¡OYEMe! Music Series
Welcome to ¡OYEME! Music Series, a monthly showcase bringing you la musica de la gente at PAC NYC.
Location: Perelman Arts Center 251 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007
Dates: FEBRUARY 20 & 21 AND MARCH 20 & 21
Time: 6pm
TAXILANDIA ANACOSTIA
Our Founder and Artistic Director, Modesto Flako Jimenez, is bringing his acclaimed show, Taxilandia, to cities across America. In Washington, DC, Flako will design and host a series of hybrid salons with local artists Melani Douglass, John Johnson, and Jason Anderson (JaySun), whose work intersects with gentrification. In-person and streamed live, these participatory salons are open to all and explore our notion of what it means to be a local, an immigrant, or a resident of a place. The salons will challenge us to answer “What is my personal roadmap of home?” and offer creative strategies for confronting gentrification.
Salon Artists and Hybrid Event Dates/Location:
Join Mēlani N. Douglass on Friday, February 28, 2024
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm
Location: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D Street, NW, Washington DC 20004
Join John Johnson on Saturday, March 1, 2024
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm
Location: Honfleur Gallery, 1241 Marion Barry Avenue, SE, Washington DC 20020
Join Jason Anderson (Jay Sun) on March 2, 2024
Time: Doors open at 3:00pm
Location: 1357 Maple View Avenue, SE, Washington DC 20020
Mercedes Music Tours
Citymeals, Musical Theatre Factory, Dementia Spring partnered to create Mercedes Music Tours, for the project “Mercedes” a multimedia art and community service project. Citymeals is hosting celebrations at older adult centers in all five boroughs, plus special meal deliveries. In each senior center we host dance workshops along with music from the Mercedes stage production in development by Musical Theatre Factory and performed live by Pedro Fortunato. We delivered meals and Pedro Fortunato delivers personal serenades to homebound older adults in the neighborhood. All the participants receive a care package at the end of the day with resources they may need and supplies to continue art making in their free time!
DATES:TBA
Life of the White Ant: A Stage Reading by Joey Weiss
Life of the White Ant explores the concept of whiteness by following the life path of the termite. Beginning with the book “Life of the white ant,” by Maurice Maeterlinck, three characters discuss, re-interpret, alter, and expand this text to examine the idea of whiteness through an unexpected and disorienting lens. Where does the termite live, what does it eat, and how does it build? We’ll answer these questions and more, and in so doing shed an unusual light on what it might mean to be white.
Joey Weiss is an artist living in New York with a background in painting and sculpture. His work involves presentations, performance, and lectures on various subjects. He’s worked with us in many projects and festivals and we are excited to produce his project this year, Life of the White Ant.
Life of the White Ant is written by Joey Weiss, co-directed by Modesto Flako Jimenez and Joey Weiss, and is being produced by ¡OYE! Group. Joey will be in residency this year in April and, as the next step in production, there will be two stage readings of the full piece on Saturday April 19th.
