FINAL INSTALLMENT OF LITU AT RIVER ROOM!
Sunday February 11, 2024 4-9:30pm
River Room at Cup22
Free with donations accepted for artist labor & content and documentation!
Sleepy Fest is an all-ages celebration of local music, collaboration and our growing Sleepy Cat community.
Held at Down Yonder Farm, a creative space in Hillsborough, NC since 1978, Sleepy Fest features dozens of performances by artists in and around our Sleepy Cat roster, plus an art and makers market, spotlighting local artisans and small businesses.
Collaborative sets by Sleepy Cat Artists as well as performances by non-label acts (full lineup coming soon).
made up of brilliant local artists!
https://www.sleepycatrec.com/sleepyfest
More info to come soon!
This just in…Ginger has been invited to co-conduct Crowmeat Bob’s heavy metal orchestra - Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir at the Lincoln Theatre during Hopscotch Music Festival on Friday 8 at 9pmSc
TV PARTY
(UP ALL NIGHT 2) VIDEO GROUP SHOW CURATED BY GEORGE JENNE
January 21 - February 27
Closing reception, Friday February 25, 6-9pm
In 2017, Lump exhibited a show called Up All Night that paired music video with avant-garde video by long-established artists, alongside underrepresented artists. Up All Night described the point at which video art and music video intersect. Born close to the same time and out of a single technology, these disparate forms evolved in divergent economies, whose ideals seem to be at odds, yet inextricable.
TV Party moves the dial in another direction and focuses on material born out of the public access television model, starting with Glen O'Brien's raucous, New York City public access variety show, TV Party, which aired from 1978-1982. Here is yet another microcosm of creative expression made possible solely by video technology. As with Up All Night, Lump's TV Partypresents a playful but heady collection of videos, placing historically significant work alongside new work by lesser known artists who truly deserve the exposure.
The show includes:
Dynasty Handbag, Mike Geary, George Jenne, Paul McCarthy/Mike Kelley (courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix), Lydia Moyer, Glen O'Brien, Neill Prewitt, Chris Vitiello. Wild Actions
Wild Actions presents a work-in-progress event!
We’re excited to have you participate in our newest offering and then stick
around to discuss the impact of the material -- what’s effective and what’s relevant?
The entire event will last about an hour.
SUNDAY, JUNE 6th
When: 4:30pm & 7:00pm
Location: Attic 506, 506 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
FREE!
RSVP required - - audience capacity is limited due to the size of the venue.
*We will reschedule for inclement weather.
**This 2nd floor venue is up one flight of stairs. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with accessibility questions, concerns, & requests!
This is a free event and we are accepting donations -
cash, cash apps, or paper check if you’d like a tax deduction.
All donations will go directly to performers, crew, and artist-run venue!
This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission
****We have begun the interview process! If you are interested in this position please message us or email by Wednesday May 12th - thank you!*****
Wild Actions, a Carrboro-based performing arts group, is looking for a SITE MANAGER for one small outdoor event. Some experience in stage tech, live performance, and/or hospitality is best - however, if you’d like to delve into these skills, we’d love for you to learn on the job! A desire for everyone to have a compelling & worthwhile experience, organizational skills, and self-motivation are a must.
Our outdoor event will take place in late May or early June at a downtown Chapel Hill artist-run space. Exact event dates TBD and we'll work with your availability.
Job description includes at least one meeting, one tech rehearsal, and a 4-6 hour performance day that includes equipment set up, audience wrangling, performer assistance, and equipment break down.
Starts at $25/hour for all pre-performance labor & a minimum guarantee of $300.
Email Ginger Wagg and we can chat more about all the specifics!
Email a note, or resume, or blurb about your recent on-the-job experience to contactgingerwagg@gmail.com *some of your work experience may have been life experience and was unpaid - please include that too!
OR…
Email Ginger Wagg to schedule a time to introduce yourself and experience over the phone.
Either way be ready for a phone interview to follow, we will schedule a time in advance and chat for 20-30 minutes about your interest level, skills, and our upcoming events.
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contactgingerwagg@gmail.com
wildactions.org
http://wildactions.org/frivolous-artist
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This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission @ocncarts www.artsorange.org
photo by Soleil Konkel @soleilkphoto
Want to see the art in person?
Use this link to schedule an appointment to visit VAE's Auction HQ!
