To the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack
By Harunalee Theater Company
Memory Palace Designed by Gregory Laffey
Costumes by Karen Boyer
Food from neighborhood vendors will be served.
*seating is extremely limited: advance purchase highly recommended
To the left of the pantry and below the sugar shack is a Memory Palace. It’s a little bit cosmos and a little bit party, carefully designed and built so you can crawl into it at your leisure. Its rooms are the loci of fantastical images, contributed by a range of artists exploring the magic and meaning of memory. Fill your own palace with images until ours dissolves with yours.
harunalee has built their very own Memory Palace, which is a little bit cosmos and a little bit party, carefully designed and built so you can crawl into it at your leisure. Its familiar yet illusory rooms are the loci of fantastical images, contributed by a range of invited artists, working in various mediums exploring the magic and meaning of memory. Inspired by Francis Yates’ seminal text on the occult nature of memory systems during the Renaissance aptly titled The Art of Memory, we invite you into a mind ancient in design, but contemporary in its contemplations.
Each night, a cluster of eclectic downtown artists working in various mediums- from poetry, music, dance, magic, neuroscience, drag & more- will share a brand new piece of work inspired by original memories that have been submitted by YOU: our audience and artistic community!
Friday, February 12th
Waeli Wang – Dance
Ryann Weir & Andrew Farmer – Theater
Chris Tyler – Theater
Saturday, February 13th
Sonja Blum – Neuroscience Lecture
Vinny DePonto – Mentalist
Sunday, February 14th
Fran Tirado – Poetry
Will Davis – Dance
Kathryn Hathaway – Music
Camilo Roldan – Poetry
Wednesday, February 17th
Waeli Wang – Dance
Chris Tyler – Theater
Kathryn Hathaway – Music
Thursday, February 18th
Vinny DePonto – Mentalist
Lacy Rose – Music
Friday, February 19th
Andrew Bartels – Poetry
Sayer Mansfield – Dance
Bombay Rickey – Music
Saturday, February 20th
Sonja Blum – Neuroscience Lecture
Eric Conroe – Dance
James Monaco & Jerome Ellis – Music/Theater
Sunday, February 21st
Corvette LeFace – Burlesque
Lacy Rose – Music
Jeanna Phillips & Ian Axness – Music/Theater
The Dance Cartel – Dance
Storm Thomas, Jessie Shelton, Eamon Goodman, Eric Farber, Freddy Epstein – The Band
harunalee is an ensemble of New York based performers and designers collaborating across artistic disciplines to create experimental plays and performances written by Kristine Haruna Lee since 2010. Visit their website for more information.
harunalee is Stivo Arnoczy, Sasha Arutyunova, Andrew R. Butler, Kristine Haruna Lee, Sarah Lurie, Lauren Swan-Potras
“So full of impulses and ideas and splendid, fractious energy”
-New York Times
“harunalee explores the terrifying unknown with a gaudy richness that left me swimming in images and then drowning in personal reflection.”
– Culturebot
“By juxtaposing and ultimately marrying the mythic and the mundane, [harunalee] creates something completely new—and distinctly feminine.”
– Stagebuddy