8 Sept 2024

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 
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Compagnie Lézards bleus

 


4 Sept 2024

Flyaway Productions

 


Thank you for your support of Flyaway Productions!
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.”
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Photo by: Brechin Flournoy of Jhia Jackson, designed by Jon Weaver, for Ode to Jane - 2024
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