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Wayang Shadow Puppets at the Museum!

Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Pkwy, Buffalo, NY

Shadow Puppets at the Museum! at the Buffalo Museum of Science will be Nusantara Arts second wayang performance in our series of three wayang performances. It will feature a 2 hour long performance of traditional Javanese wayang kulit puppetry with wayang shadow puppet master Midiyanto from Berkeley California and the musicians of Nusantara Arts. There will be ample and accessible information presented to our audiences from our character research project that will help them understand the characters and motivation that drives the story. The performance will be in a mixture of Javanese and English languages, with live translation and commentary […]

The Laundromat Project Alumni Convening, Part 1 Artists as Neighbors: Living Liberation

Restoration Plaza 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Founded in 2005, The Laundromat Project (The LP) is a Black-rooted and POC-centered organization that advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. We make art and culture in the community while fostering leadership among our neighbors through our celebrated Create Change artist development programs and our creative community-building initiatives rooted in our home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and across New York City. Over the last 17 years, The Laundromat Project has intentionally built a community of 200+ artists and community members through our Create Change Residency and Fellowship, Create &(Re)Connect micro-grant initiative to achieve our goal of […]