Stories Come to Life at Tomorrow Night’s Season Kickoff

by Christina Haase | September 8, 2016

Bookworms rejoice! Mesa Arts Center has a page-turner of a new season that you won’t want to put down.

The whimsical adventure begins with the annual Season Kickoff Festival, called Between the Lines, on Friday, September 9, 2016, 6 to 10 p.m. Live music from Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock stage will become the soundtrack to your evening as you enjoy a delicious cold treat from Paleta’s Betty and watch live demos and pop-up dance performances. The family-friendly block party will include performances by Vessel Project, with well-known literary characters stepping out of paragraphs into the real world, a book sale and signing by local authors, hands on activities by Page Coach and imaginative word play by Humor Writes and Phonetic Spit on the Project Lit Stage.

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum will also reopen its doors with five brand new exhibitions inspired by literature. Enjoy muse-worthy pieces in Worldwide Wanderings by Beatrice Coron, an internationally recognized papercutting artist, Paradise Lost by Daniel Martin Diaz, a new series comprised of ten allegorical illustrations, and Off the Page which will feature works that look at the influences literature has on contemporary art and interconnected nature of visual and written storytelling. Disillusioned by Dina Goldstein will feature select pieces from Goldstein’s two most prominent series: Fallen Princesses and Gods of Suburbia. And The Footnote Chronicles by Corinne Geertsen features digitally manipulated photographs that depict characters often times in precarious predicaments.

If libraries are your happy place and re-shelving your freshly dusted bookcase gives you the warm and fuzzies, don’t continue to scour through chapters to get to the good parts, grab your fellow bibliophiles and start writing your own adventure at Mesa Arts Center this year.