American Mill # 2 (Lint Head)
Gallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday 1 to 7PM
Box Office opens at 7PM with gallery viewing
Shows: Thursday – Saturday at 7:30PM
Pioneers Go East Collective creates a new performance of it’s Docudrama theatre work about child labor in the early 20th century textile industry in the Southern United States. Video and photography re-create the experience of mill workers, as live artists perform folk music and interview excerpts inspired by original audio recordings from textile workers.
Performers / Singers / Puppeteers:
Anthony Napoletano, Kamala Sankaram, Julia Dobner- Pereira, Seth Gilman, Ian Cherry, Ryan Leach
The photography exhibition is in collaboration with The Children Institute.
Photos by JinYoul Lim
La MaMa Galleria
Founded in 1984, La Galleria is a nonprofit gallery committed to nurturing experimentation in the visual arts. La Galleria encourages an active dialogue between new media, performance, the plastic and visual arts, curatorial projects, and educational initiatives. It serves the East Village community by offering diverse programming to an inter-generational audience, and expanding the parameters of a traditional gallery space. As a non-profit, La Galleria is able to provide artists and curators with unique exhibition opportunities that are largely out of reach in a commercial gallery setting.