Salonista Event: Monday, April 3, 2017

 

Join us on April 3 as host noted soprano Allison Charney welcomes The ARK Trio along with Metropolitan Opera stars, tenor Todd Wilander and countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum. This concert will feature classics by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Strauss alongside contemporary pieces by composers Michael Ching and Moshe Knoll. Funds raised through PREformances ticket sales support not only the series but also contribute to the incredibly important work of The Basser Center for BRCA and the myriad of arts programs at the JCC itself.

Monday, April 3, 2017
Time:12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Where: the JCC Manhattan, Goldman Sonnenfeldt Auditorium
334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th
Tickets: General admission $15; JCC Members $10; Student/Seniors $5
Please call 646.505.5708 to reserve $5 Senior-discounted tickets
Tickets and more information can be found at www.jccmanhattan.org/arts-ideas/performances/music/#preformances



Facebook event:
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The Lambert Center for Arts + Ideas at JCC Manhattan takes an integrative and multidisciplinary approach to arts and cultural programming. We use the unique voices and media of visual art, dance, theater, musical performance, and intellectual conversations to amplify and give new perspective to the most important questions that we face as a community. Arts + Ideas programming at the JCC is a critical means by which our community understands and appreciates itself more deeply and truly—and a transformative reflection of the creative spirit that our community embodies.

Find out more at jccmanhattan.org/preformances

Salon Radio presents: Unfinished Histories; She Was a Great Dad HR - March 30, 2017

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IT'S THURSDAY NIGHT, please join us for SALON RADIO on City World Radio Network
8pm/Midnight/On-Demand thereafter

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This week's show is hosted by Maureen Van Trease with guest presenter Helene Galek and features two special features this week:




Salon Radio Special 1:

She Was a Great Dad, written and performed by Susan Jeremy directed by Cheryl King, inspired by the life of 1950's trans muscian Billy Tipton.

The show features four characters all played by Susan who tell the story of how and why Billy (character name Johnny Swinton) came to live as a man.




Salon Radio Special 2:

Unfinished Histories - Activating Archives: the Alternative Theatre Movement Now, with director and co-founder Susan Croft

Unfinished Histories is a project documenting British alternative theatre, focused on the period 1968-88, including feminist, community, street, Black and Asian, LGBT, political, experimental, Disability Arts theatres. We record interviews, collect archive

material and share this history to inspire the present through exhibitions, talks, readings, discussions and our web site.




Salon Radio is rounded out as always with our Women in Art World Bulletin highlighting news about women in all The Arts tonight with editor Jenny Green and our Salon Bulletin for upcoming week's happenings of Salonistas around the world (Casey Abeson editor). Our sound engineer is musician Jade Zabric.




Find City Word Radio Network on www.TuneIn.com or on TuneIn app, 8pm EST tonight for live show or listen live from www.CityWorldRadio.com




Tonight’s show will rebroadcast tonight at midnight EST.




You can listen to past shows on demand anytime on www.CityWorldRadio.com (click on the mic icon, then the

folder icon, and search for our Salon Radio shows in the archive listing).




Please let us know you are listening!! And please share wide to bring these amazing artists to a wide audience.




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Thank you to tonight's sponsor: the JCC Manhattan, home to PREformances with Allison Charney




Join us on April 3 as host noted soprano Allison Charney welcomes The ARK Trio along with Metropolitan Opera stars, tenor Todd Wilander and countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum. This concert will feature classics by Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Strauss alongside contemporary pieces by composers Michael Ching and Moshe Knoll. Funds raised through PREformances ticket sales support not only the series but also contribute to the incredibly important work of The Basser Center for BRCA and the myriad of arts programs at the JCC itself.




