Wake for Red Willow

Please join us in celebrating and saying farewell to Red Willow! 

This event marks the beginning of a new Control Group practice: waking each production after it closes. It’s an opportunity to connect with the artists, reflect on the project and its topics together, and build community over a shared meal.

The event will start with a reception giving time for arrivals and informal conversation, and a chance to explore the production’s sound and visual design elements and photo/video documentation. We’ll then enter into a simple ceremony to celebrate and reflect on the work. After that concludes, we’ll sit down to a simple potluck dinner and more conversation. Throughout the evening, we’ll bring focus to responding to this terrifying current moment in the world, and discussing the actions that feel crucial – and fruitful – for us to take right now.

If you loved the production, or are sad you missed it, please join us as we send it off in the good way!

COST:

Free, donations appreciated.

If you’re able, please bring a dish to share in the potluck dinner.

DATE/TIME:

6-8pm

6-6:30pm: reception

6:30-7:15: ceremony & group conversation

7:15-8pm: potluck dinner

ARRIVAL / PARKING INSTRUCTIONS: 

The Studio is the gray building off the driveway. Please park on our side of the street (to respect elderly neighbors with limited street-front), and enter through the pale green main door of the Studio.

Red Willow reading list
These voices and stories sit beneath the work, offering context, tension, and deeper echoes for those who wish to explore further:

Bruno LaTour, Facing Gaia – a call for a New Climate Movement in recognition that war is being waged on Nature.

Martin Shaw, Snowy Tower – a discussion of Parzival, the Fisher King, and the quest for the Grail.

Nick Estes, Our History is the Future – a reflection on Indigenous resistance movements.

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny – lessons on tyranny and resistance, drawn from the 20th century to share in the 21st century.

Ballet Russes, The Rite of Spring, premiere May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Sergei Diaghilev, impresario; Igor Stravinsky, composer; Vaslav Nijinsky, choreographer.