A.P.E.@Hawley Street
2019 Programming
A.P.E.@Hawley provides, to artists and researchers, affordable access to the dance studio, Flex Space, Mezzanine and Black Box (unfinished) at 33 Hawley. Our programming and rental structure strives to create the conditions for rich exploration and a maximizing of creative potential. We encourage inquiry-based processes and the open exchange of ideas towards the development of new, experimental, and challenging projects and works. A.P.E. welcomes inquiries and requests and reviews proposals on a first come/first serve basis.
If you are interested in proposing a project or renting space at 33 Hawley Street please contact A.P.E.
If you are interested in proposing a project or renting space at 33 Hawley Street please contact A.P.E.
Current and Upcoming Events & Projects
"What We See": 4-week project of theater works at 33 Hawley Street and SCDT
July 7 – August 4, 2019.
Each project will have a public showing at the end of their residency.
July 7-14: Serious Play Theatre Ensemble develops MOVING WATER, a collaboration with director Sheryl Stoodley, musician Jonny Rodgers, visual artist Roz Driscoll, playwright Eric Sanders, and designer Robin Doty.
Public event: "GETTING OUR FEET WET" - A FIRST STEP INTO SERIOUS PLAY'S MOVING WATER THEATRE PROJECT
Sharing of the collaborative artistic work and the discoveries: Saturday July 13, 7:30 to 8:45pm: PLEASE email seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com or call 413-588-7439 to become part of this event.
9pm-9:45pm: Discussion with the five artist collaborators, and the acting ensemble and background on MOVING WATER & Comments & Feedback from those that viewed the experiments. For viewers 13 yrs and up (Suggested Donation toward the continuation of this project- $20 at the door/ No one will be turned away)
July 7-14 (SCDT): Andrew Pester: Prelude to a Eulogy is an unearthing of queer ancestry through multidisciplinary archive, community storytelling, and performance ritual. The week-in-residence will be part improvisation and part composing, reading, and digesting. Full schedule at scdt.com
Public Showing at SCDT: Friday, July 12 at 7 pm.
July 14-21: Karinne Keithley will be working on Karl Andrisson Park, a short, speculative landscape operetta populated by fountains, battle planes, kaijus, bench-sitters, dancers, and other itinerancies. Over the week of her residency, she'll be building animations and video to accompany the singing, and will show the fruits of the week's work along with a new performance text on Saturday, July 20 at 7pm.
In the mornings M-F of my week, I’ll be hosting a community play*writing workshop, pay-what-you-will, all 5 days or drop-in (but designed to be cumulative). It’ll have a simultaneous remote version shared by email newsletter each day too, which you can sign up for here. [*suitable for stories and radio pieces and other shortform writing too.] The structure is modeled on a compressed version of my intro to playwriting classes, and is designed for you to write a short piece from scratch that moves through generative, architectural, and re-weave approaches over the five days.
Writing workshop: 9:30-12, July 15-19 in the Flex Space at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton. Please rsvp to Karinne at karinnekeithley@gmail.com if you plan to come or want to know more.
Showing of week's work on Saturday 20th 7pm: By donation.
July 21-28: Occupied Territories, conceived and directed by Mollye Maxner, written by Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner. Created from research into the lives of Vietnam Combat Veterans and their families, Occupied Territories reveals painful and beautiful truths without comment, in all their rawness. Sponsors for this project include: VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System of the Veterans Health Administration, Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Human Service Forum
Free public showings on July 26 & 27 at 7 pm. RESERVATIONS: 413-586-5553 or lisathompson@apearts.org
July 28-Aug.4: Real Live Theatre develops a new script, Far Reaches, culminating in a public reading/sharing. Ellen Morbyrne , co-founder of RLT, has written a first draft of a play called Far Reaches, in the genre of Cli-Fi (Climate Science Fiction, a genre of fiction that deals with the impacts of climate change and global warming). This full-length, two-person piece is set in a world of endless oceans where people live exclusively on rafts. It is a play that does invite audiences to consider the impacts of their own choices regarding climate change, but it is primarily a play about connection: How do we remember, and what do we remember? How do we survive, and how do we thrive? What are the ways in which we are different from one another, and what do we share in common? What happens to us in isolation, and what is connection worth to us? Two workshop/staged reading versions of the play will be shared with the public with a talkback and informal reception on Sunday, August 4 at 2 and 5 pm. Sliding scale starts at $10.
July 7 – August 4, 2019.
Each project will have a public showing at the end of their residency.
July 7-14: Serious Play Theatre Ensemble develops MOVING WATER, a collaboration with director Sheryl Stoodley, musician Jonny Rodgers, visual artist Roz Driscoll, playwright Eric Sanders, and designer Robin Doty.
Public event: "GETTING OUR FEET WET" - A FIRST STEP INTO SERIOUS PLAY'S MOVING WATER THEATRE PROJECT
Sharing of the collaborative artistic work and the discoveries: Saturday July 13, 7:30 to 8:45pm: PLEASE email seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com or call 413-588-7439 to become part of this event.
