Molly is a singer/performer in this free festival produced by Synchromy.

Urban Birds: The Plasticene takes its name from the current geological epoch, defined by the role of petroleum and petroleum-based plastic in the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The debut performance will be set within Angels Gate Cultural Center – a decommissioned military base on a precipice of land overlooking the Port of Los Angeles, the Pacific Ocean, and the International Bird Rescue clinic.

The work is comprised of four acts beginning with the end of the last age of mass extinction (the event that created the world’s petroleum reserves), moving through the reemergence of animals, especially birds, and into the Anthropocene and the unfolding Sixth Age of Mass Extinction. The Bird Rescue will be staged as a field hospital inside a military battery, where three vocalists will perform Anuj Bhutani’s score alongside three dancers performing as bird.patients, accompanied by the Isaura String Quartet. This interspecies opera will conclude with a speculative posthuman performance overlooking the Korean Friendship Bell and the Pacific Ocean by Yozmit the Dogstar with speculative bird song and experimental bells from MA Harms.