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Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region
Event Information
Description
Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region is a new opera for folk and classical singers that follows the journey of Orna, a trans-woman as she grapples with self-acceptance. She travels to the north of Michigan--guided by the Mother of Trees--to transform into a white-pine that will sit upon Chapel Rock, on the edge of Lake Superior, overlooking it all. The opera will receive its premiere on August 28-29th at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse.
A Note on Ticket Prices: Every ticket is general admission. Each seat in the house is going to be a great seat (with only two rows of seating on either side of the performing space)!
We understand that many people have diverse financial contexts and so we've provided a system that allows people who can afford to pay more to pay more, and those with smaller incomes or have other financial restraints can pay less. All admission sales go to our amazing artists! And so, we encourage you to pay what you can, knowing that you are supporting local up-and-coming artists in the Great Lakes Region.
Cast and Creative Team
Allison Prost - Orna, As She Sees Herself
Grey Grant - Orna, As She Feels She is Seen
Kate Moss, Kara Huckabone, Samatha Kao - Mother of Trees
Converge String Quartet: Megan Roher, Malhar Kute, violins; Ryan McDonald, viola; Hanna Brooke Rumora, cello
Danielle Gonzalez, Sofia Carbonara, percussion
Rehearsal Pianist - Samantha Kao
Artwork - Tanner Porter
Chapbook Contributors - Emily Yang, Corey Smith
Composer and Librettist - Grey Grant
Producer - Grey Grant
Director and Dramaturgy - Karl Ronneburg
Sound Design and Opperation - Peter Littlejohn
Lighting Design - Emily Yang
Front of House Manager - Madeline Endres
The premiere of this work is suppoted in part through the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund.
FAQs
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
The freighthouse doen't have much parking itself, though there is a dirt parking lot across the road (Market pl, and Rice st.) leading to the freighthouses for Frog Island Park, that the staff at the Freighthouse suggests guests use. Depot town additonally has street parking that is free nearby.
Organizer Fifth Wall Performing Arts and Converge
Organizer of Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region
Fifth Wall Performing Arts is confronting: calling into question the institutions of performative art-making by dismantling the suspension of disbelief and by creating work that is personal, intimate, and unabashed. As an interdisciplinary performance collective, Fifth Wall produces works of opera, theatre, and music that call into question the nature of what it means to perform both “in character” and as oneself, and by what means— what vessel, what landscape— stories, histories, and mythologies are shared.
Converge String Quartet, established in the fall of 2015, is a string quartet dedicated to performing the works of current University of Michigan composition students. As former applicants of the University of Michigan's EXCELerator program, the quartet was awarded a grant along with faculty mentorship in order to provide a platform by which student compositions could be seriously studied, performed, and shared with the greater Ann Arbor community. Together, they have hosted performances, collaborated on recording projects, played in pop-up and community concerts, and performed with other similarly-minded new music ensembles.
