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Performance: Cory McAbee presents "Cultured Cell Culture"

  • Modern Art 529 West Chestnut Street Lancaster, PA, 17603 United States (map)

CULTURED CELL CULTURE is the 3rd lecture in a series created by Cory McAbee. His first two lectures (DEEP ASTRONOMY and THE ROMANTIC SCIENCES AND SMALL STAR SEMINAR) were performed at Modern Art, science museums, universities, theaters, nightclubs, and film festivals throughout the US, including the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

CULTURED CELL CULTURE is a live multi-media presentation in the form of a science lecture that includes original music, artwork, and animation created by McAbee. Topics include cell memory in cultured cell meats, monarch butterflies, agricultural reform, proactive approaches to further human evolution, Abraham Lincoln, cruelty-free cannibalism, space aliens, and people who are better than we are.

Thursday, April 20
6:30pm: doors open, mixing and mingling
7:30pm: show starts
Free and open to the public. All are welcome but please register for a (free) ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultured-cell-culture-with-cory-mcabee-tickets-615086800177
Space is limited, so get here early if you’d like a seat!

Cory McAbee is best known as writer, director, songwriter, and co-composer for the award-winning feature films The American Astronaut (2001), Stingray Sam (2009), Crazy and Thief (2012) and as singer/songwriter for the internationally acclaimed musical group The Billy Nayer Show (1989–2011). He has created award-winning animated and live-action short films and has worked as both an actor and musician in American and European features. In 2012 McAbee founded the international arts collaborative Captain Ahab’s Motorcycle Club, with the goal of creating international solidarity between artists through the creation of a globally generated feature film. The film is called Deep Astronomy and the Romantic Sciences. In January of 2015 McAbee recorded and produced his album Small Star Seminar (available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more.)