The Fashions of Paradise, Birds, and Other Wisdoms

This event is honor of Jessica Brown, our one and only Visual Coordinator. Her art exhibition opens that night at Studio 34 with a fashion show complete with beautiful models, wild dance music, and the aviary maddness that is BORBS. It's a festival that celebrates the glowing orbs in our hearts and in the sky. 

This event is free and starts with a reception, then a fashion show, and then AN OTHERWORLDLY PERFORMANCE BY BORBS!

MODELS!

Sonali Singh 

Jasmine Bullara

Jess Castor 

Cassidy Gruber-Bureauth

Aida Kupa

Chloe Wang

Matteo McDonnell

Vyette Tiya

Bridgit 

Veronica Bennett

Amanda Jean 

Cerulean Payne-Passmore 

Runway music by Thomas Patteson

BORBS

Aaron Pond- Horn, Voice, Flutes, Melodica, Percussion, Grasses

Jessica Brown-Horn, Voice, Flutes, Percussion

Max Engleman- Guitar, Gong, Melodica, Bassoon

Gabe Preston- All of the reeds

BORBS is dedicated to the birds in their awe inspiring nature, their terror, their beauty. This band utilizes sound schemas, gesture-codes, and light compositional thoughts as an organizing operandi. The sonic world is a mythical transduction of our ever-depleting/degrading/transforming natural spaces. While we never play compositions per say, nor do we ever stay in a particular mood for a long time, it seems very clear that sunset has a certain sound to it, the blistering afternoon heat, the deep winter morning. There are characters. We may be constantly redefining ourselves but we are most distinctly stars in the sky. If you trapped us in an elevator you would hear the words "Kabuki Theater meets the Art Ensemble meets Jurassic Park"

Coordination and Assistance by Mijkalena Smith