Friday the 13th Puppet Show! Prepare yourselves!
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Sep 10, 2013, 5:50:00 PM9/10/13
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Have you heard about this fabulous show on Friday? If you haven't, plan on coming out for an awesome evening with incredible puppeteers, artists and musicians:
SINGING FROM THE BOTTOM OF A WELL
This Friday the 13th! 7:00pm
At St. Stephen's Church, main sanctuary (16th and Newton St. NW DC). All ages! $5-$10 sliding scale.
fb event- https://www.facebook.com/events/195448120622319/Come
celebrate Friday the 13th with a gorgeous performance of projections,
pedal steel, and voice, brought to you by Erik Ruin (Providence), Susan
Alcorn (Baltimore) and Ember Schrag (Nebraska).
Nathan Bell (Lungfish, Baltimore) and Mike Andre (Antelope/Puff Pieces, D.C.) open the night.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE AND ARTISTS:
The project is inspired in part by landai, two-line songs anonymously authored by Pashtun women and collectively remembered through oral tradition. One young poet who was not anonymous, Zarmina, set herself on fire in provincial Afghanistan 2010. Her landai challenged God from "the dark cage of the village." Zarmina and other legendary figures appear in the work, along with music, images and lyrics inspired by this astonishing and sensual poetic tradition.
Give me your hand, my love, and let us go into the fields
So we can love each other or fall together beneath the blows of knives.
The landai are the physical beginning; they are familiar scents that recall domestic betrayal and rebellions local and exotic, personal and ancient. With Susan Alcorn's mystical and soulful approach to the pedal steel guitar, Erik Ruin's compelling paper-cut images and novel approach to live projection, and Ember Schrag's lyrical and vocal expressions, this performance should not be missed!
Susan Alcorn has received international recognition as an innovator of the pedal steel guitar. Her original music reveals the influence of free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, indigenous traditions, and other musics of the world. Though mostly a solo performer, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, the late Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Maggie Nicols, Joe Giardullo, Joe McPhee, Mike Cooper, Lê Quan Ninh, Ellen Fullman, Evan Parker, Ellery Eskelin, and John Butcher.
Erik Ruin is a printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and co-creator of the recent book Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (w/ Cindy Milstein, PM Press, 2012). For more on his work, see http://erikruin.tumblr.com/.
Ember Schrag is a singer and guitarist originally from western Nebraska. Her second record The Sewing Room was released last year. The album was praised for lyrics evoking "the Southern Gothic milieu of Flannery O'Connor" and "crystalline, melancholy vocals" (Sound Projector). She has been hailed as "distinctive and free of affect or artifice" (A.V. Club) and is known for her eclectic collaborations and uncommon approach to folk idioms.
Nathan Bell (Lungfish, Baltimore) and Mike Andre (Antelope/Puff Pieces, D.C.) open the night.
# # #
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE AND ARTISTS:
The project is inspired in part by landai, two-line songs anonymously authored by Pashtun women and collectively remembered through oral tradition. One young poet who was not anonymous, Zarmina, set herself on fire in provincial Afghanistan 2010. Her landai challenged God from "the dark cage of the village." Zarmina and other legendary figures appear in the work, along with music, images and lyrics inspired by this astonishing and sensual poetic tradition.
Give me your hand, my love, and let us go into the fields
So we can love each other or fall together beneath the blows of knives.
The landai are the physical beginning; they are familiar scents that recall domestic betrayal and rebellions local and exotic, personal and ancient. With Susan Alcorn's mystical and soulful approach to the pedal steel guitar, Erik Ruin's compelling paper-cut images and novel approach to live projection, and Ember Schrag's lyrical and vocal expressions, this performance should not be missed!
Susan Alcorn has received international recognition as an innovator of the pedal steel guitar. Her original music reveals the influence of free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, indigenous traditions, and other musics of the world. Though mostly a solo performer, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, the late Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Maggie Nicols, Joe Giardullo, Joe McPhee, Mike Cooper, Lê Quan Ninh, Ellen Fullman, Evan Parker, Ellery Eskelin, and John Butcher.
Erik Ruin is a printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and co-creator of the recent book Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (w/ Cindy Milstein, PM Press, 2012). For more on his work, see http://erikruin.tumblr.com/.
Ember Schrag is a singer and guitarist originally from western Nebraska. Her second record The Sewing Room was released last year. The album was praised for lyrics evoking "the Southern Gothic milieu of Flannery O'Connor" and "crystalline, melancholy vocals" (Sound Projector). She has been hailed as "distinctive and free of affect or artifice" (A.V. Club) and is known for her eclectic collaborations and uncommon approach to folk idioms.
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