The Imaginists take two summer shows on the road -- by bicycle

Every summer, the Imaginists theater collective in Santa Rosa presents bilingual, bicycle-powered traveling shows, performing for free at parks all over Santa Rosa.

This summer’s seventh annual tour opens Sunday at Juilliard Park, with the first of two plays, “The Butterfly’s Evil Spell,” a 40-minute poetic comedy about insects by Federico García Lorca.

The 30-minute “Art is Medicine Show,” traveling to Redwood Food Bank summer lunch sites in July, opens July 2 at at Alicia Park.

The Imaginists’ summer tour program won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2013 and again this year.

This summer’s performance schedule:

“Butterfly’s Evil Spell”

June 28 -- Juilliard Park, 4 p.m.

July 5 -- Howarth Park, 4 p.m.

July 10 -- Bayer Farm & Neighborhood Garden, 7 p.m.

July 12th - South West Community Park, 4 p.m.

July 19th - Humboldt Park, 4 p.m.

July 24th - Martin Luther King Park, 7 p.m.

July 25th - Finley Park, 4 p.m.

“The Art is Medicine Show:

July 2 -- Alicia Park, 12:30 p.m.

July 7 -- Bayer Farm & Neighborhood Garden, 12:30 p.m.

July 9 -- South West Community Park, 12:30 p.m.

July 21 -- Martin Luther King Park, 12:30 p.m.

Information: theimaginists.org.

You can reach staff writer Dan Taylor at 521-5243 or dan.taylor@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @danarts.