Staten Island
Greens
Eco-Fest
2003
for a sane and sustainable future
ART AND PERFORMANCES:
(Scroll down for a listing of participating artists.)
Performances
(Saturday, April 26th and Sunday, April 27th, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Muddy Cup, 388 Van Duzer Street; 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., Martini Red, 372 Van Duzer Street; Noon - 6:00 p.m., First Central Baptist Church Parking Lot, 117 Wright St.)
Plays, spoken word, bands, performance art...
Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 (Muddy Cup, 388 Van Duzer Street)
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Various performers.
Saturday, April 26 (Martini Red, 372 Van Duzer Street)
9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Performances will include:
Play: “Wizard of Us”, GANAS
Sunday, April 27 (Martini Red, 372 Van Duzer Street)
9:00 p.m. until...?
Performances will include:
M.C.: Nancy Richards, Teacher, New Dorp High School & named a Staten Island Comic of the Year. Marguerite Rivas, J.J. Hayes.
Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 (First Central Baptist Church Parking Lot, 117 Wright St.)
Noon - 6:00 p.m.
INTERACTIVE CARNIVAL:
(Children/Family Friendly!)
(Saturday) Performances by The Green Circus; Informal African Drumming Circle; Recyclists; Aresh Javadi of More Gardens: “Audience-Involving Puppet Show for Kids and Adults on Spontaneous Audience-Suggested Social Concerns.”
(Sunday) Performances by Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble.
(see more on the Interactive Carnival on the Exhibits page)
Art Show: My Green Home
(Saturday, April 26th and Sunday, April 27th, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., Winter Palace, 151 Winter Ave.)
In addition to being part of the Staten Island Greens Eco-Fest, this will be the first public exhibition at the Winter Palace. The exhibition will continue on weekends in May. The question is, how do we live in this world? How do we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of creation, and how is this relation expressed in works of art? The show will combine the global and the local -- prescriptive conceptual art* and work, mostly by regional artists, on the theme of a domestic relation with nature.
My Green Home features some of the many ideas artists have had for change in our environment, including conceptual art and ecology art. At the exhibition's core are artists' personal reflections on their relation to nature where they live. Their artwork addresses issues of how we live in this world, how we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of creation, and how these relations are expressed in works of art. The show combines the global and the local -- prescriptive and personal. The exhibition has a special urgency given the current political climate. Green Home's intent is to imagine a world in which we are no longer primarily dependent upon a nonrenewable polluting energy source. In this time of war, the show's organizers feel it is ever more important to concentrate on the kind of world we want to see, to inspire people to continue to strive for those so-desired millennial improvements.
*By "prescriptive conceptual art," I mean principally the work of Peter Fend, who proposes to redesign the world on the basis of watersheds. Others who make propaganda for the earth include Helen and Newton Harrison, Joseph Beuys, Mel Chin, and HaHa group. This work will almost certainly be presented mostly in photostat form.
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