2009-10 SERIES


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5 events curated & hosted by 5 teams of artists and social justice organizations/

Right to the City + Director, Melanie Joseph
Domestic Workers United + Playwright, Lisa Ramirez
Urban Justice Center + Director, Lear de Bessonet & Playwright, Lucy Thurber
Center for Immigrant Families + Playwright Sung Rno & Director Debbie Saivetz
Families United for Racial & Economic Equality + Erik Ehn

The Foundry Theatre presents THIS IS MY CITY a series of dialogues, presentations and performances that builds upon the conversations begun last season in our Out of the Global City series and provides a forum for artists and social justice organizations to work together as its collaborative curators and hosts. This series of five events explores the dimensions of housing, class, criminalization, work & labor, and public education. THIS IS MY CITY grows out of The Foundry’s interest in pushing the boundaries of our imagination to uncover alternative possibilities for a new and better world./ El Teatro Foundry presenta Esta Es Mi Ciudad una serie de diálogos, presentaciones, y funciones que se basa en las conversaciones que se comenzaron durante la última temporada en nuestra serie de Afuera de la Ciudad Global y provee un foro para que artistas y organizaciones de justicia puedan trabajar juntos como comisionados y presentadores colaborativos. Esta serie de cinco eventos explora las dimensiones de vivienda, clases sociales, criminalización, trabajo & obra de mano, y la educación pública. Esta Es Mi Ciudad surgió del interés del Teatro Foundry de empujar los límites de nuestra imaginación para descubrir las posibilidades alternativas para un mundo nuevo y mejor.

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4.19.10| Cherry Lane Theatre
CLASS OF 2010/clase de 2010
Right to the City + Director, Melanie Joseph

Middle class, lower middle class, upper middle class, working class, what class are you in? Who is Obama addressing in his agenda for middle class families? What are the consequences of those decisions? And what are some alternative ways to consider our standards for living in this century? Join us for a discussion of class in the 21st century. /Clase media, clase media baja, clase media alta, clase obrera--¿en cuál clase social esta usted? ¿A quién se refiere Obama cuando habla de su agenda para familias de clase media? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias de esas decisiones? ¿Cuáles son algunas de las maneras alternativas que podemos considerar nuestro nivel de vida en este siglo? Únase con nosotros en una discusión de clase social en el Siglo XXI.

4.22.10| SEIU/32BJ
INVISIBLE WOMEN – RISE/ mujeres invisibles – superan
Domestic Workers United + Playwright, Lisa Ramirez

A dance theatre piece exploring themes of migration as well as isolation and injustices in the work place (premiering at a town hall event for domestic workers' rights.)/ Una obra de baile y teatro explorando los temas de migración también como el aislamiento y injusticia en el lugar de trabajo (estrenando en una junta popular para los derechos de trabajadoras de casa.)

4.29.10| Mabou Mines|
Performance Space 122
SEX IN THE CITY – THE FLIP SIDE/
sexo en la ciudad – el otro lado
Urban Justice Center + Director, Lear de Bessonet & Playwright, Lucy Thurber

A series of short scenes in which LGBTQQ youth of color share a unique perspectives on policing of gender and sex in New York City, offering a glimpse into lives frequently unseen and unimagined, characterized by resistance, resilience, strength and survival./ Una serie de escenas cortas en cual jóvenes de color LGBTQ comparten perspectivas únicas sobre la vigilancia de genero y sexo en la cuidad de Nueva York, que ofrecen un vislumbre en vidas que con frecuencia son ocultadas e impensables, caracterizadas por resistencia, persistencia, fuerza y supervivencia.

5.08.10| Judson Memorial Church
MORE THAN A NUMBER/ mas que un numero
Center for Immigrant Families + Playwright Sung Rno & Director Debbie Saivetz

A community theatrical dialogue exploring the impacts of high stakes testing in NY public schools on students, families and communities./ Un diálogo teatral explorando el impacto de exámenes definitivos sobre estudiantes, familias y comunidades de las escuelas publicas de NY.

