June 12 – August 22, 2010 (updated date!!!)
Opening reception: Saturday June 12, 6-9PM (updated date!!!)
Please join us for this short live performance followed by a Q and A with the creators.
Saturday, May 22: 5pm Live musical theater “AVAC Memories” in Gallery RIVAA: (527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island)
One Person’s Trash is Another Person’s Musical Theater Extravaganza!
AVAC Memories tells the story of five pieces of household waste who are tossed into a Roosevelt Island garbage can and, together, go on a thrilling journey through the AVAC sanitation system. As they are dropped down garbage chutes, sucked through pneumatic tubes, crunched in a compactor and shipped off to the dump in a garbage barge, our grimy heroes learn some valuable lessons about friendship, courage and perseverance in the face of adversity.
AVAC Memories was written by Frederick Alden Terry (music) and John Herin (lyrics), and directed by Dev Bondarin, with musical direction by Remy Kurs, featuring Jennifer Blood, Jason Collins, Steven Eng, Sevan Greene, and Jaygee Macagupay.
On Sunday May 23rd, Richard Melnick, President of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, will lead a walking tour of Roosevelt Island focusing on East River infrastructure. The tour will end at the Fast Trash Exhibit at Gallery RIVAA. At the conclusion of the walking tour Michael Heimbinder, Executive Director of HabitatMap, will discuss the logistics of moving trash in New York City answering the questions:
how does garbage move? who moves it? and where does it move to?
Start Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Blvd., and Broadway, LIC.
Course: Socrates south to Costco, Rainey Park, and to Roosevelt Island Bridge (at 36th Avenue), cross bridge to Roosevelt Island. On the island, head south along East Channel to Queensboro Bridge, cross island to west side, walk north along West Channel to exhibit at Gallery RIVAA, 527 Main Street, Roosevelt Island.
To get to Socrates Sculpture Park, take N Train to Broadway, and at street level walk west to Vernon Blvd. to park main gate. (It is a bit of a walk.) Alternately, you can take the Q103 or the Q104 bus to Broadway and Vernon Boulevard. From RI Island you can take the Q102 bus across the bridge to 36th Ave. and Vernon Blvd. (Depending on where you are coming from you will have to do some searching to find out where you can pick up the Q 103 and 104). Off islanders can also take the Q102 bus from Queens Plaza.
The tour ends on Roosevelt Island.
Tour by Greater Astoria Historical Society with HabitatMap and Fasttrash.org. For more information about the Socrates Sculpture Park see socratessculpturepark.org
Thursday, May 13, 7:15-9pm:
The Public School New York will offer “On pneumatics (puffs of air, natural magic)” a single-session class examining the genealogy of “pneumatics,” and its roots “pneu-” and “pneuma,” against the backdrop of Fast Trash. Meeting at the Roosevelt Island Subway at 7:15pm and ending at the Gallery. For details see: http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/2437
Saturday, May 15 • 5 – 7 pm • Gallery RIVAA
527 Main Street • Roosevelt Island, NY • F to Roosevelt Island
Join CUP for a screening of “Collection and Disposal: A Job for the Birds” and “Garbage Problems,” two films about the future of garbage disposal in New York City. The screening will be followed by a presentation by garbage historian and environmental policy planner Benjamin Miller and a Q and A with Miller and filmmaker Robert Machover. Benjamin Miller is the former director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation and author of Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York, the Last Two Hundred Years. He is currently the senior research associate for freight programs at the University Transportation Research Center. In addition to “Collection and Disposal,” Robert Machover has made “Troublemakers,” “We Got to Live Here,” “Shop Talk,” and “Binocular Vision.” His documentaries are often used as organizing tools.
PEOPLE & BUILDINGS film series
The People & Buildings Film Series is made possible in part by public funds from the New York York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. “Collection and Disposal: A Job For the Birds” courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. This program was curated by Valeria Mogilevich in conjunction with the exhibit “Fast Trash: Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities.” This event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited, RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org to secure your spot.
Sunday May 16, 2pm:
Architectural League of New York’s Urban Omnibus meet up on Roosevelt Island. Explore Roosevelt Island with landscape architect Donald Richardson of Zion Breen and Richardson Associates, designers of Paley Park in Manhattan and part of the team for the 1969 master plan for Roosevelt Island. Meet at 2pm in front of the Roosevelt Island Subway Station and end at Fast Trash. Information: urbanomnibus.net
