Fresh Fruit Festival & More Kick Off at The Wild Project This Month

The wild project just announced its current and upcoming events and performances. Scroll down for details!

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Now:

July 1 - July 2 2

MIME & MOVIE NIGHTT!

Produced by BKBX Summer Fest

Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door

Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) returns to the Wild Project to celebrate summer! Rev up for the fireworks with BKBX's first-ever silent movie night, featuring classic silent film screenings (films feature Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin), and live performances by the mimes. Silence never looked so good!

July 8 - July 9

#ANTISOCIAL: THE DARK SIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, featuring poets Bogar Alonso, Tara Bracco, Karla Jackson-Brewer, Angela Kariotis, Shetal Shah, and Jonathan Walton

Produced by Poetic People Power and Tara Barcco

Performance schedule: Wednesday & Thursday at 8 PM

Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door ($10 for students)

#AntiSocial: The Dark Side of Social Media features new poems about social media, how it's grown more toxic in recent years, and how it affects our behavior, relationships and society. Poets explore topics including public shaming and sexism online, the psychological effects of social media, government and corporate surveillance, and how sites like Facebook and Twitter are changing they way we think, conduct business, and interact with others.

For 13 consecutive years, Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insight and solutions to issues that affect our everyday lives. This show is made possible by support from Left Tilt Fund.

July 13 - July 26

FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL

Produced by All Out Arts

Performance schedule: Varies, see individual shows

Tickets: $18 (unless otherwise noted)

Now in its 13th season, the FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL is an annual festival celebrating LGBTQ performing artists.

FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL LINE UP:

Monday July 13 at 7:30 PM; Wednesday July 15 at 9 PM; Sunday July 19 at 4 PM

THE LEARS: Fools of Fortune by Patrick Thomas McCarthy

Suggested by Shakespeare's King Lear, this contemporary American telling has Alzheimer's-addled Captain of Industry, Edgar Reginald Lehman Lear, gathering those closest to him for an advance reading of the will at Thanksgiving dinner. Homicide, a blinding, poisonings, betrayal, abuse, sibling rivalries, cross dressing, arm wrestling (and even loyalty, redemption & love!) find their way into the turbulent mix.

Thursday July 16 at 6:30 PM; Friday July 17 at 7 PM; Saturday July 18 at 2 PM

BLUE FIRE ON THE WATER written by Renita Martin

As hurricane Katrina lashes New Orleans, and the flood waters rise, blues singer Joe reflects on the love he lost years back when he refused that time too to leave his home. A story of love and betrayal, with a bow to the real life travails of jazz artist Billy Tipton (who lived as a man although she was a woman). What has been called "vibrant, poetic writing intermingled with The Blues" will take the audience on an amazing personal journey.

Wednesday July 15 at 7 PM; Saturday July 18 at 4 PM; Sunday July 19 at 6:30 PM

TELLING written by Natalie Bates

In this new play by critically acclaimed novelist Natalie Bates, the battle between love and fear, played out in a Chicago suburb of 1972. Two women, married with grown children, have discovered, to their astonishment, that they have fallen in love. So much more than a period piece, this "honest, lyrical account of the cost of loving" captures their journey to wrench free of conventional obligations and carve a space to live out their love.

Thursday July 16 at 8 PM; -Saturday July 18 at 8 PM; Monday July 20 at 9 PM

(MARY) TODD written by Dennis Bush, directed by Lester Thomas Shane

With Xavier Reminick

A special FRESH FRUIT reprise performance! Hilarious and heartbreaking, (MARY) TODD is a first-person account of the events leading up to and following the murder of young Southern man's lover. Actor Xavier Reminick's fantastic performance is a "full-frontal assault" on how we think about people and relationships. Advisory: adult content; male nudity.

Tuesday July 14 at 7 PM; Saturday, July 18 at 6 PM; Sunday July 19 at 2 PM

VISIONS An evening of one act LGBT plays

VISONS features four one-act plays in one evening: An Egg is An Egg is a Jellied Egg by M. Lynda Robinson; Farewell, King Carter by Anna Governali; Shall I Fetch the Apparatus by Jonathan Libman; and Booties by Ross Hewitt.

