609 St. Ferdinand, New Orleans, LA 70117
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
What: Re-Release Party (The Golden Record)
Where: Catapult (609 St. Ferdinand)
When: May 5th and 6th, 8pm
Tickets: $15
Reservations: [email protected]
MONDO BIZARRO PRESENTS
THE NEW ORLEANS PREMIERE OF A HOST OF PEOPLE’S
RE-RELEASE PARTY (THE GOLDEN RECORD)
Carl Sagan’s 1977 The Golden Record
aboard The Voyager spacecraft serves as inspiration
Detroit performance company A Host of People (Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker, Co-founders)
premieres their newest work Re-Release Party (The Golden Record).
Re-Release Party is rooted in a project in 1977 led by Carl Sagan and a dynamic team of scientists and
artists who created the Golden Record, a phonograph record which attempts to communicate the
story of life on earth for extraterrestrials and future humans. The record, filled with messages from
world leaders, greetings in many languages, pictures and sounds from earth, and a sampling of our
music, was launched aboard the Voyager space probes on their interstellar reconnaissance mission,
which continues to this day.
In an evening that travels through time and space, A Host of People will evoke the original team’s
story, while creating a new one--asking the audience to imagine what it is to communicate our vast,
yet puny, existence to aliens and to ourselves. Through artifacts from the original record, video transmissions, imagistic journeys, poetry and interviews, strange dances and original music, each performance will re-release a new Golden Record for that specific night, in that particular place, with the
humans in that room. As with all A Host of People shows, a party will unfold, celebrating both life here
and the possible lives out there in this vast and awesome universe.
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Re-Release Party is conceived and directed by Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker and co-created with:
Performers: Torri Lynn Ashford, Aja Salakastar Dier, Emily Harpe Chris Jakob,
Sam Moltmaker, Renee Willoughby
Projection Designers: Jake Hooker, Renee Willoughby
Set & Costume Designer: Dorothy Melander-Dayton
Lighting Designer & Production Manager: Chantel Gaidica
Original Sound & Music: Billy Mark
Stage Manager & Choreographic Consultant: Maddy Rager
Producer: John Del Gaudio
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
A Host of People is an interdisciplinary, multimedia theater company in Detroit, MI dedicated to the
making of original works. The company is led by co-directors Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker, whose
work has been seen, together and separately, in New York (The Bushwick Starr, The Chocolate Factory,
The Kitchen, HERE, Dixon Place, etc.), Berlin (Ida Nowhere, The Lyn-Lin), San Francisco (Intersection for
the Arts), Cleveland (Cleveland Public Theater) and Detroit (HomeBase, The Play House, ArtlabJ, The
Sidewalk Festival For the Performing Arts). We create live art around a central question: How can we
host more people into theatrical works that are complex and multifarious; work that situates itself
betwixt and between; work that is poetic, visual, nonconformist, and expands the viewer’s imagination,
curiosity and spirit? We strive to offer work that gives the viewer agency in their interpretation, as we
work to entertain. We invite our audience into our art as we would guests into our home,
whether it is in a house, on the street, in a gallery or in a theater.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PRESS INQUIRIES:
Jake Hooker / [email protected] / 917.547.9978 / www.ahostofpeople.org
Press photos available here (photo credit: Andrew Miller)
Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: ahostofpeople
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