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
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.
instagram: @arielrosepoet
fb https://www.facebook.com/rosealeira
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Any questions? email Lee Ann Brown TenderButtonsPress@gmail.com