Photo: King Stropharia

The Taja Will Ensemble Presents:

Dearest Liberator, DISASTER! DISASTER! DISASTER!

(Curated Rental)

April 24-27, 2024

(Doors at 7:10)

Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 pm

Thursday, April 25, 7:30 (with ASL)

Friday April 26, 7:30 pm

Saturday, April 27, 5 pm

Location:

Red Eye Theater

2213 Snelling Ave

Minneapolis, MN 55404

Street parking is available and the venue is located within blocks of the light rail blue line, #2 bus route, and the greenway.

Our tickets ​have a sliding scale price of ​$15-50 (suggested $25)

While choosing your ticket price we encourage you to consider you access to wealth, generational or income based. Patronage is needed in the arts and to support small companies like TWE into the future. We also value access for those who are underemployed or are systemically oppressed to a greater degree by late stage capitalism and the lower end of the sliding scale is for these individuals.

Performance FAQs:

  • Run time is approximately 60 minutes, please be prepared to start a little late, because it always seems to happen.

  • Doors open 20 minutes before the performance and we suggest coming early to get comfortable. 

  • All audience members will be ushered to their seating by a TWE community member.

  • The Red Eye is an ADA accessible venue, the performance advances on access with an audience seating design which allows community members with mobility devices to be seated anywhere in the space. Please let us know your access needs around seating and we will help you choose the best seat for you prior to arriving at the performance venue. 

  • There is no intermission but you are welcome to step away when you need to. 

  • This performance has multiple live music moments shared at a high volume, please bring any noise dampening devices you prefer and we will have standard ear plugs available. 

  • Health and wellness, assume your responsibility for the immunocompromised and vulnerable individuals in our community that you may be seated next to. Please do not come if you are not feeling well. Masking is a personal choice, both the Red Eye and TWE strongly suggest wearing a mask and we will have colorful options available. 

Dearest Liberator, DISASTER! DISASTER! DISASTER! is a moment to metabolize climate catastrophe. Our queer Latine squad of contemporary avatars deliver a dark comedy, call to action & awareness. We pack our "go bags" and practice all the survival strategies we've ever trained and retained. All the elemental energies are invited at once, WATER, AIR, FIRE, EARTH, moon, ghost, catastrophe, compost, restoration and diaspora ancestors. We call to action vibrational awareness of ecosystem solidarity, and elemental sovereignty.

Created and Performed by Marisol Herling, Eric Gonzalez, Margaret Ogas and Taja Will

Photo: King Stropharia

Acknowledgements:

DISASTER! Collaborative Team: snem DeSellier (lighting designer), Sequoia Hauck (video + projection, board op), Matt Regan (Red Eye space technician), Jorie Ann Kosel (scenic designer lead), and Ansel Langmead (project manager).

DISASTER! premiere and development has been made possible by the Red Eye Curated Rentals program, three thirty one space residencies in 2022 and 2023, the Tofte Lake Center's artist residency program, and funding from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.

The Taja Will Ensemble and Red Eye Theater are based on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe.