rolex arts weekend
celebrating a global creative community
New York City
10 to 13 November 2007
Rolex presents a series of performances, screenings, readings and talks featuring the artists of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The Arts Initiative, founded in 2002, pairs rising stars in Dance, Theatre, Film, Music, Visual Arts and Literature with internationally renowned masters for a year of mentorship. Current and previous Rolex mentors and protégés gather in New York to present work during the Rolex Arts Weekend, a multi-generational showcase of exceptional creative talent.
Admission to all events is free of charge.
literature
World Literature Night: Edem Awumey and Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Readings in French with projected English translation)
13 November, 7:00 p.m.
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
Admission is free of charge, but reservations are required. To reserve, please call +1 212 539 8778.
The young Togolese writer Edem Awumey, current protégé in Literature, and his mentor, Moroccan poet and author Tahar Ben Jelloun, will read from recent works. A discussion, moderated by writer and cultural historian Pierre Assouline, will follow. The programme will be introduced by Francine Goldenhar, director of La Maison Française NYU.
Presented in association with La Maison Française NYU, The New School Writing Program, Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts, and the Canadian Consulate General in New York.
theatre
A Director's Journey: In conversation with Julie Taymor, Selina Cartmell, Lara Foot Newton and Federico León.
13 November, 9:00 p.m.
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
Admission is free of charge, but reservations are required. To reserve, please call +1 212 539 8778.
The current mentor in Theatre Julie Taymor, whose directing credits for stage and screen include Broadway's The Lion King and the Academy Award-winning film Frida, talks with three exciting young directors from the Arts Initiative. The renowned writer, director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, Robyn Archer, will moderate the discussion.
Taymor's protégée, Selina Cartmell, is a freelance director and the founder of Siren Productions in Dublin. Her interdisciplinary works include the Dublin Fringe Festival award-winner, La Musica (2003), Passades (2004), and Titus Andronicus (2005), which won four Irish Times Theatre Awards. Joining Taymor and Cartmell are past Theatre protégés Lara Foot Newton, who is a Sundance fellow and currently adapting her hit South African play Tshepang for film, and Argentine theatre and film writer-director Federico León, whose work has been performed internationally.
Presented in association with The New School Writing Program and Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts.