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WINDOWS
Art Is Who You Know

by CHRISTINA MASSEY
June 25 ? July 5, 2007
Hours: 11:00AM - 2:00PM, 5:00PM - 7:00PM, M-F, Closed Weekends
Opening Reception: Friday June 29th, 6-8PM
chashama window space @266 West 37th Street
(between 7th & 8th Aves; A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th St)
FREE and open to the public.

Have you ever gotten a job, apartment, or been accepted into a program due to the recommendation of a friend?  This interactive installation takes a bold move at defining Art as exactly that, simply who you know. Using footprints as their brush, guests step into paint and walk over the canvases creating paths of prints.  When finished they are put onto frames and hung on the walls, whereas the ones created by those she does not know are tossed aside and ignored.   A humorous and insightful look into the proceedings of the Gallery World, Massey draws a conclusion that networking is often more important that the artwork itself.

EXHIBIT
The Bubulinos' Best Bestows 2007
(The BBB by Bubi)
A performance installation written & directed by Roi "Bubi" Escudero.
Installation hours: June 27, 28, 29, 30 and July 1, 2007 from noon to midnight.
Performance daily at 7:30PM.
Reception June 30 at 7:00PM
chashama gallery at 112 West 44th Street
(Bet. 6th Avenue and Broadway, B/D/F/V/7 to Bryant Park, A/C/E/N/R/Q/W/1/2/3 to Times Square)
FREE and open to the public.
www.etdcprojects.org
Featuring artists-in?residence at ETdC Projects' Lab: Andy Chmelko, Jennifer Rosa and Antonio Fini. In collaboration with Bubi, James Ewan created the painted background and 3D Aliens for the installation. Original music co-produced by J Scott Music.

Bubi's retrospective installation brings together multidimensional poetic imagery using text, music, environmental sound and projections, joined by the theme of 'the ocean':
"The ocean, now and forever, binds each element of our world together. The ocean is a silent but devoted audience to both laugh and scream, embrace and struggle, an impartial eye to sorrow, joy, horror, ecstasy. The ocean is the tireless narrator to all that was, all that we see, and all that will be." - Andy Chmelko

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ALSO

 

 

EXHIBIT

Portraits
artists working uptown

an installation by Megan Metcalf
at chashama Project Exhibition Studio
159 West 119th Street (at Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard)
Trains: 2/3 to 116th Street; A/C/B/D to 125th St
handicap accessible
Open Studio: Friday, July 6, 7-9 PM
Additional hours: Saturday, July 7, 1-4 PM & Sunday, July 8, 1-4 PM
FREE and open to the public.
www.meganmetcalf.com

 

Megan Metcalf is mapping minds. She's moved her office uptown and is inviting neighbors, friends, and other artists to show her how they organize the world. They'll tackle an impressive pile of paper and colorful objects, prioritizing them according to their own whims and personalities. Megan is documenting the visits with photos and text, and creating wall guides to accompany the filing systems - which reveal far more compelling things about each guest than the color of his hair or the shape of her eyeglasses.

 

To participate, contact Megan Metcalf by email: mgm27 [at] columbia.edu. Potential participants should have 2-3 free hours and love to file and organize things.

 

 

THEATRE

collectiveP.A.S.T.
@chashama 217

collectiveP.A.S.T. @chashama and Thirsty Turtle Productions Presents
"Dark of the Moon"

written by Howard Richardson & William Berney
Directed by Ian Crawford
Supported by collectiveP.A.S.T. @chashama
chashama, 217 E.42nd St (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves)
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central 
through July 8, 2007
Thursdays - Saturdays, 8pm
Sundays, 2pm
Tickets: $15
For reservations, go to www.smarttix.com, call 212-868-4444 or email reservations [at] thirstyturtle.org
Cast: Adelgiza Chemountd, Renee Delto, Sarah Hayes Donnell, Noah J. Dunham, Adam K. Fujita, Matthew Hadley, Russell Harder, Jessica Howell, Chris Masullo, Brendan Norton, Katey Parker, Amanda Peck, Minna Richardson, Jake Thomas, Dennis X. Tseng.

Set design: Emily French
Lighting Design: James Bedell
Costume Design: Layla Sogut
Sound Design: Duncan Cutler
Puppet, Postcard Design: Dakota West
Production Stage Manager: Jillian Zeman
Costume Design: Layla Sogut
www.thirstyturtle.org

 

collectiveP.A.S.T. @chashama and The Sum Of Us Theatre Company presents
a reading of a new play
page one romance
by James C. Ferguson & Jason Dobin
Wednesday, June 27
6:30p wine & cheese
7:00p reading
chashama, 217 E.42nd St (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves)
FREE ADMISSION / DONATIONS APPRECIATED
for more information email deborah.martin [at] srz.com

 

Music

a new play with old music

written and directed by Ben Wood
chashama, 217 E.42nd St (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves)
Open workshop performances:

through June 29th, noon - 6pm Mon thru Fri, **except  Wednesday the 27th**

Please come anytime you like and experience the work in progress.

 

The Ateh Theater Group Presents
"Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays" 
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Carlton Ward
Fridays, June 29, July 6, July 27, August 3 @ 10:30PM 
chashama, 217 E.42nd St (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves)
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central
Get tickets at www.ateh.org, or call Smarttix at 212-868-4444
Tickets: $10.00
Reserve your seats today!

Starring: Charley Layton, Madeleine Maby, Sara Montgomery, Elizabeth Neptune, Ben Wood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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