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Ngugi Project Reading Circle
Thursday, July 2, 2009
7:00 pm
Amherst College Theater Complex, Webster Hall Studio 3
Suggested Donation: $5
The Ngugi Project explores the work of Kenyan playwright, novelist, and theorist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, often considered the preeminent writer of the African continent today. Join in the early stages of creative process by reading Ngugi's works with the core artistic team. Explore themes, images and characters with New WORLD Theater and UMass Department of Theater faculty in a stimulating evening of art-inspired dialogue!
Contact Priscilla Page at NWT to register and get info on reading list. | |
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Crossing the Waters, Changing the Air - Staged Reading
Conceived and Directed by Ingrid Askew. Dramaturgy by Priscilla Page.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
7:00 pm
Amherst College Theater Complex, Webster Hall Studio 3
Suggested Donation: $5
Crossing the Waters, Changing The Air is an interdisciplinary performance piece based on the experiences of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage. This twelve-month journey retraced the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade routes in 1998. | |
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Expatriate
by Lenelle Moïse
Thursday, June 18 - Friday, June 19, 2009
7:00 pm
Amherst College Theater Complex, Webster Hall Studio 3
Suggested Donation: $5
Created in the spirit of Josephine Baker and Nina Simone, Lenelle Moise's critically acclaimed Expatriate features original live music, dream sequences and scenes exploring memory, black womanhood, friendship, American Paris, sexual tension, and addiction.
Presented in two parts: June 18- Expatriate in Rehearsal: Scenes & Dialogue
June 19-The Black Venus Concert Experience
Attend both shows to enjoy the full experience! | |
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Ameriville
by Universes, (Gamal Abdel Chasten, Mildred Ruiz,
William Ruiz aka Ninja and Steven Sapp) directed by Chay Yew
Thursday, April 30 - Friday, May 1, 2009
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
UNIVERSES puts the state of the Union under a microscope -- race, poverty, politics, history and government-- examining our country through the lens of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Ameriville combines an innovative mix of poetry, music, movement and drama to get to the heart of this American tragedy. | |
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Project 2050
Thursday, April 2 - Friday, April 3, 2009
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
Created in collaboration with professional artists, Project 2050 youth use hip-hop, spoken word, breaking, stepping, music, video storytelling and more, to share their realities and examine local and global issues in this high-energy, original performance. They burst onto the stage, asking the tough questions and showing their creative imagining of a near-future when it will become imperative to address issues of race construction, social equity and power. Join Project 2050 as they truly imagine and create a new future on stage! | |
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30th Anniversary Exhibit and Library Talk
"Reflections on New WORLD in an Obama Nation"
Thursday, February 12, 2009
from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMass Amherst
Free and Open to the Public
Free and Open to the Public
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I Land
by Keo Woolford, directed by Roberta Uno
Wednesday, February 11 CANCELLED - Thursday, February 12, 2009
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
At once hilarious, defiant and transcendent, I Land weaves together traditional Hawai'ian hula, Hip-Hop, Hawai'ian talk and spoken word. Created in collaboration with director Roberta Uno, I Land is acclaimed actor and hula dancer Keo Woolford's moving search for the meaning of heritage in a post-modern world. | |
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Shekadii Walaalo!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
7:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
This community-based theater production is an original work created by members of the Walaalo! Somali Sisters Collective, in collaboration with professional artists supported by New WORLD Theater. | |
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sash & trim
written by Djola Branner and directed by Laurie Carlos
Wednesday, September 24 - Friday, September 26, 2008
8:00 pm
Curtain Theater, Umass
With sash & trim, Djola Branner blends music and memory to piece together the story of a father he hardly knew. In this biographical tale of real and imagined events, we reconstruct that man's broken promises, troubled romances, and thwarted ambition - a father's dreams of success as a singer/songwriter sharply contrasted with the relationships that crumble around him. | |
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The Pork Chop Wars
A Special Reading by Laurie Carlos
Monday, September 15, 2008
6:30 pm
Curtain Theater
FREE and reservations required. Call 413-545-9590
Challenging and uplifting, the piece springs from the reflections of an
African-American woman as she reviews a life of art, activism and spirit. An
open dialogue with the artist will follow the reading. | |
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Salsa Dance Party
A Fundraiser for NWT Community Programs
Friday, July 11, 2008
from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Lobby
Dance Party Admission: Adults $15; $12 for Youth ( 6 years and older); Children 5 years and under free. Dance Party & Lesson Package: $30 Individual, $45 Couple
Come dance with the best of salsa in the Pioneer Valley as we host our First NWT Salsa Party Fundraiser- proceeds to benefit New WORLD Theater's community-centered programs, including Project 2050, the Community Spirit Showcase, and more.
