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$10 - Certificate of Adoption sent via email
$25 - Certificate of Adoption; 1 ticket to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 1 drink ticket
$50 - Certificate of Adoption; 2 tickets to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 2 drink tickets
$100 - Certificate of Adoption; 4 tickets to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 4 drink tickets
$500 - Certificate of Adoption; 2 Festival Passes including 2 drink tickets per visit; Backstage Access to meet the adoptees
$25 - Certificate of Adoption; 1 ticket to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 1 drink ticket
$50 - Certificate of Adoption; 2 tickets to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 2 drink tickets
$100 - Certificate of Adoption; 4 tickets to the soloNOVA Arts Festival including 4 drink tickets
$500 - Certificate of Adoption; 2 Festival Passes including 2 drink tickets per visit; Backstage Access to meet the adoptees
Support all of the soloNOVA artists with a donation to terraNOVA Collective:
Or by highlighting a performer from the list below:
RECEPTION
Performed, Written & Composed by James Harrison Monaco - Genre: Rhythmic Storytelling
Through body percussion and voice, James Harrison Monaco transports the audience to a gaudy rented mansion on Long Island for a wedding reception. This original tale includes all the huge group dance numbers (performed solo), existential despair, disgust, and love that make up a family gathering.
Highlight Reception
BABY REDBOOTS' REVENGE
Performed by Sean Sullivan - Genre: Avante Vaudeville
Voted "Best in The Fringe" in 1997, performer Sean Sullivan is back with a vengeance in the re-imagined, recharged, rebooted Baby Redboots' Revenge! A former child star, whose voice changed belatedly at the age of 25, is trapped playing stand-up bass in a polka band for all eternity. Determined to free himself from the curse of his old partner, Baby Redboots, he goes on an iconoclasmic joy-rage of nightmarish proportions! "A virtual Nijinksy of performance art" - The New York Times
Highlight Baby Redboots' Revenge
EMPANADA FOR A DREAM
Performed & Written by Juan Francisco Villa - Genre: Spoken L.E.S. Cumbia/Urban Family Mythology
Performed & Written by Juan Francisco Villa - Genre: Spoken L.E.S. Cumbia/Urban Family Mythology
Fresh from a sold out run with Ballybeg at the Barrow Group Theatre, EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is a haunting love song to the Lower East Side. Juan Francisco Villa's return to the neighborhood of his childhood is a dangerous and hilarious tale about growing up by getting out.
Highlight Empanada For A Dream
WHEN THOUGHTS ATTACK
Performed and Written by Kelly Kinsella - Genre: Comic Monologue
Performed and Written by Kelly Kinsella - Genre: Comic Monologue
Never has the act of ordering lunch been so entertaining! In this uproarious tragic new show, Kelly is caught in a whirlpool of anxiety. Armed with a good sense of humor, she goes to battle with her mind.
Highlight When Thoughts Attack
unFRAMED
Performed & Written by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo - Genre: Storytelling through Poetry & Painting
Performed & Written by Iyaba Ibo Mandingo - Genre: Storytelling through Poetry & Painting
unFRAMED invites audiences into the studio of the artist where poetry and painting ignite. Using canvas, paint, poetry, prose, and song, Antigua-born Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells his story of life as an immigrant in America, from "Mommy Me No Wanna Go Merrica" - a prophetic piece that hints at the many trials he will face in a new land - to his powerful political poetry that would lead to his arrest and attempted deportation in post 9/11 America. Throughout the play Iyaba shares his rage, determination, and his hope while he paints his self-portrait.
Highlight unFRAMED
I LIGHT UP MY LIFE:
THE MARK SAM CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Performed & Written by Mark Sam Rosenthal - Genre: Comedy/Self-Aggrandizement
THE MARK SAM CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Performed & Written by Mark Sam Rosenthal - Genre: Comedy/Self-Aggrandizement
At long last! The world's first preemptive celebrity autobiography! Attempt to stomach this smut-fueled, casually offensive road-to-success story of a celebrity who has succeeded nowhere - but in his own mind. From the creators of Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire.
Highlight I Light Up My Life
THE EVENT
Performed by David Calvitto - Genre: The Last One-Man Show
Performed by David Calvitto - Genre: The Last One-Man Show
A man stands in a pool of light and attempts the ultimate magic trick: disappearing while remaining in full sight. A thought-provoking, comic journey beyond the 4th wall into the dangerous slippery territory that lies beneath the written word.
Highlight The Event
UBU
Performed & Directed by Daniel Irizarry - Genre: Comedic Physical Theater/Performance Art/Puppetry
Performed & Directed by Daniel Irizarry - Genre: Comedic Physical Theater/Performance Art/Puppetry
Inspired by Ubu Roi, UBU is the King of the Great Expanding Universe who will allow a privileged few into his mansion to watch him eat steak. Along the way, he may play music, read you poetry and tell of his lost loves and purchased politicians - it all depends on the mood of the King. A kinetic romp through the absurdist world of the most powerful CEO in the universe.
Highlight UBU
HUMAN FRUIT BOWL
Performed by Harmony Stempel - Genre: Nude Retrospective
Performed by Harmony Stempel - Genre: Nude Retrospective
A tub, a scarf, a stool and a naked woman. Structured as a live fine art modeling session, Human Fruit Bowl (WINNER Creative Award for Best Production at Prague Fringe Festival, 2011), investigates the relationship between artist and model. Part story, part mystery, part lecture-demonstration, this fast-paced monologue delivered in stillness asks: What are the stories we tell about artists and their muses? What are the truths, if any, to be found?
Highlight Human Fruit Bowl
CONVERGENCE
Performed by Avery Pearson - Genre: Multi-Character, Multi-Media Drama
Performed by Avery Pearson - Genre: Multi-Character, Multi-Media Drama
How far would you go to protect your family from harm, or to ensure them a spot in the Kingdom of Heaven? A haunting story of fear and love, faith and reason, Convergence explores the intersection of seemingly opposed forces, and the explosive consequences of their collision.
Highlight Convergence