Join us for an evening of music, song and story, featuring a set by the Jalopy Chorus, and a performance of The Loneliness of Either Or, a Requiem for Joan of Arc. Tickets $5-$20 sliding scale.

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Songwriter Ali Dineen and Brooklyn-based puppet troupe Boxcutter Collective join forces to present The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc, a performance that weaves together personal histories, our present political moment, and the story of Joan of Arc.

Part concert and part mass, this evening of song and pageantry will explore the story of Joan of Arc, the 19 year old woman who was burned at the stake in 1431 for refusing to wear women’s clothing. Twenty years later, Joan was declared a martyr, and almost 500 years later she was canonized by the same Catholic Church that convicted her and sentenced her to death.

The Loneliness of Either, Or: A Requiem for Joan of Arc examines the lesser known nuances of Joan’s story, delving into her relationship to gender, prophecy, and faith. Using giant puppets, pageantry, and original music for piano and choir, this show asks the question: where do we find hope and faith in a world full of contradictions and false prophets? Drawing upon the works of scholars such as Sylvia Federici and Leslie Feinberg, as well as the songwriter’s own history, this Requiem looks to understand where we turn when our heroes, myths and gods betray us, and what we can learn from the the in-between places in our lives.