Enjoy live music by Jay Borges y Kultura Borikua, with special guest percussionist, world-renowned musician Angel Rodriguez. From 6-7 pm, Salsa Lessons by Elizabeth Fernandez-O'Brien. Food iis generously provided by SALSARENGUE Restaurant. | |
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Stone Words - Open Studio
by Khadija Tracey Heeger
Saturday, June 28, 2008
7:00 pm
Amherst College Studio 3
$7 suggested donation
South African poet and performer Khadija Tracey Heeger teams up with musicians from Western Massachusetts to create a new soundscape with spoken word. Khadija's words resonate with the earth and her poems fearlessly address questions of identity and the complexities of living in her own skin, in the New South Africa, and in the world. Stone Words gives us a remarkable lens through which to see the parallel landscape of our country, our time and, ultimately, ourselves. | |
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breaking letter(s)
by Suheir Hammad, in collaboration with Waleed Zaiter
Saturday, April 5 2008
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors;$5-students with valid ID
Celebrated poet/activist Suheir Hammad’s new multimedia performance, based on her latest work, the breaking poems. Three distinctly powerful texts focus on topics of dislocation from Palestine to Brooklyn, New Orleans to Iraq, and back again. Created in collaboration with media artist Waleed Zaiter. | |
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Community/One
Saturday, April 5 2008
2:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors;$5-students with valid ID
A showcase of excerpts by activist/artists taking on important contemporary issues in a variety of aesthetics, from spoken word to interview theater. Host Kristina Wong introduces work excerpts by D’Lo (Ramble-ations), Lenelle Moïse (Womb-Words, Thirsting), Jerry Quickly (Un-Embedded) and Jose Torres Tama (Cone of Uncertainty). | |
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Intersection V
Creative UpRising(s)
Friday, April 4 - Sunday, April 6 2008
UMass Amherst
Biennial conference and festival examining new work practices by artists of color. This year's conference takes a global look at art and activism, emerging aesthetics, and the role of performance in cultural organizing. Conference events include panels and symposia, artist conversations, workshops and performances. | |
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The Love In Revolution
Friday, April 4 2008
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors;$5-students with valid ID
New WORLD Theater’s youth troupe, Project 2050, looks at global and personal revolutions in a high-energy hip-hop performance blending spoken word, breaking, stepping and video storytelling. | |
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Scratch & Burn
by D-Projects Inc.
Thursday, February 14 - Friday, February 15 2008
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons and seniors; $5-students with valid ID
Written and directed by Teo Castellanos, this original theater piece explores war traditions and battle cries--begging the question, "when is war not the answer?" Using early Zulu rituals, elements of Butoh, Maori War Dance, Tibetan Buddhism and modern political war games, Scratch & Burn is a potent investigation of the incessant need to battle for supremacy and dominance. | |
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Mestiza Power
Written and directed by Concepción León Mora and performed by Sa’as Tun
Thursday, November 29 - Friday, November 30 2007
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons and seniors; $5-students with valid ID
Through a series of interviews conducted with city and rural street vendors, Mestiza Power recounts childhood memories, educational experiences, cultural life, and current issues facing Mayan women. These interviews and monologues encompass the women’s voices and include stories of domestic violence, street selling, and mystical practice. Performance in Spanish with English supertitles. | |
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Introduction to Playback and Hip Hop Theater Workshop
Tuesday, November 13 2007
Fine Arts Center Rm. 204
Free Admission - Register Required
Sponsored by the Five College Multicultural Theater Committee and New WORLD Theater, this workshop introduces the the short forms of Playback Theater such as fluid sculpture, chorus, pairs, and four-part stories. This workshop is in conjuction with the 2007-2008 WORD Festival. | |
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Walaalo! Somali Community Festival
Saturday, October 27 2007
from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Panache Banquet Hall, 827 State Street, Springfield, MA
Suggested Donation: $10 at door
Enjoy Somali music, dancing and a sneak-preview of performances to come! Learn about the Walaalo! Somali Sisters Collective, meet participants, enjoy great food, and buy hand-made crafts to support the community! | |
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Womb-Words, Thirsting
By Lenelle Moise
Wednesday, September 19 - Thursday, September 20, 2007
8:00 pm
Hallie Flanagan Theater, Smith College
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons and seniors; $5-students with valid ID
Mixing a brew full of womanist Vodou jazz, queer theory hip-hop, and movement, "WOMB-WORDS, THIRSTING" is an interactive evening of patchwork poetic storytelling delivered – slam style – from the gut… | |
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Project 2050 The Love In Revolution
Friday, July 13 - Saturday, July 14, 2007
8:00 pm
Holden Theater, Amherst College
$12-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5 students with valid I.D.
What happens when the word revolution gets pimped in everything from music videos to banking ads? What’s the difference between revolution, resistance, uprising and independence? How can we reconcile the revolutionary credos of nonviolent civil disobedience and by any means necessary? What did Che Guevara mean when he said, Every true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love? This summer we investigate historical and contemporary global justice movements, asking, What kind of love are we talking about? and What kind of revolution do we want? Join the youth of Project 2050 as they discover, revise, remix and evolve REVOLUTION for a new generation! | |
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It Is the Seeing
by Renita Martin with Baba Israel
Friday, June 29 - Saturday, June 30, 2007
8:00 pm
Holden Theater, Amherst College
$12general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5 students with valid I.D.
