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GENERATOR Series: The State You’re In
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Nebraska-Based Creators
The KANEKO Generator Series returns with its first event of 2020, “The State You’re In,” which will explore the music and art of Nebraska-based creators. This will be a program that asks questions: What is unique about living in Nebraska? How can we characterize our state beyond the catchy slogans and branding campaigns? What does Nebraska sound like? Is there a specific acoustic character to our state? Where are we shaped as listeners and creators by the sonic qualities of the Great Plains?
The State You’re In features a world premiere by composer Stacey Barelos which weaves narrative reflections from the community with string quartet, as well as music composed by composers Mathew Fuerst, Dana Murray, and Anothony Donofrio, poetry by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, and a special art installation by Susan Knight.
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Creative Pairings
Category: Education • Exhibitions • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Pairing art and food in the most creative way!
On Friday, February 7th, guests will join the KANEKO for an unforgettable evening, pairing local artists and chefs to create exciting combinations of food and art in KANEKO’s gallery spaces. Each artist/chef duo will work together to invent a food and wine pairing, inspired by the artist’s creations while wine and a selection of fine chocolates will be provided by Lange Winery. Selections of work by the artists collaborating in the event will be displayed at the KANEKO the evening of the event and for two weeks following. Selected artwork presented at the event will be for sale, so guests can purchase something unique AND, because half of the proceeds will go to support KANEKO’s education programs, support the development of more local artists! Live music by Mesonjixx will top off this romantic, creative evening; sure to be the sexiest, most interesting event in town. Be sure to get your tickets before they sell out!
Included in your ticket purchase:
- an exclusive first look at the new exhibition in our bow truss gallery by our 6 featured artists
- heavy appetizers from each of our 6 featured chefs
- complimentary wine from Lange Winery
- complimentary feature cocktail by MavenSocial
- live entertainment from Mesonjixx
- full cash bar
- a brief program with each artist and chef pair describing their creative process
- ability to purchase artwork for sale
Artist and Chef Pairings:
Jeff King + Paul Kulik of Le Bouillon
Bill Hoover + Isa Moskowitz of Modern Love
Barber + Betty Deepe & Nancy Williams of No More Empty Pots
Pamela Conyers Hinson + Leah Elsasser of La Buvette
Shaun Ilahi + Drew Statz of Monarch Prime & Bar
Susan Knight + Obed Sanchez of Grainolia Bakery
Become a KANEKO member and save $25 on your ticket to Creative Pairings, and gain access to lots of exclusive KANEKO member perks throughout the year!
Not able to attend this event, but still want to support KANEKO? Use the button below to make a donation!
Interested in sponsoring this event? Please contact Uroosa Jawed, Development Director, at uroosa@thekaneko.org or 402.341.3800.
Creative Pairings Sponsors Receive:
FRIEND | $500
Logo or name on display during event
Recognized as a caterer sponsor
4 tickets to the eventBRONZE | $1,000
All FRIEND benefits, plus:
Social media mention with links on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
Recognized as an artist sponsor
6 tickets to the eventSILVER | $2,500
All BRONZE benefits, plus:
Name on KANEKO’s website as an event sponsor
Recognized as entertainment sponsor
8 tickets to the eventGOLD | $5,000
All SILVER benefits, plus:
Logo or name in KANEKO newsletter e-blasts about the event
Private, behind-the-scenes tour of a KANEKO exhibition with the Executive Director
Recognized as a KANEKO Summer Camps Scholarship Fund contributor
10 tickets to the eventPLATINUM | $7,500
All GOLD benefits, plus:
Daytime event partial space usage at KANEKO (corporate retreat, off site meetings, etc.)
Recognized as a sponsor for a single program series lecture or performance of your choice (MOVEMENT, GENERATOR, or PASSAGES Series)
14 tickets to the eventPRESENTING | $10,000
All PLATINUM benefits, plus
Opportunity tp host a private day or evening event at ANEKO using the full building (holiday party, corporate event, etc.)
Inclusion in KANEKO press release about the event circulate to local media outlets
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Eko Nova: Quince Ensemble
Category: Eko Nova • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Pushing the boundaries of vocal music.
