Jjjjjerome Ellis: Impediment Is Information

PERFORMANCE / MUSIC
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021
8:00 PM

ISSUE Project Room Stream

Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/jjjjjerome-ellis-impediment-information

The always engaging Jjjjjerome Ellis takes his speech impediment and runs with it, this time in a Juneteenth presentation riffing on an 18th Century newspaper ad seeking recapture of a fugitive slave with "an impediment in his speech". You need to experience Ellis's work if you haven't already.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cotton: rinse a chilled Martini glass or coupe with Absinthe. Pour 2 oz. Rye and 1/2 oz. each of sweet and dry Vermouth, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.