All the people that were here
Date: 1 Oct 2022
Local Start Time: 5:00pm
Location: Winter Garden Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street
As her time in New York City nears its end, Amal is invited to a moving ceremony of music and stories, honoring immigrants and refugees who have made New York City their home and made a powerful impact within their community.
She is also welcomed by young people from across the five boroughs who have recently arrived in New York City.
A celebration of immigration and refugee stories past and present, in partnership with Notch Theatre Company with performances by world renowned Jazz musician Kinan Azmeh and his band, with Pinchintu Multi National Girls Choir and Processional Arts.
After the performance Amal will walk to the waterfront where she will board a ship to travel across the New York Harbor.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Winter Garden, Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street
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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.
Notch Theatre Company
Notch Theatre Company creates community-responsive cultural work to amplify local stories and support grassroots efforts on a national scale. Our work has been featured on HowlRound, including once in their Theater in the Age of Climate Change series, on Playbill, Monument Lab, OnStage Blog, Broadway World for our Wild Home program and our Anna Karenina: a riff, in N Magazine, and by the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture. Notch’s programs and partnerships have presented at the Children’s Defense Fund Advocacy Conference, the National Performance Network’s Conference, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture’s Citizen Artist Salon on Creative Strategies for Commemorative Justice, the Ubumuntu Festival in Rwanda, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Lewis Prize for Music’s Institute, Chautauqua Institute, White Heron Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theater in partnership with Spectrum Theater Ensemble, Brown University, Live@Jacks in Denver, HB Studio, La Mama Studios in NYC and as an Anchor Partner at the Flea Theatre in New York, among others. www.notchtheatre.org @notchtheatrecompany
Kinan Azmeh
“Little Amal’s walk is an act of freedom, just like art is. While she walks tall she teaches us about love and resilience and hovers above our shortcomings. I am thrilled to be an ambassador for The Walk, and very honoured to be following the lead of every little Amal out there.”
Hailed as “intensely soulful” and a “virtuoso” by The New York Times and “spellbinding” by The New Yorker, Winner of OpusKlassik award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for what the CBC has called his “incredibly rich sound” and his distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres.
Originally from Damascus, Syria, Kinan Azmeh brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist, composer and improviser. Notable appearances include the Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN General Assembly, New York; the Royal Albert Hall, London; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Der Philharmonie, Berlin; the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Washington DC; the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie; and in his native Syria at the opening concert of the Damascus Opera House.
Kinan Azmeh is a graduate of New York’s Juilliard School as a student of Charles Neidich, and of both the Damascus High institute of Music where he studied with Shukry Sahwki, Nicolay Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof, and Damascus University’s School of Electrical Engineering. Kinan earned his doctorate degree in music from the City University of New York in 2013.
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