About this Event
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To attend this event, you must buy tickets on Withfriends:
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D.C.’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Best Performance Artist* brings his award-winning, critically acclaimed, signature project back to Rhizome DC – for the first time in person!**
#txtshow is a crowdsourced, immersive, multiscreen performance featuring a mysterious character named txt (pronounced “text”) who recites a script written in real-time, anonymously, by YOU! It’s the best show you’ll write all year.
? PLEASE NOTE: #txtshow relies on a high level of audience interaction. Audience members must bring a cellphone and download the Zoom Workplace mobile app, with their camera and microphone off for the entire show. The content of the show is based entirely upon what audience members write in anonymity and, as such, may contain mature themes, profane language, sudden loud noises, and potentially triggering content or themes.
Created and Performed by Brian Feldman (and Written by the Audience), the show on Monday, August 5th will be the 250th performance of #txtshow!
It’s also the...
• First #txtshow performance in 884 days (2 years 5 months)
• First #txtshow (irl) performance in D.C. in 2,246 days (6 years 1 month 24 days)
• 74th #txtshow (irl) performance
*Best Performance Artist, Washington City Paper Best of D.C. 1st Place: 2018. 2nd Place: 2019. 3rd Place: 2012, 2013, 2015, 2023. 4th Place: 2021. 5th Place: 2022.
**#txtshow (on the internet) played Rhizome DC’s Zoom in 2020 and 2021, which were respectively the first and 175th shows of a 12-country, 36-city, 175-show virtual world tour during the pandemic.
#txtshow (irl) had its world premiere at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida on February 26, 2009.
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? Date
Monday, August 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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?️ Location
Rhizome DC
6950 Maple St NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
4 minute walk from Takoma Station on the Red Line.
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?️ Tickets
$2.50 (not a typo!)
To attend this event, you must buy tickets on Withfriends: withfriends.co/event/20463110
This Eventbrite page is for informational purposes only.
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Public Transit
? Metrorail: Takoma (Red Line)
Free shuttles replace trains between Glenmont & Takoma (Jun 28 - Aug 31).
? Metrobus:
52, 54 (14th Street Line) [timetable]
59 (14th Street Limited Line) [timetable]
62, 63 (Takoma-Petworth Line) [timetable]
F1 (Chillum Road Line) [timetable]
K2 (Takoma-Fort Totten Line) [timetable]
? Ride On / Montgomery County Transit:
12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 24, 25
? Capital Bikeshare: Takoma Metro
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☯ Hashtag
#txtshow (Note: Brian is no longer active on social media.)
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? Reviews
“A very entertaining show!” – AMPlified Culture
“I found myself laughing louder than ever at this performance!” – Analog Artist Digital World
“Creative and engaging!” – Asheville Stages
“Quirky! Entertaining!” – Australian Arts Review ??
“Provocative!” – Broad Street Review
“Brian Feldman is a born performer and a master of physical comedy!” – Broadway Baby ???????
“Very funny!” – BroadwayWorld
“Almost Lynchian in its absurdity... wonderfully weird theater!” – Cincinnati CityBeat
“An experience unlike anything in live theater!” – DC Theater Arts
“Pretty amazing!” – Eventalaide ??
“Such an intriguing and innovative concept!” – The Greater Manchester Reviewer ???????
“This is a work of experimental theater, and I daresay it’s the best!” – Hi! Drama
“Fascinating to watch... I found myself giddy!” – Immersed
“Stellar performance!” – Ink 19
“Great concept well executed!” – Ivo de Jager ??
“It’s eclectic and strange and heaps of fun!” – Keith Gow Review ??
“Appropriately silly!” – LouReviews ???????
“One of my top picks... Strangely mesmerizing... It was hilarious!” – The Munro Review
“Inherently intriguing! Fascinating!” – No Proscenium
“Fun and engaging!” – Play off the Page
“Just fascinating! Dazzling and nimble performance work!” – Single White Fringe Geek
“A seriously fun show!” – Stage Whispers ??
“It’s all very postmodern! It’s all very fun!” – Thinking Theater NYC
“An interactive beauty!” – Utah Theatre Bloggers Association
“Hilarant! Nos expériences immersives préférées de 2020!” – UXmmersive ??
“A golden case study for modern communication scholars!” – Washington City Paper
“Easily the most unusual theatrical experience I’ve enjoyed all year!” – Watford Fringe Reviews ???????
“Magic!” – What Did She Think? ??
“One of the most interesting pieces of performance art out there!” – The Young-Howze Theater Journal
“Unusual! Resists traditional criticism!” – DC Theatre Scene
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About
Rhizome DC is a nonprofit community arts space located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, D.C. We are dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. We also strive to provide a home for non-mainstream programming in the DC area. We host programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge. We believe it’s more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others. We are exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication. We also strongly support non-commercial artistic experiences and seek to provide a space for artists to create experimental works and share the results with the broader community.
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About
Brian Feldman (he/him/his) is an award-winning performance artist and actor. He lives in Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, where he has presented work in all 8 Wards and 30 D.C. neighborhoods. As the news site DCist noted, “In a city that has an advocacy group exploring how to ‘make D.C. weird’ – and is still struggling – Brian Feldman is a shining beacon of eccentricity.” His work has been featured on movie screens, television, radio, in print, and online, earning critical comparisons to the likes of Marina Abramović, David Blaine, Chris Burden, John Cage, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Tehching Hsieh, and Andy Kaufman. Since August 2003, he has presented 1,000+ performances of 140+ projects at 175+ venues and festivals in cities worldwide via Brian Feldman Projects, one of the world’s premier presenters of experimental time-based art, celebrating 20 years in 2023.
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BFP Event Page: txt250.eventbrite.com (Eventbrite)
Rhizome DC Event Page: rhizomedc.org/new-events/2024/8/5/txtshow-the-250th-performance
Withfriends Event Page: withfriends.co/event/20463110
? Press Release: j.mp/txt250_docs (Google Docs)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rhizome DC - Art Learning DIY Culture, 6950 Maple Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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