Celebrate Topaz Arts’ 21st Year

TOPAZ ARTS celebrates its 21st Year, reopening with live performance and visual arts on October 24, 2021 – featuring Ghosts in the Desert – performances of poetry by Luis H. Francia joined by Claro de Los Reyes and Paz Tanjuaquio including her new work Dead Stars Still Dance – a new digital dance made in collaboration with artist Onome Ekeh. In the gallery, features an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by Todd B. Richmond , and a new installation piece Floored in the Covid Era, 2020: Pills & Bottles by local Queens artists Wenyon & Gamble.

Ghosts in the Desert — Sunday, Oct 24, 2021
2 showings only at 3pm and 5pm:
Register for free tickets here
Limited seating: must pre-register in advance for admittance
This is an in-person event – proof of vaccination will be required and face masks worn at all times indoors.

TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue in Woodside, NY > directions

Based on two poetry texts, The Beauty of Ghosts and The Sahara of I, by Luis H. Francia, Ghosts in the Desert explores a complex range of personal and communal experiences. Featuring the poet/playwright himself, theater artist and activist Claro de los Reyes, dancer/choreographer Paz Tanjuaquio, this multigenre event highlights the too often overlooked Filipinx centuries-long presence in conventional American narratives. Ghosts is a celebration of an indomitable spirit that continues to flourish in the face of many-layered adversity.

Paz Tanjuaquio introduces a new work-in-progress – Dead Stars Still Dance – a digital dance made in collaboration with artist Onome Ekeh, incorporating two selections of poetry in “Sahara of I” by Luis H. Francia, with music by Todd B. Richmond. Paz was inspired by Dead Stars, a short story written in 1925 by Paz Benitez-Marquez, her namesake, and one of the most important female literary figures of the Philippines.

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This event is made possible, in part, by Restart NY from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This event supports the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and Queens Theatre.

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