CONTINUOUS CITY Explores the Power of Communication Feb 20

By: Feb. 05, 2009
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A tale of transcontinental disconnection seen through the eyes of a little girl, her globetrotting father, an overworked dot-com CEO and a siteseeing nanny, Continuous City is a modern fable about those we love and how we communicate with them when we're not there.

Developed by New York's Obie Award-winning company The Builders Association, Continuous City brings us a story about the ever-changing notion of "home" from places as far away as Nairobi and Shanghai and as close as our own backyard.

Centered around the launch of XUBU, a new social networking site that allows users to stay in touch via video messaging, Continuous City highlights the ways in which technology can bring us together or distance us even more.

Using an inventive mix of actors, live video blogging, an array of onstage monitors and the acclaimed design and architecture The Builders Association is known for, Continuous City is a humorous, moving and thought-provoking new play about connections kept in a world not unlike our own.

XUBU doesn't just exist in the world of Continuous City! If you have a webcam and 30 seconds, you can visit the XUBU site and you might become a part of the performance on the Memorial Hall stage! Record your thoughts and submit it, then use the web address you receive and email the video to your friends and loved ones!

If you don't have a webcam, visit one of the two XUBU hubs on the UNC campus! Find them in the Campus Y or in the second floor atrium of the Fed Ex Global Education Center. The XUBU hubs will be up and running during the second week of February.

The Builders Association's Continuous City
Fri-Sat, Feb 20-21, 8 PM
Memorial Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carolina Performing Arts


 

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