SunHAT Eco-Performance Fest

Cultural SPF for Times Ahead!

November 13-18, 2024

Put on your SunHAT and roam The Ringling for unexpected, interactive, and delightful Eco-Performance! This eco-takeover features five different performances plus a Mushroom Dinner! Experience our signature innovative, global, and provocative performances while illuminating issues of ecology, climate change, and environmental justice.

EcoPerformance celebrates the creative force of the non-human and our connection to the natural world while addressing climate emergencies through artist-driven stories. The audience will be delighted by site-specific-fungi dance, engaged in artist talks under the banyans, raving to vegan rap, and laughing with water-conscious clowns. For professional tree huggers and recreational eco-enthusiasts alike, this festival will honor our beautiful coast and green spaces, investigate climate realities, and dream up resilient Florida futures. Artists and collaborators include national and international line up of performers, scholars, and speakers. Grab your shades and leave your eco-anxiety at the door for this week-long campus-wide eco-get-down.

Pay What You Wish Pricing

With the exception of the Mushroom Dinner, all festival performances offer Pay What You Wish pricing. We believe issues of the environment concern citizens of all ages, in every community and from all walks of life. This pricing structure will allow you to attend shows at the daringly affordable price of 99¢ per show with an option to contribute more if you wish. Plan your festival today, with the help of the “Schedule at a Glance” below.

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Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, Nov 13, 2024

5:15 PM | You Look Like A Fun Guy by Dance Heginbotham | North Searing Lawn

6:45 PM | Mushroom Dinner and Artist Talk Back with John Heginbotham | $75

Thursday, Nov 14, 2024

10:30 AM | Nature Provides: Exploring the Edible and Medicinal Landscape | Perett Performance Studio

5:15 PM | You Look Like A Fun Guy by Dance Heginbotham | North Searing Lawn

7:00 PM | SunHAT Party with DJ Cavem | Bolger Promenade and Campiello

Friday, Nov 15, 2024

4:30 PM | Sakasaka by Compagnie Zolobe | Historic Circus Galleries, Wagon Room

7:30 PM | Experimental Eco Opera | MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING by Gelsey Bell | Historic Asolo Theater

Saturday, Nov 16, 2024

3:00 PM | Moira Finucane, Keynote Speaker

4:30 PM | Sakasaka by Compagnie Zolobe | Historic Circus Galleries, Wagon Room

5:15 PM | Procession and Performance | Invisible Rivers by Mondo Bizarro

7:30 PM | Experimental Eco Opera | MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING by Gelsey Bell | Historic Asolo Theater

Sunday, Nov 17, 2024

4:30 PM | Sakasaka by Compagnie Zolobe | Historic Circus Galleries, Wagon Room

5:15 PM | Procession and Performance | Invisible Rivers by Mondo Bizarro

Monday, Nov 18, 2024

11:00 AM | Sakasaka by Compagnie Zolobe | Historic Circus Galleries, Wagon Room

Performance Line-Up

You Look Like a Fun Guy by Dance Heginbotham | Nov 13 & 14 @ 5:15 p.m.

You Look Like a Fun Guy is an outdoor dance and theater presentation by Dance Heginbotham.

Past Event

Mushroom Dinner and Artist Talk Back with John Heginbotham | Nov 13 @ 6:45 p.m.

Savor an artsy Mushroom Dinner with the creative culinary force of Chef Leonardo Pileggi and the urban farm magic of Sarasota’s Petrichor Mushrooms. Price $75

Past Event

Nature Provides: Exploring the Edible and Medicinal Landscape| Nov 14 @ 10:30 AM

Join local Herbalist and Acupuncture Physician Bob Linde for an indoor/outdoor talk on the common understanding of food/nature/medicine that mixes bioregional plants with traditional knowledge. Past Event

DJ Cavem | Nov 14 @ 7:00 p.m.

Join us for our festival opening party with the phenomenal Eco Hip-hop Artist and vegan chef DJ Cavem.

Past Event

Moira Finucane, Keynote | Nov 16 @ 3:00 p.m.

Gather ‘round for the SunHAT EcoPeformance Fest Keynote with Moira Finucane. Taking place under the Banyans, this performatic address invites a chorus of artistic and community voices to reflect and respond to provocations of Art versus Extinction, based on a suite of works the artist has developed over the last ten years.

Past Event

Invisible Rivers by Mondo Bizarro | Nov 16 & 17 @ 5:15 p.m.

Part procession, part performance-art talk, Invisible Rivers is a project that uses music, theater, and boatbuilding to bring their experiences from the rapidly changing coastal region of southeast Louisiana.

Past Event

Sakasaka by Compagnie Zolobe | Nov 15, 16, 17 @ 4:30 p.m. Nov 18 @ 11:00 a.m.

Madagascar’s Compagnie Zolobe performs Sakasaka, using only a mop, a bench, and buckets, these three clowns will have you laughing out loud as they continually try to drink a cup of water.

Past Event

MƆɹNIŊ [MORNING//MOURNING by Gelsey Bell | Nov 15 & 16 @ 7:30 p.m.