A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction so that we as a society are consciously building our futures, to see and talk about ourselves and each other in new ways- to see people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- to show all of us in positions of power, and to show different ways of leading, etc. Science fiction examines not only the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also envisions new ways of doing things (and remembers ancient ways of doing and being in the future).
March 1, featuring:
Mankwe Ndosi is a Minneapolis-based vocal improviser and composer whose work draws from Black Creative Music, Hip hop, Afro-indigenous sound traditions, and liberation singing. She’s currently a Resident Community Engaged Artist at Pillsbury House and Theatre, a member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and the Give Get Sistet - a sisterhood of Black Griot Singers and Improvisers. She’s performed with Nicole Mitchell, Douglas Ewart, Mike Ladd, and Atmosphere, and has been commissioned by Zeitgeist (MN), Ananya Dance Theatre(MN), Pillsbury House & Theatre (MN), and Maria Bauman Dance (NYC). Her practice weaves Black Women’s Ritual performance with the liberatory sonic explorations of the AACM. Her unique sound blends genre-stretching vocal techniques with message and magic.
Martin Law is a Minneapolis-based musician and scholar. Over the past three decades he has contributed sounds to a variety of projects for film, radio, podcasts, art installations, live performances, psychoacoustic research, and for an esteemed local SciFi Reading Hour. Martin owes his academic career to Yanni (yes, THAT Yanni), to Jodi, and to accidentally insulting his boss's taste in music that one time--- an incident which can be recounted only in the form of a shaggy dog story. He has taught courses on speech, rhetoric, ethics, and cultural studies at colleges and universities across the country. His current scholarship on Blackness and disability highlights the power of fugitive speech to rescue radical futures.
Dameun Strange is a sound explorer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer whose conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focus on stories and themes of the African diaspora, often using surrealist and afro-futurist aesthetics. He is currently a graduate student in Composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music and lives in the Frogtown Community of Saint Paul, MN with his wife, Corina, and their inquisitive daughter, Ezra.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
We recommend arriving early to grab a drink and find your spot; please keep in mind that we stop seating 30 minutes after the show starts.