Tenderloin Opera Company @ Sweet Little Variety Show in Providence, Thurs. Sept. 11, 8pm

I will be performing with the Tenderloin Opera Company at the
Sweet Little Variety Show
Thursday, Sept. 11, 8pm
@ Eighty Eight Lounge
55 Union St.
Providence, RI
$6 at the door









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RISCA Arts Project Grant Award!

This week I was awarded a project grant award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to help fund further work of the Merdian Project.

We will use the funds to develop a new piece about the sun, as well as a glass marimba building workshop and performance open to the public.  More details to come.

Thanks to RISCA for their continued support for the creative community of Rhode Island!

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Upcoming Performances/Events Spring 2014!

Upcoming Events:

!CityArts! Staff Show
a gallery showing of work by ¡CityArts! teaching artists
I'll be screening the videos Speak, Stone and Three Scenes from Fox Point


Thursday, March 6th 5:30-7pm
Providence CityArts for Youth, Inc.

891 Broad St, Providence, Rhode Island

FREE! Snacks will be served!

Meridian Project presents
Dark Matter

a multimedia performance and lecture series inspired by astrophysics and cosmology

Friday, April 25, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Saturday, April 26, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Roger Williams Park Planetarium
1000 Elmwood Avenue
Providence, RI
Planetarium admission: $3
Additional donations accepted to support the artists
Cash only; first come, first served

Tenderloin Opera Company presents
Paradise of Sighs (Survive the Day)
a music and theater piece inspired by the stories of homelessness in Rhode Island

Sunday, May 4, 2014 – 7:30 pm
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE
 
as part of THIS IS FREE PROVIDENCE, an annual festival of performance promoting dialogue around art and our shared public space.
May 2: Wilbury Group's An Iliad
May 3: Strange Attractor and Out Loud Theater
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE
Donations accepted for RI Coalition for the Homeless

Meridian Project presents
Comets & Meteor Showers
a multimedia performance and lecture inspired by astrophysics and cosmology to correspond with predicted meteor shower of fragments from comet LINEAR.



Saturday, May 24, 2014  8pm - late
Frosty Drew Nature Center and Observatory
61 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI
FREE (donations accepted for artists and Observatory) 







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Meridian Project Funded!

 

Thanks to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for providing seed funding for The Meridian Project, a series of performances that will take place this spring at the Planetarium at Roger Williams Park mixing music, multimedia, and presentations of concepts in cosmology/astronomy/astrophysics. 

More info will be available soon, but please check out these links for the project summary and list of collaborators: 

https://www.newmusicusa.org/?project_preview=7963&msg=preview

http://www.meridian-project.com/

And save these dates for the performances, (times TBA):

March 27 + 29, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
April 24 + 26, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
May 29 + 31, 2014 @ outdoor under the stars location to be announced

-j

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RIPE Podcast Review of Cowboy Mouth

I was part of a group review of the OUT LOUD Theater's production of Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth (directed by Kira Hawkridge) for the Rhode Island Performance Exchange. 
The podcast can be heard HERE (RIPE Reviews Episode 8.5)







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I am presenting a little interactive video installation whose working title is "It's Mark's World, We Just Live In It" at a performance of Mark Snyder's band Nature Boy Explorer at

9pm Friday, Dec. 13
Sudo Shoes

1771 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,MA

(a few blocks south from Porter Square)

Facebook event

Come check it out!!!

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Article on Roving Performances Published at Howlround

An article I wrote on roving performances was published at the theater/performance journal and blog, Howlround.

http://www.howlround.com/towards-a-working-method-of-audience-movement

Thanks to Jamie Gahlon, Polly Carl, Srila Nayak, and the rest of the team at Howlround.  Special thanks to Adara Meyers for help editing the article.






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