Stone Circle Theatre, Inc. Presents: WAKE!

Head on over to Queens for an evening showcase chock full to the brim with NYC based poets, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and artists.

Tickets are selling for $25 a pop, but we've got them for only $10 for our Groupmuse community members. This will be a totally atypical Night Out; a mixture of all the arts we hold dear, with 6 HOURS of programming that you can come and go for as you please. Check out the program listed below for more details on the individual sessions.

Groupmuse ticket buyers are instructed to pick up their tickets at the will call table in the entrance. There is no assigned seating.

A programmatic description provided by Stone Circle Theatre:

The word WAKE, with its varied meanings and etymologies, forms the poetic knot and the heart of this event. In one sense, we encounter a word meaning alertness or holding vigil, and in another, the artifacts trailing behind a person or idea.

WAKE! is inspired by the work of the late founder and co-founder of Issue Project Room, Suzanne Fiol and Dana Maisel. As curators, their devotion to a diverse and multi-generational space, promoted an ever-broadening sense of community. A community that, when reaching a limit, strived to dissolve divisions by the undefinable, yet no less powerful, rituals of experimental art making.

Our event draws direct inspiration from the Poet’s Dinners, organized by Dana Maisel, which were celebrated in conjunction with the 2005-2006 literary season New Language. These dinners brought poets and audience members together “to converse and inspire, [where] all are welcomed to come and feast”. And Ruminations (2006), an evening of poetry and sound that assures us that “Yes there are eternal things to fight for”.

The scale of this event means to blur the lines between individual contributions, artists, and audience. It begs us to ask: Can we feel the presence of silenced voices? Do past actions reverberate into the present? What is my offering? Through this lens, anonymity is not the loss of self but the acknowledgement of things unseen in our daily lives. It is a recognition of real and imagined pasts interacting through living artists, and projecting future worlds, hazy-edged and eternally out of focus.

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