This message contains two important announcements.
First: due to rising regional COVID transmission rate and uncertainty surrounding new COVID variants, this summer’s production of Tarot VI now canceled.
If you are a current ticket-holder or if you backed the show on IndieGoGo last year, please expect an email from us in the coming days.
All current tickets will be refunded, and we’ll ship any merch purchased as a part of backing the IndieGoGo campaign at no additional cost to you.
If you’ve ever been to The Tarot Reading, you’ve heard us promise to always keep you safe when you’re with us. The magic of the show can’t exist if that promise is broken, or if there’s any degree of doubt. The decision to cancel was a unanimous one. It was made by members of the Board of Directors, Staff, and the Tarot VI artists.
No piece of art is worth risking health and safety.
Second: resulting in part from the ripples of cancellation, we have chosen to bring The Arcanists to a close.
Prior to cancellation, we had intended to announce a leadership transition: Executive Producer Quill Nebeker plans to return to school in 2023, and The Arcanists had intended to move toward a worker-led leadership model. The impact of cancellation made that plan no longer viable.
When we promise to keep everyone safe, that includes those who make our work. We considered a number of ways to try navigating the current circumstances, but they all came back to the same problem: The burden of labor needed put Staff safety at risk. In every path, burnout was the inevitable outcome.
No piece of art is worth risking health and safety.
This was a unanimous decision made by the Board and Staff. While we’re sad things had to happen this way, we are glad and grateful to be able to put things to rest on our own terms. We have already begun to wind things down, and will close formally by the end of August (the end of our current fiscal year).
Right now there are no future plans for The Tarot Reading, The Internet: LIVE!!1 and SHRINES. Hopefully we’ll find a way to box them up for someone to unpack in the future. But before that can happen there’s a great deal of housekeeping, and some much needed rest.
When we started in 2016, we wanted to make something that genuinely changed something about the world for the better—even if that change was just for one single person. Much to our surprise, it actually happened. That’s because a community of adventurous artists and audiences put their trust in one another, and in us.
For that we are forever grateful. We couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you for sharing your magic with us.
— Alan, Joan, Jon Jon, Quill and the rest of The Arcanists
First: due to rising regional COVID transmission rate and uncertainty surrounding new COVID variants, this summer’s production of Tarot VI now canceled.
If you are a current ticket-holder or if you backed the show on IndieGoGo last year, please expect an email from us in the coming days.
All current tickets will be refunded, and we’ll ship any merch purchased as a part of backing the IndieGoGo campaign at no additional cost to you.
If you’ve ever been to The Tarot Reading, you’ve heard us promise to always keep you safe when you’re with us. The magic of the show can’t exist if that promise is broken, or if there’s any degree of doubt. The decision to cancel was a unanimous one. It was made by members of the Board of Directors, Staff, and the Tarot VI artists.
No piece of art is worth risking health and safety.
Second: resulting in part from the ripples of cancellation, we have chosen to bring The Arcanists to a close.
Prior to cancellation, we had intended to announce a leadership transition: Executive Producer Quill Nebeker plans to return to school in 2023, and The Arcanists had intended to move toward a worker-led leadership model. The impact of cancellation made that plan no longer viable.
When we promise to keep everyone safe, that includes those who make our work. We considered a number of ways to try navigating the current circumstances, but they all came back to the same problem: The burden of labor needed put Staff safety at risk. In every path, burnout was the inevitable outcome.
No piece of art is worth risking health and safety.
This was a unanimous decision made by the Board and Staff. While we’re sad things had to happen this way, we are glad and grateful to be able to put things to rest on our own terms. We have already begun to wind things down, and will close formally by the end of August (the end of our current fiscal year).
Right now there are no future plans for The Tarot Reading, The Internet: LIVE!!1 and SHRINES. Hopefully we’ll find a way to box them up for someone to unpack in the future. But before that can happen there’s a great deal of housekeeping, and some much needed rest.
When we started in 2016, we wanted to make something that genuinely changed something about the world for the better—even if that change was just for one single person. Much to our surprise, it actually happened. That’s because a community of adventurous artists and audiences put their trust in one another, and in us.
For that we are forever grateful. We couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you for sharing your magic with us.
— Alan, Joan, Jon Jon, Quill and the rest of The Arcanists
The Arcanists are supported in part by Arlington County through Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of Arlington Economic Development, and the Arlington Commission for the Arts. Learn more at https://arts.arlingtonva.us