Join the four-woman acapella group, Quince, for a night of gorgeously apocalyptic melodies in remembrance of the Dust Bowl. These four critically acclaimed sopranos will perform a series of folk ballads inspired by Woody Guthrie as part of their “This a Changin’ World” tour. Quince has been described in Opera News as “the Anonymous 4 of new music” and the versatility of their voices is truly something to behold!
About Quince Ensemble: Singing with the precision and flexibility of modern chamber musicians, Quince Ensemble is changing the paradigm of contemporary vocal music. Described as “the Anonymous 4 of new music” by Opera News, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of vocal ensemble literature. As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works, providing wider exposure for the music of living composers. They recently launched the Quince New Music Commissioning Fund, a fund to grow the repertoire for women and treble voices. Quince has released three studio albums, Realign the Time, Hushers, and Motherland, all available on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify, and Amazon.
In 2016, Quince was featured on the KODY Festival Lublin, Poland in collaboration with David Lang and Beth Morrison Projects. They have also appeared on the Outpost Concert Series, the Philip Glass: Music with Friends concert at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, Alia Musica, and the SONiC Festival in New York. During the 2018-19 season, they will collaborate with International Contemporary Ensemble, Lincoln Center, Linfield University, Vespers Concert Series, Kamratōn Ensemble, Connecticut Summerfest, and UC Berkeley, to name a few.
Comprised of vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire.
Artist Bios
Kayleigh Butcher: Described as “Rad as f*&^” (Scapi Magazine) and having “a sound that is well-suited for the strange world of new music” (Chicago Classical Review), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano) has gained critical and audience acclaim as a soloist and contemporary chamber musician.
As a fervent supporter and advocate for contemporary music, Kayleigh has worked with many composers including David Lang, Tristan Perich, Eve Beglarian, Daniel Felsenfeld, Holly Herndon, John Luther Adams, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, David Reminick, Jennifer Walshe, Robert Honstein, Danny Clay, Alex Temple, Molly Herron, Fjóla Evans, Levy Lorenzo, Morgan Krauss, Eliza Brown, Jonathan Sokol, Max Grafe, Amanda Feery, LJ White, Bethany Younge, Ravi Kittappa, and Jennifer Jolley.
She has also collaborated with many new music ensembles including International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Eighth Blackbird, Third Coast Percussion, Ensemble Dal Niente, Opera on Tap NYC, Tigue, Man Forever, Grant Wallace Band, Anti-Social Music, thingNY, Fonema Consort, a.per.i.o.dic, and Rhymes With Opera, to name a few.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2008 and completed her Master’s in Music at Bowling Green State University in 2011. Kayleigh also experiments with composition, writing fugues and other arrangements for Quince.
www.kayleighbutcher.comAmanda DeBoer Bartlett: Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, DMA is an Omaha-based classical soprano who specializes in the work of living composers. Along with her solo career, she is a member of Ensemble Dal Niente and Hasco Duo. Ms. DeBoer Bartlett is featured on albums with Holly Herndon, Deerhoof, Ensemble Dal Niente, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Christopher Wild, and Hasco Duo.
Ms. DeBoer Bartlett is also the founder and director of an experimental performance festival called Omaha Under the Radar, which has presented nearly 200 individual artists from around North America during its first three seasons.
Born and raised in Omaha, NE, Ms. DeBoer Bartlett moved to Chicago to study at DePaul University where she received a Bachelor of Music. She received a Masters degree from the University at Buffalo, where she studied with acclaimed contemporary interpreter Tony Arnold, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Bowling Green State University.
www.amandadeboer.comLiz Pearse: Finding joy in variety, Liz Pearse is a musician of many pursuits. After a childhood spent playing every instrument she could lay hands upon, Liz began exploring the endless possibilities of the voice. Hers is an instrument of unusual range, color, and versatility. She has performed a range of repertoire, from medieval to modern, on stages around the world including Italy (soundSCAPE Festival), Switzerland (Lucerne Festival) and Poland (KODY Festiwal).
