petitversailles

Le Petit Versailles is a NYC public community garden in the East Village that presents a season of events including art exhibitions, music, film/video, performance, theater, workshops and community projects from May - October. LPV is a project of Allied Productions, Inc., a non profit arts organization. http://www.alliedproductions.org

Saturday, June 21, 2014

CRIMSON SUN





CAVE COLLECTIVE & VANGELINE THEATER

PRESENT

CRIMSON SUN
SITE SPECIFIC BUTOH INSTALLATION

For more info!
http://www.vangeline.com/content/templates/t_main_vangeline.asp?articleid=329&zoneid=1

Thursday, June 26th, 7 PM

Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
346 E. Houston St. @ Ave C.

$5 Suggested Donation

RAIN OR SHINE!

Photo © Suzanna Finley 2014
Photo © Suzanna Finley 2014


Inspired by ideas around paganism and ancient ritual, Crimson Sun looks at ways to re-connect with and awaken to our part in nature and the seasons in the context of city living.

Cave Collective's installation of hanging fiber sculptures and handwoven nets evoke fertility, abundance, rites, femininity, masculinity and magic. The installation activates near the Summer Solstice, with a site-specific Butoh performance by Vangeline Theater.

The sculpture will transform continually over the summer, as different sections will be lifted or suspended. The accompanying soundscape will reflect the additive weaving process, with the installation piece culminating in an intensive cluster of color and sound.

On the eve of the Autumn Equinox, Vangeline Theater will perform an improvised dance piece inside the installation, moving the nets and kinetic elements, dismantling the piece, marking its end and the changing seasons. This will happen in concert with a larger Equinox show, with further information to be announced later in the season!



Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, Citizens for NYC, The Trust for Public Land, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation, & NYC Board of Education. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Monday, June 16, 2014

GARRIN BENFIELD - Summer Solstice Make Music NYC -

There's nothing I'd rather be doing as we usher in Summer than playing music at Le Petit Versailles. 

I think this is my third year doing just that! 

If you've never been, you need to check out this shining star among the network of Lower East Side gardens.

This show is part of 
Make Music New York, a city-wide celebration. The vibe is loose and friendly.

If it rains we'll be under the tarps! 7 pm.

More info:
www.garrin.com
www.makemusicny.org

Le Petit Versailles
346 East Houston Street < Avenue B + C >

F/V train to Second Ave. J/M to Delancey Street.

By donation ($5) or whatever you can—i.e. Food, Drinks!

All Events Rain or Shine
www.alliedproductions.org

212.529.8815

Sunday, June 15, 2014

THE GARDEN OF DeLIGHT- ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN Film Festival

ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

PRESENTS

THE GARDEN OF DeLIGHT
Curated by Lili White

Friday, June 20th 2014
7:30 PM
Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
346 E. Houston St. @ Ave C.
$5 Suggested Donation
RAIN OR SHINE!

This show moves from burnt out city From This show moves from burnt out citybuildings into Nature; with issues from the minds of women, some featuring magical happenings, to the final film that contrasts a major defunct center of a thriving Native American Culture to footage of NYC after 9/11. Featuring never before screened works from ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN Film Festival (AXWFF)
http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/

Total Running Time: ca. 63 min.

THE D-BLOK SNAG
Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public)
16mm, Bolex in-camera editing, TRT: 5.10 min

black rectangle
rhayne vermette
16MM to digital, TRT: 1.30 min

full of fire
rhayne vermette
16MM to digital, TRT: 2.15 min

SHE LEARNS TO LUNGE
Katya Yakubov
TRT: 6.40

CONSTELLATION
Muriel Montini
FRANCE, TRT: 5.00 min

SWEETMEATS
Denise Iris
Figital, TRT: 4.40

I SNAKE-FOOT
Lili White
digital, TRT: 5.18

TURQUOISE BEADS
Lili White, Sound: BUSHMEAT aka Thomas Stanley (with voices of: Marcel Duchamp, Langston Hughes, , Krishnamurti)

TRT: 38.14 min.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, Citizens for NYC, The Trust for Public Land, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation, & NYC Board of Education. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

ARTIST PORTRAITS


Le Petit Versailles & the Millennium Film Workshop, Present:
ARTIST PORTAITS
Saturday, June 14th 2014
7:30 PM
Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
346 E. Houston St. @ Ave C.
$5 Suggested Donation
RAIN OR SHINE!

Le Petit Versailles welcomes back Millennium Film Workshop for another summer-long screening series! The first installment is brought to you by Stephanie Wuertz and Sasha Janerus. Artists filming artists (and one historian!)

The show will be brought to you in glorious 16mm film, courtesy of The Film-Makers' Cooperative.

Andy Warhol
Marie Menken
1965, 16mm, color, 22 min.
A long day in the life of Pop artist Any Warhol shortened into minutes: a document.

George Dumpson’s Place
Ed Emshwiller
1965, 16mm, color, 8 min.
George Dumpson was a scavenger. He created a small universe with what he found and could carry on his homemade wagon. To me he epitomized the soul of the artist. He put together what things he could in such a way as to satisfy some inner need, just as I had to make this picture of him and his place.

R-34
Jack and Olga Chambers
1967, 16mm, color, 26 min.
... a film on the movement and work of Greg Curnoe, but is not intended as a documentary. It is merely my attempt to communicate using his movements and images from his work. "R-34 is the greatest film on the creative process I've yet seen." -- Stan Brakhage.

Manual of Arms
Hollis Frampton
1966, 16mm, black and white, 17 min.
Courtly dances with friends and lovers, in the form of a 14 part drill for the camera, incorporating physiognomic & locomotor evidence related to the lens by 13 artists and an historian, namely: C. Andre, B. Brown, R. Castoro, L. Childs, B. Goldensohn, R. Huot, E. Lloyd, L. Lozano, L. Meyer, L. Poons, M. Snow, M. Steinbrechner, T. Tharp, J. Wieland.

TRT approx. 73 min

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, Citizens for NYC, The Trust for Public Land, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation, & NYC Board of Education. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Monday, June 09, 2014

SECRET GARDEN

SECRET GARDEN
Curatorial Re-organizations by 
John C Gonzalez and Thomas Willis 

FRIDAY, June 13th 2014
6-9 PM

Le Petit Versailles Community Garden
346 E. Houston St. @ Ave C.

$5 Suggested Donation

RAIN OR SHINE!


John C Gonzalez and Thomas Willis have created Secret Garden, 2014, for Le Petit Versailles, a series of temporary site-responsive works existing within the immediate environment of the space. Using available materials located within the site and arranging them in creative and specific ways, the artists have constructed temporary sculptures, drawings, and performances that are made to be experienced during the one-night reception event.

This project is a curatorial reorganization of the available objects that ordinarily exist within the garden. As viewers enter the space they will find some of the works to be candid constructions, while others will be nestled away within the myriad of vegetation and objects, appearing no different than the effects of natural phenomena of the environment. The works themselves will not be identified, however, visitors will be invited to discover them as they examine the nuances of the garden.

Secret Garden is less about locating the presence of the physical artworks and more about a heightened (re)examination of Le Petit Versailles as a whole.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, Citizens for NYC, The Trust for Public Land, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation, & NYC Board of Education. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.