Culture Project to Present Kristin Nordeval and Guillermo Gregorio

Culture Project, New York's home for socially conscious theater, announces "Prologue to Progress," a two week series of music, performance, and discussion led by over a dozen International Artists and thinkers from Sunday, October 1 through Sunday, October 15.

Prologue to Progress invites the public to join Culture Project in celebrating the future of award-winning, politically incisive theatre in its new home at the Saint Mary Church on the Lower East Side. Prologue to Progress is aligned with Culture Project's reinvigorated mission to amplify marginalized voices, champion new and timely work, and speak to today's most pressing issues through innovative artist-activist collaboration.

Featuring seven nights of programming, Prologue to Progress invokes narratives of resilience told from the perspectives of women, people of color, the previously incarcerated, and the LGBTQ community. Prologue to Progress reaffirms Culture Project's commitment to bringing together artists, activists, and experts to inform and inspire contemporary audiences through unique theatrical experiences.

Featured talent includes Kristin Norderval, Guillermo Gregorio, Nicole Ansari, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Maybe Burke, Alika Hopes, Heather Robles, Tom Tsai, Angela Polite, Kathleen Turner, RUDRA, Yale University lecturer Stephen Bright, GQ of the Q Brothers, actor Tyrone Taylor, and improv group Thank You for Coming Out.

Prologue to Progress kicks off on Sunday October 1 with I AM ANTIGONE, a contemporary retelling of Sophocles' Antigone written by poet Saudamini Siegrist and directed by award-winning writer and director Myriam Cyr. It will be followed later that week by Rob Urbinati's REBEL VOICES: Stories, Speeches, and Songs of Resistance, an evening with the International Human Rights Arts Festival, and more.

Kristin Norderval and Guillermo Gregorio
Sunday October 8th at 7:30pm

Award-winning opera composer and singer Kristin Norderval and Argentinian composer and clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio will perform a set of improvisations for voice, clarinet and electronics. Texts for the improvisations will include excerpts from Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" interspersed with words of women who have given birth in prison, or whose pregnancy terminations have been criminalized. A 2005 recipient of the Henry Cowell Award from the American Music Center, and two-time recipient of the Norwegian Artist's Stipend, Norderval has specialized in developing new works for voice, cross-disciplinary work, and works using interactive technology. Gregorio's series of pieces entitled Otra Música (2005 to the present), focus on history and critical issues as well as syntactic aspects of text and music. Currently, Gregorio's interests are related to improvisation and "composition in real time" playing clarinet, in addition to the aforementioned compositions.

Tickets for all events are $25. Purchase tickets online at cpprologuetoprogress.eventbrite.com, or by phone at 212-925-1806 weekdays from 11am-6pm. All events are held at The Grand Hall at Saint Mary Church, 440 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002.