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The Muncie Arts and Culture Council and PlySpace Artist in Residence Erin Mallea, invite you to participate in the Cicada Chorus.

The Cicada Chorus project is offering two workshops on Saturday, June 5.

More information on this project and a full list of workshops on https://www.plyspace.org/cicada

Cicada Science + Listening Session

Saturday, June 5, 11:00 am–12:15 pm 

Ball State University, Christy Woods

Free parking is available at the Cooper Life Sciences parking lot on Riverside Ave. Participants will meet outside of the Charles W. Brown Planetarium.

This indoor and outdoor session will include an introduction to the science of cicadas and singing insects led by the Ball State Environmental Education Center. Afterward, Mallea will lead a series of listening exercises to facilitate slower, more attentive listening to our surroundings as an entrypoint to the project and a means to tune into our greater ecosystem and non-human neighbors. Participants are required to wear masks.

Vocal Workshop

Saturday, June 5th, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Ball State University, Fine Arts Building AR 217 (David Owsley Museum of Art Building)

John Vessels, Ball State University Instructor of Theater, Dance, and Musical Theatre, will lead participants in a series of vocal exercises to explore the capacity of the human voice and unusual sound making. We will practice breathing, noise making, and inhabiting another sensibility. No prior singing or choral experience is required. Session will be in a large, indoor space to allow physical distancing. Participants are required to wear masks. If you are interested in participating virtually, please let us know.

The Muncie Arts and Culture Council and PlySpace Artist in Residence Erin Mallea, invite you to participate in the Cicada Chorus.

More information on this project and a full list of workshops on https://www.plyspace.org/cicada

Rehearsals and Video Shoot:

Saturday, June 19, 3 to 6pm

The Cicada Chorus rehearsal dates have been consolidated with the video shoot. The rehearsal will take place on location for the video shoot Saturday, June 19, from 3-6 pm.⁠

Contact sarah@munciearts.org to receive more information about the location of the video shoot, specific instructions on what to wear, and to be added to the final contact list.

Join The Muncie Arts and Culture Council (MACC) for a one-night exhibition and artist talk led by PlySpace Artist in Residence, Erin Mallea. Mallea’s video project, “The Cicada Chorus”, will premiere for a one-night only public viewing following an artist talk on Tuesday, June 29, at 6:00 pm at PlySpace Gallery. The artist talk will focus on the work Mallea has completed at PlySpace, as well as previous work. “The Cicada Chorus” was created in collaboration with participants from the Muncie Community. This event is free and open to the public, with masks required. 

Since joining PlySpace in May, Mallea has collaborated with individuals from the Muncie community as well as the Ball State Environmental Education Center, John Vessels of Ball State Theatre and Dance, Camp Adventure, and Red-Tail Land Conservancy to listen to and observe insect noises in the area. The research and recorded sounds were used to develop a performance video where participants make sounds to imitate a choral insect cacophony. The chorus, and subsequent video, celebrates the particularities of the region’s ecosystem and the often taken for granted “others” we live alongside that are integral to our ecosystem. 

Mallea writes: “The chorus is an opportunity for collective close-looking and listening as an entrypoint to playfully, yet earnestly inhabit a non-human sensibility. The chorus has become a collective clock: mimicking the sounds of cicadas shifting from dawn to dusk and spring to summer.”

About the Artist:

Erin Mallea (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist motivated by an attempt to better understand the spaces she inhabits. Collapsing personal, natural, and national history, her work explores the past and present of particular microcosms as metaphors for larger human and environmental conditions. Analytical, meandering, playful, and often public in nature, her work scrutinizes systems of producing knowledge, place, and relationships to nature in the American landscape and manifests in a range of media including video, audio, sculpture, photography, performance, writing, and participatory projects. Mallea has exhibited internationally, advocated for the ethical memorialization of a historic oak tree, and recently sent vibrations from a giant fungus throughout the atmosphere. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Mallea teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Carlow University.

More information about the Cicada Chorus visit our website, www.PlySpace/cicada.  PlySpace Summer Term events can be found on the PlySpace website at www.PlySpace.org/events and the PlySpace Facebook page. Questions or comments about the PlySpace Residency program, events, and community collaborations can be directed to the Program Coordinator, Sarah Shaffer, at sarah@munciearts.org. Learn more about Muncie Arts & Culture Council at www.munciearts.org.

PlySpace is a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council in partnership with the City of Muncie, Ball State University School of Art, and Sustainable Muncie Corporation. PlySpace is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

PlySpace, the artist in residence program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council (MuncieArts) presents a one-night only artist talk and performance by PlySpace Resident, Camila Ortiz on Thursday, October 21 at 6:30 pm in the PlySpace Gallery. Ortiz will perform “touching the stove coil”, a collection of songs she created during the month of October while at PlySpace. The songs are explorations of personal and family histories interwoven with scenes from her time in Muncie, and will be performed on guitar, voice, and electronics. This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required.

