The10x10ArtsSeries
Cirque Mechanics Birdhouse Factory
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Programming for the 10x10 Arts Series is hand-selected for Northwest Arkansas audiences – and whether or not you’ve heard of these artists, we know that you’re going to love them. Whether you’re a regular at Walton Arts Center, or it’s your first time here, the 10x10 Arts Series has something that everyone will enjoy! So, try something new. After all, tickets are just $10 each!
Cirque Mechanics Birdhouse Factory
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Nov. 18, 2021
Feb. 3, 2022
Enter the most unlikely setting for a circus – a factory – one where the workers are acrobats and the machines are circus props. When a bird is injured by the main steam boiler, the workers come together to care for it and break out of the monotony of the assembly-line. A contortionist performs on a turntable powered by unicyclists, a trapeze artist spins acrobatically inside of a giant wheel, and trampoline wall artists defy the laws of physics in this artful and nostalgic story of love, laughter and flight.
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, a new musical filled with traditional and original gospel and freedom songs, tells the inspiring true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., during the Voting Rights March in 1965. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda and her friends and neighbors fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to secure the right to vote for African Americans. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, High Art, “Psych”) adapted the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery for the stage.
Additional support provided by Dick & Margaret Rutherford
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Recommended for ages 10+
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