9pm-9:45pm: Discussion with the five artist collaborators, and the acting ensemble and background on MOVING WATER & Comments & Feedback from those that viewed the experiments. For viewers 13 yrs and up (Suggested Donation toward the continuation of this project- $20 at the door/ No one will be turned away)
July 7-14 (SCDT): Andrew Pester: Prelude to a Eulogy is an unearthing of queer ancestry through multidisciplinary archive, community storytelling, and performance ritual. The week-in-residence will be part improvisation and part composing, reading, and digesting. Full schedule at scdt.com
Public Showing at SCDT: Friday, July 12 at 7 pm.
July 14-21: Karinne Keithley will be working on Karl Andrisson Park, a short, speculative landscape operetta populated by fountains, battle planes, kaijus, bench-sitters, dancers, and other itinerancies. Over the week of her residency, she'll be building animations and video to accompany the singing, and will show the fruits of the week's work along with a new performance text on Saturday, July 20 at 7pm.
In the mornings M-F of my week, I’ll be hosting a community play*writing workshop, pay-what-you-will, all 5 days or drop-in (but designed to be cumulative). It’ll have a simultaneous remote version shared by email newsletter each day too, which you can sign up for here. [*suitable for stories and radio pieces and other shortform writing too.] The structure is modeled on a compressed version of my intro to playwriting classes, and is designed for you to write a short piece from scratch that moves through generative, architectural, and re-weave approaches over the five days.
Writing workshop: 9:30-12, July 15-19 in the Flex Space at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton. Please rsvp to Karinne at karinnekeithley@gmail.com if you plan to come or want to know more.
Showing of week's work on Saturday 20th 7pm: By donation.
July 21-28: Occupied Territories, conceived and directed by Mollye Maxner, written by Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner. Created from research into the lives of Vietnam Combat Veterans and their families, Occupied Territories reveals painful and beautiful truths without comment, in all their rawness. Sponsors for this project include: VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System of the Veterans Health Administration, Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Human Service Forum
Free public showings on July 26 & 27 at 7 pm. RESERVATIONS: 413-586-5553 or lisathompson@apearts.org
July 28-Aug.4: Real Live Theatre develops a new script, Far Reaches, culminating in a public reading/sharing. Ellen Morbyrne , co-founder of RLT, has written a first draft of a play called Far Reaches, in the genre of Cli-Fi (Climate Science Fiction, a genre of fiction that deals with the impacts of climate change and global warming). This full-length, two-person piece is set in a world of endless oceans where people live exclusively on rafts. It is a play that does invite audiences to consider the impacts of their own choices regarding climate change, but it is primarily a play about connection: How do we remember, and what do we remember? How do we survive, and how do we thrive? What are the ways in which we are different from one another, and what do we share in common? What happens to us in isolation, and what is connection worth to us? Two workshop/staged reading versions of the play will be shared with the public with a talkback and informal reception on Sunday, August 4 at 2 and 5 pm. Sliding scale starts at $10.
EIGHT,
curated by Kevin Pomerleau
July 10 - August 28, 2019
A group show that brings together the work of eight artists who have lived or currently live in the Pioneer Valley. In the range of drawing, printmaking, and painting, all of the artists share a love of narratives through composition, color, or both.
The selection of artists includes Madeline Chmielinski, Samson King, Jae Mathews, Beyon Wren Moor, Kevin Pomerleau, Valentina Sarfeh, Max Handelman-West, and Esther S. White.
The show will span two floors at 33 Hawley Street, a project of the Northampton Community Arts Trust, and will be up from July 10th until August 28th with an artist reception August 9th from 6-8PM. Light refreshments will be served.
Open Hours at 33 Hawley Street are: Tuesday - Friday, 12-4 (plus most weekend evenings). Or by appointment.
More info, contact: lisathompson@apearts.org or 413.586.5553
Images above: Left to right: Valentina Sarfeh, Jae Mathews, Madeline Chmielinski
curated by Kevin Pomerleau
July 10 - August 28, 2019
A group show that brings together the work of eight artists who have lived or currently live in the Pioneer Valley. In the range of drawing, printmaking, and painting, all of the artists share a love of narratives through composition, color, or both.
The selection of artists includes Madeline Chmielinski, Samson King, Jae Mathews, Beyon Wren Moor, Kevin Pomerleau, Valentina Sarfeh, Max Handelman-West, and Esther S. White.
The show will span two floors at 33 Hawley Street, a project of the Northampton Community Arts Trust, and will be up from July 10th until August 28th with an artist reception August 9th from 6-8PM. Light refreshments will be served.
Open Hours at 33 Hawley Street are: Tuesday - Friday, 12-4 (plus most weekend evenings). Or by appointment.
More info, contact: lisathompson@apearts.org or 413.586.5553
Images above: Left to right: Valentina Sarfeh, Jae Mathews, Madeline Chmielinski
COMING THIS SEPTEMBER!
A.P.E.@Hawley and SCDT
In collaboration with Historic Northampton, NCTV,
and the Smith College Department of Dance present:
Somatics Festival—Celebrating The Work of Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
September 19-23, 2019
Full Schedule and Registration begins June 15/17: www.scdtnoho.com
A.P.E.@Hawley and SCDT
In collaboration with Historic Northampton, NCTV,
and the Smith College Department of Dance present:
Somatics Festival—Celebrating The Work of Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
September 19-23, 2019
Full Schedule and Registration begins June 15/17: www.scdtnoho.com