For the last two weeks MASS MoCA has hosted Brad Wells’ Roomful of Teeth; a choral ensemble working to combine non-western song styles in a choral concert setting. Working with contemporary composers Rinde Eckhart and Judd Greenstien, the group of musicians is learning new vocal techniques (such as Tuvan throat singing and yodeling) as they also learn newly composed music. The group will take the stage tonight, June 26, at 8 PM to show off what they have been working on.

Watch an interview with Judd Greenstien on our YouTube page to hear what he has to say about the project and his time here at MASS MoCA.

I sat in on dress rehearsal last night and can guarntee that you won’t be dissapointed by what Roomful of Teeth has put together. There are still a few tickets avalible for the performance, order yours here.

Cheers,

Brittany

We’ve extended the deadline to the end of the day on Thursday, June 25. Upload your photos NOW!

Help us get the word out about the Blonde Redhead concert on Saturday, June 27, and we’ll enter you into a drawing to win Blonde Redhead and MASS MoCA swag, including tickets to the performance!

1. Download PDF poster and print copies in either C or B/W.

2. Hang posters in your community, your school, etc. (Anywhere other people are going to see the posters.) We aren’t responsible if you get in trouble for postering where you shouldn’t, so ask permission before posting on anyone’s private property.

3. Take a photo of every poster that you hang. (Cell phone photos are fine)

4. Add photos to our Blonde Redhead Poster Contest Flickr Group. (Not a member of Flickr? Click for more information and to sign up for an account)

5. Every 10 photos of different poster locations added to the Flickr group enters you into the drawing.

6. All entries must be added to the Flickr group by midnight of 6/25/09.

7. Winners will be drawn and contacted on 6/26/09.

Questions? E-mail me at bbishop@massmoca.org.

Happy postering!

Cheers,

Brittany

Help us get the word out about the Blonde Redhead concert on Saturday, June 27, and we’ll enter you into a drawing to win Blonde Redhead and MASS MoCA swag, including tickets to the performance!

1. Download PDF poster and print copies in either C or B/W.

2. Hang posters in your community, your school, etc. (Anywhere other people are going to see the posters.) We aren’t responsible if you get in trouble for postering where you shouldn’t, so ask permission before posting on anyone’s private property.

3. Take a photo of every poster that you hang. (Cell phone photos are fine)

4. Add photos to our Blonde Redhead Poster Contest Flickr Group. (Not a member of Flickr? Click for more information and to sign up for an account)

5. Every 10 photos of different poster locations added to the Flickr group enters you into the drawing.

6. All entries must be added to the Flickr group by midnight of 6/21/09.

7. Winners will be drawn and contacted on 6/24/09.

Questions? E-mail me at bbishop@massmoca.org.

Happy postering!

Cheers,

Brittany

A blog from our awesome Membership Manager Rebecca:

Entering the double digits means you are officially an Adult—or at least it did to me when I turned 10. In fact I have never felt as old or as mature as I did that year, and I celebrated in style, with a “fancyâ€� birthday party. I sent my 10 closest friends invitations on scrolls—paper rolled up in recycled paper towel tubes and sent through the mail—and donned my favorite outfit, a turquoise dress that was several sizes too big for me, my Dorothy-inspired ruby red Read the rest of this entry »

From Marketing intern Cortney…

Today I got the chance to sit in on the rehearsal for Cynthia Hopkins’ final installation of her Accinosco Trilogy. The performance is going to be so rad. This segment, entitled The Success of Failure (Or The Failure of Success), follows the same thematic content of the first two performances, but takes the execution of those elements to the utmost extreme. In a conversation with the interns today, Cynthia explained that her performances interweave truths from her research and actual events with fictions she has created to compliment her explorations into memory and amnesia.  Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been awhile since I have posted any photos from The Miss Rockaway Armada’s ever changing installation Being Here is Better than Wishing We’d Stayed. I stopped by to examine the space a few minutes after the galleries opened this morning and was glad to see there was already a group young patrons wandering around in the gallery with wide eyes and even wider smiles.  When they found the spaceship area I heard one of them eagerly proclaim “I don’t want to leave EVER!”

Brittany

PS. If you haven’t bought your tickets to the Philip Glass conversation and performance on Friday, January 16, I highly recomend you do so ASAP.