JOIN US AT THE BENEFIT JUNE 8TH
 

The House Foundation Board of Directors
Jim Hodges 
and Isaac Mizrahi 
invite you to

Cellular Songs
a work-in-progress composed by
Meredith Monk
Performed by
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble 

Meredith Monk 
Ellen Fisher 
Katie Geissinger 
 Allison Sniffin 
Jo Stewart 

at
Queenslab
1618 Decatur Street, Ridgewood, NY 

Thursday, June 8, 2017
8:00pm Cellular Songs work-in-progress performance
9:00pm Benefit Reception with music by DJ Rekha 
Nibbles by Great Performances
Festive attire

The evening Performance and Benefit Reception will support The House Foundation's continued dedication to Meredith Monk's legacy and new work.

Can't make it to the benefit?! Join us June 9th & 10th at 8pm to see Cellular Songs work-in-progress performance at Queenslab. 

Cellular Songs is the newest in a series of music theater pieces created by Meredith Monk that explore our interdependent relationship with nature while seeking to evoke the ineffable. Following the celebrated On Behalf of Nature, which offered a liminal space questioning the precarious state of our global ecology, Cellular Songs turns attention inward to the very fabric of life itself. Joined by the women of her acclaimed Vocal Ensemble, Monk combines some of her most adventurous and daring music to date, with movement, theatrical characters and images, light, and video installation. The work, at once playful and contemplative, draws inspiration from such cellular activity as layering, replication, division and mutation, and looks to underlying systems in nature that can serve as a prototype for human behavior in our tumultuous world. Conjuring cycles of birth and death throughout, Monk once again reminds us of her vitality as an artist who cuts to the core of experience, continuing to share the genius of her discovery and innovation.

Support Cellular Songs by joining our Producer's Circle! Visit our support page to join. 

Cellular Songs is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Goodale Family Foundation.