Peripherally Yours...With Love, Staten Island

Little Miss Big Mouth is Back!

Sara Valentine's live action, thriller talk show presents

Peripherally Yours...With Love, Staten Island

A two-part special series investigating the wild and wacky world of NYC's Forgotten Borough.

-- Why is Staten Island the center of Wiccan/Pagan practice in all of NYC?
-- Where do all the ghosts live on Staten Island, and who busts them?
-- How does Staten Island Chuck, resident groundhog, commute to work at the Staten Island Zoo?
-- What's up with those rock sculptures on the South Shore, where land, sky and water meet?
-- When was the Ship's Graveyard on the Kill Van Kull founded, and why?
-- Who lives on Staten Island, anyway?

Artists, activists, the international jet set, nudists, witches, freespirits, and immigrants from across the globe call Staten Island home.

Meet but a handful of the Island's wonderful characters next week at
Little Miss Big Mouth!


Friday April 6th and Saturday April 7th at 8pm at P.S. 122

150 1st Avenue @ 9th Street, in Manhattan.

Tickets are $20, $15 for students and seniors and $10 for members.

Little Miss Big Mouth has been selected to represent Staten Island at P.S. 122's first "Best of the Boroughs" festival, a new super-charged celebration that takes audiences on a tour of the city's brightest theatre, dance and performance.

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Sara Valentine & Kris Anton have lived on Staten Island for four glorious years.
Discover for yourself what makes Staten Island so unique @ "Peripherally Yours..."

Friday, April 6th

Reverend Adele from Mystikal Wonders - on why S.I. is the hub of all Wiccan activity in NYC
Trish & Christoph - with a guided tour of the North Shore and a song...Simon & Garfunkel meet Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Jesse Tigner Hayden McCrary, Jr. (Kris & Sara's landlord!) - "Men Dancing" a pas de deux in the nude
Tiokasin Ghosthorse - Native American storyteller and flute player, host of WBAI's First Voices Radio
Century Dance Complex - Liberian artist Rose Kingston & her dancers present a traditional African dance
Elektro Motif - presents an interactive poetry and music, featuring Doug Principato, Will Wyn, and Andre Martinez

Saturday, April 7th

Staten Island Paranormal Society - talks about ghost busting on S.I. and hunts for P.S. 122's resident ghost
Minnie Van Driver - Staten Island's Ambassador of Love serenades and waxes philosophical on the island
Gabri Christa - Caribbean-born modern dancer, theatre and film artist gets interviewed while performing an automatic dance
A New Shade of Black - a performance by Staten Island's own post-hardcore band
The Sisters Wijesinghe - recent emigrants to S.I. and students at the College of Staten Island perform a traditional Sri Lankan dance
Sheila Rohan - an interview with the director of the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theatre
Day de DaDa - the Art Nurses and the Mighty Men of DaDa welcome you to S.I.
The Eternal Knitter of Staten Island - Knits during the show

Food provided by Panini Grill of Forest Avenue in Staten Island

Features for both nights:

Jenny Tango & Maureen Seaberg - Octogenarian feminist artist meets the undercover reporter of S.I. in their shared role as co-host

The Little Miss Big Mouth House Band - Fronted by Sari Rubinstein of Rubulad and featuring Mary Feaster of the Circus Amok Band, a resident Islander who will perform an "Ode to the Dancing Aliens" of Staten Island

Also in the house band: Viva and Kim of the all-girl world dance band Paprika

Video interview with local groundhog, Staten Island Chuck and his keeper, Doug Schwartz, who is building the City of Rocks on Staten Island's South Shore, which will also be profiled

A Night out With Sammy - Documented cab ride with the Island's alpha dog of drivers, Sammy, the Catholic Egyptian cab driver who speaks Ebonics fluently and recites poetry while driving his 9+ passengers up and down the hills of S.I.

Footage of Staten Island's splendor...from the summit of Todt Hill to the shores of the Atlantic, from the Ship's Graveyard to the Ferry Terminal, from the double-decker diner on Hylan Blvd. to the Italian-Catholic Shrine made of rocks and shells in Rosebank, from the house of Alice Austen to the Tibetan Museum....and every bagel shop in between.

Plus...MAYBE....(cuz everything changes from moment to moment) a Staten Island Geology Lesson, Fun Feminist Facts, Alternative Names for S.I. and an opening monologue and dance, featuring the Little Miss Big Mouth Dancers! YAY!

Set by Gallery Six owner Jeff Kolasinski, with the work of Staten Island artists Tom Ronse and Cynthia Von Buhler, plus more..

http://www.ps122.org/performances/best_of_boroughs.html