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Art and Social Change

Performing art has long been a platform for expressing outrage at injustice. Experience some of NYC’s most exciting artist/activists at BPAC in honor of Arts Advocacy Day and the Weissman College of Arts and Sciences Art-A-Thon.

11am – 12:30pm – Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Popular Theatre Troupe

TONYC engages the audience in a Forum Play, using theatre as a medium for communal problem-solving around injustices experienced by homeless and jobless New Yorkers.

12:30pm – 2pm – Activist Artists Share Their Work

Playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, and social critic Taylor Mac, choreographer and disability rights advocate Heidi Latsky, and Urban Bush Women, who are developing a work about race, gender, and economic inequality in the lives of African-American women at BPAC, offer examples of their activist work.

Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave. (enter on 25th St. between Third and Lexington)

Transportation: Subway- 6 train at 23rd St., Bus- SBS M23 Crosstown at 3rd Ave., M101, M102 or M103 at 23rd St.

 











When: Tue., Mar. 7, 2017 at 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Where: Baruch Performing Arts Center
One Bernard Baruch Way (25th Street btw. Lexington & Third Aves)
212-352-3101
Price: General Admission $16, Students with ID Free
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Performing art has long been a platform for expressing outrage at injustice. Experience some of NYC’s most exciting artist/activists at BPAC in honor of Arts Advocacy Day and the Weissman College of Arts and Sciences Art-A-Thon.

11am – 12:30pm – Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Popular Theatre Troupe

TONYC engages the audience in a Forum Play, using theatre as a medium for communal problem-solving around injustices experienced by homeless and jobless New Yorkers.

12:30pm – 2pm – Activist Artists Share Their Work

Playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, and social critic Taylor Mac, choreographer and disability rights advocate Heidi Latsky, and Urban Bush Women, who are developing a work about race, gender, and economic inequality in the lives of African-American women at BPAC, offer examples of their activist work.

Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave. (enter on 25th St. between Third and Lexington)

Transportation: Subway- 6 train at 23rd St., Bus- SBS M23 Crosstown at 3rd Ave., M101, M102 or M103 at 23rd St.

 

Buy tickets/get more info now