Video documentation of the June 24, 2021 (7 – 8:00 PM EST) performance and celebration of Five Fights presented by Franklin Furnace and Galinsky.
Recorded on Zoom, edited by Arantxa Araujo and Galinsky.
FIVE FIGHTS was a Virtual Celebration (and/or Roast) of an East Village Poem,” fetes one of Off-Broadway playwright/actor Robert Galinsky’s most popular spoken word pieces, FIVE FIGHTS. The poem is from a collection of works called “The Mayor of the Lower East Side Speaks”, which High Times Magazine reviewed saying, “Galinsky is manic, takes rapid-fire shots at drunk drivers, firearms, and bicycle messengers with almost psychotic precision.” This program featured 12 artist interpretations of the poem, each under 2 minutes, and each with a unique look and feel. Galinsky has performed the poem in New York, Los Angeles California, Buenos Aires Argentina, Aberswyth Wales, Napoli Italy, London England, and also in the bathroom, bedroom, and living room. FIVE FIGHTS made it’s Franklin Furnace Virtual Loft debut, so sit back and enjoy a dozen variations of a classic East Village literary anaphora.
Featuring:
ROBERT GALINSKY (Writer, Producer, Director, Performer) Backstage Magazine has called Galinsky’s acting “extraordinary & effortless” while the LA Times states “Galinsky brings a wrenching realism to his work.” Currently Galinsky is in development with Levity Live creating a reality TV project based on his infamous New York Reality TV School and he recently debuted Off Broadway, as both a playwright and actor, with his critically acclaimed show “The Bench, A Homeless Love Story”. The show had sold out runs in both Hollywood and New York City, running for over 10 months. Galinsky has shared working creative relationships with such artists as 50 Cent, Martha Wilson (founder of Franklin Furnace), Sapphire, Nile Rodgers, Willem Dafoe, Jay O. Sanders, Mark Schoenfeld, Quentin Crisp, and many other pop and art personalities. He is a Co-Founder of the legendary online “TV” studio Pseudo.com, has written and directed over fifty TEDx Talks, is a contributing editor to The Fresh Toast, and his pioneering prison workshops have been facilitated coast to coast, from NYC to LA, through two incredible non-profits: Literacy for Incarcerated Teens & The Kite. His work as an artist activist has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, on “The VIEW,” NPR, “ABC Nightline News” & many media outlets.
List of Collaborators:
The following people are featured in order of appearance in the video.
Jazmen Hunta
Nina Dicker
Philip Galinsky
Bob Holman
Claudi Love
Andrew Galinsky
B. Kim Taylor
The Reverend Spyro
Judy McGuire
Andrew Einhorn
Robin Selfridge
Michael Mau
Oliver Baer
Georgia Maldanado
Candyce Denise
Sir Nic Wolfson
