"If you know the Oompa-Loompa riddles front to back and can sing all the trippy lyrics to Pure Imagination, join fellow Wonka enthusiasts for a screening of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring a psychotic Gene Wilder as he offers exclusive factory tours to a mess of unruly, candy-obsessed children and their indulgent chaperones. This screening encourages singing and costumes, so bust out the orange makeup and coveralls."
"The show is dedicated to Pioneer 10, NASA's first space probe to the outer solar system that was launched in 1972 and carried a pictographic message for extraterrestrials; it stopped transmitting to Earth in 2003, but the members of von Neumann Sonde say that in 2020, they started receiving strange transmissions from deep space in their "humble Portland kitchen." The group describes their music as "tensient," calling themselves "vessels" for a lost civilization in the Oort Cloud whose message is simply, "We were.""
An interactive screening of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory invites attendees who know Oompa-Loompa riddles and Pure Imagination lyrics to sing along and wear costumes. The event encourages orange makeup and coveralls and will serve themed cocktails, with tickets at the Mission Theater. Local improvisational group von Neumann Sonde performs a two-and-a-half-hour set titled Pioneer 10 Revisited at the Social Good Place. The performance is dedicated to NASA's Pioneer 10 probe and incorporates reported strange transmissions the members say they began receiving in 2020. The group calls their music 'tensient,' presents as 'vessels' for a lost Oort Cloud civilization, and recommends helmets and Dramamine.
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