TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!

Join us for a one-night-only, intimate work-in-progress performance of Bending the River: An Oratorio—a sonic descent into the underland of Los Angeles.

This evolving piece gives voice to the unseen forces shaping our city, channeling the poetics of water, labor, and time through the infrastructural intervention that is Bending the River. Lauren Bon’s vision reimagines Los Angeles’ kinship with the river that made it possible, drawing up what has been buried and listening for what the land remembers.

With only 100 tickets available, this rare offering will sell out quickly. We invite you to gather with us on Friday, April 11th, at 7 PM at ArtShareLA in Little Tokyo—to listen, to witness, and to immerse in the river’s song.

Bending the River: An Oratorio is a co-production between Metabolic Studio & Overtone Industries.

Performer & Creative Team bios coming soon!

Libretto by Lauren Bon

Additional Scenarios by Richard Montoya

Composed and Directed by O-Lan Jones

Music Director/Conductor  -  David O

Assistant Director - Livia Reiner

Accompanist - Wells Leng

Lights - Alejandro Melendez

Featuring (in order of appearance)

Narrator - June Carryl 

The River/Floodplain - Angelica Rowell 

La Rana  - Elliot Menard 

Coyote - Kion Heidari 

Committee Member & Golfer 1 - Michael McShane 

Committee Member & Golfer 2 - John Fleck

Committee Member & Caddy - Richard Montoya

Washer Woman - Liz Eldridge

Polluted River - Scott Graff

& the Interdependence Community Choir: a blended community and professional choir. Part of Metabolic Studio’s Sonic Division, the Interdependence Community Choir is one of several ways the Sonic Division investigates the means by which sound waves generate physical and biological change and exchange across landscapes. (Section Leaders Elliot Menard, Liz Eldridge, Kion Hedari, Scott Graff)