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Duration
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Introduction
National Sawdust will officially open "Archive of Desire": A Festival Inspired by the Poet C. P. Cavafy with the premiere of a performance by artist Sister Sylvester and musical artist Nadah El Shazly.
Sister Sylvester will create handmade art-books to be read communally by the audience, inside of a live-score by El Shazly. The work is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an Epic”, the journal Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria to sail to Constantinople when the poet was just 18 years old, and by the poet’s erotic poems, where he meets with ghosts across time.
National Sawdust is a state-of-the-art home for music innovation and performance based in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, co-founded and led by composer Paola Prestini and attorney Kevin Dolan. National Sawdust believes that artistic expression empowers us all to create a more joyful and just world. Its mission is to curate, commission, and produce music and artistic works rooted in curiosity, experimentation, innovation, and inclusivity by engaging communities of artists and audiences at its Williamsburg home and on its digital stage.
