A Season of Sable: Sable Elyse Smith on Both Coasts

Graphic titled “A Season of Sable: Sable Elyse Smith, visual artist, writer, opera creator,” with stacked browser-style windows for If you unfolded us at Catch One (July 2027), SKY FENCE GROUND at Regen Projects (Nov–Dec 2026), and Clockwork at FLAG (Sep 2026–Mar 2027). Logos for Regen Projects, The FLAG Art Foundation, and The Industry run along the bottom.

We could not be more thrilled to work with artist Sable Elyse Smith to produce her opera If you unfolded us in 2027. This fall is a perfect time to learn more about this extraordinary multidisciplinary artist, with exhibitions being staged in Los Angeles and New York City. Regen Projects will present SKY FENCE GROUND,…

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The Industry’s Story of 2020

How do we even start to encapsulate this bewildering year – one that is marked by so much grieving and uncertainty? As unfathomable events that unfolded throughout 2020 were like works of fiction, bad dreams, or worse. And like all nightmares we all had to wake up, and for most of us we also had…

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LA Phil and The Industry: An Exciting Announcement

The Industry team.

Dear friends of The Industry, Although all eyes are on Hopscotch, which opens in just under two months, an exciting announcement is being made today that we thrilled to share with you. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has appointed me Artist-Collaborator for a three-year residency beginning in Fall 2016. This means that in addition to my…

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Hopscotch Crescendo: Feet On The Ground

The creative team behind Hopscotch.

At the time I was voted onto the board of The Industry I knew very little about opera.  I run a small literary publisher called tNY.Press and our focus is experimental fiction; works that avoid classification and push forward the written word, but remain generally accessible.  Artistic Director Yuval Sharon’s charisma, open-mindedness, and ridiculous ambition pulled…

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