Workshop: East African Dance with Ndere Troupe

Ndere Troupe presents a workshop highlighting songs and dances from Uganda. Expressing pride in education, Ndere’s work salvages and conserves African heritage through dance and music. Performing a repertoire of more than 40 authentic Ugandan dances and songs accompanied by various Indigenous percussive, stringed and wind instruments, Ndere Troupe will share with us dances to introduce us to African traditions, generations in the making. Come dressed in comfortable clothing. All bodies welcome.

March 9th | 4-5:30pm | UNM, Robert Hartung Bldg, Rm 206

All are welcome though space is limited, please

RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Artist Talk: Stacy Klein of Double Edge Theatre Company

Founder and Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre, one of the foremost ensemble theatres and theatre centers in the US. Klein has conceived and directed five original performance cycles, which have earned her international recognition for daring and innovation. In 2013, she was honored with a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, given to artists of profound influence on the field in this country. Likewise, her work in developing the concept of “living culture,” a term categorizing engagement of communities in the creation of art and culture, has been groundbreaking. Klein conceived and directed the Revolutions performance Leonora & Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro.

March 9th | 2-4pm | UNM, Robert Hartung Bldg, Rm 206

All are welcome though space is limited, please

RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Artist Talk: Joe Peracchio

Tricklock Company’s Founding Artistic Director and Pollock performer Joe Peracchio has written for DECEPTION on ABC, and previously for THE FLASH and THE MESSENGERS on the CW network. He is also part of the producing team for ESPN’s 30for30 film TROJAN WAR, directed by Aaron Thomas. Joe received his MFA in writing for screen and television from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he is now an adjunct professor of television writing. He is a graduate of the Warner Brothers TV Writers Program, where he is also a guest instructor, is a writing/producing consultant in the television department at LA City College, and has been nominated for numerous awards including the Humanitas Prize.

March 11th | 2-4pm | UNM, Robert Hartung Bldg, Rm 206

All are welcome though space is limited, please RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

A Work-in-Progress Showing: Anniversary

Revolutions Festival goers and NET Macrofest attendees get a sneak peak at new work being created by Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias of the clown act Die Roten Punkte. Short artist talkback to follow, facilitated by Juli Hendren.

March 13th | 3:30pm | UNM Center for the Arts – Experimental Theatre

All are welcome though space is limited, please

RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Artist Talk: Ifrah Mansour

Ifrah Mansour discusses her approach to performance-making. She identifies as a Somali, refugee, muslim, multimedia artist and a teacher based in Minnesota. Her artwork explores trauma through the eyes of children to uncover the resiliencies of minorities. She interweaves poetry, puppetry, films, and installations that elicit multi-generational conversations.

March 18th | 12-1:15pm | CNM Main Campus – SRC Room 204

All are welcome though space is limited, please

RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Community Performance: How to Have Fun in a Civil War

Minnesota-based Somali playwright and performer Ifrah Mansour revisits her childhood memories during the 1991 Somali civil war to confront violent history with humor and provide a voice for the global refugee stories of children. How to Have Fun in a Civil War is a one-act multimedia play which explores war from an idyllic viewpoint of a seven-year-old Somali refugee girl. The play weaves puppetry, poetry, videos and multiple oral stories taken from community interviews to tell a captivating story about resilience while pushing the audience to engage in a healing process that is still raw for survivors of the war. This family-friendly show is recommended for ages 6 and up.

March 20th | 7pm | South Broadway Cultural Center204

Reservations recommended: boxoffice@tricklock.com

Workshop: Clown Intensive with Clare Bartholomew

Clare Bartholomew (Die Roten Punkte, The Long Pigs) is a critically acclaimed, award winning Australian clown who has specialized in teaching clown and physical comedy for 20 years. She also works as a performer, writer, director and producer of new work. This is an advanced workshop.

March 21st | 10am-2pm | Tricklock Performance Laboratory

Experience required, RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Workshop: Paper Storytelling with Hubert Michalak

A Tricklock Satellite Member based in Wrocław, Poland, Hubert is performing his micro-theatrical and intimate work The Shortest Shakespeare Ever. A performer of many mediums, in this session he will share some approaches to creating performance with paper. Participants will learn to tell stories with the shape, form, texture, and structure of different types of paper. Be prepared for some physical movement, and a culminating presentation of original work.

March 25th | 4-6pm | UNM, Robert Hartung Bldg, Rm 206

All are welcome though space is limited, please RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

Artist Talk: Creativity Unlimited with Inua Ellams

An Evening with an Immigrant writer and performer talks about his play The Half God on Rainfall*, and his journey to creating it. Born in Nigeria, Ellams is a cross art form practitioner, a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of the Midnight Run — an international, arts-filled, night-time, playful, urban, walking experience. Across his work, Identity, Displacement & Destiny are reoccurring themes in which he also tries to mix the old with the new: traditional african storytelling with contemporary poetry, pencil with pixel, texture with vector images. His poetry is published by Flipped Eye, Akashic, Nine Arches & several plays by Oberon.

March 26th | 2-3:15pm | UNM Center for the Arts – Experimental Theatre

All are welcome though space is limited, please RSVP to katy@tricklock.com

*Participants should read this play or listen to the audio book prior to the talk.

Artist Talk + Performance Sample: Brian Quijada

An actor, playwright, musician, award-winning solo performer, and Co-Artistic Director of The Wild Wind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University, Brian was born in the Greater Chicagoland Area to Salvadoran parents. Based in NYC, his acting work has been seen all across The United States and internationally. Brian’s writing work has been produced from coast to coast and focuses on immigration, the human condition, identity, and the Latinx-American experience.

March 26th | 12:30-1:45pm | UNM Center for the Arts – Experimental Theatre

All are welcome though space is limited, please RSVP to katy@tricklock.com