It Is the Seeing is a retrospective of war – the war that is raging in the United States. HIV/AIDS infection, breast cancer, substance abuse, physical and emotional violence, and incarceration ravage our communities. Poor people, people of color, women, gays and lesbians have been engaged in quiet battles, many lives have been lost, more have been wounded. Based on poems written by Renita Martin over the last fifteen years, the piece bears witness to these times and the battles that continue. It blends poetry, music, movement, beat boxing and hip-hop, which has thumped a constant bassline to these struggles. | |
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Parang Sabil
by Kinding Sindaw and Andrea Assaf
Friday, June 15 - Saturday, June 16, 2007
8:00 pm
Holden Theater, Amherst College
$12-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5 students with valid I.D.
Parang Sabil, a historical dance-theater piece by Kinding Sindaw follows on June 15-16. A resident company of La MaMa ETC in New York, Kinding Sindaw asserts, preserves, reclaims and recreates the traditions of dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, and orature of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
Both these productions will be featured in the first National Asian American Theater Festival in New York City, June 11-24. For information about the Festival performances, visit www.naatf.org. | |
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Ramble-ations
A One-D'lo Show
Friday, June 8 - Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00 pm
Holden Theater, Amherst College
$12-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5 students with valid I.D.
Written and performed by the Los Angeles-based, queer, political theatre artist D’Lo, it’s a tour de force of multiple characters that blends incisive social commentary with freewheeling humor. | |
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Disposable Men
by James Scruggs
Thursday, April 19 - Friday, April 20, 2007
8:00 pm
Northampton Center for the Arts
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students with valid I.D.
King Kong, African American men, and Frankenstein collide in humor-laced tales about themed-restaurants featuring mutilation with dessert, and party motivators with major minstrel twists.Disposable Men is richly interactive live multimedia performance. It explores the uncanny relationship that African American men and classic Hollywood monsters share . . . the unfounded fear of, and the imaginative ways that they are killed. www.disposablemen.org | |
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Duurbaar (unstoppable): journeys into horizon
by Ananya Dance Theatre
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditoirum
$15-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students with valid I.D.
Duurbaar literally means unstoppable in Bengali, and is inspired by the relentless striving of women around the world to keep going, to realize a horizon when there is none visible, to create light when all seems dark. This new work by Ananya Dance Theatre builds on their history of addressing the multiple, interconnected forms of violence against women, recognizing experiences of pain and loss, and celebrating a quest for meaningful survival. | |
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365 Days - 365 Plays
Play Festival
Thursday, February 22 - Saturday, February 24, 2007
8:00 pm
Mount Holyoke College Rooke Theater
Suggested Donation $15 or a roll of the dice!
In 2002, Pulitzer prize-winning Suzan-Lori Parks sat down and committed to writing a play a day for a full
365 days. Now, the world premiere of this play cycle will be performed as a year-long national festival
where over 600 theaters and university campuses will produce these theatrical works in major cities and
communities around the country. For tickets call: 413-538-2406 | |
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Project 2050 - Deconstructing Dualities
Declassifying Minds, Understanding Versatility
Thursday, December 7 - Friday, December 8, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public. $8-low income patrons and seniors. $5 students with valid I.D.
As demographics and politics shift, youth find themselves caught between worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between racial and cultural identities, between gender and sexuality, between economic
class realities, between geographic borders. This year’s Project 2050 explores duality, difference and divisions, the in-between spaces, the double consciousness, the borderlands, and the subliminal zones.Through poetry, Hip Hop and theater, Project 2050 breaks down barriers to embrace multiplicity and celebrate versatility! | |
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Somali Community Festival
NWT's Somali Women's Project
Saturday, November 18, 2006
from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Panache Banquet Hall, 827 State Street, Springfield, MA
Suggested Donation at door
On Nov. 18, enjoy Somali music, dancing, and a sneak-preview of
performances to come!! Learn about the Somali Women's Project, (a new NWT initiative,) meet participants,
enjoy great food, and buy hand-made crafts to support the community!
$5-suggested donation at the door. | |
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The Fifth Commandment
by Elia Arce
Thursday, November 2, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15-general public. $8-low income patrons and seniors. $5 students with valid I.D.
Part of a
collaboration between New WORLD Theater, the Fine Arts Center and the
UMass Department of History’s Feinberg
Family Distinguished Lecture Series. www.umass.edu/history
Elia Arce’s timely and compelling performance and multimedia installation about U.S. soldiers in Iraq explores the complex themes of patriotism, violence, protest and sacrifice.
This is a residency designed to engage the local community, students and veterans through a variety of integrated workshop activities including a media presenation and panel discussion by The Visible Collective, Nov. 1, 7:30 pm, Cape Cod Lounge. Call 413-545-9591 for details. | |
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The Visible Collective
Media Presentation and Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
FREE
part of a collaboration between New WORLD Theater, the Fine Arts Center and the
UMass Department of History’s Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. www.umass.edu/history
The VISIBLE Collective is an arts collective whose work questions and
challenges ideas, theory and image in the post 9/11 war on terror.
