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Entries in Occupy the Holidays (2)

Saturday
Dec172011

Occupy the Holidays Update

So several people have expressed interest in helping out with Occupy
The Holidays which is performing this weekend.  We can DEFINITELY USE
YOU.  Here's how:

BUILDING
If you want to help build come to 20 jay street suite 214 anytime
after 1pm!  Ask for Jo Robin or Joe

PERFORMERS
We finally have a schedule and if you can make these times, then come
down to rehearsal tomorrow night (friday) at 6:30 pm at 10 jay st
suite 903 and we will figure out how to use you.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Sat 12/17
10am performance at the People's Performance Plaza (50th and broadway
where occupy broadway happened)
1ish performance at Duarte Square (depending on what the scene is
like... we might move to the alternate occupation site)
somehwere around 3ish we will attempt to perform in Zucotti....


Sun 12/18
10 am washing ton heights (location will be available at rehearsal)
11:30 harlem (locations will be available at rehearsakl)
1:30 Thompkins Square Park
Then we will go to the awesome OWS event in Williamsburg to finish the
day off

Mon 12/19
5pm Battery park
530 somewhere very close by....


If you can come to most of these performances, we can still use you
probably!  come to rehearsal on friday night and we will figure it
out.

Also: We do not expect to be arrested, and are not asking you to be
arrested -but of course with unperfmitted performances and the insane
nature of the nypd, you just never know....

Thank you!!

- Joe

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Thursday
Nov242011

OCCUPY THE HOLIDAYS KICKSTARTER

To visit the Kickstarter for OCCUPY THE HOLIDAYS, click HERE.

About this project

Occupy the Holidays: The Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture Working Group along with the OWS Puppet Guild are bringing a giant puppet & performance spectacle to the streets of New York City.

Occupy the Holidays will showcase many different performance groups (masked performers, dancers, puppeteers, stilt walkers, musicians...) in a travelling piece of street theater as we tell the tale of Mayor Michael Scroogeberg and his quest to find the best (and moste expensive!) gift this Holiday season.

The OWS puppet guild has had an overwhelming amount of support for our unique artistic contribution to the movement.  As has been show for hundreds of years, puppets are a very special and potent tool in the battle for a new consciousness.  They help us educate ourselves and others, and they help us celebrate what we've accomplished so far.  They will help us tell our story and continue to grow this movement and re-inspire our faling democracy.

But making giant puppets in nyc is expensive!  We learned a lot in Occupy Halloween about the cost of storing, transporting, feeding volunteers and this new ambitious budget will help us create a revolutionary theatrical event like no other. Any size contribution will help!  

And if you can't donate, please repost/retweet/share this link widely!

THANK YOU!!!!