Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival
March 8-10, 2012

www.clusterfestival.com

Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival is Winnipeg's most dynamic take on contemporary art and sound.

Focusing on opera, drama and improvisation, the third annual Cluster Festival plays host to a pan-national army of multi-talented artistic provocateurs. Special Guests include: PAZZIA performance collective, Montreal-based Trio '86, and Electric Noise (flute, piano and electronics duo).

Shifting Signs
Thursday, March 8th, 2012, 8pm
The Rachel Browne Theatre

Cluster 2012 opens with Luke Nickel's Ophiuchus Rising, a darkly humorous foray into the paranoia surrounding the January 2011 horoscope-changing scare paired with prophetical Youtube videos decrying the end of the world. Montreal duo Electric Noise present a captivating array of new works exploring identity, eroticism and modes of listening.

No Masque for Good Measure
Friday, March 9th, 2012, 8pm
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Eckhardt Hall

Three drag queens rehearse for a wedding masque, resulting in a whirlwind of gender-bending comedy, confusion and damned fine singing. No Masque for Good Measure is Matthew Rickett's exquisite first opera, commissioned by Cluster, and produced by London-based director Kelly Lovelady.

After the Outing
Saturday, March 10th, 2012, 8pm
Exchange Community Church

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs... Cluster's final features a PAZZIA Collective production of Heidi Ouellette's infamous opera, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. In this interdisciplinary ensemble work, twenty six deaths and a funeral dirge make for a delightfully macabre and cautionary frenzy of grisly allegory.

The evening culminates in a dark dance party where you can let out some of your pent up paranoia (audio: DJ e-Bison / visuals: jaymez)

TICKETS:
$10 Students / $15 Adults /// $25 Student Pass / $40 Adult Pass
Available @ McNally Robinson (Grant Park Mall), and at the door.

CONTACT:
email: info@clusterfestival.com
phone: (204) 223-9939

SUPPORT:
We have teamed with micro-fundraising website, Indie GoGo for our first individual fundraising drive. Support Cluster today!