Liz has a special affinity for music post 1900. As a soloist, her recent projects include multiple performances of Pierrot Lunaire, touring Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi, electroacoustic programming including Philomel, and on-going commissions dedicated to the creation of works for self-accompanying soprano. She researches contemporary vocal pedagogy as part of a DMA in Contemporary Music, in progress at Bowling Green State University (Ohio).
www.lizpearse.comCarrie Henneman Shaw: Soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw is known across the US as a singer who weaves style and emotion into vivid performances of Baroque and contemporary classical music. Praised in the New York Times “as graceful vocally as she was in her movements”, “consistently stylish” (Boston Globe), and as a “cool, precise soprano” (Chicago Tribune), Shaw is a member of Quince Ensemble, Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, Pesedjet, and also appears with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Haymarket Opera Company, Newberry Consort, and Boston Early Music Festival. Carrie was a 2010 and 2017 McKnight Fellow for Performing Musicians and has earned arts entrepreneurship awards in her role as co-director of St. Paul’s Glorious Revolution Baroque.
Shaw seeks opportunities to bring rare performances of new works by American and international composers to an eclectic variety of venues – bars, churches, galleries, and concert halls – with collaborators around the country. In the Minnesota composer community, she has been privileged to commission and premiere works by such composers as Jocelyn Hagen, Noah Keesecker, and Abbie Betinis, whose annual Christmas carols are annually recorded for broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio. Shaw has also performed in a gala holiday concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Shaw earned degrees in English and Voice Performance from Lawrence University and completed a doctorate at the University of Minnesota. She currently teaches at Bethel University and Lawrence University.
www.shawsoprano.com
About Eko Nova: The Omaha Chamber Music Society and KANEKO’s Eko Nova concert series introduces Omaha audiences to some of the most innovative and inspiring musical works written today – music that looks outward with an openness to a myriad of genres, styles, and forms. With virtuosic performances from the region’s finest musicians, plus guest appearances by extraordinary artists from around the country, these programs appeal to a diverse crowd, from lovers of contemporary art to classical music fans and beyond.
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Creative Baking with Carter & Rye
Category: Free • Lectures • Members | Season: Influence
Business & Baking – paired creatively.
Creative Baking with Carter & Rye looks deeply into the creative process behind the team of Carter & Rye. At this KANEKO members only event, you will learn about the inception of Carter & Rye, sample their delicious baked goods, and get a chance to discuss the pop-up baked goods business with the owners of Carter & Rye.
About Carter & Rye: Carter & Rye is a female-led business selling sweet and savory pastries & specialty coffee. We sell playful and nostalgic hot pockets, hand pies, and specialty cold brew. Visit us at the Aksarben farmers market in Omaha NE or contact us for pop-ups, special events, and wholesale inquiries. “I’m the hot one!”
It’s rare you have the opportunity to work alongside someone who wants to impact the community and world in the same way that you do. After 3 years as colleagues, we’ve maintained a strong passion for creating nostalgic, delicious experiences while empowering women and the people they care for. Starting Carter & Rye is our honest attempt at learning to empower ourselves while doing something that we both love to do. Partnering our greatest strengths and loves with the hope that one day we can create a similar opportunity for other people. Learn more –>
About Kate “Carter” Anderson: The nostalgia of eating is my main ingredient. The smells that fill the house on Thanksgiving. Great Aunt Carol’s late arrival with her apple pies in hand. My grandmother brewing a pot of decaf coffee. The way the buttery crust offsets the tart and gooey baked apples. The whole family together enjoying the ritual. Combined with a generous amount of European butter and sugar, this is what sustains my career.
My passion is founded on tradition and innovation—the age-old techniques of previous generations plus modern methods and innovative flavor combinations. Here to make your pastry an indulgence you won’t regret. I want the food to both comfort your taste buds and bring you joy.
My pastries and fillings are always made by hand from scratch, working hard to consistently perfect imperfection. The adventure of eating a hand pie, from the caramelized outer edge, all the way to the fresh, jam-filled center. The tray of hot pockets fresh out the oven, each one a charmingly misshapen half-moon.
It’s deeply important that we support our friends and farmers in the community by sourcing ingredients locally and seasonally as much as possible, including local eggs, dairy, meats and cheeses.
