Midnight at MAAM

Nothing good happens after midnight…or does it? This February, MAAM’s popular Twilight series goes late night to spotlight our current exhibition, Masako Miki: Midnight March. 

Throughout the night, an aerialist from Boston Circus Guild performs gravity-defying stunts suspended above Paine Gallery while live figure drawing models serve as inspiration for sketching alongside Makaso Miki’s colorful wool-felted forms.

Get creative with quirky projects in the Barkan Family Big Ideas Studio, enjoy a galactic-inspired mocktail that sparkles like the night sky, and don’t miss a special screening of the critically-acclaimed 2001 animated feature Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli sensation Hayao Miyazaki. 

Program

Mocktails

BAKALAR GALLERY

Enjoy complimentary beverages on the first floor only.

Luminary-Making

BARKAN FAMILY BIG IDEAS STUDIO | ONGOING

Create a luminary to illuminate Masako Miki’s Midnight March.

Community Illumination

PAINE GALLERY | 11:55P

Celebrate the lighting of your luminary at midnight! Join us in the gallery at 11:55pm for a midnight countdown and collective luminary illumination.

Spirited Away Screening

9:30-11:35P

Enjoy a special screening of the critically-acclaimed 2001 animated feature Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli sensation Hayao Miyazaki.

Ask museum staff for directions to the screening. Limited capacity.

Aerialist Performances

PAINE GALLERY | 9:15P, 9:45P, 10:30P, & 11:15P

Boston Circus Guild aerialist Mandy Hackman performs gravity-defying stunts suspended above Paine Gallery throughout the evening.

Drop-in Figure Drawing & Sketching

PAINE GALLERY | ONGOING (UNTIL 11:00P)

Meet Boston Circus GuilD & Featured aerialist Mandy Hackman  

The Boston Circus Guild is a collaborative, membership-based organization of talented circus performers, musicians, fire artists, dancers and event producers from the New England area. 

Mandy is an aerialist, dancer and choreographer. She has performed on stages across the US and beyond: productions in Boston and the northeast, immersive works with Control Group and Rainbow Militia in Denver, with Sinecdoche Dance, SAWtooth Dance, Mike Kelley, and others in NYC, at the Kennedy center and across the front range with Frequent Flyers Productions, and as a guest circus artist at Darpana, India, and Casa Chango, Mexico. Mandy has created her own dance-theater work as the founder/director of Tree Project and Shapeshifter collective, which toured throughout the US. She has built commissioned choreography for many dance, theater and circus companies and has been a featured artist at the Aerial Dance Festival, Excessive Realness Dance Festival, Hupstate Circus Festival, and others. She has been featured as an event aerialist, stilt walker, and tarot reader. Offstage, you can find her coaching at Esh Circus Arts & Commonwealth Circus Center, and sharing her love of functional movement as the founder of body inclusive strength and posture service, All Our Bodies.  

Learn more, here. 

MUSEUm Hours 

MAAM will close at 5:00p on February 26, reopening at 9:00pm for the event, Midnight at MAAM. Visitors will be admitted no earlier than 8:45pm. 

Ticketing

This event is free with advance registration. MAAM may accommodate unregistered walk-up guests on the evening of this event only as capacity allows; walk-up tickets on the evening of the event are not guaranteed. Evening events often sell out; plan ahead and register in advance. 
 

BEVERAGEs 

Beverages ticketed, maximum one per person. Note beverages will only be permitted on the first floor of the museum during this event.
 

Documentation  

Photos and/or videos will be taken at this event. By attending this event, you acknowledge and agree that your likeness may be included in photos and videos of the event and that those photos and videos may be used by MassArt and Boston Circus Guild in connection with MassArt and Boston Circus Guild communications. If you do not agree with this usage, please notify a staff member upon arrival to receive a no-photo sticker.
 

Access

MassArt Art Museum is committed to creating a welcoming, accessible, and inclusive environment during in-person and virtual programs and events. To request an access or disability-related accommodation, please contact MassArt Art Museum at maam@massart.edu at least two weeks before the date of the event. 

 

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