More than 130 artists have made 200+ works of art available for your bidding pleasure! VAE hopes to use the success of their largest annual party as a platform to help artists when they need it most, after a full year with no income. We encourage the NC art-loving community to see of this as your opportunity to directly support the artists who make our communities vibrant, and get beautiful new art in exchange. There are no tickets needed for this event. Anyone can bid from anywhere. VAE appreciates our donors and sponsors who make this event possible.
SCHEDULE:
> Artist Registration Deadline - March 1 @ 3:00 PM
> Virtual Sponsor Kick-Off Party - March 3 @ 4 PM
> Auction Live - March 6 @ 8 AM
> Virtual Auction Party - March 23 @ 7 PM
> Auction Closes - March 24 @ 3 PM
> Artwork Pick-up: March 25 - April 3
> Free Artwork Deliveries (within 15 miles): April 5 - 9
LOCATION: Online
POP-UP LOCATION: 120 S. Wilmington Street (by appt only)
CO-CHAIRS: Erica Porter + Debbie Robbins
Nightlight Bar & Club and Wild Actions present
corner of W Franklin & Graham St
Saturday 23, 2021
3pm
Reflex Arc, calculated and capricious, is a two-piece experimental & improvisational band. Crowmeat Bob plays a variety of horns & sometimes electric guitar while Ginger Wagg plays a variety of body parts, spaces and emotional states.
"It's never been so great being uncomfortable" - Maggie, White Gregg (Knoxville, TN)
"that's some hipster weirdo faggot shit" - anonymous, during In Spectrum performance collaboration at FLAG (Raleigh, NC)
"seemed to both baffle and delight onlookers" - Patrick Tutwiler, WRAL (Raleigh, NC)
"indecipherable freakout great" - David Ford Smith, Indy Week
wildactions.org
@wildactionsmove
Another Frivolous Artist
live performance and critical feedback session
open to the public (with consideration to mandates on capacity)
AFA will take on some new ideas, experiments, and formats - inviting the audience/participants to experience the scenes, and then give their responses and discuss what happened. As always, the interactive performance work WA presents hinges on the audience/participants being present and helping shape the real time actions.
*part of the Second Friday Art Walk in Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC
More info TBA soon!
delicate hold is a poetic map of desire.
An archive of sorts. A list.
What desires are known and unknown to us?
Can we pursue them with a tender abandon?
delicate hold is an online performance of movement mixed with text, images, and voice.
an online, streaming performance event
friday august 28, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. CT
saturday august 29, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. CT
co-created with the performers:
keisha janae
precious jennings
chih-hsien lin
ginger wagg
directed by:
jane jerardi
appearing here:
janejerardi.com/delicate
and on
twitch.tv/jjerardi
for best performance, if viewing on a mobile device, please turn horizontally.
free
To support this project, you can donate here.
All donations will go to support the performers.
friday, august 28th performance will appear at 9:00 pm Eastern Time, 7:00 pm Mountain Time, 6:00 pm Pacific Time, and 9:00 am in Taiwan.
saturday, august 29th performance will appear at 3:00 pm Eastern Time, 1:00 pm Mountain Time, 12 noon Pacific Time, and at 9:00 pm in Western Europe.
Jane Jerardi and this presentation of delicate hold are supported by a 2019 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award.
part of Fäque Knews an ongoing COVID-19 related video series curated on site by Lump Projects in Raleigh, NC
Wild Actions is bringing back some methods from their 2016 performance, and always why. While live performance is severely limited we’ve moved on over to video for the moment, after being invited to join this series at Lump.
Wild Actions’ continues to ask a never-ending barrage of questions -
How do we find and maintain our internal anchor?
How do we navigate through our value system, morals, and ethical quandaries?
When is it appropriate & necessary to make a statement or demand something from someone else and when will that demand undermine one’s conscious intentions?
Big hugs & thanks to Lump, George Jenne, Mike Dimpfl, Jackson Curtis, Mike Geary, Meg Stein, and a number of buddies on facebook willing to get vulnerable about their own past & present use of coded language.
More info from Lump about FÄQUE KNEWS:
Thanks to COVID- 19, we are forced to reconsider our use of the gallery space, in a moment when its traditional function is a sudden liability to public health. Like most art spaces, Lump has shut its doors and retracted into an entirely digital space. But instead of showing images of work that are originally designed to be experienced with feet on the ground, eyeball to canvas, Lump is investing its energy in showcasing work that is meant to exist solely in a digital space. FÄQUE KNEWS is the first of a series of exclusively digital projects that circumvent the traditional model of exhibition.
