WHAT IS SPECTACLE LUNATIQUE?

No other annual benefit‐gala demands more attention or creates more buzz than Redmoon's Spectacle Lunatique - a one night only showcase of the company's signature large‐scale, site‐specific spectacle performance work, all for an invited audience of Redmoon's circle of donors, sponsors, friends and fans that gather in support of the company's mission, "to engage community through art in public spaces."

Spectacle Lunatique is also an evening of acknowledgement, highlighting the previous season's programming accomplishments while sharing with guests an intimate look at the vision for Redmoon's future community impact through scheduled events and planned collaborations.

Highlighting Redmoon's performance style, described as: equal parts pageantry, gadgetry, puppetry, acrobatics and ephemera, past Spectacle Lunatique galas have employed the artistry of hundreds of volunteer performers, designers, and interns to create the evening's unforgettable programming of events.

The proceeds from the gala directly fund Redmoon's artistic mission of Community Building through the company's award-winning Neighborhood Arts Programming, large-scale spectacle public art events, and a fraction of the costs associated with running an internationally touring, Chicago-centric not-for-profit arts organization.

SPECTACLE LUNATIQUE 2012

Set for St. Patrick's Day Weekend, Spectacle Lunatique 2012 will share with Redmoon's most devoted fans, its populist approach to community driven, large-scale spectacle art-making. The company will host local food trucks from around Chicago, creating a shared culinary celebration around the City's impending food truck legislation. Complementing this 'festival of mobile food' will be a select grouping of Chicago's finest chefs to create a special experience for Redmoon's committed community of donors in the Spectacle Lunatique VIP Lounge.

WHEN: Saturday, March 17th, 6.30pm until 2am
VIP access begins at 6:30pm into the 10,000 sqft Spectacle Lunatique VIP Lounge with access to some of Chicago's most celebrated chefs, a private Redmoon Spectacle moment, mixed drinks by owner Stephen Cole of the newly launched Barrelhouse Flat in Lakeview; general admission access to the 30,000 sqft Redmoon Spectacle & Food Truck Gallerybegins at 8.30pm with late night entry following at 10:30pm, complete with drinks, desserts, and dancing until 2am.

WHERE: The Hudson Club – 2223 South Wabash Avenue – Chicago
This year's gala will be held at the 40,000 sqft Hudson Club in the heart of Chicago's historic Motor Row neighborhood with all proceeds benefiting Redmoon's Neighborhood Arts Programming, Community Partnerships, and Outdoor Public Art Performance work across Chicagoland.

What is Redmoon?

For over two decades, Redmoon has created the wonder and excitement of community building in Chicago, across the country and internationally through highly engaging large-scale spectacle events, ingenious mechanical objects and contraptions, transformative pageantry, robust physical theatricality, with an awe-inspiring use of scale and special effects.

Using a visual language that is capable of speaking across cultural, ethnic, and generational boundaries, Redmoon's public art events reach wide and diverse audience demographics.

Ranging from elegant, indoor celebrations for a hundred people to outdoor spectacles that reach tens of thousands in a single evening, Redmoon engages its audiences through imaginative characters, mind-blowing mechanical contraptions, and originally composed music that contributes to large-scale event theatre-making "…one has to see to believe," as described by the Chicago Reader.

From the streets of Chicago's Logan Square and the public plaza of the Museum of Contemporary Art, to performances in the Jackson Park Lagoon and at The White House, Redmoon uses largescale, outdoor spectacle as a vital artistic force in the community, weaving itself into the cultural panoramic of an entire city that has made lasting impacts, influencing national and international arts communities as distant as Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC to Brazil, France, Holland, Ireland and Australia.

Over the span of a 21-year history, 420,000 spectators witnessed the art of Redmoon transform over 350 public spaces and over 100 stages…

There isn't another arts organization in the world that creates the artistic and cultural impact of Redmoon.