Enjoy Visual Arts, Shows & More At soloNOVA Arts Festival 5/6-5/30 In NYC

soloNOVA Arts FestiVal May 6-30 @ DR2 Theatre & D-Lounge, 103 East 15 Street, East of Union Square

Tickets, $20 general admission, $15 students/seniors, and Festival Passes ($100 for all shows) may be purchased online at www.terranovacollective.org or at the DR2 Box Office.
15 multi-displinary artists converge for the sixth year in a row. Curated & presented by terraNOVA
Collective. For full festival line-up please visit www.terranovacollective.org

OPENING NIGHT EVENT:
soloNOVA Arts Festival Opening Night Wednesday, May 6 at 8pm DR2 Theatre
Tickets to opening night are $35 and are available online at www.terranovacollective.org or at the DR2 Box Office. (Includes Mike Daisey, wine reception & art openings)

terraNOVA Collective will honor Mike Daisey as the soloNOVA Artist of the Year
Mike Daisey will give a special opening night keynote address entitled Why Solo Performance Matters: A Manifesto. In it he'll present a provocative and fiery argument for why solo performance is the most primal and vital theatrical form, and how it may hold the seeds for change and renewal across theater as a whole.

VISUAL ART:
Opening wine reception on Wednesday, May 6 from 5-7pm

Clown Paintings by Kenneth Le Riche
DR2 Theatre Lobby
My work is figurative oil painting where the imagery is representational with some abstract qualities. In a recent series of paintings I have been working with the clown, Saras, exploring different aspects of character, sometimes using poetry as an underlying narrative.

Flashlight Painting Portraits by Amy Kalyn Sims
D-Lounge
The romance of photography is the manipulation of light and flashlight painting gives the photographer the ultimate control of this aspect. Through the use of a flashlight as the primary light source, Amy is able to create a photograph as opposed to just taking one.

SHOW:

The Surprise
May 7, 9, 11 & 13 @ 7pm & May 10 @ 2pm
Written & Performed by Martin Dockery
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
Set amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat, The Surprise is the true and comic story of an uncertain girlfriend, an enigmatic father, and a most epic game of emotional chicken. It is the tale of a family rife with secrets, and clueless as to how to reveal them.

Fun Design with Svelte
(Can You Believe How Fun This Is?!)
May 7, 9, 11 & 13 @ 9pm & May 10 @ 4pm
Conceived & Performed by Preston Martin
World Premiere
Make your own Fun with world-renowned Fun Designer, Svelte! You will master Svelte's Eight Elements of Fun Design including Music! Costumes! Lighting! Specificity! And More! So Neat! So Easy! You won't believe how Fun this is!

Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words
May 8, 10, 12, 14 @ 7pm & May 9 @ 2pm
Written & Performed by Abena Koomson
Directed by Keith Oncale
World Premiere
Cozi Sa Wala: Magic Words unites the two worlds of an American-born Ghanaian woman by introducing the audience to a series of characters who are attending a funeral party, while simultaneously passing on the Fanti stories told to her by her father.

Mann Seeking Man: Jesus-Lovin' Schoolgirl Seeks Soulmate
May 8, 10, 12, 14 @ 9pm & May 9 @ 4pm
Written & Performed by Ryan Migge
Directed by Suzanne Agins
World Premiere
Everyone's favorite Catholic schoolgirl, Maddy Mann, is looking for love, and she's got tales to tell of the cute guys she crushed on and the Christians who made her cry. Ryan Migge, creator and performer, brings to Maddy Mann his years of musical theatre experience and a devilish sense of humor. WWJD? He'd see Mann Seeking Man, a singin' and dancin' extrava-Mann-za.

Traces
Conceived & Performed by Leigh Evans
May 15, 16, 19, 21 @ 7pm & May 16 @ 2pm
World Premiere
The body is a map, a cellular map, a history of memory-personal, cultural, uncharted, and unseen. Combining Butoh dance, sound, song, and text, Leigh Evans plunges deeply into the cartography of the inner body to unveil ancestral, cellular, and archetypal memory in her new work, Traces.

Where My Girls At?
May 15, 16, 19, 21 @ 9pm & May 16 @ 4pm
Written & Performed by Micia Mosely
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
This hilarious comedy let's the audience decide which Black Lesbian will fill the last slot on a reality TV show for Black women. Audiences will laugh, sing and get Fabulosity Make-Overs all in one show.

Face
May 18, 20, 22, 23 @ 7pm & May 23 @ 2pm
Written & Performed by Haerry Kim
Directed by Hyun Jung Lee
World Premiere
FACE is a lyrical rendition of a girl's story who survived extreme violence and brutality in a Japanese army base during World War II. This work is an earnest theatrical experiment to give a face and a voice to the suppressed history of Comfort Women.

Creating Illusion
May 18, 20, 22, 23 @ 9pm & May 23 @ 4pm
Written & Performed by Jeff Grow
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
World Premiere
developed through terraNOVA Collective's Groundbreakers Program
Magician Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of illusion, whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deception. Elegant sleight of hand and surreal mind reading mix together to explore the tools of the art of creating illusion.

The Magic Show: The Story of the Barefoot Angels
May 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 @ 7pm
Written & Performed by Abigail Nesson Bengson
Directed by David Eppel
The Magic Show: The Story of the Barefoot Angels is the story of two American communities, one devastated by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the other by a volcano eruption in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Nessen Bengson channels the voices of six good-hearted and passionate characters that dance, weep, laugh, seduce, share their stories, tell dirty jokes and sing music from old-time 12- bar blues to Salvadoran hip-hop and zydeco. It's a whirlwind performance with live music by "one man (hus)band" Shaun McClain Bengson.

Piccola Cosi
May 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 @ 8:30pm
Written & Performed by Aja Nisenson
Directed by Brian Dilg
A 21-year old woman comes of age in the underbelly of Bologna's jazz scene when she pursues her dreams of singing jazz, helped by more than a few eager Italian men. Piccola Cosi premiered with a sold out run in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival.

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