Past Events

CLARABELLE, 86

6/9/2017

CLARABELLE, 86
A new play by Anna Fox.

When a loner dies, it is the job of the city to go through her things. Clarabelle B. Jones was one of those solitary souls. Her legacy is now in the hands of the two city administrators assessing the things she left behind. Cindy and her new hire, Miles, don their hazmat suits and begin the work of making meaning out of Clarabelle's life--and their own. Do we linger in the places we inhabit after were gone? After all, we are what we own. Right?

HAZMAT. SUIT. REQUIRED.

Friday, June 9, 8pm
Saturday, June 10, 8pm
Sunday, June 11, 6pm
Thursday, June 15, 8pm
Friday, June 16, 8pm
Saturday, June 17, 8pm
Sunday, June 18, 6pm

POSTMEN

6/3/2017

POSTMEN
An hour of sketch comedy from three long-time cast members of The Holy Fuck Comedy Hour- featuring Matt Barats (JFL "new faces," The Onion), Carmen Christopher (Comedy Central "comic to watch," MTV), and Anthony Oberbeck (IFC, iO Chicago).
PLUS stand-up from the wonderful Marcia Belsky!!!

Saturday, June 3, at 8pm.

THE PARSNIP SHIP: WRAP PARTY

6/1/2017

THE PARSNIP SHIP
The Parsnip Ship is an intimate series of plays performed before live audiences and then made accessible as a monthly podcast. Hosted by Iyvon Edebiri and Eric Borlaug, the series aims to build community by exploring diverse perspectives and by bringing awareness to inspiring voices. We strive to program plays that are new and unexpected, that challenge our listeners with innovative form and powerful content. Climb aboard and listen along, or join us the first Thursday every month for a live broadcast from Cloud City!

Thursday, June 1st, at 7pm
Season 2 Wrap Party!
Celebrating our playwrights and musicians from Season 2, with a reading of a play by co-host Eric Borlaug, live performances by past musical guests, and our favorite cocktails from past episodes!

BAD FILM FEST V

5/19/2017

BAD FILM FEST 2017
The worst of the best and the best of the worst, for the fifth year in a row!

A collection of no-budget, low-budget and even slickly produced short films.
HORROR, COMEDY, DRAMA, ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARY, EXPERIMENTAL, WHATEVER!

Some are horrible, some might force you to ask, "WTF?!?"
But there's also a slim chance you might actually love something.

Click the dates to see what films are playing at each showing, or just come whenever you want!
Friday, May 19 @ 7pm
Friday, May 19 @ 9pm
Saturday, May 20 @ 5pm
Saturday, May 20 @ 7pm
Saturday, May 20 @ 9pm
Sunday, May 21 @ 5pm
Sunday, May 21 @ 7pm
Sunday, May 21 @ 9pm

PUMPERNIPS: LETTERS HOME

5/6/2017

BREAD Presents:
PUMPERNIPS: LETTERS HOME
(3 of 3)

BREAD presents our third and final installment of Pumpernips, a monthly variety show at Cloud City. This month our show is called "Letters Home." We'll be thinking-with-performance about the meaning of Home and what we must say to the people and places we may have left behind. Songs, letters, short plays, poems, stories, and jokes for all kinds of Homes.

Featuring:
Kyle Dacayun, Iyvon Edebiri, John Egan & Friends, Deepali Gupta, Kelly Klein, Jalyn Knobloch, Elizabeth May, Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Me'lissa Smith, and Chana Porter & Friends

Hosted & Curated by Eric Powell Holm
Produced by John Egan & BREAD

Saturday, May 6th. 7:30 - 10:30pm

THE PARSNIP SHIP: BROKEN

5/4/2017

THE PARSNIP SHIP
The Parsnip Ship is an intimate series of plays performed before live audiences and then made accessible as a monthly podcast. Hosted by Iyvon Edebiri and Eric Borlaug, the series aims to build community by exploring diverse perspectives and by bringing awareness to inspiring voices. We strive to program plays that are new and unexpected, that challenge our listeners with innovative form and powerful content. Climb aboard and listen along, or join us the first Thursday every month for a live broadcast from Cloud City!

Thursday, May 4th, at 7pm
BROKEN by David Meyers
Kevin McFadden hasn't spoken to anyone since he killed 17 people at a shopping mall three weeks ago. But when a prison doctor takes an unexpected interest in his case, Kevin decides to meet with him - revealing a troubled past that unites them both.

STAKES

4/28/2017

STAKES
Put your money where your mouth is. There’s a lot at Stake.

