Redmoon Announces Their Upcoming Winter Peagent 2009

After Redmoon's Halloween performance at the WhiteHouse October 31st, the company returns to its home in the industrial corridor of WestTown to present its longest running spectacular tradition: Winter Pageant 2009.

Redmoon has committed to continuing their 15-year tradition of creating an event whereChicago's communities and families can gather to celebrate the holiday season in anaccessible, beautiful and unique way. Redmoon invites you to this year's Winter Pageantwhere you'll be able to experience many of the performance elements that paradedaround the White House grounds and played about in the halls of the East Wing Residence.

Redmoon's family friendly annual event returns to celebrate the changing seasons andthe coming of spring. Expect the unexpected.

DATES:?Previews ?Nov?14? &? 15,?Opens ?NOV?20?-?DEC?27 ?(no ?shows ?NOV ?26,? DEC? 24? &? 25)

TIMES:? THURSDAYS? &? FRIDAY S?at? 7:30?PM,? SATURDAYS? & ?SUNDAYS ?at ?4:00 ?& ?7:30?PM

WHERE:? REDMOON? CENTRAL,? 1463? W.?HUBBARD? STREET, ?CHICAGO,? IL? 60642

TICKETS:?Adults:?$15 ?Seniors ?& ?Under? 10:?$10

To ?Purchase? Tickets:?312.850.8440?x111 ?OR?? www.redmoon.org

FAMILY ?PICNIC ?PERFORMANCES:? SATURDAY,? NOV? 28? & ?DEC ?19? at ?2:30?PM

Purchase? a? special? ticket? that ?includes ?a ?boxed ?lunch? with ?the? artists,? served? at ?Redmoon ?Central,?followed? by? the ?4:00?PM ?performance.

Family ?of ?4: ?$100? Adults:?$30 ?Kids:?$20

HOLIDAY ?ART ?SALE: ?SATURDAY? DEC ?5,?12?-?7:30?PM

Do? your ?holiday ?shopping? with ?Redmoon! "Inspired by Chicago's industry and working class foundation- the ‘muscle and poetry'of this city- Redmoon is committed to producing and presenting our unique art formoutside of traditional contexts," noted Artistic Director Frank Maugeri. "Redmoon'saudience always loves our alternative take on the ‘Holiday Show'. As we've beenreinventing Winter Pageant off-and-on as a holiday celebration since 1991, focusing oncreating community not through typical commercial Christmas themes or worn outholiday classics but rather engineering a journey that explores nature, humanity, ritual, storytelling... We get rid of the fluff and commercial noise around the holidays andattempt to reconnect people to what we feel is its essence - community through a sharedexperience of dreamscapes of the imagination."-

Winter Pageant 2009 will take audiences on a visual, dream-like journey that explores collective universal themes: nature, humanity, ritual, storytelling, by creating a theatrical experience that's intimate and interactive, involving and inspiring spectators in a shared, live event. An event that is memorable both by critics (2008 Jeff Nominated Production)and by audience members (6,500 people over 6 weeks). This year's Winter Pageant will gradually reveal a fanciful journey for audience members through the four seasons beginning with summer, traveling through autumn and winter and culminating with therising of the sun in spring. Redmoon has a commitment to creating new pathways for more audiences to encounterand participate in art and culture. In 2009, Redmoon successfully collaborated with theChicago Park District for Spectacle 09: Last of My Species, The Fearless Songs Of Laarna Cortaan at Belmont Harbor; the University of Chicago for a production of Hunchback at Rockefeller Chapel, and is delighted to collaborate with ChicagoSymphony Orchestra (CSO) on Swan Lake in December 2009.This year's "Winter Pageant" production has donated a select number of tickets toTitle 1 school students in the North Lawndale neighborhood in order to fulfill onthat commitment. Please contact Redmoon for more details.Production credits include, Music Composition: Mark Messing, Sound Design: MikhailFiksel, Lighting Design: Nick Matonich, Object Light Design: Chase Corman, LeadArtisans: Chantal Calato, Tyler Burke, Tara Smith, Gretta Johnson, PerformanceEnsemble: Missi Davis, Nick Demeris, Sarah Fornace, Alexander Knapp, Matt Rudy, Eric Swanson, Dustin Valenta. ? 2009 Winter Pageant is made possible through the generous support of the followingcontributors:The Mullen Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, NationalEndowment for the Arts; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and by a CityArts Program 3grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. ?  

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