A live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction because we need to be thinking of the future as a society, for a multitude of reasons: we need to be seeing and talking about ourselves and each other in new ways- seeing people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- showing folks in positions of power, showing different ways of leading, etc. Society also needs to think about the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also to envision new ways of doing things (or imagining old ways of doing things in the future).
March 2, 2025 featuring:
Kai Stewart (they/them or e/em) Ok, so, you start, you just start, somewhere, every day probably. Probably every day but at least once, and then later, and later than that, and eventually there's snow and trees or rocks or record shops and that happens for like 40 or 70 years, and you try to write it down as clearly as you can, but it's never exact. It's a map/territory thing. A figure/ground confusion. Pages and pages and pages, wandering halls, drifting horizons; i am alive and I have been for a while, and sometimes things happen. I am not clear on which ones are noteworthy.
Dameun Strange (he/him) is a sound explorer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound designer whose conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focus on stories and themes of the African diaspora, often using surrealist and afro-futurist aesthetics. He is currently a graduate student in Composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music and lives in the Frogtown Community of Saint Paul, MN with his wife, Corina, and their inquisitive daughter, Ezra.
Cole Sarar (she/they) is a writer, photographer, and tech-artist. She creates public, interactive literary pieces in collaboration with local writers, using phone technology and simple physical design. She’s the creator of Cole Sarar’s Sci-Fi Reading Hour, a live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Cole’s creative work envisions possible futures and alternate presents, employing under-represented characters and situations to imagine ourselves existing in the future, having roles, and doing things other than what has been written for us in the past. Their work falls along the intersection of technology and literature. They might use code and tech behind the scenes, or simple physical items like paper, flags, and our cell phones to create surprising, interactive fiction in physical space. Cole served on the board of Art Shanty Projects, and moonlights for various arts organizations. They are first generation Turkish-American.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.