July 24th

Curated by EGA’s Assistant Producer Max Mooney!

Playdate offers an intimate, grassroots platform for early-career artists. Hosted in a lush Brooklyn backyard and curated by members of the En Garde Arts community, each evening features works-in-progress that invite risk-taking, dialogue, and creative exchange. These gatherings offer a relaxed and supportive environment— with drinks, snacks, and spirited conversation—where new ideas are shared and relationships are formed.

August 8th

Pocantico Art Center

Work in process showing

Conceived and written by Samora la Perdida and composed by Josiah Handelman, Mobéy Lola Irizarry & Matthew Zweibel.

A Bilingual Brujería Musical —

Brujita, a trans Puerto Rican witch, stands trial at the Supreme Court. Her crime? Brewing up a vengeful hurricane to blow away the White House. Pleading innocence, Brujita’s testimony takes us from the warm hills of Puerto Rico to the frigid suburbs of New Jersey. But there’s no escaping the guilt of her whitewashed past.

August 16th - RSVP HERE
Work-in-progress presentation supported by the David M. Milch Foundation at the Catskill Arts Center.

August 18th
Work-in-progress presentation at Ideal Glass Studio, Greenwich Village NYC.

Created & performed by Jared Mezzocchi
Directed & Developed by Aya Ogawa

A solo performance about the stories we inherit—and the ones we almost never hear. In 73 Seconds, multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi cracks open the quiet mysteries of his family’s past. What begins as a son’s attempt to better understand his mother soon spirals into a decades-spanning excavation of memory, legacy, and the fragile line between the personal and the cosmic.