Name: Carapace Cabaret x A Fountain for Survivors
Start: 2021-11-12T21:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-11-13
Location: Duffy Square

Carapace Cabaret x A Fountain for Survivors

Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Charles Gaines, Joan Jonas, Jeffrey Gibson, Pamela Council, Mel Chin and Kehinde Wiley, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity./arts

Times Square Arts

Times Square Arts and Carolines on Broadway team up for a celebration of Pamela Council's monumental public artworks in Times Square.

Duffy Square

In conjunction with Pamela Council’s sculptural installation A Fountain for Survivors, and their Midnight Moment across the billboards of Times Square, Carolines on Broadway and Times Square Arts are teaming up to present a night of live comedy, music, and performance. Free and open to all, and timed to coincide with New York Comedy Festival, Becca O&#x27;Neal, Derek Gaines, RaFia Santana, and Nelson Bandela, with host Chanel Ali will bring a multitude of talent and performance to Times Square.This event is free and open to the public, but we strongly encourage reservations.For more information, visit www.arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts (Performers are subject to change.)

Times Square Arts has implemented rules to keep all performance attendees, artists, and staff safe in accordance with the evolving state-wide guidance and protocols from the Department of Health.
Vaccinated patrons are welcome to attend all performances without a mask. We ask that patrons who have not received the vaccine please wear a mask for the duration of the performance.
Your email may be used for contact tracing purposes, and - by attending this event - you acknowledge that you will contact Times Square Arts should you develop COVID-19 symptoms and/or test positive for COVID-19 after attending the performance.

‘Carapace Cabaret’ is presented by Times Square Arts and Carolines on Broadway in celebration of Pamela Council’s monumental public artworks in Times Square.<a href="http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/at-the-crossroads/a-fountain-for-survivors/index.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Learn more about Council and their work currently on view: A Fountain for Survivors and Talking Hands - Watch My Nails Don’t Watch Me.</a>
‘Carapace Cabaret’ is also presented in conjunction with New York Comedy Festival. <a href="https://nycomedyfestival.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Learn more about the full week’s line-up here. </a>

