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Ready for a live ART-event experience? Join Moon Bloom: an Outdoor Vaudevillian Extravaganza! Coming to Oakland on Saturday, May 22, 2021, starting at 6pm at 7th West, a creative outdoor space venue. Hosted by Crescent Moon Theater Productions.
For a festive night of raucous, bold, and ambitious entertainment, come join Moon Bloom: A Vaudevillian Extravaganza! Presented by Crescent Moon Theater Productions, Moon Bloom will feature a slate of professional artists and acrobats who will challenge their audience to liberate themselves from the confining expectations of staid spectatorship, instead embracing the whimsy, vivacity, and ambition of live performance.
The roster of performances will include a death-defying aerial circus performance by Jefferson Freire. Jefferson was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he picked up juggling from a street performer and has been hooked ever since. Now, Jefferson can be found in circus performances up and down the West Coast or as a member of Circus Bella, a prominent circus company.
Anna Kaye will perform an awe-inspiring hand-balancing and contortion act. Anna boasts six years of training at the 915 Cayuga, a San Francisco circus school, and three years of training at the National Circus School in Montreal. Anna’s performance style is noted for its vulnerability and emotional candidness, leaving herself and her physicality open to interpretation.
Cheetah Biscotti, often heralded as the “cutest clown in town,” will present a burlesque clown act. Embracing the boisterousness and blitheness of clowning, Cheetah is equal parts sassy and silly. Cheetah is currently a resident performer for Hex in the City Burlesque.
Molly James will perform a slam poetry reading. Molly is a poet, songwriter, and storyteller based out of Oakland whose work navigates the intersections of “feminism, white supremacy, ecology, body image, and spirituality,” using these impossibly large themes as a launching point from which to zoom in on subjects of deep, personal intimacy.
The night will be emceed by Shmee, an interdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and educator known for the exploration of both personal narrative and cultural mythology as a means of narrowing in on stories that unify audiences toward a collective inquisitiveness and intellectual curiosity. Shmee often serves as an arts-based leader at public events, therapeutic gatherings, and rites of passage, employing mindfulness and playfulness to engage even the most reluctant of audiences.
The doors to Moon Bloom will open at 6:00PM for a lively cocktail hour, featuring drinks, local craft vendors, tarot readings, and mingling. At 8:00PM, the cabaret will commence, emceed by SHMEE; the cabaret will feature acrobatic and aerial circus acts, burlesque performances, live music, and much more. At 9:00PM, the cabaret will conclude, and the dance party will begin, with the music station headed up by DJ Oui Boogie. Tickets will be offered at a suggested donation of $15-$30, on a pay-what-you-can basis. Moon Bloom is a benefit concert and party to support the production of the show “When your Skin Calls you Home,” a brand new collaboration between Crescent Moon Theater and Metzmecatl: Moon Rope Theatre. Moon Bloom will take place in 7th West Oakland at 1255 7th Street.
To note: This is a COVID-safe outdoor event for which masks, proper social distancing measures, and safety protocols must be abided.
Get your TICKETS to Moon Bloom HERE!
Event is being hosted and produced by Crescent Moon Theater Productions.