[URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Drowning of New Orleans / Colonies/Cop in the Head

Tue Sep 4 18:59:13 MDT 2007

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The Brecht Forum
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9/5: Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Drowning of New Orleans
9/6   EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION Colonies: A Series of Paintings by 
Richard Bonomo
9/7  Cop-in-the-Head: Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher and Others TBA
9/8  Neus Kabarett:Sylvie Courvoisier New Works for Violin and Piano
9/10 Book Party/ Forum Resistance: A Radical Social and Political 
History of the Lower East Side
9/11 Political Change in Bolivia: Current Analysis and Prospects
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Wednesday, September 5

7:30 pm

FILM & DISCUSSION

Big Easy to Big Empty

The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans

Discussion Leader TBA

In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans 
to investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast 
last year. He examines why residents had to leave, what really caused 
the flood and why they aren't returning.

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Thursday, September 6

6:00 -8:00 pm

EXHIBIT OPENING & RECEPTION

Colonies

A Series of Paintings by Richard Bonomo

These group portraits represent a biologist's exploration of the 
diversity of our species and a search for humaneness.

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Friday, September 7

6:00 pm

3-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS

Co-sponsor: The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory

Cop-in-the-Head

Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher and Others TBA

Friday: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques 
that use games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized 
forms of oppression, and explore power relations and collective 
solutions to concrete problems. This is a method and set of techniques 
that is especially useful for teachers and educators who work with 
disadvantaged populations, social workers, psychologists and mental 
health professionals, and community activists and organizers who are 
involved with marginalized constituencies and constituencies which have 
traditionally been the victims of bias and discrimination.
For more information contact the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory at 
toplab at toplab.org or (212) 924-1858.

Sliding scale: $95-$150
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Saturday, September 8

9:00 pm

NEUES KABARETT
World Premiere / Brecht Forum Commission

Sylvie Courvoisier

New Works for Violin and Piano

with Mark Feldman

"That her music is as aesthetically beautiful as it is strange and 
mysterious is only further testament to her prowess as a composer" ~ All 
Music Guide

Pianist and composer Syvlie Courvoisier has been commissioned to write 
music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Her works range from an 
electric guitar and chamber orchestra concerto; works for a vocal 
quartet and soprano; and a musical performance for metronomes, 
automatons, barrel organ, piano, tuba, saxophone, violin and percussion. 
She tours widely with her own groups in USA, Canada and Europe. 
Courvoisier is a member of "Mephista," an improvising trio with Ikue 
Mori and Susie Ibarra; "Herb Robertson Quintet" with Tim Berne, Tom 
Rainey and Mark Dresser; "Yusef Lateef 4tet;" "Vincent Courtois Trio" 
with Ellery Eskelin and "John Zorn's Cobra." She tours regularly in Duo 
with Mark Feldman, playing John Zorn's music and their own compositions.

Admission: $10
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Monday, September 10

7:30 pm

BOOK PARTY / FORUM

Resistance

A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side

Jim Feast, Sarah Ferguson, Alan Moore, Clayton Patterson & Seth Tobocman

New York's Lower East Side has been pivotal in the development of 
politically radical practices, lifestyles and thought. This legacy, 
stretching back to the days of Emma Goldman's residence at the turn of 
the century, seemed to come to a sudden end with the 1988 Tompkins 
Square Park police riot and the subsequent repression in the 
neigbborhood of homeless people and squatters. In over fifty chapters by 
diverse authors Resistance, edited by Clayton Patterson, provides a 
fascinating examination of what can we learn from this neighborhood's 
colorful and empowering history.

Jim Feast is coauthor of the novel Neo Phobe and (with Gary Null) AIDS: 
A Second Opinion.
Sarah Ferguson is a freelance journalist with the Village Voice, The 
Nation, and Utne Reader.
Alan Moore is an art historian who has been published in the anthologies 
Alternative Art New York and Collectivism After Modernism.
Clayton Patterson is editor of Resistance and Captured: A Film History 
of the LES, and an archivist and video documenter of the 1988 riot.
Seth Tobocman is the founder of WWIII Illustrated and noted illustrator 
of three graphic novels.

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Tuesday, September 11

7:30 pm

Political Change in Bolivia

Current Analysis and Prospects

Patricia Chávez, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Pablo Mamani, Dunia Mokrani, 
Oscar Olivera & Luis Tapia. Moderated by Gerardo Renique

 >From the time of the "Water War" of April 2000 until now, Bolivia's 
popular movements have gained exceptional power to shape national 
politics and economic restructuring. In December 2005, they catapulted 
trade-union leader Evo Morales into presidential office. A delegation of 
Bolivian activists and analysts, including prominent political and 
intellectual figures as well as new voices, will be at the Brecht Forum 
to report on the current state of affairs. Central themes for this 
evening of debate and reflection include: Indian political projects, 
social movements and the state, the Constitutional Assembly, 
neoliberalism and natural resources, coca politics and the role of the 
United States.

Participants include:
Patricia Chávez, activist working on women's labor organization, 
sociologist who has studied political parties, social movements, and the 
dramatic political transformations in contemporary Bolivia.
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, coca activist, co-founder of the Andean Oral 
History Workshop, and author of wide-ranging radical works including the 
classic "Oppressed but not Defeated": Struggles of the Quechua-Aymara 
Peasantry, 1900-1980 (1984).
Pablo Mamani, Aymara sociologist from El Alto, author of works on recent 
social mobilization including El rugir de las multitudes: La fuerza de 
los levantamientos indígenas en Bolivia/Qullasuyu (2004). Dunia Mokrani, 
activist working with vulnerable sectors of women workers, political 
analyst of the government of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and the 
Constitutional Assembly.
Oscar Olivera, trade-union representative of factory workers who became 
a leading figure in the Cochabamba "Water War" and head of the 
Coordinadora del Agua grassroots organization.
Luis Tapia, author of numerous works of political analysis including a 
major study of Bolivian theorist René Zavaleta Mercado, and director of 
the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo in La Paz.

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