Monday, April 3, 2017

Time:12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Where: the JCC Manhattan, Goldman Sonnenfeldt Auditorium

334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th

Tickets: General admission $15; JCC Members $10; Student/Seniors $5

Please call 646.505.5708 to reserve $5 Senior-discounted tickets

Tickets and more information can be found at www.jccmanhattan.org/arts-ideas/performances/music/#preformances




The Lambert Center for Arts + Ideas at JCC Manhattan takes an integrative and multidisciplinary approach to arts and cultural programming. We use the unique voices and media of visual art, dance, theater, musical performance, and intellectual conversations to amplify and give new perspective to the most important questions that we face as a community. Arts + Ideas programming at the JCC is a critical means by which our community understands and appreciates itself more deeply and truly—and a transformative reflection of the creative spirit that our community embodies.




Find out more at jccmanhattan.org/preformances

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See you on the radio!

Synergistically Cheers ~

Heidi Russell, founder and producer

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Salon Radio Special 1: She Was a Great Dad, written and performed by Susan Jeremy directed by Cheryl King, inspired by the life of 1950's trans muscian Billy Tipton.




The show features four characters all played by Susan who tell the story of how and why Billy (character name Johnny Swinton) came to live as a man.




This is Susan"s 5th solo show. Susan started as a stand up in the 1990s and performed on the high seas with Olivia cruises. She then developed solo shows and has found success touring them throughout USA, Canada and Europe. She's been featured in Montreals Just for Laughs Festival along with South Carolinas Piccolo Spoleto festival. She's found a home in NY at La Mama etc and Dixon Place where her work can be both funny and dramatic and controversial.




Upcoming and Follow...




She was a great Dad will be featured in a reading series at La Mama etc on Saturday April 1st at 47 Great Jones Street which is La Mama's rehearsal studios. It is also booked for a full production in the HOT FESTIVAL at Dixon Place in JULY for two shows.




All information on Lamama .org and dixonplace.org




Late breaking: a full production has been added for Tuesday, May 2nd at 7pm at the PIT on West 29th street. www.pit- nyc.com




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Salon Radio Special 2: Unfinished Histories - Activating Archives: the Alternative Theatre Movement Now, with director and co-founder Susan Croft



Unfinished Histories is a project documenting alternative theatre in Britain, focused on the period 1968-88. This period, following the end of theatre censorship in 1968 saw a remarkable upsurge of new work and an activist movement dedicated to taking theatre to new audiences, to make theatre with them and about experiences largely excluded from mainstream theatre, challenge existing definitions and experiment with new working methods and artistic vocabularies. Some of the 700+ companies set up over that period included theatre-in- education, lunchtime theatres, feminist theatre groups, community initiatives – taking professionals into working class and culturally excluded communities, street arts, which connected with protest movements and carnivals, Black and Asian and other minority theatres, the first out lesbian and gay companies, political theatres working for revolutionary change, highly innovative experimental groups, creating physical, visual work and performance art, new writing companies, Disability Arts groups, and many companies who were many of these things. Some still exist. Most have been neglected by theatre historians. Since 2006 when Susan Croft and Jessica Higgs set up the project, Unfinished Histories has recorded around 100 lengthy interviews with company originators, many of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s, and begun to collect and preserve a scattered archive including posters, scripts, photographs, flyers, letters, props and audio-visual recordings through both physical and digital means. The archive is now housed at Bishopsgate Institute Library in London.




Working with volunteers and trainees we also aim to ensure the documentary record of theatre of this period is more complete. Central to the project is the need to share this past history to inspire a present of similar cultural exclusion and political challenge, through exhibitions, talks, readings, discussions, publications and our website.




