Two Special Performances on Saturday, September 26th at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
@3pm — Lips Living Room Reading Series
_gaia’s Directors’ Residency 2009
Presents Third Annual
Lips Living Room Reading Series
One-act play readings directed by: Sonya Cooke, Jennifer Domani, Taylor Keith, and Angela Sharp
Featuring: “Strays” by Joe Del Priore, “Once Removed” by Jami Brandli, “Asking For It,” by Leigh Hunt , “I Can Tell Your Handbag is Fake,” by Dean Lundquist, “Laying Off” by James McLindon, “Sophie in the Water”, by Shannon Murdoch, “Washout,” by Connie Schindewolf, and “The Fund” by Deb Victoroff.
Followed by a Q&A forum with invited playwrights
The Directors’ Residency at _gaia provides an annual opportunity for female directors, both up-and-coming and established, to workshop one-act plays submitted by emerging playwrights to the community as staged readings.
When: Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Where: Monroe Theatrespace, 2nd floor
720 Monroe Street (between 7th and 8th St)
Hoboken, New Jersey
Tickets: $5.00 Available at Door
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@ 8pm — _gaia proudly presents a staged reading of
The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle
An unpublished late work by award-winning Hoboken-born playwright, Louis LaRusso II
Directed and edited by Taylor Keith
Produced by Lillian Ribeiro
Featuring: Susan Bucci, Eileen Gaughan, Domenica Galati, Angela Kariotis, Sheila Mart, Ellen O’Neil, Florence Pape, Chelsea Lee Richardson, Angela Sharp, Trish Szymanski, and Eva Visco
The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle is Louis LaRusso II’s loving tribute to the strength and solidarity of the hard-working, passionate, and funny women who labored in the sweatshops together in the working-class city of Hoboken circa 1965. They come together for a weekly sewing circle, the one place where they don’t need to be ‘ladies’. They sew, gossip, laugh, cry, fight, curse, ask big questions, tell great stories and bond – like a fist! The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle will provoke heart and soul as well as lots of laughter.
When: Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Where: Monroe Theatrespace, 2nd floor
720 Monroe Street (between 7th and 8th St)
Hoboken, New Jersey
Tickets: $5.00 Available at Door (Mature subject matter)
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For general information and directions: http://www.monroecenter.com
There is parking at the rear of the building.
For more information visit www.gaiastudio.org or email Lillian Ribeiro at performing@gaiastudio.org.
For hearing devices or a Braille program, please contact 973-769-1997 at least one week in advance.
_gaia is dedicated to fostering women’s activism, art practice and study. We actively promote the work of artists. We give directors and playwrights a unique opportunity to work in a productive environment and foster their creativity while keeping in mind the issues that affect women. The Directors’ Residency program and Lips Living Room Reading Series is a direct reflection of our mission. For more information on the female Directors’ Residency at _gaia or submission guidelines for the Lips Living Room Reading Series contact Lillian Ribeiro, Director of Performance & Film, by email at performing@gaiastudio.org or visit http://www.gaiastudio.org
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Tickets on SALE for A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER
_gaia announces their production of A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT & A PRAYER:
Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls presented by Art House
Productions on Saturday, April 4th as Part of the V-Day Worldwide Campaign
When: April 4, 2009
AT 3 & 8pm (2 performances)
Venue: Art House Productions, 1 McWilliams Place in Jersey City, New Jersey (SE Corner of Hamilton Park, near Erie/8th St)
Tickets available through: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/60436
Proceeds Benefit WomenRising of Hudson County
Auditions Sunday March 15th for A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer
({|}) V-Day 2009!
AUDITIONS SUNDAY MARCH15th, 1pm at 54 Coles St., Jersey City, NJ 07302
See V-Day page for more details.
Wonder Women Exhibition Opening TODAY at ABC No Rio
The Wonder Women exhibition WW$: Money, Money, Money is opening March 13th TODAY at:
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street
(between Clinton & Suffolk)
NYC
212.254.3697
Opening reception on Friday, March 13th from 7-10pm.
Please mark your calendars and join us!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WW$: MoneyMoneyMoney!!
A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia and hosted by ABC No Rio
March 13 – April 2, 2009
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street NYC NY 10002
Opening Reception– Friday, March 13th 7-10 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays 4-7pm and Sundays 1-3pm
Artists: Pollie Barden, Mary Button, Andrea Callard, Geraldine Juarez, Sarah Julig, Christina Kelly, Michelle Loughlin, Melissa MacAlpin, Holly Pitre and Hanna Von Goeler
Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Vandana Jain
ABC No Rio is pleased to host WW$: MoneyMoneyMoney!!, the culminating exhibition of the Wonder Women Residency Project presented by _gaia. The six-week residency brings together ten emerging artists to engage in discussions about their work, the economy, feminism, and personal relationships to money.
The projects that have developed over the course of the residency are diverse in form and concept. Some of the artists are documenting their relationship to money, such as Andrea Callard in her sound piece “Comfort with Money,” or Sarah Juligin her visualization of her income and spending as a grid of collected and found baubles. Pollie Barden charts the financial and ecological impact of the Cobb salad, depending on what season it is eaten.
Other artists are inspired by the idea of personal and/or domestic currencies. Hanna Von Goeler takes money and transforming it into currency by handpainting or otherwise working domestic and foreign money. Holly Pitre attempts to quantify the “value” of the members of her nuclear family by painting their portraits on recycled tea bags filled with different Cajun spices. Geraldine Juarez becomes even more lyrical, charting her “loves and deaths” in an emotional stock market programmed in Processing.
