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Wed, Dec 01Epsilon SpiresOur December program features diverse compositions in celebration of the season performed by Dr Alexander Meszler on our Historic Estey pipe organ.
Thu, Dec 09Epsilon SpiresOwen Ashworth (from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) celebrates the Holiday season with minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed songs of longing & regret... Featuring special guests Ruth Garbus and Moon Racer!
Sat, Dec 11Epsilon SpiresA community performance for healing created by electric komungo performer and Guggenheim Composer Fellow, Jin Hi Kim. This sublime and interactive work is inspired by Korean Shamanistic ssitkimkut ritual to purify the spirits of the deceased while releasing the grief of the living.
Fri, Dec 17Epsilon SpiresSpiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to life vividly in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Cellist Lori Goldston (famously of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged) performs an original live score drawing from medieval secular and liturgical music and free improvisation.
Sat, Dec 18Epsilon SpiresA dark fairytale set amongst the starkly beautiful landscape of Lapland, Erik Blomberg combines ethnographic documentary style with daring avant-garde experimentation to produce a dreamy art-house horror film that metaphorically confronts gender inequality, societal pressures and sexual anxiety.
Sat, Jan 01Epsilon SpiresOn New Years Eve 100 years ago, one of the most important works in Swedish cinema premiered. Körkarlen is a ghostly tale of time-travel reminiscent of Dicken's "Christmas Carol". It inspired Ingmar Bergman to begin filmmaking and influenced iconic key scenes in Kubrick's "The Shining".
Fri, Jan 07Epsilon SpiresA spirit-lifting documentary about electronic music pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a black transgender septuagenarian musical genius who finally finds his place in the world. Glenn's emergence from obscurity is an intimate coming-of-age story transforming pain into hope and joy.
Sat, Jan 15Epsilon SpiresNailah Hunter is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. Her music for harp, electronics and voice shimmers with spiritual radiance, full of magic, wonder, and healing energies. Join us in our beautiful sanctuary for this unforgettable and transcendent experience of sound.
Sat, Jan 22Epsilon SpiresA NOT-TO-BE-MISSED AUDIO/VISUAL SPECTACULAR! Watch the notorious Martial-Arts Buddhist-Horror Cult-Classic on the Big Screen with a Live Soundtrack Performed by Psychedelic Noise-Rock Freakazoids: Sunburned Hand of the Man! WOWZA!
Thu, Apr 21Epsilon Spires SanctuaryRichard Wolff, of the radio program Economic Update, explores topics ranging from the consequences of globalization to the contemporary relevance of Marxian economics.
Video by Maralie Armstrong
Photo by Kristopher Radder
The belfry contains the permanent installation of the Weather Warlock drone synthesizer
Video by Maralie Armstrong
The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary was built in a similar fashion to a European opera house allowing for incredible acoustics and visceral sonic resonance. The versatile stage area has comfortably accommodated chamber orchestras, full-scale opera productions, and dozens of choral singers. The Estey pipe organ has been regularly maintained since installation in 1906 and is in perfect working order for performances ranging from classical to avant-garde. Ornately carved antique pews on 3 levels provide a seating capacity of 425. The venue also features a retractable cinema screen and projection capability.
ART + SCIENCE
Epsilon Spires hosts a multimedia art gallery on the top balcony of the Sanctuary with a curatorial focus on interactive installations that merge art and science to investigate the political implications of perception and subjectivity.