Bio

Dr Susan Croft is Director, of Unfinished Histories, the oral and archival history project on Alternative Theatre in Britain in the 1960s -80s, which she founded in 2006 with Jessica Higgs. She is Clive Barker Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. After working in the US with Omaha Magic Theatre, with Megan Terry and JoAnn Schmidmann, then as dramaturg, director and workshop leader in the alternative theatre scene, in 1986 she founded New Playwrights Trust, an organisation developing the work of new writers. She went on to teach Creative Arts/ Performance at Nottingham Trent and Manchester Metropolitan Universities before becoming Senior Curator (Contemporary Performance) at the V&A Theatre Museum. There her major exhibitions included Let Paul Robeson Sing! and Architects of Fantasy and she pioneered initiatives on audio-video documentation of performance and on diversity and inclusion and edited Black and Asian Performance at the Theatre Museum: a Users’ Guide. As Director of Unfinished Histories she has conducted numerous oral history interviews with individuals active in the movement. In 2013-14 she curated the exhibition and publication Re-Staging Revolutions: Alternative Theatre in Lambeth and Camden 1968-88. She has written extensively on women playwrights, including …She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights (2001), the anthologies Classic Plays by Women, Votes for Women and Other Plays and Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women 1875-1920 (with Sherry Engle) on activist, suffrage and New Women drama and co-wrote How the Vote Was Won: Art, Theatre and Women’s Suffrage. She is currently working on books on Unfinished Histories; the influential community arts project Inter-Action; and an update of She Also Wrote Plays.




Artist Statement:
My research and professional practice as writer, curator, historian and dramaturg, from the 1980s onwards have, alongside developing new work as a dramaturg, focused on recording, preserving, exploring and reviving writing for theatre by historically marginalised groups and attempting to ensure that similar erasure and amnesia does not continue in relation to recent work. This has focused especially on work by: women, both historically and contemporary including international work in translation; Black and minority group writers, LGBT writers, collectives and alternative theatre makers; experimental practitioners, where work emerges from different kinds of devising process, writing for young people’s theatre, and various inter-sections between these areas of work.




This ongoing research and practice includes:

o Writing critical texts and bibliography,

o Staging rehearsed readings of ‘lost’ plays and developing relationships with theatres and companies,

o Creating exhibitions and events to engage new audiences with this work

o Advising on repertoire / plays to rediscover,

o Researching critical bibliographies including of women, Black British theatre, trade union plays ,

o Recording oral history interviews to document missing stories, process, context,

o Preserving archives, scripts and other records physically and digitally and encouraging this, where material is scattered and privately held,

o Making information available online to encourage access, use and engagement with these materials and histories.




In a theatre culture that seems increasingly divided between a product-hungry appetite for the new or engagement with a relatively narrow band of classics, this practice encourages, alongside these, a re-engagement with and valuing of the

richness and possibility of recent histories, as celebrating achievement – especially for groups who have been marginalised within mainstream histories; as inspiration and models for future practice, to engage and contend with in numerous ways; and in themselves, as continuing to offer value and be worthy of re-exploration, discovery and staging.




Upcoming and Follow...




Susan will be speaking at the event Radical Voices Then and Now as part of the On Her Shoulders series at New School on Monday 3rd April with staged readings from women playwrights of the period including Jane Arden’s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven See




http://www.newperspectivestheatre.org/programs/RADICALVOICES.htm




She is also attending the League of Professional Theatre Women’s annual “Big Mingle” Gala from 6 to 9 pm on Fri 31 March




www.unfinishedhistories.com

www.facebook.com/UnfinishedHistories




To donate to Unfinished Histories please go to

https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/unfinishedhistories




Unfinished Histories archive collections: http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/Library




Suffrage Arts and Others - www.thesuffragettes.org




Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women 1875-1920 co-edited by Sherry Engle and Susan Croft - you can buy it here as a printed book or for kindle or ask your library to order it!







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Salon Radio presents: Andrea Dantas and Isabella Roberto HR - March 16, 2017

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THIS THURSDAY NIGHT, please join us for SALON RADIO on City World Radio Network

8pm/Midnight/On-Demand thereafter
www.CityWorldRadio.com

This week's show is hosted by Marcina Zaccaria with Carlotta Brentan as a presenter, and features:

Salon Radio Special: Andrea Dantas as Frida Kahlo

Our Salon Solo {Radio} guest is Isabella Roberto,

Salon Radio is rounded out as always with our Women in Art World Bulletin highlighting news about women in all The Arts tonight with editor Jenny Green and our Salon Bulletin for upcoming week's happenings of Salonistas around the world (Casey Abeson editor). Our sound engineer is musician Jade Zabric.

