Laudable and Unifier present: Hallowed Sounds

Friday, October 26, 2018, 7:30 pm until 12:00 am
Doors 7:00/ Show 7:30. Tickets available online at at the door.

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Unifier Festival and Laudable Productions team up at the crossroads of world music, where musicians from three continents honor their ancestors by modernizing ancient traditions. Start your Halloween weekend on the dance floor at the Shea Theater Arts Center with Afro-Colombian hip-hop, Moroccan trance, and nuAncestral music. Doors at 7PM, music at 7:30. Festive attire encouraged. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 door. The dance floor will be open and we'll have Live Painting by Martin Bridge.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

From their village of San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia — the first free black community in the Americas — Kombilesa Mi refreshes ancient Afro-Latin rhythms from Angola by fusing their folk tradition with hip-hop.
New York City’s Innov Gnawa secularizes Morocco’s ritual trance music under the guidance of Hassan Ben Jaafar, a Ma?lem master transplanted from ancient Fez, so that a broader audience can experience its powerful enchantment.
To round out the night, Unifier Festival fave Incus will take the serious dancers into the witching hour for a high energy closing set. The band’s songs are inspired by countless fire circle ceremonies and an emergent new culture of honoring the sacred.
We will conclude with a set of mystical dancing with DJ Journey Weaver.

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Exciting News for A Happening IV: Leviathan

Cloudgaze and Eggtooth Productions are thrilled to announce that we have received a generous grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice to support our 2024 Immersive Arts Festival, “A Happening IV: Leviathan.”

This festival will transform the Shea Theater into an exploration of theme, hosting installations, music, theatrical performances, and movement pieces, featuring the collective contributions of over 30 local artists. Audiences will experience otherworldly environments and narratives inspired by folklore, fairy tales, horror motifs, American literature, and the mythos of the Old Testament, all of which delve into the central question guiding the festival: "What does it mean to encounter something greater than yourself and to be consumed by it?" Through this theme, we explore how a community reemerges and imagines itself after destruction and transformation.

With the support of the Markham-Nathan Fund, we are excited to create an event that complicates perspectives and fosters meaningful dialogue. We are grateful for this partnership and for the work of the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice.

Thanks to the Mass Cultural Council for their vital support this year.We'd also like to thank the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts for their support in the form of a Flexible Funding grant. We couldn't do this work without you!