<h3>Pamela Council</h3>Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous, maximalist, and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic called BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, print, design, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined narratives and to make tributes, offerings, and dedications.Council has created commissions, exhibitions, performances, or presentations for the New Museum for Contemporary Art, United States Library of Congress, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Studio Museum in Harlem, Nike, and MoCADA. Council has been Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell Colony, ISCP, Red Bull Arts, Bemis Center, Mass MoCA, and Wassaic Project. A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Toby Devan Lewis Award, and Newark Creative Catalyst Award as a studio member of Project for Empty Space, Council holds a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University.<h3>Becca O&#x27;Neal</h3>Rebecca O’Neal is a Chicago based stand-up comedian and writer/editor whose work can be read on/in Vanity Fair Magazine, Buzzfeed, Gawker.tv, Splitsider.com, New York Magazine’s Vulture.com, Videogum.com, The Frisky, The Rumpus, Death and Taxes Magazine, and more. She is also the television host of WCIU The U’s Chicago’s One Night Stand Up and hosts weekly shows Tuesdays and Saturdays at Laugh Factory Chicago - and the long-running Cole’s Bar Wednesday night open mic.Rebecca was named a TBS 2018 Comic to Watch as a part of The New York Comedy Festival and has performed at Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Portland’s 2013, 2014, &amp; 2016 Bridgetown Comedy Festival, RIOT LA Comedy Festival, The Comedy Exposition of 2014 &amp; 2015, The Onion and The AV Club’s 2nd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival, NBCUniversal and Second City’s Break Out Comedy Festival, Oddball Comedy Festival 2016,Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, and many other showcases and clubs in and around Chicago - and was a regular at Laugh Factory Chicago, Comedy Bar, UP Comedy Club and filmed her television show at Zanies. She has also opened for Arsenio Hall, Michael Che, Maria Bamford, Janeane Garofalo, The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal (UP Comedy Club), Roy Wood Jr, Jena Friedman, and Michelle Wolf, Saturday Night Live’s Sasheer Zamata, Hannibal Buress, Ron Funches, and Cameron Esposito.Rebecca is a former cast member of the 14th season of Chicago’s historic Lincoln Lodge and was a regular at Laugh Factory Chicago and host of the club’s weekly show Top Ten Tuesdays - an co-host of the long running Wednesday open mic at Cole’s Bar. Rebecca has appeared as a recurring guest on Vocalo.org’s Morning Amp and a guest comedy commentator or WBEZ’s Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia. She is a founder producer of a monthly free, BYOB comedy showcase in Chicago called Congrats on Your Success that has been featured in/on Netflix’s Easy, WBEZ/NPR, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, The Huffington Post, Vocalo.org, The Chicago Reader, The Red Eye’s Eat Drink Do column, Time Out Chicago, Gapers Block, Chicagoist, LoganSquarist, Chicago Now, ChooseChicago.com, AfterEllen.com and many local blogs and websites. Rebecca has been featured in Vice, Paper Magazine (the Kim Kardasian butt mag lol), Bitch Magazine, Huffington Post, and Huffington Post Chicago, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, Portland Monthly, AfterEllen.com, ABC’s Windy City Live, WCIU’s You and Me This Morning, WGCI, KISS FM, and Power 92 and more. Rebecca O’Neal is a hilariously cerebral and confessional comic whose upbringing on Chicago’s southside coupled with her love of language and pop culture and tendency toward introspection endear her to audiences of all backgrounds. By humorously and shamelessly mining her experiences, she makes the esoteric universal.<h3>Derek Gaines</h3>Derek Gaines was born in California, but found his comedy chops while growing up in Philadelphia. He currently calls New York City his home where he regularly performs and brings a unique perspective to growing up African American in the suburbs.Derek’s first break came when he reached the semi-finals of Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes in 2010. Also in 2010 Derek was a finalist in Philadelphia’s Phunniest Person Competition. Derek made his standup comedy television debut in 2014 when he appeared on AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live and was selected by the Just For Laughs Festival as part of their New Faces showcase. Derek has been a contributor to VH1’s Morning Buzz and TRU TV’s Greatest Ever. He starred in Morgan Spurlock’s docuseries Connected. Derek is also a cast member of MTV’s Joking Off and the co-host of MTV’s Broke A$$ Game Show.Derek plays the role of Jaybird in the hit Tracy Morgan’s series The Last O.G. for TBS. He was one of the lead roles in the NBC comedy pilot Relatively Happy opposite Jane Lynch after coming off a very successful dramatic appearance on ABC’s Training Day. Derek recently had a breakout role on the season’s NBC hit Will &amp; Grace.<h3>Nelson Bandela</h3>Nelson Bandela is a courageous artist who combines the cacophony of the DaDa art movement with elements of futurism and Funk.With more than 30 music projects released under his various monikers (Norvis Junior, Nelson Bandela, NancieOver9000, DJAYTECHNOMUSTARD, O’Della Basura, etc.) and a growing portfolio of engaging artwork, it is clear that he is a progressive and daring voice to watch.Over the course of his career, Nelson has diligently contributed as a producer, vocalist, arranger, writer and director to a wide array of prolific artistic endeavors from the likes of Bill T. Jones, Swarvy, Nappy Nina and Tony Allen. Recently he has contributed as a writer, director and composer on the critically acclaimed HBO series Random Acts of Flyness created by his brother Terence Nance. The show won a coveted Peabody Award upon the arrival of its first season and has been renewed for a second season where he will continue to be a part of its creation.Nelson’s artwork combines such disparate worlds as bass heavy southern hip hop, layered with unexpected West African drumming joined with psychedelic visual accompaniment. His talents as a Producer, Vocalist and Filmmaker were developed in the church as he began learning video editing and audio mixing in the media ministry and music in the choir. As he honed his craft he gained formal training in vocal performance and video editing as a student at the legendary Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, in Dallas, Texas.In 2011, Nelson made the move to Brooklyn, New York to focus on growing his artistic career and things have been progressing ever since. During his time in the illustrious city he has shared the stage with such amazing acts as KING, Nick Hakim, Jon Bap, Seven Davis Jr, Sonny Moon and Marcus Gilmore. Additionally his imagery has been used by the likes of Afropunk, Brooklyn HipHop Festival, Apple, Okayplayer and Red Bull.<h3>RaFia Santana</h3>RaFia Santana is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist using animated graphics, self-portraiture, and music production to soothe the self, bend perception, and make jokes. They also make use of social marketing and fundraising as a means to support and uplift marginalized communities. RaFia has exhibited their work at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MoCADA, Tate Britain, the Museum of the Moving Image, Housing NY, BronxArtSpace, and more. They have been featured in Teen Vogue, Paper Magazine, VICE, Topical Cream Magazine, and other leading publications. RaFia has performed and participated in panels, discussions, and events at Black Portraitures at Harvard University, Afrotectopia at NYU&#x27;s Tisch School of the Arts, Pratt Institute&#x27;s Department of Digital Arts, Newspace Center for Photography, and MoMA PS1.<h3>DJ Tara</h3>Absorbing the sounds of New York since her birth in Brooklyn, Tara spins a collage of sounds that captures the eclectic vibe of modern New York life.Tara loves nightlife, having started out as an event producer and promoter. As a member of Rare Form, she helped originate Donuts are Forever, an annual fundraiser/tribute to J. Dilla, as well as Makossa Brooklyn Cookout, now 10 years strong as a beloved Brooklyn summer hang. Having performed at diverse and unconventional venues around New York City and abroad, Tara is always eager to find new and exciting crowds to spin for. Early on in her career, Tara realized being a DJ is more than just playing a mix of records; it is a matter of building trust between herself and the crowd and sharing the knowledge and love the she has for the music and the feelings it projects onto the listeners. The crowd trusts Tara to become part of another great night in their lives, and she returns that favor by giving them a taste of the familiar as well as something new that may be something they have never realized was needed in their musical memory.<h3>Chanel Ali</h3>Chanel Ali is a standup comedian who blossomed on the Philadelphia circuit before taking her commanding stage presence and storyteller style to NYC. You may have seen her on MTV&#x27;s Girl Code, Comedy Central, or Tru TV&#x27;s Laff Tracks.

