THERE IS SOMETHING WE REALLY WANT TO SHOW YOU
New Works 4 Weeks Festival Closing Party & Fundraiser
When
Thursday, June 24, 6 pm CDT
Where/How
Live gathering on Zoom.
Red Eye has been hard at work. We’re excited to show you some of the things we’ve been working on--including one really big thing--at THERE IS SOMETHING WE REALLY WANT TO SHOW YOU, our New Works 4 Weeks Festival Closing Party & Fundraiser on Thursday, June 24, 2021 from 6-7pm CDT!
Join Red Eye’s Artistic Directors, Board, and community of artists for an evening of performance and reveal, including a celebration of the 2021 New Works 4 Weeks Festival artists:
Akiko!
Malick Ceesay!
Marcela Michelle!
Addison Sharpe!
Kealoha Ferreira!
Alana Horton & Patrick Marschke!
Chitra Vairavan!
Lela Pierce!
Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra/Lady Xøk!
Eric Larson/Toot!
Plus the premiere of three new JOBSITE performances, featuring
Vie Boheme!
Aby Wolf!
Antonio Duke!
This event is FREE, though we hope you'll consider making a gift to Red Eye as we look toward all that is next.
In addition to receiving fun "thank you" gifts connected to the GENERATE phase of our capital campaign, everyone who donates between June 1-24 has a chance to win one of several fabulous door prizes at the event (details below!)
This event is online and FREE to attend. Festival passholders are automatically registered. RSVP is required on Eventbrite for non-passholders; you’ll receive a confirmation within 48 hours, as well as a reminder the day of the event with a link to the Zoom call.
Experience the art. Get the inside scoop. Join us!
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Live captioning will be provided. If you would like to request audio description, ASL interpretation, or any other access-related accommodations, please contact us at least five days prior to the event at staff@redeyetheater.org or (612) 870-7531.
JOBSITE Artists
JOBSITE is a video series directed by Theo Langason, filmed and edited by Serena Violet Hodges & Adam Foster Jacobs, that is chronicling the process of Red Eye’s new theater as it is under construction. A diverse collection of artists across multiple disciplines performing in a space unfinished, JOBSITE juxtaposes artistic work with an active construction site. Artistic work is work. Artists build and labor. The stage, rehearsal room, the page, the canvas: these are where the work happens. These are the JOBSITE.
Vie Boheme is a Motown native, blossomed creatively in Pittsburgh and refined in Minneapolis. She is a multimodal artist; a dancer, singer and choreographer. She brings athletic agility to her vocal performance by singing and dancing in unison, eliminating the boundary between the visual and audio experience. She is a former vocal artist, choreographer and co-creative director for Stokley Williams, front man of Mint Condition gone solo. She is also a former dance artist with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, TU Dance and a founding member of The August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (Top 25 to Watch, Dance Magazine, 2012). Vie is also a recent speaker for TedxMinneapolis, a global initiative about ideas worth spreading. Her talk is titled “Is Performing Art Worth the Struggle?” and is available for viewing now. She is also a Vinyasa, Yin and fitness yoga instructor with her own signature teaching philosophy, CoreKinetics Yoga.
Antonio Duke is a Twin Cities based actor and playwright. He follows in the tradition of The Griot: west African storytellers who are tasked with being the keepers of their communities’ history. He’s inspired by myths from the black spiritual canon that derive from the Yoruba, Santeria, and Voodoo deities. He has three solo performance pieces: Ashes of Moons (Pillsbury House Theatre’s Naked Stages Fellowship), Tears of Moons (Guthrie Theatre’s Solo Emerging Artist Celebration), and Missing Mississippi Moons (Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant). He’s currently an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. He’s an alumnus of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.
Aby Wolf is a Minneapolis-based vocalist, music maker, and passionate collaborator with an elastic skillset. Whether writing vocal arrangements, fulfilling commissions, or performing in clubs, theaters, and schools everywhere from Brainerd to Bratislava to Beijing, Aby brings a palpable element of joy to whatever endeavor she pursues. Thanks to grant funding support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Wolf is soon to record her most ambitious collaboration yet: Champagne Confetti, a 12-piece electro-acoustic chamber ensemble featuring strings, percussion, keys, and vocal harmonies. You know, if plans hold this year.
Door Prizes
This event is FREE, though we hope you'll consider making a gift to Red Eye as we look toward all that is next.
In addition to receiving fun "thank you" gifts connected to the GENERATE phase of our capital campaign, everyone who donates between June 1-24 has a chance to win one of several fabulous door prizes at the event, including:
Fitzgerald Gin and L’Étoile Vodka from Du Nord Craft Spirits
Du Nord Craft Spirits is America's first Black-owned distillery in the heart of Minneapolis, producing award-winning artisan vodka, gin, liqueurs, and whiskey. Learn more: dunordcraftspirits.com.
Gift cards from Seward Community Co-op
Seward Co-op is a community owned, consumer co-op where everyone is welcome to shop. Two $50 gift cards were purchased and donated for this event by members of the Red Eye community. Learn more: https://seward.coop
A personal birth chart reading with a British Intuitive Astrologist
Gain new perspective on your life through a personalized, one to one session via Zoom with a UK-based intuitive astrologer, whose name will be revealed only to one lucky recipient. Mysterious!
Three one-to-one Feldenkrais Functional Integration sessions with Jeffrey Wells
Aside from being a Red Eye Artistic Director and a performance-maker, Jeffrey is also a soon-to-be certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner. Feldenkrais is about cultivating a deeper internal sense of awareness and what the developer, Moshe Feldenkrais, might call a fuller self-image. The one-to-one mode of Feldenkrais, Functional Integration, uses novel movement patterns and gentle, non-invasive touch to unfold/recall more possibilities in the way you organize yourself to better serve you in doing the things you want to do. Sessions can be scheduled starting in September 2021. Learn more: feldenkrais.com
Three custom online GYROKINESIS® Sessions with Non Edwards
The GYROKINESIS® Method is rooted in full-body movements that build skill in coordination and proprio/interoception. The Gyrokinesis Method addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences with coordinated breathwork. Many exercises are performed seated on an armless chair or stool. Non Edwards is a Minneapolis-based dancer, choreographer, GYROKINESIS® Method Trainer, and Red Eye affiliated artist! Learn more: nonedwards.com
$100 Class Credit and a T-Shirt from Young Dance
Since 1987, Young Dance has encouraged youth in our community to build body and spirit through the art of dance. Their mission is to transform lives through movement. Young Dance is an inclusive community where creativity flourishes and young people of all levels and abilities are encouraged to aspire to artistic excellence. Give this class credit to a young person in your life who loves to move! Learn more: youngdance.org
We are so grateful to all of our colleagues and community partners who so generously donated these offerings for this event!