Linda Mussmann's Blog

WHAT'S NEXT

Okay: here we go. Aug. 15th MET OPERA HD SIMULCAST tickets go on sale at TSL for members only. box office opens at 10am or call in with your order.
checks or cash is best.
Members have one week ahead of everyone else to select there favorite opera and purchase tickets.
see the website.
there will be a special opera event at TSL on Sat. Sept. 27th to celebrate the opening of TSL's SEASON. THis year it is a longer one and will start Oct.11th.
Nicole Taylor will be the featured singer and Michael Clement at the piano.
TSL will be making information available soon on that event.
As for up up coming events: Art opening WAR: MATERIAL & LIES on Sept. 6th with special music event.
We are planning September: there will be MAN ON THE WIRE, TROUBLE THE WATER, And THE LOUISE BOURGEOIS doc. THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS and THE TANGERINE. and more...so save gas and see it at TSL.
if you are not a member send a check to POB 343, HUDSON, NY 12534

GREAT TIME IN THE COUNTRY

We had a great fundraiser last night in Ancramdale at the 1799 barn---this space is open for other events if you want more info. let me know and I will forward it on to Mary and Paul.
John Musall won the great TV. And 300 people showed up to dance/drink/eat and celebrate the fundraiser for TSL.
If you want to send a check to support the great programs and the vision of the our space it is a great thing to do with your extra funds.
send check to TSL PO BOX 343, Hudson, NY 12534.
We cannot thank you all for being such fans of our dream.
Our great committee helped make this event a big success---we cannot say thanks enough to them--one and all.
Last night nature performed the splendor of all her glory...it was the storm, then the clearing, then the rainbow----it was just great.
Today Sunday: at TSL 5pm Wittgenstein,
and Herzog's ENCOUNTERS at 7pm
if you are not a member join.
Our members are growing and we want you on our list of friends.

TSL FUNDRAISER IN ANCRAMDALE NEW YORK AUG. 2

TSL is having a fundraiser out in Ancramdale, NY ----at one of the most beautiful places in Columbia County.
Jesse Lege' will be playing Cajun music and there will be good eats on the grill by Chef Danyell.

We will have a cash bar and raffle of a fabulous TV.
And a great committee of people to help make it a great event.

There will be things for the kids to do (this is a real farm with chickens and horses and a real garden...and a barn that will never again be built in our life times and
I promise to dance if I can with you all...if I can't Claudia will be able to swing round and round to the Cajun beat.

Listen!!! TSL is looking to raise some funds...yes!!!! some badly needed funds to keep the great TSL's programs coming your way.

Can you imagine what you all would do with out us???
We can't imagine what we would do without you!!!!

So this is your chance to bring yourself and some folks out to the the Barn in Ancramdale, NY.----Spread the word to one and all.-----

Join us at the 1799 Dutch barn and celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of fall season with TSL and all the fans and friends that love what we mean to them and you.

Call tsl for reservations: $20 per person or more if you want.
And make reservations asap.
It is next Saturday Aug. 2nd.
For details look at the tsl website http://timeandspace.org/tsl/calendar/0807/barn.php

See you Linda/Claudia & tsl staff.
Or call 518-822-8448 for reservations. We accept credit cards over the phone...or will hold a space for you at the door.

CLAUDIA & STEVE CABARET

HI Friends of TSL ---- TSL CABARET MONDAY NIGHT 7:30pm JULY 21
(AIR CONDITIONED)
With Claudia Bruce At the piano & singing and Steve Iachetta with the violin and mandolin.
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Steve Iachetta will be bringing down his black Fender electric violin as well as his mandolin to play at the TSL CABARET Monday night along with Claudia at the piano playing & singing some of her favorite tunes.
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Steve has been at TROY Music Hall as part of a Fiddlers workshop recently and we are looking forward to some sweet songs.
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Linda will be reading some new text as well.
TSL is a great place to cool off and hear from some folks who love to share music with you.

The admission is $10.00
---so come on over Monday night starts at 7:30pm.
If you want to come ahead with some (carry in) food and eat at TSL please feel free to come early--we are always ready to receive.

We will be having some drinks available at the cabaret and we look forward to sharing with you all that is new at our TSL.

See you tomorrow. Monday July 21. Starts at 7:30pm
Admission $10
434 Columbia Street
Hudson, NY 12534.
For more Information:::: call linda.518- 822-8448

(if you are not a member please join tsl)
Please share this e-mail with folks who might like to join us.
Thanks and see you Monday night.

