City Council Meeting | Performed Participatory Democracy

City Council Meeting is a performance created fresh in each city where it is presented, with local artists, activists, government officials and other citizens. Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay and Aaron Landsman are behind this.

We embrace positive discord. We welcome adversaries. We depend on your engagement.

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Currently, our cities include San Francisco, Houston, Tempe and NYC.

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City Council Meeting in New York City!

Three years in the making, two cities behind us, now we would like you to come to City Council Meeting in New York. We have eight shows for your enjoyment and participation*, in three venues around the city.

May 9-11 - at Chelsea Technical High School/HERE Art Center

May 16-17 - at LaGuardia Community College, Queens

May 22 - at El Museo Del Barrio

Eight shows only -

FREE but reservations required

Click HERE for INFO.

*Regarding participation: many of my friends have been all like, "I'll come, but I'm not participating." The joke is on you, friends, because you will be participating even if you just watch.

FEATURED PARTICIPANTS

Name: Autumn Knight

City: Houston

What is your affiliation with City Council Meeting?

Performing as the city secretary. I've known about the concept for a while.

When is the last time you experienced a moment of real empathy? What brought it on?

The young Indian woman who threads my face talked to me at length about being harassed by her co-workers and older women in her community because she isn't married yet. I empathized with her desire to be her own woman, travel and wait to find a partner from her ethnic community who shares her values, culture,etc.

What can art do that local politics cannot?

Everything. Is there something that art cannot do?