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Yehuda Duenyas
One Million Forgotten Moments
Tuesday–Sunday, September 11–16; performances at 7 & 9pm
38 Park Row (at Beekman St)
Reserved seating in the theater is SOLD OUT.
Please arrive 30 minutes early to be put on a waiting list for unclaimed seats.
There is unlimited standing room outside the theater with vantage points provided.
Please note: In memoriam, Tuesday September 11th showing will be sound and video only
Both public spectacle and September 11th memorial, One Million Forgotten Moments gathers 100 of New York City’s most talented artists in a performance that celebrates what makes our city special—its endless desire to create and its infinite ability to reinvent. Yehuda Duenyas (of the National Theater of the United States of America) invites the artists to offer their own valentine to the city, from the ridiculous and bizarre to the wondrous and magical. An LMCC Swing Space, the event’s location at 38 Park Row (across from City Hall) is a former adult video store. Transformed into an 18th century-style jewel-box theater by Duenyas, the audience will sit in the window watching the spectacle unfold on the street. Be a part of the show!
One Million Forgotten Moments will open with a special memorial performance that will include a moment of silence on Wednesday, September 11 at 7 pm. and 9 pm. Admission to all performances is free. RSVP required to reserve seats inside the theater. You must show up a half hour before each show to claim your reservation. Standing room will also be available outside at selected viewing points. Performances will take place rain or shine.
In 2006, LMCC inaugurated a new public art commission to encourage diverse, imaginative and experimental art and performance projects in Downtown New York, provoking a critical relationship to everyday life, drawing audiences to little-known locations, and bringing sharply into focus, if only for a moment, a fragment of urban experience that is easily overlooked. Responding to the charge below, Off the Record proposals were first presented during LMCC’s summit, Cities, Art and Recovery in September 2006. Three projects were selected by jury to be produced this year.
Ours is an age of record-keeping. We are ushered in and out with certificates. Our lives are registered daily with credit card swipes, internet log-ins, security checks and surveillance cameras. No longer is memory jogged with the occasional souvenir, aide-mémoire or pressed flower. Every moment is registered for the future by photographs, credit and debit cards, blogs, internet cookies, fingerprints, passports, and caller IDs. To be undocumented is effectively to disappear. If our everyday life is now an archive, how can we forget anymore? What does it mean now to be off the record?
Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Space donated by Time Equities
Special thanks to Seth Goldstein, Mayor's Office of Citywide Event Coordination, and Ralph Musolino,
NYC Parks and Recreation.
Green room space donated by Pace University's Center for Cultural Affairs
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