Stories About Pizza
Color Arc Productions is back for its 4th year of live storytelling with fresh and locally sourced performances in STORIES ABOUT PIZZA. Thanks to our event sponsor Via 313, Austin's mainstay for genuine Detroit-style pizza, attendees will have several chances to win Via 313 gift cards throughout the night!🍕PIZZA PERFORMERSA buffet of Pizza Performers – pizza poets, true tale tellers, a flash fiction writer, a violin comedian, a ukulele singer, an abstract comedy dancer, and a drag king – will perform original “Pizza Pieces” at AFS Cinema. Our Pizza Performers are Michelle Alexander, Olivia Kathryn Baker, Seth Beaugh, Alexa Capareda, Alex Garza, Jacob Duffy Halbleib, Tien Hoang, James Hughes, Mark Killian, Mia King, T. Lynn Mikeska, River Montgomery, Angela Tolle, and Felice Trirogoff.🍕SHORT FILMSWe’ll also screen short films about pizza and comfort food: Color Arc’s award-winning short film Pizza My Heart and Color Arc’s work-in-progress hybrid animated/live action nonfiction short Sweet Potato Pig.Pizza My Heart is a comedy short that follows a Pizza Telegram Singing Delivery Specialist (Christine Hoang) as she delivers music and comfort food to a heartbroken 12yo girl (Vanessa Hoang Hughes). Directed by Elizabeth V. Newman, written by Christine Hoang, original score by Tyler Mabry, and two original songs by Tyler Mabry and Christine Hoang. Thanks to Austin PBS, our distribution partner and presenting station, Pizza My Heart is now streaming for free on the PBS app and PBS.org. Sweet Potato Pig is a hybrid animated/live action nonfiction short directed by Christine Hoang. It follows Christine’s Vietnamese American mother Tien Hoang’s immigrant journey through her food memories. Tien first told her story at Color Arc’s first storytelling show STORIES ABOUT COMFORT FOOD in 2023. It’s three years later, and we’re excited to present a work-in-progress screening of Sweet Potato Pig.🍕SHOW AGENDA:7:15pm: Doors open for general admission seating7:30pm: Show Starts9:30pm: End of Show 🍕ACCESSIBILITY: Seating & Viewing. The venue offers seating in the front row for patrons who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices, are visually impaired, or could otherwise benefit. Seating is general admission, so we recommend emailing [email protected] in advance so that we can ensure your needs are met. Accessible Toilets are available in the venue.This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3619857-0