Geraldo Rivera recently told us on national T.V. that if we can hold our breath for more than ten seconds, then we clearly don’t have the Corona virus. That type of irresponsible reporting comes as no surprise, considering the recent wave of blame, rumor, paranoia, and misinformation that seems chronic to White House press conferences, and that internet entities embrace fervently. The chaos is downright exhausting, and our fatigue makes it tough to digest news of any caliber. So, Lump has invited specific artists to beam their personal version of a news broadcast, from behind the gallery’s shuttered doors, using a gloriously low budget, Lump TV set. This will exist as a work in progress, so the themes and methods of production will vary week to week. Videos will be posted on the website as they are produced, so check for new work every weekend, and watch the project evolve just as unexpectedly as the 24 hour news cycle.
South for the winter starts now.
LITU’s headed to Florida for Miami Arts Week as part of the Performance is Alive programming at the Satellite Arts Show!
More details — and plastic, obviously — to come…
LITU's pumped to join the this night of fantasy and festivities. Expect more PLASTIC, more large scale TRASH PILES, and a TRASH QUEEN of your dreams. More details to come...
Check out the Carrack website and Facebook for more info on tickets sales and programming, tips on costumes & more!
A RETROFUTURISTIC gala benefitting the Triangle’s only
zero-commission art gallery
Saturday, October 27th
8PM – 12AM
21c Museum Hotel Durham
An impossible future – for one night only. Please join us for the Fourth Annual Muse Masquerade, a celebration of strangeness and taboo, spirit and intrigue, music and magic. A gathering of artists, absurdists, poets, oracles, and time-travelers. And you, whoever you want(ed) to be.
This 4th annual fundraiser supports The Carrack, Durham’s zero-commission arts gallery and performance space. The Carrack provides exhibition opportunities to underrepresented artists from the community and hosts concerts, workshops, artists talks, film screenings, yoga, improvisation, and other diverse programming – most of which is free to attend. Wholly funded by grassroots donations, the Muse Masquerade generates more than half of our annual budget.
As in yesteryears, we suspect that tickets for this event will sell out. Buy yours today or spend tomorrow lamenting – there’s no coming back from this one.
Jetpacks not included.
Tickets for The Muse Masquerade are $75 and go on sale September 14th.
WA is pumped to dig back into Frivolous Artist with Sculpture Garden featuring violinist Zach Aliotta and mover Carley McCready!
“Whether we realize it or not, we carry the kinesthetic memory of watching and making this set of encounters, of moving through this living museum. There’s no overly prescribed end, no clean takeaway...What we leave with is ourselves: the choices we made, the paths we didn’t take. What could be less frivolous?”
- Michaela Dwyer, Indy Week
We’ll be opening up for CAVE and new local band Corroder will be in the middle. A solid line up for sure.
CAVE (https://cave.bandcamp.com/) - Drag City kraut/psych explorers with a new record on the way: "The air's gone electric...tremors shaking the place! CAVE have been off on a trip — a brief, blissed glimpse into the infinite, and they've brought a generous dose back to us. Loaded with space, groove, and rock — Allways!"
Corroder (https://corroder.bandcamp.com/releases) - New swamp goth/sludge four-piece from Durham
Duke Coffeehouse 106 Epworth Ln, Durham, North Carolina 27708
Doors @ 8:30 PM | Music @ 9:00 PM | $5 or free w/ Duke ID | venue is BYOB!
RA's back in Raleigh to get in on the Hopscotch action. This is a killer line up with a few locals and a couple out of towners!
12:30 Doors Open (no cover - this party's free!)
1:00 Floor Model (Raleigh)
1:40 Reflex Arc (that's us!)
2:15 Karaoke (Atlanta, GA)
3:00 Niecy Blues (Columbia, SC)
3:45 Breathers (Atlanta, GA)
4:30 No One Mind (Raleigh)
Neptune's - - - 14 W. Martin St.
xo
Crowmeat & Ginger
photo credit: Greg Elkins
All Data Lost is a new fest dedicated to highlighting experimental/noise acts in NC and beyond. It serves to help build connections between artists in order to strengthen and grow fringe art in NC.
Lineup (schedule will be released closer to Aug. 18.):
1970s Film Stock (Winston-Salem)
80 lb. Test (Raleigh)
Bryce Eiman (Bynum)
Caterpillar Hedge (Winston-Salem)
Clang Quartet (Stokesdale)
Cliona delitrix (Wilmington)
Copula (Raleigh)
Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III (Greenville)
Discorporate Voyeur (Durham)
Empathic Window (Denver, CO)
Floor Model (Raleigh)
Gar-ud (Raleigh)
Heat Death (Baltimore, MD)
Jim Capps (Greenville)
knives of spain (Winston-Salem)
Marselle (Durham)
Michael Thomas Jackson (Winston-Salem)
Minthill (Mint Hill)
Mr Blank (Athens, GA)
Nite Gallery (Charlotte)
Rant Kissy (Charleston, SC)
Reflex Arc (Raleigh/Durham)
Sean Hamilton (Tampa, FL)
Small Life Form (Sanford)
Spectral Habitat (Asheville)
Strange Beaches (Boone)
Tavishi (Richmond, VA)
TRNGS x Cleo Miao (Boston, MA)
The Waking Life (Wilmington)
Ginger's headed to Asheville to meet up and collaborate with other NC improvisers!!
An evening of paired improvisations between one musician and one dancer with no preparation or rehearsal. Experimental, unplanned and unrepeatable.
Featuring:
Emmalee Hunnicutt + Jenni Cockrell
Liz Lang + Edwin Salas
Richard Brewster + Ginger Wagg
Presented by Pipsissewa Movement Project + REVOLVE
$10 suggested
COMPANY and collaborators Heather Gordon, Alex Maness, and Chris Fleming will inhabit The Fruit on July 11-15, 8pm every night, to present SHOW.
SHOW is a two-part work—
Part 1, audiences are invited to set their own pace as they visit active performance sets in the warehouse. Gordon creates an installation in real time and performers contend with visibility.
*Wild Actions will be presenting work inspired by LITU, co-creator Mike Dimpfl. #LITU #lituisyou
*Other performances by Caitlyn Swett - Tommy Noonan - Chris Vitiello - John Osburn - Hunter Darnell - Stacy Kirby - Jude Casseday - Megan Yankee - Murielle Elizeon - Del Ward - Moogfest - Kristin Clotfelter and James Clotfelter / Studio C Projects
Part 2, visit a new choreographic work by COMPANY that unfolds inside a set of light and projections created by Fleming and Maness.
Documentation and shorts by Michelle Lotker
Event photo by Alex Maness
Tickets to SHOW tba
WITH REFLEX ARC
Time: 8:00PM
Admission: $8 | All Ages
Doors: 7:30PM
If, Bwana // (solo)
Al Margolis: alto clarinet, violin, contact microphones, objects.
Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor and painter. Since 1984, often under his project name If, Bwana, he has worked in the feld of nonncommercial, nonnpopular music and sound.
Jason Kahn // (solo)
Voice, resonator guitar.
Born 1960 in New York. Moved to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zurich, where he is active as a musician, artist and writer.
This concert is presented with support from the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia.
photos: Jon Pfundstein
3 CHANCES to join us!
at 21c Museum Hotel
Thursday, May 17 at 4pm in Gallery 1
Friday, May 18 at 4pm in Gallery 3
Saturday, May 19 at 4pm in Gallery 3
An invitation. A clanging sound. A permutation.
Frivolous Artist: More Metal is an interactive live sound and movement installation. Audience/participants are invited to help build the installation and push against polite social boundaries while handling and moving scrap metal around the room. As movers Patience and Ginger Wagg attempt to pile as much metal on Ginger's body as possible, musician, Mike Geary, will capture live sounds and weave them into the soundscape.
photo credit Michelle Lotker
Reflex Arc is psyched to be a part of the Spring edition of
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - a benefit for the Second Harvest Food Bank
curated by Taryn Griggs
at The Ramkat
Sunday May 6, 4pm
$5 with 2 cans of food (which will be matched by a donation from Whole Foods!)
$10 with no donation
Food for Thought is a new performance series presented by Helen Simoneau Danse in collaboration with fellow artists Caitlyn Swett and Taryn Griggs. Modeled on the long running program of the same name at Danspace Project in NYC, Food for Thought is a platform to see thoughtfully curated performance and collect donations for the local Food Bank. The Spring Performance will be curated by Taryn Griggs and MC'd by the Yoggs, (aka Taryn Griggs and Chris Yon)
Wild Actions is over the moon to be able to collaborate with Mike Dimpfl to create the first installment of this large-scale installation.
Leaving Impossible Things Unattended is a site and viewer specific performance tracing the relationship between our bodies, the body politic, and the garbage we think we can leave behind. Part call-to-action, part call-and-response, it evokes a problem and the games we struggle to play in our daily life to avoid responsibility. You can play, but you don't get to make up the rules. Can you get out of the way? Should you? Will you?
presented as part of
an IntraHealth Production
April 26 & 27, 2018
It focuses on unusual collaborations, spreading great ideas from around the world, and incubating yours.
It’s all accomplished in a retreat setting down by the riverside in historic Saxapahaw, North Carolina. Come get away from it all, and get into it all!
photo: Jil Christensen
The Durham Independent Dance Artists season
announces a new program:
DIDA Book Club Discussion Series
Ginger Wagg: Frivolous Artist
Facilitated by Kelly McChesney, City of Raleigh Public Art Director
Wednesday April 4, 2018 at 6:30pm
Bar Brunello
117 East Main Street, Durham, North Carolina 27701
To engage with Durham dance-goers in a new format, we've created DIDA Book Club. Every Weds. following a DIDA performance, you're invited to discuss the work over wine in a laid-back environment. To facilitate, we have selected a group of people who we know to be highly personable and adept at critically processing dance.
Why not have post-performance discussions after each show?
DIDA thinks that interesting dialogue might happen when people have had a few days to process their experiences as audience members. DIDA Book Club takes this conversation outside of the performance environment, and in doing so, creates space for a more robust discussion about each individual work. Similar to a book club where the author is not involved in the discussions, the producing artist(s) will not be present at DIDA Book Club events.
DIDA Book Club events will be held at Bar Brunello each Wednesday following a DIDA show on Season 4. Drink specials will be offered to participants at each event.
We hope you'll help us spread the word about DIDA Book Club! We look forward to connecting with you!
Wild Actions presents
FRIVOLOUS ARTIST - a live performance installation
March 25, 26, 29, 30, 31 at 7:30pm every night
**no early admission - doors open promptly at 7:30
**please dress for the weather - the performance begins outside
Frivolous Artist is an hour long movement based performance installation. This experience will begin outside The Fruit Co and then travel to 5 different locations in and around the building.
Part of the 2017-18 Durham Independent Dance Artists season 4
Visit our storefront to buy tickets!
Online ticket sales close at 5pm - tickets will available at the door (cash is best)
Wild Actions invites you to help us KICK THIS THING OFF!
We're almost at 1/4 of our fundraising goal to pay for artist fees, venue rental, costumes, installation materials, videography & photography & promotional material. Help us get the rest of the way there!
Frivolous Artist, a live performance installation, opens for 5 nights on Sunday, March 25th at The Fruit in Durham, NC
- BUT -
before that we wanna HANG OUT, DANCE, and CELEBRATE all that it takes to put up a show in the year 2018.
DJKB will be on the decks.
Snacks potluck style (bring a thing to share if you're into it).
Prosecco to drink
and...
Ginger Wagg taking a bath in a fancy clawfoot bathtub filled with YOUR cash money.
Plus specials guests & more...stay tuned for what's to come!
Come on over for a minute or stay for a couple hours!
All donations to Wild Actions are now tax deductible through Fractured Atlas!
**Also, we need your help to gather as many used plastic bags as possible for our next project, Leaving Impossible Things Unattended, with collaborator Mike Dimpfl. Consider bringing us your bag of bags of bags instead of dropping them in the recycling bin. Our goal is to gather oh just ya know 1,000-2,000 - no biggie. Donate a bag of used bags and get a door prize!
If you can't make it to this partay but wanna to donate please visit Fractured Atlas
party poster design: Clark Blomquist / photos: Soleil Konkel
For more info about
Frivolous Artist at The Fruit
March 25-26, 29-30
7:30pm every night
$15-20
go to gingerwagg.com
(p.s. tickets go on sale March 1st)
Frivolous Artist is part of the 2017-18 DIDA (Durham Independent Dance Artists) season! Check out the rest of the season shows at didaseason.com
*Wild Actions is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Wild Actions must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
O Moldy Night
Lobby Call presents A POP-UP MUSEUM OF MOLDED FOODS
curated by Kate Elia, Emily Wallace, and Kate Medley
Sunday March, 4th, 5-7pm, The Durham Hotel / FREE!
