish oral histories to treatment programs for victims of sex trafficking. Following the performance and film screening will be a moderated talk-back and discussion with the artists. Then it’s time for lunch, frisbee, tanning, and relaxation with this community of creative queers. Bring your own food - or purchase it at the vendors of Gov Island before the picnic begins. Co-sponsored by Art Kibbutz NY - International Jewish Artist Colony, Jewish Women's Foundation of New York, Schusterman Foundation ROI Community.
