FULL PINK MOON by Sean Griffin (courtesy of Opera Povera)
Event Pick: FULL PINK MOON: Opera Povera in Quarantine
April 6, 2020
The Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry and California Institute of the Arts present FULL PINK MOON: Opera Povera in Quarantine, a livestream fundraising opera performance from composer Pauline Oliveros.
The event is a global fundraiser supporting musicians facing the COVID-19 pandemic, and coincides with Tuesday's full moon, from 6pm - midnight Pacific Time. A durational virtual opera featuring vocalists, instrumentalists, noise practitioners, and performers of all kinds, some 250 performers from across the globe are expected to participate -- yes, via Zoom -- and livestreamed simultaneously via Facebook Live, YouTube, and Twitch.
FULL PINK MOON by Sean Griffin (courtesy of Opera Povera)
FULL PINK MOON will feature a collective virtual performance by 250+ artists from around the world, in a sort of collaborative process of choices and alternation described by Sean Griffin as, not a spectator's opera, [but] rather, a vast participatory operatic landscape of moondrunk people in a fictional space of free expression and listening.
This worldwide livestream event, 6pm - 12am Pacific, occurring overnight during the pink moon, is a fundraiser for the Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund.