Photo: Dan Evans / Courtesy of LuLu LoLo

LuLu LoLo will be assembling an ongoing archive, consisting of images and writings, from her observations of Manhattan from her 28th floor apartment during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Anchorite is a space within The Salon which houses an immersing creative—as opposed to an emerging one. This is, a sage in the arts and/or healing fields who is invested in traveling deeper —and not so much outwards—in regards to their practice and the life informing it. The Anchorite works from wherever they are on this Earth, investigating in introspection issues really close to their heart. Note: I came up with the term “immersing creative,” after hearing about Bill Beirne’s reference to a “submerging artist.” To learn more about The Anchorite

LuLu LoLo is a performance artist, playwright/actor and activist for over twenty-five years. Ageism, immigration, historical references, ritualism, symbolism, myth, and always humor along with reverent irreverence are incorporated into LuLu’s performances. LuLu curated Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2019: INVISIBLE, a public art festival featuring 82 artists celebrating the indomitable spirit of artists who are sixty years of age or older. LuLu has performed in six AiOP festivals over the past fifteen years in the guise of different personas to illustrate timely topical issues. Her public actions in Where Are the Women? (2015) highlighted the lack of public monuments to women in New York City and was featured in the New York Times; Blessings from Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants focused on immigrants of the world; and in 2018, stressing the fragility of the aging body, LuLu performed while wearing a chair strapped to her body offering A Seat for the Elderly: The Invisible Generation. As an activist, LuLu organized the Procession of 146 Shirtwaists and Sashes for the Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. LuLu has written and performed eight one-person plays that evolved from her passion for historical research and social justice, especially as pertaining to the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past exemplified by subjects such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the lesbian lover of murder victim Kitty Genovese; women who fought in the civil war disguised as men; and the shameful treatment of the women consigned to the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Her plays and poetry have been published in Nerve Lantern Axon of Performance Literature, Meta-land Poets of the Palisades II, and 365 Women a Year a Playwriting Project. Her published essays include: “Art is the Path from Reality to the Soul” See You in the Streets, Ruth Sergel, University of Iowa Press, and "Growing Up Italian-American in a Wonder Bread World", Ovunque Siamo. LuLu received a Puffin Foundation Grant (2018). She was a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow in social engagement, and a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer in Residence (2008). LuLu is a board member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and an Advisory Board Member of the City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn.

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More LuLu LoLo related links: vimeo: vimeo.com/fabulouslululolo / youtube: Youtube / twitter: @FabLuLuLoLo / facebook: LuluLoloProductions / facebook: Where Are the Women?/ facebook: facebook.com/ParisPilgrimage / tumblr: paris-pilgrimage.tumblr.com/