A third showing may be added if demand is high enough
By Lee Juillerat for Ashland.news
Tickets are selling fast for “Mass for the Endangered,” described as a multi-sensory film experience of music and animated artwork being presented Sunday at the ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum in Ashland.
Tickets for the 3 p.m. show have sold out. Anima Mundi Productions, which is hosting film, has started a waiting list. Some tickets are still available for the 2 p.m. showing. Organizers said that if demand is high enough, a third screening may be added at 4 p.m. People are asked to order tickets as soon as possible to determine if a third showing is necessary.
The show is described as “a musical prayer sung for all the plants and animals of our earth.” It has received high praise from several sources, including NPR Classical. The station said the film is a “glorious choral album from composer Sarah Kirkland Snider (that) renewed my faith in humans joining in song for purpose and strength … Snider’s 21st century twist focuses not on our relationship to God, but instead to the flora and fauna on planet.”
Tiziana DellaRovere and Ethan Gans-Morse of Anima Mundi noted that the production unusually combines music and animated art.
After the showings, audience members are invited to participate in a collaborative art project inspired by the stained glass images in the film. The project is led and designed by Karen Hanken, a local award-winning artist, who will guide participants in coloring her depictions of endangered plants and animals in the Pacific Northwest. The art will be used to create a “Chapel for the Endangered,” a community art installation that will be located in the museum’s south wing.
General admission tickets are $20 and include access to the entire ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum on Sunday. People who return to the museum with their tickets before Sunday, Nov. 16, will receive half-price admission to see the finished “Chapel for the Endangered” art installation.
To purchase tickets, call 541-833-3066, extension 1, or email at [email protected].
Email freelance writer Lee Juillerat at [email protected].
