Sorvino, Goldberg, Rashad and MORE Headline Harold Clurman Festival

The Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts will kick off with a symposium discussing Art and Social Activism: Spotlight on Africa with participants Nima, Elbagir, Mira Sorvino, Winter Miller, Melissa Fitzgerald, John Prendergast and others. The ten day Festival line-up will include Jazz and Classical concerts with Ned Otter, Noah Getz, Sonya Lee and David Amram and theater performances including Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall with Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Parrish and Michael Howard. A new play by Don K. Williams entitled What Shall I Give My Children? will be directed by Tom Oppenheim. Amiri Baraka, Forrest Gander, James Sherry, Marcella Durand, and Jonathan Skinner will participate in readings and discussions in Wherever Green is Worn: Ecology and Antiwar. A special panel on Educational Justice will be moderated by Leonard Lopate and will include educators and activists Herbert Kohl, Maxine Greene, William Ayers and Frances Lucerna. The festival will culminate with a symposium discussing Art and Educational Justice with panelists Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad, Anna Deavere Smith and others moderated by Leonard Lopate.

All events will be held at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting unless otherwise noted

Friday, October 17
7pm Opening Night Symposium: Art and Social Activism: Spotlight on Africa at Cooper Union's Great Hall with Mira Sorvino, Melissa Fitzgerald, Winter Miller, John Prendergast, Nima Elbagir moderated by Jimmie Briggs This event is co-sponsored by Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education & Public Programs.

Saturday, October 18
12 noon Voices workshop: a collaboration between the Stella Adler Outreach Division and Voices of Uganda

3pm MAD presents I.D. Elegy (Working Title) created by Steve Cook

6pm MAD presents a New Movement Theater Work (title TBD) choreographed by Margie Gillis

7pm The Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theater presents a symposium discussion: Movement: a Universal Language with Margie Gillis, Bill T. Jones, Beth Konopka and Irene Dowd, moderated by Deborah Jowitt

Sunday, October 19
12 noon Voices workshop: collaboration between the Stella Adler Outreach Division and Voices of Uganda

4pm The Harold Clurman Center for Poetry, Poetic Drama and the Spoken Word presents Wherever Green is Worn: Ecology and Antiwar, readings and discussions on ecology, war, activism and poetry with Amiri Baraka, Forrest Gander, James Sherry, Marcella Durand, and Jonathan Skinner

6pm MAD presents I.D. Elegy (Working Title) created by Steve Cook

Monday, October 20
7pm MAD presents I.D. Elegy (Working Title) created by Steve Cook

Tuesday, October 21
6pm Lab Theater presents a reading of All that Fall by Samuel Beckett with Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Parrish, Michael Howard and others

8pm MAD presents I.D. Elegy (Working Title) created by Steve Cook

Wednesday, October 22
5pm Lab Theater presents What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams, directed by Tom Oppenheim

8pm Lab Theater presents a reading of All that Fall by Samuel Beckett with Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Parrish, Michael Howard and others

Thursday, October 23
5pm Lab Theater presents What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams, directed by Tom Oppenheim

8pm Lab Theater presents a reading of All that Fall by Samuel Beckett with Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Parrish, Michael Howard and others

11pm Jason S. Little in a concert performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch** at The Zipper Theater with Mark Fiffer, Kate Pazakis, Mary Ann McSweeney, Greg Utzig and Ray Marchica
** This event is not included in the price of a Festival pass; $20 suggested donation supports the Stella Adler Outreach Division

Friday, October 24
7pm Lab Theater presents What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams, directed by Tom Oppenheim

Saturday, October 25
The David Oppenheim Music Center presents a day of music and discussion on Music: An Instrument of Peace

12 noon The David Oppenheim Concert Series presents Sonya Lee, classical pianist

2pm The David Oppenheim Concert Series presents Ned Otter and Friends, jazz

2pm Lab Theater presents What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams, directed by Tom Oppenheim

4pm The David Oppenheim Concert Series presents Laurence Gingold, classical pianist

6pm The David Oppenheim Concert Series presents Noah Getz, saxophonist

8pm The David Oppenheim Concert Series presents David Amram, multi-instrumentalist

Sunday, October 26
2pm Lab Theater presents What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams, directed by Tom Oppenheim

4pm The Harold Clurman Outreach Division presents a symposium discussion: Educational Justice with Herbert Kohl, Maxine Greene, Francis Lucerna and William Ayers

Monday, October 27
Closing Night symposium: Art and Educational Justice, at Cooper Union's Great Hall with Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Phylicia Rashad, Anna Deavere Smith and others, moderated by Leonard Lopate This event is co-sponsored by Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education & Public Programs.

* Participants scheduled to appear at time of printing, pending availability; subject to change without notice

Proceeds from this event will support The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and its programs including the Stella Adler Outreach Division providing free, professional artist training to New York City’s low income youth. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization.

For more information and to purchase tickets and make donations please visit www.stellaadler.com

Photo Credit Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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