My Dying City ft. Kangalee Arts Ensemble

Flyer for “My Dying City: The Social Justice Suicide Hour,” with an illustrated distressed face and red paint splatter.

Date and Time

Thursday, May 1, 2025
7:00 pm

Location

JACK 20 Putnam Ave Brooklyn, NY
JACK 20 Putnam Ave Brooklyn, NY

Cost

About this event

As part of our Artists in Action series, we’re proud to present My Dying City: The Social Justice Suicide Hour, a powerful new work-in-progress by Dennis Leroy Kangalee and the Kangalee Arts Ensemble.

Blending theater, protest, and pirate radio, this “open rehearsal” offers a raw glimpse into the final broadcast of an outlaw DJ and the organizers, activists, and romantic misfits who call in to share confessions, critiques, and cries for meaning in a city on the brink.

Bold, unfiltered, and emotionally charged, My Dying City pushes past the limits of performance to explore what it means to live—and love—in a world burning at both ends.

📍 Join us May 1 at Jack Arts in Brooklyn. Free, but space is limited.

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