Stars and Moon Art Park, June 19 - July 8, 2024
reese johanson brings excerpts from her performance Extraordinarily Ordinary, as well as workshops in somatic movement, breathwork and other practices to an extended residency at the Art Park this month!
Reese is an intradisciplinary collaborator and dance-theater performance artist joining us for the June and July Campouts, spending 2+ weeks with us to develop a July work on site.
If *you* are interested in taking a series of workshops and taking part in her practice at the park, please get in touch! It’s a unique opportunity for us and we hope members will come out several times throughout her stay between campouts.
Tickets / Memberships / Lodging
Guests can register here - $45 per person for a day pass including meals from our Camp Kitchen, kayaking and swimming, and evening entertainment.
Planning to come for the whole event? (usually Friday to Sunday - some campouts are longer!) Please pledge $100 per person toward your campsite, meals from our kitchen, entertainment and to support the Art Park and SFIOP.
This Pass is for one-time use only! It's more than just signing up as a Member, so if you're coming to several events, please just go ahead and do that here: sfiop.org/memberships . But don't worry - if you enjoy your Trial Pass and want to convert to a Member, you can deduct the Pass $ from your annual Membership donation.
June Campout
June 21-23
July Campout
July 3-7
Or come and find reese in between campout weekends. artstreet504@gmail.com
Event by San Francisco Institute of Possibility
1100 W Brannan Island Rd, Isleton, CA 95641-9763, United States
Join us for a 3-day weekend of workshops, art, nature and music under the stars.
We welcome visiting artist Reese Johanson from New Orleans who will be leading somatic movement workshops, and sharing a performance with us.
And the debut of sculptor Anja Ulfeldt's new floating artwork!
Friday night, Tim Anderson leads the "AM Radio" open mic discussion. Come hear and be heard!
Visit Bill Daniel's Starship Zine Library and Reading Room throughout the weekend too.
We share Friday dinner, Saturday brunch and dinner, and Sunday brunch in our camp kitchen. Dishwashers always welcome!
Friday, the Meat Witches debut a new Vertical BBQ with the help of one of the happiest pigs you've ever met.
Saturday, Chicken makes soup!
Our artists are supported by the NEA. The Park, and these events, directly by our members. We love to host and feed you all, but keeping this project afloat (literally) is expensive and we have an urgent list of immediate needs in order to keep going.
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July camp details coming soon!
Upcoming stuff
Check out the calendar for workshops, collaboration, performances, practice...
extraordinarily ordinary, performance, may 20th, 7:30-8:30pm
extraordinarily ordinary, performance, may 20th, 7:30-8:30pm
Photo credit: Shannon Brinkman at Evolve ArtSpace Jan. 21, 2023, extraordinarily ordinary preview
extraordinarily ordinary
by reese johanson
May 20, 2023, 7:30pm, (running time, 1 hour, no intermission)
Fragmented reflections of memories
unravel a lifetime of misguided intentions.
Can we slow down, take a breath, be present?
The funny thing about presence is that we can never be late for it.
Let's show up, shall we?
Poetry, choreography and performance by reese johanson
Music composition and performance by Cassie Watson Francillon
Robert E. Nims Theatre, University of New Orleans
(Handicapped Accessible)
Tickets sliding scale: $22.22- $55.55
No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds (NOTAFLOF)
www.ticketsource.us/reesejohanson
Thank you to Angela King Gallery who has held space for this production in their Evolve ArtSpace gallery 2023.
Thank you to our supporting partner, ArtSpot Productions, to whom you may make tax deductible donations in support of this production.
If you have access needs, questions about the production, about your ticket purchase or to make a donation,
please contact artstreet504@gmail.com
Thank you supporters of this production:
ArtSpot Productions, Angela King Gallery, Diane Baas, Anne Burr, Shannon Brinkman, Rebecca Delery Chauvin, Cicada Radio, CoverAll's Decals, Cassie Watson Francillon, Jillian Gibson, Kevin Griffith, Huhu's Ginger Brew, Rachael Levy, Kellie Peach, Jenny Sargent, Shark Productions, Emmalee Sutton, Tchopshop Media, Oxbow Rum Distillery, UNOSOTA, Richard Weening
extraordinarily ordinary previous ensemble and past solo work have featured colleagues:
Mirley Allef, Diane Baas, Damani Butler, Phil DeGruy, Cassie Watson Francillon, Alex Frosch, Kevin Griffith, Chris Naughtypie Herbeck, Sohalia Hussan, Maia Júlia, Laura Kemmink, Shanti Lalita, Missy Martinez, Cliffard McPeek, Mike Mito, Marije Nie, Stella Peralta, Jenny Sargent, Richard Siday, Emmalee Sutton, Kendra Unique Wills, and Josie Ygnatowiz.
