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2010 SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010 / 5-9PM
FREE
BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK'S 9TH ANNUAL SOLSTICE EVENT TO WELCOME THE SUMMER AND CELEBRATE THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR!
· Musical Performance by Reggie Watts (Estimated start time: 6:30pm)
· Splash! A site-specific dance performance by Dance Entropy
· Solstice artmaking workshops presented by Free Style Arts Association, Materials for the Arts, The Noguchi Museum, MoMA PS1, Queens Museum of Art and Socrates Sculpture Park
· Park tour performance w/ Lillian Gerson's alter ego, Connie O'Nassis
· Face Painting by Agostino Arts
· Soulstice Ritual performed by Urban Shaman Mama Donna
· Have a picnic and enjoy the view as the sun sets over the Manhattan skyline!
Read all about Reggie Watts in NY Magazine!
Hilarious, brilliant, unpredictable - comedian/musician Reggie Watts is a staple of the international performance scene. Reggie's improvised musical sets are created on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and a looping machine. No two songs are ever the same. An avowed "disinformationist," Reggie loves to disorientate his audiences in the most entertaining way. You may not know what Reggie is going to do, but that's okay - he doesn't either. Read more...
Splash! is a site specific performance originally created for a drained outdoor pool with 14 dancers in brightly colored buckets filled with water. Performed by Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and friends, with music by Sound Gallery, Parliament, Led Zeppelin, Bilja Krstic, Doobie Brothers, Rusted Roots, Streams, Esquivel, Louis Prima, Las Toalistas, and Dakota Station, the dance is a structured improvisation to an exciting collage of music about water. Dance Entropy, founded in 1998, is a professional modern dance company that performs in NYC, tours and teaches both domestically and abroad. Read more...
Mama Donna (a.k.a. Donna Henes) is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, popular speaker, and award-winning writer specializing in multi-cultural ritual celebrations of the cycles of the seasons and the seasons of our lives. Her joyful celebration of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than one hundred cities for thirty-three years. For a sixth consecutive year, Mama Donna will attend Socrates' Summer Solstice Celebration to present her festive Soulstice Ritual.
Kids can participate in creative artmaking workshops throughout the event, presented by Free Style Arts Association, Materials for the Arts, The Noguchi Museum, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens Museum of Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park, or have their faces painted by Agostino Arts.
Food will be available for purchase by Long Island City's WunderBar German Grill and Bierhaus. The Park offers the perfect setting to have a picnic and enjoy the view as the sun sets over the Manhattan skyline.
Summer Solstice Celebration 2010 will take place in Socrates Sculpture Park amid Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope, a group exhibition exploring the presence of nature in the fabric of urban life, with eleven new works by artists: Saul Becker, George Boorujy, William Cordova, David Kennedy Cutler, Lillian Gerson, Janelle Iglesias, Katherine McLeod, Ester Partegàs, Zena Verda Pesta, Christine Howard Sandoval, and Mark Lawrence Stafford.
Socrates Sculpture Park is open 365 days a year from 10am to sunset and is located at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City. Admission is free. For directions to the Park click here.
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