The current state of economic recession also informs several works. Michelle Loughlin is embroidering atop images of foreclosed homes in her neighborhood, rendering the new bank owner’s in cross-stitch. Mary Button has created a board game where you buy and sell resources in an effort to rebuild society. More whimsically, Melissa MacAlpin takes the loaded image of a house on fire, and turns it into kitschy sculptures.
In an attempt re-establish the value of our money, Christina Kelly has taken shredded American currency to use as the brown matter in a worm compost bin, wondering what the transformation of paper money into valuable dirt could symbolize, and perhaps, how it can guide the rebuilding of our economy.
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WW$ coincides with The Feminist Art Project (TFAP.) The purpose of The Feminist Art Project is to bring public attention to the significant and continuing impact of women and their art on all aspects of contemporary art practice, highlighting their international influence, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.
_gaia is a collective of women, for women, for the making of textiles, clothing, printmaking, painting, architecture, music, film, photography, science, the performing arts, writing, environmental, social and political activism: all things which color the lives of the women involved. We actively promote and support the work of local women artists while developing programming to reach out to and help emerging artists in need of studio space, facilities and resources. In our pursuit of awareness we also concentrate on activism, from issues in the local community to global issues affecting the lives of women.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Exhibition funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Dedalus Foundation.
Upon request, information will be made available in alternative formats such as Braille, large print, audiotape and/or computer disc. Please contact 201.386.0486 or info@gaiastudio.org
PRESS CONTACT: Doris Caçoilo info@gaiastudio.org 201-386-0486
_gaia MOVING SALE Dec 8th – 11th 7:30pm – 9pm
WE ARE MOVING!!! Check out the great things we got for SALE and for FREE!!!!
We have items for sale and for free. Stop this week.
Dec 8th – Dec11th from 7:30pm – 9pm.
Neuman Leather Building, 66 Willow Avenue, 3rd Floor, Hoboken, NJ
Following the signs.
phone: 201.386.0486
What you buy you need to take with you.
Check out all the goodies on Flickr:
Come on Out and get a Great Deal!
_gaia Clothing Swap Nov 16th
There is a chill in the air. Time to transition to warmer wear. Also to edit out what you don’t wear anymore. Your give-aways could be another’s fashion find.
Join _gaia for a Clothing Swap!
Sunday Nov 16th @ 6pm
$10.00 to participate
Bring a bag of clothes (strongly encouraged but not required)
There will be snacks and beverages to sustain you through you clothes diving adventures.
Hope to see you there!
Hoboken Artist Studio Tour 2008
_gaia Studio Open on Sunday Oct 19th from Noon – 4:30 pm
_gaia studio proudly presents this first-ever staging of
The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle
5pm Show Sold out! 8pm Show added to schedule
an unpublished, late work by Hoboken playwright Louis La Russo II.
Hoboken Museum and Cultural Center
Advance Tickets for Flora Dora Girls
During museum hours: Call201-656-2240
purchase by credit card at the Museum M-T 2-9pm, Fri 1-5, Sat and Sun 12-5pm
1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
In conjunction with the reading of Flora Dora Girls
_gaia studio also presents
Big Questions
Answer the Questions
Sunday, October 19, 2008 – performance at 2 pm
Neuman Leather Building, 66 Willow Avenue, 3rd Floor, Hoboken, NJ
Flora Dora Girls is about a group of blue-collar Hoboken women, in the 60’s, who come together for a weekly sewing circle. It’s the one place they don’t have to be “ladies”. They sew, gossip, drink coffee, laugh, cry, ask big questions, tell great stories, but most of all bond~like a fist! more details…
Hudson One-Act Festival 2008
The third annual evening of original one act plays presented by member organizations of the
Hudson County Theatre Alliance.
_gaia is a proud member of the Hudson County Theatre Alliance.
DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts
September 12-13 & 19-20, 2008 at 8pm
$15 adults/$10 students & seniors/$5 children
$35/dinner & show package
Check out Press Release
http://www.debaun.org/gaia.html
“Chicken Salad” by Joe Del Priore (Comedy), joedelps@optonline.net
A first date turns fierce and fun, after two professionals realize they might have met their match.
Artists Studio Tours 2008
Jersey City Artists Tour
October 4th & 5th – Saturday and Sunday
noon – 6pm
Hudson Art Supply
_gaia studio proudly presents:
INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Eventual Consequences
Artists: Katrina Bello* Maya Joseph-Goteiner * Holger Krischke * Tami Lynn * Rebecca Rubenstein
curated by Doris Cacoilo and Melissa MacAlpin
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Hoboken Artists Studio Tour
Sunday Oct 19th, Noon – 5:00 pm
_gaia studio proudly presents this first-ever staging of
Flora Dora Girls
an unpublished, late work by Hoboken playwright Louis La Russo II.
@ Hoboken Museum and Cultural Center
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In conjunction with the reading of Flora Dora Girls
_gaia studio also presents
Big Questions
@ Neuman Leather Building
an exhibition, performance, conversation, and video anthology
Sunday, October 19th, noon to 4:30 pm
with performance at 2 pm
Flora Dora Girls is about a group of blue-collar Hoboken women, in the 60’s, who come together for a weekly sewing circle. It’s; the one place they don’t have to be “ladies”. They sew, gossip, drink coffee, laugh, cry, ask big questions, tell great stories, but most of all bond~like a fist!
