TWO SHOWS A DAY
Tuesday, April 11 | 11am & 12pm
Wednesday, April 12 | 11am & 12pm
Thursday, April 13 | 11am & 12pm**
Friday, April 14 | 11am & 12pm
Saturday, April 15 | 11am & 12pm
(Crossed out show indicates performance is sold out — feel free to click here to add your name to a waitlist!)
Admission is free, reserve your seats in advance (recommended) here
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**April 13 at 12pm is designated as a Sensory Friendly Performance which means: the intensity of lighting and sound effects will be reduced;actor / audience interactions will be modified; audience members have the freedom to talk and vocalize, and to leave their seats if necessary.
A 30-minute interactive multilingual and multimedia performance installation for ages 0-5 and their caretakers. SHELL includes projections, movement, puppetry and play.
SHELL follows a Slug and a Snail who journey to find a new shell when the Snail’s shell is broken in a storm. Composed of different vignettes, audiences will practice phonetics, play with causality and object permanence against the backdrop of a story that will be performed in Spanish and English, and touch on migration and community.
10-minutes of free play at the end that will allow young people to interact with the puppets and set pieces, and practice games, movements, and noises they saw during the performance.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources. NCArts.org.
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Created by Edwin Salas Acosta & Abby Felder; Directed by Abby Felder
Puppet Design & Construction by Edwin Salas Acosta
Costumes by Caroline Bower
Projections & Lights by Leo Lei
Set Assistant is Alex Smith
Music & Lyrics by Šara Stranovsky
Sets by Marie Yokoyama
Fun Guide and Early Childhood consulting by Danny Gomez, LCSW
Outreach by Olympea, Federica Collina & Daniele Martin
Intimacy Coordinator is Gina Cornejo
More details at: https://ashevillecreativearts.org/shows-events/mainstage-shows/
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ACA is an Asheville-based arts and arts service organization, providing high quality, professional theatre, performance, and arts experiences to Asheville audiences of all ages, and offering fiscal sponsorship and related services to sibling social enterprises and arts nonprofits serving Asheville and Western North Carolina.
We create opportunities for meaningful employment for Asheville residents, provide access to professional development and resources that support the creative practice of artists, provide opportunities to create and share work with the public, and tools, and infrastructure that allow community leaders to do their best work in service of Asheville’s audiences and community members. We do this by offering multiple programs:
Performance and Art – immersive and innovative live theatre productions oriented to young people 0-18 years old and their families that explore contemporary themes, such as migration, humanity, the power of personal narrative. We serve multigenerational, multiethnic and multidimensional audiences.
Developing a Future Generation of Artists, Audiences and Administrators – classes and apprenticeships in various artistic disciplines, curation and program management; on-site residencies in schools and community centers affiliated with partner organizations offering culturally-appropriate pedagogy enacted by artists of the community served.
Creative Placemaking – public art in partnership with local community-based organizations that activates community spaces and helps Asheville address questions being asked, including those focused on revitalization, gentrification and reparations.
Technical Assistance – fiscal sponsorship and financial support, zero-to-low interest micro-loans for artists’ professional development and capital investments such as equipment purchases.
We use theater to reflect and elevate the communities we represent and serve, and as such we are committed to presenting the stories of all its participants. Led by Daniele Martin, ACA’s Resident Community Outreach Director, we are thrilled to partner with Hood Huggers, UNETE and other community based organizations to build partnerships and pipelines to ensure that all are welcome.
More details at: https://ashevillecreativearts.org