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New Science Fiction from local luminary Cole Sarar and special guest Abra Staffin Wiebe, underscored with futurist music by Dameun Strange. Come hear futures you never imagined with local talents. Be transported to places you've never been, see yourself and your world in new ways, and be transformed.
Cole Sarar is a writer, photographer, and tech-artist based in Minneapolis, MN. She writes plays, web-based and traditional fiction, and both "page" poetry and "stage" poetry. She's won Urban Griots Spoken Word, Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative, VERVE, and Emerging Writer awards and grants for her performed and tech-poetry. Cole has created public, interactive literary pieces in collaboration with local writers, using phone technology and simple physical design, with Ring Ring Poetry and Literary Device. She's also collaborated on other interactive public art projects, like the Art Shanty Projects, MN0 Puzzle Quest, and Journey to the End of the Night Minneapolis. She's featured at Poetry & Pints, Convergence, Cheap Theatre, Encyclopedia Show, Not So Silent Planet, Midstream Reading Series, Minnesota Fringe Festival, and Silverwood Park. Cole is first generation Turkish-American. She loves libraries, nature, Amelie, gardening, board games, and West World.
Abra Staffin-Wiebe loves optimistic science fiction, cheerful horror, and dark fantasy. Dozens of her short stories have appeared at publications including Tor.com, F&SF, Escape Pod, and Odyssey Magazine. She is also a professional narrator for Escape Artists Inc, speaks regularly at writing/SF conventions, and edits Aswiebe's Market List, a resource for writers. She lives in Minneapolis, where she wrangles her children, pets, and the mad scientist she keeps in the attic. When not writing or wrangling, she collects folk tales and photographs whatever stands still long enough to allow it.
Dameun Maurice Strange is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose conceptual chamber works, choral pieces and operas are focused on stories of the African diaspora, often exploring afrofuturist themes. Strange is compelled to express through sound, music and poetry, the beauty and resilience of the Black experience, digging into a pantheon of ancestors to tell stories of a triumph, while connecting the past, present, and future. While his sound experiments have many dimensions, he uses West African polyrhythms, with classical music forms, contemporary jazz harmonic explorations, along with found sounds and historic recordings to create modern afrofuturist performances that disrupt the notion of genre and what Black music is and can be and moreover what Blackness is and can be. Strange is an award winning composer, Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and had been a featured composer with Alternative Motion Project for 6 years. The Cedar Cultural Center, International renown artist Seitu Jones via the McKnight Foundation, Ananya Dance Theatre are amongst his most recent commissioners. In 2017, Strange premiered his first full length opera Mother King inspired by the life and death of Alberta Williams King with his upstart opera organization, OperaRising 52. He has also been a featured writing contributor with Pollen Midwest and Nourrir Magazine. Aside from his creative pursuits, Strange is an arts advocate and a creative consultant to leaders and organizations in the for profit, nonprofit and public sectors.
FB: @SciFiReadings
Twitter: @colesarar
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LocationBryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater (View)
810 W Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
United States
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