Find City Word Radio Network on www.TuneIn.com or on TuneIn app, 8pm EST tonight for live show or listen live from www.CityWorldRadio.com

This week’s show will rebroadcast Thusday at midnight EST.

You can listen to past shows on demand anytime on www.CityWorldRadio.com (click on the mic icon, then the
folder icon, and search for our Salon Radio shows in the archive listing).

Please let us know you are listening!! And please share wide to bring these amazing artists to a wide audience.

Thank you to tonight's Sponsor: Theatre Beyond Broadway
Theatre Beyond Broadway is a platform created to promote and support independent artists working beyond the bright lights of Broadway. Theatre Beyond Broadway is also a producing company and includes an education component. The TBB Players are a group of artists that teach empowerment through theatre to students. If you’re interested in learning more about us, please feel free to contact TBB at info@theatrebeyondbroadway.com.
or go to www.theatrebeyondbroadway.com

Please contact us if you would like to sponsor one or more of our shows. womenartsalon@gmail.com

See you on the radio!
Synergistically Cheers ~
Heidi Russell, founder and producer

International Women Artists' Salon - We invite you to follow us! Please invite others!

International Women Artists' Salon
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Salon Solo {Radio}: Isabella Roberto
Isabella Roberto originally from Italy, is an independent film producer. After a busy career between Italy and USA, she co-founded Purple Road Pictures. She produced several award winning short films like "Mai" a beautiful black and white story inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni. Most recently Isabella has line produced the feature film "Fourever" starring Bryan Greenberg and Emmy Award Winner Tammy Blanchard. Her last short film "Billy Boy", a psychological drama will be soon released in film festivals. She is currently working on the italian short film "Zero.2" and on the development of the feature film "Longing".
Her passion lies in creating stories that uncover the heart of underdog.

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Salon Radio Special: Andrea Dantas (Writer and performer in "Fragmented Frida") is an actress, director and Flamenco dancer from Brazil. She has been performing professionally for 20 years in Brazil, Italy, England and the USA in film, theater and television. She has studied at RADA in London, Teatro Olmetto in Milan and Playhouse West in Los Angeles. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 2013 PHW Film Festival in Los Angeles for the motion picture Daisy's. Directorial credits include Pinter’s Betrayal, Beckett’s Endgame, What The Flowers Say and Such Nice Shoes which debuted at TheaterLab in NYC.

FRAGMENTED FRIDA:
After facing an episode of bullying due to her Jewish heritage, a crippled young Frida Kahlo is determined to prove that she is not a nobody. But a tragic accident and a heartbreaking betrayal leave her in shambles. Shattered and alone, she has no choice but to paint.

Fragmented Frida is a one-woman show in two acts that traces the journey of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, the most iconic female painter of all time.
Fragmented Frida
https://www.fragmentedfrida.com/

Twitter: @FragmentedFrida
Instagra: @fragmentedfrida
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IWAS Programs: 

Salon Solo - visual art exhibition series at Producers' Club,
358 W. 44th Street at 9th Ave, NYC

Salon Lounge at Dixon Place - monthly multi-disciplinary showcase at
Dixon Place,161A Chrystie Street (Rivington/Delancey), NYC
Salon Radio on City World Radio network, Thursdays 8-8:55pm EST -
live listening on TuneIn.com or TuneIn app for smartphones
- all shows archived for on-demand listening at www.CityWorldRadio.com

Salon Lounge at Dixon Place: Saturday, March,18 2017

Dixon Place’s presents...


"Salon Lounge at Dixon Place"

a monthly showcase of performance/literature/film-video by women

an International Women Artists’ Salon series




Saturday, 18 March 2017




Host: Kate Hess aka Indigo Moon



Tonight we honor women throughout history who have paved the way for women’s rights through their voice and action around the world.




Film/Visual Art – Laura Arten, celebrating visual artist TOYEN
TOYEN , film 2.5min

Laura Arten pays tribute to the famous 20th Century transgender surrealist painter and artist TOYEN

'the story of hers'

A short that premiered in 2013 in Cannes in Court Metrage and then successfully did film festival circuit, about a mysterious young woman 'A', based on a real woman and takes place in London.




