Reza by Adrian Cyrus
Reza is a multidisciplinary reflection that follows Adrian’s relationship with his father over the course of their time together. Beginning in childhood and then following his fathers diagnosis with a rare neurodegenerative disease. Reza explores concepts of loss, grief, resilience, and happiness. The work is rooted in reflection of their time spent together through the artist’s current lens but also serves as an investigation of how we carry our people with us in the present and future. Reza is meant to not only provide an opportunity for the artist to address these concepts within his own life, but offer the audience an opportunity to explore universal human messages and apply them to their own lives.
Blur by Devin Smith & Eric Henkes
Blur is a surreal, hollow, and hazy look at the uncertainty presented within familial and interpersonal relationships. The piece examines the power dynamic that begins to blur throughout the aging process, and asks both the creators and audience how well we know the people we think we are closest to. It presents an opportunity to wrestle with guilt, confusion and all of the emotions that become real within this blurring process. Ultimately serving as a guide to growth, understanding and the creation of healthy and sustainable relationships with the ones we hold closest.
It Is the End of the World & I Am Looking for Love by Anaya Fraizer
It Is the End of the World & I Am Looking for Love is a multimedia show about a young Black girl’s bittersweet search for love and connection as the world crumbles around her. But for her, the end isn’t something to escape—it’s a moment to embrace, to hold on to love or find it before everything fades. It Is the End of the World & I Am Looking for Love challenges viewers to be present, to cherish what and who they can while they can, and to question and reconsider what love means in the midst of an ending.
Headlined by Dom Mclennon. Sandbox: 00 and Sandbox: 01 are improvisational live performance experiences by Dom McLennon. Dom’s obsession with Hip-Hop, Music History and Creative Expression has motivated him to conceptualize performances that blend DJing, Vocals, Live Production and Visual Art. The experiences are designed to engage the audience’s senses and tell stories through sound, sight and movement. The Sandbox experience is meant to be both a collaborative play space for Dom and guest Artist Chuck Sutton as well as an invitation for the audience to witness artists in their natural state. Sandbox serves as an experiential, improvisational and generative art experience that highlights the creative process, the necessity of the artist, participant and observer.
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