Sat 10/12 @ 5:30-10:30PM
For eight years, the nonprofit arts group Akron Soul Train in downtown Akron has been awarding month-long residencies to artists in different disciplines to create a project which is then shown, either in the Akron Soul Train gallery or in performances. Starting with a single artist residency in 2016, it now offers 12-15 each year in visual, performance and literary arts. And its CapSOUL gallery space shares the work of emerging artists.
To support its projects, Akron Soul Train is hosting a benefit called “A Trip to the Moon: A Fantastic Voyager into Early Cinema Magic,” which it describes as “a one-of-a-kind cosmic adventure.” Short film reels by French director George Méliès will be showing throughout the space, including the 1902 French science fiction film A Trip to the Moon, which gave the party its name and theme Guests can take in a set by Akron’s Time Cat performing David Bowie’s seminal 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; chill to space jazz from Hyperius Blake and the Sound Experiment; absorb Haren and Thorla’s new instrumental music based on the phases of the moon; enjoy roaming vaudeville acts; and pose for selfies against a lunar landscape backdrop. There’s also an art sale and auction.
Of course there’s food as well as drinks at Baxter’s Speakeasy’s cash bar. Guests are invited to come dressed as a silent film star, a space traveler or a “celestial being.”
The party takes place at HÜG, Highland Universal Gathering Place. Get tickets here.