Using the symbology of our shared past to look forward into an uncertain future of climate change, this supergroup concert debuts the first material generated through The Meta Simulacrum, an interdisciplinary, alternate-reality digital platform designed by composer William Brittelle. The performance features newly composed songs for an electro-acoustic ensemble of dynamic musical polymaths.

Live from the First Avenue stage, CJ Camerieri joins forces with Shara Nova, Jake Luppen, and Trever Hagen to celebrate and perform Camerieri’s self-titled debut solo record CARM. After the performance, Camerieri will discuss and highlight the community of local musicians involved in the project and how the music took shape.

Outpost, a performance series created in 2018 by Twin Cities musicians Sam Bergman and Carrie Henneman Shaw, comes out of hibernation with a brand new winter show featuring world premieres by Dameun Strange, Daijana Wallace, and Aida Shirazi, new music by Du Yun and Marcus Norris, and words by Safy Hallan Farah, Maggie Koerth, and Brandi Brown.

World premiere storytelling, photo sharing, semi-improvised new music event by renowned photographer Alec Soth and drummer/composer Dave King (The Bad Plus).

Tracing the arc of misinformation and propaganda in the United States from 9/11 to this year’s elections, theater maker and Emmy Award–winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker (Gasland) Josh Fox offers a riveting solo performance that confronts us with the truth about the climate crisis in a “post-truth” world.

Mizna, City Pages’ “Best Nonprofit 2020,” is a Twin Cities-based critical platform for contemporary Arab/Southwest Asian and North African film, literature, and art. In the still and dark of winter, Mizna invites storytellers to muse on seasonality, nature's rhythms, and the things that get us through.