may 20, 2023 ~ collaboration with Cassie Watson Francillon
Photo credit: Shannon Brinkman
Cassie Watson Francillon explores folk, jazz, classical, modern & experimental music on the harp. With inimitable grit, tone, awareness and groove, Cassie crafts a narrative that connects past and future, existing and broken ancestral ties. Her sound and journey truly reflect her Haitian and Black American roots, crafting a precious and modern legacy by weaving weighted threads in mid air.
Cassie sat on the board of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Harp Society, was Assistant Producer of the annual New Orleans Jazz and Pop Harp Weekend, is a producer of the Sirens in the Twilight Music Series, and the principal harpist in Bernard Pearce’s new age opera: The Coronation, debuted at the New Orleans Airlift Music Box Village.
Cassie has been sought-after for her unique session work and live productions alongside John Cameron Mitchell, Helen Gillet, Tank and the Bangas, Norah Jones, Julie Odell, Luke Stewart, People Museum, Charm Taylor to name a few.
She was selected by Prospect Arts Group to conceptualize and perform a diasporic piece with Guardians of the Flame Black Masking Indians, opening for Christian Scott at the P.5 Gala of 2022. Cassie was selected by Grammy and Tony Award-winning NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater to be a fellow of the Woodshed Network for Women in Jazz.
extraordinarily ordinary in residence at Angela King Gallery
Currently in residence at Angela King Gallery - Evolve Space, "Extraordinarily Ordinary". Photo credit: Shark Productions, 2021, at UNO Amphitheatre.
What is Extraordinarily Ordinary?
Let us experience exquisite life, flashing before us, in mi-nute essence, or stalling with exaggerated volumes. Witness, take stock, grieve and cherish, we oh-so-human. Who is that in the mirror? How did they get here? So much passed, was so, so, so important, and finally, what was?
A poetry, dance, music, projection, theatre, installation, collage.
The funny thing about PRESENCE, is that it is happening all the time. A Buddhist, I imagine can (almost) grasp the cosmic hilarity of that statement.
How much life just rushes by? We put so much value in efforts that ultimately are worthless. How many times a day? - a week? - a month?... Do we take a moment to notice this gift of being alive, a moment?
I meditate (somewhat) regularly, hearken myself as a Jewddhist, (Buddhist Jew), and I am ashamed to say how infrequently I slow down enough to brush off the rat race and sit with gratitude. Taking IT for granted is quite a habit, meanwhile treading waters of keeping IT all together.
Can we sit in essence, in volumes, can we BE?
It’s not too late.
The funny thing about PRESENCE is, you can’t be late. Impossible.
Let’s show up, shall we?
I am manifesting new opportunities to present my work. "Extraordinarily Ordinary," Photo credit: Shark Productions, 2021, UNO Amphitheatre
A little history about the journey of this piece:
I started developing Extraordinarily Ordinary in New Orleans, late 2018, with a group of seven performance artists. It was a collaborative, improvisational, dance, theater, music piece- without text.
From this early development I composed a choreography script with the intention to recreate this improvisational show anywhere, incorporating artists who were completely foreign to the work and each other.
I took it to Amsterdam in residence at Pickup Club in the NDSM arts warehouses, then in residence at 11 Jane Street in Sauogerties NY. Returning to New Orleans, I performed a work in progress of it at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Dec. 2019.
Then COVID happened.
I dug deep into the piece. Asking myself, what is important to share at this time? A solo performance was distilled from the previous years work. And with it, I helped open the University of New Orleans outdoor amphitheatre.
Through this journey, people have often shared with me how moved they are, how relevant to the times and their personal lives they find it. This has inspired me to share it further.
Graciously Angela King Gallery offered a residency in their Evolve Space, to refine my craft, this piece, and expand nationally and internationally.
xoxo~ reese
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