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Friday, October 21
Theme: ”Old Haunts”
Story Parlor | 227 Haywood Road
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30pm
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Join us for an evening of art and stories that explore everything from otherworldly occurrences to the people and places that haunt the hallways of our hearts and minds.
Doors + Streaming Begins at 7pm ET | Show at 7:30pm ET
Friday, October 21
Tickets | Pay what you can! All ticket sales go to support our volunteer-run organization in the effort to provide an inclusive and accessible community arts space, while also (always!) compensating our participating performers.
All virtual ticket sales are final.
ARTIST LINE-UP
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In honor of the theme ‘old haunts’, three 'old friends’ will interfuse their unique artistries to produce this evening's uncommon ghostly leavings.
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Butoh by Julie Becton Gillum
Julie Becton Gillum is artistic director of the 14-year running, Asheville Butoh Festival. She has been creating, performing and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia and Mexico for over 40 years. Since 2019 she has been active in Turkey, Ukraine, India and other areas in Europe. Julie has received numerous grants and awards for her choreography. She was awarded the 2008-09 NC Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh, her primary form of artistic expression.
Visuals by Geo Lynx
Geo Lynx is a multidisciplinary artist exploring media including percussion, digital electronic music, dance, stained glass, and copper sculpture. Recent endeavors are computer generated, audio reactive video projection. Lynx is inspired by natural forms and sounds. He communicates his unique combination of abstract forms intended to stimulate the imagination. He frequently collaborates with electronic musicians and dancers, reflecting his idea that visuals and sound are one expression. Geo believes in the transformative power of creating art with others.
Sound by Kimathi Moore
An electronic artist and percussionist by trade, Kima's music is strongly inspired by paintings—namely those from polish magic realist Jacek Yerka, whose works often act as a springboard for his pieces, and others like Remedios Varo and Seurat. Here recorded sounds; usually field recordings, resampled materials and ambiences, are sculpted and arranged to convey colors, unusual impressions, images and childhood themes. And if lucky some imaginary landscape might emerge. While there are countless other influences in Kima’s work the other significant influence is that of his artist friends with whom he remains close with.
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Joe Carroll is an improviser, comedy instructor, and performance artist located in Asheville. He can be seen around town in his solo act "JOLO", comedy duo "Mabel's Baby", and the monthly series "Liar's Club: An evening of Fake Storytelling".
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Melvin AC Howell is an internationally cultured choreographer and creative director who has been transforming and molding lives, while evolving the art of dance, for over 13 years. His approach is his purpose, “Spread positivity, encouragement, and guidance through dance. The positivity movement.” With a background in fitness, art, and many different cultural styles of dance, Melvin brings a unique vision to the world that is dance. His visionary style and technique promotes growth physically and mentally, encouraging a strengthened body, foundation, and creative capacity. As a movement expert and master instructor in Hip Hop, Contemporary, Jazz Funk, and Freestyle; Melvin emits a genuine uplifting abundance of positive energy and inspiration, which fills the atmosphere and effortlessly uplifts your spirits, leaving you motivated and wanting more. With dance serving as the primary purpose in his life, Melvin not only touches at the center of what inspires people to move; the desire to create, to feel, to connect, to speak without words. Moreover, Melvin focuses on the core of the human desire for motivation, support, inspiration, and love. It is his mission, his passion, his life goal: “To Change People’s Lives for the better.”
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Sally Anne Morgan plays haunting psychedelic Appalachian folk drone that invokes the rhododendron thickets, creeks and mountains of her local landscape in Western North Carolina. Sally plays with the Black Twig Pickers and House and Land, dedicated practitioners of traditional music re-cast by appreciation of modern improvisation, minimalism, microtonality and drone from across the globe.
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David’s 30+ year’s experience as a performing and teaching artist includes a stint as Master Storyteller for The Disney Company, tours for The Lincoln Center Institute, L.A. Music Center, and as a featured storyteller for the National Storytelling Festival. His international appearances include the Singapore International StoryFest, Czech Children’s Theatre Festival, Sydney International Storytelling Conference, The Federation of East Asian Story Tellers and international schools throughout China. David’s tour-de-force performance as R. Buckminster Fuller, began at NC Stage Company and toured to Wroclaw and Krakow, Poland. David is an A+ Fellow with North Carolina Arts Council, and a Lead Artist for Asheville City Schools Foundation.