Other Senses is a seasonal, multisensory performance and gathering in Brooklyn… Hosts/house band: Ivy Meadows – Sound/Music Lauren Race – Touch/Taste Leona Godin – scent/Text Fall guest artists: Alabaster Rhumb – Music/Poetry Samantha Sea Sea – Performance/art Bonita Oliver – Vocals/art Saturday, September 26, Doors: 7pm. Performance: 7:30pm at the Sunview Acropolis 257 Nassau avenue, Brooklyn Free but space is limited! Please RSVP to OtherSensesNYC At gmail.com. You can also email with any access needs. BYOB, my friends! …
Tag: Performance
“Scent of Faith” * Nonfiction * Ro Miller
I was indoctrinated as a Catholic, so you will forgive the following several hundred words. I recently attended the Riverside Church Candlelight Carol Festival, an event aptly structured around a selection of Christian Carols. Upon sitting in the closely packed pews, wearing what now amounts to my Sunday best, I was thrust back into the bittersweet memories of Sunday mass. The proximity of strangers, the lukewarm dread at the approaching sermon, and the stoic resignation that worship was my reality …
“The Teacher Who Grew Jasmine and Rooted Out My Stutter” * Autobiographical Fiction * Richard Williamson
I was thirteen years old and we had moved, again. I hated it but back in the mid 20th Century that’s what ministers did. A lot. And my Dad was a minister. The problem wasn’t the bother of moving, it was that as a boy who stuttered, I had to face a whole new set of classmates, some of whom would certainly make my life very difficult. Up until that time in my life, I had always been called Richard. …