Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 3 PM – 5 PM EDT
50–61°F Mostly Sunny
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
66 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003
Curated by Michal Gamily and Tomek Smolarski (Polish Cultural Institute NY)
Moderated by Frank Hentschker
Panelists: Jadwiga Kosicka-Gerould, Natalia Korczakowska, Daniel Pinchbeck, Krystyna Lipinska-Illakowicz, Eri Nox
Live performances directed by:
Natalia Korczakowska (Narcotics: Peyote), Zenon Kruszelnicki (The Shoemakers), Daniel Irizarry (The Madman and the Nun), Eri Nox (They)
Admission is FREE. Please register for the event at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10396403
Long before Carlos Castaneda and Aldous Huxley there was ... Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy).
Come to legendary La Mama Theater in NYC to learn more about this avant-garde playwright, novelist, dramatist, painter, philosopher and psychedelic pioneer from Poland (who in 1928 wrote one of the first literary descriptions of the Peyote trip). The event will feature, among others, a performative reading of his Peyote trip and a preeminent psychedelic thinker Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open The Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into The Heart Of Contemporary Shamanism, who will discuss the importance of Witkacy writings in the context of psychedelic literature.
More info about the event http://lamama.org/witkacy/
Coffeehouse Chronicle #153 will focus on the work of turn-of-the-century Polish avant-garde playwright Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s (1885 –1939), known as "Witkacy," who may well have been Europe's most radical novelist,
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