L.E.S.

THE 14TH ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS


Watch a brief trailer about the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts!

Friday, May 22rd, 6pm - 1am
Plays, Music, Dance, Poetry, Comedy and More in the Johnson Theater and the Cabaret Theater

Saturday, May 23th, 10am - 1am
10am - 6pm - OUTSIDE ON E. 10th STREET - Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors!
2pm - 5pm - INSIDE - Youth Performances in the Johnson Theater
12pm - 12am - Film Festival in the Cabaret Theater
6pm - 1am - Plays, Music, Dance, Poetry, Comedy and More in the Johnson Theater

Sunday, May 24th, 5pm - 1am
5pm - 7pm - Poetry Readings in the Community Space Theater
6pm - 1am - Plays, Music, Dance, Poetry, Comedy and More in the Johnson Theater and the Cabaret Theater

FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!

More Fabulous than ever and Still Free After All These Years!

Can’t afford to spend your holiday weekend in some exotic clime this year? Nevermind! Laugh at the Depression with us by luxuriating in the Arts instead. Spend your Stay-cation saturating your senses, exercising your funny bone and going for an intellectual joy ride at the still free and more fabulous than ever, LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS. And if you’re a Tourist trapped by Up and Midtown Prices, break free with LES’s Free Breakout Entertainment and culture. It is what the Real New York has always really been about.

Join our literally hundreds of performers as they gather at Theater for the New City to gift you with their time and talent at our 14th Annual LES. As always, we will sing hosannas to the Lower East Side and East Village’s Artistic Past, dig its Present and sneak preview its Artistic Future.

Classical Theater, Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Burlesque and the nascent Silent Film Industry all flourished here. George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Yip Harburg, Eddie Cantor, the Adlers, Molly Pican, Charlie Parker, Eugene O’Neill, Garcia Lorca, Mark Twain, the list goes on and on. They all lived and created here at one time. Now, it’s our time to both remember them and continue their tradition by continuing to create.

The LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS is Theater, Music, Dance Comedy, Poetry, Film, Video and the Fine Arts as well. Nearly all the Theater and Dance Groups in our area help to make up this cultural cornucopia.

LES – MAY 22, 23 and 24, 2009
FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY


Date

Johnson Theater

Cabaret Theater

Community Space Theater

Outside on
East 10th Street

Fri, May 22

Performances
6pm – 1am

Performances
7pm – 12am

Sat, May 23

Youth Program
2pm – 5pm

Performances
6pm – 1am

Film Program
12pm – 12am

Cultural Festival, Performances, Food, Vendors
and More
11am – 6pm

Sun, May 24

Performances
6pm – 12am

Performances
7pm – 12am

Poetry Readings
5pm – 7:30pm

The Theme for the 14th Annual LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS is
Art: A Necessity for Life, in Good Times and Bad Times.

Crystal Field and the entire production committee of LES would like to remind the powers that be that they’ll get a lot more back from A-R-T than AIG. Stimulate us, we’ll continue to stimulate you.

Now everyone, Come on out to LES. Blow your Minds instead of your rent money!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY, MAY 22nd

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
JOHNSON THEATER
FRIDAY, MAY 22nd

Performances 6pm - 1am

SATURDAY, MAY 23rd

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
OUTDOOR STREET FESTIVAL
Outside on East 10th Street
SATURDAY, MAY 23rd

Performances 12pm - 5pm

SUNDAY, MAY 24th

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
JOHNSON THEATER
SUNDAY, MAY 24th

Performances 6pm - 1am

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
CABARET THEATER
SUNDAY, MAY 24th

Performances 7pm - 1am

POETRY PROGRAM
in the COMMUNITY SPACE THEATER
Sunday, 5pm - 7:30pm

LISSA MOIRA, Curator

Special Guest Poet NAOMI REPLANSKY

MADELINE ARTENBERG, STAN BAKER, AMY BARRONEl, RYAN BUYNAK, STEVE CANNON, JUDITH CAPORALE, PETER CARLAFTES, GIL FALIANI, ELLEN FARBER, THOMAS FUCALORO, KAT GEORGES, ROBERT GIBBONS, ROBERT HARRIS, GARY HEIDT, KAREN HILDEBRAND, MATTHEW HUPERT, PRECIOUS JONES, DAVID LAWTON, MARIA LISELLA, BRANT LYON , LOIS KAGAN MINGUS, LISSA MOIRA, LARRY MYERS, RONNIE NORPEL, HOWARD PFLANZER, JIM PIGNATTI, LINDA REEVES, SLIM RUSSELL, SUSAN SCUTTI, JACKIE SHEELER, JOHN J. TRAUSE, DAVID VERNON, GEORGE WALLAS, RICHARD WEST, JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT, JOANIE FRITZ ZOSIKE

Dedicated to the Memory of JUSHI

VISUAL ARTISTS
in the LOBBY
All Weekend Long!

Carolyn Ratcliffe, curator

Beau Allillu, Jeanette Arnone-K, Joseph Arbo, Deborah Aslanian, Amy Cohen Banker, Brian Benson, Margret Birns, Kathryn Bloss, Lois Carlo, Carlos Cevallos, Victor Cevallos, Kathy Creutzburg, Onno de Jong, Dennis Edge, Lauren Edmond, Haim Elisha, Kris Enos, Millie Falcaro, Susann Ferris Jones, Walter Fitzgerald, Kathy Jennings, Randy Jones, Sonja Hofer, John Kohan, Angela La Monte, Elodie Lauten, Phoebe Legere, Len Leone, Brookie Maxwell, Patricia McGovern, Marlis Momber, Lissa Moira, Megan Murtha, Ronnie Norpel, Jo Pendola, Rolando Politi, Jacqueline Rada, Carolyn Ratcliffe, Bonnie Rosenstock, Morena Saenz, Gene Schull, Shell Sheddy, Barbara Slitkin, George Smol, Anne Stanner, Leslie Tanner, Robert Varkony, Richard West















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