Coney Performer Richard Eagan Is Back And Alive on the Inside.

After a long hiatus in performance art, Brooklyn artist and performer Richard Eagen takes us on a journey behind the scenes of his Coney Island life of the 1980's in a colorful presentation by The Coney Island History Project as part of their Coney Island Folklore Program, entitled "Alive on the Inside"

The Coney Island History Project website
writes:

During his years there, Eagan continues to discover the fantastic beneath Coney's painted fun house exterior, finally realizing that escape proves eerily difficult once, like many before him, he "gets the sand in his shoes".

PROGRAM (from the CIHP website)

2:00
Introduction and historic photo presentation by Charles Denson, director of the Coney Island History Project.

2:15
Coney Island Stories.

2:30
Richard Eagan performs Alive on the Inside, a solo show that offers a colorful journey behind the scenes at Coney Island, from Eagan’s childhood discovery of this surreal playground through his return to Coney as an artist in the 1980s and his mission to save his beloved haunt from oblivion.

Saturday, August 9, 2007
2PM
New York Aquarium’s Education Hall
Boardwalk at West 8th Street
Admission: Free
Parking:
$22 at the Aquarium parking lot. (Includes one adult admission to Aquarium.
Free at Keyspan Park.
Public transportation:
F or Q subway to West 8th Street. Take pedestrian walkway to
Boardwalk. Entrance is at right.

Presented by the Coney Island History Project in cooperation with the NY Aquarium Education Department.