group, Karkade. Abozekry uses traditional Egyptian music as a source for his own compositions to create this beautiful acoustic music.


Vocalist/composer Dina El-Wedidi is a contemporary force, drawing on jazz, folk, and alt-rock, as well as Egyptian music, to create a whole new sub-genre that has sprung up since the Tahrir Square Revolution. This performance with her seven-piece band marks the first collaboration between the Flynn and Higher Ground that will take place at HG.


Oud and electric guitar player Sam Shalabi—best known for his cryptic, experimental project the Shalabi Effect—is coming to FlynnSpace for the second of a two part series where we’ve asked musicians to compose new music for old films. Sam chose Herk Harvey’s classic creeper, Carnival of Souls (1962), and the show is all but garanteed to boggle your brain.


And then there’s Bassem Youssef, “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,” a heart surgeon- turned comedian/social satirist whose outspoken political humor was so on point that he was forced to flee Egypt under threat of arrest. Youssef will talk about these experiences, as well as


his acclimation to the U.S. One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World—and funny as hell—Youssef is not to be missed.


Candoco/Bill Shannon


Thanks to former Executive Director John Killacky, the Flynn has earned numerous grants to study the world of disability in the arts, and these grants have allowed us to present performances from these two very special performers.


England’s Candoco (as in, they’re a can-do company…can/DO/co) is one of the great disability dance groups in the world, an ensemble that commissions world-class choreographers to create works that broaden audience perceptions about art and disability. Their stateside visits are few and far between and we are thrilled and honored to present Candoco at the Flynn.


Bill Shannon is an artist of many talents—video installation, wearable sculpture, group choreography—but he is also a dazzling solo dancer, using his crutches and hip-hop influences to create a new style of movement. At the Flynn, he’ll present his solo, Maker Moves, a clown piece that highlights his amazing movement vocabulary.


King Lear/The Peculiar Patriot


These two very different programs capture the range of dramatic work going on in FlynnSpace.


The Actors from the London Stage wowed everyone with their bravura production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream a few years back. This time, they’re assaying heavier fare—the Bard’s immortal tragedy, King Lear—but the same concept: five incredibly adept and well-trained British Shakesperean actors performing multiple characters with minimal props and no sets, putting the focus on the language. If you have even a passing interest in Shakespeare (and, really, who doesn’t?), you owe it to yourself to see this company bring the story and the language to life.


Then there’s Liza Jessie Peterson, whose one-woman show The Peculiar Patriot is a caustic, no-holds-barred, profane examination of our country’s appalling “Prison Pipeline,” which marks young black men for prison from an early age. Peterson drew on her two decades of working with teenagers at Rikers Island to create this staggeringly powerful, yet frequently quite funny, howl for justice.


Our New Board Members


Jan Blomstrann is the co-founder and retired CEO of NRG Systems, a manufacturer of measuring and monitoring equipment for the utility scale renewable energy industry. Formed in 1982, Jan joined the company in 1987 and helped build a global organization that now serves more than 150 countries around the world. Blomstrann played a key role in shaping the wind industry as it moved from a fringe sector to a mainstream source of power.


Deborah Estabrook is a founding partner of Champlain Investment Partners, where she was the head trader and oversaw the firm’s technology until she retired in June, 2017. Prior to Champlain Investment Partners, Deborah was a vice president and equity trader at National Life. She also worked at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments.


Allyson Laackman is a finance and operations professional who has held senior leadership roles in federal government, non-profit, political, and private sector organizations throughout her career. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Burlington Housing Authority, which provides affordable housing and rental assistance to 2,500 low-income families in the Burlington area.


Michael L. Seaver currently serves as Vermont President of People’s United Bank, a $44 billion diversified financial services company based in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Michael’s 37-year banking career began in 1981 when he joined Chittenden Bank after graduating from Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.


Greg Vaut has over 40 years of experience in the food and agribusiness industries and in agricultural and economic development. He has held senior executive positions in the international divisions of two Fortune 500 food companies, served as Chief of Party on a $75 million USAID-funded project in Afghanistan, served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Kosovo, and was CEO in commercial food processing and agricultural production, both in the US and abroad.


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Frédéric Silberman


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