Monday, September 29
6-10 p.m.
FREE and open to the public

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In Lauren Loesberg’s debut feature, Year One, a series of events during Ruby’s freshman year of college send her on a downward spiral, culminated by the arrival of a glamorous alter ego who begins to live a life of her own. Year One, was featured on IndieWire’s 2024 Sundance Wish List and premiered in competition at the Bentonville Film Festival.

Wednesday, October 1
7-9:15 p.m.; door at 6:45 p.m.
FREE and open to the public

Echo Network by Christopher Knowlton
Presented in partnership with High Concept Labs

Echo Network is a developing digital dance project that attempts to re-imagine our digital social networks as a naturalistic and embodied nexus for connection. The work pulls biomimetic inspiration from mammals like dolphins, bats, wolves, elephants and whales who use echolocation, calls and songs to navigate low-visibility environments and strengthen social bonds. With elements first hatched at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Dance Studio Residency, the work experiments with new ways to experience dance by listening to sensory data from dancers transformed into real-time spatialized soundscapes.

frikiNation by Krystal Ortiz (concert version)
Presented in partnership with UrbanTheater Company

Using a 2002 album by Cuban punk band EsKoria (AKA EsKoria del Odio), frikiNation is a bilingual punk rock musical that tells a powerful history from the early 1990s when punks across Cuba injected themselves with HIV-positive blood in an attempt to access a higher quality of life within the government-sanctioned HIV sanitariums. This concert edition of frikiNation will highlight the score, with musicians playing the full Spanish-language album, 'al fin, por fin', composed by EsKoria and arranged by Alan Mendez, to give you a taste of this exciting new musical written by Krystal Ortiz.