Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra

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Dear friends... This holiday season we are continuing the Circle of Light tradition, which was started by the beloved Tina Marsh over a decade ago. After she passed this year, we weren’t sure what the future held this wonderful performance, and it seemed almost unfathomable doing it without her. But as time passed, we began to realize that we couldn’t let the project go; its message of hope, love, peace and cultural understanding is too important. So we decided to do another performance (December 13 at the Boyd Vance Theater in East Austin), and get the ‘family’ together at least once more. All the info about the show is below. We hope to see you soon.

ABOUT CIRCLE OF LIGHT
Celebrate this holiday season with an astonishing multi-ethnic and multi-talented cast of performers in a family program celebrating many of our winter holidays. CIRCLE OF LIGHT will enlighten, entertain, and delight you and yours with stories, song, dance, and more. Featured are Christmas around the Americas (including Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and regions of the United States); the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah; the African-American celebration of Kwanzaa; the Hindu celebration of Diwali; and the Islamic observance of Ramadan. All of these holidays, sacred and secular, are fascinating and profoundly moving human rituals. CIRCLE OF LIGHT links these traditions through themes of light, hope, faith, joy, love, family and giving, while honoring the differences each traditions offers. Languages heard throughout the performance include English, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Yiddish and more. Please join us for a memorable holiday event.

Boyd Vance Theater (1165 Angelina St)
Sunday, December 13
3pm


Tickets: $18 general admission; $12 children and seniors (available at the door)

For tickets or other inquiries please contact CreOp at creop@texas.net.

Artists Include: Oliver Rajamani, Susanna Sharpe, Michael Stevens, Alex Coke, Sabrina Cummings, Christian Fernandez, Carla Nadé Nickerson, Bill Averbach, Anuradha Naimpally, Tonico Vanalli, Coutinho, Russell Scanlon, Anna Maria Garcia, Kim Longacre, Mohammed Firoozi, Chandra Washington, Raul Vallejo, and more.



Here's a few music clips from our various recordings:

'Where or When' from Tina Marsh's Inside the Breaking:



Excerpts from 'Courage of the Butterfly' by Tina Marsh from the Creative Opportunity Orchestra's Migration:



Excerpt from'ABZ' by John Mills from the Creative Opportunity Orchestra's The Heaven Line:




Creative Opportunity Orchestra is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Chamber Music America, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, SBC Foundation, with generous help from the Austin Lyric Opera, Brenda Ladd Photography, Epistrophy Arts, DiverseArts, Blue Lapis Light, and Zachary Scott Theatre.

 
 
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