Join us for the last week of HomeBase IV - Updated Schedule

Thursday May 21st

4:00 Workshop - HomeBase IV presents “Gatherings”
An exciting hands on interactive experience to see inside and to become part of the HomeBase art site. Participants are invited to experiment with ideas in an exhibition environment. What is public art? How do artists use architecture, history, art, and people to connect the present to the past to create artwork? Come and learn about the art making process and build a unique community art project that will become part of the site Workshop by Marilyn Walters and Pam Saturday

5:00 Site Tour and HB Performances -
Willum Geerts Opera2: Once Size Fits All with Dana Muszkatblit and Adam Margulies

7:00 Can't. Go.Home Theater Evening at HomeBase

Can't.Go.Home - An evening of performances and conversations about going home with playwright David Bar-Katz,and actors Nikole Beckwith,Nandita Chandra,Alex Courtney and David Deblinger

Home is often defined as a place of utmost comfort and belonging. But in modern theater the home is traditionally the place that purports to be those things only to become the location where the opposite occurs.The home is not the place that nurtures, but destroys.The home does not welcome, it expels. It is Freud's Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly". Uncanny. Familiar yet radically strange and other. In Davis Bar-Kat'z piece a concentrated atmosphere composed of the aforementioned qualities envelopes the audience then subjects them to a ten minute compressed experience and examination of home specific to the setting of the HomeBase IV project - located in an abondon clinic on the Lower East Side.

The performance will be followed by a conversation with the actors whom have been performing at HomeBase daily since the opening of the project on May 9th, and will include a reading of an excerpt of a new play by David Deblinger, actor, writer, director, teaching artist and one of four co-founders of the internationally renowned and award winning LABy­rinth Theater Company, inspired by his work with the homeless.

You and Yours, by David Deblinger performed by Sandy Chaplin (of the Tv show Spin City) and Victor Williams of the tv show Kind of Queens

Saturday May 23rd

1:00 site tour

2:00 Guest Speaker - David Deblinger – Home Street Home: a performance and workshop eliciting scenes and stories about “home”(30minutes)

David Deblinger has been hired to perform on film, tv and stage by Martin Scorsesee, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and many others. He currently sits on the board of directors, and is one of four co-founders, of the internationally renowned, and award winning LABy­rinth Theater Company, currently in residence at New York’s Public Theater. He is an actor, writer, director and teaching artist.

4:00 Bus stop opera, by HomeBase team member and artist Dawn Renae Weleski http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/write-an-aria-graduate-and-oh-right-get-married/, http://www.busstopopera.com/performances.html, http://www.busstopopera.com/nyc.html

5:00 -8:00 HB Performances

Gina Bonati inan excerpt from 'Dreams Of Martha Stewart' by Pamela Parker directed by Frank Blocker.

On a pilgrimage (bus) to Turkey HIll,a woman accidentally finds herself
in the unforgettable characters she meets and it's a Good thing.

* Can't.Go.Home. by David Bar Katz, performers - Nikole Beckwith, Nandita Chandra, Alex Courtney, David Deblinger
* 7:00 - 8:00 j. morrison
*Adult content

Sunday May 24th

1:00 Site Tour

2:00 Poetry Reading Curated by Stuart Krimko and Christopher Stackhouse


4:00 HB Salon Conversation with Lower East Side Bid, on Art & Culture in the lower east side, and talk with Rich Garr founder of GothamSideWalks. com makes New York City's history relevant through themed, community-based walking tours that reflect the contributions and diversity of notable and everyday New Yorkers on "Art History from the Ghetto to the New Museum"

5:00 - 8:00 Site Tour and HB Performances
* Can.Go.Home. by David Bar Katz, performers - Nikole Beckwith, Nandita Chandra, Alex Courtney, David Deblinger
7:10 / 7:45 pm