CAMP WANATACHI GALLERY SHOW opens at Ramiken Crucible Gallery Thursday August 19th →
August 19th - September 6th, CAMP WANATACHI creator Natalie Weiss will be artist in residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery. She is moving her home studio into the gallery, where she will prepare for CAMP WANATACHI’s Off-Broadway run.
Natalie has curated a group show full of art that summons CAMP WANATACHI — a chapel, tents, SP 404’s + synthesizers, stories of girls who had lesbian experiences at summer camp, projections of nature, huge angel wings and more. This gallery show, a fine art extension of CAMP WANATACHI, is called Jesus In Our Lives.
Featuring art by Bridget Regan, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Sawyer, Lauren Bahr, Natalie Weiss, Wheat Wurtzburger and Our Community.
RAMIKEN CRUCIBLE GALLERY IS ON EAST BROADWAY AND CLINTON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE. ENTRANCE IS A LARGE BLACK BOX.
THURSDAY AUGUST 19th, 2010
Jesus In Our Lives: Opening Party!!
7-10pm, performances at 8pm sharp
Featuring:
Lauren’s Song of Revenge by Allie Tyspin
Video and performance artist Allie Tyspin gets into teenage rage and banality in this video/performance piece based on a song from the new musical CAMP WANATACHI.
Ironing by Andrew Chadwick
Andrew Chadwick uses record players, microcassettes and radio to create quilted audio collages through broken records and object interference. Magnetic dregs and battered grooves yield a stuttering summertime soundclash.
Together We Are A River by Natalie Weiss
A line of women braid themselves together in a social sculpture about how great it is to touch your friends. Featuring Throat II by Little Women arranged for four female voices by Natalie Weiss.
Pinning Music for Four Trombones by Conrad Winslow
Conrad Winslow explores the sonorities and dynamics of the trombone with an entirely male ensemble!
Unicornicopia by Natalie Weiss
Wielding armfuls of samplers and synthesizers, a costume by riderhood and her little sister, Natalie Weiss will perform as Unicornicopia.
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1st, 2010
Youth Group: Night Time Church Girl and Boy
8-10pm, potluck and fellowship to follow.
Featuring:
ZELJKO MCMULLEN - Noise and Meditation Cycle KAIA WONG - African Imbera Music CHARLIE LOOKER - Special Performance ISAAC ROYFEE - Yoko Ono Cut Piece with My Pet Monster
OUR COMMUNITY - I Had A Lesbian Experience At Camp
NATALIE WEISS - Acts 2: 1-18
*Night Time Church Girl and Boy will end with an unthemed potluck. BYOB
Review on QueerSighted.com! →
The verdict is in! CAMP WANATACHI is “One hell of a musical!”
Camp Wanatachi: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Your Sapphic Summer Camp Experiences

SEEKING STORIES OF LESBIAN EXPERIENCES AT SUMMER CAMP!
More than a traditional musical, CAMP WANATACHI also involves related video, photographic, sculptural and performance components that exist independent of the musical proper.
I am seeking stories from women who had any kind of lesbian experience at summer camp for use in my multi-media instillation this summer at Ramiken Crucible, a gallery in New York City’s Lower East Side.
Please send an audio or video recording of your story, no more than 5 minutes in length, to campwanatachi@gmail.com before May 30th
Lo-fi DIY recordings are encouraged!
Please send any and all questions to campwanatachi@gmail.com
Bekah Brunstetter joins CAMP WANATACHI
The incredible playwright Bekah Brunstetter has joined the CAMP WANATACHI family! She has come on board to collaborate on the book with Natalie Weiss. Check out her amazing blog at www.bekahbrunstetter.com.
Bekah Brunstetter is proud to be the 2009 playwright in residence at Ars Nova. She received her BA (Theater/Fiction Writing) from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. As of May 2007, she is a proud recipient of an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. Her plays include: OORAH! (Ars Nova outloud reading series, dir, Leigh Silverman; to premiere in London, the Finborough Theater, May 2009), TO NINEVEH (NY Innovative Theater Award for Best new full length play, 2006) SICK (winner, Sam French short play festival 2006), GREEN (finalist, Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Competition; national finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival; Semi-finalst, O’Neill 2007), SPACE (semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award 2007) I USED TO WRITE ON WALLS (published and licensed by Samuel French) FAT KIDS ON FIRE (licensed by Playscripts, Inc), YOU MAY GO NOW: A MARRIAGE PLAY (nominee, Cherry Lane Mentorship, 2008l semi-finalist, O’Neill 2008, wiiner, 2008 NYIT award for best new Full Length Play (Babel Theater Project), ARMS (Finalist, Heidemann Award, 2007; published by Smith and Krauss), LE FOU (The Atlantic Acting school), HAPPY BIRTHDAY/ I’M DEAD (Samuel French Short Play festival Finalist, 2007), MISS LILLY GETS BONED (nominee, 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award), CELEBRITY , and TORCH NUMBER 2 (SOHO Think Tank.), and FUCKING ART (winner, Sam French Short play Festival 2008.) . Her plays have been read and produced by the Babel Theatre Project, The Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, the Ohio Theater (Think tank), NYU, Centenary Stage, NC New Voices, The New School for Drama, Working Man’s Clothes, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Phare Play Productions, Old Vic/ New Voices, Boston Theatre Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, SPF, The Alliance Theater, and The Atlantic (Acting School.) Her plays are published by Sam French, Playscripts, Original Works, and Smith and Krauss. In New York, she serves as the director of New Play Development for Working Man’s Clothes Productions. She is a member of the Ars Nova play group, the Playwright’s Center, At Play Productions, and the Dramatist’s Guild. She is also a proud new member of the Women’s Project writer’s Lab. Bekah lives in Williamsburg with her bikes, Roberta and Tony, and her cat, the Baby Kitty.
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