CHAOS CHOIR: DARK | A SEEK Raleigh Project

About CHAOS CHOIR: DARK

Led by artist Kamara Thomas as part of SEEK Raleigh, CHAOS CHOIR: DARK is part concert, part immersive theater, and part communal ritual. Moving through the spaces of Fred Fletcher Park, the Choir conjures a strange and playful world of voices, local ghost lore, and land ceremony. Along the way, the wonderfully macabre Edgar Allan Poe encounters a force he may not have bargained for, as the Choir begins to challenge Poe’s vision of darkness—and eventually takes the story into its own hands.

CHAOS CHOIR invites you to gather at the threshold between the known and unknown—and to enter the dark together.

Event Details

CHAOS CHOIR is presenting two free nightly shows:

Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Time: 6pm
Location: Fred Fletcher Park Amphitheater, 820 Clay Street, Raleigh
This immersive, site-responsive performance begins inside the historic Borden Building, then leads audiences through Fred Fletcher Park to the stone amphitheater.

Thursday, October 29, 2026
Time: 6pm
Location: Fred Fletcher Park Amphitheater, 820 Clay Street, Raleigh
This immersive, site-responsive performance begins inside the historic Borden Building, then leads audiences through Fred Fletcher Park to the stone amphitheater.

While attendance is free, Registration is required.

About the Artists

A group of five adults huddles together.

CHAOS CHOIR is a performance company that creates immersive musical stories designed to be experienced in community. Drawing on ancient mythology, oral tradition, fable, fairy tale, and experimental theater, they explore theater-as-ritual through music, extended vocal techniques, masks, movement, symbols, and collective storytelling.

Kamara Thomas (she/her) is a Durham-based songspeller, ritualist, multidisciplinary storyteller, and founder of CHAOS CHOIR. Working at the intersection of music, theater, social practice, and film, she creates immersive and site-responsive works that explore how stories, myths, and rituals can be made and remade in community. Her performances activate stages, galleries, landscapes, and public spaces through music, theater, extended vocal practice, masks, movement, oral history, communal artmaking, and land-based ritual. A former Princeton Arts Fellow, Thomas is interested in surprising storytelling forms and the re/invention of collective mythologies—particularly the possibilities that emerge when the boundary between performer and audience begins to dissolve.

Learn more about Kamara:
IG: @kamarathomasmusic | Website: Kamarathomas.com

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