January 2022 Grantee Events

Stephanie Chou, 2021 Creative Engagement Grantee, photo by Michael Yu
Stephanie Chou, 2021 Creative Engagement Grantee, photo by Michael Yu

The Seeing Place Theater

WIT, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson
December 30, 2021 - January 16, 2022
Wednesday through Sunday at 7PM and Sunday at 2PM
The Seeing Place Theater, 64 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

"It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end." Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne, and her cancer, is aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prized patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.

Find more information at: www.TheSeeingPlace.com

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 


Laini Cooke 

I Ain’t Done Yet 
January 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM
Online

Voza Rivers/ New Heritage Theatre Group and New Heritage Films present Laini Cooke in concert with Miki Yamanaka, Ugonna Okegwo, Jimmy MacBride and Joel Frahm. The concert will be available one night only from 7:30 PM to Midnight.

Find more information at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw55OOYeTcw

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 


Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Advent

Music Mondays
January 17, 2022 at 7:30 PM
Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025

TAI MURRAY AND FRIENDS: PIANO QUINTETS. Violinist, Tai Murray (“superb,” N Y Times), joins violist, Melissa Reardon (“virtuosic,” Classical Voice); cellist, Raman Ramakrishnanan (“admired,” New Yorker); bassist, Doug Balliett; and Artistic Director Aaron Wunsch for a program of quintets, traditional and contemporary. Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet accompanies Xhosa composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s Intlanzi Yase Mzantsi (The Fish From South Africa, based on Schubert’s “Trout”); Judith Weir’s A Song of Departure (based on Schubert’s “Farewell”); and Vaughan-Williams’s lush, romantic QuintetViolinist, Tai Murray (“superb,” N Y Times), joins violist, Melissa Reardon (“virtuosic,” Classical Voice); cellist, Raman Ramakrishnanan (“admired,” New Yorker); bassist, Doug Balliett; and Artistic Director Aaron Wunsch for a program of quintets, traditional and contemporary.

Find more information at https://www.musicmondays.org

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 


Stephanie Chou

LianXi: Connection, a Lunar New Year Celebration
January 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York NY 10003

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED INDEFINITELY. Please check back for the updated performance date.

Stephanie Chou’s music combines classical and Chinese influences with Western jazz and pop to create an entirely original, unique musical world. "LianXi" means "connection" in Mandarin, and tonight will be a celebration of Lunar New Year/Year of the Tiger and our collective human re-connection as our experience evolves through the pandemic. Stephanie presents a bi-lingual (English and Mandarin) show, including fresh takes on Chinese folk songs and tongue-twisters (from her album “Asymptote”), excerpts from her evening-length jazz-opera “Comfort Girl”, songs exploring her passion for math and literature, and several new tunes. Stephanie’s music is all about connecting with the audience and sharing her experience as a Chinese-American growing up in NY through her music.

Find more information at ​​https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2021/s/stephanie-chou/

Grant Program: Creative Engagement

 


Ring of Keys

Queering the Canon Concert Series (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
January 31, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street. New York, NY 10003

Building off a sold-out Queering the Canon concert at Joe's Pub in February 2020, Queering the Canon returns in a 3-concert engagement to further queer the stage and transform the musical theatre canon. Queering the Canon: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Queering the Canon: Sondheim, and Queering the Canon: Kander & Ebb will showcase canonical tunes performed alongside new original songs written by Ring of Keys songwriters. Performed by Ring of Keys artists to interpret songs through their perspective, this Series seeks to queer the original canon of musical theatre, while highlighting upcoming songwriters who are currently queering our stages and creating a new canon.

Find more information at ringofkeys.org

Grant Program: Creative Engagement