Join us for drinks, light fare, and illuminating conversation! We have so many brilliant academics in our community and we always want to make them use their heads for art. This year, the Rude Salon theme is inspired by our discussions with NESCent scientists at Duke University while we were creating our play Now Now Oh Now. Join Co-Producing Artistic Directors Kirk Lynn and Madge Darlington, choreographer Alexa Capareda, geneticist Jennifer Moon, cell biologist Arturo De Lozanne, and science and fiction writer Kyle Davis, for a frank discussion about the experimental and creative process, failure and epiphany, and whatever else we come up with! Hosted by Khristian Méndez Aguirre & Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw.
We’re so grateful to Angela Robertson, Director of the AVEDA Institute Austin, and everyone at the institute for letting us host this event at their beautiful facility. If you’re lucky you might get sweet freebies from Aveda so reserve your spot today! Maybe we can get our hair cut right onsite during the Salon! It’s a salon in a salon, after all.
This fall we launched the Off Center Teens’ Semester session, and we’re excited to announce registration is open for Spring Session. Participants will meet every two weeks at Rude Studios to invent, explore, and deepen their creative practice and strengthen their writing and performance skills. After our spring semester of creative work, we invite the Austin community to please join the Off Center Teens at Book People on the evening May 5th, 2018 for a public presentation of our participants’ work!
Register here – need-based full and partial scholarships available
Rude Mechs invites you to strap on your snow shoes and join us on a surreal hike through one of the greatest—and longest!—novels ever written: The Brothers Karamazov. A physical meditation on Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, Field Guide enlists stand-up comedy, a dancing monk, and some old-school magic to explore faith, meaning, and morality.
