Shows & Events

HOME(COMING): BLOCK PARTY ON AUDUBON

When

Oct 15, 2022

2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Where

Audubon Street, New Haven

HOME(COMING): BLOCK PARTY ON AUDUBON

AUDUBON STREET BLOCK PARTY DETAILS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15  2-7 PM

Click here for Audubon Area Parking Map

 

Let Us Know You’re Coming
(RSVPs not required, but a head count helps us accommodate everyone!)

Food, fun, and festivities to ring in our next chapter

  • 2:00–3:00 PM  Community Pre-Show + Activities
  • 3:00–4:00 PM  Community Performance
    • Welcome remarks // Jacob G. Padrón, Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director
      • Featuring Performances by (in alphabetical order):
        • Betzabeth Castro
        • ECA Brass Band
        • Proyecto Cimarrón
        • Anthony Regets
        • Fior Rodriguez
        • Justin Sudderth
        • Thabisa
    • Welcome to Audubon // Noah Bloom, Executive Director of Neighborhood Music School, and Anne Coates, Executive Director of Creative Arts Workshop
  • 3:00–6:00 PM  Open House Tours of Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon Street
  • 4:00–5:00 PM  Neighborhood Music School presents Anton Kot Band (outdoor stage)
  • 5:00–7:00 PM  DJ Dance Party + Celebration! Featuring DJ Gabby

Food provided by Many Donuts (from 2-4 PM) and BurgerWay Truck (from 5-7 PM)

SPECIAL THANKS to ACES Educational Center for the Arts, Arts Council of Greater New
Haven, the City of New Haven, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Creative
Arts Workshop, Duncan Goodall, Koffee?, Neighborhood Music School, New Haven Ballet,
Alder Eli Sabin, Yale Properties, and our new neighbors on Audubon Street and Audubon Court.

 

Creative

Jenny Koons (she/her) is a director and organizer. Projects: Oedipus (Deaf West Theatre), Head Over Heels (Pasadena Playhouse), Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre), Now Becomes Then (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage), Speechless (New Blue Man Group North American Tour), The Tempest (The Juilliard School), Between Us: The Deck of Cards (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theater Mobile Unit), Burn All Night (American Repertory Theatre), Theatre for One: In This Moment (Pershing Square Signature Center), Gimme Shelter (Why Not Theatre, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games commission), Theatre for One: I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am (Arts Brookfield), A Sucker Emcee (National Black Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, SPKRBOX Festival, Norway), Queen of the Night (Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub, Drama Desk Award), The Odyssey Project 2012 (site-specific NYC). Jenny was a 2021 Vision Resident at Ars Nova and has developed new work at Steppenwolf, Roundabout, and New Black Fest, among others. She was the 2017 curator of New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center Lobby Project, co-curator of the 2016 Toronto ThisGen Conference, and co-founder of Artists 4 Change NYC (National Black Theatre). She has been a facilitator and educator in creating anti-racist spaces and engaging in conversations around race and equity for over a decade, in both non-profit and artistic spaces. Jenny is a Lilly Award recipient and proud member of the SDC.

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