New York, NY
A Meal
part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner
A multi-sensorial live performance: part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner by critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Commissioned by HERE and co-produced with LEIMAY, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with. This three hour immersive experience takes you through a series of vignettes across HERE’s building, where you’ll partake in the act of eating together, witness performances by mythological creatures, and encounter offering songs and evocative sound/video movement installations. The layered work features handmade organic tableware, crafted artifacts, and evocative images and dances, all resonating with our post-industrial relationship with food and the Japanese and Colombian roots of the co-creators. Ticket price covers the 2.5 hour performance experience with a complete meal. Please select Vegetarian/Vegan, Seafood (limited to 8 servings per performance), or Meat (limited to 8 servings per performance.) All ticket levels are general admission and include the full experience. Please choose the ticket price that best aligns with your financial capabilities. Please be aware that A Meal is not eligible for Hundredaire ticket redemption or our “10 at $10” ticketing initiative. We are unable to accommodate any food allergies or intolerances, but you may choose to partake or not in what is offered. The experience includes periods of standing and walking, limited accommodations can be made upon request. Please note that Thurs. 9/12 and Fri. 9/27 are benefit performances and feature a higher ticket price.
Audience Role
Diner.
Ages: All ages
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About HERE Arts Center
Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York’s most prolific arts organizations. Today, it stands at the forefront of the city’s cultural scene, producing and presenting daring, new, multidisciplinary performance experiences. From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. By providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices. HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.