Their project, DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA uses films, installations, &
lectures to deconstruct a global climate of Islamophobia.
www.disappearedinamerica.org | |
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Lydia on the Top Floor
by Terry Jenoure and the Bejewelled Ensemble
Wednesday, September 20 - Thursday, September 21, 2006
8:00 pm
Curtain Theater, Department of Theater
$15-general public. $8-low income patrons and seniors. $5 students with valid I.D.
Lydia, a woman, a wife, a mother, a second generation Puerto Rican lives with her daughter on the fourteenth floor of a tenement building in the Bronx. This memory, a brief moment in time recalled through music, movement, projected images, and narration is a tribute to her passion. What is the source of joy that keeps her hopeful, graceful, spirited?
This event is our annual Community Spirit Showcase and is co-presented with the UMass Department of Theater. | |
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Project 2050- Deconstructing Dualities
Declassifying Minds, Understanding Versatility
Friday, July 14 - Saturday, July 15, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium, Umass
$12-general public; $8-low income & seniors, $5-students with I.D.
Project 2050 takes on duality, class difference, borders and divisions. Through poetry, Hip Hop and theater, youth break down barriers to embrace multiplicity and celebrate versatility! | |
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Un/knowing Desire and Empire - Open Studio
by Mango Tribe
Saturday, July 1, 2006
12:00 pm
Studio 3, Amherst College Theater Complex
$5
Desire. Empire. Our daily doings, our passions, and the wars around us are intertwined. Breath, the erotic core, and the global struggle to survive are inextricably linked.
Un/knowing Desire and Empire is as much a presentation of historical fiction that delves into the fantastical as it is an erotic, primal story told through breath, gesture, and movement; elements of character, sentience, and society unveil through the purity and synergy of art itself. | |
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Scourge
by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Friday, June 30 - Saturday, July 1, 2006
8:00 pm
Amherst College Holden Theater
$12-general public; $8-low income & seniors, $5-students with I.D.
An exorcism and re-imagination of traditional theatrical genres, Scourge offers a powerful, political and revolutionary look at Haiti in its 200th year as a sovereign nation. In this new work, acclaimed performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph fuses hip-hop, spoken word and live music in an exploration of the narrow space between history, myth and speculation in this poignant look at the tragic and complex history of the artist’s native Haiti. | |
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Dreamscape - Open Studio
A work-in-progress with Rickerby Hinds and Manu Mukasa
Friday, June 23 - Saturday, June 24, 2006
8:00 pm
Amherst College Holden Theater
$ 5
December, 1998. Southern California. Four police officers fired 24 shots at an unconscious 19-year old woman killing her while she lay locked in her car. They were charged with criminal wrong-doing and cleared of charges in May 1999.
Taking the inner monologue as a form, playwright Rickerby Hinds paints us the picture of the life of Myeisha Mills. Her innocence and youthfulness contrast on the stage with descriptions of her death, her autopsy and the extraction of the bullets from her body. | |
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Letter and Journals- Open Studio
An Evening With Suheir Hammad
Thursday, June 15, 2006
8:00 pm
Amherst College Holden Theater Complex
$5
Acclaimed poet Suheir Hammad will read from new writings in the early process of transferring from page to stage. These letters and journals draw from her personal experience as a Palestinian American, extensive research on the history and literature of Zionism, and recent visits to Palestine. In this work, Hammad seeks to create a safe space where difficult confessions can be expressed, and artist and audience can sit together as fragile, connected humans. She approaches the complex issues of Palestinian and Israeli relations with empathy and humanity, seeking to present a viewpoint that too often goes unreported, misrepresented, or misunderstood. | |
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Continuity and MOVEment
A Future Aesthetics Showcase
Sunday, April 9, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
Showcase exploring new aesthetics in theater, intergenerational works and Hip Hop theater and dance. Featuring works by Baba and Steve Ben Israel, Mango Tribe, and olive Dance Theatre with Paula Larke. (Open to the general public. Part of NWTs Intersection IV Conference.) | |
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Trying To Find My Way Back Home
with William O'Neal
Saturday, April 8, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
Using storytelling, rap, song and spoken word, Junebug Jabbo Jones The Younger (played by William O'Neal) challenges contemporary audiences to recognize the importance of our past struggles to our present lives. | |
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Project 2050 - On the Frontlines: Sex, War & Lies
Friday, April 7, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
NWTs Intersection IV Conference kicks off with the Project 2050 youth exploring the frontlines and war zones that many youth encounter at home and abroad. (Open to the general public. Part of NWTs Intersection IV Conference.) | |
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INTERSECTION IV --Re/Generations
Friday, April 7 - Sunday, April 9, 2006
Various UMass venues
The fourth Intersection conference will strive to bridge cultural generations by bringing together a diverse and intergenerational group of artists, scholars, and activists. Participants will take part in dialogues, plenary sessions and attend featured performances. Intersection IV: Re/Generations will provide multiple ways to celebrate and contemplate multicultural theater lineages. Additionally, conference participants and performers will reflect on the relationship between art and activism with a dialogue featuring members of Project 2050, New WORLD Theater’s youth program.