5.15.10
FOOD FIGHT/pelea de comida
Families United for Racial & Economic Equality + Erik Ehn

Food, Fellowship, Focus. Mindfulness and a meal highlighting Families' United for Racial and Economic Equality's work on gentrification and food access./ Comida, Compañerismo, Enfoqué. Conciencia y una comida esta destacando el trabajo de Familias Unidas Para Igualdad Racial y Económica sobre el desplazamiento y acceso a comida.

2009 DIALOGUES

Jan - Jun, 2009:
OUT OF THE GLOBAL CITY:
An uncommon dialogue series

Over the past decades, New York City - alongside London, Tokyo and an increasing number of urban centers around the world - has emerged as a global city, a geographic node where movie on line global finance is organized, concentrated, re-dispersed, and circulated. Decisions made in these metropolitan centers impact the lives of countless people across the world. As the recent economic upheaval illustrates, this is simultaneously a powerful and vulnerable reality. In New York, we bear witness to the ways in which the basic elements of our livelihood - from work to housing to education to heath care - are increasingly shaped by the needs of global finance that put profits before people.

Held at the historic St. Mark's Church, this dialogue series - free and open to the public -- brought together artists, activists, academics, and media makers to explore New York as a "global city" from the bottom up - i.e. from the vantage point of those most affected and/or disenfranchised.

Our co-hosts for the series were The Nation Institute and The Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Below is a list of events and some audio highlights.

Work and Labor

Who makes New York City run - and for whom? What is "work" in the global city?

         Speakers:
         David Harvey, Director, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
         Ai-jen Poo and Lois Newland, Domestic Workers United
         Esther Kaplan, Journalist, The Nation Institute
         Max Fraser, Journalist, The Nation Institute
         Jeff Mansfield and William Cerf, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
         Victoriana Navarro and Jennifer Arieta, VAMOS Unidos

Public Education

What is the future of public education in New York City? Will our schools - which represent the last remaining universal public good in the United States - remain public?

 

 

Speakers:
Luci Dania Mejia, Ujju Aggarwal, Center for Immigrant Families
Harmony Goldberg, Scholar/Activist
Edwin Mayorga, New York Collective of Radical Educators
Nilaja Sun, artist
Una Osato, artist

Sound Clips:
Nilaja Sun: listen
Representatives from the center of immigrant families: listen
Q&A with Participants and Audience: listen

Health Care in the Global City

How will the fiscal crisis and budget cuts impact health care in New York City? What kind of universal health care is on the horizon?

 

 

Speakers:
Jacoby Ballard, 3rd Root Health Collective
Maria Angela Soto, MPH, Founder, CHCC Open-it Clinic
Maryse Mitchell Brody, Rock Dove Collective
Soniya Munshi, Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Trudy Lieberman, Journalist, Dir. of Health & Medicine Reporting Program at The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Sound Clips:
Nation Reporter Trudy Lieberman: listen
'OPEN-IT' Clinic Founder, Maria Angela Soto: listen
3rd Root Health Collective Member, Jacoby Ballard: listen
Rock Dove Collective Member, Maryse Mitchell Brody: listen
AUDIENCE Q+A: listen

Housing/Gentrification
(with the Maysles Cinema in association with the LEFT FORUM)

Starbucks, Starbucks everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Now that everyone's neighborhood has been impacted by gentrification, what's next?

 

 

Films:
REZONING HARLEM
SOME PLACE LIKE HOME

Speakers:
Amanda Alexander, Journalist
Caron Atlas, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development, Arts and Community Change Program
Monique Washington, Coalition to Save Harlem
Joy Chatel , FUREE
Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat, Directors of REZONING HARLEM
Steve Cosson, artist-The Civilians

The Safe City

Safe for whom?

 

 

Speakers:
Andrea Ritchie, Human Rights Attorney, Sex Workers Project
Desiree Marshall, Founder, FIERCE
Hasan Elahi, artist
Sara Garland, journalist

Shape/Shaped?

In a city that has long-catered to the needs of global capital, what openings does the current fiscal crisis present for the re-shaping of NYC in ways that meet the needs of the people who live here?

Speakers:
Adriana Valdez Young, Chez Bushwick
Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, broadcast journalist
Carl Lipscombe, Right to the City
Virginia Louloudes, Executive Director, The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York