Thursday, November 1, 2012

Upcoming Events

Parachute: the Coney Island Performance Festival goes to the Brooklyn Museum's First Saturdays! (Thanks for inviting us Brooklyn Museum!)

Saturday, December 1, 2012, 9:00-10:00 p.m.
Seating is limited. 
Room TBA!
www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php

Featuring:
The Believe Project reciting Muriel Rukeyser's words on Coney Island
Sheila Maldonado, author of one bedroom solo
Amanda Deutch, Parachute director and poet

The Believe Project performing at Parachute: the Coney Island Performance Festival, 2012 in the New York Aquarium Plaza.
 
Coney Island, Coney Island…
Let me see,
Let me feel,
Let me know what is real,

Let me believe.
-Muriel Rukeyser, 1973
  from Houdini (c) Paris Press, 2002

When we first came across, Muriel Rukeyser’s strange, poetic and powerful words about Coney Island in her play, Houdini, many moons ago, we got chills. Now, more than ever, we find these words resounding with new meaning after the storm.  Each day, we revisit these words and they give us hope: “..Let me believe.”