OZET: Common Hall Village 20
January 26, 27, 28, 29, 31 and February 2, 3, 4 8pm

The High Council of the Autonomous Celestial Body OZET has proclaimed that the Festival of the Fifteenth Generation will be celebrated on January 27 of the coming year, 2232, in accordance with Festival Law (derived from Demographic Law designating a generation as 7,305 days, or twenty perfect Julian years). Each of OZET’s 20 farming villages will celebrate the festival according to its own traditions, while honoring the Order of Celebration designated by the High Council.

This message describes the festival eve Common Hall Gathering.

At 8:00 in the evening, adult pioneers will join together in their village common halls to watch the Official Festival Broadcast and join in celebration as directed. Pioneers will: receive the good wishes and wisdom of a high member of the Grand Council; lift voices in singing one of the canonical songs of the Golden Generations; receive the good wishes of the mayor of their village; pledge their commitment to the harvest and procreation quotas for the Fifteenth Generation as set forth by the Minister of Population; leave behind the dead; listen to the cry of the first child of the new generation. Vodka will be served free and without limit.

Aaron Meicht is a composer, trumpet player and performer. His practice embraces electroacoustic composition and collective/free improvisation. Music projects, including AB Duo and OZET, have been produced in the US (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, HERE, Knitting Factory) and Europe (Ausland, HAU, Munich Experimental Music Festival). Theater music and sound design credits in New York and regionally (as Broken Chord with Daniel Baker) include productions atPrimary Stages, The Flea, Rattlestick, Second Stage, Women's Project, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

Scott Blumenthal is a performer and playwright. His plays have been presented in New York by Soho Rep, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Drama League, and Makor, as well as at at Live Bait (Chicago), Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. As an actor, he collaborated in the creation of 1969 Terminal 1996 (under the direction of Joe Chaikin) and has appeared in Richard Foreman’s OBIE-winning Pearls For Pigs as well as premiers by acclaimed playwrights including Anne Washburn, Ruth Margraff, Stephanie Fleischmann, and Paul Zimet.

Daniel "Space Monkey" Baker is a frequent OZET collaborator, singer in the OZET Band and sound designer for theater. Theater music and sound design credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, and Back, Back, Back (Dallas Theater Center); Gee’s Bend, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Snow Falling on Cedars, Gem of the Ocean(Hartford Stage); Private Lives (Long Wharf Theatre); Eclipsed (Yale Repertory Theater); Ruined, Party People! (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre, DC); Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Vigil (Westport Country Playhouse).