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OUR FIRST EVER PARKING LOT FILM SCREENINGS SERIES!

DRIVE-IN AT ON THE BOARDS PARKING LOT

This four-night screening series features a variety of artists, a wide range of techniques, diverse considerations about art and performance, shapeshifting objects as beings, and the creative futures we are dreaming about. In recent years, the OtB parking lot has been a badminton court, a beer garden, October 1-4, it’s an outdoor drive-in movie theater!

Searching for new ways to gather, experience art, build community, and stay healthy and distant -- On the Boards looks no further than across the street. This film series sends OtB performance and art into in the wilds of the On the Boards parking lot!

Tickets-Cars and Pods
Viewers may experience each of the unique screenings from a car or by sitting in the designated "seated audience area" area. Seats are not provided (BYOC bring your own chairs!) Tickets are priced per car or by "family pod" seating of up to five. As with all OtB programming this year attendees can "name a price that makes you happy".

Audio- Bring Your FM Radio
All audio will be broadcast through an FM transmitter. Viewers are required to tune in via car radio, cell phone, or boom box. Please note: not all cellphones have FM capabilities, so make sure to double-check before arriving.

Food and Drinks- Check out The Sitting Room
Before you enjoy your film check out the delicious food and drinks at our neighbor restaurant The Sitting Room! You can enjoy a crunch wrap supreme, a burrito, chips and salsa, or a churro! Just make sure you are back in your car by 8pm (OtB parking lot opens at 7:40pm) Check out their menu today!

Safety and Guidelines
Click here to learn more about our safety and guidelines for drive-in's. Check each film below for content warnings.

Each night a different program. Learn more about the artist and the films below! This series includes artist conversations and interviews that will be featured on our website and social media channels.

Thursday, October 1
Wildness & Shape of a Right Statement; Wu Tsang

WILDNESS integrates elements of fiction and documentary structures to vividly portray Tsang’s multi-layered relationship with a Latino Los Angeles LGBT bar, the Silver Platter, one that explores her role as an artist and activist, and a member of a younger generation introducing itself into a gay scene that started before the Stonewall riots – the Silver Platter’s birth year is 1963. Shape of a Right Statement is a short work featuring Tsang’s recitation of one section of “In My Language,” a text by autism rights activist Amanda Baggs.

Content warning: References to sex and harsh language. May not be suitable for those under 13.

Friday, October 2
Animation Evening
In collaboration with Wa Na Wari, this screening includes short animation films about ancestral culture, self-portraits, cultural storytelling, and where the boundaries between objects break down and shape shift together to become something else.

Saturday, October 3
Acting Stranger
Join us for live commentary with the artists during the screening!

Andrew Schneider and Seattle-based artists Minna Lee and Fox Whitney have been collaboratively dreaming up the reboot of Acting Stranger, a multi-layered art work, to help us collectively navigate reconnection with each other; in slow stages, from the drudgery of another video-conference call to a future full embrace with a complete stranger. Each iteration of Acting Stranger thrives on being authored within the world’s current moment, its freedoms, restrictions, debates, hardships, resilience, and humanity. Acting Stranger helps us track and understand how we meet each other across time and space as we re-connect, grieve our losses, and re-imagine community.

Sunday, October 4
Sci-Fi Horror Night!
The Black Cinema Collective will surprise you with an entertaining evening of BIPOC SciFi/Horror films and guest appearances. The Collective closely engages Black films through screenings, watch parties, and discussions with local and global filmmakers from African and Afro-Diasporic communities.

What to Know Before You Visit

  • All screenings will be experienced from inside your vehicle or in the pre-sectioned "outside audience" are up front.
  • There are no seats in the "outside audience" space. You will need to bring a chair or blanket if you like.
  • There will be no sales of food and beverage on site. Tickets are sold online in advance only.
  • The health and safety of our attendees and staff is our absolute priority. Guests MUST stay in their vehicle.
  • Bathrooms will be available in the On the Boards theater, however guests are strongly encouraged to not leave their cars unless absolutely necessary.
  • Our staff has been updated and trained on all safety precautions as laid out by Washington's Safe Start plan. All staff are required to wear a face mask or face cover.
  • Attendees traveling in one vehicle, or sitting together in the "outside audience" area must reside in the same household.
  • Attendees must be seated in a passenger seat equipped with a seatbelt.
  • No alcohol can be consumed on premises.

Partner Organziations

Wa Na Wari creates space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection. Wa Na Wari means "Our Home" in Kalabari. Co-founder, Inye Wokoma, is Kalabari through his father's lineage. The name Wa Na Wari evokes a sense of purpose and intention to remain present in a place we consider home.

Wa Na Wari was founded in April, 2019, in direct response to community conversations convened by Wa Na Wari’s four co-founders, between 2017 and 2019. Wa Na Wari is founded by Inye Wokoma and Elisheba Johnson, Black artists directly impacted by Seattle’s displacement and affordability crisis; and Jill Freidberg and Rachel Kessler, white artists using art and stories to challenge white supremacy, especially as it is expressed through gentrification and displacement.

