Vol. 11 Presenter: Chris Jonas
Presenting
20 x 20 Serendipity
Summary
Composer and littleglobe ED Chris Jonas presents a multi-arts reflection on the structuring of the passage of 6 mins 40 seconds of time. This presentation will use live and structured performance music, spoken text, and pre-recorded soundscape to explore the boundaries and opportunities the PechaKucha structure creates through the framework of 20 sequential 20-second chunks of experience.
Bio
Chris Jonas is the co-founder of Littleglobe, a multi-generational arts and social engagement non-profit based in Santa Fe. He is a composer, conductor and filmmaker and a Producer/Creative Director for Littleglobe TV, ¡Presente!: Stories of Home, Belonging and Displacement in Santa Fe, and a variety of cross-Santa Fe projects that connect resident storytelling and civic dialog around policymaking. He has long been a filmmaker, facilitator and educator collaboratively producing many multi-arts/collaborative films and projects with community members across New Mexico including the 2013 national PBS feature documentary “Our Time is Now.”
As a composer, instrumentalist and conductor Jonas has performed, recorded and toured internationally with many of today's most adventurous performing artists and composers. Jonas is a United States Artists fellow and a winner of the 2012 Meet the Composer/Commissioning USA award for GARDEN, his ongoing series of live music and transmedia works.
He is Executive Director of the New Mexico arts and social engagement non-profit, Littleglobe, is a Rockwood Arts and Social Engagement fellow and is Vice President of the Tri-Centric Foundation, committed to the work and legacy of Anthony Braxton.