Sunday May 13th!
Sunday Splash
Pool Party and Performance
Featuring Clint Maedgen with the collective!
Music, toys,
performance, bottles,
loopiness and blow up pools!
Hey guess what? artist inc.’s “collective” is to perform in France!
Come send us off across the pond!
It’s easy to make a splash when ya got blow up pools!
yeah, that's right, real pools, so bring a bikini and towel~
Kids welcomed!
Sunday May 13, 5-9pm
Sculptalopoulos
527 Elysian Fields
$10 suggested donation
The Collective has been invited to perform in France with the Parisian organization, the Bilingual Acting Workshop, (affiliated with The Living Theatre in NYC) as part of their “New Voices New Projects” performance series on June 1. Three members of the Collective will be making a splash across the pond, collaborating with 3 French performing artists, to present new work from the production UnRoute. Come show your support! Donations of any size will be gratefully accepted to go toward production costs and travel expenses.
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Who are we?
The "collective" is artist inc’s multidisciplinary performing arts ensemble. We are an artist community and production company on a quest to create and expand collaborations that enhance and promote artistic expression and opportunity. Our mission is to act as a resource for both emerging and seasoned artists for expanding production needs, public relations and contacts. By way of our services and programing, artists tap into resources and opportunities to expand their careers, gain experience, widen their audience base and connect with other artists. Through our presenting events the community benefits through a greater access to the arts, as we offer our productions at affordable prices and in non-traditional, easily-accessible spaces. Artist Inc. is a 501-C3, not for profit organization, founded in 2007.
Clint Maedgen is a New Orleans-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and band leader with three decades of musical experience that spans rock 'n' roll, electronica and traditional jazz. Starting with the saxophone at the age of nine, Maedgen picked up a wide range of other instruments along the way, including flute, theremin, clarinet, bottle, guitar and piano. Voice remains his primary instrument.
Maedgen has been a full-time member of The Preservation Hall Jazz Band for seven years as a vocalist and saxophonist, touring the world 150 dates a year. He has performed on David Letterman, sung the National Anthem for a nationally televised BCS Championship game, played the White House and entertained the King of Thailand three times. In 2011, he appeared in “Louisiana Fairytale,” a concert film directed by Danny Clinch featuring Preservation Hall and My Morning Jacket.
Maedgen has led several bands, most notably The New Orleans Bingo! Show, which has become a New Orleans institution most easily described as a theatrical rock band game show. Bingo has toured as a support act for Primus, in addition to touring Australia with The Polyphonic Spree.
Maedgen has experimented with solo performance for several years and is now further developing his One Man Show using his voice, electronics and an assortment of odd toys and instruments including a circuit bent drone machine and battery operated voice modulator.
Maedgen and cellist Helen Gillet began working together in 2006 and recently dubbed their partnership Maedgen/Gillet. Maedgen and Gillet made their debut as a duo in 2009 when they performed an alternative score to the 1978 movie "Deliverance" for the Southern Film Series at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Over the last five years they have collaborated in the New Orleans Bingo Show, a 10-piece Beatles tribute band,Clint Maedgen with Strings, and at Gillet's Creative Music Series at the Zeitgeist Art Gallery in New Orleans.
Maedgen has recorded with Tom Waits, Robert Plant, The Edge, Jim James, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Del McCoury, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Buddy Miller, Ani Defranco, Brandi Carlile, Steve Earle, Andrew Bird, Paolo Nutini, Merle Haggard, Mos Def, Dr. John, Lenny Kravitz and Bro. Taisuke’s Gospel Choir in Japan.
Maedgen is also a photographer and filmmaker, serving as producer for several Preservation Hall music videos.
artist inc. presents
“the collective” in
Les Gitans
Hey did you see us in the Times Picayune and on NOLA.com,
hear us on WWOZ with DJ George Ingmire
and on WTUL with DJ Doug Page,
read about us on Macaroni Kid New Orleans?????
Well come see us!!!
Directed by Joseph Furnari and Reese Johanson
Les Gitans is a physical theater and dance production performed to live music, appropriate for children of all ages, even Grandpa!
(Running time 30 minutes- followed by questions, meet the players and kids dance party ~ not necessarily in that order~)
Tickets at the door: $10 for adults, $8 for kids / under 3 years old free
Advanced ticket special $5
LAST SHOW!!!
Michalopoulos Studio, (Sculpture Courtyard), 527 Elysian Fields Ave. New Orleans, La. 70117
Sunday March 25 – Showtime 4:00pm
Les Gitans is a modern day fairytale about immigration, segregation and integration. Mother Mistral, a natural disaster, is sweeping across the universe. The Shanoa Nation- a community deeply connected to the earth, nature, rooted, live off their rich land by farming and bartering with neighboring villages. Les Gitans left their demolished homeland, traveling far and wide in search of the Shanoa region, the only place un-touched by Mother Mistral. Scrappy and scavenging, their connection to technology and invention enabled them to survive as nomads, forging ahead in hopes of building a new life for their people. These two communities are as different as Black and White and their meeting enflames uproar and feuding. Mother Mistral however is rolling near, and Shanoa Nation will be the last hit. Will they all be abolished forever or will they set aside their pride, learn to work and live together in harmony to save
humanity?
The Collective has a core performing artists with a rotating ensemble of scores more, based upon availability.
Current collective artists are comprised of the following:
Mary Carol Chenet, Joseph Furnari, Steven Furr, Andrea Nichelle Gros, Chris Herbeck, Reese Johanson,
Mariah McGowan, Jamie Neumann, Peyton Owen, Blake Palmintier, Dana Reed, Vickie Thomas, Michael P. Welch,
Tiffany Volmner, Ben Zervigon
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