5-6:30pm Viewing / 6:30-7pm Devouring & awards ceremony with Trevor Schoonmaker (Nasher Museum of Art)
Wild Actions will be presenting/performing their molded food contribution along with 40 other contributors including The Lakewood, The Pig, Panciuto, Neal's Deli, Bill Thelen, a beloved grandmother, award-winning chefs, artists, home chefs, and more! Molded merch for sale by Parker & Otis.
Join Lump Projects on Friday, February 23rd in Specular Sounds Part II ~ Extending Her Vortex an exploration of queer/femme-ness as holistic spectacle through a showcase of seeing, hearing, and moving.
Free event - donations encouraged
Doors open at 8 starts at 9-late.
Facebook invite
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Seeing :
Lily Reeves
Chloe Scallion
Onslow Anders
Catalina Ouyang
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Hearing :
Chinchorro
Mille
Gudiya (from sandpact)
Spookstina
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Moving :
Mineko Shannon
Gabby Soto-Lemus
Ginger Wagg
Anjali Naik
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+ DJ's
Amanda Barr & Ginger Wagg are teaming up to bring you a spooky quirky roaming performance during the Muse Masquerade fundraiser for The Carrack Modern Art!
Join us on October 27 at 21c Museum Hotel Durham Nc for an immersive evening of music, theater, dance, tarot, poetry, and circus arts at The Carrack Modern Art's third annual fundraiser, The Muse Masquerade!
Full info & tickets at thecarrack.org/muse, or read on!
EVENT DETAILS
For the third year, The Carrack will transform all three floors of 21c Museum Hotel Durham Nc into a music-and-art-filled labyrinth for 500 masked guests. Partygoers will be treated to a non-stop evening of entertainment that includes interactive performances, music, dancing, tarot, custom poetry, live art, aerials, and an all-night dance party.
The Muse Masquerade features:
- Live score by Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands performed to the 1920 silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Interactive photo booth, aerials, and performance by Addled Muse Fire Theater
- The opening of Penelope’s Room, a site-specific installation in the Vault at 21c by Durham artist Liza Chabot of Buckwheat & Grits
- Aerial arts & acrobatics by Lux Performance Arts
- Live visuals by thefacesblur
- All-night dance party with Durham DJs The Floor
- Live music by Janxx, Tea Cup Gin, Mark Little, Charles Latham, and Tescon Pol
- Vinyl in the Vault with Vespertine Chikirin Evening
- Movement and theatrical encounters by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Amanda Saxe Barr & Ginger Wagg, Imagine Circus, Queer Youth Circus NC, and Culture Mill
- Film experiences by Durham Cinematheque
- Monsters by illustrator Tedd Championship Anderson and crochet creatures by Amanda Blanchard
- Tarot readings with Jameela Fay Dallis, Kathleen Ibis, Gina Wisotzky, Philip Franklin Young, and Magdalena Young
- Spontaneous, custom poems from the Poetry Fox
TICKETS
Tickets are $65 and are available beginning September 15, 2017.
ATTIRE
As in past years, costumes remain a hallmark of The Muse Masquerade. Guests are encouraged to don masks and outrageous garb and, for one unpredictable night, channel their wildest inner "muse." Guests can prepare in advance at Pop-up Shops featuring costumes from the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern and local mask artisans and vendors, plus art activities for the whole family.
More info:
- 9/15 at The Carrack for Third Friday Ticket Release Party for The Muse Masquerade
- 9/24 at Ponysaurus Brewing for Pop-up Costume Shop for The Muse Masquerade
COSTUME CONTEST
This year we are raising the stakes! A 2018 Muse Masquerade ticket will be awarded for categories of best mask, best costume and best group costume by a selected panel of fashion-forward jurors.
STAY THE NIGHT
Due to 21c Museum Hotel Durham’s generous partnership, we're pleased to offer Muse Masquerade guests a discounted rate for hotel rooms on the night of 10/27/17. Full info is available at http://thecarrack.org/stay-the-night.
WHAT THIS EVENT SUPPORTS
Proceeds raised at The Muse Masquerade support The Carrack in 2018. The Carrack was founded in 2011 and is a free, zero-commission community art space that provides exhibition and performance opportunities to underrepresented artists, and space for community-focused events. We are 100% supported by grassroots donations. Funds raised at The Muse Masquerade support the artists participating in the event and help make possible 20+ annual exhibitions, 50+ annual performances, and numerous workshops, gatherings, and events at The Carrack each year, all at no cost to artists and organizers. Most of our programming (gallery hours, bi-weekly artist talks and receptions, monthly drawing workshops/concerts/art salons and more) is also free to attend year-round.