Visit the Intersection website at http://www.umass.edu/fac/nwt/Intersection-Conference.htm | |
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NOMAD: The River by Yin Mei Dance
Co-Presented with Asian Arts and Culture Program
Friday, February 24, 2006
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$20, $15; Students: $10, $7
This work revolves around the symbol of the river -the Yellow River in China and the Ganges in India. The duality represented by these two rivers drives the choreography and visual environment in this collaborative production between computer animation artist Tennessee Rice Dixon, lighting director Shao Lia and costume designer Naoko Nagata. | |
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You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
John O'Neal and William O'Neal
Friday, December 2 - Saturday, December 3, 2005
8:00 pm
Northampton Center for the Arts
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
Mythical storyteller Junebug Jabbo Jones illuminates upon slices of African American life and black folk's struggle for rights and respect. | |
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Birth of A n'Asian
Featuring Kate Rigg. Written by Kate Rigg and Leah Ryan
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
"Birth of a nASIAN" - Kate Rigg's super edgy super freaky comedy (in the style of Leguizamo/Ullman/Tomlin/Jones), fierce spoken word rants all woven together by the kickin pulse of former Juilliard virtuoso turned rockin electronic violin player Lyris Hung. Hip hop comedy theater with an asian slant. Written by Kate Rigg and Leah Ryan. | |
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Caliente Tour
Circle Around the Sun
Friday, September 16, 2005
8:00 pm
Top of the Campus, Umass
$15 general, $8 senior/low income, $5 students
An Evening of red-hot Asian-Latin-Indo poetry and music by these revolutionary artists. Fred Ho, Raul Salinas and Magdalena Gomez will come together for the first time in their Caliente! Tour, bringing together their seasoned rhythms and voices from New York to Texas and around the world. This is the New England Premiere! | |
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Project 2050 On the Frontlines
Sex, War and Lies
Friday, July 8 - Saturday, July 9, 2005
8:00 pm
Holden Theater Complex, Amherst College
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
Project 2050 youth explore the frontlines and war zones that many youth encounter at home and abroad. | |
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Fronteras Desviadas / Deviant Borders
Mujeres en Ritual
Friday, June 24 - Saturday, June 25, 2005
8:00 pm
Holden Theater Complex, Amherst College
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
Through original poetry and movement, Fronteras Desviadas / Deviant Borders explores the exploitation of women, gender, taboo and rites of passage in the U.S.-Mexico border region. El Chamuco , our tour guide, leads us on a journey to "the other side" of sexuality, deviance, and culture. Bilingual presentation. Adult themes and content. | |
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You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
Sayings From The Life And Writings Of
Junebug Jabbo Jones, The Younger, Volume II
Open Studio - Work in Progress
Saturday, June 18, 2005
12:00 pm
Experimental Theater Amherst College
Free and open to the public - reservations recommended call 413.545.1972
In You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover, Junebug Jabbo Jones is the narrator of stories, this time mostly about others, especially "Phillip Anthony Tatum, called "Po" Tatum, because he liked to eat spuds". We follow Po's story from early boyhood in Pike County, Mississippi to his last desperate hours on earth, in a westside Chicago building. | |
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The Triangle Project
Journey of the Dandelion
Friday, June 17 - Saturday, June 18, 2005
8:00 pm
Holden Theater Complex, Amherst College
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
This meditation on peace is narrated through a blend of personal stories, traditional Japanese folk and contemporary original music, the rhythms of taiko and dance. | |
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Project 2050 Showcase
Thursday, April 7, 2005
7:30 pm
Bowker Auditorium
$15 General Public, $8 Seniors/low income, $5 Students
Inspired by a group of local and national scholars, artists and activists, Project 2050 youth present a this dazzling performance. Reception and Poetry Slam to follow performance | |
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In What Language?
A Song Cycle of Lives in Transit: Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd
Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
$15 General Public, $8 Seniors/low income, $5 Students
Improvisational in nature and hybrid to the core, "In What Language?" is a 21st-century song cycle combining music by pianist-composer Vijay Iyer with spoken text by poet/hip-hop artist (and Hampshire College graduate) Mike Ladd. | |
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Meditations with the Goddess
Thursday, February 3, 2005
8:00 pm
Northampton Center for the Arts
$15 General Public, $8 Seniors/low income, $5 Students
A modern trilogy that traverses the rocky, and often treacherous, terrain of the human psyche. World-renowned performing and recording artist/activist Rha Goddess uses movement, spoken word, technology and music to weave a metaphysical exploration of personal growth. | |
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DREAM!
Project 2050 performance
Monday, January 17, 2005
from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
First Churches, Northampton 129 Main St.
free for children up to age 12
Interactive programs for children to talk about the roots of violence in their lives and explore the many ways they can use their inner resources of peacemaking to create a just, loving and peaceful world for themselves, their communirty and our world. Activities include theater, poetry/rap, dance, discussions, and peace games.
Youth teaching artists from Project 2050, a youth initiative of the New World Theater, will be featured in these activities. Project 2050 brings together youth and adult artists, organizers, scholars and activists to create original theater/poetry/dance pieces.
