Helen Wicks Works

 

Hello, I'm writing to share Wicks Works September happenings.    Wicks Works is on Salesforce Tower Video this month!   Catch a glimpse or engage with the 10 minute video September 13, 14, 15  Sunset - Sunrise & Midnight - 1 am every night of September  We will be gathering for watch parties and you're invited:  September 13, 8:00- 10:00 pm at the Starlite Room - Beacon Grand Hotel, SF  September 14, 8:00 - 10:00 pm at the Marriott View Lounge, SF  If you are in the Bay Area and happen to see a glimpse of the video, feel free to capture a photo or short video. We are collecting as many perspectives as possible! About the work: Counterweight on Tower Top  was created July, 2024 during an abundant residency for Helen Wicks Works at Project Artaud's Space 124. The work uses a counterweight pulley system designed by Dave Freitag. Filmmakers Clio Gevirtz and Sebastian Kleppe traded between being in harness as the counterweight to Helen's aerial choreography and behind the camera.  Clio Gevirtz edited the footage into a vibrant visual movement composition for the SF/Bay Area skyline.  This Gevirtz-Wicks production explores contrast, speed, shape, and color while offering luminous perspectives on gravity and scale.  This work was commissioned by Jim Campbell Studios:  https://sf-towertopart.com/  Thanks to all who have engaged and supported numerous new works this summer! We are excited to continue to create accessible and medicinal art.  Support Wicks Works  A tax-deductible donation goes directly to artists and production costs to create performance for multigenerational and diverse audiences.  Thanks for being part of the Wicks Works community!  Take care and reach out with any questions, Helen  All photos in this email are stills from Counterweight on Tower Top

Copyright © 2024 Helen Wicks, All rights reserved.

Compagnie Lézards bleus

 

­  Lettre d'information | Septembre 2024 ­  Il est laid Elle est beauté, Il est sauvage Elle est amour, Il est brut Elle est raffinée, Il est en haut Elle est en bas, Il est solitude Elle est dans la multitude, Il veut Elle non, Il est cloche Elle est clochette, Il crie Elle chante, Il est esclave Elle est libre.   Avec leurs corps vivants qui s’attirent et se repoussent, ils inventent à la verticale une relation entre le haut et le bas. Pour ces êtres étranges « Notre-Dame » est un asile où se révèlent leurs créativités.  (Quasimodo-Esmeralda - Création 2024) ­ ­  7 sept à 11h & 8 sept à 16h | Montrouge (92) Place Cresp   "L'Aimant"  Une création avec des artistes du territoire pour LES SOLEILLADES 2024 ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  Photo ©Alexander Karelin Avec  Antoine Le Menestrel : chorégraphe et danseur de façade Jean-Luc Bichon : régisseur sol et de production Valy Martinez : régisseuse sol et diffusion   La Compagnie Lézards Bleus sera accompagnée de 6 artistes montrougiens :  Adjazz Factory  Cécile de Kervasdoué,  Johanne Teste,  Timothée Gesland,  Marie Cordier,  Luisa Cerrada ­  ­ ­  ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  Les Soleillades ­    Création 2024 -------------------------------------   Quasimodo-Esmeralda  Au-delà des apparences / Le rêve d’une rencontre     Premières du 17 au 22 septembre 2024 Notre-Dame des près - Chartreuse de Neuville-sous-Montreuil (62) - CCR   Du 17 au 20 septembre : 12h 21 septembre : 19h 22 septembre : 15h Renseignements- réservation : 03 21 06 59 97   ---- Coproduction Association de préfiguration de la fondation Chartreuse de Neuville ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  Photo @ Chartreuse de Neuville ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  Photo @ Valy Martinez                                                                               Photos © R.Caracchioli   Distribution -------------------------------------   Direction artistique : Antoine Le Menestrel   Chorégraphe et danseur de façade, Antoine Le Menestrel alias Quasimodo Chorégraphe et danseuse de façade, Claudie Gatineau alias Esmeralda Direction musicale et composition, Grégory Vera  Musiciennes, Marie-Lys Polchlopek, Chani Bauza Voix off, Denis Lavant Accordiste, Alexandre Cinquini alias Frollo Régisseur sol, Jean-Luc Bichon alias Phoebus Création costumes,,Ramora Regard extérieur, Marie-Laure Pessemesse ----------- Diffusion : Valy Martinez, 06 81 78 26 81 - valy.lezardsbleus@gmail.com En savoir plus sur la création  [ A lire - ITW avec Antoine Le Menestrel ] Antoine le Menestrel : allumeur de rêves et danseur de façade Interview d’un pionnier de l’escalade qui s’est longtemps cherché et qui a trouvé, en dansant sur les façades, un espace public qu’il remplit de son imaginaire poétique… Propos recueillis par Nathalie Cuvelier https://lachartreusedeneuville.org/magazine/antoine-le-menestrel-allumeur-de-reves-et-danseur-de-facade/ ­  ­  ­ ­  ­    Folambule Confessions d'un grimpeur étoile   Auteur, Antoine Le Menestrel   Editions Pausen-Guerin   * En librairie *   ­  ­  ­ ­  Lecture d'un extrait par Denis Lavant   Un PODCAST tvmountain... Mai 2024  Lecture parisienne à la Librairie du Parc, Paris 19e, en mars 2024   ­  ­ ­  ­  ­  ­  ­ ­  ­ Calendrier des spectacles de mai à octobre 2024 ­  84400 APT - France lemenestrel@lezardsbleus.com et lezardsbleus@orange.fr Tél. : 04 90 74 17 23 | 06 08 55 34 48 www.lezardsbleus.com ­  ­  La compagnie est conventionné par le Ministère de la Culture - DRAC PACA. Elle est subventionnée au fonctionnement par la Région SUD, le Conseil Départemental de Vaucluse et la Ville d’Apt. Partenaires techniques : PETZL et BEAL © 2019 Compagnie Lézards bleus

