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Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
Join us for an evening of storytelling through art featuring works that explore fairytales and lore, the magic of Midsummer, and tributes to the world being in full bloom.
Artist line-up:
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Life is at its very core about exploring. We can remain stagnant and rooted in place, or we can take a page out of Alex Krug’s playbook and dive headfirst. The thrill of adventure looms ahead of this musician. Alex’s Psychedelic Appalachian Americana meets Dream-rock strikes a stunningly evocative chord about life, being an outsider and the kind of heartache and healing that transforms your soul.
https://linktr.ee/alexkrugcombo
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Mindi Meltz is the author of several novels, including the After Ever After trilogy, and creator of Animal Wisdom themed knowledge decks. Her passion is understanding life as a dream and writing about it mythically, especially through the language of nature, animal knowing, and the sacred feminine. Originally from the coast of Maine, she has traveled and worked in many places, holds an MA in Transpersonal Psychology, and is now settled with her husband, cats, and goats in an off-grid home in Bat Cave.
You can find Mindi at www.mindimeltz.com, or on Instagram @mythical_mindi and Facebook @mindimeltzauthor.
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Jasmin Pittman Morrell is a writer and editor who deeply believes in radical hospitality and the power of the imagination. She holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction writing from the University of Georgia, and her writing is featured in The Bitter Southerner, Oxford American, Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community, and Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (forthcoming, 2022). Jasmin has taught creative nonfiction at Lenoir Rhyne University and also supports Family Voices--a creative writing mentorship program for BIPOC children in Asheville.
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Tracey Schmidt’s first book of poetry, I Have Fallen in Love with World, Turtle Dove Publications, 2011, has 25 five-star reviews on Amazon, and is already in its second printing.
Her poetry/music CD, Returning Home, features Armenian folk singer Mariam Matossian and internationally-touring hand drummer River Guerguerian accompanying the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, Yeats and her own work. She is currently playing festivals in her hometown of Asheville, and planning a poetry music tour of NYC/New England this fall.
Tracey has taught creativity, poetry, and the sacred arts at such facilities as Julia Cameron’s, (author of The Artist’s Way), creativity camp, NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Warren Wilson’s Environmental Leadership Retreat , Canada, Ireland, and the John C Campbell Folk School.
Her award-winning touring museum exhibit, The Awakening of Turtle Island: Portraits of Native Americans opened for the Olympics in 1996, won the Regional Designation Award in the Humanities, and has toured over 18 museums and cultural centers in the Southeast.
She lives with her white turtle dove and two hives of bees in the gray-blue mountains of Asheville. She has fallen in love with the world. She is still not sure how it happened.
www.traceyschmidt.com and www.traceyschmidtpoetry.com .
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Šara “Shara” Stranovsky is a trilingual songwriter who is inspired by her Slovak father, the melodies of French cafés, dancing in the streets of Brazil, and Pina Bausch dance theater. She has sung styles from funk to folk, and has played percussion in a Brazilian samba marching band. She is a dancer, a multimedia artist, an aerial theater performer, and an educator. She holds a PHD in Culture and Performance from UCLA and artsy degrees from Middlebury College.
Šara is inspired by childhood, mirrors, and the feeling of existing in between cultures. Her performance credits include Off-Broadway’s Fuerza Bruta Wayra, Anais Mitchel’s Hadestown, and various independent music and dance theater projects in Paris, LA, Cape Verde, Brazil, Dakar, and New York.
Her performance credits include Off-Broadway’s Fuerza Bruta Wayra, Anais Mitchel’s Hadestown, and various independent dance theater projects in Paris, LA, Cape Verde, Brazil, Dakar, and New York.
When she isn’t performing, Šara teaches storytelling and arts integration to ESL students. She is currently recruiting collaborators for a new album of original music with accompanying dance films.
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LANDFALL, a short film
Landfall offers a sensory fantasy of naturalism, a hallucinatory look at the human body in nature. Playing with the visual edge between organic and artificial, Landfall wonders, yearningly, whether we humans belong in the natural world…or are we visitors, outsiders, a kind of alien?
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KATE WEARE is a preeminent American choreographer and Artistic Director of Kate Weare Company, a contemporary dance company founded in New York City in 2005. Raised by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, CA, Weare draws on visual art, language, poetry, contemporary music, psychology and nature in creating dance for stage and film.
Weare’s awards include: The Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award; The Aininstantia Foundation Fellowship; The Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residence and Commission Award; White Bird’s Barney Creative Prize; The Evelyn Sharp CalArts Artist-in-Residence; The Joyce Theater Mellon Foundation Creative Residency Award; The Princess Grace Fellowship in Choreography, among others. Weare has created commissioned works for companies around the world such as Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), Catapult Dance Theatre (AU); Union Tanguera (FR); The Jose Limon Dance Company (NY), The Cincinnati Ballet (OH), and ODC/Dance (SF), among others. Weare enjoys teaching, most recently at Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2019 Weare has been exploring dance on film in collaboration with photographer & filmmaker Jack Flame Sorokin. Say hello at: kateweare.com
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JACK FLAME SOROKIN began his career at age 15 by assisting documentary filmmakers and celebrity portrait photographers in NYC. His early photographs of friends and family earned him varied youth awards including recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. In 2015 he received a BFA in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Sorokin is a freelance editorial and commercial photographer based in Western North Carolina, and his artwork focuses on our connection as human beings to each other and our environment. Sorokin began collaborating on dance films with choreographer Kate Weare in 2019. Their film, “Landfall,” won “Best Experimental Short” at The Paris Short Film Festival and “Best Cinematography” at The Experimental Music & Dance Film Festival in Toronto in 2022.
jacksorokin.com