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★ Open for Bone Business (Forget About Spaghetti Festival)

FORGET ABOUT SPAGHETTI FESTIVAL: 10 NIGHTS OF WILD NEW SHOWS. SEE WHAT STICKS!

*PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR ENTRY*

Why throw away your chicken bones in the trash when you can make a buck right back into your wallet? Bone fashion is the new rhinestone for Spring 2023.

Meet the Bone Business Lady and learn how YOU can capitalize on the pleasurable oral act of consumption. A bone business lifestyle challenges modern forms of labor inspired by visionaries of maintenance art and craft therapy.

This is a live stream broadcasted, audience participatory sales pitch for reclaiming the chicken bone as the sustainable 22nd century trend material. Live audience members will have a chance to win one free edible chicken wing and come away with their own Therapeutic Business Model Strategy (TBMS).

With Amy Chiao

Featuring Lucas Brahme

Bone Poetry by C Bain

Bone Show Advisor & Installation Designer: Natalie Ferguson

Bone Product Designers: Danny Baxter, Dallas Small, Kate Renshaw-Lewis, Fanfan Zhou, Christine Yerie Lee

Movement Choreographer & Video Installation Designer: Alexsa Durrans

Videographer & Editor: Miranda Stein

Animator: Danny Baxter

Live Streaming Videographers: Michelle Dominique Allen, Herry Kim

Sound Designer: Dylan Marx

Amy Chiao is a multimedia artist, performer, designer, and director working in site-specific performance installation, video art, material design, and virtual streaming platform experiences. She is a recent graduate of the Calarts MFA Scene Design program and Integrated Media. Chiao’s current research and bodies of work explore the art of sales persuasion through conducting consumer insights, creation of business marketing characters, and absurdist lifestyle design products. Through her devising practice, she undergoes self-reflective roleplaying techniques that form alter egos who she ritualistically inhabits through objects and storytelling. As a theater designer, she has designed for the late director Philip Cuomo's Coho Clown Cohort, the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, and Tenor By Night Productions. She would like to thank the badass Elysian Theater team, her collaborators, family, friends, and mentors who have supported and inspired her to keep making and performing. You can view more of her work at www.amychiao.com

This show is part of The Elysian's FORGET ABOUT SPAGHETTI FESTIVAL from October 20th to 30th.

See our full festival schedule here.


Doors at 7 PM, Show starts at 7:30 PM

Seating begins 15 minutes before showtime, there is NO LATE SEATING. Seats are assigned on a first come first served basis, from the front of the theatre to the back. If you want to sit closer, be sure to arrive earlier.

Shows start no later than 10 MINUTES after the scheduled show time.

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