Flyaway Productions

 

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Join us for the Premiere of Ode to Jane Free Shows, Panel Discussions, and a Feminist Walking Tour on Offer October 4-12, 2024 Fri. 10/4 at 7:30PM Sat. 10/5 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM Thu. 10/10 at 7:30PM Fri. 10/11 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM Sat. 10/12 at 7:30PM + 8:30PM The Cadillac Hotel (above the Tenderloin Museum) 398 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA Free Event, Open to All No tickets or reservations required In the pre-Roe v. Wade era, activists in Chicago, calling themselves ‘Jane,’ built an underground network for women with unwanted pregnancies and provided illegal abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. Flyaway Productions’ new site work, ODE TO JANE, appreciates this history of resistance and brings a contemporary lens to what resistance looks like in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Tenderloin, right now. We will incorporate oral histories, suspended rocking chairs, and aerial dance on fire escapes and walls. We will evoke an expanded idea of what resistance is amidst racial reckoning, the addiction crisis, the city’s housing catastrophe, threats to women’s bodies, and the complex intersection of these realities. Directed by: Jo Kreiter Performance by: Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, Ai Yin Adelski, and Saharla Vetsch Music by: Xoa Asa Lighting by: Jack Beuttler Set Design by: Sean Riley Rigging Design by: Dave Freitag Costumes by: Jaimelyn Duggan The commission and production of this premiere is made possible in part by the Gerbode Foundation Special Award in the Arts program, as well as support from the CA Arts Council, Zellerbach Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, SF Grants for the Arts, New Music USA, and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. Public Engagements for Ode to Jane At the Tenderloin Museum. All Welcome. Friday, Oct. 4, post show: artist reception and celebration Thursday, Oct. 10, post-show: panel discussion with housing activist Nina “Peaches” Foster; Natasha Dennerstein, former lead housing navigator at St. James Infirmary; and Dr. Nicole Barnett, Chief Operating Officer, Planned Parenthood Northern California Friday, Oct. 11 at 6 PM: the Tenderloin Museum will host a Tenderloin history walking tour with a feminist lens on the neighborhood. Sign-ups for the tour coming soon! Get Info about ODE to JANE Who are the Janes? “Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, was a direct action group that was formed in Chicago in 1968, emerging out of the city’s vibrant activist New Left movement. In the beginning, the conceit was simple: women who wanted abortions could call a telephone number and ask for Jane.” Read About the Janes Donate Share Tweet Forward

Photo by: Brechin Flournoy of Jhia Jackson, designed by Jon Weaver, for Ode to Jane - 2024 Copyright © 2016 Flyaway Productions, All rights reserved.