Toyen was a transgender artist born in Prague (1902) Painter, Illustrator, collagist and a member of surrealist movement. She regularly exhibited in Paris and Prague. A member of Devetsil surrealist movement in Prague and Artificialism movement founder along with Jindrich Styrsky. During WWII she immigrated to Paris and died there in 1980.




Laura Arten graduated in film studies from the University of The Arts London and subsequently went on to study acting at NYU Tisch and Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. She has been living in New York full time since 2016 pursuing career in acting and arts. www.laurarten.com




Storytelling – Simi Toledano, celebrating Unknown Matriarchs
Monologue

I will be performing a monologue that I wrote about my relationship with my Moroccan grandmother and all of the women on the my dad's side of the family who I have not met nor heard stories about. I explore the deep longing I feel to know their stories and who they were so that I can better understand myself. I wrote it to perform with the Kaleidoscope Project, a monologue showcase featuring stories from Jews of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, directed by Vanessa Hidary.




Simi Toledano is a Brooklyn-based performance and theater artist, writer, educator, activist and mystic. She is passionate about the alchemical power of storytelling and creative expression as tools for healing, unity, and connection. Though she is a trained actress, Simi's artistic eye has recently been focused on directing. Some credits include The Philadelphia by David Ives at the Producer's Club and Black Star by Kendra Augustin at The Secret Theater. She is a regular presenter on International Women's Artist Salon weekly radio show. She can also be seen telling personal stories on stages across NYC both independently and with The Kaleidoscope Project. Gratitude to God/dess. Reach Simi at Tamar.Toledano@gmail.com



Music/Poetry - Lucite Tokki, celebrating Korean poet Ok Bong Lee
The title of the first song is 'The Spirit in The Dream' which we wrote from translated version of Ok Bong Lee's poet which has the same title of the song. Both the song and the poem are about pain of lost love and missing someone whom you can reach only in a dream.

The title of the second song is 'No Reason', but it's tentative title since we didn't pick a permanent one yet. This song is about tiresomeness of conditional love.

Ok Bong Lee - (?~1592) was a very talented poetess from Joseon Dynasty who lived a miserable life for being born in the wrong era. She wrote this poem about her longing to meet her husband who deserted her. This poet shows 'Han' which is Korea's unique cultural concept.

Lucite Tokki is a female pop duo formed in Seoul in 2005. Both of them were born and raised in South Korea, and studied music. For over a decade, they released 4 full-length albums along with 12 singles mainly in Korean exploring various aspect of music from lighthearted acoustic pop to electronic alt pop. They moved to New York in 2016 Fall to find a new experience and sound. www.lucite-tokki.org




Historical Honoree - Literature: Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. In addition to new editions of her work being published after a revival of interest in her in 1975, her manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.




Theatre – Christine Dixon celebrating Harriet Tubman
Excerpt from Harriet Tubman Herself

MS. Dixon performs an award winning one woman show, about the life and times of Harriet Tubman. Details from Harriets life up to her dead. Her escapes, facing a mistress, time serving the soldiers during the Civil War, etc




Harriet Tubman - Harriet was a nurse, a spy, and a cook during The Civil War. Harriet also led the Combahee River Raid, which was the first time during an American war, that a woman led a raid during a battle. Harriet also rescued over 750 enslaved people whom were left behind by their masters on the Gullah Islands. During the 1850's, Harriet could no longer hide her fugitives in free states in America. She now had to travel to Canada with her fugitives, to give them a chance for Freedom. www.harriettubmanherself.com




Ms. Dixon performs a 7x award winning one woman show about the great African heroine, Harriet Tubman. Era, the movie she stars in as Harriet Tubman, is now nominated in Belgium and will be screened in Hollywood CA, May 2017. She's with the New York Women in Film & TV. Fusion Magazines interview garnered over 2 million views.




Host – Kate Hess AKA Indigo Moon

Indigo Moon is a vocalist, lyricist, and spoken word poet.

Check out her new album at indigomoonmusic.bandcamp.com




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