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Mourning Sun by Antu Yacob
Join us for a staged reading of this play on Monday, April 18th at 7:30pm in the Bruce Mitchell Room at ART/NY, 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor. Mourning Sun by Antu Yacob is the second play to be presented as part of our Racey Play Reading Series.
When Biftu, a bright and upbeat girl from the Bahr Dar region of Ethiopia, turns fourteen she suddenlybecomes the focus of her mother’s ambition. Caught in a tug of war between cultural traditions and her own desires, Biftu dreams about the world beyond village life. “Mourning Sun” unearths the everyday violence lurking under the name “tradition” in Africa.
The reading will feature Irungu Mutu, Markita Prescott, MaameYaa Boafo, Victoria Hay, Othell Miller, Daaimah, Landon Woodson, Joachim Boyle, and Emily Seale Jones.
2nd Annual Video Monologue Contest
Sight/Site Specific Video Monologues: NYC
We are looking for 60 second monologues about incredible sights at incredible sites in New York City.
Were you recently chilling on the Great Lawn in Central Park with a friend and ended up witnessing a mugging? While waiting on the subway platform for the F train did you get flashed by a woman in a trench coat? Were you sipping coffee in a café near the GW Bridge when you looked up to meet your future fiance? Write about it!
We want your 60 second submission about amazing sights at amazing locations – sight/site specific monologues about incredible events at specific spots in NYC.
Your monologue should be:
“Sight specific” - about an event you witnessed/experienced and “site specific” - set in a specific NYC location and
around 60 seconds in length (hint: that’s way less than a page in length).
Submissions should be sent to [email protected] IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL no later than May 20, 2011.
NO ATTACHMENTS WILL BE OPENED.
We will choose our top 5 choices to be announced on our blog and website June 25, 2011. The 5 winning monologues will be cast, shot, and fully produced by Project Y and released on our website and YouTube.
Check out last year’s winners to our 1st video monologue contest, “Confessionals.”
Fundraising Campaign 2011
Our fundraising efforts are underway and Project Y is primed to take some administrative and artistic leaps in 2011 which includes expanded programming and more performances and longer runs. As we sit in the precipice of growth in NYC, we need you now more than ever. Your support will help us continue to foster the work of new artists and create theatre that is a vital part of our society.
You can see in the timeline below how much we have grown in the past year.
Please visit our Support Y page to make a 100% tax deductible donation today. Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to sharing our work with you in 2011!