DOORS OPEN: 6:30pm, refreshments & live music
CURTAIN: All readings begin at 7pm
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BURNED
by Amina Henry
Directed by
Francisco Solorzano
Featuring: Gil Perez-Abraham, Gabe Fazio, Camille St. James, Jennifer Fouche & Tina Wong Lu
Live Music: BROTHERS
SYNOPSIS:
Jamal did a bad thing – firebombed a synagogue for money – but he still feels like a normal young man. His mother and girlfriend refuse to believe otherwise.
THE TERRORISTS
by Micheline Auger
Directed by Shira-Lee Shalit
Featuring: Florencia Lozano, Trevor Long, Lisa Ramirez, Sean Carvajal, Arthur Kriklivy, Alexander Jameson, Ethan Coskay, Allison Anderegg, John Harlacher, Benjamin Manno, Maggie Belle Caplis & Nino Shengelaia with
Live Music: THE RUNGS
SYNOPSIS:
A comedy about family, punk, smoking weed with Jesus, and stumbling upon the miracles in the every day.
MERCY
by Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Scott Illingworth
Featuring: John Doman, Kathleen Littlfield, Francisco Solorzano & Ashley Marie Ortiz
Live Music: TBA
SYNOPSIS:
Orville is trying to get on with his life after his wife was killed in a car accident. His father is mostly taking care of his still unnamed infant daughter while his boss as work is aggressively trying to comfort him. Everything changes when he sees the man responsible for his wife's death. Is someone in this much pain capable of forgiveness?
El Barrio's Artspace PS109
215 East 99th Street, bet. 2nd & 3rd Avenue
MORE INFO ON PLAYS, WHO'S WHO, ENSEMBLE MEMBERS & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES COMING SOON!
Hi-ARTS
Kamilah Forbes, Artistic Director
Tiffany Vega, General Manager
Leslie Lissaint, Project Manager
Hi-ARTS (formerly known as the Hip-Hop Theater Festival) is a leading organization within the urban arts movement. For fifteen years, Hi-ARTS has consistently broken new ground, advancing urban art by empowering artists to develop bold new works, while creating a lasting and positive impact on urban communities. Hi-ARTS is adding to the legacy of the HHTF at an exciting stage of growth that engages Hip-Hop while creating the new urban arts. With the move to our new home at PS 109, Hi-ARTS is poised to grow into new realms of artistic creativity, advocacy and service to the arts and the communities in which we live.
Our commitment to this work has developed an audience that is equally unique within the landscape which is young and ethnically and racially diverse. Located at the center of creative and community practice in El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, Hi-ARTS engages arts and culture both locally and nationally. Our work is focused on:
Developing and produce new work through performance and the visual arts,
Serving as an incubator that provides a platform for artists while showcasing innovative work of the future,
Facilitating educational programs and opportunities that increase access, participation and diversity in the arts,
Creating a pipeline that produces important works for the field of urban arts.
