San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Wizards, Augmented Reality And Pride Plays
Speaker 1: 00:00 This weekend is packed with some unique performance options and ways to experience and interact with art. Despite our continued virtual shut-in condition, you'll find original short plays that are part of San Diego pride. You can experience sculpture and ballet through augmented reality. Plus an enchanting. Choose your own adventure style performance with the LA Jolla Playhouse. Joining me is KPBS arts editor, Julia Dixon Evans. Julia. Welcome. Hi Maureen, let's start with something family oriented. The LA Jolla Playhouse has cooked up an immersive theater experience this weekend. So what can we expect? Wizards of Oakwood drive is a play by Tom Salomon. Who's an immersive theater director and writer based out in New York and this play combines wizards and treasure. Hence with a little dash of choose your own adventure. They have a handful of world-class actors and cleaning. Edric you Tomi who performed the title role and the national tour of Hamilton. And they're all wizards trying to win your vote. As the best wizard kids can be on screen playing along and they provided a supply list online of household objects. You'll need here's a teaser from LA Jolla Playhouse. Speaker 2: 01:16 We were kids. We found a book, a book of spells, and that's how we became wizards. Masters of wizardry. I don't, we don't look like your typical wizard. You don't have to have a creepy long beard to be a wizard. We're not your typical wizards, but we are masters of wizardry, but only one can be the best. And that's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. It's me. Speaker 1: 01:53 Wizard of Oakwood drive from the LA Jolla Playhouse will hold virtual interactive performances on zoom every half hour from two to 6:00 PM today. And from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday, plus shows next Thursday through Sunday as well. Up next in the visual art world, we have an artist talk tonight from Lux art institutes, new artists in residence. Yes, Cammie sorrows, who is a sculptor based in Los Angeles, began her residency at Lex. Recently. Her art tends to be inspired by Greco Roman sculptures, these vessel Lake pieces, but they're combined with a modern influence using industrial materials. Lux also just launched an augmented reality app with the stars exhibition, kicking it off. I downloaded it on my phone and it basically turned my kitchen into the exhibition space. It's kind of a nice way to remember what it feels like to wander through a museum. Speaker 1: 02:53 The app is free and you can explore the exhibition as a whole, and then learn more about the artist and each individual piece too. [inaudible] holds a virtual artists talk tonight at seven with Lux art Institute. Now in the dance world, we have a special offering from the Roslyn box kicking off tonight. Tell us about ghost light masquerade. Yeah, so the Roslyn box is a local contemporary ballet company, and they've been consistently putting out virtual work during the last few months. The latest has been in the works for awhile and also involves fermented reality. They've turned their performance space into kind of like a modern day speakeasy playing up the haunted vibe of their 10th Avenue art space. The original choreography is masquerade inspired and the music is vintage and spooky. Here's one of their hallway dances, which is a waltz composition called the vampire masquerade by Peter Speaker 2: 04:06 [inaudible]. Speaker 1: 04:07 And the technology is a nice twist on that. If you were lucky enough to snag one of the mask ticket packages before they sold out, you'll be able to watch this performance with a special headset and augmented reality with a fancy cocktail in hand that they'll deliver for the rest of us. We can still watch the virtual 360 degree performance without the headset. It's the ghost light level, the Rawson box presents ghost light masquerade that begins tonight through July 24th. And finally to wrap up a virtual pride week in San Diego, the old globe has paired with diversionary theaters, teen acting program to put together for short LGBTQ plays. Tell us about the project. Yeah, this is the first pride celebration for CoLab, which is a program of the old Globes arts engagement wing, and it'll feature live stream performances of brand new original short plays by local playwrights Sheree angle, Jamie Steppa, Catherine Harrop and Mickey veil. Speaker 1: 05:10 It's all produced by the diversionary Skyler Sullivan. I've seen performances of work by several of these writers, and this is a crop of local talent, definitely worth paying attention to it's a great way to add some art and our local creative community into this pretty unconventional pride week. The free performances also features professional actors along with participants from diversion Aires, teen acting program. This summer colabs globe pride is Sunday at 2:00 PM on the old Globes arts engagement digital platforms. For more arts events, you can check out the KPBS arts calendar or sign up for the weekly KPBS arts newsletter@kpbs.org slash arts. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor, Julia Dixon Evans. Julia. Thanks once again. Thank you, Maureen.