About Ryan “Rye” Grubs: Hi, I’m Rye! In 2016 I moved to Omaha, NE. It was not my first choice or my twenty-third, but it has turned out to be one of the most incredible accidental choices that could have happened to me. Two weeks into living in Omaha, I got a job at one of the best coffee shops in the city. Having been in the hospitality/specialty coffee industry since 2005, I’ve learned the best place to make connections and become a part of a community is in the cafe, and it turned out to be a hundred percent true because that’s where I met Kate, “Carter” (and a whole host of interesting, creative, passionate people). The relationships I’ve made since moving to Omaha has been an undeniable force pushing me towards entrepreneurship and specialty coffee. In 2018, I started my own freelance business as a cafe consultant. Since then, I’ve partnered with local non-profits to strengthen and expand their cafes. My approach is simple: People first, then coffee.
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Artist Talk: Tony Berlant
Category: Artist Talk • Education • Lectures • Members | Season: Influence
Journey to the inner world with Tony Berlant.
“The more personal and introspective an artwork is, the more universal it becomes.”
Please join the KANEKO staff in welcoming featured artist Tony Berlant as our first artist-talk lecturer. Enjoy an evening of enlightenment on Berlant’s creative process, behind-the-scenes information, and a deep dive of the concepts of Berlant’s work, featured on the walls of KANEKO throughout Influence.
KANEKO’s new quarterly artist-talk series features creators both locally and nationally who are tied to KANEKO’s programming, exhibitions, educational workshops, or mission.
About Tony Berlant: Berlant is a contemporary American artist known for his mixed-media sculptural collages. Laboriously composed from photo-printed plywood, tin scraps, and metal sheets, the artist reassembles the pieces like a jigsaw puzzle. Reordered, the works transform into ecstatic abstractions, flowers, and surreal landscapes. “The more personal and introspective an artwork is, the more universal it becomes, Berlant said. “[Aritsts] go into the inner world — the world of the imagination– to discover not only themselves but the unchanging essences of humanity.”
He currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA. Berlant’s work can be found among the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washing, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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MCC Creative Writing Forum
Category: Education • Members • Workshop | Season: Influence
Join us for the fourth annual MCC Creative Writing Forum!
The Metropolitan Community College Creative Writing Forum is a two-day event to promote original, inspired writing in our College and community, as well as showcase the work of accomplished authors from across Nebraska and beyond. This year’s event is Oct. 25-26, 2019. The Forum includes sessions from keynote presenter, F. Douglas Brown. The opening reception, reading and Q&A with F. Douglas Brown, and an open mic with Todd Robinson will be hosted at KANEKO on Friday, October 25 from 6 – 10 PM. This event is free for KANEKO Members and $10 General Admission. KANEKO members can register through the KANEKO website and General Admission should reach out to Annette Guy to register at amguy@mccneb.edu.
About F. Douglas Brown: F. Douglas Brown is the author of ICON, a new collection of poetry from Writ Large Press in 2018, and Zero to Three (University of Georgia, 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (URB Books, 2016), a chapbook of poetry as part of the Floodgate Poetry Series. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, currently teaches English and African American Poetry at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school. He is both a Cave Canem and Kundiman fellow, and was selected by Poets & Writers as one of their ten notable Debut Poets of 2014. His poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, The PBS News Hour, The Virginia Quarterly (VQR), Bat City Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review (CQR), The Southern Humanities Review, The Sugar House Review, Cura Magazine and Muzzle Magazine. He is co-founder and curator of “un::fade::able – The Requiem for Sandra Bland,” a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism.
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Cultural Workshop: France and it’s Products
Category: Education • Lectures • Members • Workshop | Season: Influence
Cheese and Wine by Region
Did you know there are almost 1000 different types of cheeses in France? Learn the major kinds of cheeses, where they’re made, what they taste like and the wines that go best with them. Join Sam Tepanossian in an interactive workshop that takes you on a tour of these French products that grace French tables all over France.
About Sam Tepanossian: A French-Armenian, Sam Tepanossian moved to Omaha in the summer of 2017. He received his MBA from ICHEC, and before that was a graduate of Haute École de Lucia de Broukère, where he received a BA in Public relations. Samuel began his career in Brussels, where he specialized in Team Management and Human Resources at the European Institutions, eventually leading to a prominent position at Procter & Gamble where he later became a Brand Ambassador. In 2012 Samuel had the opportunity to move and live in the US. He worked in New York City for a home décor company as an e-Commerce Business Development Manager. Living in different countries has taught Samuel to enjoy meeting new people, trying new cuisines and exploring new cities.
