As a Portuguese immigrant, storyteller, and sleight-of-hand magician, Helder Guimarães arrived in America at age 29. Wide-eyed and full of ideas, he discovers a fascinating puzzle of cultural and professional challenges to solve while he tries to build a home. The Hope Theory offers a unique perspective on America through the eyes of an optimistic outsider.

 

Tuesdays – Fridays, 8:00 p.m., Saturdays, 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.,
Sundays, 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.

American Mariachi is a big-hearted, feel-good comedy with live music about familia, amor, and tradición. It’s the 1970s and women can’t be mariachis…or can they?

 

Thursdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 4:00 p.m. Check the website for ticket prices

This is the story of an Indigenous musician whose works have been attributed to Europeans. It is a mix of music, magic, drama, passion, spirituality, and dance in a celebration that explores people of color’s lives during the late 19th century Americas and their ghostlike impact on our lives today.

Thursdays – Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Sundays, 4:00 p.m.
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It’s 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travelers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life, and hope. Girl From the North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs by Bob Dylan as they’ve never been heard before.

 

Tuesdays – Saturdays – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday – 2:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

 

For more information, please visit: northcountrytour.com 

Theatricum is a vital creative force recognized internationally for interpreting Shakespeare’s work. This summer season, plays are The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wendy’s Peter Pan, Tartuffe: Born Again, and The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote.

 

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The Acadmy Museum presents the Film Series Beware the Elements! Natural Disasters on Film

Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves, extreme wildfires, historic floods, and a truly unprecedented “hurriquake,” we find the perilous realities of climate change increasingly impacting our daily lives. This screening series considers natural disasters through our planet’s primary elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—and seeks to highlight key moments in the history of the disaster film genre as a source of entertainment and portrayal of science, and as a tool to raise our collective consciousness about science-based solutions to the mounting global climate crisis. Click the here to see the featured films selected for this series. The film series runs between January 4th to January 28, 2024.

Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC), in partnership with artist group FLOOD, is pleased to present the 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜 on-site event on Saturday, June 1st, 7pm – 10:00pm.

The one-night, free event features 50+ artist installations & performances including: sculptures, environments, installations, timed and ongoing performances, interactions, and presentations placed throughout the AGCC 7-acre campus.

**𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 (𝘦.𝘨. 𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴, 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴, 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘦𝘵𝘤.).

More information about 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜 and full list of participating artists can be found at https://soundpedro.art/

Make sure to explore 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗯𝗮𝘆 in the AGCC gallery, which provides both glimpse and glitch into 20 years of sound art within the context of Long Beach SoundWalk and 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼, produced by the artist group FLOOD. Through installations, videos, and performance, the show traces early SoundWalk events (which started in 2004) and bridge time, up to the current 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜. Visit qr.link/fBptvm for more information about the exhibition.

𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼 is an annual season of experimental sound art events, presented through November, that investigates the way we perceive and experience sound. 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜 continues the quest towards an immersive, interactive and living experience, mingling human and non-human inputs, and explores broadening the auditory perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon towards the physical reception of sound as experiential. 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙥𝙚𝙙𝙧𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘰 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘙𝘢𝘭𝘱𝘩 𝘔. 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.

First premiered in 2019 in LA’s Little Tokyo, POP’s Madama Butterfly has been described as “on a visual scale beyond anything it has taken on before – a sumptuously costumed, fully staged, bilingual co-production” by San Francisco Classical Voice.

 

Tickets from $15, Purchase tickets at the website