Please come out to support the grassroots side-project of Joshua Ware and Sharifa Lafon
WHAT: BODY / SOUND / WORD / IMAGE
WHO: Cosmidis-Grove, Halmrast, Koca, Sitterud, Tnydall, Verma, and Warm (aka Mpw)
DAY: Saturday, 25 May 2024
TIME: 7:30pm (doors) / 8:00pm (event)
LOCATION: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2201 Dexter Street, Denver, CO 80207
Our next event will take place on Saturday, 25 May at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in the Park Hill neighborhood of Denver. Doors will open at 7:30pm, and the performance will begin at 8:00pm promptly. (Note: This event is not affiliated with the church or any religious sect; we simply love the architecture and acoustics.)
The evening will feature a collaborative body movement and video performance by Rachel Halmrast and Deven Verma; a sound, video, and literary triple-collaboration between Sierra Cosmidis-Grove, Nali Koca, and Mpw (aka Mark Warm); as well as a multi-media, performance art collaboration between Kenzie Sitterrud and Alston Tyndall.
We think this event will be spectacular, so please come out and support the artists and this series.
As a small, two-person team without institutional support, we rely on word-of-mouth in the community to promote and support these events. We highly encourage you to forward this information to anyone who you think maybe be interested.
Light refreshments will be served at the event.
ARTIST BIOS:
Sierra Cosmidis-Grove (they/she) is an artist working in experimental film, performance, and photographic processes. Since graduating from Evergreen State College in Olympia with a BA in Visual Arts, they have shown work in festivals and galleries throughout the United States. They are currently an MFA candidate at the CU-Boulder Film program scheduled to graduate in May 2025.
Rachel Halmrast (they/them), born and raised in Seattle, WA, is a movement artist and choreographer based in Boulder. They received their BFA in Dance from CU Boulder in 2022, and subsequently have used their dance practice to engage with athleticism, androgyny, effort and effortlessness as aesthetic.
Nazlı Koca (she/her) is the author of The Applicant, a 2024 Colorado Book Awards finalist. She is an international artist who publishes across media, languages, and genres. Her work is rooted only in migration, translation, and adaptation.
Kenzie Sitterud (they/them) is a multimedia artist who works primarily in large-scale installation, commercial art, freelance graphic design and public art environments. Starting first as a musician and installation artist in the queer and DIY community of Denver (2004-2009) and Seattle (2009-2023) Sitterud moved back to Denver in 2013 to pursue their Bachelors of Fine Art in Communication Design at Metropolitan State University of Denver graduating in 2016. Kenzie began to emerge in the Denver art scene as an installation artist during their residency at Redline Community Art Center (2017-2019). Kenzie work is designed to be ironic or funny to lessen the heaviness of the social issues and injustices we face in modern society. Connecting to the human experience from a non-majority perspective, their intentions are to create artworks that embrace empathy and perspectives that visually help explain social injustice or historical injustices. Kenzie’s work has been featured at the Denver Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Meow Wolf Denver, Breck Create, Platteforum, and various galleries around the art districts of Denver.
Alston Tyndall (she/they) is a dance performance artist, choreographer, advocate, and learner. Originally from North Carolina, she earned a BA in Sociology and Dance with a Professional Performance Certificate from Meredith College. Alston is entering their final year at the University of Colorado Boulder as an MFA in Dance Candidate with an interest in the intersections of queerness and disability.
Deven Verma (he/him) is a college dropout originally from Massachusetts, currently living in Boulder, CO. Much of his work is centered around play as well as the exploration of the unknown and the unseen, using film to discover optical tricks that boggle the mind and question understandings of visual reality.
Mpw // Mark Warm (he/him) is an experimental/noise artist residing in Colorado Springs, CO. The Iowa native uses modular synthesis to process field recordings, found objects, drums and homemade instruments to produce sounds that can vary from wind in an open field to chopped and frantic bursts of musique concrète.