Where Do We Go From Here

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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Press Contact: Ross Travis, Artistic Director(970) 846-1582 ross@anticinadrain.com       WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? CALIFORNIA CREATIVE CORPS And the World Premiere of Mendocino, Lake, Colusa and Glenn Counties, CA. Antic in a Drain (Artistic Director, Ross Travis), an Upstate California Creative Corps grantee, proudly presents the World Premiere tour of Where Do We Go From Here, a peripatetic zoological theater spectacle of climatic proportions. Human folk both young and old, bear your teeth, clap your paws and roll around in the dirt as you objectify and cackle like coyotes at the cute vitriol of your animal friends; ‘The Real’ Smokey Bear, Hooty the Owl and Bennie Bark Beetle,as they present masterful acts of anthropocene mockery. Suitable for all ages.  The Bark Beetle This Way Comes. Where Do We Go From Here is a peripatetic bouffon spectacle that will be traveling 205 miles through Mendocino, Lake, Colusa and Glenn Counties on an EV art trike fashioned in the form of a Bark Beetle, stopping along the way to perform an hour long show to rural communities throughout the region from Fort Bragg to Willows. This satirical sideshow was developed through an intensive community research process; Ross Travis and documentary filmmaker Steve Ritchie interviewed a broad spectrum of individuals from the Mayor of Willows, an agricultural community and the county seat of Glenn County, to a group of indigenous women at Xa Kako Dile, a sustainable women-led farm on the Mendocino coast. The show combines their perspectives with Ross’ research into the non bipedal life of the region and the Extreme Heat Index to create a rigorous one man theatrical event where Ross plays fifteen characters and uses a powerful mix of irreverent comedy, tragedy, ritual, acrobatics, kinetic sculptural art and interactive ecstatic play to inform, provoke, provide tools for agency and inspire community action on the issue of climate change and its effects on the region.      Calendar Listing Information Locations Dates and Times:  05.12.24 / 2pm / Fort Bragg, CA / Larry Spring Museum  05.14.24 / 5pm / Casper, CA / Casper Community Center  05.16.24 / 5pm / Boonville, CA / Anderson Valley Brewing, Co  05.18.24 / 5pm / Ukiah, CA / Todd Grove Park  05.20.24 / 5pm / Lucerne, CA / Lucerne Harbor Park  05.21.24 / 5pm / Clearlake Oaks, CA / Nylander Park  05.24.24 / 5pm / Coulsa, CA / Veterans Memorial Park  05.26.24 / 5pm / Willows, CA / Jensen Park