Awards
2012
Eurohypo AG Engagement for the Community Award – For excellence in engaging the community and exemplifying Eurohypo’s Passion for Solutions. This award is presented to small non-profit organizations that have a large impact on their community. Eurohypo is pleased to award The POOP Project for their unique work in global sanitation.
Performances of Original Work
2011
Eat $h*t: How Our Waste Can Save the World (work-in-progress) – Dixon Place, NYC
The Agony and the Excrement: A Performance Lecture – The VENT Performance Festival at Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn NY
Eat $h*t (excerpt) – Club Make and Do at The SOHO Gallery for Digital Art, NYC
You’ve Got a Mommy – “Mother, May I?” at The Delancey, NYC
The Agony and the Excrement: A Performance Lecture – Adult Education presents “Social Anxiety” at Union Hall, Brooklyn NY
I’m a Plumber – JFREJ and Great Small Works Purimshpiel, St. Cecilia’s, Brooklyn NY
2010
Eat $h*t (excerpt) – The Mercury Café, Denver CO
World Toilet Day New York (producer, curator and performer) – Home Sweet Home
The Scoop on Poop –Manhattan Artist’s Salon, Vox Pop (Brooklyn), and Big Gay Cabaret at the LGBT Center of New York
Panel Discussions and Talks
2011
Talkbacks following “Uranus: A Play About Waste” by Superhero Clubhouse, The Bushwick Starr (Brooklyn, NY) and SITI Company Studios (NYC)
Moderated and co-curated with the Vistor Center at Newtown Creek (site of NYC’s largest wastewater treatment plant):
“Composting” with Daniel Tainow (Lower East Side Ecology Center), Jennifer Blackwell (The NYC Compost Project) and David Hurd (Office of Recycling Outreach & Education)
“Technology for Green Communities” with Michael Heimbinder (HabitatMap), Shai Lauros (GreenHomeNYC) and Gennaro Brooks-Church (Eco Brooklyn)
“Urban Farming” with Inger Staggs Yancey (Brooklyn Greenroof), Annie Novak (Eagle Street Rooftop Farms) and Dr. Dickson Despommier (The Vertical Farms)
“A Sustainable Future: Green Innovation” with Andrew Faust (Center for Bioregional Living), Paul S. Mankiewicz, Ph.D. (The Gaia Institute) and Kaled Alamarie (NYC Department of Environmental Protection)
“Newtown Creek: Past, Present and Future” with Mitch Waxman (The Newtown Pentacle) and Kate Zidar (The SWIM Coalition)
“Art and Sustainability” with multidisciplinary artist Mary Mattingly (The Waterpod) and landscape sculptor George Trakas
“Water for Cities: The Urban Challenge” with Frederik Pischke (UN-Water), Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for Social Research) and Jennifer Farmwald (NYC Department of Environmental Protection)
Gallery Exhibitions
2010
A Process of Elimination – Interactive installation through Chashama, NYC
Online Publications
2011
“Huggies for Hanukkah” in Alef: The NEXT Conversation
“Promoting Cultural Healing with Toilet Talk” for DefeatDD
“Everyone Poops, And No One’s Talking About It” for Toilet Twinning
Original writings have been published on The People’s Own Organic Power Project blog since June 2010, www.thePOOPproject.org.
Workshops and Study Sessions
2012
Covering Your Feet: The Bible and the Bathroom – The JCC of Manhattan, NYC
From Food to Flush: An Interactive Digestion Experience – The Children’s Museum of Manhattan
2011
What Is “Waste”? – New Country Day Camp, Staten Island NY
Embodying Food Justice: Farm to Flush – Jewish Farm School, Putnam Valley, NY
The Shadow and The Shit: Learning to Love Your Kishkes – Nehirim Men’s Retreat at Isabella Friedman, Falls Village CT
2010
Diarrheal Disease: An International Crisis of Silence – Beth Elohim, Brooklyn NY
Bathroom Architecture: Designing Our Private Lives – Camp Herzl, Webster WI
Art for Social Justice – Camp Beber, Mukwonago WI
The POOP Project has also hosted interactive informational tables at 2011 community events throughout New York City including: The NEW New York Sustainable Street Fair (Brooklyn), Westside County Fair (Manhattan), City of Water Day (Governor’s Island), and Flatbush Neighborhood Street Fair (Brooklyn).
