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Join us on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 for an unforgettable evening at The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Fifth Annual Gala as we proudly honor this year’s Artist In Industry Award recipients: composer David Lang and independent arts professional Janet Wong!

This Is Unreal constructs a hybrid world in which the authentic and the synthetic continuously contaminate one another. An autobiographical pact that goes awry, becoming an autofiction for the age of deepfakes, a dizzying, disorienting game that asks: where does the body end and the machine begin?

Over the course of two Sunday afternoons, guest curator Stephanie Acosta will invite a cohort of interdisciplinary artists to tackle nature and ecologies in extreme scale. "My discursive thinking still has a swirling around nature and ecologies, zoomed in microbially or zoomed out epically, searching for absurdist lessons in the systems of nature. Think less crunchy nature walks and more Nature IS sci fi."

Incubations is an evening of three works-in-progress by writer-performance artist-filmmaker Andrea Kleine: The Life of A Rabbit (a book), A Tree Eats A Rock (a performance), and We Want To Be Ready (a microbudget feature film). Each piece is about nature and personal horrors and the weirdness of performing and the ways we live in the clouds. Maybe they are all the same piece.

In the spirit of the unfinished, the unformed, and the untamed, the Saturday Salons bring together visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, performers, and others to present selections from works-in-process. The rougher the ideas—the more unexpected and outlandish the projects—the better.

AUNTS - an artist-run platform for performance, experimentation, study, and collective life - stages its first haunted house.

Next Dance is a new 50-minute dance performance work that investigates “next-ness”: of proceeding from the materials at hand to work toward new potentialities; of performing possibility as a negotiation with constraints.

broken (iteration III) is a swan song,a funeral song, a last song, a goodbye song. The creation of this work coincided with Findlay//Sandsmark losing their venue RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst in Stavanger in 2024. As an artwork, it happened to serve as a delicate "farewell" piece for stages in general, and how they can disappear into the ether.

boiling rain is a gathering to honor our health care workers enduring the durational tending to bodies impacted by ongoing colonialism. it draws a circle around our departed, with an additional circle around our declining frontline workers. this performance is an invitation to gather around medical mannequin Jeanie, as she departs this plane into the next.