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Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide To The Trees Of Michigan And The Great Lakes Region"

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Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Fifth Wall Performing Arts: NEW OPERA PREMIERE

Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide To The Trees Of Michigan And The Great Lakes Region"

Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide To The Trees Of Michigan And The Great Lakes Region"

Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide To The Trees Of Michigan And The Great Lakes Region"

Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide To The Trees Of Michigan And The Great Lakes Region"

Fifth Wall Performing Arts
Fifth Wall Performing Arts
Fifth Wall Performing Arts
Fifth Wall Performing Arts
1 Campaign |
Ann Arbor, United States
$1,340 USD 33 backers
38% of $3,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
Our interdisciplinary arts company, Fifth Wall Performing Arts, is entering into our first production of a new opera, Grey Grant's "Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region". The opera will receive its premiere on August 28 - 29th, 2019 at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse, and will receive an encore performance in New York City on October 12, at Dixon Place.

 

Short Summary

WHO WE ARE:

The company, 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. 

WHAT THIS IS:

Our inaugural production, 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, and transforms into the white pine that sits upon Chapel Rock, on the edge of Lake Superior, overlooking it all.

 

What We Need & What You Get

If this work excites you and you’d like to see new and groundbreaking art by up-and-coming artists, we’d love to have some help in making this establishing project happen!

WHERE THE MONEY GOES: We need help purchasing our props, compensating our performers, renting the Ypsilanti Freighthouse space, documenting the performance, and funding our transportation to NYC. Additional funds go towards building our website, audio equipment, and printing a chapbook of the libretto!

We've already received an EXCEL Grant from the University of Michigan in collaboration with Converge New Music, and are raising what we need to fill in the gaps.

 

The Impact

  • Our work bridges the gap between contemporary music and folk-style singing, as well as intimate and abstract works of theater.
  • After our previous production of Einstein in the HOUSE (our adaptation of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach for an Ann Arbor living room), we want to start bringing original works by our team into production! 

 

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can't contribute, but want to help:

  • Ask folks to get the word out and make some noise about our campaign!
  • Come see either the performance in Ypsilanti Michigan on Aug 28-29 or in New York City on Oct 12!

 

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Social Media Shoutout!

$10 USD
We will give you a shoutout on facebook and instagram, thanking you for your contribution!
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  • Social Media Shoutout!
2 claimed

Haiku

$25 USD
We will send you an originally-composed haiku thanking you for your help!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Haiku
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
10 claimed
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Video Postcard

$40 USD
We will make and send you a special (musical) video postcard!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Video Postcard
Estimated Shipping
October 2019
2 claimed

Tree Clipping Postcard

$60 USD
We will send you a special Michigan Tree Fact Postcard with a haiku AND a pressed leaf or tree clipping from a Michigan Tree!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Video Postcard
  • Tree Clipping Postcard
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
1 claimed
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"Fund a Puppet"

$75 USD
Fund the creation of a large puppet character for the show! Backers of this level will receive a digital download or C.D. of the audio from the live performance.
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Haiku
  • Live Performance Audio
Estimated Shipping
February 2020
1 claimed

"Fund a Performer"

$100 USD
Even more important than our giant puppet, we need our performers to make this show happen! Your sponsorship will help us cover the costs of one of our musicians. At this level, you will receive a video in the of a digital download or D.V.D. of the live performance.
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Haiku
  • Performance DVD
Estimated Shipping
February 2020
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Patron of Fifth Wall

$250 USD
Thank you for being a patron! At this level you will receive video or audio of the live performance, we will thank you live from the premiere!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Tree Clipping Postcard
  • Live Shoutout
  • Performance DVD
Estimated Shipping
February 2020
0 claimed
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Join the Fifth Wall Family!

$500 USD
Wow! Thanks for the contribution! At this level you will be invited to brunch with the composer and performers of the cast to talk all things opera, Michigan, and the performing Arts!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Haiku
  • Live Shoutout
  • Performance DVD
  • Brunch!
Estimated Shipping
February 2020
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Impresario!

$1,500 USD
You're truly a patron of the arts and we thank you! At this level you will receive: a commissioned work in your name, collaborative composed by our own Karl and Grey, which will be premiered at a Fifth Wall show! You will also receive many of the awards from the lower tiers!
Included Items
  • Your Name in the Program
  • Tree Clipping Postcard
  • Live Shoutout
  • Performance DVD
  • Brunch!
  • Commission a new work
Estimated Shipping
April 2020
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