All alone in the dark
Date: 14 Sep 2022
Local Start Time: 7:30pm
Location: 23rd Ave between 27th Street and Astoria Park
Lost in Astoria Queens, Amal is close to despair. A dazzling path of light shows her the way to a place where she can sleep in safety.
In partnership with the Girl Scouts of Greater New York and Processional Arts Workshop.
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All events with Amal are suitable for children and families.
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.
Girl Scouts of Greater New York
Girl Scouts of Greater New York is New York City’s oldest and largest girls’ leadership organization, reaching tens of thousands of girls ages 5 to 18 in every zip code of the five boroughs. Through Girl Scouts, girls explore STEM, business and entrepreneurship, environmental leadership, and outdoor adventure, advocacy, and so much more. Girl Scouting is ‘by girls, for girls,’ and today’s Girl Scouts learn to lead with courage, confidence, and character, to make the world a better place. Visit www.girlscoutsnyc.org to learn more.
Processional Arts Workshop
Processional Arts Workshop (PAW) was formed to preserve, promote, and develop public processions and pageant puppetry as a distinct and vital artform. Informed by diverse, global traditions of vernacular street theater, large-scale puppetry, and ritual pageant, we seek to use processional art as means to build and sustain community spirit and awareness. PAW creates original works for established public events and festivals (most notably, leading New York’s Village Halloween Parade each year), as well as seeding site-specific pageant traditions in communities where no such events may have existed before. Drawing on regional cultures, history, folklore, ethnicity, and current sociopolitical concerns, our performances encourage local residents to participate at every stage of production. thus empowering them to identify, express, and preserve the narratives that uniquely define “local” in their own community, against the current tide of global homogenization.
In addition to public performances, PAW accepts theatrical commissions and organizes workshops in disciplines relevant to processional art, such as giant puppetry, mask and costume, musical instrument making, mobile theatrical design, and choreography and movement for pageants. PAW plans to further its mission through other educational activities, such as producing publications that explain and illustrate aspects of pageant puppetry and processional art and operating a visiting artist/artist-in-residency program, where facilities and support are given in exchange for public lectures, demonstrations, and other activities.