Dinners with Curt
Dinners with Curt is a project based around a series of dinners with Lucy Hollier, Curtis Fowlkes, and friends. Curtis, now a lifelong friend, was Lucy’s first trombone teacher in middle school, having been introduced by Roy Nathanson, Lucy’s music teacher and Curtis’ best friend. As the focus on care and community (and care of community) that was felt during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic has dwindled, this project is an attempt at finding ways to make time for people, especially those outside of family and closest friends. It considers care as an ongoing process with as much failure as success, an attempt at unlearning the misrepresentation of the dichotomy between carer and cared-for, and a rejection of care as an individual act, as duty, as burden, instead as joy and nourishment and an essential part of life. The dinner series’ outgrowths included a video piece made with audio recordings of the dinners, poetry created in conjunction with video, and a live public gathering with food and a music performance by Lucy, Curtis, and Roy. This project is ongoing.
Public Programs
The public program includes dinner, live music, video, and poetry with Curtis Fowlkes, Roy Nathanson, and Lucy Hollier on Monday May 29th at 6:30pm at The Sunview Luncheonette (221 Nassau Ave) in Greenpoint. This event is free and open to the public, and is supported by Social Practice CUNY. An ongoing and open-ended project, Dinners with Curt is a dinner series with Lucy and Curtis and friends as a way of considering how care between people can become more easily and fully integrated into life.
SPCUNY Artist
Lucy Hollier
Collaborators
Curtis Fowlkes is a jazz trombonist and singer. Roy Nathanson is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, actor and teacher. They met as teenagers in NYC’s all-city band, were both members of the Lounge Lizards, and in 1987 they founded the Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz.
