The Voice Box Recommends - February 11 - 14

Lots of local art in action this week. Seattle company Backwards Ensemble is bringing in Brian Copeland for a 4-day run of his popular one-man show; experimental music group The Fisher Ensemble (of which I am a member) performs excerpts from Garrett's new opera; and musicians from all over town gather to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

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NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN
Theatre Off Jackson
February 11 - 14, 8 pm
$20 - 50
Valentine's Day special - 2 tickets for $35

From Backwards Ensemble Theater Company:

The longest running solo play in San Francisco Theatrical History comes to Seattle for a very special limited engagement!

Brian Copeland's first solo show, NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN, reveals a little-known chapter of Bay Area history. In 1971, San Leandro was named one of the most racist suburbs in America. Congressional hearings were held. The next year, the then eight-year-old Brian Copeland and his African-American family moved to San Leandro. In a monologue that's both funny and poignant, Brian explores how surroundings make us who we are.

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Fisher Ensemble Artwalk Benefit
Cafe Metropolitain
Thursday, February 11, 7:30 pm
Suggested donation of $5-15

From The Fisher Ensemble:

Come join the Fisher Ensemble in a celebration of new art & performance!

In February we'll be performing our new piece, At the Hawk's Well in Seattle, and then in Boston and New York in March. Bring a friend, stop by for a drink and help us get there! Suggested donation: $5-15.

More info about the show: http://www.fisherensemble.org/atthehawkswell.html

The benefit will be in conjunction with the Capitol Hill's Artwalk; we have invited Seattle artist Garima Naredi to introduce us to some of her new work which will be on display.

http://www.garimanaredi.com/

Performing:
The Fisher Ensemble (excerpts of our new piece)
The Endeavors (http://www.theendeavors.com/)
Kathryn Hightower & Steel Grace Dance
Vanessa deWolf
Ines Andrade and Marchette DuBois
Rosalyn DeRoos
Amy Schrader

We hope to see you there!

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Seattle Sings for Haiti
Brahms Requiem
Friday, Feb 13, 7:30 PM
St. Mark's Cathedral
$10 suggested donation

From Seattle Sings For Haiti:

SEATTLE SINGS FOR HAITI

Combined Choirs of Seattle, members of Orchestra Seatte and NW Mahler Orchestra to perform at St. Marks Cathedral in Haiti Benefit Event

On February 13, 2010, at 7:30 pm, the city of Seattle will sing for Haiti.

The Northwest Mahler Festival, in collaboration with Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Musicians' Haiti Benefit Project, will host a benefit concert in which Seattle's own George Shangrow will conduct Johannes Brahms' Requiem (entitled "Ein Deutches Requiem," Opus 45) before a chorus of combined Seattle area choirs and members of Orchestra Seattle and the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra.

St. Mark's Cathedral, which can support an audience of over one thousand, will donate the use of their sanctuary for the event.

Representatives from the aid organization Friends of the Orphans will be in attendance to collect donations for their work in providing aid to orphaned children in Haiti. Friends of the Orphans has ongoing projects in Haiti, and suffered the loss of several staff members and volunteers who were working in Port au Prince during the Haiti earthquake.

Donations will be collected at the door and 100% of all proceeds will be donated to Friends of the Orphans.

If you are unable to attend the upcoming gala performance at St. Mark's Cathedral, but would still like to donate to Friends of the Orphans, please visit their 2010 Haiti Earthquake Relief donation page, found here. Please indicate that you heard about Friends of the Orphans through Seattle Sings for Haiti.