The Des Moines Social Club & Instinct Gallery Present
SENSORY OVERLOAD
Saturday, May 12
7pm – midnight
$5 suggested donation
Facebook Event
Artwork available for purchase
1350 E. Washington (Corner of E14th and Washington St)

Artists: Dan Welk – Jon Huffman – Rachel Buse – Shawk Palek - Michael Van Dyke – Chris Peterson – Van Holmgren - Anna Frederick – Ian Leckie -Jonathan Pearson - Sara Williams – Kjersten Lutz – Michelle Holley - Jessica Dunn – Brian Sauer – Holly Jensen - Jordan Weber – Michael Watson – Alexandra Bomhoff - Michael Blair and many more.

Performances: Trouble Lights – The Olsen Twinns - Rumble Seat Riot – Cover Grrls - Flying Eagles Acrobalance - Food Installations - and much more!

CoLab Project creates original pieces of theater around Iowa stories. Our first production was The Mother Davis Project, a dramatic biography of beloved local activist Evelyn Davis. We’re really excited to present our next project, MethLab. It takes a 360 look at the problem of meth in Iowa. There’s more information below. If you’re interested, come on down! Or email me on mwmciver@gmail.com.

Excelsior!
Matt

Locust Productions and the Des Moines Social Club present METHLAB: a CoLab project look at meth in Iowa

The Des Moines Social Club and Locust Productions present MethLab, an original play exploring the impact of meth in Iowa.

Based on extensive research by the Locust Productions CoLab team, MethLab follows three stories: a group of drug users in small-town Iowa, the local pharmacists struggling to stay afloat, and the drug company that supplies them.

The writing team consists of Chris Ford, Matthew McIver, Zachary Mannheimer and Chris Peterson. McIver will direct.

Auditions will be held Sunday, May 6th through Tuesday, May 8th from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Des Moines Social Club. There are roles for 4 women and 5 men.

The play runs June 14th-24th at the Des Moines Social Club, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 and Sundays at 2pm.

Don’t let the new name throw you–it’s the same funtastic event as the previous two years, only we’re partnering directly with the Bike Collective on producing it, rather than with the ArtCrank organization. But you can expect great posters (Michelle Holley, our fabulous curator, let me sneak a look and they’re great) and fun times.

Be there for the opening Friday, and come check out the first Farmer’s Market of the year on Saturday, which also happens to be the first Market Day. Farmer’s Market, Market Day and PedalArt all happening at the DMSC on Saturday–that’s a must-do nexus of coolness.

See you at the Club!

Excelsior,
Matt

I’m Matt McIver, the Artistic Director for DMSC, and I’ll be chiming in here occasionally, and introducing you to lots of other voices of folks who make this the greatest arts organization in the world, or at least in the Kirkwood building. So please do follow and fire off fabulous flights of fancy for future posts!

The Don’t-Miss this week is the Repertory Theatre of Iowa‘s acclaimed production of Tartuffe. Few things are funnier than French frauds, and this production is laugh-out-loud funny, with direction by Matt Foss in his RTI debut and a swingin’ sixties-ish setting by Jay Jagim. I’ll be there Friday at 7:30 and you should be sure to catch it then, or Saturday at 7:30 or Sunday’s 2pm matinee (because nothing says fun like theater in the daytime).

Thanks so much for your support, and to all the folks who give so much to help us be great in Des Moines. All the folks who came to our annual Food For Thought dinner, our Small Donor campaign Givers and all the folks who are giving to our Birdies for Charity drive at the Principal Charity Classic–you rock. (If you want to get in on the Birdies, click here.) The DSMC is what it is because amazing people like you create daily awesomeness.  Thanks for reading, and look for more updates soon!

Excelsior!
Matt