About Alliance Française d’Omaha: Founded in Paris in 1883, The Alliance Française is the largest network of French language and cultural institutions in the world, with chapters in 138 countries, including 115 chapters in the United States. The Omaha chapter began in 1917 and recently celebrated our centennial in 2017. To share and celebrate the French language and the francophone world through cultural and educational programs is the Alliance’s mission.
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GENERATOR Series: Wailing
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Mysterious Sounds
Dive into mysterious and raw new music at “GENERATOR Series: Wailing,” an evening of experimental chamber music that indulges in the complexity of songs outside language and asks questions about how living beings communicate. Whalesong, human cries, physical gestures, grunts, growls, hugs – it’s all on the table in the music of George Crumb, Helmut Lachenmann, Carola Bauckholt, Stacey Barelos, Cory Johnson, and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett. Featuring performances by some of Omaha’s most accomplished and innovative musicians including Tim Strang (cello), Christine Beard (flute), Stacey Barelos (piano), and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (voice).
Come early to experience newly created horror soundtracks composed by SOUNDRY Workshop participants!
Program
PRE by Stacey Barelos/Cory Johnson
Vollmond unter Null by Carola Bauckholt
temA by Helmut Lachenmann
A Beautiful Question by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Vox Balaenae by George Crumb
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen, and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Re•Purpose After Hours
Category: Exhibitions • KANEKO After Hours • Members | Season: Re•Purpose
Get an exclusive experience of the Re•Purpose exhibition!
Grab a friend for KANEKO After Hours, an exclusive and intimate night exploring the Re•Purpose exhibition. Your ticket to this event includes a visit to the exhibition, exclusive access to “tour only” experiences of the exhibition, exclusive insight to artwork in the exhibition, live printing of KANEKO NOPE shirts by XP Merch, feature Re•Purpose themed cocktails provided by Fizzy’s, and a WASTE NOT grab bag and a special gift from KANEKO! Registration is required and space is limited for this event.
Our featured guests for the evening: Fizzy’s Fountain & Liquors, XP Merch, and Matt Bailey!
Your ticket includes: 1 free drink ticket for a featured Fizzy’s cocktail, a discount on a KANEKO NOPE shirt, and a free Matt Bailey WASTE NOT tote with some goodies inside!
About Fizzy’s: Fizzy’s Fountain & Liquors is a cocktail bar in Little Bohemia brought to you by the same cats behind Nite Owl. We feature boozy shakes, floats and homemade sodas on tap with new-fashioned diner food and pie served late.
About XP Merch: XP Merch offers affordable screen printing, high quality design services, and convenient merchandise sales for businesses of all sizes. Whether you need t-shirts, tote bags, hoodies, posters or anything else; XP Merch is the only design and printing shop that turns a chore into an unbeatable experience!
About Studio MB: Matthew Bailey is an artist and graphic designer from the Midwest who is interested in local commerce, fashion and sustainable approaches to design.
About KANEKO After Hours: KANEKO After Hours is a chance for your to explore KANEKO exhibitions in an exclusive and intimate setting.
Interested in becoming a KANEKO Member?
KANEKO Members receive a full year of benefits, including exclusive invites to member events, free and reduced-priced admission to KANEKO core and partner programs, access to the KANEKO-UNO and Criss Library, and special discounts on select merchandise and events like KANEKO After Hours! Use the button below to learn more about the KANEKO Membership program and to become a member!
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Re•Purpose Member Tour
Category: Education • Exhibitions • Members | Season: Re•Purpose
Experience Re•Purpose with a private tour led by our Executive Director, Stephan Grot!
Re•Purpose explores artists and business looking at recycling, sustainability, re•purposed materials, and how waste impacts our environment. Learn more about our Re•Purpose exhibition here. These tours are exclusive for KANEKO members with refreshments provided. Space is limited and registration is required.
Not a member?
If you’re interested in opportunities like this one, please visit the link below to learn more about membership opportunities.