Time to fly
Date: 23 Sep 2022
Local Start Time: 7:30pm / 8:00pm
Location: Berry Street & North 5th Street / STREB, Inc
Walking through Williamsburg Amal is searching for a place to sleep when she finds herself in the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics.
She finds that there is nothing stronger than will power, not even gravity.
A theatrical performance created by Elizabeth Streb’s STREB EXTREME ACTION and STREB Kid PopAction Company. With Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and El Puente.
Musical performance
Free
Pre-booking will be required for the 8:00pm performance – HERE
Indoor
7:30pm: a walk through Williamsburg (location)
8:00pm: a performance at STREB (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.
STREB
For over forty years, STREB has performed in theaters large and small, served as artists-in-residence at the world’s top art museums, and taken its work into the streets and sports stadiums. The company’s extensive international touring calendar has included commissions and presentations at Louvre Abu Dhabi, Théâtre du Châtelet, Musée D’Orsay, Greece’s Summer Nostos Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Whitney Museum of American Arts, the Fall for Dance Festival, Wolf Trap Foundation, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles MOCA, the River-to-River Festival, the Brisbane and Melbourne Festivals, and in Chile, Singapore and Taiwan. The company has also taken their signature extreme action to iconic locations including the London Eye, Grand Central Station, Coney Island’s fairground, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage,Madison Square Garden, Smithsonian Institution’s mall, Minneapolis Metrodome, and more.
In January 2003, STREB moved into a vacant loading facility in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and transformed it into the STREB LAB FOR ACTION MECHANICS (SLAM), a bastion for artistic creation, performance, education and community engagement.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
The mission of Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. is to bring joy and wonder into the world. We cultivate, develop, and sustain the circus and variety arts. We celebrate tradition while maintaining an irreverent spirit, keeping the circus arts current, accessible, and relevant.
El Puente
El Puente was founded in 1982 by Luis Garden Acosta who called together church leaders, artists, educators, health providers, and other community activists to stop the epidemic wave of violence in the Southside community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In a twelve-month period (July 1979 to June 1980) out of a population of a little over 30,000, 48 young people, virtually one adolescent every week, was assassinated in what the mass media termed as the “teenage gang capital of New York City.”
In over three decades, El Puente has accomplished numerous headline initiatives while pioneering a national model for youth development within the context of overall community development. Grounded in a holistic approach to leadership development for young people and their families, El Puente bridges the worlds of health, education, and the arts with activism and community empowerment. El Puente’s central focus, “see, judge and act”, adopted from the Young Christian Worker movement as well as the legacy of the Young Lords Party has galvanized a human rights movement that has inspired members and their families to lead community campaigns and initiatives that you can view on their website: https://elpuente.us/history