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13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival
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- Category: Art/Antiques
- Published on Saturday, 05 September 2009 10:14
- Written by FFTraveler Staff
The free three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive.
The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art. The 13th annual event presented by the Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) takes places from from Sept. 25th to Sept. 27th, 2009.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The immediacy of the event means many artists reflect on current issues: among others, the rise of technology, recession blues, homelessness and environmental concerns, for example:
River's Edge, is a street installation of oyster shells by John Monteith. It remembers the past use of these shells as an industrial material while it celebrates their recent use as an environmental tool.
Welcome to NYC; Boomtown 2006 by Artcodex creates a commentary about the failing boom markets of art and real estate by recreating New York as a post goldrush town. Performance times: Sat. 12-2PM; Sun. 2-4PM
Ballooning Awareness is an interactive roaming performance by John Bonafede that prompts youngsters to answer the question: "What is climate change and what should we do about it?" Performance times: Sat. 12PM; Sun. 12PM
The Tree of Life: Reina Kubota’s plastic bag installation blooms under the night sky.
Stir Crazy: Come see Ryan Roth, forced by these economic times into the endangered, caged and untamed, business werewolf. Performance times: Fri. 8-9PM; Sat. 12-9PM; Sun. 12-9PM
Eco-disco: Join Scott Rummler at the eco-disco and experience a dialogue between nature, technology, and culture.
Tercet: Throughout the streets, Angela Silver questions meaning in contemporary experience by usurping the ubiquitous traffic sign system and replacing the text with multi-lingual poetics.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
DAC reports that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has selected the 13th D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival for a case study on outdoor festivals, to be published in 2010.
Origin 1st Irish Festival 2025: Irish Art & Theatre in NYC
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- Category: Theater
- Published on Wednesday, 26 March 2025 14:34
- Written by Brad Balfour
For years the 1st Irish Festival has been bringing contemporary Irish theatre to NYC and this year it returns with a new crop of plays. Running April 1st to the 28th, the Origin 1st Irish Festival features five critically acclaimed productions from Ireland with their original cast as well as 11 plays in competition.
Productions include Tom Moran Is A Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar. Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth. Explored through the dynamic of a mother-daughter relationship, In Two Minds is deeply personal look at the allure and the challenges of living with bipolar disorder. Fight Night is a journey charting the comeback of Dan Coyle Jr., a failed amateur boxer from a long line of accomplished fighters as he battle with life, love, and temptation. A satirical look at Irish theatre, Irishtown follows a group of performers preparing for their new show. After the astounding success of their last production, the company are scheduled to open on Broadway, with the same visionary playwright at the helm. However, trouble arises when the actors decide she’s going too dark, too experimental, and… not Irish enough?
The festival also includes readings and special events such as the book launch for Rockin’ the Bronx by Larry Kirwan, with the author being interviewed by Rich McLaughlin, Program Director of WFUV-FM. Irish Stew - Live from 1st Irish is an in-depth conversation on the role of theatre in promoting Northern Ireland's image around the globe with the Irish Stew podcast.
To learn more, go to: https://www.origintheatre.org/1st-irish-festival
Origin 1st Irish Festival
April 1 - 28, 2025
Various venues in NYC
Origin Theatre's Plays In May: Taxi Cabs, Spies, & Apartments
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- Category: Theater
- Published on Tuesday, 14 May 2024 14:34
- Written by Brad Balfour
For the month of May the Origin Theatre Company is presenting a trilogy of plays and readings from contemporary Irish playwrights looking at the diaspora and life of Irish people. Plays in May runs May 16th, 20th, and 22nd at the American Irish Historical Society (991 5th Ave).
Performed on May 16th is John McDonagh’s Off The Meter, a one man show about driving a Yellow Cab in NYC for the last 40 years. The show has sold out in Boston and New York and more recently Ireland.
On May 20th is Dry Rot, a comedy by Don Creedon. The Burgess family find themselves at a crossroads amidst Dublin's tumultuous housing crisis. Betty, sober for five years, is refusing to leave the family home, while Martin, her estranged husband, is adamant they sell. Nuala, their daughter, is caught between the two. Dry Rot depicts the absurd new realities of Dublin's housing market.
The final play performed on May 22nd, Dublin Noir by Honor Molloy, is set in neutral Ireland on the eve of World War II. Set in 1941 and 1939 – moving between Mountjoy Prison and a farm near Drogheda – the play grapples with the terrifying growth of fascism in 1930s Europe. On a day trip to Drogheda, Dubliner Tadgh Steele is captured by a dairy farmer and locked in a cowshed. Is Tadgh a poet as he claims or a Nazi spy? Makes no difference to the farmer’s slop girl who falls head over heels for the handsome stranger and casts him as the hero of a “fil-um in her head.”
To learn more, go to: https://www.origintheatre.org/playsinmay
Origin Theatre Plays in May
May 16, 20th, and 22nd, 2024
The American Irish Historical Society
991 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10028
History, Love, & Strife at the 2024 1st Irish Festival
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- Category: Theater
- Published on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:00
- Written by Brad Balfour
Embodying the tradition of Irish theatrical performance, the Origin Theatre 1st Irish Festival returns March 23 to April 28, 2024. Held at performance spaces across NYC, the 1st Irish Festival features fifteen new plays, ten of which are in competition, with productions from NYC and Ireland.1st Irish embodies the pain, the passion, and the hope of Irish and Irish American history.
The festival opens with The Informer by Larry Kirwan, a reimagining of the Liam O’Flaherty classic - set on the last day of the Irish Civil War. Peace and Love in Brooklyn is a new musical by Eamon O'Tuama that charts the journey of a young musician who searches for his "colorful rock n' roll roadie" father. Last Call For Babe Reilly by Marianne Driscoll presents a kind barfly with a precarious situation; how to get through the Pearly Gates after being struck by a bus, and it’s going to take a young girl with a Ouija to get through. King, by Pat Kinevane produced by Fishamble, is about Luther, a troubled lonely man living in Cork. While he prepares for a big night out as an Elvis impersonator he reflects on his past and dares to dream of the future, as the ups and downs of his life mirrors Ireland’s own history.
The NY Irish Center in Long Island City features the New York premiere of Bumbled, a new play by the Boston-based Bernard McMullan and Colin Hamell, and starring Colin Hamell, which tells the story of a loveable (and busy) bee named Pascal.
To learn more, go to: https://www.origintheatre.org/1st-irish-festival
1st Irish Festival
March 23 - April 28, 2024
Various Venues in NYC