<h3> ABOUT CAROLINE’S ON BROADWAY</h3>Located in the heart of Times Square, Carolines on Broadway presents the very best live comedy entertainment seven nights a week. Just steps from many of Broadway’s most well-known theaters, Carolines on Broadway provides the same quality entertainment that is customary on New York’s legendary Great White Way.Carolines first opened as a small cabaret club in the New York’s Chelsea neighborhood in 1982. Owner Caroline Hirsch, a lifelong comedy fan, soon began booking comedians in her room. The comedy acts – which included now legendary performers like Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Billy Crystal, Rosie O’Donnell and Jay Leno – were a tremendous success, and it wasn’t long before Carolines became a full-fledged comedy club. As the popularity of stand-up surged throughout the 1980s, so did the popularity of Carolines, which was becoming THE place to see live comedy in New York City.The great demand for comedy brought standing-room-only crowds to Carolines, which moved to a larger space at New York’s historic South Street Seaport to accommodate the ever-growing audiences. There, business continued to thrive, and the club quickly established itself as the city’s top comedy venue. It also became home to the A&amp;E Network’s highly successful series, Caroline’s Comedy Hour, which would eventually garner the prestigious Cable ACE Award for “Best Comedy Series.” In 1992, Hirsch once again relocated her club, this time to its grand setting on Broadway in Times Square, where the club continues to present the country’s biggest and best comedians in a sophisticated, state-of-the-art nightclub, bringing the live comedy experience to new heights.Today, Carolines on Broadway continues to hold center stage in Times Square as one of New York City’s most popular and enduring hotspots and as the city’s only genuine nightclub. The club is a New York institution and was one of the cornerstones in the revitalization of the vibrant and bustling Times Square district. The 300-seat venue, designed by Paul and Barbara Haigh of HAIGHArchitects received critical acclaim when it received the American Institute of Architects : National Honor Award for Interiors and a United States Institute of Theatre Technology : Merit Award for Best Club Design, it also featured on the cover of Interior Design Magazine.In addition to presenting such top headlining comedians, the club also features emerging talent, live podcasts, and improve and sketch comedy, as well as playing host to countless large-scale fund-raising events and high profile benefits. Hirsch, a long-time Ms. Foundation board member, created an annual fundraiser for The Foundation that has continued to grow each year. Now in its fourteenth year, The Ms. Foundation’s Women of Comedy special recently aired on the Lifetime Television Network to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Ms. Foundation. Additionally, Carolines hosts a highly successful annual fundraiser for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, which honors the late Madeline Kahn. In 2003, the club celebrated 20 years of laughter with a gala comedy event at Carnegie Hall that featured performances by long-time club favorites Joy Behar, Richard Belzer, Lewis Black, David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried, and Colin Quinn.Carolines on Broadway also produces the highly successful New York Comedy Festival, a weeklong comedy festival that presents comedy’s biggest stars in New York’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, the Beacon Theatre, Madison Square Garden, and the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, to name a few. The Festival has featured such stars as Bill Burr, Dane Cook, Kathy Griffin, Kevin Hart, Denis Leary, Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, Howie Mandel, Sarah Silverman, and Robin Williams, over the past fifteen years. In 2007, The Festival launched Stand-Up for Heroes, a very special benefit for The Bob Woodruff Foundation that has featured appearances by John Oliver, Robin Williams, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Tony Bennett and Bruce Springsteen. The sixteenth annual New York Comedy Festival will take place on November 8 – 14, 2021.Nearly thirty-five years after it first opened as a small cabaret club in Chelsea, Carolines on Broadway has grown into the one of the country’s top comedy brands and leading destinations for live entertainment for New Yorkers and countless visitors from across the country and the world, affirming its position as “The First Name in Comedy.”<h3>CONNECT</h3>Instagram: @CarolinesonBwayTwitter: @CarolinesonBwayFacebook: @CarolinesonBway<h3>ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS</h3>Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the Arts Program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity. Generous support of Times Square Arts is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support for Midnight Moment is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Times Square Advertising Coalition. Visit TSq.org/Arts for more information. Follow us on Instagram at @TSqArts.<h3>CONNECT</h3>Instagram: @tsqartsTwitter: @TSqArtsFacebook: @timessquarenyc

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