The year is 2024 ... The United States starts to slide into social collapse. After years of power grabs, oligarchs have successfully staged a bloodless coup and begin their work to finalize the republic into a corporate state. With the world’s climate on the brink of collapse, the country experiences ‘once in a lifetime’ weather catastrophes several times a year. Rapidly advancing technologies erode personal privacy and freedoms, algorithms and AI grow more invasive and influential in day-to-day life. The graphic realities of an international U.S.-backed genocides undercut domestic state and media propaganda. Domestically, the sick cannot afford skyrocketing drug prices or medical costs, while an epidemic of gun violence sweeps the country and mass shootings against schools and civilians become routine while police kill record numbers of citizens. The sun is shining. People continue to make their art. Welcome to dystopia.

Bienvenidos Dystopia

To loudly proclaim our current social-cultural-aesthetic moment smack dab in Late Stage Capitalism, Taylor Carik and Megan Mayer have curated an evening of presentations, performances, music, comedy and more at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater. An artistic variety show of sorts, the show highlights the many ways in which Minneapolis-St. Paul artists make work while the world burns, figuratively and literally. Why not come together and celebrate while we still can? Artist proceeds will be donated to Mizna, a platform for contemporary, critical, and experimental art, writing, and film centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists.

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Tickets are $8. Doors open at 6PM. Online ticket sales end at 4PM. Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.