Hatched

ashley sparks is a theater maker, engagement strategist, collaboration coach, and facilitator, as well as a long-time friend and collaborator with Mondo Bizarro.  You can learn more about her from the links below as well as find some info related to subjects brought up on the show. spark+dive (facilitation & consulting business) mark-n-sparks (collaboration with Mark Valdez) Eco Tarot for Sale Highlight Video from Kiss Kiss Julie For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Hali Dardar is a New Media enthusiast, interaction designer and a member of the United Houma Nation. Her work supports process development, community-based design, language revitalization, indigenous media, and memory documentation.   Some links Hali mentions during the podcast are:   10 Words in Uma Houma Language Project Language Keepers For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Madeleine Grace Kelly is a visual artist and educator living in New Orleans.  She is receiving her MFA from UNO this spring and you can witness her master’s thesis exhibition entitled Temple of Familiars at the UNO Gallery (2429 St. Claude St) from March 9th to April 7th.  From the official blurb about her show: Her paintings, etchings, and installation explore encounters with mystery in the natural world, especially through the flora, fauna, light, and water of the swamps around the Atchafalaya Basin. Her practice explores kinship, reverence, and awe as an antidote to estrangement from the spirit of the land. The work invites viewers to engage with the memory that the water carries of our interconnectedness.    You can view her work on her website and on Instagram.   For more info about us and to donate to the show visit www.mondobizarro.org. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Katya Chizayeva is a New Orleans-based Ukrainian American artist, community activist, and acupuncturist.  She is currently working on a show with Goat in the Road Productions based on her recent experiences in Ukraine called Top 5 Survival Moves, which gives us "a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examine(s) the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism."  Tickets are available via the Contemporary Art Center's website. You can find more information about the New Orleans based Ukrainian NGO Katya mentions (Kryla) here.   For more info about us visit www.mondobizarro.org Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Nicole Marquez is a dancer, advocate and a survivor of brain and spinal injuries. Approximately 15 years ago she relocated to New York with the aspiration of pursuing a career in dance on Broadway. Her dreams were momentarily deferred following an accident where she fell six stories from the roof of her apartment building.  She will be performing her latest work about this incident called The Mask of Joy on February 23 and 24 at Catapult as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series.  Make your resrervations for the show here.   In this episode Nicole will mention a few people and organizations you may be interested in including her friend and choreographer Julie Turner and a very unique New Orleans gym called Split Second Fitness.   We hope you enjoy the show.  For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

LIzz Freeman Kelly is the Executive Director of ricRACK, a creative reuse shop and community sewing studio.  ricRACK'S main focus is "keeping textiles out of the landfill and teaching all of New Orleans how to sew."     Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. For more information about Mondo Bizarro and to donate visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Becca Chapmans is a Chalmation, a performer, an educator, a lover of community, and curious human being. She, along with Alex Smith, co-founded a healthcare clowning nonprofit, Prescription Joy, that brings imagination and wonder to pediatric and adult hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Simone Immanuel is a New Orleans born actor, writer, singer and dancer.  We recently presented a work-in-progress showing of her one woman show On My Way: My Ancestors Wildest Dreams at our studio, Catapult, as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series.  Simone says that the hope of her work is to show that God is with us all.  Her goal is to use her unique experiences to show why represntation is one of the most important goals of art in this generation. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Synamin Vixen is a dancer, actor, poet, teacher, sex doula, herbalist, and so much more.  She is bringing her latest performance called Daughter of a Nymph Devine to our studio, Catapult, this weekend (September 22, 23, 24).  Seating is limited so get your reservations here today. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Dee Dee Green is the Area Program Director for American Friends Service Committee’s Peace by Piece New Orleans program.  She is also a member of the New Orleans coalition Eye on Surveillance. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. COINTELSHOW runs 23-25 March.  Click here to reserve your tickets. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.  If you would like to support Hatched and other projects of ours, you can make a tax deductible donation today by clicking here.  

Renard Bridgewater is a New Orleans based musician (performing under the moniker Slangston Hughes), organizer and cultural advocate who works as the Community Engagement Coordinator for the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCCNO).  He is also a member of the New Orleans coalition Eye on Surveillance. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. Click here for tickets to COINTELSHOW. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.    

This audio is an exploration of some of the waterways you will soon visit as part of A Studio in the Wood's event Floating Adaptations in Search of Invisible Rivers.   Floating Adaptations in Search of Invisible Rivers is conceived by Monique Verdin, Jeff Becker and Mondo Bizarro.  It is a search for the hidden histories of the land and water surrounding the 40 Arpent Wetlands Observatory, as well as an investigation about how we can learn to live with fluctuation, to live with uncertainty, to live in symbiosis with our increasingly watery world.  Music by Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes.   Visit Mondo Bizarro and sign up for our newsletter for updates.

Amelia Acosta Powell is the Associate Artistic Director of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis.   Previously she has worked as the casting director and artistic associate at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and as line producer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Jamil Jude is a director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg. He is currently the Artistic Director at Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the Co-Founder of The New Griots Festival.  Self-identifying as an "Artist Plus", Jamil feels most at home bringing socially relevant art to the community. Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.   

Imani Jacqueline Brown is a New Orleans native, artist, activist, researcher, and writer. Her work attempts to expose the layers of oppression, injustice, resistance, and refusal that make up the aggregate of our society's foundation stones. Imani received her Master of Arts in Research Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a co-founder of Blights Out, a collective of artists, activists, and architects working to demystify and democratize development in post-Katrina New Orleans. Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. 

Larry Bogad is an author, performance artist/activist, professor at UC Davis, Director of the Center for Tactical Performance, and co-founder of the Clown Army.  His most recent performance, A FAIR FIGHT is a personal piece about his family history of bootlegging and klan-fighting in New York City and upstate New York.  Mondo Bizarro is also collaborating with Larry on a new version of his long-running performance, COINTELSHOW.   Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. 

This episode our guests are Raymond Bobgan and the Cleveland Core Ensemble.  We sat down with Raymond, Faye and Darius when they were in town presenting Red Ash Mosaic at Catapult.   The Cleveland CORE Ensemble is currently creating a play - Masks of Flight - that will have its world premiere in the Spring as part of Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2019/2020 season. Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. 

Kesha McKey is a New Orleans based choreographer, the artistic director of KM Dance Project and the chair of the Dance Department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.  She recently received NEFA’s National Dance Project award for her latest work Raw Fruit and an invitation to the Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative.  Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs. 

Bob Martin works primarily as a community theater artist and cultural organizer, producer and educator to support people and communities in transformative change.  Bob and his company Clear Creek Creative recently received NEFA’s National Theater Project award for the development and touring of Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man. Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.

Daniel Alexander Jones is an American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator.  His performance alter-ego, Jomama Jones, has been at the center of several of his works, including Black Light, a critically acclaimed performance piece commissioned by Joe's Pub's New York Voices program.  Daniel is currently working on a book about his mentors called Waves.   Visit Mondo Bizarro for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by Rotary Downs.