Reading | Performance Space New York

Making the Worlds (Presence)

Join Bonney Hartley and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant for an evening of readings, screenings, and conversation at Performance Space New York as part of Forge Project’s year-long installation and residency in PSNY’s OPEN ROOM.

Over the course of the evening, Bonney Hartley will read a selection of her poetic work and Wunetu Wequai Tarrant will screen Shinnecock Succotash Cooking and She Sits With Me, two short films made by Ayim Kutoowonk , a Shinnecock women’s language group. Hartley and Tarrant will then join Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini ), Forge Project Director of Relational Education, in conversation about their personal and community-based work.

Language, visual media, and poetics are among methods used since time immemorial to document histories, shared knowledge, and deepen political, social, and cultural practice. While the mediums we use may shift over time, this speaks to the ongoing nature of Indigenous ways of knowing and being – that endure and expand beyond the limitation of colonial imagination. Highlighting the confluence of communities from what is now New York City and Long Island, Making the Worlds (Presence) centers the ongoing relationships homeland communities maintain through embodied, creative, and relational practice.

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Organized and curated by Sarah Schulman, First Mondays prioritizes one of the great advantages of living in New York City: hearing new ideas as they are being created, long before they are published and on the shelves.

For five years, this free event has given audiences access to our most exciting established and emerging writers as they present new, unpublished work-in-progress. In a relaxed atmosphere, a vibrant community is being built as audience members, often writers and artists themselves, return every month to deepen their knowledge of contemporary literature as it is being born.

This year’s First Mondays features dynamic new work from playwrights, composers, novelists, poets, critics, biographers, scholars, memoirists, performance artists and beyond with well loved writers. This month features David Velasco, Dennis Cooper, and Mary Gaitskill.

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This year’s First Mondays features dynamic new work from playwrights, composers, novelists, poets, critics, biographers, scholars, memoirists, performance artists and beyond with well loved writers. This month features Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Marlon James, and Tareq Baconi.

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This year’s First Mondays features dynamic new work from playwrights, composers, novelists, poets, critics, biographers, scholars, memoirists, performance artists and beyond with well loved writers. This month features Karen Malpede, Phoebe Legere, and M Lamar.

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First Mondays invites our communities to experience readings of unpublished works and works in progress by an intergenerational group of vanguard writers. This season we continue to gather over free drinks in our theaters to hear writers discuss what’s on their mind and get a glimpse of the future of literature.

For more than 5 years, First Mondays has brought readers and writers together to celebrate the written word from diverse perspectives and genres, all for free.