BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:40c461ab-fcdf-451f-91f1-a4787d86f74d@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261016T175417Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T203000 SUMMARY:makemake presents: Wholly Unwinding (A New Musical) - NYC Premier e DESCRIPTION:Step through a portal where scars become songs and healing be comes a celebration. Blending folk concert\, musical\, immersive ritual\ , and joyous dance party\, Wholly Unwinding transforms the audience into fellow travelers on a journey of radical self-discovery. Come ready to move\, sing\, and discover what becomes possible when every body belongs . What’s a Rich Text element? The rich text element allows you to create and format headings\, paragraphs\, blockquotes\, images\, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Jus t double-click and easily create content. Static and dynamic content edi ting A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content\, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dyna mic content\, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila! How to cu stomize formatting for each rich text Headings\, paragraphs\, blockquote s\, figures\, images\, and figure captions can all be styled after a cla ss is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested s elector system. We all have scars. Some seen\, others hidden. Each tells a story\, a marker of an experience that\, though painful\, became part of us. What happens when we don't just look at our scars\, but try to l earn and grow through them\, honoring how they shaped who we are today? The immersive experience opens with an art gallery curated from disabled artists in New York City and an offering of hands-on Alexander Techniqu e somatic work\, the modality that Hailey credits with launching her hea ling experience. The audience crosses into the space through a sculpture portal built from the casts and medical devices Hailey wore in childhoo d. Led by Hogfish co-founder and Alexander Technique teacher Matt Cahill \, the experience of receiving hands-on Alexander Technique guidance con tinues throughout the piece for the cast and audience. At the end of Who lly Unwinding\, an inclusive dance party further breaks down barriers be tween cast and audience\, inviting people with and without disabilities to celebrate the joy of moving the bodies we have as one. ABOUT MAKEMAKE ‍ ‍ makemake debuts this year as National Sawdust’s annual festival inv iting artists to imagine futures - making\, remixing\, rethinking. ‍ ‍ ‍ Named after the dwarf planet that reshaped how we define a world\, and the Rapa Nui creator deity of fertility - makemake is about generating n ew forms: of art\, of access\, of community.This is a festival that cele brates imagination\, and the radical invitation to ratify accessibility by design\, not as an afterthought. This is a festival that centers the belief that care is crucial\, and that equity is essential. This is a fe stival for everyone\, but especially for those who want to shape what co mes next. Expect immersive performances\, evolving technologies\, ecstat ic raves\, late night conversations\, and unexpected collisions between artists\, technologists\, activists\, and communities. Rooted in disabil ity-led design and imagination\, this is a space where access is a creat ive engine reshaping how we gather\, sense\, and move together. Through a lens of tech optimism\, we explore how emerging tools can expand agenc y\, deepen connection\, and unlock new forms of expression. Expect space s designed for care\, curiosity\, and connection. Expect to move\, to qu estion\, to co-create. This is a seated performance. If you require acce ssibility accommodations\, please email boxoffice@nationalsawdust.org. T he world premiere of Wholly Unwinding was commissioned\, developed\, and produced by Hogfish in Portland\, ME. The development of Wholly Unwindi ng received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Composer s: Discovery Grants program\, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Found ation. ABOUT HAILEY MCAVOY\, COMPOSER/LYRICIST/CREATOR/MEZZO-SOPRANO Com poser-performer Hailey McAvoy\, recognized as a “gorgeous-voiced mezzo-s oprano\," (Broadway World)\, is a versatile performer of opera\, song\, and concert. McAvoy makes her compositional debut with Wholly Unwinding\ , a chamber opera exploring her life with Cerebral Palsy. She will perfo rm in the premiere with the Hogfish Regenerative Arts Festival in Portla nd\, Maine\, in July 2026\, and in a New York Premiere at National Sawdu st in November\, 2026. Beyond Wholly Unwinding\, McAvoy’s recent operati c performances include appearing as Mem\, the lead role in the world pre miere of Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex at the Common Senses Festival in Omaha\, NE\, as Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit with Opera Prakti kos\, and as Zora in Svadba with Hogfish Regenerative Arts. Equally acti ve as a concert performer\, McAvoy has appeared in concert with the Metr opolitan Opera for their Opera Evolved series\, and will perform at the Royal Opera in London in a showcase of Sensorium Ex in June 2026. She ha s sung at The Greene Space\, the Appel Room at Carnegie