Boston Center for the Arts Presents Site-Specific Musical and Visual Installation KNOW NO. by Masary Studios

Boston Center for the Arts presents Know No. by Masary Studios in the Cyclorama March 2-4, 2017, with performances starting at 7:30 pm each night. Repercussions of the word NO reverberate around the historic walls of the Cyclorama in this site-specific installation created by Masary Studios for Boston Center for the Arts. A dozen performers will combine light, sound and poetry in a thrilling spectacle that is the first major commission in the Cyclorama in decades.

Audiences are invited to explore the Cyclorama, and with it the complex, emotional and visceral human reactions to denial. A truly multi-disciplinary experience, projected visuals and light will illuminate the Cyclorama and built structures while eight percussionists and four vocalists will use marimbas, drums, blocks of wood, chimes and more to perform a newly composed work that showcases the unique acoustics of the Cyclorama. Additionally, the performance will feature the writings and voices of collaborative poets from across Boston-including poets from the Society Of Urban Poets and the Poet Laureate of Boston.

Standard tickets are $35 and student tickets are $10. A limited number of VIP tickets (including two drink tickets and a VIP lounge) are $50. Performances begin at 7:30 pm, March 2?4, 2017. For tickets and information, visit www.bcaonline.org.

This experience is made possible by The Barr Foundation and The Klarman Family Foundation, as part of their joint Arts Capacity Building Initiative's Artistic Risk Fund. This one-time Fund provided grantees with risk capital to test or implement creative or artistic opportunities, ideas, or experiments that otherwise may never come to fruition as a result of the operational risks they pose.

Masary Studios (Ryan Edwards, Maria Finkelmeier and Sam Okerstrom-Lang) is a team awakening built environments through live music performance and video projection mapping. By unlocking the hidden possibilities of an urban landscape, Masary's works are at once a performance, a dissection of architecture and an immersive visual spectacle. The three principal members of Masary have backgrounds that include degrees in fine art, classical and world percussion, as well as years of experience in West African music studies, painting, new music curation and direction, teaching at the university and conservatory levels and more. When approaching a new project, their inspiration comes from the structure, the environment, the history and the local culture embedded in the place. The animation and musical works are developed in collaboration-one informing the other-allowing many turns of reflection and refraction.

Boston Center for the Arts is the nexus of the arts in Boston, fostering the development of contemporary visual and performing arts and convening artists and audiences to create, explore and celebrate all creative disciplines. Part of the cultural fabric of the city of Boston, Boston Center for the Arts utilizes its historic campus in the vibrant South End to present world-class exhibitions and performances, provide affordable work space, engage cultural consumers throughout the region, and nurture artists with the resources to take risks and develop new art works.

Boston Center for the Arts is generously supported by hundreds of individual donors, businesses and family foundations, including The Barr Foundation and the Klarman Family Foundation in collaboration with the Barr-Klarman Arts Capacity Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Boston Foundation, The Liberty Mutual Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

To learn more, visit www.bcaonline.org.

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