Also featured: Victory Over Violence (VOV), a youth-sponsored non-violence initiative which helps young people identify and counteract the root causes of violence. | |
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MLK Celebration
Tina Reynolds speaks, Project 2050, Climbing Poetree, Performance Project, Voices from the Inside, and the 5 College Gospel Choir perform
Monday, January 17, 2005
from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
First Churches Northampton
free
Tina Reynolds, a survivor of the criminal justice system, mother of seven, scholar and co-founder of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH), will speak. Jazz Hayden, the formerly incarcerated lead plaintiff in Hayden v. Pataki, a lawsuit challenging mass disenfranchisement of prisoners and parolees in New York State, also speaks.
Performances from Climbing Poetree, Performance Project, Project 2050, Voices from the Inside, and the 5 College Gospel Choir. | |
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La Casa de Rigoberta Mira Al Sur
Grupo Justo Rufino Garay
Friday, November 19 - Saturday, November 20, 2004
Location TBA
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
A multifaceted piece that incorporates poetry, dialogue, and monologue in order to mediate between a dead national past and the uncertain crises of the present. Performed entirely in Spanish with English translations. | |
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Everett Dance Theater
Home Movies
Friday, October 22, 2004
8:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Home Movies is a multi-faceted, deeply layered piece that explores the American family as it exists today. Using dance, theater, song and video, Home Movies intertwines compelling images and poignant moments with humor and light and playful movement. | |
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Project 2050- Environ-mentality
Saturday, July 10 - Sunday, July 11, 2004
July 10 at 8 pm and July 11 at 3 pm, Rand Theater
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
What is environmental injustice? How does it intersect with other forms of prejudice? How does the movement expand beyond conservation and enter into the realm of socioeconomic change and global survival? Hosted by the University of Massachusetts Department of Theater, with additional residency support from Amherst College. | |
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Project 2050 - Breakin' It Down
Wednesday, July 7, 2004, 7-9 p.m., 2004
Grace Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Amherst
Free of charge
"Breakin' It Down" is a space to provide a starting point for young people and adults to discuss critical issues affecting their communities by using methods for social change! Free and open to the public. For more information, please call New WORLD Theater at 545-1972. | |
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Open Studio - Meditations With The Goddess by Rha Goddess
A sneak-peek into projects in development!
Saturday, June 26, 2004
12 noon, Curtain Theater, Umass
FREE AND BY RESERVATION ONLY!
Call 413.545.9591 to reserve your seat.
A modern trilogy that traverses the rocky and often treacherous terrain of the human psyche. Written and performed by Rha Goddess. In this epic work built upon the ancient trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone, three contemporary Goddesses, Lowquesha, Medina and Devina, emerge from the underworld to aid in an autobiographical search for universal and personal truth. World renowned performing and recording artist/activist Rha Goddess uses movement, spoken word, technology and music to weave a metaphysical exploration of personal growth. | |
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Blood Cherries
Dawn Akemi Saito
Friday, June 25 - Saturday, June 26, 2004
8 pm, Rand Theater
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
A stunning performance featuring Butoh dance, music and intense visual imagery!Writen and performed by Dawn Akemi Saito A haunting and beautiful tale of a young woman on a fantastical journey into memory and imagination in an attempt to come to terms with the dying and death of her father. MATURE THEMES. | |
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Open Studio - echo:systems by Grisha Coleman
A sneak-peek into projects in development!
Saturday, June 19, 2004
12 noon, University Gallery
FREE AND BY RESERVATION ONLY!
Call 413.545.9591 to reserve your seat.
A live performance work by Grisha Coleman, that emerges from a dialogue between art, science and technology. Performed as a series of modular, site specific performance installations, each station references a chosen, natural habitat that engages the audience and immerses them in an alternative reality. | |
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The America Project
Sekou Sundiata
Friday, June 18 - Saturday, June 19, 2004
8 pm, Curtain Theater
Tickets: $12; seniors and low income $8;
Students with valid ID: $5
What does it mean to be an American?
What does it mean to be both an individual and a citizen? Through singing, storytelling, music, and movement, this live participatory event [using actors and non-actors from the Pioneer Valley community,] breaks open a public dialogue between the arts and civic responsibility. | |
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Word Becomes Flesh
Wednesday, April 28 - Thursday, April 29, 2004
8pm, Bowker Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Nationally-acclaimed poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph uses spoken word, multi-media and dance in this interdisciplinary work where the form and sensibility of Hip-Hop reconfigures and impacts the concept of theatrical performance. | |
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Project 2050
multi-lingual-schisms
Thursday, April 15 - Friday, April 16, 2004
8pm, Bowker Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Project 2050, a collaboration between youth, scholars, and artists, will set the stage ablaze in this innovative theater project that intersects social action and empowers young people to look creatively and critically at contemporary and future crises. | |
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Project 2050's Original Works Series
A new Project 2050 Youth Showcase
Saturday, March 20, 2004
Amherst Regional High School Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
A special event of three solo works exploring themes of coming of age, manipulation by the news media, political activism, and the power of the spoken word of overcome life's obstacles. | |
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June Jordan Conference
Friday, February 27 - Saturday, February 28, 2004
Performance: Blueprints for Revolution at 8 pm Saturday February 28, Bowker Auditorium.
