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Gala Invitations Hitting Mailboxes

Everyone is invited to our Spring Gala on June 10th and some PS122 supporters should be receiving our beautiful printed invitations in the mail this week. We’re super excited about how they came out and hope they’ll convince you to come and join the festivities honoring Gabrielle Hamilton, Councilwoman Rosie Mendez and Amanda Palmer.

Want to receive snail mail from PS122? Send an email to Jeso@ps122.org to be added to our list.

Illustration by Montse Bernal
Original design by Naomi Usher / Studio Usher

Amidst Teaser on On the Boards TV

Our friends at Ontheboards.tv posted a teaser for Palissimo’s Amidst and it looking amazing. Part of COIL 13, Amidst was the final performance in PS122’s historic upstairs theater before our renovation which is currently in progress. The full video will be available to rent and own on Ontheboards.tv.

PS122 Receives 2013 Art Works Grant from NEA

Performance Space 122 is so pleased to receive an NEA Art Works grant to support the commissioning of new works for our 2014 COIL Festival.

In August 2012, the NEA received 1,547 eligible applications for Art Works grants requesting more than $80 million in funding. Art Works grants support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. The 817 recommended NEA grants total $26.3 million and span 13 artistic disciplines and fields. Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

For a complete listing of projects recommended for Art Works grant support, please visit the NEA website at arts.gov. We are so happy to be on their list!

The Quiet Volume Gets Some Loud Press

The New York Times and InfiniteBody both blogged about Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells yesterday.

“It effortlessly lifts you right out of your immediate location into awareness of the space and your reading partner and the students around you.”
-Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody

“The act of reading was transformed into a strange — and sometimes very loud — drama of turning pages, pointing fingers and eerily drifting thoughts”
-Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times.

Also our amazing intern Eleanor and volunteer Chuck are the subjects in the New York Times photo.

Ant Hampton Opens This Week…and Closes Sunday

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it: our much-anticipated pair of shows by Ant Hampton are opening next week and close on May 5. The Quiet Volume, by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells exposes the strange magic at the heart of the reading experience, while Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) merges the audience’s identities with a Chinese factory worker through a glass teleprompter. The runs are short and tickets are very limited so get yours now. Ticket can be booked in pairs or individually.

Exploring a new type of automatic performance, an audience of exactly two people perform the pieces themselves and for each other through listening to whispered instructions via headphones, iPods and teleprompters. No actors, no audience members, just the two participants themselves. The Quiet Volume was created by Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells, Cue China was created by Ant Hampton.