Our goal is to raise $30,000, half of our annual operating budget, from tickets sold for The Muse Masquerade. We'll work to raise our remaining budget through a crowdfunding campaign following the event. For more information about The Carrack and how to support this project, please visit thecarrack.org.
SPONSORSHIP
Promote your brand to 500 of Durham’s most creatively inspired guests at The Muse Masquerade while supporting its only zero-commission community art space. Find out about corporate sponsorship opportunities at thecarrack.org/sponsorship.
Thank you to our 2017 Sponsors & Partners: 21c Museum Hotel Durham, The Fruit, Hamilton Hill Jewelry, HappyMess Art Studios, Classes & Supplies, Caktus Group, Durham Magazine, MAXX Adult Emporium, Net Friends, The Floor, Imagine Circus, Eno Ventures, Addled Muse Fire Theater, Moogfest, Smashing Boxes, Beverly and Robert Atwood & the Fab Femmes, INHABIT, Durham Distillery, and Brother Vilgalys.
Living Arts Collective (410 W Geer St, Durham, NC 27701)
Saturday, September 23rd from 10am to 3pm.
$15, general admission; $10 for students/seniors/artists
Tickets can be purchased in advance online at www.articulatingvalue.com
Facebook event page #articulatingvalue
*Full schedule below
Articulating Value in the Arts will be a gathering of artists, administrators and arts advocates that will include inspiring presentations, discussions on Artmaking and Politics, Public Funding, and Tools available to Artists in the Triangle. It will also include a panel discussion on Art and Value from arts leaders and professionals.
Guests will include Saba Taj (Artist and Activist), Jeff Petus (NC Arts Council), George Scheer (Elsewhere), Murielle Elizéon (Culture Mill), Ginger Wagg (Wild Actions), Sarah Powers (City of Raleigh), Brian Howe (Arts and Culture Editor, IndyWeek), Jessica Jones, Beth Yerxa (Triangle ArtWorks), Tommy Noonan (Culture Mill), and Monét Noelle Marshall (MOJOAA Performing Arts Company). *Full schedule listed below.
This event is an opportunity to network, to connect and learn about valuable arts resources available to you here in the Triangle. It's an opportunity to forge new relationships and discuss important issues not often discussed with people that you may not already know. You'll get the chance to learn about how others in the arts field think about issues of value, politics, money, space in art and have specific insight into how ARTISTS are thinking and feeling about these issues here and now.
There will be presentations on research into the Durham Art Market, new initiatives towards a Professional Artist Resource Center for the Triangle, and insights from a year of conversations about Art and Value with Area artists. There will be discussion / networking groups around the themes of Being an Artist in Today’s Political Reality (hosted by Durham Artists Movement) Developing tools and resources for artists to thrive in the Triangle (hosted by Triangle Artworks) and Artists and the Public Sector (hosted by members of the North Carolina Arts Council and Raleigh Arts). We'll finish the day with a panel discussion on Art and Value with leading arts professionals ranging from the North Carolina Arts Council to Independent Non-profit institutions to freelance artist/activists.
*SCHEDULE
9:45 - 10:15: Arrival with Coffee and Snacks
10:15 - 10:30: Introduction - Murielle Elizéon and Ginger Wagg
10:30 - 10:50: Assumptions - Tommy Noonan
10:50 - 11:10: How Can We Leverage the Arts to Challenge Gentrification?- Laura Ritchie
11:10 - 11:30: A Future Professional Artist Resource Center - Jessica Jones
11:30 - 11:45: Break
11:45 - 12:45: Breakout Discussion Groups:
1. Artists and the Public Sector: Jeff Pettus & Sarah Powers
2. Developing Tools and Resources for Artists to Thrive in the Triangle - Beth Yerxa
3. Making Art in Today’s Political Reality - with Saba Taj & Monét Marshall
12:45 - 1:30: Break for Lunch
1:30 - 2:45: Panel Discussion: Art and Value
With: Saba Taj (Artist and Activist), Jeff Pettus (NC Arts Council), George Scheer (Elsewhere), Sarah Powers (City of Raleigh); Monét Marshall (MOJOAA Performing Arts Company), Moderated by Brian Howe (Arts and Culture Editor, IndyWeek)
2:45 - 3:00: Closing - Murielle Elizéon and Ginger Wagg