FREE EVENT
Friday - Keynote by Sonia Sanchez. 7:30 pm, Student Union Ballroom
Saturday - Roundatble discussions, Campus Ctr 101
Using Jordan’s work as a foundation, this artist/activist gathering will develop in-depth conversations about the current sociopolitical environment and social justice activism | |
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West Side Stories
Saturday, February 21 - Sunday, February 22, 2004
8pm, Bowker Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
In 2000, the censorship choice and subsequent cancellation of the musical, West Side Story, at Amherst Regional High School ignited a local controversy in Amherst, MA that divided the community and drew national attention to issues of racial representation. | |
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New WORLD Theater Artist Trainings
Thursday, February 19 - Tuesday, May 4, 2004
As NWT continues to celebrate its 25th anniversary year, we want to invite you to participate in our extraordinary season that focuses on, celebrates, and contemplates the convergence of community, arts, and activism. Action, movement, storytelling, performance, poetry and directing are all part of NWT’s Artist Training Series. The cost is $15.00 per workshop and there are a limited amount of work-study scholarships available. Come for one workshop or attend the whole series. Reserve your space today by calling Joshua Fontanez at 413. 545.9591. See below for workshop descriptions, dates and times. Prior registration is a must. | |
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Word for Word
Five College Poetry Slam
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
TBA at 8:00pm
Feature a student from each of the five colleges competing in an old school slam session. | |
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Eyewitness Blues
Wednesday, November 12 - Thursday, November 13, 2003
8pm, Northampton Center for the Arts
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Caught between an - art and its hard place,- a composer is haunted by the rhythms of familiar stories that are looking for endings. | |
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Word for Word
Open Mic Series
Sunday, November 2, 2003
Northampton Center for Arts, Northampton, MA at 7:00pm
A night of poetry, performance and activism featuring youth organization from all over Pioneer Valley. | |
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Re-Orientalism
Thursday, October 23, 2003
8pm, Bowker Auditorium
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Based on the writings of Edward Said, the work will include original and traditional instrumental and vocal music, spoken text translated between English and several Asian languages, projected visual imagery, and several cameo appearances by notable actors, musicians and martial artists. | |
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Word for Word
Open Mic Series
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
Student Union - Cape Cod Lounge at 7:30pm
Feature exciting young poets from the campus community, departments and student organization committed to giving voice. | |
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Undesirable Elements
/ Pioneer Valley
Wednesday, September 24 - Thursday, September 25, 2003
Bowker Auditorium 8pm
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Our 25th Anniversary Kickoff Event!
by Ping Chong and Talvin Wilks
featuring Emanuel Manou Dalomba, Nahid Ibrahim, Herman Moreno, Carlos Oliva and
Bunthany Thap. | |
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Project 2050: Multi-Lingual-Schisms
New WORLD Play Laboratory
Saturday, July 12 - Sunday, July 13, 2003
July 12: 3pm and 8pm
July 13: 3pm
Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
Diversity in the U.S. is in crisis, as bilingual education programs and affirmative action initiatives are becoming extinct. How do we hear diversity? How do we talk about it? And, what will it look like in the year 2050? | |
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Eyewitness Blues
Open Studio Showing
Saturday, June 28, 2003
12pm Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
A new work by Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp. Music by Carlos Pimentel and Paul Thompson.
A new poetic and musical journey created by Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp of Universes, influenced by jazz, flamenco, poetry, the Blues, Spanish Bolero, and Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. | |
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Raving
New WORLD Play Laboratory
Friday, June 27 - Saturday, June 28, 2003
8pm Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
The specter of Edgar Allen Poe haunts Raving, a dislocating re-envisioning of The Raven that brings together monologue and puppet theater. | |
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ReOrientalism
Open Studio Showing
Saturday, June 21, 2003
12pm Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
Western images of Islam and the East are redirected, reshaped, and reclaimed by three artists of Middle Eastern descent in ReOrientalism, a multimedia pocket opera that merges spoken word, sung text, original and traditional music. | |
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Woomen (n)
New WORLD Play Laboratory
Friday, June 20 - Saturday, June 21, 2003
8pm Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
Power, identity, rites of passage, mother¹s voices, father's words all merge into a celebration and ritual excavation of the lives of women from different races, generations and traditions. | |
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An Evening of Women Poets
New WORLD Play Laboratory
Friday, June 13 - Saturday, June 14, 2003
8pm Experimental Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $12-adults; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5-students
Nationally-recognized women poets speak truth to fire as they perform together for the first time in this evening of cultural politics, poetry,spoken word, and music. | |
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Soular Power'd
Thursday, April 24 - Friday, April 25, 2003
8 pm, Bowker Auditorium
From the issues to the trends, from the roots to the fashion, Full Circle Productions has its finger on the pulse of Hip-Hop culture and proves it with its compelling show, Soular Power’d. | |
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WORD for WORD: Open Mic Series
Hosted by Baba Israel
Monday, April 14, 2003
Atlantis in amherst at 8pm. Call (413) 545-1972 for more information.
