ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' MEMBERS on the TOWN: WEEK of 10/13/13

Cynthia Neale
Cynthia Neale

Author Cynthia Neale and actress Joanna Rush are in Chicago at iBam today. Cynthia will be lecturing from 1:00-1:45: A Writer’s Journey With an Irish Famine Girl.  Cynthia will be selling her three books throughout the weekend at the authors’ table.  

Joanna Rush
Joanna Rush
Joanna will performing thirty minutes from her show,
“Asking For It” and sharing a book table with Cynthia at the festival. Click here for the link to the theater page for details and performance times. 
Matt Keating
Matt Keating

Singer/songwriter Matt Keating will be performing at the Living Room, 154 Ludlow St., NYC on Monday night, October 14th 9:00pm

Free/ Donations accepted http://www.livingroomny.com/

 

 

ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' MEMBERS and FRIENDS ON THE TOWN: WEEK OF 10/6

NIall McKay
Niall McKay

Today, Sunday, is the last day of “Irish Film New York. ”  AWoW members can buy discounted $10 tickets (normally $12) for any of the films included in the festival by using the promotional code: OFIG. For more information on the critically acclaimed films, its director Niall McKay, and to watch trailers and buy tickets click here. 

 

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Deni Bonet
Deni Bonet
Deni Bonet will be playing solo violin on a piece with a wonderful ballet company called BALLETS WITH A TWIST, at Stage 48, 605 West 48th St., NYC, Monday 8pm. Click here for their website.  Click here to a link for tickets ($25) and a description of the event.  
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Charles R. Hale
Charles R. Hale

 

Charles R. Hale will present a series of videos that highlight the role of women and song in the labor movement. This event is co-sponsored by the CUNY Institute For Irish American Studies. Located in The Studio Theater at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY. October 10, 12 Noon to 1:30.

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Cynthia Neale
Cynthia Neale

 

Author Cynthia Neale and actress Joanna Rush will both be in Chicago at iBam on Saturday Oct. 12 and Sunday Oct. 13. On Saturday Cynthia will be lecturing from 1:15 to 2:00: A Writer’s Journey With an Irish Famine Girl.  From 2:15 to 3:15 she will be a panelist for New Perspectives on The Irish Famine with Tim Pat Coogan, Owen Rodgers and Maurice Fitzpatrick. On Sunday, Oct. 13th Cynthia will repeat her Saturday lecture from 1:00 to 1:45. Cynthia will be selling her three books throughout the weekend at the authors’ table.  

Joanna Rush
Joanna Rush

Joanna will performing thirty minutes from her show, “Asking For It” and sharing a book table with Cynthia at the festival. Click here for the link to the theater page for details and performance times. 

 

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Honor Finnegan
Honor Finnegan

Honor Finnegan will be performing with Aviv Roth at The John Street Jam on October 12th.  The doors open at 6:45, music starts at 7:30The John Street Jam is located in the Dutch Arms Chapel at 16 John Street, Saugerties, NY. Tickets are $5. Click here for info.

 

AWoW FRIENDS AND MEMBERS UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Joanna Rush
Joanna Rush

Joanna Rush’s new book Asking for It has now been released on Kindle. Based on the soon-to-open Off-Broadway show, Joanna’s memoir is a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking coming of age story about a fiesty dancer encompassing religion, rape, and redemption. Asking for It is now available at Amazon. 

 

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Pompa Pompa!
Pompa Pompa!

April 9, 7PM, opening night of Brendan Connellan’s Pompa Pompa! starring Niamh Hyland and Moley O Suilleabhain. Theatre Row – The Studio, 410 W. 42nd St. ,New York City.   Tickets for Pompa Pompa, $21.25.  AWoW discount available by inserting “TRAWOW” in the promotional code box.

 

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Maria Deasy
Maria Deasy

April 12, 8PM, opening night of  What’s In a Name with Maria Deasy.  The Chain Theatre, 21-28th Road, 45th Road. Tickets$18.  Tickets for What’s In a Name AWoW discount available by inserting “susan” in the promotional code box. 

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Antoinette Montague
Antoinette Montague

April 13, 2013, 8PM, 137-35, Northern Blvd, Flushing, Queens, NYC. Jazz Appreciation Month–A Tribute to Ladies Who Swing with Antoinette Montague. Tickets $10-$15. Click here for ticket info: Antoinette Montague at Flushing Town Hall

ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' FRIENDS AND PERFORMERS: SANEM OZDURAL AND JOANNA RUSH

Two friends and supporters of Artists Without Walls will be performing in New York City this weekend. Tonight, January 10th, Sanem Ozdural, will be reading from her debut novel, LiGa at Bluestockings, a bookstore located at 172 Allen Street.

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Imagine a world where a select few can manipulate their own cellular degeneration to become effectively immortal. Imagine that membership in this elite is gained through a game. Imagine the impact on society, and on those who lose. In her debut novel, “LiGa™,” Sanem Ozdural examines the players’ motivation and the implications in this world that hits uncomfortably close to home.

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Sanem Ozdural was born in Ankara, Turkey in the 70s, and spent her childhood from age seven onwards in England.  She made her way to the U.S. and studied economics at Princeton University.  After graduating from Boston University School of Law, she moved to New Orleans where she practiced as a prosecutor and civil litigator. In 2004 she migrated from New Orleans via Washington, D.C., reaching New York City in 2006, where she still lives and practices law.  Sanem was an avid bridge player until, as she says, “the tenth round of revisions to her debut novel.” LiGa is also available at Amazon. 

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Actor/writer Joanna Rush is appearing in a one-woman play “Asking For It” Saturday and Sunday at the Shetler Theatre,  244, West 54th Street.  Enjoy 20 minutes of “Asking  For It,” Saturday at 3 & 6 and Sunday at 3 and 7. You can reserve your free seat by emailing kate@afofest.org or call Kate at 212 398-7180. 

 

“Asking For It,” follows one woman’s hysterical and heart-breaking journey from “Outstanding Catholic Youth of the Year” to the stage of Radio City Music Hall and the cast of “A Chorus Line”

 

Tap dancing her way through rape, rehab, and wrecked relationships, “Asking for It” is a joyful kaleidoscope of faith and femininity, sexual repression and spiritual awakening.

 

Joanna portrays a colorful cast of characters ranging from uptight clerics to sexy chorines, and growing boys of all ages.

 

Hilarious, irreverent and moving, Joanna Rush’s “Asking for It” leaves audiences – male and female, of all ages – invigorated and inspired

 

Joanna has appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions. She has appeared on stage with Charles Durning and Maria Tomei and in film with Joan Collins and Farrah Fawcett.

 

Joanna’s book, Asking For It: A Rockette’s Tale is available at Amazon.