TataZeit - Spring 2025
Ipsa Dixit
Big Ears Festival
THURSDAY ◎ 03.27.25 ◎ 19.00
The Bijou Theater
Knoxville, TN
Composer & Librettist: Kate Soper
Director: Ash K. Tata
Production Stage Manager: Aislinn Curry
Video Design: Brad Peterson
Associate Video: Andrew Garvis
Original Lighting Design: Anshuman Bhatia
Costume Design: Nina Vartanian
Performed by Ian Antonio, Erin Lesser, Josh Modney and Kate Soper of Wet Ink Ensemble
Hello from Knoxville, TN.
Just came down from the mountains where I was following a pando*-obsession of collecting National Parks cancellations for my passport. Living up to the Junior Ranger status conferred upon me a few years back.
he excuse for the ancient mountain Appalachian retreat is a return to the totally thrilling Big Ears Festival to present Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit.
We’re being hosted by the beautiful Bijou theater. With platforms generously donated by Dolly Parton.
This production is entering its ninth year. And still worth the revisit.
Here’s a catchy one. A reworking of Aristotle on Rhetoric:
“Listen to me! Truth is strong, stronger than deceit! In any crisis, the truth will inexorably rise! therefore, where truth fails, we have failed to speak for the truth. And this, this is rhetoric’s purpose: to give to the truth a voice!”
Social Media Policy Update
TataTime has made the decision to exit the Meta-Verse. As of January 2025 you can no longer reach me on Facebook, Insta or WhatsApp.
Despite what we’re sold to consume, there’s a whole multiverse out there. You can find me on bluesky and signal (only declassified content). See you there.
If you or your social media persona and/or avatars have been on this white rabbit’s tail and want a rabbit hole through to the Meta-Exit, I recommend Maria Ressa on the topic. Or just free yourself and get out.
Looking forward to what makings this community generates in the years ahead.
Stay true. Or as they say down the block, “Keep your head hi.”
As always in gratitude, solidarity and in making,
Ash
*pando - prefix to refer to anything of the 2019-202{ } pandemic era. eg. pando-streaming, pando-reading, pando-napping, pando-theater, pando-making
Thank you, Dolly Parton for donating these Dolly Platforms.
Thank you to the Park Rangers.