Camila Ortiz is a songwriter, performer, and educator based in New York. Spanning folk, pop, and avant-garde, her music employs words, colors, textures, and space to invite moments of reflection and emotional release. Her songs have been featured by NPR’s All Songs Considered, Input/Output Magazine, and Various Small Flames. Her piece “Banishing Spell'' for 40-channel speaker diffusion system was performed at the Hydra Festival in Cambridge, MA and Klang! Festival in Montpelier, France. She has collaborated with Ian Askew on sound scores for Kamal Nassif’s ALA EADHA, Christopher Myers’ The Art Of Taming Horses, Kaneza Schaal, Joie Lee, and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s The Healing, and an AR introduction to Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country. Her practice also encompasses visual art and teaching.

While in residence at PlySpace, Camila will be teaching a workshop series on interdisciplinary storytelling for students at The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. The workshops invite participants to explore and honor significant personal narratives through visual notation, ritual, and performance. 

For more information about this and other Fall Term events, visit our website, www.PlySpace.org or the PlySpace Facebook page. Questions or comments about the PlySpace Residency program, events, and community collaborations can be directed to the Program Coordinator, Sarah Shaffer, at sarah@munciearts.org. Learn more about the Muncie Arts & Culture Council at www.munciearts.org.

 

PlySpace is a program of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council and the City of Muncie. PlySpace is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ball Brothers Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County.

Come join Masterworks Chorale for our first concert of our 44th season of singing. We will be performing Alice Parker's cantata Melodious Accord: Concert of Praise, based on hymn tunes and texts from the shape-note tradition. We look forward to performing live for audiences again!

Join our upbeat funky dance rock music at elm street brewery!
Like Mother Like Daughter is a three piece family band with high energy and fun family friendly tunes!! Music from 7-11! Let’s party!

October 21; 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

Free community event

Inspired by the Hat Parties that Frances & Betty Ball used to host at Oakhurst, join us in Betty’s Cabin for whimsical fun! Wear a favorite hat from home or make and decorate a paper hat at the Cabin. In true party fashion, refreshments will be provided.

Presented by Patterson Block Muncie

Free Community Event         

Kick off the holiday season with family and friends at Minnetrista. This event will feature sweet treats, winter crafts, enchanting lights, holiday entertainment, and our popular Holiday Artisan Market. Embrace the sounds and spirit of the winter holidays at this free community event.

Presented in partnership with The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County, eKeeper Systems, Estep Burkey Simmons, Old National Bank, Peterman Brothers, and Whitinger & Co.

Free Community Event         

Kick off the holiday season with family and friends at Minnetrista. This event will feature sweet treats, winter crafts, enchanting lights, holiday entertainment, and our popular Holiday Artisan Market. Embrace the sounds and spirit of the winter holidays at this free community event.

Presented in partnership with The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County, eKeeper Systems, Estep Burkey Simmons, Old National Bank, Peterman Brothers, and Whitinger & Co

Under the direction of Andrew Crow, director of choral activities, and featuring the work of graduate student conductors the Ball State Choirs present a series of concerts each year featuring a wide range of music from around the world and across the centuries.

The Chamber Choir is the university’s most prestigious concert choir.

The Ball State University Singers are extra ecstatic this year for their 2024 Spectacular because this will be our 60th anniversary performance! We are pulling out all the stops for this momentous event. It's a reunion year for all past cast members to enjoy and be recognized, and ALL guest choreographers are Singers alums! The cast features promising new and veteran members bringing their special skills and talents to the stage under the new leadership of Jodi Cotton-Street who is creating a special new event that is sure to be a dazzling display of showmanship and celebration. This must-see event will be a ONE NIGHT ONLY show at 7:00pm April 13th, so be sure to plan ahead with your friends, family, and fans to join the HUNDREDS of audience members cheering on the Singers during our professional-level performance of music throughout the decades! This will be a showing of faith, hope, laughter, and love that you will NOT want to miss!

The ensemble is under the direction of Jodi Cotton-Street.

This is the only full public performance.

Under the direction of Andrew Crow and Kerry Glann, the Ball State Choirs present a series of concerts each year featuring a wide range of music from around the world and across the centuries.

The University Choral Union is a large and lively mixed choir that performs a variety of literature, from multicultural pieces to show tunes. The Cardinal Chorus is a tenor-bass ensemble and Vox Anima is a treble-voice ensemble. 

Program

These ensembles will conclude their season showcasing songs of love and triumph from widely varying traditions. We will also pay musical tribute to former director of choral activities Douglas Amman and honor our graduating seniors.