<div dir="ltr"><br><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:center"><font size="2"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><div><font size="2"><img src="cid:ii_jhdpywe60_16379a2bec725d69" width="387" height="488"><br></font></div><font size="2"><br><span></span></font><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">​</span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:center"><font size="2"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="color:black">once more, with laboured breath and a need to cough, al & dog present a performance about spoons, tomato soup, and other things.<br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><br><font size="2"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:center"><font size="2"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">al & dog are a performance duo from the pacific northwest,  glasgow, and most recently, new orleans. two creatures, one of flesh and one of fabric, they devise absurd performances out of everyday language and howl with the spoons. their work plays with the relationship between the queer and the creaturely body in its movement through language.</span><span></span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:center"><font size="2"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;text-align:center"><font size="2"></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Garamond;text-align:center"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">al is a creature with very small and somewhat crooked pinky fingers. al is unsure about most things. dog is an autonomous creature, half-priced polyester stuffing and all. dog is neither a goat nor a sheep. dog is a dog.</span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant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