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Dr Faustina Lights the Lights Benefit Concert
Jun
24
6:30 PM18:30
Music

Dr Faustina Lights the Lights Benefit Concert

Doors are at 6:00 PM, show begins at 6:30 PM. Suggested donation is $25. Seats are limited, so reserve your ticket today!

The first annual benefit concert to help Torn Page, home of Tender Buttons Press, to keep the lights on! Join us at the beloved TORN PAGE parlor for an evening of live music by special guests: Schickele Family Denim Revue, the naysayer, Cynthia Nelson & aurelia marine!

Torn Page provides affordable community performance, rehearsal and educational space for literary, theatrical, musical and multidisciplinary events, and is located on the second floor of the historic Chelsea brownstone, in the family home of Rip Torn & Geraldine Page.

We also accept donations through PayPal at tornpagenyc@gmail.com (earmarked LIGHT) and through Tender Buttons Press’s sponsor the Segue Foundation (earmarked Tender Buttons Press.)

Contact host Lee Ann Brown at TenderButtonsPress@gmail.com with questions or to volunteer.

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Portraits and Prayers: A Musical Gertrude Stein Play
May
8
to May 10
Music, Theater, Poetry

Portraits and Prayers: A Musical Gertrude Stein Play

Tender Buttons Press & Torn Page Presents!

Portraits and Prayers: A Musical Gertrude Stein Play

FRIDAY, May 8th & SATURDAY, May 9th, Doors 6:30pm Show 7pm

SUNDAY, May 10th, Doors 2:30pm, Show 3pm

@ Torn Page 435 West 22nd Street 2nd Floor.

Performance group, The Rosehips, make their own interpretation of works by avant-garde poet and playwright Gertrude Stein’s book ‘Portraits and Prayers’ with performance, art installation, music and visual design.

Michele Collins - performance, voice
Georgia Wartel Collins - bass, voice

TICKETS

FRIDAY, May 8th & SATURDAY, May 9th, Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm

SUNDAY, May 10th, Doors 2:30pm, Show 3pm

FRIDAY ONLY: OPENING NIGHT SPECIAL GUEST

special guest poet ariel rose reading after the Stein piece

Portraits and Prayers is a collection of Stein’s early essays and word portraits written in 1934 about her observations at her Saturday salon in Paris.

''After having been led through this unique world of experience by one of Gothenburg's foremost performance artists, you leave feeling uplifted and liberated from any preconceived notion, and it's simply magnificent.''

-Kjerstin Norén, reviewer at Swedish online magazine ‘Alba’ https://www.alba.nu/

WEBSITE for THE ROSEHIPS: https://therosehips.se/

ariel rosé (he/they/them)–poet, essayist, illustrator, author of the books morze nocą jest mięśniem serca, PIW 2022 (the sea at night is a muscle of the heart) and Północ Przypowieści, Znak 2019 (North: Parables), and forthcoming: “Ukraine–A Polyphony” and “ways of swimming”; co-editor of Both Sides Face East/Durable Words (Academic Studies Press 2025), Borders De Todos Lados / Fronteras from all Directions (ibidem 2026). ariel is a member of PEN Berlin. Twice a year they have been inviting poets from underrepresented countries to Oslo for a reading–the fruit of which is an anthology “Sammenvevde stemmer” to be issued by HOF, Norway 2026. Recently, they have been working on an opera on Paula Rego at the Watermill Center.

ariel is originally from Poland, a resident of Norway, living as a nomad between languages and countries.

https://www.arielrose.art/

instagram: @arielrosepoet

fb https://www.facebook.com/rosealeira

Limited Seats!

Get your reservations now!

Any questions? email Lee Ann Brown TenderButtonsPress@gmail.com

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Poetry Reading & Piano Performance with Artists from Galicia, Spain
May
17
4:30 PM16:30
Poetry, Music

Poetry Reading & Piano Performance with Artists from Galicia, Spain

Join host Patricio Ferrari of World Poetry in Translation as he welcomes Galician artists for an evening of poetry reading and piano performance.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Marcos de la Fuente

Marcos de la Fuente is a multifaceted poet, therapist, and cultural activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the driving force behind the Open Mic monthly series “Se Buscan Poetas” (Wanted Poets) at the Bowery Poetry Club. His work encompasses poetry reading, action poetry, performance, and spoken word, both with and without musical accompaniment. Since 2010, he has been the organizer of the Kerouac Festival in Vigo, Spain, expanding the festival to New York in 2016 and Mexico City in 2019. His literary influences include Cortázar, León Felipe, Ginsberg, and Kavafis, while his philosophical inspirations come from Herman Hesse, Kundera, Fromm, and Nietzsche. Musically, his rhythm is inspired by Charlie Parker, Saul Williams, and Gil Scott-Heron.

Aida Saco Beiroa

Aida Saco Beiroa is a young Spanish pianist and composer renowned for her “extremely interesting musical personality and lively pianistic instinct.” Her formal education in music was under the tutelage of esteemed pianists such as Josep Mª Colom and Tensy Krismant at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, Bart van de Roer at Codarts-Rotterdam, and Maurizio Moretti at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. In 2022, she received an invitation from Solomon Mikowsky, a globally recognized piano pedagogue, to pursue postgraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, a testament to her exceptional talent and potential.

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