TSL INTERNSHIPS

TSL has internships open for the fall-winter season.
please check in if you are interested in theater, film, gallery projects, and administration of arts at TSL.
contact Linda Mussmann fyi@timeandspace.org
or call tsl office 518-822-8448
This week-end at TSL fims are: JULES & JIM, JELLY FISH, & TIME FOR PEACE
coming in the gallery WAR. MATERIAL & LIES
MET OPERA tickets go on sale to TSL MEMBERS ONLY AUG. 15th.

WAR-MATERIAL & LIES

Art show opening in September in the TSL GALLERY.
title is: WAR-MATERIAL & LIES
if you have things you would like considered please send information
to Linda Mussmann POB 343 Hudson, NY 12534
or e-mail
FYI@TIMEANDSPACE.ORG
asap
for consideration.
thank you.

July Calendar notes 2008

July 2008 Calendar: Then + Now + Next
by Linda & Claudia printed in the July Calendar.

TSL was founded in the early 1970s as a theater company and has been making theater happen ever since. We (Linda and Claudia) wanted a new kind of theater Ð a theater that spoke to its time, had no narrative, no beginning, middle or easy ending. We wanted a theater that was about art, politics, and the spirit of the times in which we are living. We created and realized performances that took place on many stages Ð from traditional to innovative; from Manhattan lofts to La MamaÕs vast theater annex to the garden at MoMA to a variety of other places and spaces. We did everything with virtually nothing. We begged, borrowed, and recycled and made a theater that addressed our lives and our times.

In defining our theater, we embraced the non-linear and the immediate and were named ÒpostmodernÓ in a modern world. We understood the reality of the 1980s and the strain on the art world that pushed many theater companies like TSL out of major cities and moved them on to even bigger stages like the Hudson Valley.

We have always been able to invent ways to speak to the audience of our time and space. We have made our stage wherever we are and now it is bigger. The performers and roles have changed. The vision gets more inclusive. The TSL stage is a large one and to define it by one place is an error. Our stage is our community, our region, and our nation. We make art and show art that addresses the now in which we live. We have many in our company and we have reared many on our stage who seek to find a way and the means to grow there.

Culture and art includes all that join our theater company. We need performers, audience, and benefactors as our vision continues and moves us into the next season of work. We want you to understand what makes TSL work and why it is so vital for you to be a member and contributor. Coming to TSL, seeing a movie, watching an opera, joining in on cabaret night, witnessing a Mussmann Bruce production, sending a child to camp, or viewing the art gallery is more than just something to do. TSL is a space and a time that affords us the ability to see a living, working theater company in action and on a stage that encompasses all parts of its community.

What is theater? A child planting the garden and watching beans grow. What is theater? A map of the USA dotted with thousands of pieces of paper, each marking the hometown of a fallen US soldier in the Iraq war. What is theater? A dialogue between a filmmaker and her/his audience. What is theater? An agreed upon space and a timeframe wherein an occurrence is noted. What is theater? For Linda, it is a tornado, a war, a campaign, a play.

Sometimes drama is real, sometimes contrived. It must be worth the time spent. TSL wants you to play a role in our theater company Ð be it by becoming a member or being a volunteer or buying a ticket or sponsoring an event. Whatever you choose to do Ð be it known that you are supporting the vast stage on which we Òplay."

ÒAll the worldÕs a stage, / And all the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages.Ó (As You Like It. W. Shakespeare)

Or as John Cage used to advise us: ÒJust do the work.Ó

And so, my friends, the adventure continues. Join us, support us, and grow with us. Thank you.



Harold Pinter began his 2005 Nobel Prize speech with an observation about the relationship between reality and art: ÒThere are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I standby them, but as a citizen I cannot. As a citizen I must ask: What is true? What is false?Ó

TURN THE RIVER

Last chance to see Chris Eigeman's new film TURN THE RIVER.
this is great work by the young filmmaker----his first and it is very well written and a great story about a woman and a kid.
Pool Hall and great acting.
check it out.
today at 7pm. Sunday.
see you at TSL.
and it is cool. the AC is on.
and if you want some Goddard ALPHAVILLE is on at 5 & 9

TSL MONDAY NIGHT

Claudia Bruce will be singing on Monday.
and Amy Trompetter will be presenting some of her new puppet performance based on Howard Zinn's work
and Linda will be telling you something she has dreamed up
and all kinds of surprises.
look foward to seeing you at TSL MONDAY
we will be in the theater.
see you then.
www.timeandspace.org
PS TIME FOR PEACE will re-screen in July check website for times.

WAITING FOR GODOT

I am planning on a production of this play.
if you are interested in auditioning send me some information about yourself?
fyi@timeandspace.org
Linda.