The Exponential Festival Presents: SalOn! (RETRO / GRADE)

The Exponential Festival presents SalOn! (RETRO / GRADE)

SalOn! at Mercury Store: A Night of Process

Come for the smorgasbord of micro-acts, stay for the end-of-festival gathering!

Co-Curated by Matthew Antoci & Jillian Jetton​​​​​

HOSTED by Darling Toby

FEATURING:

• Anthony Sertel Dean (SOUND)
• Catalina Cofone Polack (MUSIC / COMEDY)
• Darling Toby (BURLESQUE-PERFORMANCE ART)
• Ian Andrew Askew (SOUND)
• Jaime Wright (TIME CRITICISM)
• JoyBoy (DANCE COMEDY)
• Manuel Ortiz & Francisco Arcila (THEATER)
• Michael Oluokun (COMEDY)
• Peter Mills Weiss (STORY)
• Rebecca Patek (FUSION)
• Theresa Buchheister / Title:Point (MULTITASKING)
• Trove (WORDS)

Image by Mark Toneff

RSVP by making a donation of any amount! Reach out to ExponentialFestival@gmail.com if you have questions!

Doors at 7pm

Presentation at 7:30pm

9-10pm - end-of-festival gathering

Hatched by Theresa Buchheister in 2014 and co-curated by Matthew Antoci & Jillian Jetton, this quarterly affair brings together artists, comedians, chefs, scientists, theologians – anyone with something to share in a DIY, low-stakes setting – in one delightfully unpredictable night. Presenters are asked to share something *at the edge* of their practice, and the resulting mixed-bill of micro-acts coalesces (loosely) around a theme… This season, that theme is RETRO / GRADE – as in: Mercury in, reverse/return/decay, level, assess … or??? Join us at Mercury Store to find out.

Find them: @salonseriesbk

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org