Free
New WORLD Theater’s unique and successful Open Mic Series allows young poets and spoken word artists to step up to the microphone - some for the very first time. The Series echoes old school poetry slams that took place in New York City in the 1980s and 90s with its cutting edge musical accompaniment via DJ and its ability to brim with electricity as young poets tell their stories, wordsmith with attitude, and rock the mic. | |
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Blessing the Boats
written and performed by Sekou Sundiata
Wednesday, April 2 - Thursday, April 3, 2003
8 pm, Bowker Auditorium
Developed last year in New WORLD Theater’s innovative New Works for a New
World Play Laboratory, Sekou Sundiata’s blessing the boats returns to the
Pioneer Valley for a highly anticipated engagement. This poignant one-person
theatrical work brings into perspective the story of five tumultuous years
of Sundiata’s life, his struggle with life-threatening kidney failure, his
subsequent organ transplant and recovery. More profoundly, it is a personal
look at the world from a forced withdrawal, “an exile from the self I had
come to know.” blessing the boats blends solo theatrical performance,
literary reading, stand-up comedy, spoken word performance and the
storytelling of a griot. | |
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Playback Theater
Tuesday, March 11 - Wednesday, March 12, 2003
East Street Studios at 8pm
The actors and musicians of Playback Theater use music, dance, Free Style Hip Hop, and improvisational theater to transform the stories of audience members into the art of theater. With a little bit of DJ’ing and spoken word thrown into the mix, the company freshly engages the possibilities for interactive performance. Built around audience participation, Playback Theater reinvents theater’s new school as a constantly evolving, multidisciplinary, and always original cultural experience. Open Mic featuring Baba Israel to follow the performance. | |
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Some Asians by Alice Tuan
Thursday, February 27 - Saturday, March 8, 2003
Performances at 8pm: February 27, 28; March 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Performances at 2pm: March 1, 8
All performances are at the Curtain Theater, UMass
Tickets are $10, $5 for students/seniors
Exemplified by the relations between Britain and Hong Kong, the West and Marco Polo, the West and a fictional dilapidating dynasty, Some Asians explores the consequences of colonialism as Tuan traces Hong Kong’s history from a Chinese territory to a British colony and back to Chinese principality. The Public Theater’s producer George C. Wolfe says, "Alice Tuan has a wonderful sense of the outrageous, is a brilliant craftsperson of language and has a thrilling theatrical imagination." | |
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WORD for WORD: Open Mic Series
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Location TBA at 8 pm.Call (413) 545-1972 for more information.
New WORLD Theater’s unique and successful Open Mic Series allows young poets and spoken word artists to step up to the microphone - some for the very first time. The Series echoes old school poetry slams that took place in New York City in the 1980s and 90s with its cutting edge musical accompaniment via DJ and its ability to brim with electricity as young poets tell their stories, wordsmith with attitude, and rock the mic. | |
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Word for Word
Open Mic Series
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
8pm at the Thirst Mind in Amherst
Free Admission
Hosted by seasoned performance artists, Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of the theater ensemble Universes, the Series is brimming with electricity as young poets tell their stories, wordsmith with attitude, and rock the mic. | |
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Word for Word
Open Mic Series
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
8pm at the Thirsty Mind in Amherst
Admission is free
Hosted by seasoned performance artists, Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of the theater ensemble Universes, the Series is brimming with electricity as young poets tell their stories, wordsmith with attitude, and rock the mic. | |
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Mezclasitas/Mixtures: An Evening of Three Solo Works
Wednesday, November 13 - Thursday, November 14, 2002
Bowker Auditorium at 8pm
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Humor, empathy, and engaging performance unite three works by Nilaja Sun, who explores themes of coming-of-age, mortality, and post-September 11th New York City, using the power of solo performance. Her three one-act plays - Black and Blue, Insufficient Fare, and Due to the Tragic Events of - are brought together in Mezclasitas/Mixtures which will take audience members on a whirlwind tour of identity, politics, and social reflection. | |
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Imagine the Angels of Bread
Wednesday, October 16 - Thursday, October 17, 2002
Bowker Auditorium at 8pm
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Back for a repeat performance, Imagine the Angels of Bread is a stunning Hip-Hop inspired, concert version of Martín Espada’s award-winning book of poems that provocatively challenges social realities and economic imbalances. This compelling drama journeys back to the early Hip-Hop cultural moment when the music empowered listeners to positively influence their communities. | |
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Word for Word
Open Mic Series
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
8 pm at the Thirsty Mind in Amherst
Admission is Free
Hosted by seasoned performance artists, Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz of the theater ensemble Universes, the Series is brimming with electricity as young poets tell their stories, wordsmith with attitude, and rock the mic. | |
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Project 2050 - 2002
Wednesday, September 25 - Thursday, September 26, 2002
Bowker Auditorium at 8pm
Tickets: $15; seniors and low income $8;
Five College students with ID and children $5
Project 2050 is a multi-year exploration of the year when it is projected that people of color will become the majority in the United States. This year’s performance explores the overarching topic, "How Do We Disagree? Nation/Conflict/Freedom," which is prompted not only by the events of September 11th, but also by the broader questions these tragic events have raised. |
