Annie Lanzillotto and Lori Goldston

Annie Lanzillotto. Photo (c)Carolina Kroon

Voices Building

Saint Ann and The Holy Trinity Church 

presents

Annie Lanzillotto and Lori Goldston

a duet between poet/performance artist Annie Lanzillotto and cellist Lori Goldston

Sunday February 5, 3pm

$10 suggested donation at the door

Saint Ann and The Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street (corner of Clinton Street), Brooklyn

By subway: 2/3, 4/5, and R to Borough Hall / Court Street

This landmarked Gothic Revival church in Brooklyn Heights, renowned for its stained glass windows, opened its doors in 1847, and has become a community commons where faith, arts, and culture meet.

Lori Goldston's life as a cellist, composer, arranger, improvisor, collaborator and listener, leads far and wide through genres and eras, moving heedlessly across borders and disciplines. She is a member of the experimental rock band Earth, and co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International. She lives in Seattle. In 1993 -1994, Lori was the touring cellist for Nirvana, and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York.

Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is a New York based writer, poet and performance artist. Her first book, working title, L Is For Lion: Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir is due out from SUNY Albany press this year. She reads and performs from second book of poems, Schist Songs. Available on iTunes are Annie Lanzillotto Band's rock and blues CD Blue Pill, and her poetry Eleven Recitations. She's a 2012 Franklin Furnace Award recipient, and has performed The Flat Earth: Wheredddafffhuck Did New York Go at Dixon Place, How To Wake Up a Marine In A Foxhole at The Kitchen, and a'Schapett at The Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx.  Lanzillotto and Goldston have collaborated before, including tracks on Blue Pill and live at Smalls Jazz Club, in New York.

Annie Lanzillotto seeks backing for debut album

Annie Lanzillotto Band Debut Album--Back this project on Kickstarter!

Do this because you love performance artist Annie Lanzillotto and because you want to drive around New York with her--music blasting--or hear her chant your name in ottavia rima!

Well, okay, then how about the right to break one of the band's guitars?

Volunteer with Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition

Performance artist Annie Lanzillotto sent the following interesting announcement and appeal. As an ILGWU baby, I also feel strongly that this is an important commemoration.

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Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition Get involved in this living history project:

• Join the Facebook group: Remember The Triangle Fire.
• Sign your organization on as a participating group.
• Attend the brainstorm launch this March at The Judson Church.
• To donate food, drink, cash or skills for the event, contact: ruth@streetpictures.com
  

We are organizing a launch for the creation of a fitting memorial for the March 25, 2011 centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire victims. We aim to get 146 organizations involved, one for each of the folks who perished. The Triangle Fire is very relevant today in terms of labor safety; its history is Jewish and Italian immigrant women who sewed in the sweatshop and got locked in fire.

Immediately we seek organizations to sign onto the project for our launch at The Judson Church, NYC this March (date and time TBA). This will be a gathering of the minds, where New Yorkers and organizations come together creatively to plan for the future. Participating organizations already include: CityLore, Gotham Center, MALIA Collective of Italian American Women, Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies (CUNY), The Reliquary Museum, Street Cry Productions. We are actors, agitators, artists, educators, descendants of the victims, writers, filmmakers, historians, organizers, and photographers joined together to honor the memory of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and to keep the spirit of their sacrifice alive. Of the 146 deaths, three sets of sisters died in the fire: Bettina and Frances Miale, Lucia and Rosaria Maltese, and Sara and Tessie Saracino. Their deaths ignited the labor movement and fire safety laws. The disastrous factory fire led to some of the first city, state, and federal laws dealing with workers safety and the growth of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The "Factory Investigating Commission" was formed pushing through sweeping labor and safety laws that would transform the workplace. The new laws focused on protecting human beings over buildings. We are working toward the Centenary Memorial event March 2011.

The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition
Facebook Group: Remember The Triangle Fire
Street Pictures

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For instructions on how to submit your own request for arts volunteers, please click here.

What Annie's cookin'

One of my favorite performers, Annie Lanzillotto, sent an invitation to a reading and signing for the new book, Gastropolis: Food and New York City, edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch (Columbia University Press). Lanzillotto will read from her essay "on my food journeys in Bronx Italia, as a youth, in a family with kitchen drama and table opera." Irresistible, no?

Lanzillotto continues, "This event takes place in a treasure of New York City, the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, founded 1898. This is the event to bring your folks to. The arena is lovely, with room and refreshments to relax. Several of us will be there reading, books will be available to buy, and we're happy to relax and chat, and sign books."

Here's Annie's latest on YouTube.

Monday, January 26th, 8pm
FREE

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street, between Park and Irving Place, on the SW corner of Gramercy Park), Manhattan
212-674-8824

Annie Get Your Bat

Annie Lanzillotto's The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?--part of Dixon Place's 2008 Hot! Festival--is one woman's backlash against the forces of real estate development that are rendering our city unrecognizable to anyone with more than a minute's worth of memory in their heads.

Lanzillotto packs a lot into this roaring (and roaringly funny) 90-minute extravaganza in a vest-pocket performance space. Her monologue (with a quiet assist from Audrey Kindred and Caitlin Michener, who dance a bit, too) is a thing of wonder--stuffed with color and volume ("I'm not yelling! It's just my accent!"), geological and historical factoids, urban folklore and personal stories of loss and survival, all delivered with a killer combination of Italian-American and butch dyke charm. This is powerful, skillful, poetic performance, born of "the edges of the city where my journeys began" and filled with "buttons and epithets" (a delightful mis-speaking--for "epaulets"--if not deliberate). Lanzillotto will remind you that "neighborhood" means "where the butcher comes to your funeral" and help you get in touch with your Inner Glitter. In her smackdown between Pachelbel and Joan Jett, guess who wins?

Get onboard Annie's houseboat. You've got just two more chances--tonight and tomorrow--and Dixon Place isn't exactly roomy. So, hurry!

Dixon Place
Annie Lanzillotto