 | ONWARD AND UPWARD IN 2009!
Rising Circle's Laboratory
2008-2009:
Experiments in Process and Performance continue with...
Grace
a new play by members
Sanjit De Silva and Deepa Purohit
Four free performances!
Thurs. July 9th - Sun. July 12th, 2009
All shows 8:00 p.m.
Suggested donation $10
Through Studio Tisch, a program sponsored by New York University's Graduate Acting Alumni Association, Rising Circle will present a workshop production of Grace at the
Walker Theatre, New York University,
721 Broadway (at Waverly Place),
5th Floor, NYC.
For reservations email: info@risingcircle.org
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Lift the Circle Higher!
Join the Collective for an evening of cocktails, performance and fun to benefit Rising Circle.
Thursday, Sept. 24th, 2009
Nabi Gallery, 137 West 25th Street, Manhattan, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Details coming soon!
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Q Up 2010
Q Up is a pilot arts intensive for young Asian American girls residing in Queens, NY slated for February 2010. The project is a collaboration between Rising Circle and Queens Theatre in the Park and includes a free performance of Nancy Kim's How to Find Your Inner Asian!
Q Up is a 2009 Recipient of the Asian Women's Giving Circle grant, a giving circle fund of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy!
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IN THE NEWS
Check out nytheatre.com's December 2008 feature on How to Find Your Inner Asian online at www.nytheatre.com!
"Their mission to give voice to America's unheard minorities is as inspiring as it is expansive. Whatever their next move is, it will be one worth keeping an eye out for." more
-Michael Criscuolo from nytheatre.com
"American Family Project has the power of a talk show, only it's scripted and not meant for anyone's entertainment or easy consumption." more
-Jerry Portwood from Backstage
"Bravo to the Rising Circle Theater Collective, who have created a new populist play called Pulling the Lever that reveals who we actually are more vividly and authentically than a hundred Gallup polls ever could... What they have to say is fascinating and wonderful." more
-Martin Denton from nytheatre.com
2008 AT A GLANCE
How to Find Your Inner Asian
December 2-6, 2008
written and performed by Nancy Kim
directed by Catherine Jhung
Manhattan Theatre Source
Experiment 2 in Rising Circle's Laboratory 2008-2009
a workshop production
Grace
October 24-25, 2008
written by Sanjit De Silva and Deepa Purohit
directed by Nandita Shenoy
Experiment 1 in Rising Circles Laboratory 2008-2009
With generous support from LMCC's 2008 Manhattan Community Arts Fund
a public reading
Bloodlines
(American Family Project)
March 7, 2008
written by Rising Circle Theater Collective, lead writers: Sanjit De Silva and Deepa Purohit
Adelphi University, Long Island
upon special invitation by the Nassau County Multi-Cultural Advisory Committee and the Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, and Developmental Disabilities Services
remounted as a performance to launch their Fifth Annual Cultural Competence Conference
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