Over forty artists from various mediums come together in a group exhibition of resistance and celebration. All work is generously donated by the artists and priced $400 and under. Proceeds will be equally divided and donated to Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Exhibiting Artists:
Aaron Krach, Alison Kudlow, Aviva Rowley, Bill Adams, Brian Ormond, Courtney Childress, Daniella Cortez, Ebru Yildiz, Edwina Hay, Elizabeth Beeby, Eric Phipps, Ester Segretto, Glenn Wonsettler, Janine Biunno, Jeanette D. Moses, Jeff Schwarz, Jen Hitchings, Jeremy Couillard, Jesse Durost, Julia Norton, Justin Amrhein, Katy Mixon, Kelli Thompson, Kelsey Knutson, Kerry Cox, Lisa Case, Mark Kleback, Matthew Fischer, Max Heiges, Michael Childress, Michael Mahalchick, Neil Goldberg, Nick Rymer, Nicki Ishmael, Nori Pao, Owen Karrel, RJ Supa, Shamus Clisset, Tiffany Stevens, Tim Mettler, Todd Bienvenu and Yusuke Okada.

Curated by Nick Rymer and Nicki Ishmael.

Opening reception: Friday, April 28, 6 – 9 PM
Gallery Hours: Saturday, April 29, 1 - 6PM, Sunday, April 30th, 1 - 3PM

NIDRA + THREE VOICES

4/25/2017

NIDRA + Morton Feldman's "Three Voices"

Tuesday, April 25 at 7pm.

7.30pm NIDRA | Giacomo Baldelli (guitar) & OOOPStudio
9pm Feldman's 'Three Voices' | Juliet Fraser (soprano)

NIDRA - 7:30pm
Hailed by the NYTimes as “ a new musical tour de force for electric guitar featuring video” NIDRA is a 50-minute performance experience by Italian guitarist Giacomo Baldelli and Italian video duo OOOPStudio featuring five electric guitar masterpieces of the second half of the 20th century accompanied by a multi-sensory meditation of videos inspired by each work:

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint...
Tristan Murail - Vampyr!
Christian Wolff - Another Possibility
John Cage - Dream
Fausto Romitelli - Trash TV Trance
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JULIET FRASER - THREE VOICES - 9:00pm
Three Voices, written in 1982 for Joan La Barbara, was the last solo vocal piece Morton Feldman wrote before his death in 1987. Conceived as a trio for the one voice, with two pre-recorded parts and one to be performed live, the score is conventionally notated but is beguilingly short on some details. Writing later about Three Voices, Feldman said: 'One of my closest friends, the painter Philip Guston, had just died; Frank O'Hara had died several years before. I saw the piece with Joan in front and these two loudspeakers behind her. There is something kind of tombstoney about the look of loudspeakers. I thought of the piece as an exchange of the live voice with the dead ones - a mixture of the living and the dead'.

British soprano Juliet Fraser has a repertoire dominated by the very old and the very new. She has premiered well over 100 works, many of which have been written for her. Her commercial recording of Morton Feldman's Three Voices was released on Hat Hut Records in November 2016. This performance is part of her U.S. debut tour.

THE PARSNIP SHIP: CHARLIE'S WAITING

4/6/2017

THE PARSNIP SHIP
The Parsnip Ship is an intimate series of plays performed before live audiences and then made accessible as a monthly podcast. Hosted by Iyvon Edebiri and Eric Borlaug, the series aims to build community by exploring diverse perspectives and by bringing awareness to inspiring voices. We strive to program plays that are new and unexpected, that challenge our listeners with innovative form and powerful content. Climb aboard and listen along, or join us the first Thursday every month for a live broadcast from Cloud City!

Thursday, April 6, at 7pm
CHARLIE'S WAITING by Melisa Annis
On the eve of a very pregnant Louise's wedding to her younger fiance Kelly, a stranger knocks on their door. Forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, Louise discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.

PUMPERNIPS: FOOLS!

4/1/2017

BREAD presents
PUMPERNIPS: FOOLS!
(2 of 3)

A variety of performances celebrating the joy of fools! The responsibility of fools! And the right to be fools! Civil fools, women fools, human fools, LGBTQ fools. Fools!

Featuring poets, artists, musicians, actors, sweet tunes, puppets, and fools!

Saturday, April 1. 7:30 - 10:30pm

BREAD Arts Collective presented RISE & FALL at People Lounge for 32 weeks in 2015 and produced The Great American Casket Company at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in June of 2016. BREAD is a multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to adapting and devising new work that challenges the typical and stretches the possible.

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