PLUSH NOCTURNE presents: Pleiades Project & Bartok duets with live visuals

Join the PLUSH NOCTURNE performance series for an intimate setting of new opera and art songs by The Pleiades Project, Bartok duets for violin from Marandi Hostetter & Insia Malik, accompanied by live projections and drawings by interdisciplinary artist Sam Schanwald.

Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00pm /// $10 in advance, $15 at the door

8:00pm: Marandi Hostetter & Insia Malik with visuals by Sam Schanwald

9:00pm: The Pleiades Project

Refreshments will be available for purchase.

The PLUSH NOCTURNE Series, founded and curated by Avery Leigh's Night Palace, is an intimate and magical series of performances, with a distinct focus on women and non-binary performers. The series aims to shift our collective attention and resources to folks historically least centered in artistic spaces. PLUSH NOCTURNE performances range from classical chamber ensembles to interdisciplinary performance art; the series presents a colorful array of genres and mediums coalescing to create vibrant, cohesive, and shimmering evenings of art.

The Pleiades Project presents modern, feminist settings for opera-centric works; we create new performance opportunities for female artists who wish to express the strength, unique vision, and individuality of their art. Founded in 2015, The Pleiades Project was inspired by hundreds of dedicated female artists that are gifted, creative, and true examples of what it means to bring art and beauty into the world. The Pleaides Project creates a space that is dedicated to those artists, as well as a space that can bring the art that we are excited about to new audiences. As artists working in a digital world, we are passionate about bringing our art form to a wide and diverse audience. Our first short film, Così was released in 2016, and the second film, Ophélie will be released at the end of 2017. (www.thepleiadesproject.com)

Marandi Hostetter is a Brooklyn-based violinist; she has traveled around the United States and Europe to attend numerous string quartet workshops, from Colorado to Hungary, including working with the Manhattan String Quartet. In the orchestral setting she has worked under conductors such as Tito Muñoz, David Lawton and Nicole Paiement. She attended the Conservatorio di Musica “Antonio Scontrino” in Trapani, Italy. Her classical experience further includes performing with the Astoria Symphony, the One World Symphony, and most prominently the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, where she is concertmaster. She has expanded her performance career to include the New York Arabic Orchestra under the tutelage and conducting of Bassam Saba, working with artists such as Marcel Khalife. She currently performs with the National Arab Orchestra. She studied at the Alachki School of Music in Skopje, Macedonia under the famous accordion master Goran Alachki, and at Simon Shaheen's annual Arabic Music Retreat at Mount Holyoke College in 2012. She has additionally studied Greek violin performance with Beth Bahia Cohen, and at Ross Daly's Musical Workshop Labyrinth in Houdetsi, Crete. (www.marandihostetter.com)

Sam Schanwald is a theater and visual artist. Personal work: PIDOR AND THE WOLF (writer/creator) at New Ohio Theater and IRT Theater, TWIN SIZED BEDS (upcoming, writer/performer/design) at Loading Dock Theatre. Recent collaborations: Ripe Time's SLEEP at BAM, Dane Terry's JUPITER'S LIFELESS MOONS at P.S. 122, Esperanza Spalding's EMILY'S D+EVOLUTION (visual / dramaturgical work - European tour). Sam has an active teaching artist practice and has held workshops in France, Romania, and Indonesia with Gakko (gakkoproject.com). samschanwald.com / @sam_max__

100% of ticket sales go to the performers and keeping New Women Space's doors open as a necessary community resource. Refreshments available for purchase!