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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director and American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA) presents:

THE TROJAN WOMEN
A Native American Adaptation

Directed & Adapted by Sarah B. Denison

CAST
Amada Arroyo
Jolie Cloutier
Matt Cross
Annalisa Hardin
April Hayden
Johnette Janney
Matt Langer
Taniuska Lopez
Ria Nez
Sybelle Silverphoenix
Lee Taylor

PRODUCTION TEAM Alexie Eric Cruz (Stage Manager), Marlene Flores (Media Specialist) Tara Peters (Asst. Stage Manager/Asst.Production Manager), John Scott-Richardson (Production Manager)

PRODUCTION DESIGN Niez Aguirre (Make-up Design), Hannah Louise Barnard (Choreography), David Bunn Martine (Fine Art Set Design) Kanako Nagayama (Set Designer), Marshall Shugart (Lighting Designer), Mary Symczak (Costume Designer)

Diane Fraher Founder and Director of AMERINDA Inc.

Theater for the New City/ Cabaret Theater
155 First Avenue, New York, NY
Tickets $18, $15 Seniors and Students with Valid ID
Proof of vaccination required to attend

www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Box office phone: 212.254.1109
Box office hours: 1 hour prior to event

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American Indian Artists (AMERINDA) PRESENTS

THE PENDLETON BLANKET
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Saturday 25, August 2018     Saturday 25, August 2018
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THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director and American Indian Artists (AMERINDA) in association with Spiderwoman Theater PRESENTS

FEAR OF OATMEAL

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MURIEL MIGUEL

Set in an old family house in Brooklyn, Fear of Oatmeal is the story of an old Native woman, Nelly, and her house. She is surrounded by the detritus of the generations who came before her and by her memories. Fear of Oatmeal recalls the Native community that lived in post-Depression Brooklyn. They moved freely from home to home, visiting, sharing food and telling stories.

STARRING
Donna Couteau*, Joe Cross, Gloria Miguel*, Soni Moreno, Sheldon Raymore

Patricia Golden (General Manager/Technical Director), Dedalus Wainwright (Set Designer/Property Master), Alexander Bartenieff (Lighting Designer), Gabrielle Amelia Marino (Costume Designer), Statz Tatsumi Saines (Production Stage Manager), Kylie Jo Skellen (Assistant Stage Manager) *Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association

June 8-24, 2018 Thurs. – Sat. 8:00 PM Sun. 3:00 PM

Theater for the New City
Cino Theater 155 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10003
Tickets $18, $15 Seniors and Students with Valid ID

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Box office phone: 212-868-4444
Box office hours: 1 hour prior to event

AMERINDA Presents

Recovering Memories:

Vernacular photography from the historical Native American Brooklyn neighborhoods and Contemporary Photography from the New York Movement of Contemporary Native American Art

On view: May 6th–July 7th, 2018
Opening reception: May 6th, 2018, 3 to 6 pm

Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba
219 East Second Street, New York, NY 10009
(212) 674-3939

Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–6 pm

Curator: David Bunn Martine (Chiricahua Apache/Shinnecock)

This Kenkeleba program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Image: Atlantic Avenue Pontiac c. 1960. Harry Pappas, photographer. From the collection of Muriel Miguel. Left to right: Earl Two Bear, unidentified Shinnecock, Charles Robinson, unidentified, unidentified, Joseph Henry, Mrs. Two Bear, Ella Miguel, Elizabeth Henry, unidentified Mohawk

Cover of No Reservation (New York: AMERINDA, 2017)

Diane Fraher, G. Peter Jemison, Athena LaTocha, David Martine, Jaune Quick—to—See Smith

Conversation & Book Launch
Thursday, December 7, 7 p.m.

Artists Space
55 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013

What is today known as New York City stands in the original location of Mannahatta (a Munsee Delaware (Lenni-Lenape) word meaning “rocky or hilly island”). Ecologically diverse, many Native American peoples converged here in vibrant economic and social exchange. A similar spirit today drives the city. While histories of immigration and internationalism have been significant within the city’s rich modern and contemporary cultural innovations, Indigenous artists have also importantly contributed to these developments. Native techniques and practices were influential in the formation of abstract expressionism and artists as celebrated as Robert Rauschenberg and Leon Polk Smith had Cherokee heritage. The artist-curator Lloyd Oxendine opened the American Art Gallery, the first contemporary gallery dedicated to Native American art, on the same block as Artists Space in SoHo in 1970, ushering in a period of self—organized experimentation and collaboration that lead to the establishment of institutions such as the American Indian Community House (AICH) gallery and American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA).

No Reservation (AMERINDA, 2017) marks the first time that a Native American contemporary art movement — here specifically, the New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement — has been defined as such in print. Written by Nednai—Chiricahua Apache/Montauk/Shinnecock artist David Bunn Martine, it describes the dynamism of Native American artmaking in New York City within theater, visual art, and filmmaking, through both overarching theoretical studies and individual artist profiles. To mark the book’s launch, AMERINDA director Diane Fraher has convened Martine and three other leading Native American artists: G. Peter Jemison, Jaune Quick—to—See Smith, and Athena LaTocha, for a conversation that frames the rich diversity of Native art practices in New York City and further afield today, touching on the vibrant legacy of Oxendine and Polk Smith and acknowledging the contributions of Native theater to the movement.

Adam and Zack Khalil, still from INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./], 2016

Pena Bonita; Demian DinéYazhi’ with Natalie Diaz, Sonia Guiñansaca and Julian Talamantez Brolaski; G. Peter Jemison; Adam and Zack Khalil with Jackson Polys; Alan Michelson; Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green; Laura Ortman; Jolene Rickard; Kay WalkingStick; Kathleen Ash-Milby; Diane Fraher, Athena LaTocha, David Martine and Jaune Quick–to–See Smith; Candice Hopkins; Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds and Zoya Kocur

November 19, 2017 – January 21, 2018
Opening Saturday, November 18, 6 – 8 p.m.

Wednesday – Sunday: noon – 6 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday closed

Artists Space
55 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013

Artists Space is accessible via elevator from street level, welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. For access inquiries please contact Artists Space at info@artistsspace.org or 212 226 3970.

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