MOMologues Reading + Talk Back
Thu, Sep 07
|The Basement - Fairbanks
MOMologues staged reading, directed by Carey Seward
Time & Location
Sep 07, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
The Basement - Fairbanks, 541 3rd Ave, Fairbanks, AK 99701, USA
About the event
“MOMologues” is a one-evening, live performance based on the newly released book, “The Momologue Collective: An Anthology by Self-Identifying Mothers”. The collection of anonymous stories about motherhood were gathered by multidisciplinary artist of Homer, Brianna Allen. “MOMologues” is produced and directed by Carey Seward of Seward Follies Production Company.
“MOMologues” debuts in Fairbanks, in conjunction with MOTHER, a visual arts exhibition by seven Alaska artist mothers, presented by The Bear Gallery for the month of September including Brianna Allen, Carla Cope, Amy Komar (Homer), Myesha Callahan Freet (Chugiak), Somer Hahm (Fairbanks), Wooshkindein Da.Aat Lily Hope (Juneau), and Amy Meissner (Anchorage). Why are the best stories about motherhood told in whispers? Witness confessions become communal anthems as one artist’s social art practice shatters the rose-colored “Mother and Child” veneer society prefers and protects. These true, anonymous stories about motherhood, contributed by over 100 self-identifying mothers, has been described by non-mothers as “eye-opening” and “a straight-up education.” After the performance, creator Brianna Allen offers a short artist talk about the ongoing project. Books will be available for sale at the performance as well as at the Fairbanks Arts Gift Shop in tandem with the visual arts exhibit MOTHER. MOTHER was made possible with funding by Rasmuson Foundation through the Harper Arts Touring Fund, and is administered by the Alaska State Council on the Arts and Fairbanks Arts Association.