The Kitchen Announces Winter 2009 Season

The Kitchen has announced programming for its Winter 2009 season.

As previously announced, the venue will present Young Jean Lee’s latest, The Shipment (January 8-24), which addresses racist attitudes towards black people, as well as the history of black Americans in entertainment. Additional performance events will include New York-based artist Vlatka Horvat’s Once Over (February 3), presented in conjunction with her exhibition at The Kitchen, Or Some Other Time (January 9-March 7); a double bill of Kalup Linzy’s solo Comedy, Tragedy, Sketches of Me and visual and performance artist Rashaad Newsome’s Shade Compositions featuring a chorus of over 20 black women (February 12 and 13); and Big Art Group’s SOS, created by Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, and exploring futureness, survivalism, revolutionary movements, and contemporary rituals.

Additional events will include Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s exhibition Bananas (January 9-March 7); Musicians Owen Pallett and Matt Smith in Ffiinnaall Ffaannttaassyy (February 6 and 7); poetry and music in An evening with The Sienese Shredder (February 9); Jodi Melnick and Burt Barr’s dance program Fanfare (February 19-21); If You See Something, Say Something: An Evening with A Public Space (February 24); Armitage Gone! Dance’s Think Punk! (March 4-11); Jamal Cyrus’ exhibition examining spaces between radical socio-political movements (March 19-May 2); Elodie Pong’s exhibition, After the Empire (March 19-May 2); and the dance program Shim Sham, hosted by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and featuring the Theo Hill Trio (March 30).

For more information, visit www.thekitchen.org.