Kathleen Stansell, one of Enforced Arch's movers, dedicated to speaking out against not only cruelty to animals, but also to humans, is performing on Mother's Day! If you go to Socrates Sculpture Park on May 12th around 5pm, don't look for an energetic, bouncing, smiling young woman. Instead look for a grey-haired politician in a dark blue suit. He goes by the name of Johnny Boy Rogers and will be displaying daring acts of flight and extraordinary feats of strength on an Aerial Silks apparatus. Rest assured, you don't want to miss this. JB needs your help voting him into office as Governor of New Patriarchinsaw!
Kathleen is unable to be with her mom on Mother's Day because of distance, so she will be doing what she loves in honor of her mother, Janice. For more information on the event, please visit the facebook page.
Food Waste Walking Tour
Kathleen Stansell, artist, activist, and avid food rescuer airs on the Sex and Politics Radio show from Brooklyn College every Friday night between 8PM & 9PM. In her weekly segment, Kathleen discusses her personal experience with dumpster diving, shares locations from which to find fresh produce that has been dumped in the trash, and contributes to the listener delicious recipes made from the rescued food. This week Kathleen will be discussing the Food Waste Walking Tour that happened last Thursday. Tune in to the live airing at http://sexandpolitics.podbean.com.
Kathleen Stansell
Kathleen Stansell has been dancing since the age of three and continues to pursue her passion of dance as a teaching artist, performer, and choreographer. She teaches a variety of movement skills including gymnastics, ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and creative movement. Kathleen graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with Honors and a Bachelor's degree in Performance and Choreography. She is currently using her performance skills with Upaya, Catey Ott Dance Collective, and her own company, Move for Change. Along with her friend and colleague, Dan Kinch, Kathleen is the Co-Artistic Director of Move for Change and the Brooklyn Culture Jammers, an artistic collective in support of Occupy Wall Street used to bring awareness to issues such as food justice and a myriad of other social issues. For Kathleen, dance comes secondary to aiding the advancement of character of both her students and her audiences.
"It is important to me to be as socially responsible as possible in my daily life so I may contribute to the happiness and peace of others. This means restraining the use of any animal products, reducing the output of wasteful materials, and doing work that is for the benefit of other people's health and well-being. Dance and acting are the creative outlets of which I am most talented and passionate about; therefore, I use those talents as a gentle approach to communicating issues surrounding food waste, the monopolization of food products, excess, and human rights. I move for change." -Kathleen Stansell
A GOOD DAY 2 PIE
The Brooklyn Culture Jammers will be performing at Brooklyn College next Saturday as part of the Brooklyn Peace Fair. Kathleen Stansell will be performing A GOOD DAY 2 PIE at 1:45 PM. This is a FREE EVENT.
A GOOD DAY 2 PIE is the story of Vandana, an activist with the Biotic Baking Brigade arrested for hitting the CEO of Monsanto with a pie in order to protest genetic modification of food. Vandana talks of a childhood spent in community life and activism, and explains that her action was undertaken because of the fact that ‘food is off limits’ to tinkering. Through it all, she uses the changes in food as metaphor for ‘bad magic’--those things in modern society that require faith in invisible actions. A GOOD DAY 2 PIE features Kathleen Stansell as the activist.
A GOOD DAY 2 PIE was originally produced at Kairos Theatre one-act festival in May of 1999. It has since been toured to college campuses and venues and has been performed some 30 times in support of green initiatives. This is a brand-new production of the play.
ABOUT BROOKLYN CULTURE JAMMERS: We are a collective of music, theatre and spoken word artists committed to the Occupy Wall Street movement. We embrace the challenge of changing the terms of convention and using our talents to confront the status quo.
ABOUT THE OCCUPY THE EMPIRE TOUR: the tour is a cultural outreach for talking about what change is possible in 21st century America. We are developing plays and dance and music pieces to call attention to the need for serious change in this country and this world.
For information about our tour, contact us at bkculturejammers@gmail.com.
Occupy Grand Army Plaza
Art by C.Martinez
Enforced Arch community is pleased to introduce you to Kathleen Stansell! Her effort entitled Occupy Grand Army Plaza is part of her company "Move for Change." She invites the dance community and supporters of this Movement to use their voices to support Occupy Wall St.
A statement from Kathleen Stansell:
Many have been saying, "Those people at Occupy Wall Street don't know what they stand for," which is just not true! If you ask anyone at Zuccotti Park, they'll tell you exactly why they're there. To save you the time and trip, I'll tell you. Occupy Wall Street is a movement inspired by our unjust and selfish government. Yes the banks are at fault. Yes the politicians are at fault. Yes greed is to blame. There are many to blame. But the truth is WE THE PEOPLE allowed this to happen. We accepted, for whatever reason, everything that's happened and has been happening. So first, the change must happen within ourselves. We must fight greed within ourselves. I ask myself, "Do I need that iPod or do I need to buy the food that is more expensive but better for my health? The LATTER! Do I need that extra pair of shoes, or do I need to donate that $60 to a homeless shelter." Occupy Wall Street is about standing together, in solidarity to help the people who live with us, next to us, far away from us, and everywhere. So please, if you don't help me, help that homeless shelter. If you don't help me, help companies like Reciprocity. If you don't help me, help yourself.
Please join us this Saturday at Grand Army Plaza, enjoy the performances and make donations for Occupy Wall Street in the form of food, clothing, blankets, hand warmers, warm clothing, first aid supplies, literature-both books and OWS literature such as information about credit unions, etc. Details:
DATE: Saturday, October 29th COMPANY: Move for Change EXEC. PRODUCER & CREATIVE DIR.: Kathleen Stansell LOCATION: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY TIME: Noon - Midnight ADMISSION: Free!