Artist Credits

About the Artists

Wu Tsang

Wu Tsang

WU TSANG is a filmmaker, visual artist, and performer who incorporates strategies of activism, art making, and stage production across a range of multi-disciplinary projects. While Tsang’s work has a rich visual style, her attention to shifting identities, transitional spaces, and communities emphasizes contingent identifiers such as language, voice, and persona, prompting inquiries into how individuals and communities resist ingrained social prejudices. Using the frameworks of popular media forums such as cinema, television, theater and dance clubs, her work considers prescient debates about social gathering as a form of insurgency and the political capacity of contemporary art. Credit info for WILDNESS: Directed and Produced by: Wu Tsang. Written by: Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar. Produced by: Kathy Rivkin. Edited by: Claire Didier and Wu Tsang. Director of Photography: Michelle Lawler. Co-Producers: Daniel Eduvijes Carrera, Felix Endara. Original Music by: Nguzunguzu, Total Freedom, Robbie Williamson.

MARIANA MARROQUIN - as the VOICE OF THE SILVER PLATTER. WILDNESS Performers (In order of appearance): Zackary Drucker, Crazy Bitch in a Cave, Camlab, Geneva Jacuzzi, Stefan L. Smith, Amy Linton, We Are the World, Shunda K., Butchie & Fay, Tamechi, Dynasty Handbag, Lucky Dragons, Alex Black & Samuel White, Agassi Ben Gura, Mirror Mirror (with Veronica Celabaum & Ryan Trecartin), Roberto Ramone and The Modernaire, Fine Art Union, Foxy Moron, Iliana Snapper and Ron Athey, Geneva Washington, Leopold Nunan, Patrick (Sax Player).

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Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider

ANDREW SCHNEIDER is an OBIE award-winning, Drama Desk nominated performer, writer, and interactive- electronics artist creating original works for theater, dance, sound, video, and installation since 2003. “I am interested in how curating meaningful time-based experiences can lead to more meaningful human-to-human interaction. If theater at its core is humans telling stories about ourselves to each other, then I hope it is in the service of getting better at being human.” Based in Brooklyn, New York, Schneider creates and performs original performance works, builds interactive electronic art works and installations, and was a Wooster Group company member from 2007-2014. In March of 2020 Andrew premiered the choreographic work »remains« commissioned by the Sasha Waltz & Guests company at Radialsystem in Berlin, Germany. Andrew’s original performance work in NYC includes NERVOUS/SYSTEM (2018 – BAM Next Wave Festival) AFTER (2018 – Under the Radar Festival,The PublicTheater) YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award – The Invisible Dog, 2016 Drama Desk nom – 3LD); DANCE/FIELD (2014 – Dance Roulette), TIDAL (2013 – River to River festival); and WOW+FLUTTER (2010 – The Chocolate Factory Theater) among others. He is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2020). http://andrewjs.com/

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Raelle Myrick-Hodges

Raelle Myrick-Hodges

RAELLE MYRICK-HODGES was named as the first creative director of 651 Arts, has served as artistic director of San Francisco’s Brava for Women in the Arts and was the inaugural curator of Performing Arts for the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.As a nationally-known stage director, Myrick-Hodges has worked in over 15 regional theaters and museums including SF MOMA, Playmakers Repertory, California Shakespeare Theater, The Public Theater, The National Black Theater, Theater Minnot in Beirut and EDELO Residencia in Chiapas, Mexico.

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Minna Lee

Minna Lee

Minna Lee (they/them/she/her) is a Hmong-Vietnamese American writer, animator, and performer making art on Lenape land and pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College.

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Fox Whitney(he/him)

Fox Whitney

he/him

Fox Whitney (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, music, film+video, theater, writing, and visual art. Fox is obsessed with the surreal nature of transformation, how we identify ourselves and how personal and collective identity is an ever-shifting and evolving landscape. His projects center his queer and transgender point of view. He founded the QT interdisciplinary performance project Gender Tender in 2012. He also fronts the trans-futurist psych band Light Aloud that grew from his ongoing series of performances and workshops called MELTED RIOT. MELTED RIOT is a surreal protest song, a queer meditation, a psychedelic research project, a punk prayer.

Fox’s work has been commissioned and produced by the Henry Art Gallery, On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle International Dance Festival, Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival, and was selected for the inaugural season of Seattle’s Gay City Arts. Light Aloud has played at Trans Pride Seattle, Capitol Hill Block Party, and the Seattle Art Fair. He has performed in works by Meg Foley, Will Rawls, keyon gaskin, Morgan Thorson, Andrew Schneider, CommonForm Dance Project, Malic Amalya, and Gabrielle Civil. He got his MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited his short films and visual art nationally. Fox is also a yoga and meditation teacher, movement teaching artist, and arts journalist currently writing for SeattleDances and Variable West. He was the Artistic Director of Velocity Dance Center from 2020-2022.

Instagram: @fox_whitney_‍ ‍@lightaloud @gendertenderforever

Website

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