Theater

Performance artist Molly Van Avery is humbly attempting to make performance work about the ecological crisis that she sees unfolding around and within us. She believes it is the work of the artist to engage peoples’ imaginations in order to examine what created the crisis in the first place while asking how we move towards solutions not based just on science and behavior modification, but on a profound shift in the ways we relate to one another and the planet. It’s a hard assignment. That’s why she’s doing it in small pieces, gaining insight along the way.
“Write me in to your mythology” is the latest in a series of new work that is building towards a larger scale performance series that will take place in the summer of 2011 outside in vacant lots, in canoes, along the river, and in state parks. She is conducting a series of experiments to gain more information about what works, what inspires conversation and reflection, and what shuts people down around these topics.
Blending science and story this intimate work-in-progress performance will explore topics like the Pacific trash vortex, outer space, the truth of imagination, blue herons, beavers, and the biology of birth to examine the myths we are born into and the myths we can create to thrive. The performance will be followed by a conversation with the audience about the work and where it’s going.

Thursday July 29 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)

Performance schedule

• July 29, 2010 - 7:00pm

Tickets

$10
July 29, 2010