GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION
The COUNTER PUBLIC Grand Opening at CITYPARK and adjacent sites will feature a tour through the Brickline Greenway, Damon Davis’ film premiere, the official opening of Pillars of the Valley, music by 18andCounting and Moor Mother, food + drinks, and a first glimpse into Counterpublic 2023. Free and open to the public.
- 7:00PM: Tour along the Brickline Greenway to Jordan Weber’s Defensive Landscape installation at Memorial Plaza
- 7:00PM: 18andCounting solo performance
- 7:30PM: Tour of Steffani Jemison’s Sky Has No Roof with the artist at Union Station
- 7-9PM (on loop): Special preview of Jemison’s sound installation in the St. Louis Wheel, made in collaboration with St. Louis storytellers and performers Jackie and Papa Wright
- 8:00PM: Damon Davis’s film premiere of The Boy in the Bottle
- 8:45PM: Second screening of The Boy in the Bottle
- 8:15PM: Moor Mother solo performance
New Red Order will present a newly commissioned film, Give it Back: Stage Theory, presented on location along Jefferson Avenue for Counterpublic 2023, and at the Saint Louis Art Museum as a part of their New Media Series.