Cucalorus Stage
Cucalorus Stage showcases outlandish, alternative, heartwarming, and original new performers. This year, most events will be virtual, bringing together all kinds of work including theatre, music, comedy, dance, spoken word, and also time to get-together. Beloved Emcees will welcome you to films and shows, inviting living room theatrics onto the silver screen, and grounding the festival in place and time. Valuing collective embodiment, Cucalorus Stage bridges interpersonal experiences with digital landscapes to inspire future worlds.
Filmmaker’s Lounge: Dance-Magic-Dance; Talk-Magic-Talk
Host: Sophie Traub
As an artist and a filmmaker, you are POWERFUL. You know this. Your ability to tell stories is the ability to dream alongside the groups of people that are your...
Filmmaker’s Lounge: Feet to the Fire— From Accountability to Change in the Midst of a Racial Reckoning
Hosts: Byron Hurt, Anna Ray-Smith
This guided discussion is geared towards Black Filmmakers interested in activism through the medium of narrative and documentary filmmaking. Award-winning documentarian, Byron Hurt, and independent filmmaker, Anna Ray-Smith, will be...
Filmmaker’s Lounge: Soar on Hawk’s Wings and Dig with Dead Man’s Toes
Host: Kelley Van Dilla
We will meet virtually, and also engage our own personal environments— be it our rooms, our things, or our bodies, and presence ourselves with each other! While we're engaging a...
Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Performer Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock was born with spastic cerebral palsy. An autobiographical performance, Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body combines storytelling, poetry, and digital art to ask audiences to embrace,...
LiveLab: Meet-up
In collaboration with CultureHub
CultureHub will facilitate a meet-up for participants to learn about LiveLab, a browser-based media-router for collaborative performance developed by CultureHub. LiveLab is free and open-source and empowers artists and arts...
Reality Television, Political Theater, and Social Change
Kristina Wong
Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian and elected representative whose work onstage and in politics is informed by an obsessive knowledge of the reality television format. How does reality...
Visual/Sound/Walls: Friday the 13th with SPARKS
Host: Aaron Hillis
For over 50 years, beloved art-pop band Sparks have navigated the seas of glam, disco, new wave, neo-classical and modern indie rock... and as their latest record “A Steady Drip,...
