The New Directors New Films Festival is up and running, and I’m running with it. I’ve been working on this festival with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art for the past few months. I assisted the selection committee in picking the films, and now I’m working as the filmmaker liaison for the festival.
There’s a plethora of fresh cinema from around the world. There’s also a chance to hear from some of the most exciting upcoming directors about their work.
The New Directors New Films Festival shouldn’t be missed. For more information, check out : newdirectors.org/
I have also will also be tweeting throughout the festival twitter.com/carayeates
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was detained by government officials in Hong Kong for 81 days last spring, now he’s in New York with Sunflower Seeds. I had the pleasure of stumbling upon exhibit during it’s opening at the Mary Boone Gallery. Originally show at the Tate in London, this installation is made of over one million hand painted ceramic sunflower seeds and it’s stunning.
I am once again hitting the road with my solo show Bye Bye Bombay. This August I will be performing it at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.
“GO!”- LA Weekly
“Critics Pick” – Backstage Magazine LA
* * * * – Time Out, New York
A multimedia adventure to Bollywood and beyond! Join Gauri and her puppet guides as she dodges rickshaws, Russian dancers and lecherous directors. A foreigner lost in a maze of masala, will this runaway learn more than just the art of crossing roads in India?
“Bye Bye Bombay is successful as a journey; through an intense multi-sensory experience, Yeates brings us with her halfway around the world and back.” – New York Theater.com
“This fantastic one-woman show has to be the stand-out production of the festival.” * * * * * – Uptown Magazine
“Yeates is a revelation from beginning to end” – * * * * *CBC
“Brava to Actress Cara Yeates for stitching a gorgeous sari of a show.” – Vancouver Sun
Edmonton Fringe Festival
Venue #9 TELUS Building (10437 83 Avenue)
Edmonton, AB
August 12 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm
August 13 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
August 15 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
August 19 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm
August 20 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
August 21 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
My friend Baba Brinkman opens his one man show The Rap Guide to Evolution Off Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse this weekend.
I saw this show in one of its first incarnations at the Fresno Rogue Festival in ’09. The Rap Guide to Evolution is lyrical, funny and intelligent. I recommend this show, and The New York Times called it ‘astonishing’. Baba’s created and performed four solo hip hop shows including the extremely successful Rap Canterbury Tales.
