i / we

Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 p.m. | Virtual Performance

With Bonnie Cox, Ginnifer Joe, Kaitlyn Jones & Oddalys Salcido

Presented by ARCOS & Austin Classical Guitar

Austin Classical Guitar Originals presents immersive stories in body, image, and sound. ACG partner ARCOS has developed this captivating and unique cinimatic experience. Journey through the stories of home, and celebrate how our humanity transcends borders, languages, and boundaries.

In 2017, ACG created i/we, a multimedia concert inspired by interviews with Syrian and Iraqui refugees during their first 90 days in Austin. The project involved an international cast of musicians and artists, won Best New Composition by the Austin Chronicle, and changed everyone who worked on it forever.

In i/we 2020, ACG partners with the wildly creative ARCOS and choreographer Erica Gionfriddo to recontextualize these stories in new spaces, reimagining the themes of home in a film featuring four new dance works.

Experience i/we 2020 from the comfort of your own home as part of ACG's Originals virtual performance series. Tickets are free, but you must RSVP to receive a conformation with the link to view the performance.

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The concert is free, but you can make a donation to Austin Classical Guitar to support ACG artists and services here.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, October 15
Time: 7:00 p.m. CST
Website: https://www.austinclassicalguitar.org/acg_originals/

Ticket Information

Cost: FREE

Presenter Details

Name: Austin Classical Guitar

Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to classical guitar in the United States. Founded in 1990, ACG currently presents close to 100 concerts annually through several diverse series, showcasing the world’s greatest guitarists along with local and regional talent, in performances reaching over 10,000 audience members each year. ACG also promotes lifelong learning in the arts through enrichment classes, adult community ensembles, the highly-acclaimed ACG Youth Orchestra, and beginning guitar classes.

At the heart of the organization’s mission is ACG Education, a program that was launched in 2001 in an effort to improve the quality of classroom-based guitar instruction in Austin schools. Seventeen years later, ACG’s education team is supporting for-credit guitar programs they have built in nearly 60 elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Austin area, bringing high-quality, long-term arts education to nearly 4,000 students each week. The flexibility and comprehensiveness of ACG’s curriculum, which was published online in 2004 at GuitarCurriculum.com, has shown classical guitar to be a uniquely effective and engaging solution for under-resourced schools struggling to provide high-quality arts education for their students. Today, GuitarCurriculum.com and the teaching resources that accompany it are being used by hundreds of teachers throughout Texas and beyond, and ACG Education’s success in Austin schools is serving as a model for other communities around the world.

In recent years, ACG’s services have expanded to include innovative education programs for Travis County youth who are incarcerated or on probation, as well as braille-adapted instruction for students at Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Through a partnership with Carnegie Hall, ACG offers the Lullaby Project, an arts intervention for new and expecting mothers facing economic, social and psychological challenges.

With its groundbreaking education and social services, world-class concert presentations, a commitment to equity and inclusion in all of its programming, and the generous investment of thousands of supporters, ACG will continue to grow and pursue its mission to inspire all the people it serves with musical experiences of deep personal significance.