Hall\, National Sawdust\, the Baton Rouge Symphony\, Opera Ithaca\, Seattle’s Sound Salo n\, Jazz and Classics for Change\, and others. As a performer with the n eurological condition cerebral palsy\, McAvoy is committed to making the performing arts more inclusive for all. She has published essays on acc essibility in AGMAzine and Our Singing Bodies and she has appeared as a panelist on accessibility forums with such organizations as the Metropol itan Opera\, Opera America\, and The National Endowment for the Arts. To learn more\, visit www.haileymcavoy.com ‍ ABOUT EDWIN CAHILL\, DIRECTOR and DRAMATURG Edwin Cahill (he/him) is guided by the belief that transf ormation happens through the stories told in community. Inspired by the wisdom of the more than human world\, he creates artistic containers tha t reconnect people to themselves\, one another\, and the living earth. A director\, producer\, librettist\, performer\, and concert pianist whos e work spans Broadway\, Off-Broadway\, opera\, and film/TV\, Edwin dedic ates his work to his Indigenous Mi'kmaq and Celtic ancestors and studies spiritual practice with Ma Tonon Kano and Puma Fredy Quispe Singona. A certified End-of-Life Doula through the University of Vermont and a stud ent of Modern Group Leadership at the Center for Group Studies\, he weav es healing\, ritual\, and group process into his artistic practice. Edwi n is co-founder and director of Hogfish\, a regenerative performing arts company and artist residency in Maine dedicated to restoring creative a nd physical health to individuals\, communities\, and the earth. Edwin i s a trustee of the Portland Museum of Art. He founded and directed the F ire Island Opera Festival and studied at the New England Conservatory\, Manhattan School of Music\, Tufts University\, and Université de Paris I II. Edwin lives and works with his husband Matt Cahill and divides his t ime between his home in Wabanakik\, also known as Cape Elizabeth\, Maine \; Lenapehoking\, also known as New York City\; and Mi'kma'ki\, also kno wn as Nova Scotia. www.edwincahill.com ABOUT MATT CAHILL\, REGENERATIVE ARTS FACILITATOR Matt Cahill (he/they) believes that each of us is inext ricably linked with the world around us\, and that by shifting the way w e pay attention to that relationship\, we can find heaven on earth. His quest to find\, live\, create\, and share that realization has drawn lab yrinthine lines through traditional professions and art forms. Their pro fessions include actor\, singer\, model\, writer\, director\, choreograp her\, artistic director\, administrator\, producer\, and teacher. Their art forms include film\, television\, physical theater\, musical theater \, concert\, opera\, Reiki\, and the Alexander Technique. As Le Monde in Paris declared of his performance of Papageno in Peter Brook’s Molière Award-winning adaptation of The Magic Flute\, Une Flûte Enchantée “you r eally want to hear him in either an opera or a musical. He has a big pre sence\, a warm baritone voice\, immense humanity\, and the gift of an ac tor.” He has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, American Reper tory Theater\, Barbican Theatre on The West End\, Les Bouffes du Nord in Paris\, Piccolo Teatro in Milan\, New York City Opera\, Carnegie Hall a nd The Kennedy Center\; sung with the London and Boston Symphony Orchest ras\; and appeared in the National Tour of Scrooge: The Musical\, on tel evision in Law & Order\, and in the feature film The Producers! BM Juill iard School\, MM Bard College Conservatory. He is a Reiki Level II Heale r and an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique\, which he t eaches at the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Pr ogram and Circle in the Square Theatre School\, in addition to their pri vate studio in Maine and NYC for performers and non-performers alike. Sy nthesizing all of their experiences and asking how the arts and artist c ultivation can be more regenerative to the earth and human spirit\, they co-founded Hogfish where they direct the regenerative arts residency. w ww.mattcahill.online ‍ ABOUT HOGFISH Founded in 2021\, Hogfish is a rege nerative arts production company and artist residency at the historic Be ckett Castle\, surrounded by an internationally recognized rose garden o n the coast of Maine. Hogfish is building an artistic sanctuary and body of work dedicated to restoring creative and physical health to individu als\, our communities\, and our earth. Since its creation in 2021 by hus bands\, co-founders/directors\, and Broadway and Metropolitan Opera arti sts and educators Matt & Edwin Cahill\, Hogfish has given more than 30 p erformances to over 3000 audience members in a dozen locations across So uthern Maine\, created “opera like no one could imagine” (The Portland P ress Herald)\, and hosted more than 54 artists-in-residence\, incubating the next generation of emergent regenerative art. www.hogfish.org\n\nTi ckets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36490/production/1280665\n\nhttps://fin dlocal.community/event/40c461ab-fcdf-451f-91f1-a4787d86f74d LOCATION:National Sawdust\, Brooklyn\, NY URL:https://findlocal.community/event/40c461ab-fcdf-451f-91f1-a4787d86f74 d STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR