Georgia Beatty’s The Book of Stars with Emily Schubert

June 8 at 7:00 PM (doors 6:30 PM), 90 minute performance with intermission

Tickets are available for $20 in advance, $23 at the door, and $30 for preferred seating (pay-what-you-can available)

All Ages
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Georgia Beatty’s The Book of Stars w. Emily Schubert

The Book of Stars is the folktale of the Light Queen, written and performed by fiddler and folk artist Georgia Beatty. The show combines original music with the old projector technology known as a “magic lantern” to tell the story of the cosmic queen who is reborn every 3,000 years to learn the songs of Light, and use them to heal Earth from oppressive powers.

Exploring resonance as both a musical and ancestral concept, visuals, song and story guide the audience through a grounding ritual to discover the present body as a living archive; capable of healing a broken world.

Before The Book of Stars, fellow crankie artist Emily Schubert will present World Woman and Other Stories, a series of crankies and a contastoria revolving around themes of ecological preservation, dreams, and a philosophy for our current times!

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Georgia Beatty

Georgia Beatty is a musician and folk artist, focused on cycle, lineage and healing through cultural transmission. Their music has two taproots growing at equally feverish rates in the paradoxically woven worlds of songwriting and traditional music. Their music takes shape on the fiddle, cello, and their singing. Georgia’s training as a fiddler is in Norwegian traditional music.

Their first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation, is a collection of original & traditional fiddle tunes devoted to the practice of witnessing Death not as the end, but as a moment in the act of transformation.

Georgia plays both Norwegian “flat fiddle” (regular fiddle) as well as the hardanger fiddle, a violin-like instrument with sympathetic strings. Georgia is currently a Folklife Apprentice with Loretta Kelley, studying hardingfele repertoire for dance (supported by the Maryland State Arts Council).
Georgia lives & works in their hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.

https://www.georgiabeatty.com/

IG: @georgia.beatty

Emily Schubert Bio:

Emily Schubert is a puppet maker, crankie maker, storyteller and mixed media artist, based in Northern Vermont. She has participated in puppet theater festivals and workshops in Europe, Indonesia, and the United States including performing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, at the National Puppetry Festival, and at the National Puppet Slam. She is also a co-organizer of the Baltimore Crankie Festival.

Emily is enthralled by the emotive power and depth of expression achieved through puppetry and storytelling and believes that within these realms lies a source of real-life magic that is deficient in much of our daily lives.

https://www.emily-schubert.com/

IG: @schubertemily

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PAY WHAT YOU CAN

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EVENT PARKING

Free on-street parking is available in Mayo Street Arts’ neighborhood.

There is one paid parking lot conveniently located a six-minute walk from the venue: Top of the Old Port Parking (119 Pearl St, Portland ME 04101)

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ACCESSIBILITY

All performances and most other events held at Mayo Street Arts are wheelchair accessible. There are two accessible spots directly in front of our building, however there is not yet a curb cut out at that location.

If you would benefit from additional information or accommodations, we invite you to contact us at info@mayostreetarts.org or 207-879-4629.

COMMUNITY HEALTH

Audience members — in addition to artists, staff & volunteers — who feel sick or exhibit symptoms of illness should stay home out of respect for others.

SEATING POLICY

We will save your reserved seat until showtime, at which point any unclaimed seats may be offered to other people. Please call our box office at 207-879-4629 if you are running late.

CANCELATION POLICY

MSA has a no refund policy for all reservations. In the event that MSA is forced to cancel an event due to weather, illness, etc., refunds will be offered via the Ticket Tailor platform.