terraNOVA Collective Holds Feeder: A Love Story Post-Show Discussion 3/21

terraNOVA Collective will hold a post-show discussion with the audience immediately following performances of their mainstage production, FEEDER: A LOVE STORY at HERE (145 6th Avenue - Entrance on Dominick Street, 1 block south of Spring Street) on Monday, March 21. Admission to these special events is included with the purchase of a ticket to any performance of Feeder: A Love Story.

FAT ACCEPTANCE

Monday, March 21
After the show join us for a conversation about Fat Acceptance through the lenses of Health at Every Size (HAES) and fat in entertainment. Performer Janie Martinez, playwright James Carter, actress Jennifer Conley Darling, and Golda Poretsky, founder of Body Love Wellness, will examine society's views on being fat and overcoming prejudices.

FEEDER: A LOVE STORY follows the relationship of Jesse and Noel. Like thousands of other couples, they met online, fell in love, and got married. When Noel and Jesse delve into the fringe lifestyle of feederism they open themselves up to an extraordinary world of passion, love and food. But what happens when one partner outgrows the other?

The production, presented by terraNOVA Collective will play a three week engagement at HERE (145 6th Avenue - entrance on Dominick Street, 1 block south of Spring Street), March 6-26, Thursday through Saturday & Mondays at 8:30pm and Saturday & Sunday at 4pm. Tickets ($20/$15 students & seniors) may be purchased online at www.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

Geoffrey Jackson Scott (Transmedia Storytelling) is an artist and researcher dedicated to the exploration, creation and sharing of architectures/platforms around which people can gather. Working in the mode of social practice, at the center of Geoffrey's work is an art object/encounter designed to foster dialogue, interaction and participation between people. Chief among his artistic concerns is a desire to collapse the distance between creator and spectator through these participation-based projects. Currently pursuing a M.A. in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, his academic work focuses on exploring how the architectures of physical, as well as virtual, space determine and shape our possibilities for interaction/participation. Over the last 6 years, Geoffrey has worked as Literary Associate at New York Theatre Workshop and spent 3 years as co-curator of CUNY's Prelude Festival.

Jen Begeal (Transmedia Storytelling) is a Social Media Manager for Ride5 Media Group, an award-winning strategic marketing and creative services firm. Ride5 believes business survival requires brands to develop mutually beneficial, sustainable relationships with their diverse audiences that enable success through dynamically integrated campaigns, extreme audience engagement and adaptation to cultural trends.

August Schulenburg (Transmedia Storytelling) is the Artistic Director of Flux Theatre Ensemble and the Social Media Manager of Theatre Communications Group. He is the primary contributor to the Flux blog, which was named one of the top 5 theatre blogs by The Guardian, and has experimented with transmedia, including fictional characters tweeting for The Lesser Seductions of History. For TCG, he runs the TCG Circle blog, Facebook page, and has live tweeted the National Conference, the Fall Forum, and several of Arena Stage's New Play Convenings. August is also a playwright, actor, and director, and will be directing Ellen McLaughlin's Ajax in Iraq for Flux in June.

Janie Martinez (Fat Acceptance) is an artistic chimera. Janie is a college graduate in the performing arts and plied her skills in NYC for such Off-Broadway shows as the Pulitzer Prize winning show How I Learned to Drive (NYC-LA), De La Guarda's Villa Villa (NYC-London) as costume supervisor/designer to being a featured actress in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and Steven Shainberg's Fur alongside Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. Ms. Martinez is active in the NYC performing arts scene, performing alongside her mentor, Ms. Penny Arcade for such acts as the Globesity Festival and the 365 Plays at The Public Theatre. She performs avant-garde cabaret acts sharing the bill alongside Justin Bond (of Kiki and Herb) and Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) and drag legend Sweetie. Ms. Martinez is the artistic director for Big Moves NYC, a dance company that promotes size acceptance thru dancing and has toured with several shows across the US, Canada and Europe actively dispelling negative images for persons of size thru her one woman show Fat Chicks Go to Hell. She has also appeared as a model for publications such as Details Magazine, Time Out NY, The New York Times, Anthem Magazine, and Next Magazine and has been photographed by noted photogs Mick Rock, Mary Ellen Mark and Christian Weber

Golda Poretsky (Fat Acceptance) After spending nearly her entire life dieting, Golda decided in 2007 to stop dieting and start listening to her body. In 2008, she founded Body Love Wellness, a wellness company that provides individual and group counseling from a Health At Every Size perspective. Using her background in nutrition and holistic health, she now counsels women and men on how to get off the dieting roller coaster, give their bodies what they really crave, and love their bodies and themselves. In addition to counseling clients throughout the country, Golda teaches workshops on healthy eating without dieting, intuitive eating, and radical body love. She is also a featured weekly columnist on the web site More of Me to Love, has written articles for Jezebel.com and Daily Venus Diva, and has a popular podcast on body acceptance and intuitive eating as well. Golda's counseling programs and activism work have been featured on CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Nightline, NBC's LX New York, Psychology Today and Time Out New York, among others. In June 2010, Golda's book on healing from dieting, Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal was published in paperback and kindle editions. Golda has a degree in health counseling and integrative nutrition from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, as well as B.A. in history from New York University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Its multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate our community.