"Eagle Woman Poems" Reading at IWN Happy Hour at La Peña!

6:00pm until 9:00pm

First ever Indigenous Women's Happy Hour at La Pena located at 227 Congress Avenue

Our new Happy Hours series will be a fund raiser for Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, a project of the Indigenous Women's Network.

All tax deductible donations will go to Alma, which is a 501(c)(3) organization.

Marked and Specific: Performance/Meditations on Hegemonic Whiteness

You are invited to a night of original performances:

Marked and Specific: Performance/Meditations on Hegemonic Whiteness

November 3 & 4 @ 7:30 pm

Winship Drama Building, Room 2.180

300 E. 23^rd Street, Austin, TX 78712

Admission is free, but seating is limited; please arrive early.

Marked and Specific asks: how do we stage anti-racist activism? How can performance be a tool for exploring the de/construction of white privilege and supremacy? This two-part performance event culminates in a collaborative discussion about race, memory, and performance.

The first performance, 900 Gallons is Nicole Gurgel’s MFA thesis project and solo performance debut. Over the course of nine vignettes, Gurgel excavates photographs, songs and stories as a way to resist the dangers of dis-remembering oppressive family histories.

Following 900 Gallons, the Performance Lab Ensemble – a multi-racial ensemble comprised of eight women who consider themselves artists, activists, scholars, and teachers – will perform a staged reading of their newly devised work. Collaboratively created through a ten-week writing and performance workshop, this collage of monologues, memories, and an unruly game of dodgeball traces the “lessons” taught about race, nation, and identity.

There will be a brief intermission between 900 Gallons and the Performance Lab Ensemble.

Questions? E-mail me at nicole.gurgel@gmail.com.

 

Creative/Development Teams

900 Gallons

Rowan Doyle (Design Consultant), M’bewe Escobar (Choreographer), Katie Frank (Stage Manager), Nicole Gurgel (Writer/Performer/Set Designer), Amy Lewis (Lighting Designer), Nikiko Masumoto (Dramaturg), Lydia Nelson (Director/Set Designer), Katelyn Wood (Dramaturg)

The Performance Lab Ensemble

Elida Bonet, Brianna Figueroa, Natalie Goodnow, Diana Grisanti, Natashia Lindsey, Alex Messenger, Sandra Sotelo, Lana Tyson (Writers/Performers/ Co-creators), Madilynn Garcia (Stage Manager), Nicole Gurgel (Faciliator/Director)

Special thanks to Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Omi Osun/Joni L. Jones and Deborah Paredez for advising both projects.

"Mud Offerings" at National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Performance/Discussion: International Perspectives IN PLAY 
10/22/2011 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Free. No reservations required.

Georgetown University's Department of Performing Arts partners with NMWA to present an afternoon of performance and discussion centered on music, theater, and dance within an international context.

2–2:15
Welcome and Introduction by Anna Harwell Celenza, Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University, and Maya Roth, director of Georgetown University's Theater and Performance Studies Program.

2:15–3:30
Staged reading of selected scenes from Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans, winner of the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Contest for Women Playwrights. 

Natalie Marlena Goodnow, winner of the 2011 Jane Chambers Playwriting Contest for Women Playwrights, performs her solo play, Mud Offerings. Then, Professor Roth and Goodnow discuss Mud Offerings, as well as how international perspectives infuse the playwright-performer's art and identity. 

3:30–3:45
Break

3:45–4:45
Panel discussion, featuring a performance of classical south Indian dance. The discussion, moderated by Professor Celenza, considers the ways social and cultural contexts for musical performances influence their reception by audiences. Panel participants include: Jean Cook, musician, producer, and director of programs for Future of Music Coalition; Anya Grundmann, director and executive producer of NPR Music; dancer Aparna Keshaviah; and Professor Roth.

4:45–5 p.m.
Audience Q&A, moderated by Professors Celenza and Roth.

Follow me to "Marfita" at Co-Lab, 7 pm, October 15

LARGE SCALE INSTALLATION RE-MAPS MARFA, TX FOCUSING ON APPARITION OF MARY

OCTOBER 15 – OCTOBER 29, 2011
OPENING & PERFORMANCE: OCTOBER 15, 7 PM
CO-LAB, 613 ALLEN ST, AUSTIN, TX

A MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION BY ALISON KUO, JOSH T. FRANCO, AND JOSHUA SAUNDERS

During the first night of Marfita's installation at Co-Lab, Natalie Goodnow will lead an interactive procession through the East Austin neighborhood where the space exists, culminating in a ceremonial, participatory prayer at the altar of the Virgen Mary.

For more about "Marfita"...

Visit Co-Lab's website.
Keep up with the show: Follow our tumblr, and Like us on facebook.
Read a conversation about Marfa in 7STOPS between Joshua and Alison, introduced by Josh.

"Mud Offerings" at Women at Work Festival, Stage Left Studio, New York, NY!

I'm thrilled to be bringing "Mud Offerings" (the more fully developed, award-winning version!) back to the Women at Work Festival at Stage Left Studio, New York, NY!

New Yorkers, come see!

Sunday, September 25
noon
Stage Left Studio
214 W 30th Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10001

Tickets available here.

What I've Been Up To...

I performed "Mud Offerings" at the MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) Summer Institute at California State University, Los Angeles, on Friday, August 5; I was able to make the trek to LA thanks to the generous, generous support of Kickstarter project backers!  For more details about how it all went, click here.  And for much silliness, my karaoke thank-you videos to Kickstarter backers, check out "Karoke is Goodnow."

And then, the very next week, I accepted the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award at the ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and got to perform "Mud Offerings" there, too!  There should be some clips of me talking about the play and about playwriting coming out soon on ATHE's YouTube channel; I'll let you know...

I'm so pleased, so proud, and so very, very grateful to exist in such a supportive community, and to all the folks (there are many!) who have helped me to develop "Mud Offerings!"  To name a few: Dino Foxx, kt shorb, Ana Lara, Adelina Anthony, and all the women of the Austin Project.  Thank you!

"Eagle Woman Poems" Installation/Performance at Co-Lab, Saturday, July 30

 Installation/Performance

Co-Lab Project Space

613 Allen St.

Austin, TX 78702

Saturday, July 30, 2011
Installation On View 7-11PM
Performance 8PM
Talkback and Reception 9PM

No reservations necessary.

Eagle Woman lives in a landfill. It is her job to make sense of the mess. This is what women do. It is what words do. These are the poetics of sifting through the filth.

But is an eagle capable of such a task?

This performance art event will consist of an eagle's attempts at poetry in time and space.

Based on Goodnow's collaboration with the Generic Ensemble Company in July 2010: "Eagle Woman Poems: an in-progress showing."

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.