Hi Everyone,

Some of you might already know that Eric has been working on a public art performance called Flight 18 in association with a grant he received from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The show opens March 4th and will fly through April 4th (or 18 if there’s an extension). The show takes place in a space that is 6000 sq. ft (an old Liz Claiborne store) located at South Street Seaport. See website www.flight18.net for more information.

There is a large blank white wall wanting art work. So bring on the art! Work can be framed or unframed but must have hardware attached ready to hang. One piece per artist please. Children’s art welcome too! If work sells 100% goes to the artist. The work will be hung up throughout the run of Flight 18. The show opens this Thursday so we need the work this week.

Please drop off art work (2D only) at the space (see website for directions) either Sunday anytime after 3:00pm, Monday anytime before 5:00pm, Tuesday anytime after 4pm or Wednesday before 5:00pm.

Please email the assistant director Tina Piccari at tina.piccari@gmail.com
to let her know when you will be coming or to arrange another time if the above times don’t work.

Please email me Belinda Blum at ladyblum@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

Directions are on the website.

If you have friends who may be interested in contributing work than please feel free to forward.

FYI 18 means life in Hebrew. Flight 18 welcomes all to come and be a part of this journey off our planet.

with love and gratitude,

Belinda Blum
ladyblum@yahoo.com

Twelve days to go before the official launch. The spaceship is coming together nicely. The flight itself is becoming. I wrote a few test flights and the act of writing a “script” was very anti-climactic. FLIGHT 18 wants to be so much more than a theatre event or a play. We are playing; we are alive and ready to explore the great Unknown. I asked the company to stop trying to fill the void rather I’d prefer them to feel the void. It is through the emptiness that we will know the cosmos.

The further we move along the wider the horizon becomes. One flight at a time.

Artists are arriving and asking for space to create which is very good. So far we have welcomed on board James Daher.

FLIGHT 18, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Swing Space grantee, is seeking video submissions to be included in their PUBLIC ART SPECTACULAR conceived, directed, and piloted by theatre artist Eric Wallach. Taking place for over 30 flights in March and April within a 6,000 square foot former retail store in the South Street Seaport, FLIGHT 18 is an interactive performance that invites its passengers to board a spaceship voyaging into the outer limits of space.

The submissions should meet the following criteria:
* be 30 seconds to 2 minutes in length
* explore one of the following two thoughs:

- a PSA about “the Fully Experienced Life”
- a travel-log style destination video

Submit all video as link or attachment to:

18.flight@gmail.com

ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 26th. 
Winners will be notified by March 1st.  
Winners will receive credit and have their work shown at performances throughout March and April.  Great opportunity for exposure to your work.

FLIGHT 18 is an environmental entertainment experience and public forum where performers and audience can interact and freely express themselves.  Never the same flight twice!   Unfasten your seat belts and feel free to enjoy your trip.

Within our spaceship there are seven “Earth Simulators” meant to keep the passengers from getting homesick by letting them experience the parts of our world that they will miss the most. Weʼre looking for artists to help design and construct these simulators; basing the designs off whatever they themselves would most miss about our world. Each simulator will be constructed inside of a small room (former dressing rooms) made up of two walls, a door and a floor length mirror.

Please send design ideas to 18.flight@gmail.com with the subject line “Art Design Contest” by the 16th of February. The top 7 design entries will be selected to take part in our flight. The spaces to be designed can be seen below:

The three rooms downstairs measure approx. 5ʼ x 4ʼ6” x 9ʼ
The four rooms upstairs measure approx. 6ʼ x 4ʼ10” x 9ʼ