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APRIL EVENTS
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Baruch College - Mason Hall -17 Lexington Avenue at 23rd Street, NY, NY.
FREE - Registration Required. Call 212-226-0130 x 11
Ping Chong
& Company continues its sponsorship of the Undesirable Elements theater program with Global Kids, a NYC organization committed to transforming urban
youth into successful students as well as global and community leaders. Original Undesirable Elements cast member Emerald Trinket Monsod Walker
directs a
production with public school students presented at the Global Kids
Annual Conference.
Friday, April 11, 2008 - 6:00 p.m.
Undesirable Elements (Asian-America) Publication in New York Theater Review
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Publication Launch, Reading and Reception.
The Drama Book Shop, Inc., 250 West 40th Street, NY, NY.
FREE Reading and Reception!
Presented in June 2007 as part of the first National Asian-American Artist Theater
Festival, the most recent production in the Undesirable Elements series featured 6 Asian-American artists, activists, and educators. The complete
script has been included in the newest edition of New York Theater Review alongside plays from Taylor Mac and Tommy Smith, and essays from Victoria
Linchong, Zachary R. Mannheimer, and Marya Sea Kamins. Click here for more
info.
April 17-20, 2008
Secret Histories: Oxford
Written and directed by Leyla Modirzadeh
The
Powerhouse
Community Arts Center
413 South 14th Street, Oxford, MS.
Tickets: Call 662-236-6988.
A new work in the Undesirable Elements series exploring the effects of history, culture, and ethnicity through oral histories of five people from
different backgrounds living in Oxford, Mississippi. Co-sponsored by the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. April 17, 18, 19 at 8pm
and April 20 at 2pm. Funds raised from the play will go to supporting the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council at The Powerhouse.
Friday, April 18, 2008 - 6:30 p.m.
Film Screening followed by "meet and greet" with Ping Chong and Muna Tseng.
Paul Kasmin
Gallery, 290 Tenth Avenue at 27th Street, NY, NY.
FREE! Space is limited.
Please RSVP via e-mail to tayo@paulkasmingallery.com.
"98.6" and
"SlutForArt", a 60 minute video of the live dance-theater performance
by Muna
Tseng, on the life and art of Tseng Kwong Chi, directed by Ping Chong.
Winner of the New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award in 1999.
Featuring voices of Kenny Scharf, Ann Magnuson, Timothy
Greenfield-Sanders, Bill T. Jones, Richard Martin, Kristoffer Haynes
and Jenny
Yee.
"East Meets West", an 8 minute film by Christine Lombard featuring Tseng Kwong Chi in
person and voice, filmed in New York City in 1984.
This event is part of the exhibition Tseng Kwong Chi: Self Portraits 1979 - 1989, running
April 3 - May 3, 2008 at Paul Kasmin Gallery.Click here for more info.
MAY EVENTS
May 28 and 29, 2008
Delta Rising!
Written and directed by Talvin Wilks and Ping Chong
BRIC, 657 Rockwell
Place
(between Fulton and DeKalb), Brooklyn, NY.
Tickets: $12. Additional Ticket Details Coming Soon.
A new work in the Undesirable Elements series exploring the experiences of New Yorkers with roots in the Mississippi Delta. Produced with 651 ARTS and presented by 651 ARTS as part of THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA HERITAGE
PROJECT,
May 28 - June 8, 2008.
May 29-June 1, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
I Will Not Be Sad In This World
Choreographed and directed by Ping Chong
La MaMa E.T.C., 74A
East 4th
Street, New York, NY.
Tickets: Details Coming Soon.
JUNE EVENTS
Inside/Out...voices from the disability community
Written and directed by Ping Chong and Sara Michelle Zatz
Open Dress Rehearsal: June 13, 2008
La Guardia
Performing
Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.
Tickets: Details Coming Soon.
World Premiere: June 27-29, 2008
The John F. Kennedy
Center
for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Tickets: $20. Click here to buy
tickets
Commissioned by VSA
arts, this
new work in the Undesirable Elements series features 7
individuals from
the disability community, speaking about their own life experiences. As they weave their narratives into a dynamic theatrical experience, these
powerful portraits compel us to think about disability in our society in a new way. Developed through a space grant with LaGuardia Performing Arts
Center.
You can help support these and other projects by making a tax-deductible contribution to Ping
Chong & Company through www.justgive.org. Just click the button above to make
a
secure on-line donation. Thank you!
The Undesirable
Elements project is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and by a major grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
MetLife Foundation is now the National Sponsor of the Undesirable Elements
series.
These and other Ping Chong & Company activities are made possible with the support of the
National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Leon Levy Foundation, The Leading
National Ensemble Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lila Wallace
Theater Fund, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Shubert Foundation, ART/New York-The New York Times Company
Foundation...and many generous individual donors.
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