The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street

05/08/2025

Artists and volunteer organizers across New York City in connection with City Lore, along with NAMING THE LOST Memorials, Great Small Works, Mano a Mano, and Green-Wood Cemetery will be closing their five-year public art project. The 2025 memorial “A Bridge, a Stitch, a Compass: A COVID Memorial for the past, present, and future” is composed of tributes from 19 community groups and will be on view at Green-Wood from May 8th through June 8th with an activation and dedication ceremony on Thursday, May 8th at 6:30 PM at the Greenwood Cemetery entrance to honor the lives lost to COVID-19 and those impacted by the pandemic, in solidarity with Americans across the country to come together in mourning to recognize and grieve for the thousands of lives lost during the pandemic.

NAMING THE LOST Memorials is a small team of artists, activists, and folklorists that has been curating memorial sites in New York City to name and remember victims of the COVID-19 pandemic since May 2020. They created homegrown memorials in a public setting across the city to draw attention to the astounding number of COVID deaths and to give people a place to name their lost loved ones.



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Artists and volunteer organizers across New York City in connection with City Lore, along with NAMING THE LOST Memorials, Great Small Works, Mano a Mano, and Green-Wood Cemetery will be closing their five-year public art project. The 2025 memorial “A Bridge, a Stitch, a Compass: A COVID Memorial f...

04/01/2025

Morgan Jenness Day Parade and Storytelling Circle - Activists, artists, performers, friends and family convened in Tompkins Square Park on March 31, 2025 to celebrate the life and legacy of our dearest Morgan Jenness. Double Edge Theatre joined the celebration with a parade of puppets and music to some of the places where Morgan left their mark on the theatre world such as Tompkins Square Park, La MaMa, The Public Theater and Garibaldi Plaza at Washington Square Park, finishing at Judson Church for a memorial storytelling circle, honoring the life and legacy of our beloved Morgan Jenness.



© Erik McGregor - [email protected] - 917-225-8963

Activists, artists, performers, friends and family convened in Tompkins Square Park on March 31, 2025 to celebrate the life and legacy of our dearest Morgan Jenness. Double Edge Theatre joined the celebration with a parade of puppets and music to some of the places where Morgan left their mark on th...

03/21/2025

🎭🎨 Honoring Morgan Jenness Through Art & Activism 🎷🎺

Join us in creating art to celebrate the life and legacy of Morgan Jenness! We’re preparing for a downtown NYC jazz-funeral-inspired street procession to honor Morgan’s profound impact on activism, theater, and the arts.

📍 Art-Making Sessions:
🎨 Saturday, March 22 | 3 PM - 8 PM | RSVP Here: bit.ly/makemorganart-mar22
🎨 Saturday, March 29 | 3 PM - 8 PM | RSVP Here: bit.ly/makemorganart-mar29
📍 Location: 25 12th St., Gowanus, Brooklyn (same building as Big Reuse)

🖌️ Supplies & Refreshments Provided
👐 Hosted by BoxCutter Collective, The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, and Sane Energy

Come create, connect, and help us bring Morgan’s spirit to the streets. All are welcome! ❤️🎶

02/25/2025

01/05/2025

Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner: CAMPFIRE STARS LIT ROUND THE MOON. Join us around the campfire as we sing, eat and dance together to welcome in the New Year.



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Join us around the campfire as we sing, eat and dance together to welcome in the New Year. The superlative line-up: * Music by Frank London’s “Conspiracy” with Frank London- trumpet, Josh Roseman - trombone, Marcus Rojas - tuba, Javier Diaz - drums, Onel Matos - congas. * Dr. Anna Elena Torres...

12/06/2024

I have tried to post this for Morgan Jenness 3 times and each time some technical glitch has prevented it. It seems even in transition, Morgan is resisting getting her laurels.

She was supposed to live for another 30 years. She was my high priestess of theater, politics and inspiration. The indefatigable, committed alley cat whose angular gestures and glint in her eye inspired any lucky enough to cross alleyways with her. She surfed the waves of life on pure intuition, channelling messages that each of us needed to hear at the right moment. Like an ascetic in the forest, she didn't pay any attention to the maintenance of her own physical body or her material security. She lived purely on the smoke coming off the flames she constantly fanned in those around her. Artists, writers, activists, students, so many were touched by her enthusiasm and ability to cut straight to the heart of the matter and extract the meaning behind the obvious. What might be hidden to others she would reveal to you.

Because her mission in this life was so crystal clear to her, in childhood she was baptized in the reflecting pool of the Washington Monument during Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech, since that moment she did not waver from her initiation onto the difficult path of justice. It did not become vague for her, no matter how many years past, or how much the art and culture she was committed to became more profit driven and entertainment focused.

She would find the outsiders who really wanted to say something, and contribute something to society, who may not have otherwise been recognised, if not for Morgan and her brilliant fanning of embers. She blew her white hot attention on enough creative forces for an entire American Cultural Revolution, lets hope the seeds she's sown grow and blossom. What has already come to fruition with Morgan's influence is astounding. How much one can contribute in the shadows. How effective for the collective to operate without recognition.

This past summer she told me her latest personal challenge- she was working on allowing others to love her and take care of her, she was always much more comfortable as the giver of love, grace, attention, praise, than the receiver. Perhaps only now will she be able to see how much we want to love her and take care of her, now in memory, as she probably wouldn't have allowed it before.

I am told her body was found kneeling. This feel appropriate. As if she was supplicant for all of us. In her last moments thinking of the world "this distracted globe" and the courage, protection and love we will need to bind to us going forward. Now that she is in the non-material realm, perhaps she is more effective clearing a path for us, yet I cannot imagine the next meeting, rehearsal, art-build or march without her. How did she manage to be in all these place simultaneously supporting everyone? And how do we carry on without her? I keep her advice close: "Just keep writing, don't talk down or change yourself for the world, your voice is needed."

-Claire

11/17/2024