Jorge Luis Borges, in The Aleph and Other Stories
“I feared that there would not be a single thing left capable of surprising me. Happily, after a few sleepless nights, forgetfulness worked on me again.”
A NEW CONCEPT
Inspired by old traveling shows, Helder Guimarães developed a new performance concept: an immersive experience in your space. Remember and Forget uses the natural conditions set up by the host in his living room, library, workspace, or any other room and creates a new world of possibilities uniquely and freshly.
Conceptually inspired by The Aleph, the Jorge Luis Borges short tale, this explores what is meaningful to us and the importance of dreams and memory in shaping who we are.
The Details
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The Concept
You select the space in which you’d like this performance to happen: your living room, work studio, library, or office. Our team will bring the necessary elements (lights, sound, staging elements) to create an immersive magical experience for your guests at your space. Ideal for groups of up to 50 people.
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The Performance
An hour and 20 minutes of storytelling and sleight-of-hand magic that will change the way you look at others. Your family members, friends or co-workers can now share a collective memory with Remember and Forget, an experience that delves in the world of dreams and how much they shape us.
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The Event
A birthday celebration, a dinner with friends, a fundraiser, a convention or any other reason that brings people together. Remember and Forget is designed with this flexibility in mind. If you’d like to host this one-of-a-kind exhibition, slecet the venue, pick your date and reach to our team to check Helder’s availability.
“Memories are not fixed or frozen but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.”
- Oliver Sacks
The Author
Helder Guimarães is a multidisciplinary artist who combines theater, magic, and storytelling creating live shows, immersive experiences, one-off exhibitions, and digital performances. His performances have received multiple awards and accolades from his peers, including crowning him World Champion of Magic at only 23 years old. Behind the scenes, he worked as a consultant for several theatrical productions, television shows, and motion pictures, including personally training Oscar-winning actresses Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett for their roles in the movie Ocean’s 8. Follow this link to learn more about Helder Guimarães.
FIRST STEPS
To host Remember and Forget, you must provide the space and a combination of chairs and/or stools to accommodate your guests. Below, we explain the two-step process we need to verify before booking this experience.
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We must understand if this performance can happen in the intended space. In order to verify that, we need photos/videos of the location, the number of attendees, and the desired layout. With this information, we can confirm if Remember and Forget can be performed at your space.
Two notes:
The selected space should have doors that can be closed during the setup, the performance, and after the performance.
Helder will need the space empty a few hours before the performance to prepare all the technical aspects of the performance, as well as after to retrieve the equipment.
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Remember and Forget is designed for a crowd between 10 and 50 people. The room should be big enough to accommodate the desired number of people in one of the following layouts:A rectangular table with rows of chairs and stools set up in a semicircular layout;
A round table with rows of chairs and stools set up in a circular layout.
Once we know more about the size of the crowd that will attend Remember and Forget, we will provide some specific guidelines so everyone is extremely close to the action.
Helder will then plan the performance for your specific location and decide which equipment (lights, sound, staging elements) to bring in order to create the ideal environment for this performance in your own room.
NOTE: Standing room is allowed and encouraged. We want to ensure people are as close to the action as possible. Nevertheless, the performance is 1 hour and 20 minutes long.
Are you thinking of a different configuration, or do you have more guests? E-mail us the details, and we will try to find a solution. 
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
BOOK A PERFORMANCE
Would you be interested in hosting Remember and Forget?
Send us your details and we will contact you shortly.