Monday July 20 at 7 PM; Wednesday July 22 at 8:30 PM; Saturday July 25 at 2 PM

RACHEL written by Jessica Field; composed by Jared Field.

An original musical about the life of biologist and nature writer Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, which sparked the modern environmental movement. Carson jeopardizes her success, her health, and most importantly the deep relationship she shares with her neighbor Dorothy Freeman to take a stand for the earth. Rachel has prominent themes of environmentalism and feminism, but the heart of this true story is the lifelong relationship between Carson and Freeman.

Tuesday July 21 at 7 PM; Friday July 24 at 8 PM; Sunday July 26 at 5 PM

UNSEEN ANGELS written by Andrew Storm, composed by Andy Chesterton; directed by Obediah P. Wright

A famous Broadway composer locks himself away in the small inn he built with his now deceased lover. A feisty young journalist hoping to interview the reclusive composer comes to the inn. With demons of her own to manage, could she be a possible agent of redemption?

Tuesday July 21 at 9 PM; Saturday July 25 at 6:30 PM; Sunday July 26 at 12 PM

DEVASTATED NO MATTER WHAT written by Grace Connolly; directed by Andrew May

When Tristan and Riley are tested by a visit from Riley's long estranged and conservative mother, the stage is set for a crucial discussion of identity as it comes to the surface that Tristan was born a woman. All audience members will see resonances with their own lives as the play touches on issues of identity, family, transition and the people that we love. By Grace Connolly; Andrew May (acclaimed star of War Horse) Directs;

Wednesday July 22 at 6 PM; Thursday July 23 at 6:30 PM; Saturday July 25 at 8 PM

AFTER TARTUFFE - A play in verse written by Judy Klass

An adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe, set in a post-apocalyptic future America, which has become a Christian Fundamentalist state. A fallen televangelist takes advantage of the good will of a wealthy businessman, plotting to marry the daughter while making passes at the wife and son.

SPECIAL FREST FRUIT FESTIVAL EVENTS:

Friday, July 17 at 9 PM

LATE NIGHT EROTIC CABARET

Tickets: $15

Frank Calo and Spotlight-On productions present the strange and the magical. Enter the dim lit "backroom" and find out what goes on behind closed doors. An evening of erotic song, dance, poetry and theater. So much fun, it's sinful!

Saturday, July 18 from 11 AM - 1 PM

ART SHOW OPENING

Tickets: Free

A celebration for the opening of FRESH FRUIT's visual art exhibit in the Wild Project lobby.

Thursday, July 23 at 9 PM

ALL OUT DANCE

Tickets: TK

A showcase of new LGBT dance works by local and regional choreographers.

Friday July 24 at 6:30 PM

10-MINUTE EGGS

Tickets $15

Featuring six 10-minute LGBT plays: Black Eye by Carolyn Gage, directed by Nicole Kontolefa; Do You Want Me To Stop? written and directed by Maybe Burke; Brokendown House by Lezlie Revelle; Sunset by Gary Jaffe; The Real Preston Porterm written, directed and performed by John DeBenedetto; Malaise by Marcus Scott, directed by Justin Schwartz.

Saturday, July 25 at 4 PM

QUEER MEMOIR

Tickets: $10 (at the door)

Kelli Dunham - Everyone's Favorite Ex-Nun, Genderqueer, Nurse Nerd Comic - hosts an all-new edition of the popular storytelling symposium in which readers bear witness to their own life's moments.

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All performances are at the wild project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets can be purchased from OvationTix on 212.352.3101 or online at www.thewildproject.com. The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.

The wild project is a theater, film, music, and visual arts venue that presents diverse, engaging, inspiring, and entertaining works to the vibrant and growing community of Alphabet City in New York's East Village, while bringing together the artists and the environment in a unique way. Founded in 2007, the wild project is an innovator among arts venues, providing an eco-friendly theater and gallery where the artists and space nurture each other. The company is dedicated to creating an environment that supports the artists, and to cultivating artists that support the environment. With an eco-conscious approach to presenting the dynamic works of hundreds of emerging artists each year, the wild project offers an artistic and environmental education for patrons of all ages, interests, and incomes in its community.