{"id":19805,"date":"2015-04-28T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19805"},"modified":"2015-04-28T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T20:17:09","slug":"im-performing-in-the-2015-new-masculinities-festival-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19805","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Performing in the 2015 New Masculinities Festival in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3rd NEW MASCULINITIES FESTIVAL promo\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/124837831?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, May 2nd, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csvcenter.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center<\/a>, I will be performing as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manquestion.org\" target=\"_blank\">ManQuestion.org&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a02015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manquestion.org\/festival\" target=\"_blank\">New Masculinities Festival<\/a>. Tickets are $10 per performance slot, each of which lasts about an hour, and $20 for the day. You can buy tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/2015-new-masculinities-festival\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/634003590033183\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. If you&#8217;re\u00a0in the area, it would be lovely to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>The festival&#8217;s organizers, who have partnered with some interesting organizations\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.malesurvivor.org\" target=\"_blank\">MaleSurvivor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/regender.org\" target=\"_blank\">re:gender<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedtheatrecollective.com\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Theatre Collective<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\">\u2014<\/span>describe the day\u00a0this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Re-Performing Manhood: We examine the impact of expectations of masculinity on people&#8217;s lives and work to imagine new possibilities for gender expression&#8230;. [I]n the festival, we take advantage of the power of produced theatre, dance, and performance art to challenge our thinking and transport us to new worlds and perspectives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the festival poster, which contains the schedule. I&#8217;m going on during the 5:30 slot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Masc-Festival-2015-04-med-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-6003 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Masc-Festival-2015-04-med-res-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Masc Festival 2015 04 med res\" width=\"430\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 2nd, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, I will be performing as part of ManQuestion.org&#8217;s\u00a02015 New Masculinities Festival. Tickets are $10 per performance slot, each of which lasts about an hour, and $20 for the day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-masculinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19806,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19805\/revisions\/19806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}