World Premiere!
Friday, May 8, 6-9pm; 4320 SW Hill St, Seattle, WA 98116
Free of charge but please RSVP: info@HeartsHealthArts.org
Pamela Gerke, will narrate her “comics musical” while the illustrated pages are projected on a large screen and while the recordings of the songs are played.
6pm: Doors open; please join us for hors d’oeuvres; 6:30pm: The Premiere will begin and run approx. 2 hours.
To read the illustrated book, Click here.
To play the soundtrack for each song as it appears in the story: Click here.
When you click these links, the book and the soundtrack will appear on two separate tabs on your device. For best viewing of the book we recommend using your internet-connected device with the largest screen. You can toggle between the book and soundtrack tabs on the same device - OR - use two different devices, such as: read the book on your laptop while listening to the songs on your phone.
To move to each next page of the book (on Canva.com) click or swipe on the right side.
As you read the book an indicator (2 eighth notes) tells you each time a new song begins, with the track number and name of the song listed below.
- Click on the specific song track (on a HEARTS website page) and listen, while continuing to read the book.
- When each song track ends continue reading the book until the next song is indicated.
- You can also enjoy this comics musical without listening to the music.
THE STORY:
The time is the near future, when the world is suffering from war, famine, disease, and the effects of climate change. Meanwhile, the god Zeuss (spelled like Dr. Seuss) has gone mad and some of the other gods escape his violence by moving to Mt Tahoma (Mt Rainier). There they create a Ribbon of Peace each year and add it to the annual, global art event wherein people create decorated fabric panels to express their desire for peace and then tie them together (The Ribbon was an actual event in 1985).
Venus, Goddess of Love and Kitchen Gardens, and an avatar of all women, and her sister Diana go on a backpack trip to deliver the Ribbon from Mt Tahoma to the Ribbonalia festival. After they arrive in The City (Seattle), they realize Venus has lost their Ribbon and she must go back to the forest to find it. While she searches, goddesses and gods work with mortals to thwart the growing threat of global war. Meanwhile, thousands of women from around the world gather at the U.N. to confront heads of state about the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
Before Venus and Diana left Mt Tahoma, goddesses and witches had cast a spell to alchemize the worst aspects of humanity into something of beauty. Now, on the eve of the Global Ribbon Tying, some of the gods cast a spell to banish the Demon of War from earth. In the aftermath of that spellcasting, Venus has an out-of-body experience wherein she realizes where the Ribbon is that she’s been searching for: while she had all along assumed it was stolen from her by Mars, God of War, the truth is she was not paying attention to what’s most important (protecting the Ribbon of Peace) and had simply left it behind at home!
In the final scene/song, Ribbons are tied together around the world and Venus, Goddess of Love, delivers the final link that creates World Peace! Hooray!