BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Presents thirtynothing 4/8-10

BAX/BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE announces: thirtynothing a solo performance by BAX Artist In Residence, DAN FISHBACK

April 8-10, 2011
Friday & Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Sunday @ 6:00 pm

Tickets:
In advance (online) $12 General | $7 Low-Income
Half-hour before show (at the box office) $15 General | $8 Low-Income

IT'S OUR 20TH BIRTHDAY SEASON!
To celebrate we will be serving cupcakes* and champagne after the show!

* SWEET CHEEKS BROOKLYN is our 20th Brithday Season cupcake sponsor.

thirtynothing
Dan Fishback's thirtynothing is a multi-media solo performance exploring the generation gap between gay men who died during the early years of AIDS and gay men who were born during those same years. A sort of "performance zine," the show will incorporate images of work by lost gay artists, images and drawings from Fishback's own childhood, and stories from the lives of various gay men who lived, died, and grew up during the 80s and early 90s. Fishback underscores this monologue-based piece using small instruments like casios and ukuleles to paint an intimate, mournful and quirky portrait of gay life during and after a catastrophe. Marking both the 30th anniversary of AIDS and Fishback's 30th birthday, thirtynothing memorializes the fallen while posing critical questions to all who survive.

Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. His most recent play, You Will Experience Silence (Stephen Brackett, dir.) debuted to critical acclaim in April 2009 at Dixon Place, where Fishback was an Artist-in-Residence. Fishback has performed and developed previous work at Performance Space 122, Joe's Pub, Galapagos Art Space and various of other venues in New York and abroad. He is currently developing two new theater pieces: The Material World, a pop musical about socialist Jews in the 1920s, and thirtynothing, a solo performance about growing up in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

Also a performing songwriter, Fishback began his music career in the East Village's anti-folk scene. As a solo artist, Fishback has released several recordings, and will drop his new full length studio album, Mammal, in 2011.

Fishback received the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for performance art in 2010 and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists in 2007. He is an Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and has enjoyed previous residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Fishback visits colleges all over the country to lead workshops on solo performance, and to speak on queer and Jewish issues.

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a professional community arts center located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Artist opportunities include the Artist in Residence program, the Space Grant program, the Subsidized Rehearsal Space Rental program, Professional Development Workshops for Artists, and more. For more information about BAX and its opportunities for performing artists please call 718-832-0018 or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.

Since 1991, our Artist In Residency and Space Grant programs have served as the core for our work with artists. We believe that no single residency is the same and therefore tailor an individualized plan that incorporates each artists' experiences, goals and questions. Many AIR remain connected to the institution long after their residencies end - curating, teaching, and producing new work.The AIR program provides participating artists with one to two years of uninterrupted artistic, technical, and administrative support, as well as the rehearsal space and guidance necessary to take chances, refine their craft and expand their horizons.