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Artist collective by @enormousface and @minivansoundsystem exploring ecological catastrophe through ancient literature. Fragments June 4 5 & 6, link:

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𒀻 Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera 𒀭

Announcing three work-in progress performances, Thursday-Saturday June 4-6 @fu_ture.space in Ridgewood, Queens, of the first five tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, building towards our nightlong marathon translation of all twelve tablets. Tickets are on sale now. (Link in Bio)

This month we have been performing GILGAMESH ON THE G TRAIN: A subterranean river of the ancient epic through all 21 stations of New York City's G Train – paratexts, glosses, lacunae, excerpts, and fanfiction. Check here or our website megafawn.org for specific dates and times of G Train station performances. Tonight we will be at Metropolitan 7pm, Hoyt 8pm, and Classon at 9pm. by @megafawnx

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Opera Gilgamesh.
By @megafawnx @enormousface @minivansoundsystem

June 2026. by @megafawnx

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Thanks so much to everyone who came out to see Gilgamesh Fragments work-in-progress at @fu_ture.space NYC, and to everyone who helped us along the way, assyriologists, translators, puppeteers, musicians, our friends, and of course the @jimhensonfoundation . It was a blast to go so deep into a work. We learned so much and cant wait to keep developing it further in the years to come. by @megafawnx

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Tomorrow night we present our work in progress, Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera. For these public showings, we are sharing what we have developed for the first five of the epic’s twelve tablets. See you tomorrow night at @fu_ture.space in Ridgewood,Queens, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm. Thank you again to @jimhensonfoundation for supporting this work. taken in The Flood by @megafawnx

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Gilgamesh: Fragments of a Megalithic Puppet Opera

8pm June 4th 5th and 6th at @fu_ture.space NYC

Ticket Link in Bio
*Not necessarily for kids (but Friday could be moreso?) by @megafawnx

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Tickets on sale now – Three nights only next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at @fu_ture.space by @megafawnx

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Presenting the first in progress version of our Gilgamesh show June 4th, 5th and 6th at 8pm at @fu_ture.space in Ridgewood. Ticket Link in bio! by @megafawnx

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We'll be back out in the Gilgamesh G train this evening exploring Dreams, Sex, Death and the End of the World.

CLINTON-WASHINGTON 7PM
BROADWAY 8PM
BERGEN ST 9PM
CHURCH AV AT 10PM

Hope to see yall on the platform! by @megafawnx

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Atrahasis (or Utnapishtim/Ziusudra) is the primordial Noah, lifted down through Abrahamia in the story of the Great Deluge ("Amaru" in Sumerian) that flooded all the earth.

Gilgamesh becomes obsessed with death after losing his best friend and lover, the hairy wild man Enkidu, and goes in search of Utnapishtim, the only immortal human, bringing back his ancient tale to Uruk. Gilgamesh is called "He Who Saw The Deep", and this story-within-a-story is among the deepest of those seen depths, and was also one of the very earliest recovered pieces of the Epic.

When wunderkund Assyriologist George Smith first translated the Flood Tablet in 1872 after it had been lost for 3500 years, he was so shocked to find Noah's Ark (almost verbatim doves and all) that he is reported to have stripped off his clothes and leapt around the British Museum naked screaming for joy, convinced that he had just found definitive evidence for the historicity of Christianity - although the opposite may in fact have been true.

There are so many more delicious pieces here: a god loud-talking to a reed fence to avoid breaking an oath of silence, seven days of stale-molding bread used to mark time...but we'll save that for later as the project develops.

Thanks so much to the Henson Foundation for supporting this! by @megafawnx

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK by @megafawnx

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We are delighted at long last to announce the formation of MegaFawn, a new performance collective exploring ecological catastrophe through epic literature, beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Ron Shalom and Kalan Sherrard have worked together for 17 years in many configurations and for the past two years we have been piling up research and development towards this fundamental dream opus.

Gilgamesh is our everything. It is the first (non)-story, a hodgepodge of translations, additions, subtexts, lacunae, impossible and lost meanings – arguably the most seminal story of Western literature, perhaps infecting the civilized mind with the virus of narrative. It is a story of love, immortality, lust, power, humanity's break from the ancient past, and the ontological crisis between Nature and Civilization.

Since 2024, we have been immersed in this story. Thanks in part to the generosity of curators, historians, and Assyriologists who have guided us thus far, we've begun to swim in the oceans of scholarship that surround the Epic. We are students of sun- and oven-baked bricks, cuneiform engraving, lapis lazuli refinement, the pictography of cylinder seals, and the uncountable interconnections between the world of Gilgamesh and the world we live in now.

Like the Epic itself and the millennia of lives it has lived, our interpretation of Gilgamesh will evolve and mutate with each performance, interwoven with the astounding tales of its loss, rediscovery, and translation. We are thrilled to present workshop performances for you this May and June in New York City, as we work towards our dream of bringing our Gilgamesh to its place of origin, the city of Uruk in modern Iraq.

We're grateful for the support of a Henson Foundation grant as we pursue this work. We'll be posting performance updates here, along with snippets of what we're creating.

*P.S. we have a SPECIAL PRIZE to anyone who can decode the cuneiform written on that flood tablet mask and an EXTRA SPECIAL PRIZE to anyone who can explain or force it to make sense* taken in NYC by @megafawnx

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