A quiet refuge
Date: 23 Sep 2022
Local Start Time: 3:30pm
Location: Green-Wood Cemetery, Gothic Archway, Brooklyn
Amal needs a break from the noise of the city and explores the beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery. As she walks she discovers she is not in fact alone. She finds herself surrounded by local children who have come to sing to her.
Created by Alexandra Aron for Remote Theater Project and Bangladesh Institute for Performing Arts, and local children vocal ensembles.
Musical performance
Free – no booking required
Outdoor
Time: 3:30pm
Location
All of Amal’s events are suitable for children and families.
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Little Amal Walks NYC is a co-production between The Walk Productions and St. Ann’s Warehouse in association with Handspring Puppet Company. Between 14 September – 2 October Amal will be welcomed at 55 events across the five boroughs of New York City.
The Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world as it is and was, by memorializing the dead and bringing to life the art, history, and natural beauty of New York City.
Remote Theater Project
Remote Theater Project (RTP) develops work with international artists whose voices are not often heard in the U.S. Their productions are human-to-human exchanges and culture-to-culture dialogues intended to promote empathy, especially between groups in political conflict. RTP also works with young people, refugees and asylees in NYC and in the US, to create community performances in public spaces.
Alexandra Aron
Alexandra Aron commissioned, developed, and produced Grey Rock by Amir Nizar Zuabi which premiered at La MaMa Theatre in 2019 and toured major US venues and in Australia. She produced A Message from far away a 2-day festival in Portland, Maine in 2021 celebrating by and interacting remotely with The Walk. A long-time theater director, she founded RTP to generate meaningful intercultural artistic work.
Bangladesh Institute for Performing Arts
Bangladesh Institute of Performing Arts (BIPA) was founded in 1993 by several Bangladeshi artists who immigrated to New York and were seeking a platform to keep their love for Bangla arts alive in their new home. BIPA strives to promote the Bengali arts and language in New York City’s growing multicultural communities by offering accessible classes and providing platforms for emerging artists and performers. It also seeks to increase all New Yorkers’ exposure to the rich heritage of Bengali artistic traditions, regardless of its audiences’ ethnic or social origin.
BIPA offers affordable dance, vocal and instrumental programs focusing on folk, classical as well as more modern Bengali genres. We also offer, free-of- charge Bangla language curriculum for all students enrolled in a performing art class. BIPA provides platforms for BIPA students and other emerging artists to showcase Bengali arts while making it more affordable and more accessible to other New York City communities – through festivals, concert series, and in-house musical productions.
Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer
Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer (AMNA) was founded in 2015. The mission of AMNA is to preserve Mexican culture centered on youth activism in their home communities ranging from diverse backgrounds: Mexican, Colombian, Ecuadorian, and AAPI community participants. The organization began with 20 participants (between the ages of 5-18) and has since grown to over 100 students participating and learning the music and sound of mariachi. The group is run by Valentin Martinez.